A Brief History of Medieval Monasticism in Denmark (with Schleswig, Rügen and Estonia)
Monasticism was introduced to Denmark in the 11th century. Throughout the following five centuries, around 140 monastic houses (depending on how to count them) were established within the Kingdom of Denmark, the Duchy of Schleswig, the Principality of ...
Johnny Grandjean Gøgsig Jakobsen
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The Celestial Masters and the Origins of Daoist Monasticism [PDF]
The Daoist monasteries, which were first popularized in southern China in the late fifth century, reflected major changes in the structure of medieval Daoism.
Qi Sun
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The ‘Greening’ of Christian Monasticism and the Future of Monastic Landscapes in North America
Christian monasticism has an ancient land-based foundation. The desert fathers and later reform movements appealed to the land for sustenance, spiritual metaphor, and as a marker of authentic monastic identity.
Jason M. Brown
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Medieval Monasticism in Iceland and Norse Greenland [PDF]
The aim of this paper is to provide an overview of the monastic houses operated on the northernmost periphery of Roman Catholic Europe during the Middle Ages.
Steinunn Kristjánsdóttir
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Book Review : From monastery to hospital: Christian monasticism and the transformation of health care in late Antiquity [PDF]
Peter E. Pormann
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Metropolitan Platon (Levshin) and St. Philaret (Drozdov): Concepts of “Academic Monasticism” [PDF]
The article is devoted to the scientific-monastic concepts of two great representatives of academic monasticism and the episcopate of the Orthodox Russian Church in the second half of the 18th — first half of the 19th century: Metropolitan Platon ...
Natalia Yu. Sukhova
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Theravada as practiced by most converts in the West is distinguished by the absence of monasticism, its dominant institution. Nevertheless, Thai Forest monasticism has managed to gain a foothold in the convert West, thanks to the efforts of convert ...
Karen Ferguson
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The issue of belonging of metropolitan Joasaph (Skripitsyn) to the circle of “non-possessors” [PDF]
The article contains a critical analysis of the opinion prevailing in russian historiography that the metropolitan of All Russia Joasaph (Skripitsyn), unlike his predecessor Daniil, was a supporter of the so-called «non-possessors» - representatives of ...
Vladislav Petrushko
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Byzantine memorial books the case of the book of the Protaton of Karyes (Mount Athos) [PDF]
The article re-examines the memorial book of the Protaton of Karyes (Mount Athos) and minutely looks at its content (about 2000 names), articulation and structure.
Rigo Antonio
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San Bernardo y el amor cortés [PDF]
"Saint Bernard and Courtly Love": The author discusses the problem of whether there is any interrelation between Cistercian mysticism, in St. Bernard of Clairveaux’s time, and courtly love.
Étienne Gilson
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