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Article: Western Monasticism: A History of the Monastic Movement in the Latin Church.(Review)(Brief Article)
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- September 28, 2001
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Western Monasticism: A History of the
Monastic Movement in the Latin Church
Peter King
Cistercian Publications, $24.95, 482 pp.
Some years ago in this column I reviewed Karl Frank's Of Greater Liberty (Cistercian Publications), which was advertised as a history of monasticism but which was, in truth, a more general study of religious life (the so-called vita regularis--"life under a rule"). Its topics included not only monks but canons, mendicants, and other groups. It was a good but, of necessity, somewhat sketchy survey. Peter King's book, by contrast, indicates a more precise focus: a history of monasticism in the Latin West. He does not consider the ...