L’episcopio del Tolmo de Minateda (Albacete, Spagna). Architettura e funzione degli ambienti tra la fine del VI e l’inizio dell’VIII secolo

The episcopal complex of Eio, located at El Tolmo de Minateda, was built between the end of the sixth century and the beginning of the seventh century. It may have been created as a result of a political decision taken by the authority of the Visigothic kingdom (based at Toletum) to control the Byzantine territories of south-east Hispania. With a comprehensive study of the construction phases, and of the decoration and location of spaces, we can recreate and interpret the function of each space in the episcopal palatium or episcopium, and detail the chronological development of the building. After the Arab-Berber conquest of Hispania in the early eight century, the whole complex underwent alterations that converted the religious and monumental public area into a private, residential and artisan Islamic quarter.

[ Fetâvâ] : manuscript, 1132 [ca. 1720 C.E.]

A typical fatwa collection covering almost all aspects of law: prayers, ablution, alms, fasting, divorce, capital punishment, etc.

L'évolution des voix/voies de femmes dans leurs écrits sur l'Église aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles

Feminist movements have allowed many female authors to become decisive and influential figures in literary history by studying their experiences, voices and forms of resistance. This thesis, however, focuses specifically on religious women, those seeking divine comfort outside the confines of institutional laws, or those who, out of protest, are caught in the middle. Founded on historical and feminist perspectives, this study examines the heterodox resistance of six French women living within or outside of Church boundaries during the 17th and 18th centuries: two eras that are particularly significant for women’s progress and modernity. This work strives to demonstrate how these women, doubly subjected to Church discourse and that of society, managed to live out their vocation (female and Christian) and make social, cultural and religious statements that contributed to changing the place of women in society. It aims to grasp the similarities and differences between the actions and ideas of women belonging to both the religious and secular spheres. Regardless of the century, the space and their background, women resist to masculine, patriarchal, ecclesial, political and social mediation and institutions. In locating examples of how they oppose the practices, rules and constraints that are imposed upon them, as well as of their exclusion from the socio-political space, this thesis also seeks to identify epistemological changes that mark the transition from the 17th to the 18th century. This thesis firstly outlines the necessary feminist theory upon which the project is based before identifying the evolution of women’s positions within the socio-ideological and political framework in which they lived. The questions of confession and spiritual direction are of particular interest since they serve as prime examples of masculine mediation and its issues and consequences – most notably the control of the female body and mind. The illustration of bodily metamorphoses bear testament to ideological changes, cultural awareness and female subjectivity, just as the scriptural inscriptions of unorthodox ideas and writing. The female body, both object and subject of the quest for individual and collective liberties, attests, in this way, to the movement towards Enlightenment values of freedom and justice.

The Catholic Question in Contemporary Portuguese Civil Society: A Case of Muted Vibrancy? CES Papers - Open Forum #14, 2012

The ‘Catholic question’ in contemporary Portugal obliges us to consider whether Catholicism will remain a force in Portuguese associational life in the next century, or whether it faces a future of slow and steady decline. On the one hand, an overall statistical drop of church membership, and the lack of religious practice by almost half of self-identified Roman Catholics, suggests that the future of the Catholic Church in Portugal will probably be very different than the past. On the other hand, the church’s support for democratic processes, the important social services it provides, and its educational establishment, have certainly been a positive factor in Portuguese associational life, and helped the larger process of democratic-regime consolidation since the Carnation Revolution of 1974. This paper suggests that social scientists need to move beyond the lens normally applied to the question of Catholicism in contemporary Europe (i.e. it is a dying, anti-modern, anti-rational, conservative institution), and instead consider the complex interplay of its demographic challenges combined with the popular sources of its theological and spiritual strength, as well as its vital societal contributions, to assess whether or not it will remain a force in Portuguese associational life in the future.

Poemas sinfónicos /

RBC: "Musea Centellas"--Stamped on t.p.

Defended vuestros derechos! : a los padres y madres de familia.

Mode of access: Internet.

The Churchman [microform].

Imprint varies: Hartford and New York, 1873-1879; New York : Churchman Co., 1880-1959; St. Petersburg, Fla., 1960-1985.

Essays in order /

Each essay is also published separately under its own title by Sheed and Ward, London, as no.1-3 of the series Essays in order.

Cumberland parish registers.

Editors: W.P.W. Phillimore and C.W. Ruston-Harrison.

What Catholics have done for science. With sketches of the great Catholic scientists.

Mode of access: Internet.

Festpredigten, auf die gewöhnlichen Festtage des Jahres /

Mode of access: Internet.

La ragione filosofica e la ragione cattolica : ragionamenti predicati a Parigi nell'anno 1851 /

Mode of access: Internet.

Nederlands archief voor kerkgeschiedenis.

Each volume includes "Overzicht van geschriften betreffende de Nederlandsche kerkgeschiedenis."

Encyclopédie catholique, répertoire universel et raisonné des sciences, des lettres, des arts et des métiers, formant une bibliothèque universelle, avec la biographie des hommes célèbres; ornée de plus de 3000 gravures dans le texte et refermant le résumé de plus de dix mille ouvrages;

"Introduction à l'Encyclopédie catholique, ou Essai sur les rapports de la religion chrétienne avec les progrès généraux de l'esprit humain et en particulier avec ceux des sciences et des arts, depuis le commencement du xixe siècle, par Édouard Alletz": v. 1, p. [i-]cxiii.

Schlesiens Kirchorte und ihre kirchlichen Stiftungen bis zum Ausgange des Mittelalters : namens des Verein für Geschichte und Alterthum Schlesiens /

With: Die Kirchenbücher Schlesiens beider Confessionen / herausgegeben vom Verein für Geschichte und Alterthum Schlesiens. Breslau : E. Wohlfarth'sche Buchhandlung, 1902.