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Taking into account the diverse religious, historical, social and cultural contexts within which they have existed, this book provides a multifaceted... Læs mere
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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.
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This book is a comparative study of the interaction between monasticism and society in Theravada Buddhism and Medieval Catholicism. It investigates the forces that shaped the ideological power of religious elites in the historical framework of the Great Traditions.
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Most anthropological and sociological studies of Buddhism have concentrated on village and rural Buddhism. This... Læs mere
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A complete history of the growth and development of monasticism in Constantinople from 350 to 850. It documents the social, political, cultural, economic and institutional history of the city's monks and nuns based on a wide variety of historical sources.
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A complete history of the growth and development of monasticism in Constantinople from 350 to 850. It documents the social, political, cultural, economic and institutional history of the city's monks and nuns based on a wide variety of historical sources.
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Bemærk: Kan ikke leveres før jul.
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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 revolution.
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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.
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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.
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This 1934 work provides a succinct explanation of medieval English monastic sites for the general reader or... Læs mere