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The Female Tonsure and Female Monasticism in Old Russia and the Balkans
Slovene, 2020 This paper describes a rare rite of female tonsure that is known from five Slavonic Euchologia (Trebnik) of the 13th–16th centuries and attempts to investigate on the basis of historical sources how this rite of tonsure could be applied in the Balkans ...
Tatiana I. Afanasyeva, Taisiya Leber
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Female Monasticism in Italy from 700 to 1100: Family, Power, Memory
Reti Medievali Rivista, 2019 This Monographic Section proposes to study female monasteries in Italy in the period 700 to 1100, focusing on comparing and contrasting those in cities covering northern, central and southern Italy (Brescia, Venice, Verona, Ravenna, Rome, Benevento and ...
Veronica West-Harling
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Religions, 2022 A major challenge in the historical study of female monasticism in Thailand is the paucity of texts written by or about Thai Buddhist female practitioners prior to 1950.
Martin Seeger
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Steven Vanderputten, Dark Age Nunneries. The Ambiguous Identity of Female Monasticism, 800-1050
Genre & Histoire, 2019 Les mœurs des religieuses du Moyen Âge central etaient-elles si dissolues qu’elles appelaient necessairement des reformes aux Xe-XIe siecles ? Cet ouvrage propose une stimulante revision du role des monasteres feminins dans la societe post-carolingienne ...
Élisabeth Lusset
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The Ancient History and the Female Christian Monasticism: Fundamentals and Perspectives [PDF]
Athens Journal of History, 2017 This article aims to discuss about the rediscovery and reinterpretation of the Eastern Monasticism focusing on the Female gender, showing a magnificent area to be explored and that can foment, in a very positive way, a further understanding of the Church'
Paulo Augusto Tamanini
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Gender inequality in workloads explained by operational sex ratio [PDF]
iScienceSummary: Ecological differences between human populations can affect the relative strength of sexual selection, and hence drive gender inequality. Here, we exploit the cultural diversity of southwestern China, where some village sex ratios are female ...
Yuan Chen +4 more
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An Imperfect Alliance: Feminism and Contemporary Female Buddhist Monasticisms [PDF]
Religions, 2018 This essay lays the elaborate textile of feminist discourse alongside the equally rich fabric of contemporary female Buddhist monasticisms, taking note of places the latter has pulled threads from the former, but also pointing out the ways in which ...
Amy Paris Langenberg
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Female monasticism in Italy in the Early Middle Ages: new questions, new debates
Reti Medievali Rivista, 2019 This introductory essay consists of two parts. The first is a contextualisation of the overall pur- pose of the monographic section, as well as a general summary of the questions, issues and themes which we were proposing to debate. The second part is an
Veronica West-Harling
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Spare Ribs? Early Modern Female Monasticism in the East Slavic Lands [PDF]
History Compass, 2014 Abstract In contrast to the robust state of research on female Catholic monasticism in Central and Western Europe, Italy and the Iberian Peninsula, the history of Orthodox and Greek Catholic convents in the Balkans and Eastern Europe remains a largely uncharted field of study.
L. V. Charipova
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Historia y Memoria de la Educación, 2016 The catholic world of the Sixteenth century, especially after the Council of Trent, exalted the condition of monastic life as the most perfect and noblest of the conditions of life traditionally reserved for women. The monastic state became the model to
Elisabetta Patrizi
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