Carmelites

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Primary Sources

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	Richard Lavenham, O. Carm., A Litil Tretys on the Seven Deadly Sins, by Richard Lavynham, O. Carm., Edited with an Introduction, Notes, a Glossarial Index etc. from MS. Harley 211 in the British Museum, with variants from thirteen other copies, J.P.W.M. Van Zutphen, ed. Rome: Institutum Carmelitanum, 1956. pp.134.
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	Richard Maidstone, O. Carm., Richard Maidstone’s Penitential Psalms, edited from Bodl. MS Rawlinson A 389, Valerie Edden, ed., Middle English Texts 22. Heidelberg: Carl Winter, 1990.
	Richard Misyn, O. Carm, The Fire of Love & The Mending of Life or The Rule of Living, (ed.) Harvey, Ralph, EETS OS 106. London: Kegan Paul, 1896.
	Thomas Netter, O. Carm., Doctrinale Antiquitatum Fidei Catholicae Ecclesiae contra Wiclevistas et Hussitas. Venice: Zilotti, 1571, Venice: Antonii Bassanesii ad S. Cantianum, (ed.) Blanciotti, 1757, Reprinted Farnborough: Gregg Press Limited, 1967.
	Nicholas of Lynn, O. Carm., Kalendarium, ed. Eisner, Sigmund, The Chaucer Library. London: Scolar Press, 1980. Hbk. ISBN: 0859676021. pp.248.
	Nicholas of Narbonne, O. Carm., The Flaming Arrow (Ignea Sagitta), Michael Edwards, trans. Durham: Teresian Press, 1985.
	Philip Ribot, O. Carm., The Book of the First Monks (Chapters 1 to 9), Michael B. Edwards, trans. Boars Hill, Oxford: Teresian Press, 1969.
	Michael G. Sargent, ed., Nicholas Love’s Mirror of the Blessed Life of Christ, Garland Medieval Texts 18. New York: Garland Publishing Inc., 1992.
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	W.W. Shirley, ed., Fasciculi Zizaniorum – Magistri Johannis Wyclif Cum Tritico., Ascribed to Thomas Netter of Walden, Provincial of the Carmelite Order in England, and Confessor to King Henry the Fifth, Rolls Series (Chronicles and Memorials of Great Britain and Ireland). London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1858.
	Adrian Staring, O. Carm, ed. Medieval Carmelite Heritage. Textus et Studia Carmelitana, 16. Rome, 1989. ISBN: 8872880092. pp.pp.465.
	Adrian Staring, O. Carm., ‘Nicolai Prioris Generalis Ordinis Carmelitarum Ignea Sagitta’, Carmelus, IX. (1962): 237-307.

