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Modes of textual interpretation used at the north Rus' Kirillov monastery over the course of the fifteenth century encompassed a broad-ranging “interpretive field” which could be delineated by the poles of “recovery of meaning” and “suspicion” (Paul Ricoeur, Freud and Philosophy…

This thesis examines a series of documents described as electoral charters, produced in monastic institutions of the Loire Valley from the late tenth to late eleventh centuries. By considering the variations in the formulas used for each charter, the study considers what the cha…

The monastery tou Libos is one of the most important imperial foundations to survive in Constantinople. The earlier church, dedicated to Theotokos Panachrantos, was erected in the early tenth century by Constantine Lips, a high military official of the imperial army. At the end …

Characterized by strict organizations of time, rules, and divisions of space, the monastery has provided the ideal set of conditions for early religious practice. While monastic practice has been categorized as increasingly anachronistic, it is precisely these rules that have al…

The traditional historical picture of the monastery has been as a separate entity under different laws, serving a parallel but removed part of the local community. However, my study is a local history of a provincial monastery in seventeenth century Riazan’. Using Solotchinskii …

Crossraguel Abbey, located in rural southwest Scotland, was one of the last remaining monasteries following the Reformation. Its story of survival past years of religious turmoil reveals a nuanced and complicated reaction to the Scottish Reformation, which stemmed from noble pro…