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A reverent study of the monastic world assesses the meaning of the cloistered life in modern times, journeying through a liturgical year to capture the relevance and spiritual significance of the religious life. Reprint. Tour. NYT. PW. .
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In five interwoven meditations, Mystical Hope shows how to recognize hope in our own lives, where it comes from, how to deepen it through prayer, and how to carry it into the world as a source of strength and renewal .
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The Cloisters is the branch of The Metropolitan Museum of Art devoted to the art and architecture of medieval Europe. This splendid new guide, richly illustrated with more than 175 color pictures, offers a broad introduction to the remarkable history of The Cloisters as well as a lively and informative discussion of the treasures within.

Assembled with Romanesque and Gothic architectural elements dating from the twelfth through the fifteenth century, The Cloisters is itself a New York City landmark, overlooking sweeping vistas of the Hudson River in Upper Manhattan. Long cherished as a world-class museum, it also contains beautiful gardens featuring plants, fruit trees, and useful herbs familiar from the collection’s medieval tapestries and other works of art. Among the masterworks of medieval religious and domestic life housed in The Cloisters are exceptional examples of carved ivory, illuminated manuscripts, stained glass, silver- and goldsmiths’ work, and tapestries, including the famous Unicorn in Captivity.

Enriched by the latest scholarship from The Cloisters’ expert staff of curators, educators, and horticulturalists, this volume will stand as the definitive source on the collection for years to come.

Kristin Bock's first published collection of poetry highlights her intriguingly spare, economical verse. Her lines are subliminally infused with gothic imagery and visceral insights. She is compellingly original, and each poem is liberally seasoned with shrewd observations and raw, emotional truths.

Winner of the Tupelo Press First Book Award, Kristin Bock has been widely published in literary magazines and journals, such as the The Seattle Review, Prairie Schooner, Gulf Coast, and the Cream City Review. She is the recipient of The New York Quarterly Madeline Sadin Award for Best Poem and the Folio Literary Magazine Robbie Garbo Poetry Prize.

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The birth and flowering of monastic life and its impact on seekers today

This comprehensive study of medieval monasteries offers a fascinating history of everyday monastic life and the literature, society, economy and culture of the Middle Ages. Brooke's sweeping narrative offers a compelling look at monastic life for today's spiritual seekers and is well suited as a travel companion to many European destinations.

This meticulously researched book offers:

* everyday monastic life in exquisite detail, from the food served to the timing of prayers, to the interdependence between the monasteries and the local populace. *special attention to the 12th-century renaissance, a time of revitalizing ideas, when every village in Western Europe was within a day's pilgrimage of an abbey, monastery, or convent. * an exploration of the extraordinary movement of the human spirit at its peak, through its manuscripts, art, sculpture, and architecture. * the importance of the monastic world, its ideas and ideals, to the rise of Western civilization..
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If the church is said to be the soul of an abbey, the cloister is surely its heart. The cloister, a space secluded—as its Latin derivation suggests—within four galleries is at once a place of peace and a ceaseless crossroads. As the hub of all activity, through which monks progressed from task to task and prayer to prayer throughout the day from matins to vespers, its classic layout inspired some of the most extraordinary and varied architectural treasures of the world. Cloisters of Europe covers the cloister throughout western Europe—Spain, France, Italy, Portugal, and Britain—between the ninth and fifteenth centuries and is a celebration of art and architecture from stark pre-Romanesque to flamboyant late Gothic. With an enlightening introduction to the history of religious orders and their devotional life, it is a magnificently illustrated monument to art, antiquity, and spiritual profundity.

Photographs by Daniel Faure..
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On Elise Friedman's eighth birthday, she lost her mother and any connection to her mysterious past. Now a young woman in college, Elise is traveling to her homeland of Germany to uncover her family's past, but what she finds is much more harrowing than she ever suspected..
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In these meditations on stories from the New Testament, Roger Ferlo shows us how to read the Bible in a full-bodied way, with all the senses attuned..
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THE CLOISTER AND THE HEARTH - Charles Reade - Abridged, with Introduction and Notes - 1929. - CONTENTS CHAPTER I. - CHAPTER 11. - CHAPTER 111. - CHAPTER IV. - C H A P T V . - CHAPTER VI. - CHAPTER VII. - CHAPTER VIII. - CHAPTER IX. - CHAPTER X. - CHAPTER XI. - CHAPTER XII. - CHAPTER XIII. - CHAPTER XIV. - CHAPTER XV. - CHAPTER XVI. - CHAPTER XVII. CHAPTER XVIII. CHAPTER XIX. - CHAPTER XX. - CHAPTER XXI. CHAPTER XXII. - - - m - . - - - - - - . - - - - - m - - - - - - - . - - m - - . . - - - - - . - - - - - - . S - - - - - - . - - - - - . m - - - - - . - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - . - - m - - - . - - - - - - - - - - - m - - - - - . . - - - - - - - - m - - - - - - vii PAQB X1 xiii ... vm THE CLOISTER AND THE HEARTH CHAPTER XXIII. CHAPTERX XIV. CHAPTERX XV. CHAPTERX XVI. CHAPTERX XVII. CHAPTER XXVIII. CHAPTERX XIX. CHAPTERX XX. CHAPTERX XXI. CHAPTER XXXII. CHAPTERX XXIII. CHAPTERX XXIV. CHAPTERX XXV. C H A P T X XXVI. NOTES - - - PAQE 115 120 121 127 130 136 140 143 147 152 160 165 171 174 SUBJECTS B OR SHORTE SSAYS - - - - - 183 HELPS TO FURTHE S R TU DY - - - - - - 184 ILLUSTRATIONS DESIDERIUSE RASMUSb, y A. DWER - - - Frontispiece The light at the nape of his neck made a glow-PAGE wormofhim - - - - - - 41 Martin drew the bolt very slowly, and in rushed Dierich and four more - - - - - 49 The text of this edition has been reduced by omissions, but is otherwise faithful to the original. The illustrations are reproductions of drawings made by Charles Keene for the first version of the story when it appeared in Once a Week. - INTRODUCTION - The Cbister and the Hearth is one of the most famous stories produced in an age of great story-tellers. Charles Reade was a contemporary of Thackeray and Dickens, Kingsley and George Eliot, novelists whose works are more justly renowned than any of his own, with one exception. Of this one Swinburne, a poet and critic of the next generation, said, A story better conceived or better composed, better constructed or better related, than The Cloister and the Hearth it would be mcult to h d anywhere. And on the merit of this story he ranks him high among the novelists. Reade had the gifts and the experience we should expect to find in the writer of such a novel. He was a scholar, a wide and u n t i i g reader he was a lawyer by profession and therefore a keen observer of human nature a musician, with an artists sympathy and imagination and a dramatist, with training and skiU in the construction of a plot. The novelists of his time had nearly always a motive behind their tales they were trying to rouse the sympathy of their readers to attack Lome social evil. When Kingsley wrote The Water-Babies, he was revealing the horrors of the life of a child chimney-sweq p. Dickem condemned the schools of the day in Nicholas Nickleby, and the evils of workhouses in 02iver Twist. Reade himself wrote It is Never Too Late to Mend to stir up indignation against the prisons of the time. We can sometimes feel his caustic criticism behind the incidents in The Cloister and the Hearth, his scorn of hypocrisy, fraud and superstition, his rage against the tyranny of great rulers. But he did not write this novel with the motive of reform. He wrote it because he waa keenly interested in the life of the Renaissance and because he had found a story he loved. The story was intensely real to him, and therefore it grips us too....
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