Search Results - "cloister"

King of the confessors/ by Hoving, Thomas

Subjects: “…Cloister( museum) 124363…”

The fabulous dark cloister : romance in England after the Reformation / by Werth, Tiffany Jo

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the fabulous dark cloister: Fabulous texts -- Fabulous romance and abortive reform in Philip Sidney and Edmund Spenser -- Saint or martyr? …”
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A social history of the cloister daily life in the teaching monasteries of the Old Regime / by Rapley, Elizabeth

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Women Religious Crossing between Cloister and the World : Nunneries in Europe and the Americas, ca. 1200–1700 /

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Tormented minds [three plays] / by Roberts, Christine, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…Ceremonial kisses -- Shading the crime -- The maternal cloister.…”
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Hebrew origins. by Meek, Theophile James, 1881-

“…Harper Torchbooks. The Cloister library…”

The social teaching of the Christian churches. / by Troeltsch, Ernst, 1865-1923

“…Harper Torchbooks. The Cloister library…”

The social teaching of the Christian churches. / by Troeltsch, Ernst, 1865-1923

“…Harper Torchbooks. The Cloister library…”

Dogmatics in outline. / by Barth, Karl, 1886-1968

“…Harper Torchbooks. The Cloister library…”

Nuns a history of convent life, 1450-1700 / by Evangelisti, Silvia

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- On nuns and nunneries -- Cloistered spaces-- Voices from the cloister -- Theatre and music-- The visual arts -- Expansion : nuns across the globe -- Open communities for women-- Epilogue.…”
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Fearful spirits, reasoned follies the boundaries of superstition in late medieval Europe / by Bailey, Michael David, 1971-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the meanings of medieval superstition -- The weight of tradition -- Superstition in court and cloister -- The cardinal, the confessor, and the chancellor -- Dilemmas of discernment -- Witchcraft and its discontents -- Toward disenchantment?.…”
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Poverty's proprietors ownership and mortal sin at the origins of the Observant Movement / by Mixson, James D.

Table of Contents: “…Cultures of property between cloister and world -- Calls from without -- Revolt from within -- Property and community between principle and practice -- Property and community between penance and perfection.…”
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Women of God and arms female spirituality and political conflict, 1380-1600 / by Warren, Nancy Bradley

Table of Contents: “…Monastic politics -- Strategic saints and diplomatic devotions -- The sword and the cloister -- Religion and female rule -- The mystic, the monarch, and the persistence of "the medieval" -- Dissolution, diaspora, and defining Englishness -- Conclusion: The power of the past.…”
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Autobiographical writing by early modern Hispanic women / by Howe, Elizabeth Teresa, 1945-

Table of Contents: “…Telling li(v)es: women and autobiography -- Court and convent: Leonor López de Córdoba and Sor Teresa de Cartagena -- Carmelite and Cloister: Santa Teresa de Jesús -- In the footsteps of Santa Teresa: Carmelite nuns and the reform(er) -- Soldier in New Spain: Catalina de Erauso -- Defending her life: Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz.…”
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Habits of change an oral history of American nuns / by Rogers, Carole Garibaldi

Table of Contents: “…In the schools ; Missionary workers ; In hospitals and clinics ; Serving the underserved ; Pastoral work ; Spiritual companions ; In the cloister ; On the cutting edge -- Changing attitudes. …”
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Against all England regional identity and Cheshire writing, 1195-1656 / by Barrett, Robert W., 1969-

Table of Contents: “…From cloister to corporation: imagining Chester in benedictine encomium and saint's life -- Grounds of grace: mobile meaning and processional performance in the Chester Whitsun plays -- Chester's triumph: absence and authority in seventeenth-century civic ceremonial -- Heraldic devices/chivalric divisions: Sir Gawain and the green knight and the Scrope-Grosvenor trial -- Two shires against all England: regional honor and tudor ambition in the Stanley family romances.…”
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Rethinking Authority in the Carolingian Empire : Ideals and Expectations during the Reign of Louis the Pious (813-828) / by Kramer, Rutger

Table of Contents: “…Framing the Carolingian Reforms: The Early Years of Louis the Pious -- Building an Empire -- Communities and Discourse Communities -- Between Cloister and Court -- 2. Model for Empire: The Councils of 813 and the Institutio Canonicorum -- Road to 813 -- Teaching the Empire -- `An Effort, not an Honour': Bishops and Their Responsibilities -- Church Fathers in Aachen -- Correcting Communities -- Communicating Correctio -- Channelling Authority -- 3. …”
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Contested spaces of nobility in early modern Europe

Table of Contents: “…Coolidge -- Inventing the courtier in early sixteenth century Portugal / Susannah Humble Ferreira -- Sepulchral monuments as a means of communicating social and political power of nobles in early modern Russia / Cornelia Soldat -- Il monastero nuovo : cloistered women of the Medici court / Katherine L. …”
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Ardea: A Philosophical Novella / by Mathews, Freya

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Women writing back/writing women back transnational perspectives from the late Middle Ages to the dawn of the modern era /

Table of Contents: “…Ray -- The appropriation of the genre of nuptial poetry by Katharina Lescailje (1649-1711) / Nina Geerdink -- Madame De Maintenon Au Miroir de sa correspondance: réhabilitation du personnage et redécouverte d'une écriture féminine / Christine Mongenot and Hans Bots -- French women writers and heroic genres / Perry Gethner -- The tartar girl, the Persian princess, and early modern English women's authorship from Elizabeth II to to Mary Wroth / Bernadette Andrea -- A cloistered nun abroad: Arcangela Tarabotti's international literary career / Lara Lynn Westwater -- Traveller, pedagogue and cultural mediator: Marie-Elisabeth De La Fite and her female context / Ineke Janse -- Translation and intellectual reflection in the works of enlightened Spanish women: Inés Joyes (1731-1808) / Mónica Bolufer -- 'Nous voudrions que les femmes s'occupent de la littérature': traductions des romanciéres françaises en russie autour de 1800 / Elena Gretchanaia.…”
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