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Showing 1 to 20 of 43 for “"monasticism"”.
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Saint Jerome and Monasticism
… basis the example and teaching of Christs and monasticism -- in both essence and continuity -- is one with the asceticism of the first three centuries. | The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the principles and practices of asceticism and monasticism recommended by Saint Jerome in his …
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An archaeology of female monasticism in medieval Ireland
… considers the archaeological evidence for female monasticism in medieval Ireland, with a particular emphasis on the later medieval period. Female monasticism has been considered from an archaeological perspective in several countries, most notably Britain, but has yet to be considered in any …
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De Opere Monachorum and the Influence of Saint Augustine on Monasticism
It is the purpose of this thesis to demonstrate not only the importance 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 …
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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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Monasticism without frontiers : the extended monastic community of the Abbot of Cluny in England and Wales.
… undoubtedly the fullest expression of Cluniac monasticism. Much work has been done on other individual Cluniac foundations but there has been little attempt to place the resulting information in the context of an organisational relationship between Cluniac monasteries and the abbot of Cluny, …
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Tam Grecos Quam Latinos: A Reinterpretation of Structural Change in Eastern-Rite Monasticism in Medieval Southern Italy, 11th-12th Centuries
… typically viewed the history of southern-Italian monasticism in this period around the notion of a cultural conflict between Latins and Greeks, either arguing for or against the idea that the Italo-Normans had a policy of ‘latinisation’ with regards to Eastern-rite monasteries. This thesis will …
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Contemplation in an urban landscape : a contemporary Cistercian monastery
… to reflect the evolution of Cistercian Monasticism to date.
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The Influence of the Benedictines in the Development of Education
… fact that the Order holds precedence in Western Monasticism, and can boast of fourteen centuries, rich in tradition and culture, there has been very little written of Benedictine influence in the development of education. It is an incontestable fact that the early Benedictine monks preserved …
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The Not-So Gnostic Crisis: Encrateia in Exegesis
… of asceticism, marking the beginnings of monasticism.</p>
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A Missing Piece: Monasteries as Centers for a Literate Christian Education in Late Antique Palestine
… Christianity who identify the rise of Christian monasticism and its “educational” capacity. While the pagan educational practices are well described as literary in nature, the means of monastic education is ambiguous. This study reconciles these two scholarly traditions, drawing on monastic …
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Feudal politics in Yorkshire 1066 - 1154.
… and the reasons for the rapid expansion of monasticism in Yorkshire after 1100. Chapter 4 illustrates how after 1135 royal control over the local administration of Yorkshire disintegrated in the face of the political difficulties of King Stephen and the growing power of William earl of York, …
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Threshold to the Sacred
… and retreat into nature, teaches of Islamic monasticism, the path that leads completely inward to a place with no one but God. "Every road will lead you to this sense of initiation " the light, the secret, are hidden in the place from which you set out. You are on your way not toward the end …
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Sanctity in Tenth-Century Anglo-Latin Hagiography: Wulfstan of Winchester's Vita Sancti Æthelwoldi and Byrhtferth of Ramsey's Vita Sancti Oswaldi
… Benedictine monks and promoters of Benedictine monasticism which placed them in the ranks of confessors, thereby qualifying them for sanctity.
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THE FIGURE OF THE WAYWARD NUN IN LATE MEDIEVAL LITERATURE: THE AMBIGUOUS PORTRAITS OF THE ARCHPRIEST OF HITA'S DONA GAROZA AND CHAUCER'S MADAME EGLENTYNE (ENGLAND, SPAIN)
… counterparts date back to the beginnings of monasticism. In an effort to prove our contention that, far from being an isolated literary occurrence, the wayward nun in medieval literature is the reflection of the one in the nunnery, special attention will be given in this study to those works …
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Saints' lives and typika: the Constantinopolitan monastery of Panagiou in the eleventh century
This thesis explores approaches to Byzantine monasticism and to the literary production of Byzantine monks, taking as its point of departure one community, the Constantinopolitan monastery of Panagiou, and the texts that can be attributed to its members. In Chapter One I show that Panagiou was an …
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An imperative of longing: apprehending God in the "Kephalaia gnōstika r" of Diadochos of Photike
… been very influential in the history of Orthodox monasticism, not least because it is the earliest detailed articulation of the practise of using the monologic prayer 'Lord Jesus' to achieve interior stillness and so be able to contemplate God without distraction. It is however a work of technical …
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Exercising Obedience: John Cassian and the Creation of Early Monastic Subjectivity
… from Egypt, long understood to be the cradle of monasticism, to the West.</p> <p>In his <em>Institutes</em>, Cassian comments that "a monk ought by all means to flee from women and bishops" (<em>Inst</em>. 11.18). This is indeed an odd comment from a monk, apparently casting bishops as …
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Reassembling the Sacred: The Murano Master and the Illuminated Choir Books of Camaldolese House of San Mattia di Murano
… about self-identity within both Benedictine monasticism and Christianity, more broadly. This thesis also examines and compares the iconographic programme and stylistic features of the San Mattia volumes with choir books belonging to its nearby sister house San Michele in Isola, and with the …
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The Western Religious Orders in Medieval Greece
… of medieval Greece, I argue that, although Latin monasticism in Greece has been regarded as a relatively insignificant by-product of the Franko-Venetian occupation of Byzantine lands, the religious orders played significant social, cultural and political roles both within the Latin communities of …
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