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The love of learning and the desire for God: a study of monastic culture

Jean Leclercq 1982 © Fordham University Press
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  • ATLA Special Series
ISBN(s)
  • 9780823204076 (paper)
Subject
  • European: 400-1400
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  • Frontmatter (page N/A)
  • Abbreviations (page vi)
  • Preface (page vii)
  • Introduction: Learning and Spirituality (page 1)
  • THE FORMATION OF MONASTIC CULTURE (page 9)
  • 1 The Conversion of St. Benedict (page 11)
  • 2 St. Gregory, Doctor of Desire (page 25)
  • 3 Cult and Culture (page 37)
  • THE SOURCES OF MONASTIC CULTURE (page 51)
  • 4 Devotion to Heaven (page 53)
  • 5 Sacred Learning (page 71)
  • 6 The Ancient Traditional Spirituality (page 89)
  • 7 Liberal Studies (page 112)
  • THE FRUITS OF MONASTIC CULTURE (page 151)
  • 8 Literary Genres (page 153)
  • 9 Monastic Theology (page 191)
  • 10 The Poem of the Liturgy (page 236)
  • Epilogue: Literature and the Mystical Life (page 255)
  • Appendices (page 271)
  • I The Rule of St. Benedict and the Canticle of Canticles (page 273)
  • II The Monk who Slept during the Office (page 274)
  • III The Speculative Theology of Dom Bertrand (page 275)
  • IV Monastic Theology (page 276)
  • V St. Anselm (page 277)
  • Index (page 279)
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SP 37.1 (Jan. 1962): 138-140 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0038-7134%28196201%2937%3A1%3C138%3A%3E2.0.CO%3B2-0
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