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Clericalization of the Russian Excursion Tourism
Проект Байкал, 2014 In the modern Russia almost every secular excursion is starting to resemble a religious pilgrimage, while reducing itself to a visit to Orthodox monasteries and temples.
Boris Rodoman
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Wine routes in theory and practice of the development of religious and wine tourism of Serbia: A case study of Fruška Gora [PDF]
Zbornik Radova: Geografski Fakultet Univerziteta u Beogradu, 2023 In the last two decades, wine tourism has become increasingly important in the development plans for tourism in the Republic of Serbia, especially considering that it is very profitable.
Penjišević Ivana +2 more
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, 2023 Saint Catherine's Monastery (official name: Sacred Autonomous Royal Monastery of Saint Katherine of the Holy and God-Trodden Mount Sinai) is believed to be the oldest continuously inhabited Christian monastery in the world. Located in Egypt at the foot of Mount Sinai, it was commissioned by the Emperor Justinian I in 565 C.E.
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, 2018 For millennia, monasteries have been at the forefront of training virtues such as compassion, transcendence, service, gratitude, forgiveness, and grit, as well as foundational psychological capacities such as self-regulation, sustained, voluntary ...
Bukiet, Miles G
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THE DISSOLUTION OF THE MONASTERIES [PDF]
, 2012 In 1536 the English Parliament under pressure from Henry VIII and the Lord Chancellor, Thomas Cromwell, gave its consent for the dissolution of the lesser monasteries and abbeys in the king’s realm, and three years later with the sanction of MPs some ...
Sumit Chakrabarti +2 more
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Studia Humanitatis, 2023 The article discusses the revival and development of the problems of the Orthodox monastic communities in the Russian North after the destructive processes of secularization. The main part of the monasteries activity in the review period fell on the time
Pulkin Maxim Viktorovich
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Obesity and the Politics of Taddeo di Bartolo's Inferno
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines Taddeo di Bartolo's depiction of Hell in the Collegiata di Santa Maria Assunta, the mother church of San Gimignano. In a striking departure from similar scenes of the period, the fresco, painted in the early fifteenth century, emphasizes the obesity of the sinners—suggesting a deliberate visual critique.
Stefania Roccas Gandal
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BUDDHIST MONASTERIES AND STATE SUPPORT IN MONGOLIA A BRIEF OVERVIEW
, 2020 During the history of Mongolian Buddhism the State has always significant role in supporting religion and monasteries. Möngke Khan held the first religious dispute of Buddhist, Muslim and Christian monks in the 13th century and gently allowed all foreign
Teleki Krisztina
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More Science Than Art: The First Botanical Garden in Portugal (c. 1650)
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Gabriel Grisley, a German physician, came to Portugal and founded a garden near the Xabregas River in Lisbon, during the 1610s under the Spanish kings' rule. In view of the utility a botanic garden represented for the kingdom, he was able to obtain a royal privilege from King João IV during the Restauration War against the Spanish (1640–1668).
Ana Duarte Rodrigues
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Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Native to America, the pineapple—Ananas comosus (L.) Merr.—delighted the Europeans who came across it. The fruit was mentioned by the voyagers and missionaries who observed and tasted it in the Americas and, from the 1500s onwards, infused reports, chronicles and natural history treatises with colour and flavour.
Teresa Nobre de Carvalho
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