One of the most significant developments in the academic world in the past decade has been the emergence of the Open Access (OA) movement. In response to spiraling costs for academic journals, most notably in the fields of science, technology & medicine, people came together looking for a solution, and the OA movement was born.
Though not identical to the Open Access movement, The Open Archives Initiative (OIAster), is a way to search archived material on any subject. “OAIster can be searched by Title, Author/Creator, Subject, Language or Entire Record. Searches can also be limited by resource type (text, image, audio, video, dataset) and sorted by title, author, date and hit frequency.”
Go to their search page and type in monasticism and a wealth of research papers and other information, including images will be listed for retrieval. This is a terrific resource in any field of research, including monasticism.