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Between The Judean Desert And Gaza: Asceticism And The Monastic Communities Of Palestine In The Sixth Century, Austin Mccray
Between The Judean Desert And Gaza: Asceticism And The Monastic Communities Of Palestine In The Sixth Century, Austin Mccray
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
The dissertation focuses on the religious culture of Christian monasticism in sixth-century Palestine. Rather than see the monastic communities of the Judean Desert, just to the east of Jerusalem, and those around Gaza as two independent monastic regions, as much scholarship has done, the dissertation focuses on the common threads that can be seen in the monastic teachings and idealized ascetic practices in the literature of the area. This dissertation reveals ways to redefine the boundaries between the monastic communities of Palestine during the sixth century as well as emphasizes the continuities between the monks of the Judean Desert and ...
Religious Culture Of The Crusader Kingdoms, Veronica Eva Szoke
Religious Culture Of The Crusader Kingdoms, Veronica Eva Szoke
Honors Program Theses
The geography of the crusader states cultivated their unique religious culture, which developed from the mix of Catholic and Holy Land traditions into a distinct combination that did not exist anywhere else in the medieval world.
The Chimerae Of Their Age:Twelfth Century Cistercian Engagement Beyond Monastic Walls, Daniel J. Martin
The Chimerae Of Their Age:Twelfth Century Cistercian Engagement Beyond Monastic Walls, Daniel J. Martin
Pomona Senior Theses
One of the great paradoxes of the medieval period is the Albigensian Crusade (1209-1225), in which monks of the Cistercian Order took an active and violent role in campaigning against the heretics of the Languedoc. Why, and how, did this order officially devoted to prayer and contemplation become one of the prime orchestrators of one of medieval Europe’s most gruesome affairs? This thesis seeks to answer that question, not by looking at the crusading Cistercians themselves, but at their predecessor Bernard of Clairvaux, who—I will argue—made the Albigensian Crusade possible by making it permissible for monks to ...
The Persistence Of Late Antiquity: Christ As Man And Woman In An Eighth-Century Miniature, Felice Lifshitz
The Persistence Of Late Antiquity: Christ As Man And Woman In An Eighth-Century Miniature, Felice Lifshitz
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
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Eleanor Of Aquitane And The Quarrel Over Medieval Women's Power , Constance H. Berman
Eleanor Of Aquitane And The Quarrel Over Medieval Women's Power , Constance H. Berman
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Announcements, No.24 1997
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
A Previously Unknown Epitaph Of St. Robert Of Turlande, Founder Of The Abbey Of La Chaise-Dieu, George Beech
A Previously Unknown Epitaph Of St. Robert Of Turlande, Founder Of The Abbey Of La Chaise-Dieu, George Beech
George T. Beech
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The Abbey Of Saint-Maur, The Abbey Of St. Jouin-De-Marnes,, George Beech
The Abbey Of Saint-Maur, The Abbey Of St. Jouin-De-Marnes,, George Beech
George T. Beech
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