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A Possible Monastery and the ‘Upper Maqs’ at Ukma-Akasha West?
This paper summarises previously unpublished records relating to a series of unusual, and perhaps associated enclosed medieval settlements in the area of Akasha and Ukma West, excavated in 1969 by the Archaeological Survey of Sudanese Nubia.
David N. Edwards
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The precursors of monastic medicine at the beginning of the Middle Ages
The collapse of the ancient civilization was like a disaster which had an impact on all spheres of life. The Roman Church was the institution which survived the historical annihilation.
Jerzy Supady
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Women’s Monasteries of North Caucasus in Orthodox Female Asceticism from 19th to Early 20th Century
This 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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"First issue of this edition, 1906; reprinted . 1910." ; "List of the works of Sir Walter Scott": p. ix. ; Mode of access: Internet.
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The Benedictine Culture of Medieval Iceland
The monastic tradition of St Benedict of Nursia inspired and influenced Iceland’s medieval monasteries. Four communities, two each of men and women, which were identified in contemporary records as ‘under the rule of Saint Benedict’, endured for four ...
James G. Clark
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The Obligations of Exempt Monasteries: The Practice in England
Abstract This note draws on the extensive sources surviving from the fourteenth century to examine, in the light of debates about the medieval papacy, the observance by English houses of papal obligations imposed on exempt monasteries. It concludes that these arrangements, reflecting the complex history of exemption, were more fluid, negotiable and ...
Peter McDonald
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Monasticism in seventh-century Northumbria and Neustria: a comparative study of the monasteries of Chelles, Jouarre, Monk Wearmouth/Jarrow and Whitby [PDF]
This thesis studies a part of the monastic history of the kingdoms of Anglo- Saxon Northumbria and Merovingian Neustria. It is a comparative analysis of monasteries in the seventh century in these two kingdoms, focusing on four particularly famous houses,
Charmantier, Isabelle Renée Odile
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Post-Byzantine Period of Last Judgment Scenes in Trabzon Vazelon, Kaymaklı and Sümela Monasteries
The territory of the Trabzon Greek Empire, founded in 1204, was inhabited by many different peoples for centuries. Construction activities also increased with the new political organisation in Trabzon in the 13th century.
A. Nazlı Soykan
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This article examines how nineteenth‐century scholars reconstructed the geography of early Buddhism through a historically contingent hierarchy of texts that privileged Chinese monastic travelogues over Sri Lankan Buddhist chronicles. Focusing on the relationship between the Pāli vaṃsa literature—especially the Dīpavaṃsa and Mahāvaṃsa—and Chinese ...
Bhadrajee Hewage
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Tewdwr: Eponymous Ancestor of the Tudor Dynasty
Abstract The standard derivation of the dynastic name Tudor from Welsh Tudur, surname of the grandfather of Henry VII, is problematic on phonological grounds, as well as the fact that Tudur was never used as a surname by Henry himself, being attributed to him only by his enemies with implication of lowly origins.
DAFYDD JOHNSTON
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