At the heart of this volume is a concern with exploring levels of interaction between two particular objects of study, islands on the one hand, and military orders on the other. 1291 was a significant year for the main military orders: uprooted from...Daugiau...
Analysing a period of hidden history, this book tracks the fate of the English Jesuits and their educational work through three major international crises of the eighteenth century: the Lavalette affair, the universal suppression of the Jesuit ord...Daugiau...
This book explores music in contemporary monasticism, including instrumental use, composition, gender-related issues, along with music in neo-monastic communities. The result is a comprehensive study of the agency of music in the construction and ex...Daugiau...
Medieval Monasticism traces the Western Monastic tradition from its fourth-century origins in the deserts of Egypt and Syria through the many and varied forms of religious life it assumed during the Middle Ages. It explores the relationship between...Daugiau...
Based on extensive fieldwork on three continents, this book offers a sociological examination of the economy of contemporary Catholic monasticism, considering the ways in which monastic economy engages with the world economy through a model aimed le...Daugiau...
This book recounts and analyzes the Templars rise and establishment during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, reflects on the proceedings launched against it and its subsequent fall (13071314), and explores its medieval and post-medieval legacy....Daugiau...
Based on extensive research among Cistercian monks and nuns, this book examines social relations in monasteries, examining the ways in which collective rituals and manual work both foster solidarity and create division, and developing a novel, far-r...Daugiau...
This book gives a context for a reading of the Life of Saint Neilos, a Southern Italian tenth-century monastic from Calabria, founder of the monastery of Grottaferrata near Rome. His background is delineated against a multi-ethnic and idiosyncratic...Daugiau...
The first volume to explore various facets of contemporary change in consecrated religious life in selected central and eastern European countries, this book presents a series of studies of Catholic and Orthodox monasticism, with attention to the im...Daugiau...
The Exorcist of Sombor examines the life course, practice and mentality of an eighteenth-century Franciscan friar, creating a frame around the tightly packed history of events that took place between 1766-1769, and analysing the series of exorcism s...Daugiau...
Forty papers link the study of the military orders cultural life and output with their involvement in political and social conflicts during the medieval and early modern period. Divided into two volumes, focusing on the Eastern Mediterranean and Eur...Daugiau...
This book presents a broad sociological perspective on the contemporary issues facing Christian monasticism. Since the founding work of Max Weber, the sociology of monasticism has received little attention. However, the field is now being revitalize...Daugiau...
Since the time of Francis of Assisi, a commitment to voluntary poverty has been a controversial aspect of religious life. This volume explores the interaction between poverty and religious devotion in the mendicant orders between the thirteenth and...Daugiau...
Forty papers link the study of the military orders cultural life and output with their involvement in political and social conflicts during the medieval and early modern period. Divided into two volumes, focusing on the Eastern Mediterranean and Eur...Daugiau...
This collection of Giles Constables key articles on medieval monastic and ecclesiastical history provides nothing less than a comprehensive overview of research in the field. The book provides an insight into monastic life in the Middle Ages - from...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 29-May-2014, Leidėjas: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780199316847)
This volume brings together quantitative and qualitative data, canonical and theological perspectives, and sociological analyses to present a multilayered portrait of women religious in the United States today, especially those who entered religious...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 29-May-2014, Leidėjas: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780199363469)
George Faithful tells the story of a group of young Lutheran women who formed the Ecumenical Sisterhood of Mary in 1947 in order to advocate collective national guilt for the sins of the German people (Volk) against God and against the Jews....Daugiau...
In May 1555 a broadsheet was produced in Rome depicting the torture and execution in London and York of the Carthusians of the Charterhouses of London, Axeholme, Beauvale and Sheen during the reign of Henry VIII. This title provides the basis for an...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 27-Sep-2012, Leidėjas: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780199843404)
This book explores the history of a residential Christian community in South Africa established for Africans in 1838 by Methodist missionaries, destroyed in 1962 by the apartheid government when it was zoned as an exclusive area for white occupation...Daugiau...
The Quiet Revolutionaries recognizes the achievements by a nineteenth-century community of women religious, the Grey Nuns of Lewiston, Maine....Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 05-Apr-2012, Leidėjas: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780199639458)
A case study in opposition to religious authority in the pre-modern period, Geltner treats a phenomenon known as antifraternalism from a fresh methodological and documentary perspective. He challenges many assumptions made about the early history of...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 19-May-2011, Leidėjas: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780199250738)
Based on extensive research in the original sources, this text provides an insight into the way of life of the monks who were in charge of nine of the English cathedrals until Henry VIII dissolved the monasteries in 1540....Daugiau...
