Monasteries and Society in the British Isles in the Later Middle Ages
Monasteries and Society in the British Isles in the Later Middle Ages Edited by Janet Burton and Karen Stober Boydell Press, 2008 ISBN: 9781843833864…
Marian Lyric in the Cistercian Monastery during the High Middle Ages
Marian Lyric in the Cistercian Monastery during the High Middle Ages Noell,Brian Comitatus Vol.30 (1999) Introduction Marian devotion has a long history within…
The military orders and the conversion of Muslims in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries
Although the relevance to conversion of charters which allude to the propagationor expansion of Christianity may be questioned, a very few twelfth- and early thirteenth-century sources do explicitly seek to link military orders with the convertingof Muslims.
Religious Reform and Religious Orders in England, 1490-1540: The Case of the Crutched Friars
Religious Reform and Religious Orders in England, 1490-1540: The Case of the Crutched Friars By J. Michael Hayden The Catholic Historical Review, vol.…
Communes and Communities: The Democratic Elements of Medieval Life
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In Search of Paradise: Time and Eternity in Alfonso X’s Cantiga 103
The story told in Alfonso’s cantiga 103 is not original to his court writers. In fact, as has been made abundantly clear in several studies to date (Hans-Jörg [Aarne-Thomson] 471A (“The Monk and the Bird”),4 Wagner, and Röhrich 124-45), the cantiga story is a variation of a legend that had already existed for at least one hundred years before its inclusion in the Cantigas collection (the compilation of which took place during the years spanning from 1257 to 1283).