Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Two of the most notable figures from the Middle Ages -- the volatile, brilliant Abelard and the equally brilliant Heloise -- became the parents of their son Astralabe before Abelard's infamous, brutal castration. The couple spent the rest of their lives as monastics, in each other's orbits if not in shared presence, as they became movers in the glittering monastic world of the early twelfth-century France. What happened to their strangely named Astralabe? Astralabe: The Life and Times of the Son of Heloise and Abelard rescues the "lost son" from footnotes and fiction and attempts to tell instead the story of a real man living in Europe in the twelfth century. This book assembles the references to Astralabe, provides background in the history of France and Switzerland, uncovers Abelard's relationships with his family, with the ruling house of Brittany and more, and most importantly draws together all that is known of Astralabe.

Monks. --- Monks --- Abelard, Peter, --- Héloïse, --- Family.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

From one of the most original French writers of our day comes a mysterious, prismatic, and at times profoundly sad reflection on humanity in its darker moments-one of which may very well be our own. In a collection of fictions that blur distinctions between dreaming and waking reality, Lutz Bassmann sets off a series of echoes-the "entrevoutes" that conduct us from one world to another in a journey as viscerally powerful as it is intellectually heady. While humanity seems to be fading around them, the members of a shadowy organization are doing their inad

Soldiers --- Monks --- War stories. --- War --- Fiction

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

This book offers the first comprehensive history of the order of Tiron. As a unique survey of the Tironensian experience it sheds new light on traditional assumptions of twelfth-century monastic history. Previous sketches have been shaped by the life of the founder, the Vita Bernardi, which depicts the forests of western France teeming with holy men, and that self-image of hermit preachers in the wilderness has been deeply influential in the historiography of twelfth-century reform. Drawing from the latest advances in the understanding of hagiography and institutional memory, Thompson reinterprets key sources to offer a valuable contribution to the history of monasticism. She outlines the rapid dissemination of the Tironensian approach in the first thirty years of its existence, its network of contacts with the lay elite and the impact on the Tironensians of the successes of the Cistercians and Mendicants.

Tironensians. --- Tironensians --- Ordensreform. --- Benediktiner. --- Tyronensians --- Order of Tiron --- Grey Monks --- Benedictines --- Tiron --- Bernardus ab. Tironiensis

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

United States --- History --- Civil War --- 1861-1865 --- Underground movements --- Arkansas --- Monks --- William --- 1830-1913 --- Personal narratives --- Missouri

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

"From the Arthurian epic poem Parzival to Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, and the Assassin's Creed video game series, the Knights Templar have captivated artists and audiences alike for centuries. In modern times, the Templars have featured in many narrative contexts, evolving in a range of contrasting story roles: the grail guardian, the heroic knight, the villainous knight, and the keeper of conspiracies. This study explores why these gone but not forgotten warrior monks remain prominent in popular culture, how history influenced the myth, and how the myth knhas influenced literature, film and video games"--

Knights and knighthood in popular culture. --- Monks in popular culture. --- Templars --- In mass media. --- In motion pictures.