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| Cistercian Order Of The Common Observance |
| A history of the order.
http://www.catholicculture.org/docs/doc_view.cfm?recnum=4425 |
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| English Benedictine Congregation - History and Mission |
| The official history of the oldest Benedictine congregation spread across England, Wales, the United States of America, Peru and Zimbabwe.
http://www.benedictines.org.uk/history.htm |
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| Franciscan Order |
| An article on the history of the Franciscan order and its role within the Catholic church. From the Catholic Encyclopedia.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06217a.htm |
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| Franciscan Views on Papal and Royal Sovereignty |
| An essay contending that the Franciscans had a vital role in promoting Papal authority.
http://users.bart.nl/~roestb/franciscan/GILLEEDS.html |
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| Religiosus Ordo |
| An Apostolic Letter from Leo XIII on 12 November 1889, outlining the history of the English Benedictine Congregation since the sixteenth century. .
http://www.catholic-history.org.uk/ebc/doc_religiosus.htm |
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| Religious Orders, The Indian, And The Conquest: Fifty Years of |
| Article on the role of Religious Orders in the conversion of Spanish America.
http://marauder.millersv.edu/~columbus/data/art/HARO-01.ART |
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| Spirituals |
| A general term denoting several groups of Friars Minor, existing in the second half of the thirteenth and the beginning of the fourteenth centuries, who, in opposition to the main body of the order, pretended to observe the Rule of St. Francis in its primitive severity.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14230a.htm |
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| The Community of the Glorious Assumption |
| Tracing the transfer of English Benedictine nuns from Brussels to Winchester following the French Revolution. Article in PDF format.
http://www.catholic-history.org.uk/ebc/1999bellenger.pdf |
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| The Franciscan Experience |
| A course on the origins of the Franciscan order.
http://www.christusrex.org/www1/ofm/fra/FRAmain.html |
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| The Hospitallers of St John in the Netherlands |
| Essay from the Ecole Initiative that looks at the early history of the order and its role in the Netherlands.
http://www2.evansville.edu/ecoleweb/articles/hospneth.html |
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