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Imagining Religious Leadership in the Middle Ages
Around the turn of the first millennium AD, there emerged in the former Carolingian Empire a generation of abbots that came to be remembered as one of the most influential in the history of Western monasticism. In this book Steven Vanderputten reevaluates the historical significance of this generation of monastic leaders through an in-depth study of one of its most prominent figures, Richard of Saint-Vanne. During his lifetime, Richard (d. 1046) served as abbot of numerous monasteries, which gained him a reputation as a highly successful administrator and reformer of monastic discipline. As Vanderputten shows, however, a more complex view of Richard's career, spirituality, and motivations en...
The Bookseller and the Stationery Trades' Journal
Official organ of the book trade of the United Kingdom.
Publisher and Bookseller
Vols. for 1871-76, 1913-14 include an extra number, The Christmas bookseller, separately paged and not included in the consecutive numbering of the regular series.
The Bookseller
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Die Bibliothek der Abtei St. Walburg zu Eichstätt
In einem langen Kapitel seiner Regel beleuchtet Benedikt von Nursia das Verhaltnis von Arbeit (labor) und geistlicher Lesung (lectio divina) (Kap. 48). Demnach gehort zur Grundung eines Klosters nach der Regel Benedikts als wesentlicher Bestandteil eine Bibliothek. Sie stellt die liturgischen Bucher bereit und dient der geistlichen Erbauung der Gemeinschaft und des einzelnen. Wenn sich in der Benediktinerinnenabtei St. Walburg ein Bucherschatz uber Jahrhunderte erhalten hat, so ist dies primar der Ehrfurcht vor den geschaffenen Dingen im allgemeinen und vor dem Buch im besonderen zu verdanken sowie der Sparsamkeit, die vom Armutsideal nahegelegt wird. Inhaltlich wird die monastische Lesekult...
The Ulster Earls and Baroque Europe
Rome was the destination of a significant number of Irish migrants in the early 17th century. This collection looks at the factors pushing them abroad and attracting them to Rome.
