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Regulars and the secular realm : the Benedictines of the Congregation of Saint-Maur in Upper Normandy during the eighteenth century and the French Revolution
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ISBN: 1589661761 9781589661769 9781589661752 1589661753 Year: 2008 Publisher: Scranton: University of Scranton press,

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F. L. Griggs, 1876-1938 : the architecture of dreams
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ISBN: 0198174071 Year: 1999 Publisher: Oxford [New York Clarendon Press Oxford University Press]

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The Maurists' unfinished encyclopedia
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ISSN: 04352866 ISBN: 9780729411912 0729411915 Year: 2017 Volume: 2017:02 Publisher: Oxford, UK: Voltaire foundation,

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In this groundbreaking study, Linn Holmberg provides new perspectives on the Enlightenment 'dictionary wars' and offers a fascinating insight into the intellectual reorientation of a monastic community in the Age of Reason. In mid-eighteenth-century Paris, two Benedictine monks from the Congregation of Saint-Maur - also known as the Maurists - began working on a universal dictionary of arts, crafts, and sciences. At the same time, Diderot and D'Alembert started to compile the famous Encyclopédie. The Benedictines, however, never finished or published their work and the manuscripts were left, forgotten, in the monastery archive. In the first study devoted to the Maurists' unfinished encyclopedia, Holmberg explores the project's origins, development, and abandonment and sheds new light on the intellectual activities of its creators, the emergence of the encyclopedic dictionary in France, and the Encyclopédie of Diderot and D'Alembert. Holmberg adopts a multidisciplinary approach to the challenges of studying a hitherto unexplored and incomplete manuscript. By using codicology and handwriting analysis, the author reconstructs the drafts' order of production, estimates the number of compilers and the nature of their work, and detects comprehensive editorial interferences made by nineteenth-century conservators at the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Holmberg's meticulous work proves, with textual evidence, the Maurist dictionary's origins as an augmented translation of a mathematical dictionary by Christian Wolff. Through comparing the Maurists' manuscripts to the Encyclopédie and the Jesuits' Dictionnaire de Trévoux, the author highlights striking similarities between the Benedictine project and that of Diderot and D'Alembert, showing that the philosophes were neither first with their encyclopedic innovations, nor alone in their secular Enlightenment endeavours.--


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Studies on Steinschneider
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ISBN: 1283334917 9786613334916 9004226451 9789004226456 9789004183247 9004183248 Year: 2012 Publisher: Leiden Boston Brill

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The present volume of studies on the life and work of Moritz (Moshe) Steinschneider (1816-1907) seeks to modify the traditional view of Steinschneider as a “mere bibliographer” by revealing other dimensions of his scientific personality. Together, the articles show that Steinschneider’s manifold scholarly activities were rooted in a well-defined scientific agenda, which modern readers do not easily recognize but which deserves to be recovered. This volume represents a first attempt to sketch Steinschneider’s intellectual biography and highlights the continued significance of his work for Jewish studies. It is an important contribution to our understanding of the project of nineteenth-century Wissenschaft des Judentums and its lasting impact on contemporary scholarly practice.


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Dark age bodies : gender and monastic practice in the early medieval West
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ISBN: 9780812242690 Year: 2011 Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa University of Pennsylvania Press

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In "Dark Age Bodies" Lynda L. Coon reconstructs the gender ideology of monastic masculinity through an investigation of early medieval readings of the body. Focusing on the Carolingian era, Coon evaluates the ritual and liturgical performances of monastic bodies within the imaginative landscapes of same-sex ascetic communities in northern Europe. She demonstrates how the priestly body plays a significant role in shaping major aspects of Carolingian history, such as the revival of classicism, movements for clerical reform, and church-state relations. In the political realm, Carolingian churchmen consistently exploited monastic constructions of gender to assert the power of the monastery. Stressing the superior qualities of priestly virility, clerical elites forged a model of gender that sought to feminize lay male bodies through a variety of textual, ritual, and spatial means. Focusing on three central themes-the body, architecture, and ritual practice-the book draws from a variety of visual and textual materials, including poetry, grammar manuals, rhetorical treatises, biblical exegesis, monastic regulations, hagiographies, illuminated manuscripts, building plans, and cloister design. Interdisciplinary in scope, "Dark Age Bodies" brings together scholarship in architectural history and cultural anthropology with recent works in religion, classics, and gender to present a significant reconsideration of Carolingian culture. -- Book jacket.

