La familia monástica de Santa María de la Vega de Oviedo by Cecilia Bahr

“…Santa Maria de la Vega de Oviedo monastery was born in the 12th century as place of local dominant groups: the little nobility and the rural owners, connected with the Imperial power. …”
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Un ejemplo de poder monástico femenino: Las relaciones entre la villa de Tordesillas y el convento de Santa Clara by Cecilia Bahr

“…The monastery of Santa Clara de Tordesillas represents an example of the feminine power in Castile during Late Middle Age. …”
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Moving our libraries closer to citizens. The program of visits of the Biblioteca Valenciana by Miguel C. Muñoz Feliu

“…That is not the case of the Biblioteca Valenciana Nicolau Primitiu that in recent years has offered a wide range of guided tours (cultural, specialized, theatrical, virtual) to publicize both the library and the Monastery of San Miguel de los Reyes, building declared BIC in 2008 but located in a peripheral and degraded zone of Valencia. …”
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Private religious space in Hungary based on an adaptation of a school to a social care home in Szécsény, Hungary by Podhalański Bogusław

“…It discusses the ideas that defined the adaptive reuse of a former school, located in an existing complex adjacent to a monastery of the Order of St. Francis, which was converted into a social care home, and a chapel in the architect’s own house.…”
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Blathmac i jego "Poemat" poświęcony Dziewicy Maryi by Anna Szewczyk

“…This poem wrote Irish monk of the monastery on Iona, Blathmac (+ 825). The author presents biography of Blathmac and the most important aspects of theology of Mary (Mary companion in suffering, Virgin Mary, Mother Mary, Theotocos, Intercessor). …”
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On the meaning of the chordophone musical instruments in the scenes of the mocking of Christ in Serbian medieval art by Gavrilović Anđela

“…This article examines the sacral meaning of the chordophone musical instruments in the scenes of the Mocking of Christ in Serbian medieval art (1166-1459), preserved only in two monumental ensembles - in the church of Christ Pantokrator in Dečani Monastery (1338-1339) and in the church of the Holy Archangels Gabriel and Michael in Lesnovo (1346-1347). …”
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Autenticidad de la donación de Fernán González a San Sebastián de Silos (954) by Miguel C. Vivancos

“…Many documents associated with Count Fernán González are considered to be falsifications by a number of scholars, including the count’s donation to the monastery of San Sebastián de Silos, whose original has not come down to us. …”
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Sand and Pebbles: The Study of Portuguese Raw Materials for Provenance Archaeological Glass by Inês Coutinho, Teresa Medici, Bernard Gratuze, Andreia Ruivo, Pedro Dinis, Augusta Lima, Márcia Vilarigues

“…The obtained results were compared with the composition of 37 historical samples from the Monastery of Santa Clara-a-Velha previously studied. …”
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Des moines trop bavards : imprudence, simulation ou dissimulation dans les monastères hiéronymites du xve siècle. L’exemple de Santa Catalina de Talavera by Sophie Coussemacker

“…Jerome experienced a serious internal crisis between factions of old and new Christians in the 1470-80s, it had to constitute an internal inquisition tracking down the Jewish monks to the highest peaks of the order. The case of the monastery of Talavera, especially known by the denunciations of the monks of Guadalupe, makes it possible to understand some of the concealment strategies implemented by the monks of Converse origin, but also their relative imprudence, before the outbreak of the crisis. …”
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Experts in Self-Isolation? Monastic Outreach during Lockdown by Richard D.G. Irvine

“…This paper draws on digital ethnography to examine the experience of a Catholic English Benedictine monastery in the context of restrictions on religious gatherings during the global COVID-19 pandemic. …”
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Ornament and Status: Three Early Palaeologan Illuminated Manuscripts by Georgi Parpulov

“…In this paper, I present an additional argument for his dating by comparing the Epithalamion’s zoomorphic initial letters with those found in two other codices datable to the reign of Michael VIII Palaeologus: a Gospelbook (Mount Athos, Iviron Monastery, 5) and a Psalter (Jerusalem, Greek Patriarchal Library, Παναγίου Τάφου 51). …”
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‘Imagining’ Babylon - geography and hagiography in St Sava of Serbia’s middle eastern itinerary by Savić Aleksandar Z.

“…The article presents a new hypothesis on how this segment of Sava’s itinerary was (re)constructed on the literary plane, i. e. how the perspective of his hagiographer, a hieromonk of the Hilandar monastery, was influenced and shaped by geographical knowledge, personal experience, and finally, by the general conventions of the vita genre.…”
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明月照灰霾 = A light in the darkness by Liew, Shi Xiong, Pang, Sern Yong, Yan, Zixin, Yong, Shu Fui

“…Despite being marked earlier on by the Japanese for supporting relief efforts in China, a Buddhist monk in Singapore risks further enraging the oppressors, when he opens the gates of his monastery to shelter hundreds of frightened and homeless civilian refugees. …”
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An Upper Maastrichtian ammonite faunule from the Eastern Desert, Egypt by Kennedy, W, Kulbrok, F

“…Anthony Formation at the Monastery of St. Anthony in the Eastern Desert, Egypt. …”

Ghazali 2012: preliminary report by Artur Obłuski, Grzegorz Ochała, Miron Bogacki, Wiesław Małkowski, Szymon Maślak, Zaki ed-Din Mahmoud

“…The medieval monastery at Ghazali in Sudan was excavated in part by the SudanAntiquities Service in 1953 and 1954, and is one of the best preserved archaeological sites in thecountry. …”
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The ensure of stable function of local historical natural and technical systems by V. V. Nevecherya

“…It was developed in MGRI-RGGRU in relation to the monuments, on the example of the historical buildings of the Kirill-Belozersky monastery. The features of engineering-geological conditions of the territory of the Kirill-Belozersky museum-reserve are described, the results of the retrospective analysis of the development of historical natural-technical system (HNTS) and its typing are given. …”
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La production éditoriale à Jumièges vers le milieu du Xe siècle by Jacques Le Maho

“…The monastery of Jumièges was restored in 942 by duke William Longsword. …”
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The prince as a Jesuit, the king as an abbot. The “monastic” theme in the iconography of John II Casimir by Agnieszka Skrodzka

“…Even though he decided to leave the monastery and to take the Polish crown, he came back to the life of a monk after his abdication. …”
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The ensure of stable function of local historical natural and technical systems by V. V. Nevecherya

“…It was developed in MGRI-RGGRU in relation to the monuments, on the example of the historical buildings of the Kirill-Belozersky monastery. The features of engineering-geological conditions of the territory of the Kirill-Belozersky museum-reserve are described, the results of the retrospective analysis of the development of historical natural-technical system (HNTS) and its typing are given. …”
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Yogi Adityanath’s Background and Rise to Power by Véronique Bouillier

“…After tracing the recent history of the Gorakhpur monastery which he leads, I focus on Adityanath’s mode of power, which I describe under three topics: Ksatriya power, Hindu dimension, hate for Muslims. …”
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