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Monastic culture : the long thirteenth century essays in honour of Brian Patrick McGuire
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ISBN: 9788776747749 8776747743 Year: 2014 Volume: 480 Publisher: Odense: University press of Southern Denmark,

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Monasteries were important cultural centres in the Middle Ages. Here, classical authors were copied and studied, new music and new sermons were composed, and new standards from abroad were introduced and spread throughout an ever larger Europe. Monks and nuns created European networks, connecting them to individuals with whom they shared particular interests in theology and learning, but they also had a keen eye for the importance of cultivating connections to local magnates and kings. In the long thirteenth century, new orders like the mendicants emerged, and monastic life as a whole flourished. Sustained experimentation, the adaptation of new intellectual inspirations and the adjustment of organizational structures were major characteristics. There was a balance between contemplating the transcendent and securing the material foundation that allowed the individual monk or nun to disappear into the Divine. Monastic communities were powerful centres for innovation that decisively influenced secular life and shaped European history. The thirteen studies in this volume are offered in honour of Professor Brian Patrick McGuire, a recognized authority on the Cistercians, and in acknowledgment of his significant contribution to European monastic culture.


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Rules and observance : devising forms of communal life
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ISBN: 3643904894 9783643904898 Year: 2014 Publisher: Berlin : Lit,

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This collection of essays focuses on rules and observances in medieval monasteries and provides a survey of how the efficacy of religious communities could be ensured. The book offers a rich variety of perspectives, including the role of exhortatory literature and education, the problem of maintaining obedience, the implementation of reform, the importance of architectural features, the relative merits of the eremitical (religious recluse), and the monastic form of the vita religiosa. While the emphasis is on the history of the Franciscan order between the 13th and 15th centuries, articles on other monastic communities provide a comparative approach. The volume gives a closer insight into European research projects and casts light on manifold aspects of monastic rules and observances as "devising forms of communal life."


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Manuscrits hébreux et arabes : mélanges en l'honneur de Colette Sirat
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ISBN: 9782503551524 2503551521 Year: 2014 Volume: 38 Publisher: Turnhout : Brepols,

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Manuscrits hébreux et arabes est un recueil d'articles portant sur la paléographie, codicologie et histoire des textes dédiés à Colette Sirat par ses collègues, amis et disciples. L'étude des manuscrits hébreux est à juste titre considérée comme le fondement de la recherche en histoire intellectuelle des juifs. C'est sous la plume de Colette Sirat, dont les travaux ont profondément marqué aussi bien les études sur la pensée juive et que sur l'histoire de l'écriture, que la paléographie hébraïque a acquis une méthodologie rigoureuse, un ancrage institutionnel et une série d'ouvrages de référence. Manuscrits hébreux et arabes est un recueil de mélanges dédiés à Colette Sirat par ses collègues, amis et disciples. Les articles portant sur des manuscrits provenant de lieux et périodes différents montrent l'envergure des travaux en paléographie et codicologie hébraïque aujourd'hui.

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