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Spirit, mind and body: the archaeology of monastic healing [PDF]
, 2019 Archaeology and material culture are used in this chapter to consider how monastic experience responded to illness, ageing and disability. The approach taken is influenced by the material study of religion, which interrogates how bodies and things engage
Gilchrist, Roberta
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Comparative Southeast European Studies, 2022 This article revisits the history of the Franciscan archives under Ottoman rule by focusing on archival documents, practices, and spaces in the Monastery of the Holy Spirit in Fojnica.
Sekulić Ana
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People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Over the last 20 years, collaborative efforts have emerged with the intention of going beyond the pure capitalist economy, seeking to generate transformative community‐based changes that guarantee blue equity, fair distribution and well‐being.
Sílvia Gómez, Alfons Garrido
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Universities, ‘Left Behind Places’ and the Making of a Moral Crisis
The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Britain's universities face an acute financial and moral crisis. Once celebrated as engines of the knowledge economy and social mobility, they are now viewed increasingly with suspicion—criticised as elitist, self‐serving and detached from public needs.
Sarah Chaytor, John Tomaney
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Women’s Monasteries of North Caucasus in Orthodox Female Asceticism from 19th to Early 20th Century
Научный диалогThis study contributes to the analysis of the ecclesiastical-monastic system during the Synodal period of the Russian Orthodox Church, prior to the sweeping changes brought about by the 1917 Revolution and the Civil War.
V. N. Goncharov +2 more
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Romance Loans in Middle Dutch and Middle English: Retained or Lost? A Matter of Metre1
Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract Romance words have been borrowed into all medieval West‐Germanic languages. Modern cognates show that the metrical patterns of loans can differ although the Germanic words remain constant: loan words Dutch kolónie, English cólony, German Koloníe compared with Germanic words Dutch wéduwe, English wídow, German Wítwe.
Johanneke Sytsema, Aditi Lahiri
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Introduction to Heritage Assets: 19th- and 20th-Century Convents and Monasteries [PDF]
, 2014 A short description of the history and architecture of English nineteenth and twentieth-century convents and monasteries, with an emphasis on their most significant ...
Brittain-Catlin, Timothy
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Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract This study investigates the lexicographical potential of Medieval Latin documentation from the Venetian area of the Italo‐Romance domain, highlighting the need for a systematic approach to bridge Latin and vernacular linguistic developments. The project MEDITA – Medieval Latin Documentation and Digital Italo‐Romance Lexicography.
Jacopo Gesiot
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The Potential of Palynology with Regard to the Archaeology of Medieval Monastery Sites in Iceland
Religions, 2023 In 2014, as part of the Kortlagning klaustur á Íslandi (Mapping Monasticism in Iceland) archaeological project, bulk samples retrieved from various archaeological sites associated with Icelandic monasticism were subsampled for pollen analysis.
Scott J. Riddell +3 more
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Gender &History, EarlyView.Abstract The ‘widow’ is a gendered, socially contingent category. Women who experienced spousal bereavement in the early middle ages faced various socio‐economic and legal ramifications; the ‘widow’ was further a rhetorical figure with a defined emotional register. The widower is, by contrast, an anachronistic category.
Ingrid Rembold
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