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In an interdisciplinary spectrum of history, literary and political science, sociology, art history, philosophy and theology, various forms and patterns of meaning of the symbolic are examined in this book…
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For over a thousand years, monks, nuns, canons, friars, and others under religious vows stood at the pinnacle of Western European society. For their ascetic sacrifices, their learning, piety, and…
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How have different civilizations throughout different epochs mastered fundamental challenges of life? The series analyses the basic questions of cultural anthropology. All epochs and the most significant civilizations worldwide, as…
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Includes case studies written by an interdisciplinary circle of well-known academics who explore how the capacity of designing life, the concept of free will, and the methods to calculate the…
The body is at the same time a place where we express duration and/or discontinuity in history, and a factor of stabilization and transformation of human life. This book contributes…
Prior to the 450th anniversary of St. Augustine in 2015, Flager College hosted an International Conference entitled From La Florida to La California: The Genesis and Realization of Franciscan Evangelization…
Gert Melville
Kloster, Orden und religiose Lebensformen zahlen zu den zentralen Forschungsfeldern von Gert Melville. Sein Blick richtet sich insbesondere auf den frommen Eifer wie auf den methodischen Betrieb derjenigen, die sich…
This book surveys the full panorama of ten centuries of Christian monastic life. It moves from the deserts of Egypt and the Frankish monasteries of early medieval Europe to the…
The two-volume Brill’s Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages offers an accessible yet engaging coverage of medieval European history and culture, c. 500-c. 1500, in a series of themed articles, taking…
Obgleich sich Charisma und Institution auszuschliessen scheinen, ist die vita religiosa in ihrer Geschichte trotz oder vielleicht gerade wegen ihrer Tendenz zur hoch verdichteten Institutionalitat immer wieder mit Antrieben durch…
Dieser interdisziplinar angelegte Band geht den Dimensionen institutioneller Macht von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart nach. Die versammelten Beitrage befassen sich sowohl historisch mit den Spiegelungen der Macht in den…
