An illustrated chronicle of the Templars rise and fall, from champions of Christ in the Middle Ages to their mysterious legacy in the present day; investigates the Orders links to the Holy Grail, the Turin Shroud, the Ark of the Covenant and the F...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 12-Mar-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009598644)
The Biffoli-Sostegni manuscript, MS 27766 of the Bibliothèque du Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles, is the only surviving volume of sixteenth-century convent polyphony. This Element uses archival sources related to San Matteo to create a historical c...Loe edasi...
The Biffoli-Sostegni manuscript, MS 27766 of the Bibliothèque du Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles, is the only surviving volume of sixteenth-century convent polyphony. This Element uses archival sources related to San Matteo to create a historical c...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 12-Mar-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009648332)
This groundbreaking study of homoeroticism and homophobia in medieval Orthodoxy places Symeon the New Theologians erotic spirituality of union with God in the context of preaching and civil and canon law against homosexuality. A radical new interpr...Loe edasi...
This volume traces the complex, global-scale circulation of procurators as non-state cosmopolitan agents, along with the movement of goods and knowledge, across Europe, the Americas, Asia, and Africa, on a scale that was, for the first time, truly gl...Loe edasi...
The Knights Templar were brutally crushed in the year 1307 by order of the King of France and the Pope. We still struggle to understand why this order of holy warriors was annihilated after years of courageous service in the Crusades. However, the in...Loe edasi...
Spanning thirty-five years of scholarly research, the articles in this collection represent key research findings from Helen Nicholson’s studies of the military religious orders and the crusades. Spanning thirty-five years of schola...Loe edasi...
New approaches to understanding religious womens involvement in monastic reform, demonstrating how womens experiences were more ambiguous and multi-layered than previously assumed.Over the last two decades, scholarship has presented a m...Loe edasi...
A multi-disciplinary re-evaluation of the role of women religious in the Middle Ages, both inside and outside the cloister.Medieval women found diverse ways of expressing their religious aspirations: within the cloister as members of m...Loe edasi...
Band zwei erschließt das von erhöhter Geltung franziskanischer Spiritualität gekennzeichnete Wirken der Franziskaner, Klarissen und Tertiarinnen der Saxonia im Transformationsprozess des Christentums und der Gesellschaft zwischen Mittelalter und Mode...Loe edasi...
This book situates discussions of Christian monasticism in Egypt and Palestine within the socio-economic world of the long Late Antiquity, from the golden age of monasticism into and well beyond the Arab conquest (fifth to tenth century). Its thirtee...Loe edasi...
There is no published account of the history of religious women in England before the Norman Conquest. Yet, female saints and abbesses, such as Hild of Whitby or Edith of Wilton, are among the most celebrated women recorded in Anglo-Saxon sources and...Loe edasi...
In the late eighteenth century a small Shaker community travelled to America under the leadership of ‘Mother Ann’ Lee In the late eighteenth century a small Shaker community travelled to America under the leadership of ‘Mother Ann’ Lee. The A...Loe edasi...
In the late eighteenth century a small Shaker community travelled to America under the leadership of ‘Mother Ann’ Lee. The American communities they founded were based on ideals of pacifism, celibacy and gender equality. The texts included in this ed...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 11-Jun-2024, Hardback, Kirjastus: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526154101)
A new and accessible translation of Hariulf’s History of St Riquier, this book examines the history of a monastic community from the seventh to the eleventh century. It covers the ascetic life of the founding saint and the development of the communi...Loe edasi...
This book is aimed at groups - communities, parishes, institutions, couples, teams, students, young adults, etc. - who wish to grow in communion and make decisions together. The book is based on a wealth of experience, shares numerous examples and pr...Loe edasi...
This volume explores the establishment of the Dharmaguptaka Vinaya tradition in Tang China (618–907). By conceptualizing vinaya patriarchates as interrelated mobile monastic–secular social networks, this study outlines the patterns of the trad...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Jan-2024, Hardback, Kirjastus: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691208084)
A new translation of selections from the 5th century monk John Cassians writings on ways to avoid distraction and enhance our concentration. Distraction is not just an artifact of the digital age, and were not the first to complain about how hard...Loe edasi...
