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Simon of Tournai's Stroke: The Image of an Irate Unbeliever

Journal of Religious History, Volume 47, Issue 2, Page 243-273, June 2023., 2023
For centuries after his death in the late twelfth century, Simon of Tournai, a master of theology in the Parisian schools, had a reputation for being an unbeliever punished by God with a stroke. This article gathers the eight known medieval sources for his stroke and examines them from a mythogenetic perspective to demonstrate how different authors ...
Keagan Brewer
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Entre Réforme Catholique et impératifs de survie : vie religieuse et activisme féminin chez les clarisses anglaises du XVIIème siècle exilées sur le continent

E-REA, 2020
In Reformation England, English women who desired to live a contemplative life were forced to flee to France or to the Spanish Netherlands. Almost fifty years later, in 1609 they created the first English Poor Clares convent dedicated specifically to ...
Claire SCHIANO-LOCURCIO
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A Revolution in Red Robes: Tibetan Nuns Obtaining the Doctoral Degree in Buddhist Studies (Geshema)

Religions, 2022
In the past, Tibetan nuns had no access to formal monastic education and thus could not obtain the two main diplomas and titles that are common in Tibetan Buddhism: the khenpo (mkhan po) degree in the more practice-oriented Nyingmapa school and the geshe
Nicola Schneider
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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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Reasons and conditions for the development of women community religious movement in the period of the great reforms of 19th century

Вестник Тамбовского университета. Серия: Гуманитарные науки, 2020
The article is devoted to the history of women monasticism in the second half of the XIX and the beginning of XX century. The reasons and conditions of growing expansion for women religious and community movement are being explored. Among the reasons the
archpriest. Sergunin V.A.
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Shaping an Observant identity: Narrative and image in the service of reform in the Portuguese Dominican nunneries

Mélanges de la Casa de Velázquez, 2022
Under the Observant reforms –a pan-European movement that aimed to reform Christianity by enforcing observance of its pristine ideals– the reformist environment in late medieval Portugal contributed to the formation of a number of new convents, most of ...
Paula Cardoso
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The isles of great silence monastic life on Lake Scutari under the patronage of the Balšićs [PDF]

, 2012
At the time Zeta was ruled by the local lords of the Balšić family, in the late fourteenth and the first half of the fifteenth century, the islets in Lake Scutari (Skadarsko jezero) in Zeta were lively centres of monastic life.
Tomić-Đurić Marka
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The role of visual appearance in Punch’s early-Victorian satires on religion [PDF]

, 2014
Satires on various aspects of contemporary religion can frequently be found in the early Victorian editions of Punch. The more strident forms of Protestant evangelicalism, in the earlier 1840s, and Roman Catholic revivalism, around 1850, came in for ...
Janes, Dominic
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Organization of internal life and socio-economic development of the Sursky Convent in the early 20^th century

Российский журнал истории Церкви, 2022
The article comprehensively studied the history of the convent founded by Father John of Kronstadt in his homeland in the village of Sura, Pinezhsky district, Arkhangelsk region.
O. V. Eseeva
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The Montmorencys and the Abbey of Sainte Trinit�, Caen: Politics, Profit and Reform [PDF]

, 2003
Female religious, especially holders of benefices, made significant contributions to aristocratic family strategy and fortune in early modern France. This study of members of the wider Montmorency family in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries ...
Davies, J
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