A Benedictine Reader shares the treasures of the Benedictine traditionthrough the collaboration of a dozen scholars. It provides a broad and deep sense of the reality of Benedictine monasticism using primary sources in English translation. The texts included are drawn from many different genres and originally written in six different languages. The introduction to each of the chapters aims to situate each author and text and to make connections with other texts and studies within and outside the Reader.
This second volume of A Benedictine Reader looks at Benedictine monks and nuns from many angles, as founders, reformers, missionaries, teachers, spiritual writers and guides, playwrights, scholars, and archivists. In four centuries, they went from Bavaria to North America and Africa, from England and Spain to Australia, adapting to new environments. Committed to the liturgy by their profession, they played an important role in the liturgical renewal that culminated at Vatican II. Rooted in God, church, and their surroundings, they showed remarkable resilience in the face of wars, confiscations, suppression, and exile. Their impact has been deep and stabilizing, and their story is a microcosm of the history of the church in modern times.
Edited by:
Hugh B. Feiss OSB,
Maureen M. O�Brien
Imprint: Liturgical Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 216mm,
Width: 140mm,
Spine: 32mm
Weight: 726g
ISBN: 9780879071691
ISBN 10: 0879071699
Series: Cistercian Studies Series
Pages: 536
Publication Date: 13 March 2023
Audience:
General/trade
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College/higher education
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ELT Advanced
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Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Contents Dedication and Epigraph ix Preface xi By Maureen M. O’Brien Contributors xiii Introduction xvii By Hugh Feiss, OSB Acknowledgments xxxiii I. Sixteenth–Seventeenth Centuries 1. Saint-Michel de Bois-Aubry, Jacques Bienassis, and Religious Toleration 3 Introduction by Pamela Park and Hugh Feiss, OSB Text selected and translated by Pamela Park 2. Fray Pedro Ponce de León, OSB (ca. 1508–1574), and Education of the Deaf 27 Introduction by María Pilar Alonso Abad Text selected and translated by María Pilar Alonso Abad 3. Augustine Baker, OSB, Recusant Benedictine: Sancta Sophia/ Holy Wisdom 39 Introduction by Hugh Feiss, OSB Text selected by Hugh Feiss, OSB 4. Dame Gertrude More, OSB (1606–1633): Selected Prose and Poetry 55 Introduction by Jacob Riyeff Texts selected by Jacob Riyeff 5. Faremoutiers and the Benedictine Revival in Seventeenth-Century France 79 Introduction by Hugh Feiss, OSB Text selected and translated by Hugh Feiss, OSB 6. The Abbey of Saint Walburg: Devotion to Saint Walburga during the Thirty Years War 101 Introduction by Hugh Feiss, OSB Texts selected and translated by Hugh Feiss, OSB 7. The Congregation of Saint Maur in the Seventeenth Century: Claude Martin, OSB, The Practice of the Rule of Saint Benedict 123 Introduction by Hugh Feiss, OSB Text selected and translated by Hugh Feiss, OSB 8. Catherine Mechtilde de Bar, OSB (1614–1698), Founder of the Benedictine Nuns of the Institute of Perpetual Adoration of the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar 147 Introduction by Colleen Maura McGrane, OSB Text selected and translated by Colleen Maura McGrane, OSB II. Eighteenth Century 9. Martin Sarmiento, OSB (1695–1772), Benedictine Scholar during the Enlightenment 167 Introduction by Julia McCoy Text translated by Julia McCoy 10. Benedict Michael Pembridge, OSB (1725–1806), and the English Benedictine Congregation, 1688–1795 185 Introduction by Hugh Feiss, OSB Text selected by Hugh Feiss, OSB 11. Maurus Lindemayr, OSB, The Marriage Contract (1770) 209 Introduction by Alkuin Schachenmayr Text selected and translated by Alkuin Schachenmayr III. Nineteenth Century 12. The Abbey of La Trinità, Cava dei Tirreni: Archive of a Millennium 233 Introduction by Hugh Feiss, OSB Texts selected and translated by Hugh Feiss, OSB 13. Abbot Prosper Guéranger, OSB (1805–1875), Solesmes, and The Liturgical Year 265 Introduction by Hugh Feiss, OSB Texts selected by Hugh Feiss, OSB 14. Abbot Maurus Wolter, OSB (1825–1890), and the First Fifty Years of Beuron 283 Introduction by Hugh Feiss, OSB Text selected by Hugh Feiss, OSB 15. Father James Ambrose Cotham, OSB (1810–1883), Monk and Missionary 305 Introduction by Hugh Feiss, OSB Texts selected by Hugh Feiss, OSB 16. Abbot Rosendo Salvado, OSB (1814–1900), Founder of New Norcia Abbey in Western Australia and Missionary to the Aboriginal People 329 Introduction by Hugh Feiss, OSB