Les documents copto-arabes dans les archives chrétiennes d’Éthiopie : de rares témoins de l’autorité épiscopale (XIVe-XVe s.) by Anaïs Wion

“…Three Copto-Arabic documents, issued between 1375 and 1424 by Egyptian bishops in Ethiopia, provide a better understanding of the power relation issues between the Coptic episcopate, the Ethiopian political power, and the powerful monastic networks of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. …”
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Skeletal evidence of Diffuse Idiopathic Skeletal Hyperostosis (DISH) in a collective burial from Byzantine Greece by Tritsaroli Paraskevi

“…Byzantine period is marked by increasing development and prosperity in Greece including among others the creation of many local monastic centers. Although the precise social and professional profile of these individuals cannot be revealed, the combined investigation of skeletal and archaeological evidence suggests that the grave gathered the remains of individuals belonging to an upper class social group.…”
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Znaczenie instytucji wdów w odniesieniu do stanu dziewic w pierwszych wiekach Kościoła by Dariusz Zalewski

“…The process of valorization was escalating more and more simultaneously with the development of monasteries and monastic life at the IVth century. …”
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Torunianie w składzie kapituły katedralnej w Chełmży do 1466 roku by Radosław Krajniak

“…Some of them one’s high dignity in monastic state obtained before mounted to chapter cathedral. …”
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Od „tronu świętego Jakuba” do patriarchatu jerozolimskiego by Mieczysław C. Paczkowski

“…In the IV century we can say the growing rivalry between Caesarea and Jerusalem and appearing of many members of the hierarchy and the monastic communities participated very energetically in the problems of the local Church. …”
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Contested Authenticity Anthropological Perspectives of Pilgrimage Tourism on Mount Athos by Michelangelo Paganopoulos

“…In this context, the paper shows how traditional monastic roles, such as those of the guest-master and the sacristan, have been reinvented, along with traditional practices such as that of confession, within the wider turn to relational subjectivity and interest in spirituality. …”
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New Digital Life for Fourteenth Century South Slavonic Scriptoria by Marco Scarpa, Constanta Burlacu, Desislava Paneva-Marinova

“…Written testimonies about the activity of South Slavic scribes and their monastic scriptoria in the 14 th century are an essential resource of information, part of the world’s cultural and historical heritage which is at risk. …”
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UNIVERSITY OF THE MIDDLE AGES: THE CONTEXT OF INTELLECTUAL AND CULTURAL TRADITIONS. PART I by Mikhail A. Kornienko

“…The role of Christianity reviving since the Х century in the emergence of the first universities is outlined, the role played in the realization of the spiritual and secular ambitions of the church and the formation of the first medieval universities, the center of knowledge for the Christian world, cathedral and monastic schools is revealed. The era from the IX to the XIV century is characterized as the era of the combined Arab-Romance effort to reconcile religion and philosophy and complete the classical picture of the world, which was reflected in the university education of the Middle Ages.…”
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Precious Items Piling up Like Mountains: Buddhist Art Production via Fundraising Campaigns in Late Koryŏ Korea (918–1392) by Maya Stiller

“…Considering visual culture alongside written source material, this article uncovers the socioeconomic aspect of Korean Buddhist monastic life, which has been a marginalized field of research. …”
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Znaczenie wyglądu zewnętrznego dziewic i mnichów w formacji duchowej w klasztorach Galii i Hiszpanii (VI-VII w.) by Paweł Wygralak

“… The article discusses the influence of the way of the monastic dress code on helping nuns and monks stay on their spiritual path during formation. …”
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Koncepcja dobrowolnego ubóstwa w pismach monastycznych św. Augustyna by Dariusz Kasprzak

“…Augustine referred directly to the perfect vi­sion of the Christian monastic community described in Acts 4:32-36 as the source of voluntary poverty. …”
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Scientific Profit through Daily Routine by Martin Rogier

“…Along with the construction, we also demonstrate other aspects of early medieval life to the public – monastic life, agriculture and various crafts that are necessary for construction and for supply. …”
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The Theme of the Fountain-Wound in a Baroque Manuscript Meditation: The Impact of Iconography on Poetry by Joanna Panasiuk

“… The Theme of the Fountain-Wound in a Baroque Manuscript Meditation: The Impact of Iconography on Poetry Behind the foundation of the monastic meditation about fountains is a concrete devotional graphic from Western Europe. …”
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Geophysical Investigation at the Santa Chiara Church in Nardò (Southern Italy) by Lara De Giorgi, Dora Francesca Barbolla, Ivan Ferrari, Francesco Giuri, Chiara Torre, Giovanni Leucci

“…The church of Santa Chiara with its adjacent convent, whose foundations date back to the 13th century, is a monastic complex in the city of Nardò in the province of Lecce. …”
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Omitting regulations on alienation, repentance, lament and contemplation in the final lessons of the first chapter of St. Sava’s Studenica Typikon by Rakićević Tihon, Arhimandrit, Anđelković Maja M., Stojanović Aleksandar

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Qatar-Sudan Archaeological Project: Excavations at the Ghazali monastery from 2014 to 2016 by Artur Obłuski, Joanna A. Ciesielska, Robert Stark, Adrian Chlebowski, Aleksander Misiurny, Maciej Żelechowski-Stoń, Zaki el-Din Mahmoud

Subjects: “…monasticism…”
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Contemplation in an urban landscape : a contemporary Cistercian monastery by Tan, Li Lian, 1971-

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Biological adaptability of Australian Aboriginal people by Ulijaszek, S

“…This lasted precisely for the duration of the last great London fog, a circumstance, which Collins and Weiner (1977) describe as 'imposing a monastic seclusion on the participants who were thus obliged to remain together almost continuously for five days'. …”

'In volumine Longobardo': new light on the date and origin of the Latin translation of St Anthony's seven letters by Tóth, P

“…The seven letters of St Antony of Egypt, after the ground-breaking study of Samuel Rubenson, have been revealed to be one of our earliest sources for Egyptian monastic and ascetic theology of the fourth century. …”

Politics in Gorakhpur since the 1920s: the making of a safe ‘Hindu’ constituency by Gellner, D

“…Adityanath was both an effective constituency MP and the head of a thriving Math (Hindu monastic temple). Gorakhpur used to be famous for its lawless image and gang warfare. …”