In the spirit of Alain de Botton's 'Consolations of Philosophy', the Abbot Christopher Jamison, from BBC2's The Monastery suggests ways in which the teachings of St Benedict can be helpful in everyday life

St Francis of Assisi is one of the admired figures of the Middle Ages. From 1217 Francis sent communities of friars throughout Christendom and launched missions to several countries, including India and China. This book explores the first 250 years of the order's history and charts its growth, pastoral ministry, internal tensions and divisions.

In the course of their investigations into Leonardo da Vinci and the Turin Shroud, Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince found clues in the work of the great Renaissance artist that pointed to the existence of a secret underground religion. This work reveals a secret history, encoded in works of art and even in the great Gothic cathedrals.

The Knights Templar were the most powerful military order of the Middle Ages. Formed to protect the Holy Land, they participated in the Crusades and rapidly gained wealth, lands and influence and were answerable to none save the Pope himself. Seemingly untouchable for nearly two centuries, the Templars fell from grace spectacularly after the loss of the Holy Land. Sean Martin considers both the ..

Abbot Christopher Jamison, author of Finding Sanctuary, and the abbot from the hit TV series The Monastery, turns his attention to the eternal questions of how to be happy, and why we believe it is so important.

An international directory of religious life throughout the Anglican world, with retreat and accommodation information. It is enlarged to include various associate groups - oblates, tertiaries, companions, associates, and others.

Abbot Christopher Jamison, author of Finding Sanctuary, and the abbot from the hit TV series The Monastery turns his attention to the eternal questions of how to be happy, and why we believe it is so important.

In the spirit of Alain de Botton's 'Consolations of Philosophy', the Abbot Christopher Jamison, from BBC2's The Monastery suggests ways in which the teachings of St Benedict can be helpful in everyday life - for those who are religious but also those who are searching for spiritual guidance.

UNABRIDGED Features monastic music by the monks of Worth Abbey and a specially formulated Lectio Divina. .

Report from a Trappist Monastery.

The Knights Templar were the most powerful military religious order of the Middle Ages, originally formed from nine comrades in 1118 to protect pilgrims in the Holy Land. This book covers the history and mysteries surrounding the Templars and charts their rise and influence, followed by their changing fortunes.

The Templars, the Hospitallers, the Tuetonic Knights and the Knights of the Spanish and Portuguese orders were 'noblemen vowed to poverty, chastity and obedience, living a monastic life in convents which were at the same time barracks, waging war on the enemies of the Cross'. This book offers a general history of these orders.

Founded in 1847, Franciscan Sisters' of the Immaculate Conception is the only Congregation in the post-Reformation Catholic Church, male or female, to originate in Scotland. This work traces their story, from the slums of Victorian Glasgow to the shanty towns of Africa and among the 'new poor' at home.

The fascinating story of the women who have lived in religious communities, from the dawn of the modern age onwards.

People look at the monastic life as a means of healing, of disciplined living and of people coming to terms with themselves and their own personal truths. This book features ten people who give an account of what the monastic life is actually like and how it brings them closer to God.

Through the lens of sensorial experience, Erika Lauren Lindgren explores the spirituality of monastic women as reflected in their writings, liturgical texts, artwork, architecture, and archival documents. Specifically, she focuses on the Dominican nuns and lay-sisters of southern Germany in the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries, particularly the way in which these women controlled and ...

The Hospitallers was established by a group of Italian merchants from Amalfi in the mid-11th century as part of a widespread charitable movement to help pilgrims.

The medieval historian who revealed 'the real history behind 'The Da Vinci Code' uncloaks the Templars.