Continental women mystics and English readers [PDF]
, 2003 In 1406 Sir Henry later Lord Fitzhugh, trusted servant of King Henry IV, visited Vadstena, the Bridgettine monastery for men and women in Sweden.
Barratt, Alexandra
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The Prioress and the Second Nun [PDF]
, 2014 An analysis of Chaucer's portraits of the Prioress and the Second Nun in the prologue to his *Canterbury Tales*
Lewis, Katherine J.
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The Royal Abbey of Fontevrault: Religious Women & the Shaping of Gendered Space [PDF]
, 2013 This article examines the religious and architectural history of the Royal Abbey of Fontevrault, in the French province of Anjou, investigating the active and deliberate role women played in shaping the physical and symbolic space of this female monastic
Esperdy, Gabrielle
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Gostar das palavras divinas e do que ali se trata: as celebrações litúrgicas pós tridentinas nos conventos femininos de beneditinas e cistercienses. [PDF]
, 2018 The present study framed in post-Tridentine contexts and within the monastic experience in the convents of Cistercian and Benedictine nuns, presents word celebration features of the Holy Scriptures in its various forms: sung, read, meditated and prayed ...
Conde, Antónia Fialho, Lessa, Elisa
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Water Planning In Alcobaça Cistercian Lands / O Ordenamento Hidráulico no Território Cisterciense de Alcobaça [PDF]
, 2017 This paper concerns the main domain (coutos) of the Cistercian Abbey of Alcobaça (central Portugal), founded in 1153. It shows the involvement of the monks in shaping hydraulic landscapes along time.
Jorge, Virgolino Ferreira +2 more
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Aspects and problems of the Templars’ religious presence in Medieval Europe from the twelfth to the early fourteenth century [PDF]
, 2016 The medieval military orders were religious institutions whose members had professed to a life of combat and prayer that integrated them into a religious landscape exceedingly defined by diversity.
Schenk, Jochen
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Medieval and modern women mystics: the evidential character of religious experience [PDF]
, 1997 This paper aims to show, first, that significant parallels exist between the function (the social significance and personal value) of religious experience in the 14th century Rhineland and among women and even men today.
Woods, Richard
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Religious Orders and Growth through Cultural Change in Pre-Industrial England [PDF]
We advance the hypothesis that cultural values such as high work ethic and thrift, “the Protestant ethic” according to Max Weber, may have been diffused long before the Reformation, thereby importantly affecting the pre-industrial growth record.
Carl-Johan Dalgaard +3 more
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The monastery of St.Benedict of Cástris as a space of assertion and power: from the mystic marriage to musical praxis [PDF]
, 2015 The life in contemplative female communities was characterized by the ideal of purity fostered in the monasteries and based on the vows of chastity, poverty and obedience, reinforced by the cloistered life.
Conde, Antónia Fialho +1 more
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Ambiência monástica e prática litúrgico-musical pós-tridentinas no mosteiro de S. Bento de Cástris [PDF]
, 2016 In the current historiographical production there is a manifest interest for the history of female religiosity. The mystic phenomenon, the everyday life and the temporal dimension of the communities, in terms of familiar and social connection to the ...
Conde, Antónia Fialho
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