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Cathedral Schools
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Cathedral schools provided diverse forms of organized instruction; usually tied to the cathedral church of a diocese but sometime to an episcopal monastery in the diocesan town, the primary function o…
Date:
2016-08-09
English Literature
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Among all the European vernacular literatures of the Middle Ages, English literature occupies a unique position, for two very different reasons (→Anglo-Saxon and Hiberno-Scottish regions). To be sure,…
Date:
2016-08-09
The Monastic Context
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The monastic context is not defined by geographical topographies or by putatively cultural or social antonyms of town, countryside, or court. Monasteries and convents are found on isolated mountains, …
Date:
2016-08-09
Religious Life – Monasteries and Religious Orders
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The Church Father Saint Ambrose (d. 397) was one of the first to refer to a central dichotomy among Christians: those who followed only the evangelical precepts (
praecepta) – that is, the laity and clergy – and those who vowed…
Date:
2016-10-17
