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Showing posts with label monastics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label monastics. Show all posts
Thursday, May 15, 2025

Kin, Cash, and Convent: Providing for Nieces (and Nephews) in 1613 Bludenz

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Excerpts of AT-VLA, BludenzStadtA, Charter 10255 of 1613 In Counter-reformation Bludenz in 1613, widow C atharina Zü r cherin * , a citizen...
Tuesday, April 15, 2025

Arriving from Wealth: Rosina von Ems

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Rosina von Embs (von Ems / von Hohenems) arrived at Thalbach in 1609 and was give holy orders a year later. As the honorific “von” shows...
Monday, March 10, 2025

Age and the Monastic Life at Thalbach in Bregenz

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Age and the monastic life: age at entry visualized BACKDROP: When did convent sisters join a monastic community? There’s no one clear answe...
Wednesday, January 29, 2025

Not a Village, a Community: Building Thalbach’s Church (1609)

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A glimpse of the Thalbach church and its windows In 1609, it was time to raise the walls on the Thalbach convent church in Bregenz. Much lab...
Wednesday, November 6, 2024

Manipulations of reality’s sounds: Drever on Soundscape Composition (11/6/24)

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A Venn diagram of soundscape and ethnography with interpretation & soundscape compositions in the middle Drever, John Levack. “Soundscap...
Sunday, October 13, 2024

Political Scientist Sean Gray’s typology of political silences (10/13/24)

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 I read Sean Gray’s article on silence in the political sphere with interest, both in the middle of a busy US election season and as a promp...