Spanning thirty-five years of scholarly research, the articles in this collection represent key research findings from Helen Nicholsons studies of the military religious orders and the crusades....Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1966, the full Georgian text of the oldest version of this Christian version of this matchless classic of Oriental wisdom literature is made accessible to a wider readership in an English translation....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 17-Feb-2016, Kirjastus: Routledge India, ISBN-13: 9781315657882)
This book uses gender as a framework to offer unique insights into the socio-cultural foundations of Buddhism. It discusses the multiple roles played by women as patrons, practitioners, lay and monastic members and so on within Buddhism as well as i...Loe edasi...
Spiritual and Visionary Communities provides a balanced introduction to a diverse range of communities worldwide. Focusing on communities which have had little previous academic or public attention, the authors explore a part of contemporary societ...Loe edasi...
Taking into account the diverse religious, historical, social and cultural contexts within which they have existed, this book provides a multifaceted examination of Buddhist monasteries. Written by specialists in the study of monasteries and monasti...Loe edasi...
Sari: Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-Sep-2002, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780199256716)
Combining scholarly analysis with illuminating case studies - such as an abbesss account of the Reformation, a prioresss diary from the Thirty Years War, and a biography of a 15th-century visionary - Charlotte Woodford introduces the much neglect...Loe edasi...
This volume examines the method of meditative reading encouraged by John Cassian (c. 360-435) in his ascetic writings, the bulk of which are fictive dialogues that purportedly record the instruction he had received from Egyptian Christian monks....Loe edasi...
The prominent role of monasteries in the early medieval period is explored in this study of the relations between monasteries and the nobility in Lotharingia throughout the ninth and tenth centuries. It focuses on three renowned monasteries througho...Loe edasi...
The first reference work to bring together information, insight, and methodological reflection concerning the monastic traditions of Christianity and Buddhism, their institutions, behaviour, thought, spirituality, and influence....Loe edasi...
This first part of a two-volume set offers a critical assessment of female religious communities in early medieval England. It includes sections on religious women in England before the first Viking age and women and the 10th-century monastic revolu...Loe edasi...
This second part of a two volume set offers a critical assessment of female religious communities in early medieval England. It contains information on female religious communities in England from 871-1066 and an index of Anglo-Saxon charters....Loe edasi...
The articles in this volume deal with the history of the abbey of Cluny, both its relations with the outside world and its internal organisation and spirituality, from its foundation in 910 until the end of the twelfth century....Loe edasi...
The history of Christian literature took a new turn in the 8th century when monks in the monasteries of Palestine began to write theology and saints lives in Arabic. This is the subject of the present volume....Loe edasi...
