Sentences with phrase «medieval monks»
"Medieval monks" refers to religious men who lived during the Middle Ages, a period in history that spanned roughly from the 5th to the 15th century. These monks were part of religious orders and dedicated their lives to prayer, study, and work. They lived in monasteries, which were communities where monks would reside together, follow certain rules, and engage in religious activities. Full definition
Whether it be the garish uniforms of 18th - century European soldiers or the drab, sometimes threadbare dress of medieval monks, clothing and uniforms have always served as signs of identity.
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In the forthcoming Victories of Reason, Stark will attribute to Christian rationality and advocacy nothing less than the emergence of capitalism (pioneered by medieval monks, not industrious Protestants) and the foundational principles of equality and individual liberty that informed that most conspicuous Western achievement of all: modern republican democracy.
Is it unreasonable to ask whether there is any meaningful real data left in these multiply adjusted datasets — or are the protagonists just like so many medieval monks debating how many angels can dance on a pin?
Medieval monks already knew this, but the Reformer knows even more now: it is right here that we have Christ, the mighty helper, on our side.
Funniest: Brain Pickings with «Oh, My Hand: Complaints Medieval Monks Scribbled in the Margins of Illuminated Manuscripts»
As a material, blue pigment has itself been a fetishized commodity, serving as everything from a prized color for Medieval monks to the point of obsession for the painter Yves Klein.
In 1881, his composition featuring Medieval monks won the Albert Scholarship, after which he, Hill and Osborne travelled to the Academie Royale in Antwerp for the «Nature» course under Verlat.
According to folklore, the tree was named so because it was believed that it was an anaphrodisiac, with medieval monks having chewed its leaves to help them maintain their vows of celibacy.
Medieval monks who worked for ages to create new bibles were copying.
We are taken on an informative tour of the Abbey and gardens and transported back to the times of medieval monks and visionary Georgians.
As more Angles, Saxons, and Jutes arrived, violence broke out with the local Britons and ended in «rivers of blood,» according to accounts by medieval monks.
Why did so many medieval monks, saints and mystics inflict pain on themselves?
The medieval monks of Ireland, Thomas Cahill has famously argued (see reading list below), saved Western civilization by their work in building libraries and teaching people to read well.
The one supposed mention of Jesus in Tacitus has been shown to be a forgery by a medieval monk.
Churches whose members know Psalms as well as any medieval monk, whose hymns and prayers and praise are infused with the cadences of the Psalter.
Medieval monks may have been more gluttonous than godly.
I loved to draw and paint, and the curlicues I drew on the ends of all my letters led to a family joke that I must be the reincarnation of a Medieval monk.
The TV heads are just like the medieval monks trying to explicate the labanotation of x-number of angels dancing on the head of the pin.