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Letters, gifts and messengers. The epistolary strategies of St Radegund
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 3, Page 309-340, August 2025.This article studies the ways the sixth‐century queen and monastic founder Radegund (c.520–87) managed the non‐textual elements of communication by letter. While Radegund’s role as a writer and commissioner of letters has been well studied, her efforts as an orchestrator of letter deliveries, gift exchanges and other associated acts of public ...
Robert Flierman, Hope Williard
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Child Ordination in South Asian Jainism
Religion Compass, Volume 19, Issue 7, July 2025.ABSTRACT The practice of initiating minors (children under the age of 18 [bāla or bāl]), was once common among Śvetāmbara Jain mendicant communities in South Asia. This article summarizes scholarship on Jain child ordination, specifically initiation (dīkṣā) into Śvetāmbara mendicant life.
Liz Wilson
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Rufinus and Jerome's Ascetic Communities: Origenism in the Early Church [PDF]
, 2010 The ascetic regimens Rufinus and Jerome advocated to females within and outside their monastic communities included similar forms of abstinence, yet the differing motivations and goals of these practices reveal early theological engagement with Origen ...
Duraney, Stephen
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“Where Now for Visible Unity?”
The Ecumenical Review, Volume 76, Issue 5, Page 542-553, December 2024.Abstract This article provides a short introduction to the activities and the spirit of the World Council of Churches for the ecumenical year 2025 by paying particular attention to the commemoration and anniversary celebration of the First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea, which will take place in October 2025 in Egypt under the theme “Where now for ...
Martin Illert
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Seen and named in narratives: denizens of hell in the early Middle Ages
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 32, Issue 4, Page 474-502, November 2024.This article discusses a special type of narrative: encounters with named individuals in hell. The catchment is broad (Homer to Dante) but the focus is on the early Middle Ages. Philological and literary techniques elucidate and reinterpret a number of important visionary texts, Anglo‐Saxon, Merovingian, and Carolingian. Boniface, Ep. 115 re‐emerges as
Danuta Shanzer
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Journal of African Christian Biography [PDF]
, 2020 A publication of the Dictionary of African Christian Biography with U.S. offices located at the Center for Global Christianity and Mission at Boston University. This issue focuses on: WOMEN --- 1.
Belcher, Wendy Laura +6 more
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Traditional Tibetan Buddhist Monastic Education and Its Contemporary Adaptations Since 1959
Religion Compass, Volume 18, Issue 9, September 2024.ABSTRACT This article surveys the academic literature on Tibetan Buddhist monastic education, covering both its development inside Tibet prior to 1959, when the fourteenth Dalai Lama fled into exile, and its revival and adaptations since that time. Academic works on monastic education before 1959 examine important landmarks from the 11th until the 20th
Nicholas S. Hobhouse
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Elephant ivory rings in early medieval graves reconsidered
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 32, Issue 3, Page 306-336, August 2024.This work is the most complete investigation to date of the enigmatic ivory rings found in graves of fifth‐ to seventh‐century lowland Britain. This new survey of the archaeological evidence has produced a corpus of 752 ivory rings from seventy‐eight cemeteries.
Rowan S. English
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The Carolingian cocio: on the vocabulary of the early medieval petty merchant
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 57-81, February 2024.The word cocio (i.e. petty merchant or broker in classical Latin) was a rare term that after a long absence in written Latin reappeared in several Carolingian texts. Scholars have posited a medieval semantic shift from ‘merchant’ to ‘vagabond’. But this article argues that this consensus is erroneous.
Shane Bobrycki
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El monasterio cisterciense de Santa María de la Dueñas. Sevilla. Siglos XIII-XVI
Historia. Instituciones. Documentos, 2004 El estudio de la documentación medieval conservada en la ciudad de Toledo sobre el monasterio de Santa María de las Dueñas de Sevilla, nos ha permitido ampliar los conocimientos que teníamos sobre el monacato femenino bajomedieval.
Mercedes Borrero Fernández
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