This volume brings together texts of the twelfth-century Hildegard of Bingen and the early-thirteenth-century Francis of Assisi to represent religious spirituality after the Gregorian Reform and just prior to or simultaneous with the formation of un...Loe edasi...
This Element contributes to the burgeoning field of medieval publishing studies with a case study of the books produced at the Benedictine monastery of Engelberg under its celebrated twelfth-century abbot, Frowin (1143–78). Frowin was the first abbot...Loe edasi...
East Asian nations shared a similar environment of modernisation in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. None had been colonised under Western imperialism, but all of them commonly became subjected to new authorities, whether directly or in...Loe edasi...
This Element will reevaluate the relationship between monasticism and the city in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages in the period 400 to 700 in both post-Roman West and the eastern Mediterranean, putting both of those areas in conversation....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-Apr-2023, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009278973)
Reveals that Late Antique monasteries in Egypt and Palestine were actively engaged in regional societies, contradictory to the traditional understanding of monastic life as isolated. Draws on the rich corpus of textual sources and archaeological r...Loe edasi...
This book really, really will stay with me forever. Its not only laced with the most incredible wisdom, but its also gentle and beautiful and eloquent. It brought me so much joy and so much comfort FEARNE COTTON Life-changing. This book i...Loe edasi...
An illustrated chronicle of the Templars rise and fall, from champions of Christ in the Middle Ages to their mysterious legacy in the present day; investigates the Orders links to the Holy Grail, the Turin Shroud, the Ark of the Covenant and the F...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 12-Mar-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009598644)
The Biffoli-Sostegni manuscript, MS 27766 of the Bibliothèque du Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles, is the only surviving volume of sixteenth-century convent polyphony. This Element uses archival sources related to San Matteo to create a historical c...Loe edasi...
The Biffoli-Sostegni manuscript, MS 27766 of the Bibliothèque du Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles, is the only surviving volume of sixteenth-century convent polyphony. This Element uses archival sources related to San Matteo to create a historical c...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 12-Mar-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009648332)
This groundbreaking study of homoeroticism and homophobia in medieval Orthodoxy places Symeon the New Theologians erotic spirituality of union with God in the context of preaching and civil and canon law against homosexuality. A radical new interpr...Loe edasi...
This volume traces the complex, global-scale circulation of procurators as non-state cosmopolitan agents, along with the movement of goods and knowledge, across Europe, the Americas, Asia, and Africa, on a scale that was, for the first time, truly gl...Loe edasi...
The Knights Templar were brutally crushed in the year 1307 by order of the King of France and the Pope. We still struggle to understand why this order of holy warriors was annihilated after years of courageous service in the Crusades. However, the in...Loe edasi...
This book offers the first analysis of female monasticism across the last three centuries of the Byzantine empire using Social Network Analysis (SNA). This book offers the first analysis of female monasti...Loe edasi...
Spanning thirty-five years of scholarly research, the articles in this collection represent key research findings from Helen Nicholson’s studies of the military religious orders and the crusades. Spanning thirty-five years of schola...Loe edasi...
This book is the first of a 2-volume set. Neither book is like any other Merton book you may have read. Volume I, “ Intervals” , includes original works by Merton, only published in the Merton Annual. We are all familiar wit...Loe edasi...
This two-volume set of essays and interviews from over 35 years of The Merton Annual is a sterling resource for Merton readers. Volume II brings together seminal oral-history interviews with people who knew Merton personally, along with little known...Loe edasi...
New approaches to understanding religious womens involvement in monastic reform, demonstrating how womens experiences were more ambiguous and multi-layered than previously assumed.Over the last two decades, scholarship has presented a m...Loe edasi...
A multi-disciplinary re-evaluation of the role of women religious in the Middle Ages, both inside and outside the cloister.Medieval women found diverse ways of expressing their religious aspirations: within the cloister as members of m...Loe edasi...
Second of two titles presenting developments on the topic of monasticism from different fields of study, such as zooarchaeology, bioanthropology, palaeopathology, archaeology, history, documentary disciplines, archives and cultural heritage....Loe edasi...
