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Showing 1 to 20 of 42 for “"Benedictine"”.
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Core Values of a Benedictine Education
… a High School Student Handbook of an all-girls Benedictine school to determine its degree of alignment with the Rule of St. Benedict (RB). Christ is the foundation of the existence of a Catholic and Benedictine education. Saint Benedict wrote a rule about a way of seeking God and following …
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Sketches for a Benedictine monastery, Paris Mountain, Virginia
The site is the Northwest side of Paris Mountain overlooking the valley, flat fields and the winding road along the river. The monastery is thought of as a whole encompassing its various parts: the church, the monk's dormitory, the library, the winery, the bakery, the barns and the field chapel. …
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The Suppression of the Benedictine Order in France During the Revolution
… lamented, and justly so, that there is so little Benedictine history available in the English language. Not enough is written by the sons and daughters of Saint Benedict about the sons and daughters of Saint Benedict. This dearth may be partially explained by the fact that each Benedictine house …
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The Development and Curricular Organization of Nebraska Schools Conducted by the Benedictine Sisters of Mount St. Scholastica, Atchison, Kansas
… and rubble of World War II is symbolic of the Benedictine spirit that has come down through fourteen centuries and that shall continue to function in the great work of the Church on earth till time is no more. In the oration for the feast of Saint Benedict, July 11, the definition of that …
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The Influence of the Benedictines in the Development of Education
… can hardly pass over the contributions that the Benedictine Order has made to civilization. Still, despite the fact that the Order holds precedence in Western Monasticism, and can boast of fourteen centuries, rich in tradition and culture, there has been very little written of Benedictine …
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A arte de Antônio Teles, escravo e mestre pintor setecentista, no Mosteiro de São Bento do Rio de Janeiro
… master painter, starting with an overview of the Benedictine Order, limiting, gradually, the matter until the artist's work, but without forgetting its context, which is spirituality Benedictine lived in the Benedictine Congregation of Brazil. Despite the historical record of the performance of …
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Život v pražském klášteře sv. Jiří ve středověku
This dissertation focuses on the community of Benedictine nuns at St. George's Church in Prague Castle from its foundation around 970 to the 16th century. It is based on a detailed study of primary sources (especially surviving monastic charters, manuscripts, but also records of church …
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Sanctity in Tenth-Century Anglo-Latin Hagiography: Wulfstan of Winchester's Vita Sancti Æthelwoldi and Byrhtferth of Ramsey's Vita Sancti Oswaldi
… and examples from the broad context of 'the Benedictine Reform' in order to investigate the ways in which texts and ideas were manipulated or negotiated to promote particular political and ecclesiastical interests. These include the influence of certain types of narrative, for example, …
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La Sardegna e Montecassino: edizione dei documenti conservati presso l’archivio dell’abbazia cassinese (secoli XI-XV)
… relationship, as well as targeted studies on the Benedictine presence on the island, the functioning of local chancelleries during the medieval centuries and the chronological issues raised by the documents themselves.
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The emergence of the independent prologue and chorus in Jesuit school theatre c.1550 - c.1700, derived from a comparative analysis of Benedictine, Augustinian and Jesuit school theatre, lay youth confraternity theatre and the oratorio vespertina of the Congregation of the Oratory
An examination of the developments in Benedictine, Augustinian and Jesuit school theatre during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries reveals the Jesuits as leaders in both dramatic and musical innovations. The emergence of seventeenth-century Jesuit theatre innovations in eighteenth-century …
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Origins of Catholicity in Richardson County Nebraska
… as Vicar General Reverend Bernardo Boil, Benedictine of the Abbey of Monteserrat, who, influenced by the reform of monastic institutions in Spain, affiliated in 1492 with the Friar Minims of the Order of Saint Francis of Paula. On Columbus' second voyage he came to the new world with …
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The Passional of Abbess Cunegund: protagonists, production and a question of identity
… on the role of this manuscript in its general Benedictine context and as having been commissioned by Cunegund, a patroness who was both Abbess of the Convent of St. George, in Prague, and a royal princess. As abbess she had a clear objective of expanding the scope of the convent library, and to …
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Musical Notation and Liturgical Books in Late Carolingian Nonantola
The musical notation of the northern Italian Benedictine abbey of St Sylvester in Nonantola has hitherto been neglected by most scholarship on early music scripts, mainly because of the paucity of surviving music manuscripts and their limited geographical diffusion. A new study was needed in order …
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St Albans Abbey and the Law, c. 1327–1396
… well documented for this to be possible: the Benedictine monastery of St Albans is a major exception. This dissertation therefore looks at the legal relationships of St Albans in four spheres: church, realm, town and manor. In each of these spheres, it investigates in detail the role played by …
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Female agency and the sacramental vision of early modern Catholicism
… what the writings of the religious women in the Benedictine community at Ghent reveal about these women’s identity, spirituality, and sense of self.</p>
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"Queen of All Islands": The Imagined Cartography of Matthew Paris's Britain
… the middle decade of the thirteenth century, the Benedictine monk and historian Matthew Paris drew four regional maps of Britain. The monk's works stand as the earliest extant maps of the island and mark a distinct shift from the cartographic traditions of medieval Europe. Historians have long …
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From Fear of Hell to Love of Christ: The Monastic Devotional Use of MS K.21 in the Library of St. John's College, Cambridge
… c.1280-c.1310, most likely for an educated male Benedictine audience at St. Augustine’s Abbey proper. I suggest that the volume was likely intended for use in personal devotion, rather than as a practical aid to the Divine Office. It also serves as a fitting case study for the utility of …
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Reliability of simulation to evaluate clinical competence in the basic nursing course
… In 1994 the nurse educators of Ngwelezane, Benedictine and Nqutu colleges were interviewed to determine the reliability of simulation to evaluate competence. Questionnaires and interview schedules were used to determine the extent of reliability and possible solutions from nurse educators …
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