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Showing 1 to 20 of 45 for “"convent"”.
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A study of convent life and the impact of communal living on Sisters, who disaffiliate from the convent
The declining Christian population in the UK has become a significant concern, with projections indicating a decrease to 45% by 2050, in contrast to an 11% rise in the Muslim population. Previous studies in this area have predominantly focused on the number of young women entering religious Orders …
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Forms of Enclosure: The Convent Plays of the French Revolution
… the emergence and proliferation of plays about convents, a French revolutionary subgenre based on the representation of monastic costume, setting, and characters. In the Old Regime, the theatrical representation of Roman Catholic clerics and garb was prohibited from the public theater. After …
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The Convent: A Place of Refuge in Les Misérables and Histoire de ma vie
… forms of text, often depicting the Catholic convent as a place of sinister confinement. This thesis offers an alternative representation of the French nineteenth-century convent. Considering the prevailing social, economic, and political environment in France, along with the conception of …
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Artistic Achievements of Convent Women in Renaissance Italy: with case studies in Venice and Prato
… thesis evaluates the artistic contributions of convent women in Renaissance Italy during the period c. 1450-1550 with individual case studies in Venice and Prato. As the cost of the traditional marriage dowry inflated markedly over the course of the fifteenth century, an increasing number of …
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Art, Trade, and Patronage in Seventeenth-Century Lima: Francisco de Zurbarán's Commission for the Convent of La Encarnación
… that Zurbarán produced for the nuns of the convent of La Encarnación in Lima to help formulate a social history of the overseas art trade. Although the convent and its art treasures were lost, a large amount of documentary evidence remains with which the transaction can be reconstructed. …
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Le "carte" del convento di San Martino di Oristano
… in virtual form - the archive of St Martin’s Convent from Oristano and, through it, to reconstruct its history. Nonexistent archive at those institutions that would have inherited it has directed research at all religious and secular institutions, which with the same convent had relationships …
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The problem of the sacred in postmodern museum practice : some thoughts on the Rideau Street Convent Chapel in the National Gallery of Canada
The Rideau Street Chapel in Ottawa was saved from destruction in 1972 when it was declared a heritage site by the Canadian government. The interior of the building was dismantled and placed in storage until it was reconstructed within the walls of Moshe Safdie's National Gallery of Canada in 1988. …
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Designing forms which react to a pattern of public and private uses : transforming a convent for an arts community in Tepoztlan, Morelos, Mexico
… which will transform a sixteenth century convent and its adjacent land. The process is context oriented. Following a discussion of the town, built relationships are approached by the process of observation. After establishing the pattern of public paths and places by observing the existing …
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On Conversion
The conversion of the convent of San Francisco into a school of architecture in Havana, comes out of my omnipresent desire to work with old structures, my faith in architectural education, and my love for he city in which I was born. My intention was to propose an alternative to conventional …
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Preserving the Spirit of Windesheim: An Archaeological Interpretation of the Traces of Rector Arnoldus Beckers (1772-1810) in Books from the Convent of Soeterbeeck
Contains fulltext : 167075.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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Cultural and religious effect of the Convent of the Sacred Heart, of St. Joseph, Missouri, on the region during its one hundred years of existence
(First paragraph) For one hundred years the Convent of the Sacred Heart in St. Joseph, Missouri, has been a radiating center of culture, whose influence ha$ extended far in to the surrounding region. From the first days when four intrepid Religious of the Sacred Heart disembarked from the river …
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The Passional of Abbess Cunegund: protagonists, production and a question of identity
… Cunegund, a patroness who was both Abbess of the Convent of St. George, in Prague, and a royal princess. As abbess she had a clear objective of expanding the scope of the convent library, and to this end she commissioned this manuscript which reflected the new religious attitudes that were …
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In Savonarola's Shadow: Art, Agency, and Reform in the Dominican Nunneries of Central Italy
… Dominican nunneries closely linked to the convents of San Marco in Florence and San Domenico in Pisa, with particular attention to Corpus Christi and Santi Giacomo e Filippo in Genoa, Santa Caterina da Siena in Florence, San Vincenzo in Prato, and San Domenico in Lucca. It evaluates the …
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AUTHORITATIVE LETTERS JEANNE DE CHANTAL AND FEMININE AUTHORITY IN THE EARLY MODERN CATHOLIC CHURCH
… to the threat of Protestantism by adapting the convent to their own needs. One of the most successful orders for women was the Congregation of the Visitation, founded by Jeanne de Chantal and François de Sales. The history of the Visitation tends to focus on de Sales rather than its cofounder de …
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The prison of Regina Coeli : a laboratory of identity in the Post-Risorgimento Italy
… Completed in 1892, it occupies the space of the convent after which it was named: the convent of Santa Maria Regina Coeli. The particular prison was built in the aftermath of the Italian unification when national identity was still formulated and the economy industrialized. At the same period, …
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Contradiction in the making of a sacred monolith
… dialogue between the architecture of the Convent of Sainte Marie de La Tourette and this new convent. This process aims at the thorough study, understanding and use of this precedent, not simply as a reference, but as a strategic architectural palette for the development of the new design. …
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Cleanliness and Godliness: A sociological study of the Good Shepherd Convent refuges for the social reformation and Christian conversion of prostitutes and convicted women in nineteenth century Britain
… ideology revealed by the long-span history of convent refuges. It goes on to consider the problems that tradition posed in the later institutions. The historical account, ordered around a primary sociological concern with transformation, discloses the struggle between the nuns, the secular …
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"God Must Have Been a Feminist to Make Me": Writings from the Girls of El Hogar la Buena Esperanza
… girls located within a cloistered Carmelite Convent in the northeastern Peruvian Amazon. Based on seventeen girls and over fourteen different creative writing activities, I explore how their writings reveal particular life histories in Latin America. From reimagining and re-writing stories …
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El arte de la resistencia: música, literatura y tradición oral en la región andina desde el período pre moderno hasta el siglo XVII
… who lived during the seventeenth century in the convent of Santa Clara in Quito. An unpublished document that I discovered in this convent provides details not only about her personal life and her efforts to survive in a male world, but also about colonial life itself.
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Response of administrators to poor performance in O-level physics examinations : The case of selected high schools of Copperbelt province
… Mpelembe, Kitwe Boys, Helen Kaunda, Saint John's Convent, Mindolo, Saint Andrews, Kansenshi, Dominican Convent, Ndola Modern, Muzi, Ibenga Girls and Sacred Heart High Schools.Physics Education in Zambia is one of the Science subjects which had continued to produce a high failure rate in …
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