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Author : Julie Kerr
Release : 2009-07-14
Genre : Religion
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Book Rating : 617/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Life in the Medieval Cloister by : Julie Kerr
Download or read book Life in the Medieval Cloister written by Julie Kerr. This book was released on 2009-07-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophy.
Author : Sophie Page
Release : 2013-10-21
Genre : Religion
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Book Rating : 975/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Magic in the Cloister by : Sophie Page
Download or read book Magic in the Cloister written by Sophie Page. This book was released on 2013-10-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries a group of monks with occult interests donated what became a remarkable collection of more than thirty magic texts to the library of the Benedictine abbey of St. Augustine’s in Canterbury. The monks collected texts that provided positive justifications for the practice of magic and books in which works of magic were copied side by side with works of more licit genres. In Magic in the Cloister, Sophie Page uses this collection to explore the gradual shift toward more positive attitudes to magical texts and ideas in medieval Europe. She examines what attracted monks to magic texts, in spite of the dangers involved in studying condemned works, and how the monks combined magic with their intellectual interests and monastic life. By showing how it was possible for religious insiders to integrate magical studies with their orthodox worldview, Magic in the Cloister contributes to a broader understanding of the role of magical texts and ideas and their acceptance in the late Middle Ages.
Author : Christopher Brooke
Release : 2003
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 182/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Age of the Cloister by : Christopher Brooke
Download or read book The Age of the Cloister written by Christopher Brooke. This book was released on 2003. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the most beautiful, spiritual and evocative structures in stone ever built are the medieval monasteries of Europe. The importance of the monastic world, its ideas and ideals, to the rise of Western civilization is second to none. The age of the cloister offers a fascinating overview of the birth and flowering of monasticism, and describes in great detail the everyday monastic life and the faith, literature, economy, architecture and culture of countless monks, hermits, nuns, canons, friars and lay men and women spanning hundreds of years.
Author : Christopher I. Beckwith
Release : 2012-09-16
Genre : Education
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Book Rating : 313/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Warriors of the Cloisters by : Christopher I. Beckwith
Download or read book Warriors of the Cloisters written by Christopher I. Beckwith. This book was released on 2012-09-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this provocative book, Christopher I. Beckwith traces how the recursive argument method was first developed by Buddhist scholars and was spread by them throughout ancient Central Asia. He shows how the method was adopted by Islamic Central Asian natural philosphers - most importantly by Avicenna, one of the most brilliant of all medieval thinkers - and transmitted to the West when Avicenna's works were translated into Latin in Spain in the twelfth century by the Jewish philosopher Ibn Dā'ūd and others. -- Book jacket.
Author : Clifford Hugh Lawrence
Release : 1984-01-01
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 861/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Medieval Monasticism by : Clifford Hugh Lawrence
Download or read book Medieval Monasticism written by Clifford Hugh Lawrence. This book was released on 1984-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hugh Lawrence's book ranges right across Europe and the Middle East as well as reconstructing the internal life, experience and aims of the medieval cloister, he also explores the many-sided relationships between the monasteries and the secular world from which they drew recruits. This Third Edition contains new thoughts and perspectives throughout.
