Monastic Visions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Monastic Visions write by Elizabeth S. Bolman. This book was released on 2002-01-01. Monastic Visions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The book reproduces the cleaned paintings for the first time. It also describes and analyzes their amalgam of Coptic (Egyptian Christian), Byzantine, and Arab styles and motifs as well as the religious culture to which they belong. In 1996, funded by the United States Agency for International Development and at the request of the Monastery of St. Antony, the Antiquities Development Project of the American Research Center in Egypt began the conservation of the paintings in the church. The paintings revealed by the conservators are of extremely high quality, both stylistically and conceptually. While rooted in the Christian tradition of Egypt, they also reveal explicit connections with Byzantine and Islamic art of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Some newly discovered paintings can even be dated back to the sixth or seventh century.
Monastic Bodies
Monastic Bodies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Monastic Bodies write by Caroline T. Schroeder. This book was released on 2013-03-01. Monastic Bodies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Shenoute of Atripe led the White Monastery, a community of several thousand male and female Coptic monks in Upper Egypt, between approximately 395 and 465 C.E. Shenoute's letters, sermons, and treatises—one of the most detailed bodies of writing to survive from any early monastery—provide an unparalleled resource for the study of early Christian monasticism and asceticism. In Monastic Bodies, Caroline Schroeder offers an in-depth examination of the asceticism practiced at the White Monastery using diverse sources, including monastic rules, theological treatises, sermons, and material culture. Schroeder details Shenoute's arduous disciplinary code and philosophical structure, including the belief that individual sin corrupted not only the individual body but the entire "corporate body" of the community. Thus the purity of the community ultimately depended upon the integrity of each individual monk. Shenoute's ascetic discourse focused on purity of the body, but he categorized as impure not only activities such as sex but any disobedience and other more general transgressions. Shenoute emphasized the important practices of discipline, or askesis, in achieving this purity. Contextualizing Shenoute within the wider debates about asceticism, sexuality, and heresy that characterized late antiquity, Schroeder compares his views on bodily discipline, monastic punishments, the resurrection of the body, the incarnation of Christ, and monastic authority with those of figures such as Cyril of Alexandria, Paulinus of Nola, and Pachomius.
Humanities
Humanities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Humanities write by . This book was released on 2002-11. Humanities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Monastic Life in the Medieval British Isles
Monastic Life in the Medieval British Isles - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Monastic Life in the Medieval British Isles write by Julie Kerr. This book was released on 2018-10-15. Monastic Life in the Medieval British Isles available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book celebrates the work and contribution of Professor Janet Burton to medieval monastic studies in Britain. Burton has fundamentally changed approaches to the study of religious foundations in regional contexts (Yorkshire and Wales), placing importance on social networks for monastic structures and female Cistercian communities in medieval Britain; moreover, she has pioneered research on the canons and their place in medieval English and Welsh societies. This Festschrift comprises contributions by her colleagues, former students and friends – leading scholars in the field – who engage with and develop themes that are integral to Burton’s work. The rich and diverse collection in the present volume represents original work on religious life in the British Isles from the twelfth to the sixteenth century as homage to the transformative contribution that
History of European Morals from Augustus to Charlemagne
History of European Morals from Augustus to Charlemagne - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook History of European Morals from Augustus to Charlemagne write by William Edward Hartpole Lecky. This book was released on 1921. History of European Morals from Augustus to Charlemagne available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
