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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Eremitism"”.
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Journeys to holiness : lay sanctity in the Central Middle Ages, c.970-c.1120
… asceticism in line with larger developments in eremitism and the evangelical revival (chapter 4). The second part argues for a vital link between pilgrimage, in all its forms, and lay sanctity, locating the vitae within both medieval beliefs about pilgrimage and modern explanations of ritual, …
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Play and Prestige: A Cultural History of Early Medieval China
… shift in the Eastern Han and the rise of social eremitism in the latter half of the second century, where decentralisation, social turmoil, and political struggles damaged the sanctity of imperial sovereignty, driving educated elites to seek prestige (ming 名) outside the normative political …
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‘Spered in an hous aloone’: Enduring Spiritual Enclosure in the Middle Ages
… to shed new light on experiences of medieval eremitism. It considers anchoritic and Carthusian texts in tandem, for example, seeking both to deepen existing discussions in anchoritic scholarship and develop the literary examination of the Carthusian order, which is considered ‘thin and …
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Monasticism and its limits: rematerialising monastic space in early medieval Ireland
This thesis creates a multi-faceted archaeological context for early Irish monasticism, so as to ‘rematerialise’ a phenomenon that has been neglected by recent archaeological scholarship. Following revision of earlier models of the early Irish Church, archaeologists are now faced with redefining …