Antony & Early Monasticism

1. EARLY CHRISTIAN MONASTICISM & SPIRITUALITY: SURVEYS

Desert Christians: An Introduction to the Literature of Early Monasticism

Life of Antony Lives of Pachomius Sayings of

the Desert Fathers
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Demons and the Making of the Monk: Spiritual Combat in Early Christianity

The Body and Society: Men, Women, and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity

Society and the Holy in Late Antiquity

Journal of Early Christian Studies

Wandering, Begging Monks: Spiritual Authority and the Promotion of Monasticism in

Late Antiquity

The Desert A City

Five Models of Spiritual Direction in the Early Church

Le Monachisme Primitif: Des origines jusqu’au concile d'Éphèse

Wandering Monks, Virgins, and Pilgrims: Ascetic Travel in the Mediterranean World,
A.D. 300-800
The Emergence of Monasticism: From the Desert Fathers to the Early Middle Ages

The Monasteries of Wadi ‘n Natrûn The History of the Monasteries of

Nitria and of Scetis

Ascetics, Society, and the Desert: Studies in Early Egyptian Monasticism

The World of Early Egyptian Christianity: Language,

Literature, and Social Context

Aux origenes du monachisme chrétien: Pour une phénoménologie du monachisme

Études sur la spiritualité de l’Orient chrétien

Journal of Religion & Society

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The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Studies

Encyclopedia of Monasticism

The Historical Atlas of Eastern and Western Monasticism

The Origins of the Christian Mystical Tradition: From Plato to Denys

Purity of Heart in Early Ascetic and Monastic Literature

The Corporeal Imagination: Signifying the Holy in Late Ancient Christianity

The Spirituality of the Christian East: A Systematic Handbook

Prayer: The Spirituality of the Christian East, Vol. 2

The Early Christian World

Asceticism

Ascetic Behavior in Greco-Roman Antiquity: A Sourcebook

2. ATHANASIUS & THE LIFE OF ANTONY (Vita Antonii)

Life of Antony Vita Antonii

Texts & Translations

Athanasius: Vie d’Antoine

Athanasius: The Life of Anthony and the Letter to Marcellinus

Journal of Religion & Society

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Studies
Athanasius and Asceticism
Athanasius & the Politics of Asceticism

Life of Antony

Life of Antony Le Muséon

The Letters of St. Antony: Monasticism and the Making of a Saint

The Early Christian World

3. APOPHTHEGMATA PATRUM (SAYINGS OF THE DESERT

FATHERS)

Texts & Translations

Apophthegmata Patrum

Apophthegmata

(1) Alphabetical Collection

Recherches sur la tradition grecque des

Apophthegmata Patrum
The Sayings of the Desert Fathers: The Alphabetical
Collection

(2) Anonymous Collection

Journal of Religion & Society

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Evagrius Ponticus: Praktikos and Chapters on Prayer

Evagrius Ponticus,
On
the Faith Great Letter Letter to Melania
Evagrius Ponticus: The Ad Monachos: Translation and Commentary

Évagre Le Pontique: Le Gnostique ou a celui qui est devenu digne de la

science
Bijdragen, tijdschrift voor
filosofie en theologie Forms of Devotion:
Conversion, Worship, Spirituality, and Asceticism

Studies
Geistliche Vatershaft. Christliche Gnosis bei Evagrios Pontikos
Paternité Spirituelle: La gnose
chrétienne chez Évagre le Pontique

Despondency: The Spiritual Teaching of Evagrius of Pontus

Akedia.
Dragon’s Wine and Angel’s Bread: The Teaching of Evagrius Ponticus on Anger

Reconstructing the Theology of Evagrius Ponticus: Beyond Heresy

Evagrius and Gregory

Steps to Spiritual Perfection: Studies on Spiritual Progress in Evagrius Ponticus

Psalmody and Prayer in the Writings of Evagrius Ponticus

Les <<kephalaia gnostica>> d’Evagre le Pontique et l’histoire de l’origénisme

chez les grecs et chez les syriens

Studia Patristica

Journal of Religion & Society

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Skemmata Theological Studies

Les Leçons d’un Contemplative: Le Traité de l’Oraison d’Evagre le Pontique

On Prayer
Evagrius Ponticus: The Making of a Gnostic

Journal of Early Christian Studies

Gnostikos
Journal of Early Christian Studies

6. JOHN CASSIAN

Rule
The
Institutes The Conferences

Texts & Translations

De institutis (The Institutes)

Johannis Cassiani De institvtis
coenobior vm et de octo principalivm vitior vm remediis libri XII

Jean Cassien: Institutions Cénobitiques

John Cassian: The Institutes

Conlationes (The Conferences)

Johannis Cassiani Conlationes
XXIIII J. Cassiani Opera
Jean
Cassien: Confèrences
John Cassian:
The Conferences

