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the Celtic culture and pre-existing Druidic religion into an organized network of Christian institutions, and the obedience and spiritual strength possessed by Irish monks and

The Cistercian Monks and Their Role Developing the Côte d'Or The Côte d'Or in Burgundy is known far and wide for its first class wines. The Côte d'Or is made up of the Côte de Beaune in the North and the Côte de Nuit in the south. Cistercian Monks were “quality fanatics” (Estreicher, 2006 pg. 52) about their viticulture and they “realized that quantity is the enemy of quality” (Cogan) that they determined through a system of trial and error. They established the first monastery in Burgundy, which

6. Narcissus and Echo Narcissus is described as a handsome young man who was so irresistible that any young girls who met eyes with him would want to be his, but the young man himself does not associate any relationship regarding romance or love in return to them at all. A nymph by the name of Echo would also find herself to be madly in love with him, but Narcissus still does not find any attraction to any members of the opposite sex. A mischievous goddess who goes by the name of Juno would discover

A Great and Terrible Beauty, by Libba Bray, revolves around the life of Gemma Doyle, a sixteen-year-old English girl from the Victorian Era living in India. On the day of her sixteenth birthday, her mother is assumingly murdered on the streets of India by a theif. However, Gemma has a vision that suggests something far more darker than what is believed to be true by the authorities. After this tragedy, Gemma is forced to move to London to attend Spence Academy for Young Ladies, a finishing school

Integrative Essay Discuss the impact and contribution of a key Irish figure as a European religious leader. Throughout time there has been many influential Irish people, each changing the way we live. Columbanus a pioneer on the continent for his monastic settlements and way of living. Columbanus was born to a family of low social class in Leinster in 543. At school, he studied grammar, rhetoric, geometry and Scripture and later developed an interest in the monastic life which his family did not

MONASTICISM? Monasteries were places where groups of men or women could live together and worship God. The men in the monasteries were called monks and the women were called nuns. A monastery is sometimes called an 'abbey' or a 'priory'. Monasteries for women are also sometimes called 'nunneries'. Monasteries always had lots of small buildings for the monks or nuns to live in. These are called 'cells'. British ones were usually round. Saxon ones were rectangular. There would also be a kitchen and

Jane Austen writes her novel Northanger Abbey surrounding the protagonist, Catherine Morland, a young girl, living within the Regency Period. Women at this time were seen as subordinate to men, and were taught to seek a husband for wealth and status. From the very first page of the novel, however, we see that Austen does not depict Catherine Morland as a typical woman of this time. Jane Austen writes the character of Catherine Morland as a character pushing the boundaries for women of this time.

In Jane Austen’s novel Northanger Abbey, conformity is a very prominent recurring theme. The main character Catherine Morland fails to conform to the clichés of a typical literary heroine and woman in the aristocratic society. As a child she never enjoyed the more ‘girly’ activities, she “had no taste for a garden, and if she gathered flowers at all, it was chiefly for the pleasure of mischief,” (Austen 5). As a young teenager she was quite foolish and awkward. The narrator stated at the beginning

Geoffery Chaucer, religious figures are constantly being satirized by being shown in a negative way that is contrary to their religion. One such character is the Monk. The Monk should be living a life of poverty and humility, but instead he enjoys hunting, is overweight, and extravagantly dressed due to his wealth. In Dante’s Inferno, the Monk would be classified in the third circle of hell due to his gluttonous lifestyle. In the Inferno Dante designates the third circle of hell for those who live

This seems strange for a monastic habit because the Monk has gray fur on the sleeves of his cope. 30) The Monk wears a gold pin on his habit. The gold pin with a love knot at the end of the hood is strange because it indicates that he is not religious because instead of the gold pin, he should have a rosary. The Friar pg 149