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Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 6 avhandlingar innehållade ordet Benedictine.
1. Contemplation et dialogue : Quelques exemples de dialogue entre spiritualités après le concile Vatican II : [examples of spiritualities in dialogue emerging after the Second Vatican Council]
Sammanfattning : In the latter half of the 20th century interreligious dialogue has become a necessary and important feature in human co-existence. This study discusses the dialogue of religious experience. The essentials in this dialogue are mutual understandings of prayer and contemplation as practiced in differing religious and cultural contexts. LÄS MER
2. Total St Gall : Medieval Monastery as a Disciplinary Institution
Sammanfattning : How much was a medieval monastery reminiscent of a modern prison? Or insane asylum? And if it was in the least - what can such a metaphor tell us about power relations structuring the life of medieval monks?The purpose of this compilation thesis (sammanläggningsavhandling) is to render explicit and analyze relations of power and modes of control comprising the social tissue of early medieval Benedictine monasteries. By bringing up the examples of tenth- and eleventh-century monasteries of St Gall, Fulda, and Bury St Edmunds, this thesis seeks to understand what power was in medieval monasteries, how and between whom it was exercised, what and how it affected in terms of collective and individual identity. LÄS MER
3. Responsiones Vadstenenses : Perspectives on the Birgittine Rule in Two Texts from Vadstena and Syon Abbey. A Critical Edition with Translation and Introduction
Sammanfattning : Syon Abbey, established as the first Birgittine monastery in England in 1415, quite soon became a powerful institution within the order. Although often asserting their own conceptions of the Rule, the English Birgittines still sought the advice of Vadstena, their mother house, when it came to certain important matters concerning monastic life. LÄS MER
4. Programmert interpretasjon. Serinetten som kilde till 1700-tallets musikalske fremførelsespraksis
Sammanfattning : In his famous treatise on organ-building, L'art du facteur d'orgues (1766-78), the French Bénédictine monk, organist and organ-builder Dom François Bédos de Celles devotes a chapter to the procedure of pinning cylinders for automatic organs. The chapter, based on the treatise La Tonotechnie by Dom Bédos' contemporary Joseph Engramelle, Dom Bédos contains detailed descriptions of basic practices of performance, including the precise nature of ornaments, articulation and notes inégales, with the aim of making possible the mechanical reproduction of a good human performance. LÄS MER
5. The forgotten encyclopedia : the Maurists' dictionary of arts, crafts, and sciences, the unrealized rival of the Encyclopédie of Diderot and d'Alembert
Sammanfattning : In mid-eighteenth century Paris, two Benedictine monks from the Congregation of Saint-Maur – also known as the Maurists – started compiling a universal dictionary of arts, crafts, and sciences. The project was initiated simultaneously with what would become one of the most famous literary enterprises in Western intellectual history: the Encyclopédie of Diderot and d’Alembert. LÄS MER
