Factor analysis, emotional experience and behavioral feedback of contemporary Chinese youth participating in short-term monasticism: a qualitative study based on the online question-and-answer community Zhihu [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyIntroductionThis study explores the psychological motivations, emotional experiences, and behavioral feedback of contemporary Chinese youth participating in short-term monasticism.
Chao Liu +12 more
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The Montmorencys and the Abbey of Sainte Trinit�, Caen: Politics, Profit and Reform [PDF]
, 2003 Female religious, especially holders of benefices, made significant contributions to aristocratic family strategy and fortune in early modern France. This study of members of the wider Montmorency family in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries ...
Davies, J
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The beginnings of a monastic reformer : the younger years of Poppo of Stavelot (Lotharingia, 978-1020) [PDF]
, 2016 This paper investigates the underlying mechanisms and different contexts which played a decisive role in the advancement of the pre-abbatial monastic careers of adult converts living in the eleventh century. Whereas most studies on these individuals have
Vanheule, Koen
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Early Scottish Monasteries and Prehistory: A Preliminary Dialogue [PDF]
, 2009 Reflecting oil the diversity of monastic attributes found in the east and west of Britain, the author proposes that prehistoric ritual practice was influential on monastic form. An argument is advanced that this was not based solely oil inspiration Front
Carey John +14 more
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Out of weakness: the ‘educational good’ in late antiquity [PDF]
, 2016 This paper explores the nature of the educational good as it appears in late antiquity, arguing that the ‘good’ variously promised by education is in a state of perpetual deferral. This extends the tradition of ancient Greek philosophy where wisdom is to
Allen A. +25 more
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Reformist hagiography : the life of St Roding of Beaulieu and the struggle for power in early eleventh-Century Lotharingia [PDF]
, 2016 This paper explores an example of ‘reformist’ hagiographic production in early eleventh-century Lotharingia by focusing on the Life of St Roding of Beaulieu, a small monastery in the diocese of Verdun.
Vanheule, Koen
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Religión y Estado en el monacato oriental. Muhammad
Gerión, 2008 The Byzantine Empire had frequently relationship with the Oriental monks. The emperors, the empresses and the public officials of the Empire treated favourably the monks, but as well they interfered in typical ecclesiastical matters, like in the heresies,
José María Blázquez Martínez
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Crises of cenobitism: abbatial leadership and monastic competition in late eleventh-century Flanders [PDF]
, 2012 This paper argues that the now-abandoned notion of a ‘crisis of cenobiticism’ in the late eleventh and early twelfth century should be replaced by one in which endemic institutional processes and increased competition among Benedictine institutions led ...
Vanderputten, Steven
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Thoughts on Friendship in the Letters of Peter the Venerable [PDF]
, 2015 This is a preprint draft of the article that appears in the Revue ...
Marc Philip Saurette
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, 2011 This review of Chris Wickham's Framing the Early Middle Ages situates the book within the context of his earlier writings on the transition to feudalism, and contrasts his explanation for and dating of the process with those of the two main opposing ...
Davidson, Neil
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