books.google.ie - Long awaited by medievalists, monastics and patristic scholars, these are the complete conferences of Cassian. Cassian was a major spiritual writer, a precursor of Benedict, and a bridge between the desert and the West. The conferences are a record of these dialogues and focus on the cultivation of virtue...http://books.google.ie/books/about/John_Cassian_The_Conferences.html?id=k3CrvJJZkqEC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareJohn Cassian, The Conferences