Eminent Nunsis an innovative interdisciplinary work that brings together several of these important seventeenth-century trends. Although Buddhist nuns have been a continuous presence in Chinese culture since early medieval times and the subject of numerous scholarly studies, this book is one of the firs...
Medieval monks and nuns existed in both the Christian and Buddhist traditions. In many ways, in the seventh through ninth century, they participated in analogous practices such as monasticism, asceticism, and holy travel. On the surface the traditions of Europe and China during that period were ...
'Light For The World' was released by The Poor Clares of Arundel, a convent based in Sussex.Picture: Chris O’Donovan By Sian Moore The Poor Clares of Arundel are using their beautiful voices to provide light in these darker times... It might come as no surprise that the ethereal sound ...
As if to take his own stand against those medieval views, “Secret Sister” is also slinkier than you might expect from a song about nuns, with a lilting South American beat. “Brazil’s a pretty Catholic country and the pope is from Argentina, you know?” he said. “The fact that t...
“I grew up always hearing about these stories of Gregorian chant, of medieval Europe and this mythical aunt that I’d never met,” he tells Classic FM. As a young man, the summer before moving to Oxford University to study Music, John visited his aunt in Provence for the first time an...
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Althought Buddhist nuns have been a continuous presence in Chinese culture since early medieval times and the subject of numerous studies, this text is one of the first to provide a detailed view of their activities at one particular moment in time, and to be based largely on the writings of...
The Nun’s Priest’s Tale, one of the 24 stories in The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Nun’s Priest’s Tale” is based on the medieval tale of Reynard the Fox, common to French, Flemish, and German literature. The protagonist of this mock-h
in Europe in the mid-19th century, and the spread of new and reformed communities to the United States, scholars and their students have carried out studies of medieval monasticism in the light of these groups, especially those that consciously mirror the life and practices of distant times. ...
The temperature peak and trough values and clock times did not differ between groups. However, the temperature rhythm was biphasic in monks and nuns, with an early decrease at 19:39 ± 4:30 h (median ± 95% interval), plateau or rise of temperature at 22:35 ± 00:23 h (while asleep...