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Free Download Emmanuel S. Moutafov, "The Chora Monastery of Constantinople "
English | ISBN: 1108931138 | 2024 | 75 pages | PDF | 8 MB
The Chora is one of the most celebrated churches built in Constantinople during the Byzantine era (330-1453). It is particularly famous for its glorious mosaics and frescoes, mostly dating to the fourteenth century, which are a particularly fine example of Late Byzantine art. After the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople in 1453 the church was repurposed as a mosque, known as the Kariye Camii. Between 1945 and 2020 it had another incarnation, as the Kariye Museum, but then in 2020, in line with changing Turkish governmental policies, it again became a mosque. This Element sets out the history of the building, presents its artwork, and considers how best to interpret its construction, significance, and meaning. Above all, it offers an insight into images and words that are currently inaccessible to the general public.

Free Download Sacred Feasts: From a Monastery Kitchen: From a Monastery Kitchen by Victor-Antoine d’Avila-Latourrette
English | October 1, 2009 | ISBN: 0764818627 | 208 pages | MOBI | 12 Mb
This book of seasonal cooking provides a backdrop of celebrating sacred feasts of the year from a monastery kitchen to your kitchen-using recipes from Brother Victor-Antoine d’Avila-Latourrette.

Free Download A Monestary for the Ibex Wilko Graf von Hardenberg, "Monastery for the Ibex, A: Conservation, State, and Conflict on the Gran Paradiso, 1919-1949"
English | 2021 | ISBN: 0822946351 | PDF | pages: 271 | 16.0 mb
Gran Paradiso National Park is Italy’s oldest, and was instrumental in preventing the extinction of the Alpine ibex between World War I and just after World War II. Today, there are more than 30,000 ibex living in the Alps, all of which descended from that last colony protected in Gran Paradiso under Mussolini’s rule. Wilko Graf von Hardenberg merges the history of conservation with the area’s social history and Italy’s larger political history to produce a multifaceted narrative about the park as an institution, the conflicts it triggered, and practices adopted to manage the ibex despite hurdles placed by the fascist regime. The book’s central argument is that, in fascist Italy, preservation-propaganda notwithstanding-was a product of the regime’s continuities with the previous liberal system. Italy’s total fascist transformation, accomplished only more than a decade after Mussolini took power, virtually unmade the early successes of preservation set in place by the nascent "nature state" in the regime’s early years. Despite this conflict, conservationists succeeded in preserving the ibex. Hardenberg positions this success within the broader history of science, conservation, and tourism in fascist Italy and the Alpine region, creating a comprehensive historical background and comparative reference to ongoing debates about the role of nature conservation in general and in relation to the state and its agencies.

Free Download Anning Jing, "The Water God’s Temple of the Guangsheng Monastery: Cosmic Function of Art, Ritual, and Theater"
English | 2001 | ISBN: 9004119256 | PDF | pages: 305 | 72.1 mb
The 14th century dragon king temple in Southern Shanxi is the only known intact survivor of this ancient Water God institution once existing in every Chinese agricultural community. After describing the history, lay-out and mural paintings of the building, its original Yuan time mural paintings enable the author to depict the ritual of praying for rain, and the actual rain-making of the god.

Free Download Patrick Lo, "World´s Leading National, Public, Monastery and Royal Library Directors: Leadership, Management, Future of Libraries"
English | ISBN: 311053083X | 2017 | 377 pages | PDF | 11 MB
General directors who have all made their marks in the field of librarianship report from a variety of perspectives, including economic, social, educational, cultural developmental, and political. This information could increase the understanding of the managerial decisions, and other factors that affect the decisions and determine the library’s overall policy and operations.

Free Download Patrick Lo, "World´s Leading National, Public, Monastery and Royal Library Directors: Leadership, Management, Future of Libraries"
English | ISBN: 311053083X | 2017 | 377 pages | EPUB, PDF | 128 MB + 11 MB
General directors who have all made their marks in the field of librarianship report from a variety of perspectives, including economic, social, educational, cultural developmental, and political. This information could increase the understanding of the managerial decisions, and other factors that affect the decisions and determine the library’s overall policy and operations.

Free Download Roger Haight S.J., "From the Monastery to the City: Hildegard of Bingen and Francis of Assisi "
English | ISBN: 1531506011 | 2023 | 160 pages | PDF | 3 MB
This volume brings together texts of the twelfth-century Hildegard of Bingen and the early-thirteenth-century Francis of Assisi to represent religious spirituality after the Gregorian Reform and just prior to or simultaneous with the formation of universities in Western Europe. In an extraordinary way, Hildegard embodies monastic theology and spirituality and provides a contrast to the new thing that would be created with the study of theology in the new Aristotelian idiom of the universities. But equally in contrast to the Benedictine Hildegard, the thirteenth century witnessed a renewed enthusiasm for a more literal following of Christ in a life of penitence and poverty. This is a life of dependence, not on a superior and enclosed community but on the compassion of society at large. Francis would join this movement on his own terms, attract a following, and gradually formulate a spirituality that sent signals of the need to reform individual lives and the institutions of the Church. These two authors, then, are not joined here because of any shared similarity but to help illustrate two quite different spiritualities that animated the lively European twelfth and thirteenth centuries.

Free Download Manuela Studer-Karlen, "Biography of a Landmark, the Chora Monastery and Kariye Camii in Constantinople/Istanbul from Late Antiquity to the 21st"
English | ISBN: 9004679790 | 2023 | 240 pages | PDF | 93 MB
With its reconversion to a mosque in August 2020, the former monastic church of Saint Saviour in Chora entered yet another phase of its long history. The present book examines the Chora/Kariye Camii site from a transcultural perspective, tracing its continuous transformations in form and function from Late Antiquity to the present day. Whereas previous literature has almost exclusively placed emphasis on the Byzantine phase of the building’s history, including the status of its mosaics and paintings as major works of Palaiologan culture, this study is the first to investigate the shifting meanings with which the Chora/Kariye Camii site has been invested over time and across uninterrupted alterations, interventions, and transformations. Bringing together contributions from archaeologists, art historians, philologists, anthroplogists and historians, the volume provides a new framework for understanding not only this building but, more generally, edifices that have undergone interventions and transformations within multicultural societies.