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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"monastic orders"”.
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Recalling the Lineage: Practices of Recitation and Renunciation at Three Thai Bhikkhuni Monasteries, Chiang Mai, Nakhon Pathom, Songkhla
… government nor the Supreme Sangha Council, the monastic body of Thailand, will grant them legitimacy, bhikkhuni build networks outside official state channels. Moreover, they claim that by reviving the order of female monks established by the Buddha, they adhere more closely to Buddhist …
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St Albans Abbey and the Law, c. 1327–1396
To see law’s social effects, one needs to understand both the operation of law and the relationships in which law was invoked. Few actors from fourteenth-century England are sufficiently well documented for this to be possible: the Benedictine monastery of St Albans is a major exception. This …
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Reading in the animal vernacular: the bestiary as lay genre in medieval England
… survive from medieval England were produced by monastic orders such as the Benedictines. However, there is evidence of a widespread understanding of the bestiary’s system of imagery and moralizations by the fourteenth century, which exclusively monastic use does not explain. The animal imagery …
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Lifestyle and Intestinal Parasite Infection in Northern Europe: A Study Comparing Clergy and the General Population of Cambridge and Belgium in 12th-18th Centuries
… in parasite infection patterns between monastic orders and general population in medieval Cambridge, albeit in direct contradiction to my original hypothesis: for all the advanced hygiene facilities the frairs had enjoyed, they had in fact manifested a higher parasite infection rate. …