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Showing 1 to 20 of 72 for “"monasteries"”.
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The dissolution of the monasteries: an economic study
The dissolution of the monasteries in England and Wales is too often viewed simply as a component of the English Reformation and little more. Its place in the Reformation is obvious, but its importance extends far beyond that fact. Unlike the other elements of the Reformation which transformed the …
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The Afterlives of the Dissolution of the Monasteries, 1536-c. 1700
The dissolution of the monasteries (1536-40) was one of the most critical transformations wrought by the English Reformation. It was also perhaps the most visible manifestation of the idea that Henry VIII’s break with Rome was also a break with the medieval past. Yet despite this, historians have …
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The Economic Organisation of Egyptian Monasteries and their Estates, c. 400-900 AD
… two particularly well-documented Middle Egyptian monasteries. Through a comprehensive synthesis and re-analysis of material from these sites, this work provides new conclusions about the organisation of these monasteries and the management of their estates, focusing first on the Bawit monastery in …
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A Missing Piece: Monasteries as Centers for a Literate Christian Education in Late Antique Palestine
… literate education available within Christian monasteries of Late Antique Palestine. It then goes further, exploring the impact literate monks had on the Christianization of Byzantine society, and recursively, the impact this newly Christian society had on monasticism. This thesis contributes …
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On Quanzhen Daoism and the Longmen Lineage: An Institutional History of Monasteries, Lineages, and Ordinations
… perspective. By critically analyzing monasteries, lineages, and texts, this study sheds light on why the notion of lineage is crucial for understanding Qing Daoism. Furthermore, this study challenges the existing understanding of Quanzhen Daoism as a fixed entity that was disconnected …
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From monasteries to monopolisers: the salmon fishing industry of the inner Moray Firth region, 1500 to 1800
This thesis explores the development and importance of the salmon fishing industry of the inner Moray Firth region of Scotland in the period from 1500 to 1800. This region has hitherto been under-represented in the historiography and, although it is the confluence of multiple salmon rivers, the …
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Recalling the Lineage: Practices of Recitation and Renunciation at Three Thai Bhikkhuni Monasteries, Chiang Mai, Nakhon Pathom, Songkhla
This dissertation is based upon a year and a half of ethnographic fieldwork with three communities of Thai Buddhist female monks (bhikkhuni). Because neither the Thai government nor the Supreme Sangha Council, the monastic body of Thailand, will grant them legitimacy, bhikkhuni build networks …
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The patronage and benefaction of Cistercian monasteries in the frontier zones of the March of Wales, 1130-c.1256.
… their subjects and a family of Welsh Cistercian monasteries established throughout the length and breadth of pura Wallia with Welsh personnel and distinctly Welsh political loyalties. This native Welsh filiation of Cistercian houses has traditionally been contrasted with the houses which remained …
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A monastic landscape: The Cistercians in medieval Leinster
This study endeavours to discuss the Cistercian monasteries of Leinster with regard to their physical location in the landscape, the agricultural contribution of the monks to the broader social and economic world and the interaction between the cloistered monks and the secular world. The various …
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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.
… observe offers and demands between society and monasteries, this last one answers to demands of tradition and natural which society is expecting. Role of monks in the religious modernity thus recomposes around a new charisma which is not only religious. Unlike to the institutional Church, monks …
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Monasticism without frontiers : the extended monastic community of the Abbot of Cluny in England and Wales.
Cluniac monasteries, so called because of their relationship to the abbot of Cluny in Burgundy, have been estimated to have numbered over seven hundred foundations at one time, distributed throughout France and in England, Wales, Scotland, Lombardy, and Spain. To date Cluniac studies have tended to …
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The Augustinian canons in the Diocese of Worcester and their relation to secular and ecclesiastical powers in the Later Middle Ages
… how the canons related to those outside the monasteries and whether or not a cohesive Augustinian identity can be identified. Focusing on the relations between the canons and the secular and religious power structures, this thesis seeks to place the canons within the broader ecclesiastical …
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Earth in Architecture: An Exploration of Malawian Vernacular and Healing
… such as opium for pain and stitching of wounds. Monasteries were later established to accommodate travelers, the indigent and the sick. Hospitals were constructed next to Religious institutions but also utilized house calls for the wealthy class. Monasteries were also organized in cloisters which …
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Historia, hagiografía y memoria en el ámbito monástico
… entire Middle Ages. In this sense, the Castilian monasteries, as centers of power and social domain, took the initiative in creating a memory about themselves, which should guarantee their legitimacy over their domains. Although it is true that hagiographic literature contemplates multiple …
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A Study of Three Related Versions of the Medieval Exemplum "The Incestuous Daughter"
… tale: as the House of Tudor took control, the monasteries and schools where the exempla were written, used, stored, or all three were shut down or reorganized, and the property of the monasteries landed in the hands of private owners. Finally, a comparison of the introductions and conclusions …
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