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The Formation of Tradition in the Novo-Tikhvinsky Convent in Ekaterinburg (On the 200th anniversary of its promotion to the first-class category) [PDF]

open access: yesВестник Екатеринбургской духовной семинарии, 2022
The article examines a period of history of the Ekaterinburg Novo-Tikhvin Convent from its establishment in 1809 as a non-administrative one at its own expense to the promotion of it as a regular first-class monastery in 1822.
Marina Yu. Nechaeva
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Changing queenships in tenth‐century England: rhetoric and (self‐)representation in the case of Eadgifu of Kent at Cooling

open access: yesEarly Medieval Europe, Volume 31, Issue 4, Page 598-628, November 2023., 2023
The charter now known as Sawyer 1211 contains a detailed account of an intergenerational property dispute between Queen Eadgifu and her rival Goda, concerning the possession of two Kentish estates. Typically, the charter has either been understood as evidence of dispute settlement or to establish facts about Eadgifu that are otherwise unattested.
Jonathan Tickle
wiley   +1 more source

The Abbesses of Iceland

open access: yesReligions, 2023
The female monasteries that operated in Iceland during medieval times, Kirkjubæjarklaustur and Reynistaðarklaustur, are the largest- and longest-operating institutions run by women to ever exist in the country.
Steinunn Kristjánsdóttir
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Lower‐Class Reading in Late Imperial Russia

open access: yesThe Russian Review, Volume 82, Issue 4, Page 649-667, October 2023., 2023
Abstract This article demonstrates widespread engagement of lower‐class people with the written word in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century Russian Empire, in rural and urban locales, in homes, workplaces, and social spaces. We explore how lower‐class people read: the daily habits, personal relationships, and social spaces that shaped ...
Sarah Badcock, Felix Cowan
wiley   +1 more source

NUNNERIES AND MONASTICISM AS A PART OF THE SOCIAL HISTORY OF RUSSIA OF THE IMPERIAL PERIOD (HISTORIOGRAPHICAL ANALYSIS OF THE STUDIES OF THE 18th-21st CENTURIES)

open access: yesВестник Тамбовского университета. Серия: Гуманитарные науки, 2017
There is a historiographical introduction to the study of the history of nunneries and women’s monasticism as an urgent and promising topic that requires the consideration of the scientific experience accumulated by domestic and foreign science.
V. A. Sergunin
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The role of female monasticism in the struggle for the legalization of the UGCC

open access: yesGood Parson: scientific bulletin of Ivano-Frankivsk Academy of John Chrysostom. Theology. Philosophy. History, 2020
The process of the UGCC coming out of the underground in the 1980s was closely connected with monasticism. Monasticism remained an integral institution of the UGCC throughout the ban on the Church under Soviet rule.
Yaroslav Perkhun, O. Maslii
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Female Monasticism in Revolutionary Times: The Nizhnii Novgorod Convent of the Exaltation of the Cross, 1917–1935

open access: yesChurch History: Studies in Christianity and Culture, 2020
Even though after the October Revolution in 1917 the Bolsheviks enjoyed uninterrupted power and pursued radical secularist objectives, the majority of female monastic communities in Nizhnii Novgorod province were able to survive much longer than their ...
W. Wagner
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Book Review: \u3ci\u3eLonging and Letting Go: Christian and Hindu Practices of Passionate Non-Attachment\u3c/i\u3e [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Book review of Longing and Letting Go: Christian and Hindu Practices of Passionate Non-Attachment. By Holly Hillgardner.
Tiemeier, Tracy Sayuki
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Monastic meals: The role of birds in the diet of the Poor Clares at the Monastery of Santa Maria de Pedralbes (Barcelona, Spain) from medieval to modern periods (14th to 19th centuries AD)

open access: yesInternational Journal of Osteoarchaeology, Volume 33, Issue 4, Page 701-716, July/August 2023., 2023
Abstract Bird remains recovered from two trial pits and a rubbish dump dated from the 14th to 19th centuries AD at the Monastery of Santa Maria de Pedralbes in Barcelona (northeast Spain) are studied. The variety of avian taxa is low, with domestic fowl (Gallus gallus domesticus) clearly dominating the assemblage.
Lluís Lloveras   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Book Review: A New Look at Aurobindo [PDF]

open access: yes, 1991
A review of Frank Thompson\u27s A New Look at ...
Coward, Harold
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