Take this image of the Crucified,
whose suffering and death
you shall always keep in your heart.

Books that are part of everyday life

• Common Worship: Daily Prayer. ✓✓✓
• Bible, New Revised Standard Version ✓

Anchorite Realted

Guidance (Primary)

• Hilton, Walter. The Scale (or Ladder) of Perfection, A New Edition (With Active Table of Contents).
• Rolle, Richard. The Form of Perfect Living and Other Prose Treatises (Illustrated). Aeterna Press.
• Aelred of Rievaulx, “A Rule of Life for a Recluse”, translated by Mary Paul Macpherson OCSO, in Treatises & Pastoral Prayer, Cistercian Publications. ✓
• Savage, A. and Watson, N. (trans. & eds.) Anchoritic Spirituality: Ancrene Wisse and Associated Works, New York: Paulist Press.
• Grimlaicus. Rule for Solitaries (Cistercian Studies). Liturgical Press.
• Boniface Ramsey. John Cassian: The Conferences (Ancient Christian Writers Series, No. 57).
• Goscelin of St Bertin: The Book of Encouragement and Consolation [Liber Confortatorius] (Library of Medieval Women). Boydell & Brewer.

General

• Hughes-Edwards, Mari. Reading Medieval Anchoritism: Ideology and Spiritual Practices (Religion and Culture in the Middle Ages). University of Wales Press. ✓
• Jones, E.A., Hermits and anchorites in England, 1200–1550 (Manchester Medieval Sources). Manchester University Press.
• Clay, Rotha Mary. Hermits and Anchorites of England. Edited Philip Campbell
• Anchoritism in the Middle Ages: Texts and Traditions (Religion and Culture in the Middle Ages). University of Wales Press.

Articles

• “Rites of Enclosure: The English Ordines for the Enclosing of Anchorites, S. XII–S. XVI” by E. A. Jones ✓✓

Walter Hilton

• Hilton, Walter. Mixed Life (Fairacres Publications Book 138) . SLG Press.

Richard Rolle

• Rolle, Richard. The Fire of Love (Illustrated. Aeterna Press.

Related

The Cloud of Unknowing

• Butcher, Carmen Acevedo. The Cloud of Unknowing. Shambhala.
• Julian, Fr. John. The Complete Cloud of Unknowing: with The Letter of Privy of Counsel . Paraclete Press. ✓✓

Rule of Life

• Macchia, Stephen A.. Crafting a Rule of Life. InterVarsity Press.

Lectio Divina

• Carthusian, Guigo II the. The Ladder of Monks. Sr. Pascale-Dominique Nau, OP.
• Cadsey, Michael. Sacred Reading: The Ancient Art of Lectio Divina. Liguori.

The Imitation of Christ

• Julian OJN, Father John. The Complete Imitation of Christ . Paraclete Press.

Julian of Norwich

• Julian OJN, Father John. The Complete Julian of Norwich . Paraclete Press. Kindle Edition.

Anglican Religious Life

• Stephen, OSH, Ellen. Together and Apart. Church Publishing Inc.
• SLG, Sisters of the Love of God. Monastic Vocation. SLG Press. ✓✓

Religious Life (General)

• Schneiders, Sandra M. Selling All: Commitment, Consecrated Celibacy, and Community in Catholic Religious Life. Paulist Press.
• Lanzetta, Beverly. The Monk Within: Embracing a Sacred Way of Life. Blue Sapphire Books.
• Heath, Elaine A.. The Mystic Way of Evangelism: A Contemplative Vision for Christian Outreach. Baker Publishing Group.

General (Anglican)

• Williams, Rowan. Silence and Honey Cakes. Lion Hudson LTD. ✓
• Williams, Rowan. Being Christian. SPCK.
• Ross, Maggie. Silence: A User’s Guide: 1. Darton, Longman & Todd Ltd.
• Ross, Maggie. The Fountain and the Furnace: The Way of Tears and Fire. Wipf & Stock. ✓
• Duffy, Eamon. The Stripping of the Altars. Yale University Press.

Bernard of Clairvaux

• Of Clairvaux, Bernard. Sermons on the Song of Songs. Fig.

Carthusian

• Klein Maguire, Nancy. An Infinity of Little Hours: Five Young Men and Their Trial of Faith in the Western World’s Most Austere Monastic Order. Public Affairs.
• Peeters, Tim. When Silence Speaks: The Spiritual Way of the Carthusian Order. Darton, Longman & Todd LTD.
• A Priest. Report from Calabria: A Season with the Carthusian Monks. Ignatius Press.
• King, Archdale A.. The Carthusian Rite: History and Ritual (Liturgies of the Religious Orders Book 1). Mediatrix Press.
• Lockhart, Robin Bruce. Halfway to Heaven: The Life of the Carthusians. Cistercian Publications.
• Carthusian Spirituality – The Writings of Hugh of Balma and Guigo De Ponte. Paulist Press.

Margery Kempe

• Bale, Anthony. Margery Kempe: A Mixed Life (Medieval Lives). REAKTION BOOKS.
• Kempe, Margery. The Book of Margery Kempe (Oxford World’s Classics). OUP Oxford.

Kierkegaard ✓✓

Primary ✓✓

• Kierkegaard, Søren. Kierkegaard’s Writings, XXI, Volume 21. Princeton University Press.
• Kierkegaard: Concluding Unscientific Postscript (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy). Cambridge University Press.
• Kierkegaard, Søren. Kierkegaard’s Writings, XIV, Volume 14. Princeton University Press.
• Kierkegaard, Søren. Kierkegaard’s Writings, VII, Volume 7. Princeton University Press.
• Kierkegaard: Fear and Trembling (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy). Cambridge University Press.

Secondary

• Westphal, Merold. Kierkegaard’s Concept of Faith (Kierkegaard as a Christian Thinker). Eerdmans. ✓
• Barnett, Christopher B.. From Despair to Faith: The Spirituality of Søren Kierkegaard. Fortress Press. ✓
• Roberts, Kyle. Emerging Prophet: Kierkegaard and the Postmodern People of God. Cascade Books, an Imprint of Wipf and Stock Publishers.