While my dissertation is on Dominican pastoral care I recently came across several fascinating texts on educating novices at Hill Monastic Manuscript Library. Could anyone help me identify secondary sources discussing the education of monastic or Augustinian/Carmelite novices in the period from roughly the Third Lateran council to 1400 or so(I think I have the Dominican and Franciscan materials well covered), or printed editions of novice works from that period? Any contributions would be greatly appreciated. Dear Patrick, Although covering a later period when practice had clearly changed from the period you are dealing with, a fairly vivid pictures of novices emerges in J.T. Fowler, ed., The Rites of Durham, Publications of the Surtees Society, CVII (1902), written probably by an ex-monk of Durham in the mid-16th century. I know of no comparable description of life in a medieval monastery. Does anyone else? Cheers, Jim Bugslag %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%