Text selected by Hugh Feiss, OSB 17. Abbot Boniface Wimmer, OSB, Benedictine Founder in North America 353 Introduction by Joel Rippinger, OSB Text selected by Joel Rippinger, OSB 18. Saint Walburg Abbey, Eichstätt, Bavaria, and the Founding of the American Benedictine Women’s Communities (1806–1881) 359 Introduction by Ephrem Hollermann, OSB Texts selected by Ephrem Hollermann, OSB 19. Father Ignatius Lyne (1837–1908): Monasteries in the Church of England 381 Introduction by Greg Peters Text selected by Greg Peters 20. John Henry Newman (1801–1890) and the Benedictines 401 Introduction by Owen Cummings Texts selected by Owen Cummings IV. Twentieth Century 21. Saint Ottilien and Tutzing and Their African Missions, 1883–1906: The Travel Diary (1905) of Abbot Norbert Weber, OSB 419 Introduction by Hugh Feiss, OSB Text selected and translated by Hugh Feiss, OSB 22. Blessed Columba Marmion, OSB (1858–1923): Spiritual Guide 445 Introduction by Joel Rippinger, OSB Texts selected by Joel Rippinger, OSB 23. Father Virgil Michel, OSB (1890–1938): Liturgy and Social Justice 457 Introduction by Joel Rippinger, OSB Texts selected by Joel Rippinger, OSB Index of Subjects 467 Index of Persons 481 Index of Locations 491
Hugh Feiss, OSB, is a monk of the Monastery of the Ascension in Jerome, Idaho. He earned his licentiate in philosophy and a doctorate in theology at Sant’Anselmo. He served as managing editor and contributor for the series Victorine Texts in Translation (Brepols). He published Essential Monastic Wisdom, a thematic anthology of Benedictine and Cistercian texts (Harper-San-Francisco, 2000). For Cistercian Publications he has translated works of Peter of Celle and Achard of Saint Victor and collaborated on Saint Mary of Egypt: Three Medieval Lives in Verse, and The Lives of Monastic Reformers, 1 and 2. He was co-editor and contributor of A Benedictine Reader, 530–1530 (Cistercian Publications, 2019). Maureen M. O’Brien is a professor in the Department of History at Saint Cloud State University, where she teaches ancient and medieval European history. She edited Stephen of Muret’s Maxims (CS 177), Bernard of Clairvaux’s The Parables and The Sentences (CF 55), and A Benedictine Reader: 530–1530 (CS 275), and she collaborated with Hugh Feiss, OSB, and Ronald Pepin on The Lives of Monastic Reformers, 1 and 2 (CS 222 and 230).
Reviews for A Benedictine Reader: 1530–1930
"""This welcome volume, A Benedictine Reader:�1530-1930, complements an earlier anthology, A Benedictine Reader, 530-1530. Together they provide students and scholars alike with an invaluable collection of texts illuminating the vast span of Benedictine monasticism."" Brother Bruno Heisey, OSB, Archivist at Saint Vincent Archabbey, Latrobe, Pennsylvania � ""This is a striking and unique book covering a long period of Benedictine history through the use of unusual and original sources. A Benedictine Reader: 1530-1930 demonstrates the richness of the ageless Benedictine spirit in its many forms. Giving a succinct and clear context for all the primary texts chosen, it will provide readers with a valuable encyclopedia of Benedictinism in one volume."" Abbot Geoffrey Scott, Douai Abbey UK, President of the Catholic Archives Society ""The second volume of A Benedictine Reader is a welcome sequel to the first volume which covered the period from 530 to 1530 CE. That volume introduces lay readers to a wealth of writing by Benedictines,�writings with which we might otherwise never have come into contact. The second volume begins where the first leaves off and takes us through the early part of the twentieth century. Like the first, the second volume includes a striking diversity of writings produced by Benedictines. From the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries we find spiritual exercises from The Practice of the Rule of St. Benedict, but also an address to the French Estates General advocating religious toleration, and excerpts of a book on the use of sign language in the education of the deaf. From the eighteenth century we have a play to be performed by abbey schoolboys, The Marriage Contract. From the nineteenth and twentieth centuries we find excerpts from a book on the liturgical year, writings of and about Benedictine missionaries to Australia and Tasmania, North America, and Africa, and a statement of principles on liturgy and social justice. The editors and translators of A Benedictine Reader: 1530-1930�are to be commended for revealing Benedictines at work through the centuries, reflecting on, reforming, and re-imagining their living tradition."" M. A. Norton, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Idaho State University"
