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The changing nature of monastic historical writing in late medieval England
Published 2019Subjects: “…Monasticism and religious orders…”
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Intercessory prayer and the Carolingian monastic ideal, c. 750-820
Published 2012“…The writings of Carolingian monastic reformers demonstrate that the chief concern of the monk was to seek and find perfection in God; it is the argument of this study that the elaborate liturgical intercession which characterized early medieval monasticism was coherent with this goal. …”
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Speech and silence in monastic models of holiness: Gaul/Francia, 400-750
Published 2020Subjects: “…Monastic and religious life--History--Early church, ca. 30-600…”
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Climbing ladders: children and monastic formation in England, c.950-1200
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Æthelwold’s Circle, Saints’ Cults, and Monastic Reform, c. 956-1006
Published 2014“…<p>This dissertation examines the veneration of saints at the monasteries which were refounded and funded by the English monastic reformer Æthelwold and his students between the mid-950s and 1006. …”
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Solomon and Saturn I, 89a, “prologa prim”: An exercise in monastic reading practice
Published 2020“…In conjunction with the subsequent episode of the battle, line 89 a forms an exemplum of the monastic practice of lectio divina. This example of ‘monastic poetics’ (O’Camb 2014; Niles 2019) moves from grammatical analysis to a vision of the Word.…”
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The monastic thought and culture of Pope Gregory the Great in their Western context, c.400-604
Published 1991“…In choosing to speak and write primarily as an exegete, Gregory signalled that he did not wish to contribute to the Gaulish or Italian monastic cultures developing around written <em>Rules</em>. …”
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The Celestine monks of France, c. 1350-1450: monastic reform in an age of Schism, councils and war
Published 2014“…</p> <p>The study aims view the French Celestines against the backdrop of a vibrant culture of 'reform' within both the monastic estate (the Observants) and the Church as a whole, as well as the political instability and war in France. …”
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The practice of writing inside an Egyptian monastic settlement: preliminary material characterisation of the inks used on Coptic manuscripts from the Monastery of Apa Apollo at Bawit
Published 2021“…The manuscripts come from the Monastery of Apa Apollo at Bawit, one of the largest monastic settlements in Egypt between the Late Antiquity and the Early Islamic Period (sixth–eighth centuries CE). …”
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Economic production in the monasteries of Egypt and Oriens, ad 320-800
Published 2005“…<p>This thesis is a comprehensive, multi-disciplinary, qualitative and quantitative appraisal of the monastic economy in late Antiquity and the period of early Islam. …”
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Behold your mother: the Virgin Mary in English monasticism, c. 1050-c. 1200
Published 2016“…</em> 1109), into dialogue with lesser known figures, it reveals the richness of monastic contributions to Marian doctrine and devotion, in many cases for the first time. …”
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Monks in politics, monks in the world: buddhist activism in contemporary myanmar
Published 2015“…The range of views on monastic political engagement reveals the ways in which the monastic vocation in Myanmar is being discussed, challenged, reinforced, and transformed during this period of change.…”
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The place of scripture in the thought and writings of Anselm of Canterbury
Published 2020“…Its methodology employs a conceptualisation of ‘scripture’ which seeks to remain faithful to Anselm’s monastic context. Biblical texts, when ‘inhaled’ and ‘exhaled’ by monastic liturgical performance, should not be shorn of the associations they thereby accumulated. …”
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The Chapel of St Catherine at the Cistercian Abbey of Savigny: 'unearthing' an architectural enigma
Published 2023“…It brings together the findings of the latest archaeological survey of the monastic precinct, of which only fragments survive, with a comprehensive analysis of all the available references to – and scholarly discussions of – the chapel, which was destroyed in 1705. …”
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Preparing the Mind for Prayer: The Wanderer, hesychasm and theosis
Published 2015“…In identifying new analogues and possible sources in scriptural and patristic writings, it suggests how the poem might have been understood within an Anglo-Saxon monastic milieu.…”
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Preparing the mind for prayer: The Wanderer, hesychasm and theosis
Published 2015“…In identifying new analogues and possible sources in scriptural and patristic writings, it suggests how the poem might have been understood within an Anglo- Saxon monastic milieu.…”
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The Vinaya of the Bon tradition
Published 2015“…Historically, the monastic life of the Bon tradition of Tibet has developed side by side with that of the Tibetan Buddhists. …”
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Life and death in a medieval monastery: The case of the Cistercian Abbey of Savigny (1112-c. 1250)
Published 2018“…This article looks to paint a picture of life and death at the reformed Benedictine (later Cistercian) abbey of Savigny, head of Normandy's only native monastic order. Using the abbey's extensive collection of charters, as well as narrative and annalistic texts, it traces in detail the different networks that underpinned recruitment at the abbey, from its abbots to its lay brothers, and attempts to reconstruct the community's lost sepulchral landscape, in particular with regards to the burial of its lay benefactors. …”
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