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Showing 1 to 20 of 41 for “"Clerics"”.
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Clerics, Courts, and Legal Culture in Early Medieval Italy, c. 650 - c. 900
This dissertation examines how clerics in the Lombard and Carolingian Kingdom of Italy prosecuted disputes with each other. It argues for and explores two core features of the clerical legal culture of the kingdom. The first regards the judicial institutions that clerics exploited. While the late …
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"Washington in Golry": Clerical Reflections on the Death of George Washington and the Making of a New Nation
… in honor of George Washington by Christian clerics between December of 1799 and February of 1800. These orations can be viewed as cultural performances that helped to strengthen the social and political order by fostering a sense of community that transcended local boundaries, bringing an …
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Forms of Enclosure: The Convent Plays of the French Revolution
… the theatrical representation of Roman Catholic clerics and garb was prohibited from the public theater. After 1789, however, societal norms surrounding the treatment of religious objects were radically transformed. The collapse of the Old Regime system of censorship and the nationalization of …
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Polish Catholic Priests in Canada and Ireland: Migration, Leadership, and the Mobility of Strangers
… some attention, scholars have rarely considered clerics a migrant population worth examining. In this study I draw on 30 in-depth interviews with Polish Catholic priests in Canada and Ireland, ethnographic research, and content analysis of Catholic Church documents in order to investigate the …
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The Familiar Other World: Family Worship In Late Seventeenth-Century England
<p>Clerics from across the confessional spectrum promoted the worship of God within families throughout the late seventeenth century. They argued for focused, rhythmic worship services for all household residents, morning and evening. This paper explores the way that this specific instance of …
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Margery's Reading Communities: Literacy and Devotion in The Book of Margery Kempe
… brings Margery into closer relationship with clerics and has multiple dimensions. Thus Margery shows herself in varying authorial roles, being that of a book owner, an author of her own text, a contemplative listener to a reading priest, and the subject of scorn during a friar's sermon. These …
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British Muslim Extremism: The Terror Within
… was a haven for radical Muslim activists and clerics, accepting them into the country, and giving them the freedom to move among the British Muslim community. The result is the Muslim youth population has been recruited by extremist organizations and has been taught the values of extremist …
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Islam Nationalism and the mission of Arab journalism A survey of attitudes towards religion politics and the role of Arab media in the twenty-first century
… on all but issues related to the role of clerics in Arab society.
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Managing change in the English Reformation: the 1548 dissolution of the chantries and clergy of the Midland county surveys
… of the Court of Augmentations and the careers of clerics from five Midland counties for whom this meant lost employment. In addition to the quantitative analysis of original documentation from the Court, counties and dioceses, the modern understanding of change management for organisations and …
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Bridging Discourse: Connections Between Institutional and Lay Natural Philosophical Texts in Medieval England
… by medieval historians overlapped as the clerics and laity began sharing a similar understanding of the philosophical underpinnings of the natural world.
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Hoc Est Corpus Meum: The Eucharist in Twelfth-Century Literature
… authors under consideration, many of whom were clerics, crafted engaging and simultaneously instructive tales that blended sacred and secular material to explore theological truths in fictional contexts. Many of the tales encourage annual reception of the Eucharist, discourage the practice of …
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Diplomatic Solutions: Land Use in Anglo-Saxon Worcestershire
… by name in the documents to the ordinary clerics, monks, and layfolk who managed and worked the land in ways that enrich our understanding of their daily lives.</p>
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'For a decent order in the Church' : ceremony, culture and conformity in an early Stuart diocese, with particular reference to the See of Westminster
… of Episcopal government which were produced by clerics who worked in the diocese. The second chapter looks at attempts to induce greater conformity within the diocese, and places this in the context of national events.
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The `Peace Arsenal' scheme: the campaign for non-munitions work at the Royal Ordnance Factories, Woolwich, after the First World War
… drew in traders, councillors, ex-Servicemen and clerics. The effect of this was to aid the integration of the local labour movement into the national constitution which was being reconstructed at the time. Central aspects of this new constitution were an increase in the integration of …
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Resurrecting Lope's Autos
… of Trent, professional playwrights replaced clerics who had previously written <em>autos</em> for the Corpus Christi celebrations held each year, but none were more influential than Lope de Vega in refining thematic, literary, and staging elements and techniques. At the middle of the …
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Doctrinal Controversy and the Church Economy of Post-Chalcedon Palestine
… competition between rival communities of clerics and monks. The thesis offers a new reading of the texts produced by key actors in these confrontations, many of which have been historically neglected. It follows in the wake of recent attempts to analyse other religious conflicts of this …
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The history of the Barolong in the District of Mafikeng: a study of the Intra-Batswana ethnicity and political culture from 1852 to 1950
… (BNC), formed by the traditional leaders and clerics in the central Transvaal and northern and central Orange Free State in the early 1900s(NASA,Vol.12,1917). Its geographic axises were centred in Kimberly, Mafikeng, Kroonstad and Johannesburg. Its role was both to combat divisive political …
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El arte de la resistencia: música, literatura y tradición oral en la región andina desde el período pre moderno hasta el siglo XVII
… analysis of the native's religious instructions. Clerics, through memoriales, instrucciones and other similar works, attempted to explain how their own failures compromised the expansion of Christianity, by not only identifying these mistakes, but also by proposing solutions. Among these were the …
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Country Clergymen: National and Religious Mediations on the Victorian Clerical Novel
… appropriate a high regard for dedicated parish clerics. George MacDonald's novel of clerical conversion, Thomas Wingfold, Curate suggests that real Church reform begins with the reinvigoration of the spiritual life of the parish priest. As a novel directly concerned with the spiritual aspect of …
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The fellowship of St.Diogo : new Christian judaisers in Coimbra in the early 17th century
… grew to include over sixty people, including clerics, physicians, lawyers and students, as well as merchants and farmers. Its leader gave it a corpus of doctrine and eventually a distinctive liturgy, which showed influence from the Catholic Church. The Fellowship also inspired the creation of …
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