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Ascetics, slaves, and necessity in Late Antiquity: renouncing all wealth, but for a single slave
Early Medieval Europe, EarlyView.Slave owners in Late Antiquity viewed the possession of at least one slave to be a necessity and a defining mark that distinguished the dignified social classes from the poor. Ascetics who shared this perspective faced a choice when renouncing all worldly possessions in pursuit of spiritual perfection, one not merely about luxury, but also about status
E.T. Dailey, Justin Pigott
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CeROArt : Conservation, Exposition, Restauration d'Objets d'Art, 2016 This article describes the study of iron-gall inks in the Gradual of Lviv Benedictine from Krzeszow (Poland). During the conservation and restoration work some untypical color changes of iron-gall inks were observed.
Aleksandra Surmak
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Theodor Steinbüchel's Great Figures of Christian Humanism
Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract Theodor Steinbüchel (1888–1949) offers a study of eight figures in Western history who may be regarded as gestalts of Christian Humanism. He argued that none of these eight figures will ever return in the same way, but since there was an eternal conception of Christianity to which their ethos gave human form, each of these gestalts can be ...
Tracey Rowland
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IV. Cinq lettres bénédictines inédites - Dom Brial, Dom du Laura, Dom Estiennot, Dom Lobineau
, 1890 Tamizey de Larroque Philippe. IV. Cinq lettres bénédictines inédites - Dom Brial, Dom du Laura, Dom Estiennot, Dom Lobineau. In: Annales du Midi : revue archéologique, historique et philologique de la France méridionale, Tome 2, N°5, 1890. pp.
Tamizey de Larroque, Philippe
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Studia Historica Brunensia, 2016 The article deals with content and provenance interpretation of the oldest parchment manuscript fragment which is deposited in the Library of the Department of Auxiliary Historical Sciences and Archive Studies at the Faculty of Arts, MU.
Dalibor Havel
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Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract In this essay the author examines what Dietrich Bonhoeffer meant when he wrote from prison to his friend Eberhard Bethge and said that he wanted to retrieve “aesthetic existence” in the life of the church as a sphere of freedom. This is related to what he also told Bethge, namely, that it is “only as we hold fast to Christ as cantus firmus ...
John W. de Gruchy
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Peace &Change, Volume 51, Issue 4, Page 233-243, October 2026.ABSTRACT To investigate how imagination partakes in shaping the spaces in which we think and live, and what processes could help imagining social realities differently, the present work proposes an interweaving of peace and literature. The analysis of Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment and Patrick Süskind's Perfume is founded upon an ...
Nikolena Nocheva
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 32, Issue 3, Page 946-964, September 2026.Attentive to the ways that inertia can take hold of life, Catholic monks recognize despondency as a potential not only within the monastery, but in contemporary society more widely. Such experiences are regularly mapped onto an understanding of what early Christian monks termed ‘acedia’ (a Greek term that can be translated as ‘lack of care’). Taking as
Richard D.G. Irvine
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Studia Historica: Historia Moderna, 2009 RESUMEN: En este artículo hemos intentando conocer el papel relevante que los prioratos benedictinos y cistercienses, situados en las actuales provincias de Pontevedra y Ourense, han tenido a lo largo del Antiguo Régimen en el contexto del monacato ...
María SEIJAS MONTERO
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Unveiling Saint Theobald: A Multidisciplinary Bioanthropological Investigation
International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, Volume 36, Issue 4, Page 945-953, July/August 2026.ABSTRACT Saint Theobald of Provins (1033–1066), a French nobleman who embraced voluntary poverty, hermitism, and pilgrimage, represents an early figure in the medieval ascetic movement. He holds historical significance for the diffusion of 11th‐century ascetic ideals, as a hermit saint associated with the Camaldolese order and venerated across northern
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