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Apostate nuns in the later middle ages
A study of women who left their nunneries: their motives and actions, and the consequences for them.To make a vow is a matter of the will, to fulfill one is a matter of necessity, declared late medieval canon law, and religious profession involved the most solemn of those vows. Professed nuns cou...
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How to focus
How you can learn to focus like a monk without living like oneDistraction isn’t a new problem. We’re also not the first to complain about how hard it is to concentrate. Early Christian monks beat us to it. They had given up everything to focus on God, yet they still struggled to keep the demons o...
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Living karma
Ouyi Zhixu (1599–1655) was an eminent Chinese Buddhist monk who, contrary to his contemporaries, believed karma could be changed. Drawing attention to Ouyi's unique reshaping of religious practice, Living Karma reasserts the significance of an overlooked individual in the modern development of Ch...
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Medieval women religious, c. 800-c. 1500
A multi-disciplinary re-evaluation of the role of women religious in the Middle Ages, both inside and outside the cloister.Medieval women found diverse ways of expressing their religious aspirations: within the cloister as members of monastic and religious orders, within the world as vowesses, or...
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Monasticism in late medieval england, c.1300–1535
Monasticism in Late Medieval England provides an ideal introduction to this subject for students and scholars alike. It combines translated sources relating to every aspect of late medieval monastic life with the first extended overview of pre-Reformation monasticism in England for a generation.
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Sera
Tibet was once home to thousands of thriving Buddhist monasteries. But in 1959, following a Tibetan uprising against China's long occupation, nearly all were destroyed by the Chinese military, the practice of Buddhism was outlawed, and the Dalai Lama was forced into exile. In March of that year, ...
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Sonorous desert
Enduring lessons from the desert soundscapes that shaped the Christian monastic traditionFor the hermits and communal monks of antiquity, the desert was a place to flee the cacophony of ordinary life in order to hear and contemplate the voice of God. But these monks discovered something surprisin...
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The benedictines in the middle ages
A comprehensive survey of the origins, development, and influence of the most important monastic order in the middle ages.The men and women that followed the sixth-century customs of Benedict of Nursia (c.480-c.547) formed the most enduring, influential, numerous and widespread religious order of...
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The body incantatory
The Body Incantatory reveals the histories and logics of practice of deeply embodied forms of Buddhist ritual. Paul Copp vividly captures the diversity of Buddhist practice among medieval monks, ritual healers, and other individuals lost to history, offering a corrective to accounts that have ove...
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The cistercians in the middle ages
A full and comprehensive survey of the development of the Cistercian Order which emerged from the tumultuous intellectual and religious fervour of the eleventh and twelfth centuries.The Cistercians (White Monks) were the most successful monastic experiment to emerge from the tumultuous intellectu...
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The franciscans in the middle ages
This is the most useful survey of medieval Franciscan history available. ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEWSt Francis of Assisi is one of the most admired figures of the Middle Ages - and one of the most important in the Christian church, modelling his life on the literal observance of the Gospel and reco...
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The friaries of medieval london
A lavishly illustrated account of the buildings of the friars in the Middle Ages, bringing them vividly to life.with contributions from Ian M. Betts, Jens Röhrkasten, Mark Samuel, and Christian Steer. Nominated for the Current Archaeology Book of the Year Award 2019 The friaries of medieval Londo...
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Women and monastic reform in the medieval west, c. 1000 – 1500
New approaches to understanding religious women's involvement in monastic reform, demonstrating how women's experiences were more ambiguous and multi-layered than previously assumed.Over the last two decades, scholarship has presented a more nuanced view of women's attitude to and agency in medie...
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