Vienna's Ursuline Convent and the Via Allemagna : travel, music, letters by Janet K. Page

“…Correspondence between Madre Maria Arcangela Biondini, abbess of the Servite convent in Arco, and the Brescian composer Paris Francesco Alghisi documents her requests for music on behalf of the Viennese Ursulines and the musical preferences of the nuns.…”
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EFFECT OF FEEDING SOME ADDITIVES ON YIELD, TOTAL , SOLIDS AND SOLIDS -NOT - FAT CONTENT OF COWS MILLK by C.T. Sathian, U.T. Francis

“…Potassium carbonate feeding increased TS % significantly from 12.26 to 12.68 while there was a significant reduction in milk yield (11.71 kg/day). Nuns of the additives produced significant changes in SNF%. …”
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Manly hearts in female bodies. Representing holy Dominican women in Castile in medieval times by Diana Lucía Gómez-Chacón

“…Despite the scarcity of representations of medieval Dominican nuns and mulieres religiosae, these images offer valuable information about the origins and development of the cult of certain female Dominican saints, the devotions and spiritual concerns of their patrons and main promoters, and the role played by the female branch of the Order of Friars Preachers in its reform throughout the 15th century. …”
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Reflections on the institutionalization of nursing within the hospitals: the sisters of Jesus performed in the Holy Eucharist at Santa Casa de Cachoeiro de Itapemirim (1929 - 1950) by Luciene Carla Corrêa Francelino

“…The temporal cut is justified by the period in which the nuns administered the hospital internally. The hypothesis defended is that the religious cared for the patients hospitalized in the institution, but this care broke the boundaries of the body and reached the limits of the soul, since they were concerned with the spiritual comfort of the convalescent and their relatives, favoring healing or minimizing the suff ering and enabling an improvement in the quality of life of those who were treated in the hospital. …”
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A Study on the Literacy Rate of Buddhist Sangha in the Tang Dynasty by Shaowei Wu

“…Simultaneously, efforts to remove unqualified monks and nuns provided an opportunity to estimate the literacy rate within the monastic community. …”
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Novizie ed educande nei monasteri italiana post-tridentini by Gabriella Zarri

“…The Author also studies the cases of the female monasteries in Bologna, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the range of subjects taught there as well as the two most important works published in the context of the post-Tridentine normative dispositions on nuns and novices: the Specchio religioso per le monache (1609), written by Giovan Pietro Barco, and La monaca perfetta, ritratta dalla Scrittura Sacra con autorità et essempii de’ Santi Padri (1624), by Carlo Andrea Basso.…”
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Monasticism in the British Isles: A Comparative Overview by Karen Stöber

“…The medieval British Isles were marked by a lively monastic presence throughout the entire period. Groups of monks, nuns, regular canons and canonesses, and friars established communities even in the furthermost reaches of the territory, and by doing so they came to play an important part in the life, culture, economy, and politics of the region. …”
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La fabrique des reliques. Manipulations et production de sacré dans la clôture by Francesca Sbardella

“…Considering the case of the remains of Breton Blessed Françoise d’Amboise (1427-1485), the analysis will be focused on the transformation process human remains undergo to be turned into relics, this process being implemented by specialised secluded nuns. A number of issues will be addressed, such as the types of relational processes and strategies (including protagonists, situations, material and ideological systems) that are most relevant for these objects to be assigned and preserve their sacred power.…”
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Lviv Copy of Missing Painting by Iacomo Negretti Called Palma II Vechio by Marta Giżyńska-Matecka, Tomasz Węcławowicz

“…The document is a decorated copy of a church fair privilege given by pope Pius VI to the Bemardine Nuns in Lviv in 1777. At the bottom there is an authentication issued in the Obroszyn castle by a Lviv archbishop Waclaw Hieronim Sierakowski. …”
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Porneia revisitée by André Burguière

“…Medard, studied by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie ; as well as those of the Ursuline nuns of Loudun « possessed by the devil » who exhibited their convulsions in public, whose dossier Michel Certeau has investigated.…”
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Music in the Dominican Convent of Marenberg: in Search of Sources by Marko Motnik

“…The convent chronicle of the early 18th century contains numerous details about nuns who devoted themselves to music. Some of them were trained singers, others played various instruments, and some even composed. …”
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Cross-dressing among medieval Ashkenazi Jews by Lena Roos

“…In order to avoid being sexually assaulted, female Jewish travellers were allowed to disguise themselves as a. Christians, even as nuns, or b. men. This contradicts biblical and rabbinical prohibitions against such practices. …”
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Les médiévistes et l’histoire des femmes et du genre : douze ans de recherche by Didier Lett, Camille Noûs

“…In turn, are mentioned, commented on and even criticised, studies on religion (life in monasteries, cultures of nuns, beguines and mystics, holiness, piety of secular women), masculinities, family (paternity, adelphic links...), couples in and out of marriage), sexualities (homosexuality, sexual violence, prostitution), justice, identities, emotions, economy and work, feminine power (queenship) and feminine cultures (literacy and aurality). …”
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« Le corps relève de l’ordre social ». Une économie politique de la mise au service des corps dans la sociologie de Nicole Laurin by Jean-Charles St-Louis

“…The work of the late sociologist Nicole Laurin paints a picture of the various forms appropriation and domination take in Quebec society – from the rise of neonationalism and the decline of hospital nuns to the erosion of intermediate social institutions. …”
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Furnished female burial in seventh-century England: Gender and authority in the Conversion Period by Hamerow, H

“…The present study considers what gave rise to this phenomenon and concludes that the small number of royal nuns and abbesses who figure so prominently in written accounts of the Conversion were part of a wider, undocumented change in the role of women that began several decades before the founding of the first female houses. …”

Natural health products and cancer chemotherapy and radiation therapy by Doreen Oneschuk, Jawaid Younus

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Quand le fengshui des entreprises s’invite au temple by Hélène Bloch

“…As a regular patron of a local temple in the Mount Qingcheng township (Sichuan, China), Qin Shuanglong presents himself as someone who is familiar with the rules of a place inhabited by gods and the nuns in charge of its proper use. By encouraging his clients to make large donations to temples, he also places himself as an intermediary between entrepreneurs and gods who could help them to "get rich" (facai). …”
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Imiona Sióstr Karmelitanek Dzieciątka Jezus z drugiej połowy XX wieku by Ewa Wieczorek

“…This article contains an analysis of a specific group of names in Polish anthroponomy, namely names of nuns from the Catholic Religious Order of Carmelite Sisters of St. …”
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Six Decades since a Blessed Event in the History of the Relics of Venerable Saint Parascheva - the Generalization of Her Worship (October 1955 - October 2015) by Ion Vicovan

“…Both Romanian and foreign hierarchs, several priests, monks, nuns and faithful attended the event.…”
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L’inhumation des immatures in ecclesia à l’époque moderne : l’exemple de la nef de Saint-André-le-Haut (Vienne, Isère, France) by Vanessa Granger, Otilia Stoica, Delphine Linard, Audrey Gaillard, Bérénice Chamel

“…The Abbey of Saint-André-le-Haut (Vienne, Isère, France), founded by Benedictine nuns in the 6th century, is one of the city’s oldest monastic buildings. …”
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