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Herbert B. Workman.
The Evolution of the Monastic Ideal, from the Earliest Times down to the Coming of the Friars: A Second Chapter in the History of Christian Renunciation.
Published London: Epworth Press/J. Alfred Sharp, 1927 reprint (previously issued 1913).
[No ISBN].
Binding: hardback, stitch bound.
Size: 147x219x36mm.
Page count: xxi,368pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair: ex‑lib. New College Oxford; no dustjacket; binding starting to split here and there, though still sound, no pages detached; the usual library marks & stamps, and some inked redares' marks, mainly to chapters 1, 3, 4 & 7, but a few pages elsewhere — usually in the form of sidelines in the margins or words & phrases underlined.


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Weight without packaging: 515g.

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Contents: Historic survey of the ideas of monasticism; History to the coming of Benedict; St. Benedict & his Order; Ideals in the Celtic Church; Development from St. Benedict to St. Francis; Coming of the friars; The message of monasticism; Appendix — Sources of our knowledge of early monasticism.


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