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Showing 1 to 20 of 165 for “"Monastic"”.
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A monastic landscape: The Cistercians in medieval Leinster
… of the religious houses. The extents of the monastic possessions that were drawn up at this time permitted a detailed examination of the lands held by the Leinster houses. This chapter also provides a template for a study of the physical, economic and agricultural state of the monasteries. …
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Narrative light : the design of a monastic retreat
This thesis is the design of a monastic retreat on Cumberland Island, off the coast of Georgia. The island serves as the source of the generative concept that organizes the sequence of spaces within the monastery. The thesis proposes that light possesses the capacity to reinforce the generative …
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Byzantine monastic libraries in the eleventh and twelfth centuries
… eleventh and twelfth centuries by and for the monastic communities. Furthermore it is also concerned with who was reading these book and in what way.<br/><br/>Chapter 1 establishes definitions of 'monastic' and 'book culture' and looks forward to the central definition and understanding of what …
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Exercising Obedience: John Cassian and the Creation of Early Monastic Subjectivity
<p>John Cassian (360-435 CE) started his monastic career in Bethlehem. He later traveled to the Egyptian desert, living there as a monk, meeting the venerated Desert Fathers, and learning from them for about fifteen years. Much later, he would go to the region of Gaul to help establish a monastery …
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Monasticism and its limits: rematerialising monastic space in early medieval Ireland
… 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 monasticism and …
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My Sister, My Bride: The Liturgical Rites of Monastic Profession and Consecration of Virgins in the Usage of Monastic Women from the Tenth to the Thirteenth Century
… in England and Germany for initiation into the monastic life from the tenth to the thirteenth century. Two rites were used: monastic profession and the consecration of virgins. The contents of each rite are presented from a variety of liturgical sources, facilitating their comparison. The …
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The mosaics of Monreale: A study of their monastic and funerary context
… in mind when they established this great monastic complex in the early 1170's. The monks imported from the abbey of La Trinita at La Cava dei Tirreni on the Italian mainland to colonize Monreale played an important role in both aims. Most scholars in the twentieth century have focused …
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The hypotyposis of the Theotokos Evergetis and the making of a monastic typikon
… If changes were in fact made, then our view of monastic communities will have to be modified. Contrary to the accepted view I will argue in this thesis that Timothy's Hypolyposis for the monastery of the Theotokos Evergetis developed stage by stage during some hundred and fifty years that the …
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The Monastic rules of Visigothic Iberia: a study of their text and language
This thesis is concerned with the monastic rules that were written in seventh century Iberia and the relationship that existed between them and their intended, contemporary, audience. It aims to investigate this relationship from three distinct, yet related, perspectives: physical, literary and …
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The eschatological garden : sacred space, time and experience in the monastic cloister garden
… analysis concerning sacred space and time and monastic spirituality. I develop this argument by focusing on the enclosed garden, which has connected with it, in myth and metaphor, abundant meanings concerning life after death in a paradisiacal state of bliss. These meanings also become evident …
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The eschatological garden: sacred space, time and experience in the monastic cloister garden
… analysis concerning sacred space and time and monastic spirituality. I develop this argument by focusing on the enclosed garden, which has connected with it, in myth and metaphor, abundant meanings concerning life after death in a paradisiacal state of bliss. These meanings also become evident …
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"Our Father Isaac": Reading the Sahidic Testament of Isaac in an Egyptian Monastic Context
… the textual community of fourth or fifth century monastic Egypt read <em>Testament of Isaac</em> as an ascetical regimen in order to transform themselves into children of Isaac. <em>T. Isaac</em> highlights three particular dimensions of Isaac's character from the remembered tradition of Isaac …
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Improving instruments: equatoria, astrolabes, and the practices of monastic astronomy in late medieval England
… pair of instrument treatises by the outstanding monastic astronomer Richard of Wallingford. I show how Westwyk copied this manuscript in a monastic context, learning as he annotated texts and recomputed tables. In the second chapter I discuss the purposes of planetary instruments such as …
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The Monk As An Executive: The Monastic Influence in the Career of Gregory the Great
This study is "based on the first five books of Gregory's correspondence. Assuming that the chronology is generally correct, these five "books cover the first one-third of Gregory’s career as pope. Being 55 years old by this time, Gregory must have become quite firmly established and fixed in his …
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Monasticism without frontiers : the extended monastic community of the Abbot of Cluny in England and Wales.
… undoubtedly the fullest expression of Cluniac monasticism. Much work has been done on other individual Cluniac foundations but there has been little attempt to place the resulting information in the context of an organisational relationship between Cluniac monasteries and the abbot of Cluny, …
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Holy vows, worldly manners: monastic space, consumption practices and social identity in the Cistercian nunnery of Clairefontaine
Deze scriptie richt zich op historisch fenomeen van het vrouwelijk religieus bestaan in de Lage Landen tijdens de middeleeuwen en vroeg moderne tijd. Vetrekpunt van de studie is de Cisterciënzergemeenschap van Clairefontaine. Deze werd gesticht in de 13de eeuw als necropool voor de graven van …
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Monastic development and dissolution in Wales : Continuity or change for Uchelwyr? A case study of Strata Florida's Blaenaeron Grange.
… addresses the question of what happened to monastic estates in Wales following the Dissolution of the Monasteries between 1536 and 1540, when the majority of former monastic land in Wales was absorbed into the estates of secular Welsh elites, or uchelwyr. The lens through which this broad …
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