The sound of painting : music in modern art
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ISBN: 3791320823 Year: 1999 Publisher: München : Prestel,


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The Making of the Monastic Community of Fulda, c.744 - c.900.
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ISBN: 9781107002814 9781139030366 9781107460201 9781139338370 1139338374 1139030361 1107002818 9781139336635 1139336630 1107460204 1139334131 1107226783 1280393904 9786613571823 1139337505 1139339958 1139341537 Year: 2012 Volume: 83 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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The monastic community of Fulda was one of the most powerful institutions in early medieval Europe. This book traces the development of the community from its foundation in the 740s over one and a half centuries, a period richly documented by a variety of texts and archaeological remains. These sources reveal how Fulda's success forced the monks to rethink their goals and the ways in which they sought to achieve them. Its close connection to the Carolingian royal court also makes Fulda a fascinating case study of how local events influenced life in the palace and vice versa. The importance of Fulda and the rich array of sources associated with it have long been recognised, but this is the first full study, bringing together theology, architectural history and archaeology. The result is a vivid picture of life in this monastery and also in early medieval religious communities in general.

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Monasticism and religious orders --- Monachisme et ordres religieux --- History --- Sources --- Histoire --- Benedictines --- Abtei Fulda --- History. --- Fulda (Germany) --- Fulda (Allemagne) --- Church history --- Histoire religieuse --- Fulda Region (Germany) --- Europe --- General. --- Church history. --- Sources. --- Monachism --- Monastic orders --- Monasticism and religious orders for men --- Monasticism and religious orders of men --- Orders, Monastic --- Orders, Religious --- Religious orders --- Brotherhoods --- Christian communities --- Brothers (Religious) --- Friars --- Monks --- Superiors, Religious --- Bencések --- Benedettini --- Bénédictins --- Beneditinos --- Benedyktyni --- O.S.B. --- Ordem de São Bento --- Order of Saint Benedict --- Ordine di San Benedetto --- Ordo Sancti Benedicti --- OSB --- Saint Benedict, Order of --- Fulda, Ger. (Benedictine monastery) --- Fulda (Germany). --- Kloster Fulda --- Reichsabtei Fulda --- Fürstabtei Fulda --- Carolingians --- Carlovingians --- Carolinians --- Religion. --- Boniface, --- Rabanus Maurus, --- Hrabanus Maurus, --- Rabanus Magnentius Maurus, --- Raban Maur, --- Rhabanus Maurus, --- Mauro, Rabano, --- Rabano Mauro, --- Einhard, Hraban, --- Hrabanus Magnentius, --- Rabanus, --- Bonifacius, --- Bonifatius, --- Vynfreth, --- Winfrid, --- Winfried, --- Wynfreth, --- Wynfrid, --- Wynfrith, --- Fulda, Ger. --- Monasticism and religious orders - Germany - Fulda Region - History --- Fulda --- Fulda Region (Germany) - Church history --- Arts and Humanities


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The pictorial sources of mythological and scientific illustrations in Hrabanus Maurus' De rerum naturis
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ISBN: 0824032349 9780824032340 Year: 1979 Publisher: New York (N.Y.): Garland,


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Diagramming devotion : Berthold of Nuremberg's transformation of Hrabanus Maurus's poems in praise of the Cross
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ISBN: 9780226642819 022664281X 9780226642956 Year: 2020 Publisher: Chicago: University of Chicago press,

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During the European Middle Ages, diagrams provided a critical tool of analysis in cosmological and theological debates. In addition to drawing relationships among diverse areas of human knowledge and experience, diagrams themselves generated such knowledge in the first place. In Diagramming Devotion, Jeffrey F. Hamburger examines two monumental works that are diagrammatic to their core: a famous set of picture poems of unrivaled complexity by the Carolingian monk Hrabanus Maurus, devoted to the praise of the cross, and a virtually unknown commentary on Hrabanus’s work composed almost five hundred years later by the Dominican friar Berthold of Nuremberg. Berthold’s profusely illustrated elaboration of Hrabnus translated his predecessor’s poems into a series of almost one hundred diagrams. By examining Berthold of Nuremberg’s transformation of a Carolingian classic, Hamburger brings modern and medieval visual culture into dialogue, traces important changes in medieval visual culture, and introduces new ways of thinking about diagrams as an enduring visual and conceptual model.

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