General Church Histories

Brown, Peter. The Rise of Western Christendom: Triumph and Diversity, AD 200-1000. London: Blackwell, 1996.

Constable, Giles. The Reformation of the Twelfth Century. Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Gonzalez, Justo L. The Early Church to the Dawn of the Reformation. Harper & Row, c1984.

Lynch, Joseph H. The Medieval Church: A Brief History. London: Longman, 1992.

Oakley, Francis. The Western Church in the Later Middle Ages. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1979.

Russell, Jeffrey Burton and Lumsden, Douglas W. A History of Medieval Christianity : prophecy and order P. Lang, c2000.

Southern, Richard W. Western Society and the Church in the Middle Ages. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1970.

Brooke, Christopher. The Monastic World, 1000-1300. London:, 1974.

Constable, Giles. Medieval Monasticism: A Select Bibliography (Toronto Medieval Bibliographies, 6) Toronto, 1976

Coulton, G.G. Five Centuries of Religion. 4 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1929-1950.

Davis,Godfrey. Medieval Cartularies of Great Britain London, 1958

Kaelber, Lutz F. Schools of Asceticism : Ideology and Organization in Medieval Religious Communities Pennsylvania State Univ Press, 1998

Knowles, David. Christian Monasticism New York: McGraw- Hill, 1969.

Lawrence, C.H. Medieval Monasticism : Forms of Religious Life in Western Europe in the Middle Ages Addison-Wesley Pubishers, 1989

Leclercq, Jean. The Love of Learning and the Desire for God : A Study of Monastic Culture Fordham Univ Press, 1982 (reprint)

John Cassian. Conferences.

Knowles, David. From Pachomius to Ignatius

Wadell, Helen. The Desert Fathers

Paradise of the Desert Fathers

Augustinian

Benedictine

Daly, Lowrie J. Benedictine Monasticism: Its Formation and Development Through the 12th Century. New York: Sheed and Ward, 1965.

Daly, Lowrie. Benedictine Monasticism: Its Formation and Development through the 12th Century. New York, 1965.

Knowles, David. The Benedictines. London, 1930.

Cistercian

Matarasso, Pauline. The Cistercian World : Monastic Writings of the Twelfth CenturyPenguin Classics, 1993

Newman, Martha G. The Boundaries of Charity : Cistercian Culture and Ecclesiastical Reform, 1098-1180 (Figurae) Stanford CA: Stanford University Press, 1996

Tobin, Stephen The Cistercians, London: The Herbert Press Ltd, 1995

Dominican

Franciscan

Note: These listings may duplicate listings from specific orders.

England

Dugdale, William. Monasticon Anglicanum: A History of the Abbies and other Monasteries, Hospitals, Frieries, and Cathedral and Collegiate Churches, with the Dependencies, in England and Wales enlarged edition by John Caley, Henry Ellis and Bulkeley Bandinel, 6 vols. in 8 (original, 1655-73; London, 1817-30 and 1846)

Knowles, David. The Monastic Order in England. (2nd ed.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1963.

Wales

Davies, R. R. Conquest, Coexistence and Change: Wales, 1063-1415. Oxford: Clarendon Pr. 1987.

Hays, Rhys. "Further Notes on the Welsh Cistercians."

_____The History of the Abbey of Aberconway, 1186-1537. Cardiff: University of Wales Pr. 1963.

_____"The Welsh Cistercians: Recent Research and Future Prospects." Studies in Medieval Culture III. Kalamazoo: The Medieval Institute, 1970.

_____"The Welsh Monasteries and the Edwardian Conquest." Studies in Medieval Cistercian History. Spencer, Mass: Cistercian Publications, 1971.

Knowles, David and R. Neville Hadcock. Medieval Religious Houses: England and Wales. New York: St. Martin's Pr. 1972.

Lloyd, John Edward. A History of Wales From the Earliest Times to the Edwardian Conquest (vol. 2). London: Longmans, 1967.

Newbolt, M.R. The Cistercians in Britain. Wantage: St. Mary's Pr. 1957.

O'Sullivan, Jeremiah F. Cistercian Settlements in Wales and Monmouthshire, 1140-1540. New York: Declan X. McMullen Co. 1947.

Ireland

Bitel, Lisa. Isle of the Saints: Monastic Settlements and Christian Community in Early Ireland. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1990.

Ryan, John. Irish Monasticism: Origins and Early Development. Dublin and Cork: Talbot Press Limited, 1931