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Sacred Landscapes and Deep Time: Mobility, Memory, and Monasticism on Crowland

Journal of Field Archaeology
Excavation of a postulated early Medieval hermitage near Crowland, England, identified a site with a long and complex chronological sequence. During the Neolithic or Early Bronze Age, a monumental henge was built, among the largest so far identified in ...
Duncan W. Wright, Hugh Willmott
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Monachophobia in Russia: Peter the Great and His Influence

Religions
The reforms of Russian Tsar Peter I (1682–1725) touched all spheres of life, including the Church. The purpose of this paper is to bring into focus his approach to the reform of monasticism. It reflects on Peter’s personal remarks as reported both by his
Gleb Zapalskii
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Living Vinaya in the United States: Emerging Female Monastic Sanghas in the West

Religions, 2019
From late January to early February 2018, the first Vinaya course in the Tibetan tradition offered in the United States to train Western nuns was held in Sravasti Abbey.
Ching-ning Wang
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Laughing and humor in ancient Egyptian monasticism

HUMOR
The goal of this article is to analyze laughter and humor in the Egyptian monastic and ascetic movement in the 4th and 5th centuries with a special focus on solitary and non-humorous laughter.
I. S. Gilhus
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Negotiating Faith in the Sixteenth Century: Edmund Horde's Personal Notebook in Trinity College Dublin 352

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article will demonstrate the intersectional nature of manuscript and print, as well as the importance of the printing press to Recusant readers. The article will consider TCD 352 as a manuscript or notebook for whom the material and immaterial nature of the book changes as both the Counter‐Reformation movement intensifies and the ...
Niamh Pattwell
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Situating Pārśva’s Biography in Varanasi

Religions, 2020
This study shows how Varanasi, a site that many people understand to be a sacred Hindu city, has been made “Jain” through its association with the lives of four of the twenty-four enlightened founders of Jainism, the jinas or tīrthaṅkaras. It
Ellen Gough
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Polyonymity in Monasticism. Review of the book: Uspenskij, B. A., & Uspenskij, F. B. (2017). Inocheskiie imena na Rusi [Monastic Names in Medieval Russia]. Moscow; St Petersburg: Institute of Slavic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences; Nestor History. 344 p. [PDF]

Вопросы ономастики, 2019
The reviewed book focuses on a particular category of Russian anthroponymy — the names of monastics of all degrees, that is, rassophore, little schema, and great schema.
Sergey O. Goryaev
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Interview with Rev. Fr. Abbot Philip Anderson: We Must All Build Bridges [PDF]

, 2018
This is an excerpt of a crucial dialogue engaged in by a Hindu and an Orthodox Roman Catholic.
Subhasis Chattopadhyay, Chatterjee
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‘Why Did You Go to Buda?’: The Humanist Sodality and Mantuan’s Rustic Idyll in Bohuslaus of Hassenstein’s Ecloga sive Idyllion Budae (1503)☆

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract In the late fifteenth century, the Hungarian royal court at Buda was home to a cosmopolitan community of humanists. In early modern historiography, this cultural milieu has often been interpreted as one of the new, emergent ‘centres’ of the Renaissance in East Central Europe.
Eva Plesnik
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Mills and society in early medieval northern Italy

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 3-33, February 2026.
Drawing on the extensive documentary record of northern Italy, available archaeological evidence, and comparative case studies from early medieval Europe, this study demonstrates that mill‐based landscapes in the Po and Friuli‐Venetian plains were shaped by society as a whole.
Marco Panato
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