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Nunnery Life in 16th Century Wallachia – Muşa/Magdalina before and after Taking Vows
Studia Ceranea, 2023 The Wallachian monasteries are very well documented in the 16th century, but the life of nuns or monks after joining the monastery is a lesser-known aspect.
Liviu Marius Ilie
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Many Hands Without Design:The Evolution of a Medieval Prophetic Text [PDF]
, 2014 This article reconstructs the pre-manuscript history of the Sibylla Tiburtina, a late antique prophetic text, very widespread after c.1000. It argues against the prevailing belief that a single intelligence structured the Latin text to a single meaning ...
Holdenried, Anke
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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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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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Book Review: \u3cem\u3eHindu Christian Faqir: Modern Monks, Global Christianity, and Indian Sainthood\u3c/em\u3e [PDF]
, 2016 Book Review of Hindu Christian Faqir: Modern Monks, Global Christianity, and Indian Sainthood. Timothy S. Dobe.
Corigliano, Stephanie
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Renaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 2, Page 293-308, April 2026.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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Gender &History, Volume 38, Issue 1, Page 21-37, March 2026.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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Behind the Veil: Mysticism and the Reply to Hiddenness in the Work of Travis Dumsday [PDF]
, 2017 Ever since J. L. Schellenberg formulated his infamous atheistic argument from hiddenness in his 1993 book Divine Hiddenness and Human Reason, the problem of divine hiddenness--the question of why a good God would hide Himself, even from those actively ...
McCrary, Catherine
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Swami Abhishiktananda\u27s Interreligious Hermeneutics of the Upanishads [PDF]
, 2003 Swami Abhishiktananda was a French monk who came to India in 1948 to establish an inculturated form of Christian monasticism, a monasticism which would not simply reflect a European heritage but would be truly Indian life and culture.
Ulrich, Edward T.
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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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