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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Monastic life"”.
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De Opere Monachorum and the Influence of Saint Augustine on Monasticism
… and high esteem which St. Augustine held in monastic life, but also his influence on this form of life through his treatise De Opere Monachorum and his other writings. |It is not my intention to prove that St. Augustine directly influenced the monastic life of his times by any important …
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Contemplation in an urban landscape : a contemporary Cistercian monastery
… culture and society. This has led to changes in monastic life for the individual monk and his cloistered community. This thesis explores the repercussions of Vatican lion the time-honored typology of a medieval Cistercian monastery. A hypothetical community of twenty-four Cistercian monks …
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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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Experimental Film: Catholic and Feminist Readings of my Films (2010-2016)
… collective and individual portraits of women in monastic life, and one is a portrait of a young girl in a Catholic iconography. In these new works I find out what happens when you insert direct works about religion into an art space that is not expecting them and has no context ready for them. My …
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Paisley Abbey and its remains
… Since the OPUS DEI was the raison d'etre of the monastic life, I have discussed the architecture of the abbey church in chapter II, while the discussion of its cloistral and out-buildings follows in Chapter III. My conjectural reconstructions of different aspects of the church, are important to …
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The Life of the Nuns at West Malling Abbey: Social and Religious Dynamics from the Middle Medieval Period to the Reformation
… which give a more general understanding of the life of a nun. This thesis aims to collate the existing works and original manuscripts to construct a chronological picture of 450 years of abbey life. Research has shown both the scarcity and ambiguities of sources while equally placing the abbey …
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L'économie des monastères: recomposition d'une utopie dans la modernité religieuse en comparaison européenne = Economy of Monasteries, Reorganization of a Utopia in the Religious Modernity: European Comparison.
Monastic utopia integrates of necessity economic activities which it tries to deny because off it religious character. Monks spread then an arsenal of strategies of reorganization to reconcile economy and religious life. These tensions between work and prayer are essential of the monastic life, but …
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Urban spiritual retreat
… from it in its basic premise. The idea of monastic life is based on solitary contemplation and restricted social exchange, while a retreat places group interaction at its base. lt is a place where a community of persons shares time and thoughts, but also where each individual is given a …
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Saint Jerome and Monasticism
… there is a parallelism existing between the monastic state of the one period and that of the other. The Religious Orders of the Church of the twentieth century are united to the ancient hermits and cenobites by the binding force of asceticism. Christian asceticism has as its basis the example …
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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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Saintly ecstasies: the appropriation and secularisation of saintly imagery in the paintings and poems of Dante Gabriel Rossetti
… in, and subsequent appropriation of aspects of monastic life and saintly legend in his religious and secular paintings and poems. The intention of part one of this thesis is to discuss and analyse Rossetti's early interest in monasticism and the legends of the saints. Rossetti's attraction to …
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The Greek versions of Jerome's Vita Sancti Hilarionis
Abstract of a thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of doctor of philosophy in classics in the Graduate School of the University of Illinois, 1935.
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A question of time or a question of theology: a study of the Easter controversy in the insular church
… raised the question of one's eternal salvation. Monastic life, which strongly influenced the early Irish Church was in a very real sense caught up in the great "drama" enacted between heaven and hell in which the cycle of the Christian year was a vital weapon. To date scholarly research has …
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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
… College, Cambridge manuscript K.21 contains a monastic calendar, twenty-four canticles, and 115 hymns rubricated for use in the Divine Office. Interrupting this Latin material is a lengthy illustrated narrative presenting the Passion of Christ and the final years of the Virgin Mary via 101 …
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The Unforgiving Margin in the Fiction of Christopher Isherwood
… throughout Christopher Isherwood's novels and life, dating back to his early experience of the death of his father and continuing through to the end of his own life with his vituperative rant against the heterosexual majority. Threatened by the accepted, by the traditional, by the past, …