Connected Clerics Database

STUDIA UNIVERSITATIS, THEOLOGIA ORTHODOXA,, 2020

2012

Author(s): Jasper, Kathryn Lee | Advisor(s): MIller, Maureen C. | Abstract: Mapping a Monastic Network examines a "grassroots" reform movement in the Italian Marches, the monastic congregation of Fonte Avellana, how it functioned as a communications network, and how interactions between individuals and with the landscape produced a compelling and politically potent vision of personal and institutional change. In a new take on "history from the bottom up," I have used two strategies to rewrite the prehistory of the papal revolution of the late eleventh century usually called the Gregorian Reform and the Investiture Conflict. One is, literally, to look at the ground: by mapping the spread of this monastic network with Geographic Information System (GIS) tools and site surveys, I have reconstructed relations among communities within the congregation and considered the impact of topography on religious ideals and political relations. Second, having discovered and uti...

2020

The Latin sermons preached by the Fathers of the Early Church – Augustine, Gregory, Leo – and their contemporaries had a dynamic and complex medieval afterlife. Throughout the Middle Ages, they circulated in manuscript form, usually as part of collections of patristic preaching. Both the collections and the sermons themselves were heavily manipulated as part of their medieval reception. Additionally, they circulated alongside (and became intertwined with) an enormous corpus of pseudo-epigraphic sermons that were attributed to one of the authoritative Fathers but of which the origin, whether Late-Antique or Medieval, is uncertain.<br> The ERC-funded PASSIM project (2019-2023) aims at charting and analysing the complex interrelations between the manuscripts transmitting patristic sermon collections, and between the texts they contain, through the development of a database and web application. In due course, these digital tools will grant access to the corpus' complex researc...

STUDIUM BIBLICUM FRANCISCANUM Collectio Maior 57 HOLY LANDARCHAEOLOGY ON EITHER SIDE Archaeological Essays in Honour of Eugenio Alliata, ofm Edited by Alessandro Coniglio Amedeo Ricco Edizioni Terra Santa - Milano , 2020

Jerusalem journal of archaeology, 2022

Journal of Historical Network Research, 2018

This article applies network analysis tools to letters written by and about English Benedictine nuns living in Brussels during the seventeenth century in order to demonstrate the ways in which such an approach expands our picture of early modern religious communities, makes visible the protagonists of religious controversy , and advances debates about enclosure and anonymity. The dataset for this network analysis is taken from the RECIRC project database (the project is entitled "The Reception and Circulation of Early Modern Women's Writing, 1550-1700" http://recirc.nuigalway.ie/). The RECIRC project is producing a large-scale quantitative analysis of the ways in which women's writing was received and circulated in the early modern English-speaking world; its database will be open-access from the project's close. The project has captured reception data on a range of female-authored sources, including texts produced in English convents established in Europe during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The metadata extracted from the nuns’ letters that form the basis of this study have generated 1,188 reception records, each tracing a connection between a female author and a receiver. Network analysis is shown here to illuminate debates about the nature and extent of enclosure imposed upon early modern nuns, as well as the sheer breadth and diversity of their epistolary relationships. Furthermore, it exposes otherwise invisible protagonists in religious controversy, and progresses methodological debates about the presentation of data relating to anonymity.

http://www.ub.edu/proyectopaisajes/index.php/ca/espais/blog-ca/169-introduction-colemon-france

COLéMON focuses on the ecclesiastical structures that regroup a collective clergy. Due to their widespread presence in the Western hemisphere during the Middle Ages and because they represent two of the main forms of religious life at that time, these structures are the main constituents of the ecclesiastical network during that period. Indeed, regular institutions, such as monasteries, and secular establishments, such as collegiate churches, are traditionally considered foreign from one another, the former being with a regular clergy and the latter being a secular clergy. Therefore, unifying collegiate churches and monasteries within a single project is an entirely new approach in French historiography. It has come as the result of the true convergence of two issues that, although institutionally separate, present many similarities. This also explains why the structures are frequently confused: they sometimes have identical founders (laymen and clergymen), both have a system of life rules, they share an interest in charitable and academic functions, they both give liturgy a central role, and they have a similar spatial organization. This has often led churches to change their status (from collegiate to monastery or vice-versa), particularly in the context of reforms in the eleventh and twelfth centuries.

Church History and Religious Culture, 2023