Religious Orders

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Secondary Sources

	Peter F. Anson, The Call of the Desert. The Solitary Life in the Christian Church. London: SPCK, 1973. Pbkl. ISBN: 0281027641. pp.300.
	Rosalind B. Brooke, The Coming of the Friars. Historical Problems, Studies and Documents, No. 24. Barnes & Noble, 1975. ISBN: 0064907007.
	Rotha Mary Clay, The Hermits and Anchorites of England. London: Methuen & Co., 1914. [This material is in the Public Domain]
	David E. Easson, ed. Medieval Religious Houses: Scotland. With an Appendix on the Houses in the Isle of Man, Revised by Ian B. Cowan. London, 1976.
	Richard W. Emery, The Friars in Medieval France. A Catalogue of French Mendicants Converts: 1200-1500. New York, 1962.
	Aubrey Gwynn & Richard N. Hadcock, eds. Medieval Religious Houses: Ireland, new edn. Irish Academic Press, 1970. Hbk. ISBN: 0716524163.
	David Knowles & Richard N. Hadcock, eds. Medieval Religious Houses: England And Wales, rev. ed. Oxford, 1972.
	David Knowles, OSB. From Pachomius to Ignatius. A Study of the Constitutional History of Religious Orders. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1966. Hbk. ISBN: 019826612X.
	David Knowles, OSB., The Monastic Order in England: A History of its Development from the Times of St. Dunstan to the Fourth Lateran Councils, 943-1216, 2nd edn. Cambridge, 1960.
	David Knowles, The Religious Orders in England 1216-1340, Vol. 1. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979. Pbk. ISBN: 0521295661.
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	David Knowles, The Religious Orders in England: The Tudor Age, Vol. 3. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979. Pbk. ISBN: 0521295688.
	David Knowles, C.N.L. Brooke, Vera C.M. London, eds. The Heads of Religious Houses. England and Wales: 940-1216. Cambridge, 1972.
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	Ann K. Warren, Anchorites and their Patrons in Medieval England. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985.

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	Monasticism

Monasticism | Augustinian Orders | Benedictine Orders | Independent Orders | Mendicant Orders | Miltary Orders | Society of Jesus

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