How did monasticism develop in early Medieval Europe? How did the manorial system govern the medieval economy? How were women treated during the Renaissance? How was dredging done in Victorian England? How were classes divided in Victorian England?
How did the development of cenobitic monasticism alter monastic life? How did Buddhism spread to China? How was stained glass made in the Middle Ages? How did scholars figure out cuneiform? How is calligraphy used as an art form? How are Jesuits different from Franciscans? Why did Muslims...
doi:10.1353/ben.2021.a923948Peters, GregAmerican Benedictine Review
And unless you are well-suited for monastic life, you’re also grieving lost connections to a lot of the activities and the being-out-in-the-world things that nourish you. I imagine that if this shift to our lives were measured like an earthquake, it would be a pretty solid 7 on the...
Life was contained to the Sapporo dorms and the Sapporo Dome—and it was a life of glorious baseball monasticism. Jacket, price upon request, by ERL. Turtleneck, $178, by Boss. Jersey and hat, his own. When we arrived at the harbor in Newport Beach, Shohei took photos with his phone...
The issue is whether there are common standards that people from two or more traditions could reasonably accept, or would be justified in accepting, from where they begin. Whether people actually do accept them (what could be called dialectical failure) is a separate matter. (It’s probably ...
A dowry is required to be a nun? Since when did Jesus need to be paid off to 'marry' a female disciple? Seriously? It's not God who wants to use you; it's the Catholic church and to boot, they want to keep you living like it's still the Dark Ages. They called them “dark”...
How did the jews make the ”workers”, jewish code word for slave, come on time to work? First you pay the workers nickels and dimes, small change. Not enough to live on but so much you must have it to make ends meet. After work you must be wheeling and dealing and stand in line...
Before we even begin the journey from Plato up (or down) to Joyce, Nussbaum gives us a couple paragraphs telling us what an adequate view of love needs to have: it needs to encourage compassion, reciprocity (so that people treat each other as agents and ends), and the recognition of ...
How did kings oppress the serfs in the feudal system? How did kings oppress serfs in the feudal system? How did the Crusades affect peasants? What was the effect of monasticism in Medieval Europe? How did the economic system of manorialism most affect nobles?