Buddhisme og Singhalesisk folkereligion by Jørgen Østergaard Andersen

“…The symbolic relationship between the monk (bikkhu) and the lay Singhalese (dāyaka) is analysed and discussed as complementary ways of perceiving the image of Buddha and the Truth taught by Buddha. …”
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"Øjet i Det Høje" - Fra elitetroppernes gudserfaring til menigmands gudsbillede by Ninna Jørgensen

“…Something like this occurred when the literature which had developed in connection with the old monk movements was unleashed in the layman’s world, not the least due to the activities of the new beggar orders in the cities. …”
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«En Ridder saa bold og en Frøken saa grand» – spøkelsesdikting i vers og på prosa by Olav Solberg

“…In 1796 he published what was to become one of the most influential Gothic novels at the time, The Monk, containing several ballads of Lewis’ own creation. …”
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Kungen är död, leve helgonkungen! Till tolkningen av en romansk bildfris by Torkel Eriksson

“…The most detailed version of the legend was written by the English monk Ælnoth about 1122, and the most important profane narrative forms part of the Knytlingasaga, written shortly after 1250. …”
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The Miracle of the Harvest. The Cistercians, French Connections and the Hegwald Workshop on Gotland by Harriet M. Sonne de Torrens

“…Central to the development of the Romanesque font industry on Gotland was the arrival of the monks from the Cistercian monasteries of Clairvaux and Cîteaux in France, to Alvastra, Nydala (both on the Swedish mainland) and to the Baltic island of Gotland in 1152/53–1164, where the Cistercians founded the monastery of Beata Maria de Gutnalia (Roma). …”
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Att återupptäcka handskrifters tysta öden by Linn Holmberg

“…In this article, these aspects are illustrated through the study of an unrealized encyclopedic project, executed by Benedictine monks in mid-eighteenth-century Paris, parallel in time to the Encyclopédie of Diderot and d’Alembert. …”
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