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This thesis identifies key aspects of the nature of holiness present in the life of seventh-century Saint Aldhelm present in three fifteenth-century Middle English versions of versions of the Legenda aurea. From its first inception in thirteenth-century Genoa the Legenda aurea’s…

This social anthropological thesis reports on fieldwork in a coenobitic Orthodoxmonastery on Mount Athos. In Part I the thesis is concerned with metanoia - repentancefrom sins. Penthos, mourning, is a personal condition of extreme sobriety in which bothlaughter and anger are avo…

In this dissertation I argue that the Thai government's application of Thai Buddhism escalates the violence in southern Thailand. Using ethnography and state and monastic archives from different militarized Buddhist temples along the border of Malaysia, I show how Buddhist monks…

The emergence of a self-consciously Christian Roman empire was accompanied by an unprecedented rise of violence carried on between opposed local religious communities. In particular, the Roman world after the reign of Constantine, the first Christian Roman emperor, saw the adven…

This study explores the representation of holy places in devotional images from the early Christian era to the post-Byzantine period. I delineate five phases of this development. The first phase (300s–500s) was connected to the rise of Christian sacred sites. Christian ideas abo…

Nestorian Monasteries of the East Syrian Orient are considered to be important economic institutions in late Sasanian and early Islamic times. Syriac and Arabic sources, including church and monastic histories, saints' lives, liturgies, synod rulings, and the letters of Church o…

Dosadašnja proučavanja istorije Hilandara u XVIII veku nisu dovoljno pažnje posvećivala državnim i društvenim okvirima u kojima su monasi živeli. Osamnaesti vek je bio vreme velikih vojnih i ekonomskih izazova, koji su počeli da pokazuju zaostajanje osmanske države u odnosu na n…

This thesis aims to provide a new insight into the so-called anti-monastic reaction which took place after King Edgar’s death in 975 by analysing all the available evidence from fourteen different monasteries and bishoprics known to be affected during this period. It has been us…

Pope Francis issued the apostolic constitution Vultum Dei quaerere in 2016 in which he emphasizes the importance of monasteries belonging to federations in order to avoid isolation and “to ensure . . . continuous formation.” Cor orans, the instruction implementing Vultum Dei qua…

This thesis spotlights one of Yunnan’s most important Buddhist deities – Acuoye Guanyin. This bodhisattva, also known as the Luck of Yunnan, is unique to the Yunnan region. Acuoye Guanyin played a pivotal role in the political rise of the Nanzhao Kingdom and continued to serve a…

This thesis presents an alternative picture of the literati and Buddhist networks in early Qing, one that depicts how the cultural subjectivity of intellectuals was reformed instead of constrained by the state after the dynastic change from Ming to Qing. The narration is substan…