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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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Управленческое консультирование, 2018 The article is devoted to the Genesis of monasticism in Ancient Russia as the earliest form of deurbanization in Russian culture. The reasons of the rejection of mundane life, the creation of monasteries accoding to the image of the “heavenly city” and ...
Olga Viktorovna Kireeva
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The legacy of monastic hospitality : 1 the rule of Benedict and rise of western monastic hospitality [PDF]
, 2006 In the first of two articles about the founding father of hospitality, Kevin O'Gorman looks at St Benedict's rule and its context of in the monastic orders.
O'Gorman, Kevin D.
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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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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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Early Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 1, Page 50-70, February 2025.Alienation of church property was in most cases forbidden under both imperial and ecclesiastical legislation. Nevertheless, between 592 and 599 Pope Gregory the Great dealt with ten cases in which property was either relinquished by churches or in which he deliberated whether to compel churches to relinquish property. His justification for disposing of
Roy Flechner
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Child Abuse Review, Volume 34, Issue 2, March/April 2025.ABSTRACT The purpose of this article is to explore the practice of ordaining young children in Sri Lanka from a rights‐based perspective with reference to the United Nation's Convention of the Rights of Child. According to some estimates, 60,000 children are living in more than 12,000 monasteries scattered across the country.
Chandana Namal Rathnayake
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The Sounds of Vatican II: Musical Change and Experimentation in Two U.S. Trappist Monasteries, 1965−1984 [PDF]
, 2014 The Second Vatican Council impacted the use of liturgical music within religious communities. Two U.S. Trappist monasteries, New Melleray Abbey in Dubuque, Iowa, and Gethsemani Abbey in Bardstown, Kentucky, evidenced distinctive approaches to the musical
Eden, Bradford Lee
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A fluid monastic body: questions of re-bordering in nirthern Italy (twelfth-sixteenth centuries)
Anuario de Estudios MedievalesIn this study, we aim to analyse some of the dynamics adopted by monastic communities in defining their environmental and jurisdictional space through boundaries.
Alessandra Minotto, Anna Rapetti
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