Religious congregations, education and school in Italy in the nineteenth century by Roberto Sani

“…Firstly, the author describes the aspect related to the general adoption of the structure of religious congregations, which provides unequivocal evidence of the prevalence, also on the female side, of the traditional monastic model, of a vocation to religious life understood essentially as an active life devoted to charity, a synthesis between action and prayer, a commitment in the world through the assistance of others. …”
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The Gǝʿǝz Manuscripts Collection from the Monastery of Däbrä Ṣǝyon (Abunä Abrǝham, Tǝgray, Ethiopia) by Hagos Abrha Abay

“…Many places and monasteries (in Tǝgray) are linked to this monastery in terms of shared monastic culture and land granting. Däbrä Ṣǝyon is a rock-hewn church in which many Christian historical artefacts have been preserved. …”
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Creating Demand and Creating Knowledge Communities: Myanmar/Burmese Buddhist Women, Monk Teachers, and the Shaping of Transnational Teachings by Rachelle Saruya

“…Although monks such as Ledi Sayadaw (1846–1923) reworked the teachings to make them more accessible to the laity, laywomen seem to have played an active role in creating a “demand” for learning the more difficult Buddhist teachings that were previously only available to monastic elites. It may be difficult to find individual female authors or references to women in texts written by monks during the earlier part of the colonial era, yet we can find examples of women displaying agency as part of larger groups. …”
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The Dormition Cathedral of Kyiv Pechersk Lavra within Holy Kyiv (Late 18th – Early 20th Ct.) by Antonina Kizlova

“…The article is an attempt to amplify the lore about the scantily explored urban and monastic attitude to the Orthodox sacred objects in bureaucratic and formalistic period under the Most Holy Governing Synod rule. …”
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The Lost Fresco Paintings of the Inkerman Cave Churches (“Temple with Baptistery”, “Church of Geography”, Monastery of Saint Sophia) by Yurii Mogarichev, Alena Ergina

“…There are no less than 9 rock-cut monastic complexes which include about 30 temples. …”
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Pakhomian texts of russian Philokalia by Natalia Golovnina

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The e-book phenomenon: a disruptive technology by Tom D. Wilson

“…The invention of movable type was an instance of a disruptive technology: eventually putting monastic scribes out of business altogether. Similarly, the e-book has the potential to disrupt the processes for the production, distribution and use of authorial texts, and is already in the process of doing so. …”
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The fall of Edward II: Failures in kingship and masculinity, the letter of Manuel Fieschi and the cult of resurrected celebrities by Katie McAdam

“…The conspiratorial-style narrative of monarchs and famous people living on in secret has its repetitive nature demonstrated through a number of varied examples, both monastic and within popular culture. This narrative is a common theme in the folklore of many cultures and the idea of resurrection is deeply rooted in religious ideologies. …”
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Ze studiów nad Molierem w teatrze staropolskim by Julian Lewański

“…The presence of Moliere’s plays on school stages despite monastic prohibitions and customs, in turn, is seen as a testimony to the power of the French playwright's pen.…”
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Multitemporal–Multispectral UAS Surveys for Archaeological Research: The Case Study of San Vincenzo Al Volturno (Molise, Italy) by Nicodemo Abate, Alessia Frisetti, Federico Marazzi, Nicola Masini, Rosa Lasaponara

“…The site is one of the most important medieval archaeological sites in the world. It is a monastic settlement that was particularly rich during the early Middle Ages, and is famous for its two full-frescoed crypts which represent a milestone in the history of medieval art. …”
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Multi-lingual, Pluri-ethnic Orthodox Monasticism in Palestine and on Sinai, in the Light of the Liturgical Sources with Particular Reference to the Liturgical Manuscript Sinai Arabic 232 (13th Century) by Andrew Wade

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Quantitative Estimation of the Internal Spatio–Temporal Characteristics of Ancient Temple Heritage Space with Space Syntax Models: A Case Study of Daming Temple by Kai Zhou, Wenting Wu, Xiaoling Dai, Tianjie Li

“…Daming Temple is a typical representative of the revitalization of Buddhism monastic building heritage in China. This research studies the spaces of Daming Temple, Yangzhou City, in three different periods and explores its spatio–temporal characteristics based on two space syntax models, i.e., the angle segment analysis (ASA) model and the visibility map analysis (VGA) model. …”
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Martyrological iconography and the mystic experience: Cracow painting of the second half of the 20th century by Tadeusz Boruta

“…This situation was certainly affected by several factors: the conservatism of the intellectual elites, the unbroken cultural continuum since the 19th century, the clerical character of the city (with many monastic orders and several seminaries, functioning even today, and the John Paul II Pontifical University, then named the Pontifical Academy of Theology), the activity of the weekly “Tygodnik Powszechny” and the publishing house “Znak”. …”
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Research on the Interdependence and Interaction between Sacred Space and Religious Personality—Centered on the Political and Religious Image of Wanhui 萬回 (632–712) by Jiajia Zheng

“…Secondly, by investigating the reasons for shaping the political and religious images of Wanhui in monastic biography and Buddhist hagiography, this article argues that this was a conscious arrangement due to the political purposes or religious intentions of the compilers. …”
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After antiquity: Joseph and Aseneth in manuscript transmission. A case study for engaging with what came after the original version of Jewish Pseudepigrapha. by Wright, J

“…It argues that these re- dactions, and the variety within their witnesses, need to be understood within a Byzantine context, in particular, within hagiographic trends for works produced in monastic environment. Section 3 looks at how the story could be abridged and edited. …”

Tudor Abingdon by Cumber, J, Cumber, Jane

“…After a historiographical introduction and discussion of sources, two chapters investigate the town's medieval development under monastic lordship. The central chapters explore different aspects of change in Abingdon during the reformation period. …”

Bede's temple: an image and its interpretation by O'Brien, C

“…We should consider the possibility that Bede’s temple-commentaries drew upon interpretations formed in this communal, monastic, context.</p>…”

Agricultural development in Mid Saxon England by McKerracher, M

“…In addition, a sub-assemblage of charred plant remains from a Mid Saxon monastic site at Lyminge (Kent) is studied at first hand.…”

Ecclesiastical penance in the Church of Constantinople by Barringer, R

“…</p> <p>The cumulative weight of the evidence supports the following conclusions about the history of Byzantine penance: 1) ecclesiastical penance did not cease to exist in the Byzantine churches following the "Nectarius incident" of 391/2; 2) monastic influence upon the outward form and inner understanding of ecclesiastical penance spread gradually from the fourth century onwards and was not a sudden phenomenon provoked by the events of the iconoclastic age; 3) the constitutive elements of the modern Greek practice of confession can be found in the practice of Byzantine lay people already in the fifth and sixth centuries, but the Lives of the saints nowhere suggest that confession was ever an obligation upon the laity in the period under survey or that a majority of the Byzantine faithful had recourse to the institutions of ecclesiastical'penance as a normal or routine part of their religious practice; 4) the phenomenon of unordained monks consciously exercising the apostolic power of binding and loosing was not, as Holl asserted, a central and informing element in the history of Byzantine penitential practice; 5) enthusiasm for hagiographical sources as privileged reflectors of the Byzantine popular milieu must be tempered by a realistic appreciation of the limitations inherent in the narrative forms and techniques of hagiography.…”

The infinite diversity of persons : individual personality in the ascetical theology of St Feofan the Recluse (1815-1894) by Kulakov, M

“…</p> <p>The thesis is not only the first critical account in English of Feofan's spiritual teaching, but is also an ecumenical exercise in which attitudes toward religious diversity within the Russian monastic tradition are examined by a Russian evangelical.…”