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THE ‘I’ OF SHAME AND RAGE: CONFESSION AND RUMINATION AT EITHER END OF A MILLENNIUM
German Life and Letters, Volume 78, Issue 3, Page 394-411, July 2025.ABSTRACT This article brings together two texts that differ in numerous respects: the long poem farbe komma dunkel by Levin Westermann (2021) and a devotional text often known as the Bamberg Creed and Confession (Bamberger Glaube und Beichte), transmitted in a twelfth‐century manuscript.
Sarah Bowden +2 more
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Monastic Traditions and Practices in Macedonia and Their Implications in Modern Times
, 2017 The purpose of this paper is to present several fundamental aspects in the reconstruction of the issue related to the monasticism in Macedonia. In that sense, taken into consideration is the historical and spiritual continuity of the monasticism ...
Angelovska-Panova, Maja
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Early Carthusian Script and Silence [PDF]
, 2014 At its founding and during its first three decades, the Carthusian order developed a distinctive and forceful concept of communication among the members and between the members and the extramural world.2 Saint Bruno’s life ...
Gilbert, Bennett
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Explaining the Industrial Revolution: From Agraria to Industria
Nations and Nationalism, Volume 31, Issue 3, Page 527-534, July 2025.ABSTRACT Ernest Gellner suggested that a multi‐factor—indeed, a 15‐factor—model was necessary to explain the Industrial Revolution. Most economic historians prefer a much simpler economistic theory while adding ritual genuflections to the role of ‘culture’ and ‘institutions’.
Michael Mann
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Child Ordination in South Asian Jainism
Religion Compass, Volume 19, Issue 7, July 2025.ABSTRACT The practice of initiating minors (children under the age of 18 [bāla or bāl]), was once common among Śvetāmbara Jain mendicant communities in South Asia. This article summarizes scholarship on Jain child ordination, specifically initiation (dīkṣā) into Śvetāmbara mendicant life.
Liz Wilson
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Early Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 2, Page 139-157, May 2025.Rutilius Namatianus’ poem De reditu suo was written a few years after the devastation of Rome in 410. It has been read as nostalgia for Rome’s past greatness written in a climate of senatorial escapism. This article revises this reading, instead analysing the poem as the literary expression of resilience on the part of the traditional western ...
Sophie Kultzen
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The Dissolution of the Monasteries and the Democratisation of Magic in Post-Reformation England
Religions, 2019 The dissolution of the monasteries in England (1536–1540) forced hundreds of former inmates of religious houses to seek livelihoods outside the cloister to supplement meagre pensions from the crown.
Francis Young
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Bishop Torhthelm’s letter to Boniface
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 2, Page 244-273, May 2025.In c.738, St Boniface distributed a circular letter to a broad audience of ecclesiastics in England. One response to that letter survives, written by Torhthelm, bishop of the Middle Angles (737–64). The letter is written in an allusive style and borrows heavily from its main source, Pope Vitalian’s letter to Oswiu, king of Northumbria.
Peter Darby
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Book Review: Monastic Life in the Christian and Hindu Traditions: A Comparative Study [PDF]
, 1995 A review of Monastic Life in the Christian and Hindu Traditions: A Comparative Study, edited by Austin B.
Coward, Harold
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Classical and modern hospitality : the Benedictine case [PDF]
, 2011 The development of the anthropology of tourism is anchored in the anthropology of hospitality. Interdisciplinary research further highlights just closely these are related to other disciplines; in this case history and theology.
O'Gorman, Kevin D.
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