Compiled by Prof. Scott DeGregorio sdegreg@umich.edu

The purpose of this webpage is to collect materials from the WWW dealing with Medieval Christian Spirituality and present them on a single site. Because of the ever-changing nature of hypertext media, this site can never be more than a work- in- progress, and I hope that its viewers will be generous in offering advice towards its improvement. If you know of any materials on the WWW that should be posted here, please email me your suggestions.

  I. Links to works by key figures in Medieval Spirituality

Tertullian (160-c. 240?)

• On Prayer

• Stromata

Origen (c. 185-c. 251)

• On First Principles

St. Basil of Caesarea (330-379)

• On the Holy Spirit
• Letter

• Prayers
• Letters

• Letters
• Selected Works

• The Pearl

• Confession

• On Virgins

• The Confessions
• On the Psalms
• The Rule of St. Augustine
• Enchiridion

John Cassian (c. 360-c. 435)

• Conferences
• The Institutes

Benedict of Nursia (c. 480-540)

• Rule

• The Consolation of Philosophy

• Book of Pastoral Care
• Moralia in Job Books 1-5
• Life of St Benedict

• On Loving God

• The Journey of the Mind to God

• Adornment of Spiritual Marriage

Henry Suso (c. 1296-1366)

• A Little Book of Eternal Wisdom

• The Dialogue of the Seraphic Virgin

• Incendium Amoris

• Treatise Written to a Devout Man
• Scale of Perfection
• The Song of Angels

• The Book of Showings (Long Text)

• Imitation of Christ

• Spiritual Exercises

Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)

• The Interior Castle
• The Way of Perfection
• The Autobiography of St Teresa of Avila

John of the Cross (1542-1591)

• The Ascent of Mount Carmel
• Dark Night of the Soul
• A Spiritual Canticle of the Soul and the Bridegroom

• Junius Manuscript (Anglo-Saxon)
• Ancrene Wisse
• The Cloud of Unknowing

II. On saints and their lives

• Athanasius of Alexandria's Life of St. Antony
• Pachomius' Lives of the Saints
• Gregory of Nyssa's Two Homilies Concerning Saint Stephen, Protomartyr
• Gregory of Nyssa's Life of Macrina
• Jerome's Life of Paul the Hermit
• Jerome's On Illustrious men
• Sulpitius Severus' Life of St. Martin
• Sulpitius Severus' Dialogues
• Gregory's Life of Benedict (Dialogues, Bk 2)
• Andrew of Fleury's Miracles of St. Benedict
• Anonymous Life of Gregory the Great, Selections
• Bede's Life of St Cuthbert
• Bede's Lives of the Abbots
• Alcuin's Life of St. Vedastus
• Rudolf of Fulda's Life of St Leoba
• Reginald of Durham's Life of St Goderic
• Thomas Celano: Two Lives of St Francis
• Cathlolic Encyclopedia Articles on Saints
• Medieval Sourcebook: Saints' Lives
• Thomas Head's Hagiography Site
• The Bollandists: Christian Hagiography Site

III. Articles on key figures in Medieval Spirituality

• Alcuin
• Ambrose
• Anselm of Canterbury
• St. Anthony of the Desert
• Augustine
• Basil the Great
• Bede
• Benedict of Nursia
• Bernard of Clairvaux
• Boethius
• Bonaventure
• Briget of Sweden
• Caesarius of Arles
• John Cassian
• Catherine of Siena
• Clare of Assisi
• Cuthbert
• Cynewulf
• Dante
• Pseudo-Dionysius
• Francis of Assisi
• Gregory the Great
• St. Guthlac
• Hildegard of Bingen
• Hroswitha of Gandersheim
• Ignatius Loyola
• John of the Cross
• Julian of Norwich
• Martin of Tours
• Meister Eckhart
• Origen
• St. Pachomius
• Rabanus Maurus
• St. Swithin
• St. Teresa of Avila

IV. Articles on key themes in Medieval Spirituality

• Asceticism
• Contemplation
• Divine Office
• Hermits
• Holiness
• Liturgy
• Monasticism
• Eastern Monasticism
• Monastic Spirituality
• Medieval Women
• Mysticism
• Prayer
• Rule of St. Augustine
• Rule of St. Benedict
• Sanctity

V. Websites devoted to Spirituality

• David Saloman's Gregory of Nyssa Site
• St Augustine Home Page
• The Saint Columba Home Page
• Julia Bolton Holloway's Julian of Norwich Site
• Lectio Divina Home Page
• St. Pachomius Library
• Franciscan Authors, 13th-18thC
• Nell Gifford Martin's Cyberpsalter Site
• Gregorian Chant Home Page
• History of Christianity Site
• Studies in Spirituality
• Liturgy of the Hours Home Page
• David McNorgan's Liturgy Page
• The Franciscan Archive
• Institute of Cistercian Studies
• Jesuit Spirituality Page
• The Meister Eckhart Site

VI. Religious orders

• The Beguines
• The Benedictines
• The Carmelites
• The Carthusians
• The Cistercians
• The Jesuits
• The Iona Community