Secondary Sources

	Kevin J. Alban, John Wyclif and the English Carmelites,. Private production at Balliol College, Oxford, 1979.
	Kevin Alban, O. Carm., The Treatment of Mary in the ‘Doctrinale’ of Thomas Netter of Walden O. Carm. (d.1430) as a Resource for Contemporary Theology, MTh Dissertation. Heythrop College, University of London, September 2001.
	John Ashdown-Hill, Whitefriars: The Priory of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Norwich, 2000. [Privately Printed booklet, Aylesford Library C271.73 0942/NOR].
	Margaret Aston, Faith and Fire: Popular and Unpopular Religion 1350-1600. London: Hambledon Press, 1993.
	Margaret Aston, Thomas Arundel: A Study of Church Life in the Reign of Richard II. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1967.
	James Boyce, O. Carm., ‘The Liturgy of the Carmelites’, Carmelus, 43. Rome: Edizioni Carmelitane, 1996.
	Titus Brandsma, O. Carm., Carmelite Mysticism – Number 2: The Hermits of Carmel. Chicago: Carmelite Press, 1936, Reproduced Faversham, Kent: Carmelite Press, 1980.
	British Province of Carmelites
	Ruth Burrows, O.C.D., Carmel: Interpreting a Great Tradition. London: Sheed & Ward, 2000.
	Walter Holden Capps, & Wendy M. Wright, Silent Fire: An Invitation to Western Mysticism. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1978. Pbk. ISBN: 0060613149.
	The Carmelite Directory of the Spiritual Life. Chicago: Carmelite Press, 1951.
	Carmelite Monastery, Ware, The Desert Shall Blossom – The Ideals and Traditions of the Carmelites. Wheathampstead, Hertfordshire: Anthony Clarke, 1977.
	John P.H. Clark, ‘A Defence of the Carmelite Order by John Hornby, O. Carm., A. D. 1374’, Carmelus, 32. Rome: Institutum Carmelitanum, 1985.
	Richard Copsey, O. Carm., ‘The Carmelites in England 1242-1540: Surviving Writings’, Carmelus, 43. Rome: Edizioni Carmelitane, 1996. pp. 175-224.
	Richard Copsey, O. Carm., ‘The Carmelites in England 1242-1539: Surviving Writings. Additions and Corrections 1’, Carmelus, 44. Rome: Instituto Carmelitano, 1997. pp. 188-202.
	Richard Copsey, O. Carm., English and Irish Medieval Carmelite Bishops – A Listing. Private Printing, 1987.
	Richard Copsey, O. Carm., English and Scottish Medieval Carmelite Libraries – A Listing of Contents and Surviving Books. Private Printing, 1987.
	Richard Copsey, O. Carm., ‘An English Carmelite abroad: John Bale’s visit to Northern Italy in 1527’, Carmelus, 45. Rome: Instituto Carmelitano, 1998. pp.163-173.
	Richard Copsey, O. Carm., ‘Establishment, Identity and Papal Approval: the Carmelite Order’s Creation of its Legendary History’, Carmelus, 47. Rome: Instituto Carmelitano, 2000. pp.41-53.
	Richard Copsey, O. Carm., ‘The Ignea Sagitta and its readership: A Re-Evaluation’, Carmelus, 46. Rome: Instituto Carmelitano, 1999. pp.166-173.
	Richard Copsey, O. Carm., ‘Simon Stock and the Scapular Vision’, Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 50, Number 4, October 1999. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 652-83.
	Kevin Culligan & Regis Jordan, eds. Carmel and Contemplation: Transforming Human Consciousness, Carmelite Studies VIII. Washington: Institute of Carmelite Studies Publications, 2000.
	F.R.H. Du Boulay, ‘The Quarrel between the Carmelite Friars and the Secular Clergy of London, 1464-1468’, Journal of Ecclesiastical History, VI, (1955): 156-174.
	Valerie Edden, ‘A Carmelite Sermon Cycle: British Library Royal 7.B.I’, Carmelus, 43. Rome: Edizioni Carmelitane, 1996.
	Valerie Edden, ‘The Mantle of Elijah: Carmelite Spirituality in England in the Fourteenth Century’, in Marion Glasscoe, ed., The Medieval Mystical Tradition, England, Ireland and Wales, Exeter Symposium VI. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1999.
	Valerie Edden, ‘Marian Devotion in a Carmelite Sermon Collection of the late Middle Ages’, Mediaeval Studies, 57. (1995): 101-29.
	Bede Edwards, O.C.D., The Rule of Saint Albert, Vinea Carmeli 1. Aylesford & Kensington: Carmelite Press, 1973.
	Keith J. Egan, ‘The Carmelites Turn to Cambridge’, in Paul Chandler & Keith J. Egan, eds., The Land of Carmel: Essays in Honor of Joachim Smet, O. Carm. Rome: Institutum Carmelitanum, 1991. pp.155-70.
	Keith J. Egan, The Establishment and Early Development of the Carmelite Order in England, D. Phil. Thesis. University of Cambridge, 1965.
	Keith J. Egan, ‘The Spirituality of the Carmelites’, in Jill Raitt, ed., Christian Spirituality: High Middle Ages and Reformation. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1987. pp.50-62.
