Neue Forschungsansätze über Theaterkultur in österreichischen Prälatenklöstern der Frühen Neuzeit by Alkuin Volker Schachenmayr

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Less Known Iconography of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary in the Prague Loreto in Connection with the Teaching of St Lawrence of Brindisi by Marie Vymazalová

“…Lawrence of Brindisi, a capuchin monk and a European diplomat, was an important person in European church history of the 16th and the 17th centuries, but his texts are not yet fully appreciated. …”
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Gerbert of Aurillac (Pope Sylvester II) as a Clockmaker by Marek Otisk

“…The paper analyses three preserved reports, depicting Gerbert of Aurillac (also known as: of Reims, of Ravenna, of Bobbio, and in 999–1003 as Pope Sylvester II) as a clockmaker. The Benedictine monk William of Malmesbury (died around 1143) writes about clocks Gerbert made in Reims in The History of the English Kings and describes them as arte mechanica compositum. …”
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Heresy and Heretics in Deliberatio supra hymnum trium puerorum by Marek Druga

“…I therefore compare Gerard’s data on heretics with reports on bogomils from other sources, especially from the works as Sermon against the Bogomils by Cosmas the Priest, the Interrogatio Johannis, and from several Byzantine sources – the letters of Theophylact to the Bulgarian Tsar Peter, the monk Euthymius of the Convent of the Most Venerable Mother of God in Constantinople, and the letter of Euthymius Zigabenus. …”
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Characteristics of Female Figures and Memories of Women in Korean Narrative Songs by Youngsook Suh

“…When her personal expectations conflict with social expectations, the female figure commits suicide or becomes a monk. These female figures continue to reappear in women’s memories and are embodied in narrative songs. …”
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The Motifs of Sexual Abstinence and Virginity in Medieval Hungarian Legends by Kristína Pavlovičová

“…They stress the suppression of body and the virginity of married saints to strengthen the practice and honour of celibacy which was established as mandatory for all the priests, monks and nuns in the Western Church of that era. …”
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Ze studiów nad dziejami klasztoru Kanoników Regularnych na górze Ślęży by Grzegorz Domański

“…Completion (or discontinuation) of construction could have coincided with the monks’ flight in 1146 to Wrocław. On the basis of the scant archaeological material discovered in the monastery building, the conclusion should be drawn that no part of it was used. …”
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