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Books of hours as codified compi-lations of compilations
Journal of Historical Network Research, 2023 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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City of God and the Duty of Just Memory
Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract In a recent essay, Richard Miller claims that Augustine presumes a duty to remember justly in his City of God. However, Miller's brief reference to a presumed duty of “just memory” does not fully explain how Augustine conceptualizes this duty or how it relates to his theological concerns.
Zachary J. Taylor
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Occasional Prayers in Bohairic Coptic Euchologia
Ex Fonte, 2023 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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James Lyman Merrick's Aborted “Mission to the Mohammedans of Persia”
The Muslim World, EarlyView.Abstract James Lyman Merrick (1803‐1866) served as a missionary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) in Persia between 1835 and 1845. He was America's first missionary to the Muslim world. Based on his field research on the Persians’ religious beliefs, he correctly predicted that the conversion of Persia's Muslims into ...
Hooman Estelami
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The motets of Jacob Handl in inter-confessional Silesian liturgical practice
De Musica Disserenda, 2015 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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Библиосфера, 2022 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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What Does Intarsia Say? Materiality and Spirituality in the Urbino Studiolo☆
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Upon entering the Urbino studiolo of Federico da Montefeltro, the visitor is struck by a material‐charged environment. Surprisingly, only a few scholars have addressed one prominent aspect of the decorative scheme, namely, the feature of intarsia as a medium. Even so, it remains on the sidelines of the discussion.
Matan Aviel
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De Musica Disserenda, 2015 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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Stencil: a descriptive bibliography [PDF]
, 2019 This bibliography lists and describes books, articles, papers, manuscripts and other works that deal with stencil letters or the stencilling of texts, or incorporate substantial or specific remarks on these topics.
Kindel, Eric
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The audience for Old English texts: Ælfric, rhetoric and ‘the edification of the simple’ [PDF]
, 2014 There is a persistent view that Old English texts were mostly written to be read or heard by people with no knowledge of Latin, or little understanding of it, especially the laity.
Gittos, Helen
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