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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"Franciscan"”.
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Tectonic overpressure in Franciscan terrains.
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Geology and Geophysics, 1969.
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Residual Strength of Franciscan-Derived Clay
… geology of this slope stability failure is the Franciscan Complex. The Franciscan Complex, when weathered in place, results in clay soil that makes up the typical soil mantle on the hills throughout the region. Peak strength is the typical parameter tested to assess the strength of the soil. For …
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Pope John XXII and the Franciscan ideal of absolute poverty
… investigation into Pope John XXII's view of the Franciscan poverty ideal and his reasons for rejecting the doctrine of the absolute poverty of Christ in the bull Cum inter nonnullos (1323). After establishing the state of the question in the introduction, the first two chapters situate John …
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Native Subordination Through The Franciscan Institutions During The Sixteenth Century
… Mexico, seeks to heighten the visibility of the Franciscan order in New Spain. I intend to clearly establish how the Virgin de Guadalupe’s influence on native conversions was mediated through, and controlled by, the Franciscan institutional systems between 1523 and 1572.</p> <p>Many scholars have …
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Oriental Contributions to Franciscan Art in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries
… dissertation analyses the Oriental influences in Franciscan art from the thirteenth to the fourteenth centuries, arguing that what appears as an encounter with the East was, in fact, a complex process of self-definition within Western Christian culture. The research proceeds along a transregional …
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In Principio Erat Signum: Dueling Dionysianisms & Sacramental Semiotics In Thomistic & Mystical Franciscan Poetry
… are assessed through a contrastive analysis of Franciscan and Thomistic poetics. Poems composed by Francis of Assisi, Bonaventure, and Iacopone, read in light of the early development of a Franciscan theological school,” exhibit features of a more affective Dionysianism which tends toward an …
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Peripheral backwater or innovative upland? : patterns of Franciscan patronage in renaissance Perugia, c. 1390 - 1527
… By investigating commissioning patterns III Franciscan establishments in Perugia from 1390 to c.1527, this thesis identifies the circumstances leading to this change. It argues that artistic innovation in such peripheral places is often undervalued or automatically attributed to external …
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Ringers of Bells and Teachers of Civilization : the Work of the California Franciscan Missionaries, 1769-1821
… the feat she turned to the willing hands of the Franciscan missionaries. The friars willingly answered their call and through their labors assured Spanish hegemony over the region. Both soldiers and friars had participated in the project but the latter's role has usually been underestimated.</p> …
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The Roots of Franciscan Theology and Metaphysics: An Integrated Approach Towards Encounter, Participation, and the De-Radicalisation of Difference
This thesis argues that the Franciscan theological tradition, rooted in the spiritual attributes of humility, poverty, and simplicity, and shaped by metaphysical motifs such as freedom, relationality, and moral goodness, offers a coherent and constructive framework for interfaith dialogue. By …
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Networks and narratives: the 'Liber Exemplorum' and the intellectual milieu of the Franciscan order in thirteenth-century Ireland
… is a collection of exempla written by an English Franciscan friar, who worked and lived in Ireland in the second half of the thirteenth century. The LE has been previously known only from an incomplete fourteenth-century copy of the text found in Durham Cathedral Library MS B.IV.19, but recent …
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Inspired Invention: Cristóbal de Villalpando's Paintings of the Life of Saint Francis
… Francis of Assisi, commissioned in 1691 for the Franciscan Convent in Antigua, Guatemala. This seminal group has not been the subject of a focused study since 1986 and the sources of its unique iconography, as well as its impact on later depictions of this saint’s life in New Spain, have never …
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About snails, Franciscans, homelessness, and the city : a contribution to the culture of "college thinking"
… This collection consists of images of snails, Franciscan architecture, personal memory and allegorical objects. 2. A historic research of the initial state of the Franciscan Movement and St. Francis with respect to their attitude towards buildings. 3. Three case studies of Franciscan Facilities …
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The Jesuits history's most effective special operators
… relatively forceful tack taken by Dominican and Franciscan missionaries. We propose to examine the most successful Jesuit practices, create a general model of their approach, and draw parallels to similar contemporary challenges to special operators.
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The works of art within the Church of St Francis of Assisi, Valletta
… proposes a general overview of the various Franciscan Minor Conventual churches founded throughout the Maltese Islands, especially emphasising the one under study. A brief discussion on the origins and establishment of the Franciscan Minor Conventuals in Malta is also included. The first …
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Santa Caterina at Galatina: Late Medieval Art in Salento at the frontier of the Latin and Orthodox Worlds
The focus of this dissertation is the Franciscan church of Santa Caterina (ca.1385-1391) at Galatina in the Salento, an area of Italy characterised by the presence of Greek language and/or rite communities. Scholars have described it as an emblematically ‘Latin’ church, decorated with ‘Giottesque’ …
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La monja azul : the political and cultural ramifications of a 17th-century mystical transatlantic journey
… have read the account as a medieval holdover in Franciscan mission writing; folklorists as isolated Indo-Hispano accounts; and literary critics as individual anecdotes in twentieth-century literature. In contrast, this dissertation focuses on is the continuity of the narrative-- the way a series …
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What Lies Behind: Speculations on the Real and the Willful
… Chapter Three is a case study on the work of San Franciscan artist Trisha Donnelly. I playfully propose that Donnelly’s art has a life of its own, independent of the will that made it. I explain how her artwork invites anthrodecentric interpretation by illustrating its autonomous characteristics …
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"Hybrid Historiography in Colonial Mexico: Genre, Event and Time in the ""Cuauhtitlan Annals"" and the ""Historia De La Nacion Chichimeca"
… Annals (written in Nahuatl, probably by a Franciscan-educated Nahua scholar), this is not always the case. Making use of historical, literary, and anthropological studies as well as post-colonial theory, I show how, with respect to their generic configuration as well as their …
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A history of the Mission Press in Zambia,1970-2011
… that initiative began in 1951, by Catholic Franciscan missionaries in Kitwe. However, due to various challenges, Mission Press was only established in 1970 in Kansenshi border with Chifubu Township in Ndola. The Press began printing Christian Catholic publications such as the Icengelo, …
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A history of the Mission Press in Zambia,1970-2011
… that initiative began in 1951, by Catholic Franciscan missionaries in Kitwe. However, due to various challenges, Mission Press was only established in 1970 in Kansenshi border with Chifubu Township in Ndola. The Press began printing Christian Catholic publications such as the Icengelo, …
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