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Brother Herman Zaccarelli and the influence of Vatican II on Catholic institutional food service
Published 2022-09-01“…Brother Herman founded the Food Research Center for Catholic Institutions on the campus of Stonehill College outside Boston, which ran conferences and seminars for monks and nuns who sought to change their approach to cooking and eating. …”
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Circulation et contrôle de la parole dans les couvents dominicains (XIIIe-XIVe siècle)
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La mémoire du passé. Les couvents dominicains des provinces d’Espagne et d’Aragon à travers les écrits de l’époque moderne
Published 2022-11-01“…The documentation available to the medieval art historian working on the settlements of Dominican friars and nuns in the Iberian Peninsula includes numerous sources dating from the early modern period. …”
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L’inattendu du terrain
Published 2023-06-01“…Based on a reflexive perspective on my ethnographic study, in this article I examine the reconfiguration processes of the Buddhist Academy of Putuoshan, where Buddhist monks and nuns are trained. Located off Shanghai, the island of Putuoshan is a major pilgrimage site in Chinese Buddhism. …”
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A JAIL OR A REFUGE: CATHOLIC CONVENT EDUCATION IN KATE O’BRIEN’S THE LAND OF SPICES AND EDNA O’BRIEN’S THE COUNTRY GIRLS
Published 2013-01-01“…Kate O’Brien’s representation of convent life is, however, in many ways much more subtle than Edna O’Brien’s unsympathetic and down-to-earth portrayal of the education at the hands of nuns. What is common to both authors and what situates these two novels in the same ideological and cultural context is that they use the representation of this particular educational apparatus to the same end, in order to offer strong critics Irish Catholicism of their time.…”
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Natural health products and cancer chemotherapy and radiation therapy
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Les Cahiers de Madeleine ou la vie d’une Mulâtresse de Cayenne
Published 2009-07-01“…But she found a second mother in her godmother. She went to a Nuns’ school called Saint Joseph of Cluny. There, she received a “school certificate”. …”
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Review Essay: "To Go to the Body." Advances in Phenomenological-sociological Identity Theory
Published 2003-09-01“…Interviews were conducted with ballet dancers, monks and nuns, grounded and supplemented with observations. …”
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“O Jewel Resplendent”: The Virgin Mary and Her Analogues in Hildegard of Bingen’s <i>Scivias</i>
Published 2023-03-01“…Finally, connections between <i>Scivias</i> and Hildegard’s third work, <i>Liber diuinorum operum</i>, demonstrate that the Virgin Mary models the path of virginity that Hildegard holds up as the singular road to holy perfection for herself and the nuns under her care.…”
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Reimprosa und Codeswitching. Zur Rhetorik mittelniederdeutscher Andachtstexte
Published 2022“…The basis for these are a number of current projects editing manuscripts from Northern German convents, in particular the letters books compiled by the Benedictine nuns of Lüne and the prayer books written in the Cistercian Abbey of Medingen. …”
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From Patinir’s Workshop to the Monastery of Pedralbes. A Virgin and Child in a Landscape
Published 2018-12-01“…Whatever the case, this article sets out to situate the piece both in the context of its production and in that of its reception, that is, the community of nuns of Saint Claire of Pedralbes. What is interesting about this apparently modest work is the fact that it combines a set of ingredients typical of Patinir in a composition that is otherwise atypical as regards his known output as a whole, above all in terms of the relationship between the figure and the landscape, although also of its presumed iconographic simplicity. …”
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Expressing selfhood in the convent: anonymous chronicling and subsumed autobiography
Published 2015“…We find it in conversion narratives and vidas por mandato, as well as in less obvious places, including chronicles, trans-lations, poetry, saints’ lives and the myriad forms of governance documents that structured convent life. Sometimes nuns wrote under their own names, but frequently they composed anonymously. …”
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Kartäusische Gebetbücher. Zur Kohärenz von Bibliotheksordnungen in den Kartausen Basel und Erfurt
Published 2023“…By looking at the library catalogues of both institutions, the perspective will be directed at the revelations associated with the nuns of Helfta. Analysing their position in the library shelves as well as the way in which the works are indexed will provide insights into how these texts were read and perceived. …”
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THE RIGHT TIME /
Published 2017“…After her father's untimely death, at fourteen Alex is taken in by the nuns of a local convent, where she finds twenty-six mothers to take the place of the one she lost, and the time and encouragement to pursue her gift. …”
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Visages de la contemplation
Published 2024-03-01“…The work, now quite rare and preserved in the Vatican Apostolic Library, unparalleled in its reflection, remains a powerful fresco of monasteries and contemplative life, the identities and differences of charisms, and the vows of poverty, chastity and obedience of the different orders and monasteries: the Benedictines, the Camaldolese, the Cistercians, the Canons Regular, the Trappists, the Carthusians, the Poor Clares, the Dominican and Carmelite nuns, the Passionists and the Little Sisters of Bethlehem, and the Little Brothers. …”
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“Spiritual Delicacies or Games Useful to Men Banished from the Earthly Paradise to the Heavenly Paradise” by Alberyk Kościński. Concerning the Spiritual Thought of the 17th Century...
Published 2015-04-01“…The article is one of the first attempts to present the works of Alberyk Kościński whose Spiritual Delicacies or Games Useful to Men Banished from the Earthly Paradise to the Heavenly Paradise (Poznań 1695) was aimed at helping nuns or potential recipients to perfect their inner self. …”
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Conflicts in the convents of Poitiers and Tours (second half of the 6th century)
Published 2022-06-01“…It is concluded that women of the Merovingian epoch could openly participate in various political events, including the use of violence. The involvement of nuns in uprisings and riots was not always assessed negatively by the contemporaries. …”
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Late Baroque Manuscript "Supplicant of the Sinner to the Lord Jesus". Eschatological Reflections
Published 2018-12-01“…This text was found in a handwritten collection dated to 1744, belonging to the Discalced Carmelite Nuns in Krakow. In this song, we can identify - as a result of eschatological reflections - the idea of contemptus mundi (contempt of the world), originating from the middle ages. …”
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Brimer les corps, contraindre les âmes : l’institution du Refuge au XVIIIe siècle.
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Liturgisches Gebet. Raum, Zeit und Gemeinschaft in benediktinischer Perspektive
Published 2019-12-01“…Furthermore, monks and nuns describe the shape of the Divine office, their personal attitude and their spiritual experience as constitutive for their spiritual practice. …”
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