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Biographical note: Thomas Ertl, Freie Universität Berlin.
"Die Monographie untersucht anhand der deutschen Franziskaner den Anteil der Bettelmönche am sozialen Wandel des späten Mittelalters. Die Bettelmönche strebten danach, die in einem starken Wandel befindliche Gesellschaft des späteren Mittelalters zu reglementieren. Dies geschah …
This monograph takes the example of the German Franciscans to examine the℗¡role of mendicant friars in social change in the late Middle Ages. In the later Middle Ages, the mendicant friars strove to regulate a society in a process of radical change. This h.
La fortune des grands monastères byzantins: fin du Xe-milieu du XIVe siècle
by Collège de France, Smyrlis, Kostis, Centre de recherche d'histoire et civilisation de Byzance (Paris, France)., Association des amis, Centre de recherche d'histoire et civilisation byzantines
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In the midst of a twelfth-century civil war between King Stephen and Empress Maud, a hostage exchange is put in jeopardy when one of the prisoners dies, and Brother Cadfael determines that he was murdered.
Shenoute of Atripe: stern abbot, loquacious preacher, patron of the poor and scourge of pagans in fifth-century Egypt. This book studies his numerous Coptic writings and finds them to be the most important literary source for the study of society, economy and religion in late an…
