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Villa und christlicher Kult auf der Iberischen Halbinsel in Spätantike und Westgotenzeit
by Alexis Oepen
German Description:
Jenseits der urbanen Zentren, die bisher stärker im Fokus der Forschung lagen, werden einschlägige Komplexe spätantiker und westgotenzeitlicher Villenanlagen im ländlichen Bereich der gesamten Iberischen Halbinsel unter dem Aspekt der Christianisierung untersucht. Es gelingt ein differenzierter Überblick über die unterschiedlichen Formen der Etablierung von christlichem Kult im Umfeld spätantiker und ...
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Religious and Laity in Western Europe, 1000-1400: Interaction, Negotiation and Power
edited by E. Jamroziak and J.E. Burton
This volume examines forms of interaction between monastic or mendicant communities and lay people in the high Middle Ages in Britain, France, the Low Countries, and Scandinavia. The nineteen papers explore these issues in geographically and chronologically diverse settings in a way that no English-language collection has yet attempted. It brings together the latest research from established as well as younger historians. The first section, ...
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Frühchristliche Reliquiare im Kontext von Kultstrategien, Heilserwartung und sozialer Selbstdarstellung
by Anja Kalinowski
English summary: This study for the first time provides a comprehensive analysis of early Christian reliquaries in the context of their meaning and various uses. Taking into account all documented provenances and written sources on the cult of relics, basic conditions of production of reliquaries, the individual user groups, and their influence on the design of the vessels are shown. Special focus is given to the question of the ...
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Hermes Christianus: The Intermingling of Hermetic Piety and Christian Thought
by Claudio Moreschini
Hermetic theosophy, originally an offspring of Egyptian religion, spread throughout the ancient world from the Hellenistic age onwards and was welcomed by Christianity in Late Antiquity. Cultivated people in a Christian milieu were convinced that Hermetic piety and religion were the preparation, expressed by heathen imagery, of their own faith: Hermes, a wise and pious philosopher in Egypt in the time of Moses, received (so it was thought) the ...
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Kosmas Indikopleustes, Christliche Topographie: Textkritische Analysen. Übersetzung. Kommentar
by Horst Schneider
Kosmas Indikopleustes (6th c.) was a merchant from Alexandria. He travelled nearly around the whole ancient world. Whether or not he came to India is still disputed. In the Christian topography he explains the structure of the world according to the literal interpretation of the Bible. He learned to read and understand the Bible by his Nestorian teacher Mar Aba, Katholikos of the eastern church, who was teaching the principles of the so-called ...
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Antiquus error: Les ultimes feux de la résistance paienne
by S. Ratti
English summary: This volume contains 29 articles published between 1996 and 2007, as well as six previously unpublished studies. They are organized in five sections that, successively, deal with historiography in the 4th century, the historical oeuvre of St. Jerome, Ammianus Marcelinus, the Historia Augusta, and the poets Claudian and Rutilius Namatianus. The contributions are tied together by their analysis of the polemic relations ...
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The Conventual Church of the Knights of Malta. Splendour, history and art of St John's Co-Cathedral, Valletta
by Cynthia de Giorgio
St John's Co-Cathedral is a gem of Baroque art and architecture. Its rich history and artistic heritage is due to the fact that, for over 200 years, it was the conventual church of the Order of St John of Jerusalem. The history of the church is directly tied to the history of the Order in Malta. Over the years, the grand masters, dignitaries, and knights donated gifts of high artistic value and made enormous contributions to enrich it with the ...
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The Didascalia apostolorum: An English version with introduction and annotation
by Alistair Stewart-Sykes
The Didascalia apostolorum is one of the ancient church orders, setting out the duties and responsibilities of laypeople, bishops and widows, regulating the keeping of Pascha, and engaging in polemic with Judaism. It is a work of extraordinary interest for the history of the church in Syria, as a document of social and liturgical history and as a document bearing witness to relations between Christians and Jews. Alistair Stewart-Sykes ...
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The Metropolitan Cathedral: Mdina
by Aloysius Deguara, photography by Daniel Cilia
The cathedral church is the mother church of all the churches of Malta. It is the seat of the archbishop of the whole diocese, from where he teaches, governs, and unites all the Catholics on the island. This cathedral bears the title of Metropolitan since the bishop of Malta was raised to the dignity of metropolitan archbishop and head of the ecclesiastical province of Malta and Gozo in 1944. Since Norman times, the cathedral has been the see ...
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Selva Armonica: La Musica Spirituale e Roma tra Cinque e Seicento
by Daniele Filippi
Taking its cue from certain general features of the cultural history and from a strong focus on the theatre of events, this work first examines the theoretical background to the relationship between music and spirituality (from Augustine to the 'musical' mystics of the Middle Ages), then verifies its resonance in the post-Tridentine era - a period that distinguished itself for the ways in which it united singing with catechesis, art with prayer, ...
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