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Sacred Biography as Historical Narrative: Testing the Tradition, Gibbon to Gadamer

1992
Abstract These quotations from Lee and Boccaccio highlight the gulf which separates the medieval from the modern sensibility on the issue of authority and judgment. For Boccaccio, and, no doubt, the majority of medieval men and women, the evidence of the senses was at best only a corroborating proof, and a secondary one at that, in the ...
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Sacred Biography in the Buddhist Traditions of South and Southeast Asia. Edited by Juliane Schober.

Buddhist Studies Review, 2004
Sacred Biography in the Buddhist Traditions of South and Southeast Asia. Edited by Juliane Schober. University of Hawai'i Press, Honolulu 1997. xi, 366 pp. ISBN 0-8248-1699-4; Motilal Banarsidass, Delhi 2002. Rs 495. ISBN 81-208-1812-1.
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A SHORT BIOGRAPHY OF BENIGNO ZERAFA (1726-1804): A MID-EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY MALTESE COMPOSER OF SACRED MUSIC

Eighteenth Century Music, 2007
The outstanding (though still insufficiently recognized) development of Maltese sacred music in the mid-eighteenth century culminated in the works of Benigno Zerafa (1726–1804), a highly talented priest-composer who served as maestro di cappella at the Cathedral of St Paul at Mdina from 1744 to 1786.
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A “true story … of evils overcome”: sacred biography, prophecy, and colonial disease in Southey'sTale of Paraguay

Nineteenth-Century Contexts, 2004
Considering how common illness is, how tremendous the spiritual change that it brings, how astonishing, when the lights of health go down, the undiscovered countries that are then disclosed, what w...
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The biography and multivalence of sacred silver objects in the sixth-century sion treasure

2021
The aim of this thesis is to demonstrate that the sacred silver objects from the sixth-century Sion treasure had different biographies and multivalences in different contexts. By this I mean that these objects had different conceptual dimensions in their production and usage in sixth-century Byzantium.
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Sacred Biography in the Buddhist Traditions of South and Southeast Asia

Journal of the American Oriental Society, 2000
Charles Prebish, Juliane Schober
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Book Review: A Sense of the Sacred: A Biography of Bede Griffiths

International Bulletin of Missionary Research, 1990
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