Journal of Religion & Society

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Cassian: Conferences,

Studies
Cassian the Monk

Tradition and Theology in St. John Cassian

John Cassian
Contextualizing Cassian: Aristocrats, Asceticism, and Reformation in Fifth-
Century Gaul

Journal of Early Christian Studies

Jean Cassien entre L'Orient et
l'Occident
Ascetic Pneumatology from John Cassian to Gregory the Great

Cassian’s Conferences: Scriptural Interpretation and the Monastic Ideal

Foundations
of Power and Conflicts of Authority in Late-Antique Monasticism

Word and Spirit

Forms of Devotion: Conversion, Worship,
Spirituality, and Asceticism

Jean Cassien entre l'Orient et l'Occident

Historiographie de l'Eglise des Premier Siecles

Cistercian Studies
Quarterly
Divine Grace and Human Agency: A Study of the Semi-Pelagian
Controversy

Journal of Religion & Society

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7. EARLY EGYPTIAN MONASTICISM: OTHER SOURCES &

STUDIES

Texts & Translations

Lives of the Desert Fathers Historia Monachorum in Aegypto

Palladius: The Lausiac History

St. Macarius the Spiritbearer: Coptic Texts Relating to Saint Macarius the Great

Four Desert Fathers: Pambo, Evagrius, Macarius of Egypt & Macarius of Alexandria

Quatre Érmites Égyptiens: D’après les fragments coptes de

l’Histoire Lausiaque

Studies
Palladius of Helenopolis: The Origenist Advocate

Lausiac History

Shenoute’s Literary Corpus

The Memory of the Eyes: Pilgrims to the Living Saints in Christian Late Antiquity

Shenoute and the Women of the White Monastery: Egyptian Monasticism in Late
Antiquity
Shenoute of Atripe and the Uses of Poverty: Rural Patronage, Religious Conflict, and
Monasticism in Late Antique Egypt

Journal of Religion & Society

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Monastic Bodies: Discipline and Salvation in Shenoute of Atripe

Church History
Studia Patristica
Signs and Wonders

8. EARLY MONASTICISM IN CAPPADOCIA, PALESTINE & SYRIA

Texts & Translations

Letters

The Lives of the Monks of Palestine

Discourses and Sayings

On the Ascetical Life

Ascetic Discourses

Counsels on the Spiritual Life

The Spiritual Meadow

The Fifty Spiritual Homilies and the Great Letter

A History of the Monks of Syria

Journal of Religion & Society

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The Lives of Symeon Stylites

Letters from the Desert: A Selection of Questions and Responses

John Rufus: The Lives of Peter the Iberian, Theodosius of Jerusalem, and the
Monk Romanus,

The Asketikon of St. Basil the Great

Studies
Disciples of the Desert: Monks, Laity, and Spiritual Authority in
Sixth-Century Gaza

A Life Pleasing to God: The Spirituality of the Rules of St. Basil

The Spiritual World of Isaac the Syrian

Ascetics and Ambassadors of Christ: the Monasteries of Palestine, 314-631

Syriac Fathers on Prayer and the Spiritual Life

The Luminous Eye: The Spiritual Vision of Ephrem the Syrian

Le monachisme syrien selon Théodoret de Cyr

Basil of Caesarea: Christian, Humanist, Ascetic

Saint Basile: évangile et église

Asceticism

Journal of Religion & Society

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Journal of Early Christian

Studies
Asceticism and Society in Crisis: John of Ephesus and the Lives of the
Eastern Saints

Journal of Early Christian Studies

The Judean Monasteries in the Byzantine Period

Asceticism and Christological Controversy in Fifth-Century Palestine: The Career of

Peter the Iberian

Saint Gregory of Nazianzus: An Intellectual Biography

Sabas, Leader of Palestinian Monasticism: A Comparative Study in Eastern

Monasticism, Fourth to Seventh Centuries
The Macarian Legacy: The Place of Macarius-Symeon in the Eastern Christan
Tradition

‘Working the Earth of the Heart’: The Messalian Controversy in History, Texts,
and Language to AD 431
A History of Asceticism in the Syrian Orient

The Study of Spirituality

To Train His Soul in Books: Syriac Asceticism

in Early Christianity

10. BENEDICT & THE LATIN WEST

Texts & Translations

RB 1980: the Rule of Benedict Rule

Journal of Religion & Society

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Early Christian Lives

Life of Antony
Life of Martin of Tours

Studies
Marriage, Celibacy, and Heresy in Ancient Christianity: The Jovinianist Controversy

Benedict’s Rule: A Translation and Commentary

Augustine of Hippo and His Monastic Rule

Authority and Asceticism from Augustine to Gregory the Great

The Limits of Ancient

Christianity
Histoire littéraire du mouvement monastique dans l’antiquité

The Rule of Saint Benedict: A Doctrinal and Spiritual Commentary

Journal of Religion & Society