Thesis (doctoral)--Panepistēmion Athēnōn, 1977. / Title on added t.p.: Les monastères de Myriokéfala et de Roustica (Crète) et leurs chapelles. Summary in French. Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-194).

Author's thesis (doctoral)--Universität Heidelberg, 1994. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 349-360) and index.

Thesis (M.A.)--Wheaton College Graduate School, Wheaton, IL, 2002. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 130-134).

Thesis (Th. M.)--St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary, 2004. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 392-395).

Thesis (M.A.), History, Museum Studies--University of Central Oklahoma, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 83-87).

This dissertation investigates the changes in the legal, economic and political status as well as the topographical location of the monasteries in Constantinople between the fourth and the ninth centuries. Roughly from the late fourth up until the end of the sixth century, there was a gradual increase in the number of monasteries. This trend was counterweighted by almost complete silence in the sources throughout the seventh and the eighth centuries. The ninth century, however, constituted a return to the trend of the early centuries. Monks and monasteries "returned" to the city with a vengeance. This "return" was inevitably linked to the prevailing conditions during the previous centuries marked by, first, the final decline of the late Roman world and its institutions, and second, the Iconoclast controversy in Byzantium between the early eighth and the mid-ninth centuries. Overall, following primarily the evidence preserved in the vitae and the acts of the councils, one can conclude that, by the end of the ninth century, the integration of the monks into Byzantine society was complete. The monasteries had become an integral part of Constantinople and its Christian topography.

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This study will discuss agriculture from the time the manor appeared through the time of its decline in those countries, England, France, and Germany, which dominated that part of the world during the Middle Ages.

In 1290, members of the de Viane family donated a six-volume set of large, deluxe liturgical manuscripts to the Cistercian nuns of Beaupré in Grimminge, East Flanders. The three extant volumes and a later supplement are now known as the Beaupré Antiphoner (Baltimore, Walters Art Museum, W. 759-762). The nuns used, extensively revised, and supplemented the antiphoner for the next five hundred years until the abbey was suppressed in 1796 during the French Revolution. The manuscript offers a bottom-up perspective on the history of Cistercian chant in a women’s community. It also fills lacunae in the documentary sources related to reform and change in the history of the abbey. Revisions made in the late fifteenth century under the Observant movement suggest a revival of interest in St. Bernard and the “Bernardine” recension of Cistercian chant. Further alterations in the early modern period demonstrate that the nuns did not abandon their medieval chant tradition and adopt post-Tridentine versions until the late eighteenth century, approximately two hundred years after the publication of the Roman breviary of Pope Pius V (1568). The nuns viewed their carefully considered revisions as a necessary condition of continuity, not as a threat to it.

During the sixteenth century, the princes of Moldavia, a region of modern Romania, built many churches and monasteries. These churches followed the typical Byzantine style by placing detailed frescos on the interior walls, but some of the Moldavian churches took that tradition even further and expanded the frescos to the façade. This thesis argues that these exterior images were used to enhance the Easter processionals that occurred around the churches. While most scholars explain this phenomenon as propaganda or a cry for help against the Ottoman Empire, a new interpretation is offered here. It discusses how the exterior scenes on the churches depict different sections of the Orthodox Lenten Services that occur during the ten weeks prior to Easter, the most important feast day in the Orthodox calendar. Four of these painted monasteries, Voroneţ, built in 1488 and painted in 1547, Humor, built in 1530 and painted in 1534, Moldoviţa, built in 1532 and painted in 1537, and Suceviţa, built in 1582 and painted in 1595, are analyzed to show the link between these feast days and the frescos. The paper connects Moldavia to the Byzantine Empire, showing a long tradition of supporting the Orthodox faith. The history of frescos. The paper connects Moldavia to the Byzantine Empire, showing a long tradition of supporting the Orthodox faith. The history of different religious processions performed throughout the Orthodox year during the Byzantine Empire are discussed in conjunction with their survival in Moldavia after the Empire fell. The study concludes that the exterior frescos on the Moldavian churches enhanced the Orthodox processionals that took place during Easter week.