Books of Abbots

  • The Monk
    The Monk
    By Matthew Lewis

    However his monastery is harboring a malevolent force in the form of a young monk called Rosario. Rosario attaches himself to the abbot and then one fateful night reveals that he is in fact a beautiful woman in disguise.

  • Lasting Letters
    By Rosamond McKitterick, Lida Lopes Cardozo

    This book describes how the slate commemorating the abbots of St. Albans was designed and cut. It also explains how the abbotts came to be reinterred under the slate.

  • Abbots and Abbesses as a Human Resource in the Ninth- to Twelfth-Century West
    Abbots and Abbesses as a Human Resource in the Ninth- to Twelfth-Century West
    By Steven Vanderputten

    ... Normandy (942-996).14 This re-foundation was part of a larger, systematic renewal of Normandy's monastic landscape ... Religious Life in Normandy, 1050-1300. Space, Gender and Social Pressure, Woodbridge 2007. On the abbey of Le Bec, see ...

  • The Abbot Trithemius (1462-1516): The Renaissance of Monastic Humanism
    The Abbot Trithemius (1462-1516): The Renaissance of Monastic Humanism
    By Noel L. Brann

    ... peace as is made in the commentary on the Benedictine Rule , following which ... peace ( Est autem duplex pax ) . One is apparent and not genuine ... For harmony ... the semblance of peace , but chose instead a third alternative of taking ...

  • Abbot Suger and Saint-Denis: A Symposium
    Abbot Suger and Saint-Denis: A Symposium
    By Paula Lieber Gerson

    "Suger, abbot of the French abbey of Saint-Denis, lived from 1081 to 1151. This book of essays about his life and achievements grew out of a symposium sponsored by the International Center of Medieval Art and by Columbia University .