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Bookends: Freemasonry In Russia, Past And Present, James Patrick Greene
Bookends: Freemasonry In Russia, Past And Present, James Patrick Greene
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
This thesis seeks to explore Russian Freemasonry in both the reign of Peter I and in theRussian Federation following the collapse of the Soviet Union, two periods where the relevant scholarship has largely fallen silent. The first chapter argues that early Masonic influences were both present at the court of Peter I and accepted by the Tsar. These intellectual trends, traceable in the libraries, social connections, and writings of individual Jacobites, would reemerge in the institutional Freemasonry in the reign of Catherine II. The printing and translation activities of Novikov and Lopukhin indicate a strong interest in these mystical ideas …
Economies Of Salvation In English Anchoritic Texts, 1100-1400, Joshua Edward Britt
Economies Of Salvation In English Anchoritic Texts, 1100-1400, Joshua Edward Britt
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
This dissertation explores the different ways medieval authors conceived of anchoritism and solitary life by focusing on three important phases of the movement which are represented by Wulfric of Haselbury, Christina of Markyate, and fourteenth-century mystics. It is grounded in the medieval English anchoritic literature that was produced by religious scholars between the eleventh and fourteenth centuries. Initially, lacking a tradition of their own and a language to articulate the anchoritic experience, medieval hagiographers borrowed the desert imagery from the story of the early fathers who lived in the Syrian and Egyptian deserts, which they viewed as a place of …