	Patrick Fitzgerald-Lombard, O. Carm., ed., Carmel in Britain, Vol. I: People and Places. Rome: Institutum Carmelitanum, 1992.
	Patrick Fitzgerald-Lombard, O. Carm., ed., Carmel in Britain, Volume II: Theology and Writing. Rome: Institutum Carmelitanum, 1992.
	Bruce P. Flood, Jr., ‘The Carmelite Friars in Medieval English Universities and Society, 1299-1430’, Recherches de Théologie ancienne et médiévale, LV, (1988): 154-83.
	K.W. Humphreys, "The Libraries of the Carmelites," in The Book Provisions of the Mediaeval Friars 1215-1400, Studies in the History of Libraries and Librarianship Volume I, Safaho Monographs Volume 2. Amsterdam: Erasmus Booksellers, 1964. pp.123-128.
	Andrew Jotischky, The Carmelites and Antiquity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. Hbk. ISBN: 0198206348. pp.382.
	Philip Kenny, O. Carm., An Edition of Thomas Scrope’s Fifteenth Century English Translation of ‘The Book of the Institution and Proper Deeds of Religious Carmelites (Book I), M. A. Thesis. St. Bonaventure University, 1965.
	P R.McCaffrey, O. Carm., The White Friars – an Outline Carmelite History, with Special Reference to the English-Speaking Provinces. Dublin: M. H. Gill and Son, 1926.
	Honor McCusker, John Bale, Dramatist and Antiquary. Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, 1942.
	Wilfrid McGreal, O. Carm., At the Fountain of Elijah – The Carmelite Tradition, Traditions of Christian Spirituality Series. London: Darton, Longman & Todd, 1999.
	Sr. Miriam of Jesus, O.C.D., Carmel: A Notebook of its History – Volume 2, XIII Century, History and Biography. Private printing, undated.
	The Missal According to the Carmelite Rite. Rome: Typis Polyglottis Vaticanis, 1953.
	Margaret Rickert, The Reconstructed Carmelite Missal: An English Manuscript of the late XIV Century in the British Museum (Additional 29704-5, 44892). London: Faber and Faber, 1952.
	Andrew Ryder, S.C.J., Visions of Light: The English Spiritual Writers of the Fourteenth Century, Living Flame Series Vol. 12. Dublin: Carmelite Centre of Spirituality, & Bury, Manchester: Koinonia Limited, 1981.
	Louis Saggi, O. Carm., et al, Saints of Carmel: A Compilation from Various Dictionaries, Gabriel Pausback O. Carm., trans. Rome: Carmelite Institute, 1972.
	Lancelot C. Sheppard, The English Carmelites. London: Burns Oates, 1943.
	Peter Slattery, The Springs of Carmel: An Introduction to Carmelite Spirituality. Alba House, 1991. Pbk. ISBN: 0818906049. pp.152.
	J. Smet. O. Carm, The Carmelites: A History of the Brothers of Our Lady on Mount Carmel, rev., 5 Vols. 1988.
	J. Smet, O. Carm, Cloistered Carmel: A Brief History of the Carmelites Nuns. Rome, 1986.
	Joachim Smet, O. Carm., ed. Bibliotheca Carmelitana Manuscripta: 1. Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana – Manuscripts in the Vatican Library relating to the Carmelite Order. Rome: Edizioni Carmelitane, 1994.
	Joachim Smet, O. Carm., "The Carmelite Rule after 750 Years," Carmelus, 44. (Rome: Instituto Carmelitano, 1997): 21-47.
	Joachim Smet, O. Carm., The Carmelites – A History of the Brothers of Our Lady of Mount Carmel: Volume I, ca. 1200 until the Council of Trent. Rome: Institutum Carmelitanum, Revised edition 1988.
	Joachim Smet, O. Carm., Cloistered Carmel: A Brief History of the Carmelite Nuns. Rome: Institutum Carmelitanum, 1986.
	Joachim Smet, O. Carm., The English Carmelite Province. Aylesford, Kent: St. Albert’s Press, date of pamphlet unknown.
	Joachim Smet, O. Carm., "The Perfection of Solitude" [Review of Jotischky], Carmelus, 44 (Rome: Instituto Carmelitano, 1997): 176-181.
	Otger Steggink, Jo Tigcheler & Kees Waaijman, Carmelite Rule, Theodulf Vrakking & Joachim Smet, trans. Almelo: ‘Commission for Religious Dimension’, Dutch Carmelite Province, private printing, 1979.
	Margaret Embree Turner, Some Aspects of the English Carmelites in the First Half of the Fifteenth Century, M. A. Thesis. Manchester University, September 1933.
	Kees Waaijman, The Mystical Space of Carmel: A Commentary on the Carmelite Rule, John Vriend, trans., The Fiery Arrow Collection. Leuvun: Peeters, 1999.
	Mary Jo Weaver, Cloister and Community: Life within a Carmelite Monastery. Indiana University Press, 2002. Hbk. ISBN: 0253341841. pp.128.
	Benedictus-Maria Zimmerman, O.C.D., Carmel in England: A History of the English Mission of the Discalced Carmelites 1615 to 1849. London: Burns & Oates, 1899.

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