Compiled by Scott DeGregorio degregor@chass.utoronto.ca

The purpose of this webpage is to collect all materials on the WWW dealing with Medieval Christian Spirituality and to make them easily accessible on a single site. At this point it is very much a work- in- progress. I eventually hope to add a commentary which discusses the importance of the material presented here and situates it thematically within the history of Medieval spirituality. I post this page in its unfinished state in the hope that its viewers will be generous in offering advice towards its improvement. Enjoy!

Links to works by key figures in Medieval Spirituality
Tertullian

• On Prayer

Clement of Alexandria

• Stromata

Origen

• On First Principles

St. Basil of Caesarea

• On the Holy Spirit
• Letter

Gregory Nazianzen

• Prayers
• Letters

Gregory of Nyssa

• Letters
• Selected Works

Ephraim of Syria

• The Pearl

St. Patrick

• Confessions

St. Ambrose

• On Virgins

St Augustine

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

Cassian

• Conferences
• Institutes

St. Benedict

• Rule

Boethius

• The Consolation of Philosophy

Gregory the Great

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

Bernard of Clairvaux

• On Loving God

Bonaventure

• The Journey of the Mind to God

John of Ruysbroeck

• Adornment of Spiritual Marriage

Henry Suo

• A Little Book of Eternal Wisdom

Catherine of Siena

• The Dialogue of the Seraphic Virgin

Richard Rolle

• Incendium Amoris

Walter Hilton

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

Julian of Norwich

• The Book of Showings (Long Text)

Thomas à Kempis

• Imitation of Christ

Ignatius of Loyola

• Spiritual Exercises

St. Teresa of Avila

• Interior Castle
• The Way of Perfection
• The Life of St. Teresa

John of the Cross

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

Anonymous Material

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

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

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

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

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
• Richard VandeVelde's Jesuit Spirituality Page
• The Meister Eckhart Site

Religious orders

• The Beguines
• The Benedictines
• The Carmelites
• The Carthusians
• The Cistercians
• The Jesuits
• Order of the Holy Trinity
• The Iona Community