Table of Contents
- Frontmatter
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS (page vii)
- PREFACE (page xi)
- I Introduction (page 1)
- II The Library Then and Now: Reconstructing the Cinquecento Room (page 5)
- III The Benedictine Tradition of Books (page 19)
- IV The Ceiling and Wall Paintings in the Praglia Library and Other Benedictine Cycles (page 27)
- V The Benedictine Order and the Catholic Reform (page 59)
- VI The Texts of the Fathers (page 73)
- VII Benedictine Self-Identification in Times of Challenge (page 88)
- Appendix 1 Praglia Documents: Excerpts (page 100)
- Appendix 2 The Text of Don Vincenzo of Milan: Excerpts (page 105)
- NOTES (page 108)
- BIBLIOGRAPHY (page 127)
- ILLUSTRATIONS (page 133)
- INDEX (page 194)