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Saints' mobility and confinement: deconstructing Byzantine stories of (fe)male ascetics and monastics. [PDF]
Early Mediev Eur, 2023 This article investigates stories of holiness which have ascetics or monastics as their hero(in)es and which develop based on a careful interlocking of two concepts: wanderings in urban or desert environments and self‐confinement in enclosed or secluded spaces.
Papavarnavas C.
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Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, Volume 54, Issue 11, Page 1303-1313, November 2023., 2023 This paper explores the use of portable Raman instruments to characterise natural dye lakes in paint mixtures. Two dispersive portable Raman instruments, one using a fibre‐optic probe and a 1064‐nm excitation laser and the other using the subtracted‐shifted excitation (SSE) post‐processing algorithm, have been tested in their feasibility to ...
Silvia Bottura‐Scardina +3 more
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Revisiting Gendered Representations of Humility: An Examination of Sources from Late Medieval Italy
Gender &History, Volume 35, Issue 3, Page 881-897, October 2023., 2023 Abstract During the Middle Ages, gender‐neutral representations of humility as a quality linked to spiritual love and voluntary service competed with representations according to gendered patterns, such as those related to the naked and dressed body in terms of its biological and social functions and its appearance.
Silvia Negri
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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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Does contemplative pedagogy increase relational well‐being? A time series analysis
Counselor Education and Supervision, Volume 61, Issue 3, Page 293-307, September 2022., 2022 Abstract Counseling students practiced a centering meditation every morning and evening for 25 days. The authors observed the bi‐daily outcomes in interpersonal and social well‐being and analyzed the observations through a pilot study using time series analysis. The findings were a positive trend in the data for interpersonal and social well‐being.
Stephanie Dorais +4 more
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Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, Volume 2022, Issue 1, 2022., 2022 To a large extent, the history of education in the Middle Ages in Western Europe is a history of church education. The church dominated and participated in the whole process of education, which is very rare and peculiar in the history of world education. The Middle Ages is synonymous with darkness and ignorance in everyone’s original cognition. Through
Yi Wang, Xia Wu, Kalidoss Rajakani
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History, Volume 105, Issue 367, Page 673-690, October 2020., 2020 Abstract In July 1220, the boy king Henry III attended the Translation of St Thomas Becket at Canterbury, whereby the saint's body was transferred from its original tomb in the crypt of Canterbury cathedral to a splendid new shrine in the main body of the church.
Louise J. Wilkinson
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Sancha Raimúndez : an Infanta in the Exercise of her Power [PDF]
, 2013 In mid-12th century, Infanta Sancha Raimúndez played an important role both in the political life of Alfonso VII’s reign and in the ecclesiastical scene in general, and monastic in particular, using the infantado as a base of her power.
Cavero, Gregoria
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Religiosity and Spirituality and the Intake of Fruit, Vegetable, and Fat: A Systematic Review
Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Volume 2013, Issue 1, 2013., 2013 Objectives. To systematically review articles investigating the relationship between religion and spirituality (R/S) and fruit, vegetable, and fat intake. Methods. PubMed, CINAHL, and PsycInfo were searched for studies published in English prior to March 2013.
Min-Min Tan +3 more
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‘Of Burning Monks, Unidentified Churches and the Last Cistercian Foundation in the East: Our Lady of Camina in the Principality of Achaia’ [PDF]
, 2015 The existence of the monastic church of Camina in Frankish Morea has long been noted by historians of Frankish Greece, but its history has never been thoroughly investigated and its location remains unknown.
Schabel, Christopher +1 more
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