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Dots and Acute Accent Shapes in the Dobrejšo Gospel [PDF]
This paper examines the distribution of three types of sporadic and infrequent diacritics in the Dobrejšo Gospel and their functions: a dot or acute-accent shape over a liquid consonant letter in OCS trъt/trьt formations, and, more rarely, over other ...
Vakareliyska, Cynthia M.
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Books of hours as codified compi-lations of compilations
Books of hours were the medieval best-seller. Imitating the model of liturgical books and intended for the faithful, these devotional manuscripts contain a common core of offices and texts, and they seem to have a standardized content.
Dominique Stutzmann, Louis Chevalier
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The ecclesiastical fight against storm‐makers in the Latin west
This paper studies the strategies used by the Church to fight against the storm‐makers. These figures were said to cause the storms that ruined crops, and during Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages in the Visigothic and Frankish kingdoms were subject to punishment and constraints.
Juan Antonio Jiménez Sánchez
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Occasional Prayers in Bohairic Coptic Euchologia
While the Bohairic Coptic Euchologion is a liturgical book primarily providing the prayer texts needed by the priest for the celebration of the Eucharist, its manuscripts often contain other contents.
Arsenius Mikhail
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Researching the History of Rites [PDF]
This chapter discusses the potential of liturgical rites as sources, some practical ways in which one can work with this material, some problems that are likely to be encountered, and some possible directions for future research.
Gittos, Helen
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Doctrine, Narrative and the Formation of Christian Identity: A Conversation with Alister McGrath
Abstract This article offers a critical and appreciative response to Alister McGrath’s The Nature of Christian Doctrine, exploring the formation of doctrine as a dynamic communal process rooted in Scripture, liturgy and historical context. It highlights McGrath’s analogy between doctrinal development and scientific method, emphasising the search for a ...
Frances Margaret Young
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The motets of Jacob Handl in inter-confessional Silesian liturgical practice
Numerous works by Jacob Handl – Gallus, especially manuscripts dating from before his music was printed in Prague, are connected with certain Silesian towns where he spent time in his youth.
Tomasz Jeż
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The article presents the results of studying the collection of rare books and manuscripts of the library of the Yekaterinburg Theological Seminary. The characteristics of the collection and the history of its formation are given. The collection was based
P. I. Mangilev, E. A. Poletaeva
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The (trans)national Russian religious imagination in exile: Iulia de Beausobre (1893‐1977)
Abstract The article offers a case study of how Russian Orthodox who migrated from the Soviet Union after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 reimagined their religious identity and their church in a transnational setting. Iulia de Beausobre (1893‐1977) was a Russian aristocrat who fell victim to the Stalinist purges but survived the Soviet prison system ...
Ruth Coates
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This study of medieval notated liturgical manuscripts from Slovakia documents, analyzes, and evaluates the oldest written sources of musical culture from the end of the eleventh century to the early sixteenth century.
Eva Veselovská
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