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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Purgatory"”.
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Communion of the living and the dead: valuing purgatory in A revelation of purgatory to ane holy woman (1422)
Revelation of Purgatory to Ane Holy Woman (1422) is one of only five extant fifteenth-century visions of Purgatory written in England. The text addresses the anxiety prevalent in the late Middle Ages that the dead in Purgatory are often forgotten by the living. The text confirms the importance of …
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Demographic Usage Patterns of Purgatory Creek Park, San Marcos, TX
… research, and apply those techniques to Purgatory Creek Park. The findings will be useful to city planners, parks and recreation officials, and city accountants and budget managers, so they can make the best-informed decisions regarding the expenditure of resources on city parks and green …
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Pressure Solution as a Deformation Mechanism in the Purgatory Conglomerate
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-14T07:10:52Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7913556.pdf: 7769578 bytes, checksum: 155ded23e12ea8ea7f1080586439949c (MD5) Previous issue date: 1978
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Need Not Necessity: Purgatorial Torment and Healing in Medieval and Early Modern Drama
… on the work of Jacque Le Goff in The Birth of Purgatory, this dissertation examines Purgatory and purgatorial suffering on the early modern stage in Britain. Le Goff asserts in The Birth of Purgatory that "Purgatory, though a prominent if elusive feature of Christian thinking about the …
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The search for salvation: lay faith in Scotland, 1480-1560
… on the Day of Judgement, heaven, hell and purgatory should be seen as the context for understanding the chapters on God, Mary and Jesus. The first chapters discusses the Day of Judgement, an event which must be understood in order to interpret all lay religious attitudes and actions. The …
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Towners Call Us a Circus
… a circus troupe finds itself in an ontological purgatory of being simultaneously alive and dead as they work to resolve their reality, and thus their identities, as one or the other.</p>
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Continuity through change: A study of the pilgrimage to Lough Derg In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
St. Patrick’ s Purgatory, Lough Derg has long been an important site of pilgrimage in Ireland having caught the attention of the literary world in the twelfth century. This pilgrimage has continued to exist and develop throughout some of the most turbulent times cf Irish history and stands as a …
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An edition of the Middle English Pains of Sin from Cambridge, Magdelene College Library, Ms Pepys 2498
… and the afterlife, including the seven pains of purgatory, a catalogue of venial sins, the last judgement, the sufferings of hell and the joys of heaven, and special joys reserved for those who pursue a life of religious poverty. The introduction to the edition outlines the relationships between …
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An Art-Based Heuristic Study: How a Male Student with Asperger’s Syndrome Completed an Art Therapy Master’s Program
… subthemes of Abandonment, Isolation/Exclusion, Purgatory, and Confined in my Asperger’s Body, (2) Cruel Snap Judgements, (3) Vaudeville, (4) Quirky Creativity, (5) Inner Strength, (6) Hope, (7) Nourishing Connections, and (8) Creative Synthesis. The findings were that the data is consistent with …
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Dante’s Hidden Sin - Wrath: How Dante Vindictively Used The Inferno Against Contemporaries
… Purgatorio and Paradiso (ostensibly Hell, Purgatory and Heaven) in his epic poem The Divine Comedy, originally titled Commedia. This paper concentrates exclusively on Dante’s contemporaries, those people who lived during his lifetime, and examines his possible motivation for targeting enemy …
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Gold, Grain, and Grace: Piety and Community in Late Medieval Rome
… economic action made available by the logic of purgatory. Their efforts succeeded in creating a ruling group marked by strong ties of social solidarity. Over time, these strategies also had the cumulative effect of shifting the attitudes of the political elite toward the commune itself. Rather …
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Cary Cortona: an alternative development model for the Research Triangle Area
… present form Cary-Cortona is an adolescent in a purgatory between the two realities of abstraction and pragmatism, belonging to neither world completely, yet existing to be judged and scrutinized by both.
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Fiction and travel writing in Ireland, 1750-1840
… to Ireland and two Irish places, St Patrick’s Purgatory and Cong. Dublin is represented as a place of encounter where social and political tensions connect travellers and locals, and accounts of travel to this metropolis as a border crossing are also viewed in this context. The Irish places …
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Textual monumentality and memory in early modern England, 1560–c.1650
… wrought by the Reformation. The decline of purgatory and traditional religion and the rise of Protestant predestinarian and providential belief shifted the purpose of commemoration to edification of the living. This shift, alongside the rise of literacy and expansion of print culture, shaped …
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Continuity and change in the cultural landscape of Table Mountain
… paradise and others who considered it a hellish purgatory. When science and logic eventually subdued the myths and mysteries associated with the ‘Dark Continent’ of Africa the polarised conception of Table Mountain’s cultural landscape was transformed into one of savagery and opportunity. indeed, …
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Continuity and change in the cultural landscape of Table Mountain
… paradise and others who considered it a hellish purgatory. When science and logic eventually subdued the myths and mysteries associated with the ‘Dark Continent’ of Africa the polarised conception of Table Mountain’s cultural landscape was transformed into one of savagery and opportunity. indeed, …
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The Culture of the Good Death in Seventeenth-Century Mexico City
… of faith, paid masses for their souls in Purgatory, and some pious works. For Nahua elite subjects, it meant fewer altar masses, but their preferred rites included a funeral with paid singers, and a Christian burial inside of a church. Confraternities ensured both the images and rites of …
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