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MONASTICISM WESTERN  |  - General History
	Ascetics, Authority, and the Church in the Age of Jerome and Cassian (2nd Edition), by Philip Rousseau In his Ascetics, Authority, and the Church in the Age of Jerome and Cassian, Philip Rousseau presents a survey of asceticism in the western church until about 400, including a of Jerome, and then, into the fifth century, a reading of Sulpicius and Cassian. 304pp Paper Price: $33.00
	Cassian and the Fathers: Initiation into the Monastic Tradition, Edited by Patrick F. O'Connell Cassian and the Fathers is the initial volume in the series of Novitiate Conferences of Thomas Merton, the classics presented to young men beginning their monastic life at the Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky. 272pp Paper Price: $30.00
	Crown and Veil: Female Monasticism from the Fifth to the Fifteenth Centuries, Edited by Jeffery F. Hamburger and Susan Marti; Foreword by Caroline Walker Bynum "This book is as rare and finely crafted as the lives of the women it celebrates. Crown and Veil is the product of an outstanding international collaboration of scholars, and it offers an introduction to a world hitherto only glimpsed in its complexity and richness. Every aspect of the nuns' social, institutional, artistic, liturgical, economic, and spiritual life is brought into play. The book is as beautiful as it is comprehensive." - Rachel Fulton, University of Chicago. 344pp(Hardcover Price: $40.00