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Lehahayer, 2022 THE HANDWRITTEN PRAYER BOOK OF THE BENEDICTINE NUN ANTONINA GRZEGORZOWICZÓWNA FROM 1757 The collections of the library of the Armenian patriarchate in Jerusalem (St. Toros Manuscript Library) include a valuable souvenir of the cultural heritage of the
Andrzej A. Zięba
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The Knightly Brothers of Bernard of Clairvaux and the Twelfth‐Century Cistercian Lay Monk*
Journal of Religious History, Volume 47, Issue 2, Page 295-317, June 2023., 2023 Abbot Bernard of Clairvaux (r. 1115–1153) was a prominent twelfth‐century religious leader whose knightly family collectively converted to monastic life with him in adulthood around 1113. Following Clairvaux's foundation in 1115, Bernard's brothers held roles of significant estate seniority despite their own professional limitations as newly converted ...
Joseph Millan‐Cole
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Dive-In, 2022 English Catholic nuns from the early-modern period were marginalised voices for several reasons: firstly, they were women, in a historical context where their voices were usually not expressed and not heard; secondly, they were Catholic under the penal ...
Debora Barnabè
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Aretino Jesuited: an English Translation of the Sette Salmi in Seventeenth‐Century Douai
Renaissance Studies, Volume 37, Issue 2, Page 292-313, April 2023., 2023 Abstract This article offers the first focused analysis of John Hawkins's 1635 English rendering of Pietro Aretino's Parafrasi sopra i sette salmi della penitenza di David, situating the translation within its Catholic and translingual context. Nearly a century after Thomas Wyatt's versified treatment of the Sette Salmi, a sequence of seven Psalms ...
Andrew S. Keener
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Konflikt arcibiskupa Arnošta z Pardubic se svatojiřským klášterem v Praze [PDF]
Historie - Otázky - Problémy, 2022 The paper examines a several-year discord of Arnošt of Pardubice, the first archbishop of Prague, with the Benedictine nuns of St. George’s abbey at Prague Castle led by their Abbess Agnes.
Karel Pacovský
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Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d’Anthropologie de Paris, 2021 The Abbey of Saint-André-le-Haut (Vienne, Isère, France), founded by Benedictine nuns in the 6th century, is one of the city’s oldest monastic buildings.
Vanessa Granger +4 more
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Sweet Femininities: Women and the Confectionery Trade in Eighteenth‐Century Barcelona
Gender &History, Volume 34, Issue 3, Page 574-589, October 2022., 2022 Abstract This article examines the intersections between sweetness, femininity and the confectionery trade in eighteenth‐century Barcelona, at a time of growing consumption of sugar and slavery. Drawing on a range of underexplored archival material, this study traces the stories of women of different social groups, namely, elite housewives, nuns and ...
Marta Manzanares Mileo
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Wrocławski Przegląd Teologiczny, 2020 Due to the activity of Canon Rudolf of Worms, monasteries of penances, self-established in Western and Central Europe, were in 1227 joined into a new order in the Church: Ordo sanctae Mariae Magdalenae de Poenitentia.
Piotr Stefaniak
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Catholic Women and Religious Life in an Early Modern Lithuanian Town: The Case of Kaunas
Chrétiens et Sociétés, 2022 Multicultural, multi-ethnic, and multi-religious Kaunas was one of the biggest towns of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. In Early Modern period, various religious communities such as the Catholic, the Orthodox, the Lutheran and the Jewish coexisted in this ...
Vaida Kamuntavičienė
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Keeping Fit in Later Medieval England: Exercise for Man and Beast
History, Volume 107, Issue 376, Page 507-525, June 2022., 2022 Abstract This article begins by exploring ideas about physical exercise as outlined in the advice literature that circulated widely in late medieval and early sixteenth‐century England. Whereas other aspects of these popular guides to health have attracted considerable interest on the part of medical and cultural historians, recommendations about ...
Carole Rawcliffe
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