Monasteries and the care of souls in late antique Christianity : cognition and discipline - Dilley, Paul C. (New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017)
Evaluating postulants -- Discerning motivation I: status and vocation -- Discerning motivation II: trials of commitment -- Cognitive disciplines -- Scriptural exercises and the monastic soundscape: writing on the heart -- Learning the fear of God -- Prayer and monastic progress: from demonic temptation to divine revelation -- Collective heart-work -- The lives (and minds) of others: hagiography, cognition, and commemoration -- Shenoute and the heart of darkness: rituals of collective repentance.
Keywords: Monastic and religious life -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600.Monastic and religious life -- Early church