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abbey
1 [De] A community of monks or nuns ruled by an abbot or abbess.2 [MC] A general term used to describe the buildings inhabited by a community of monks or nuns. See monastery.
adultery
The way in which religions have played so vital a role in the protection of what would now be recognized as gene-replication and the nurture of children has contributed to ...
advocate, advocacy
From the Merovingian period, rulers granted churches an Immunity that protected them from the management and intervention of royal agents. Following a formula soon stereotyped, the latter were ...
Anglo-Norman
Designating the French language as spoken and written in the British Isles from the Norman Conquest until the 14th cent. It was a western type of French which, transplanted to Britain, developed ...
anticlericalism
The opposition to the secular influence of the Church, usually the Roman Catholic Church. It was a major theme in the domestic politics of several European countries during the late nineteenth ...
Augustine of Hippo, Rule of St
A monastic Rule which exists in three main forms, two for men and one for women; their relationship is disputed. As there is no reference to a rule in St Augustine's Retractationes, his authorship ...
book of Hours
A personal devotional book for the rich medieval laity, containing prayers for each of the eight times of prayer of the daily liturgy. They were often beautifully illuminated. See John Harthan, Books ...
books of hours
*Prayer books for the laity that were popular from c.1250 to c.1550. They contain as their core the sequence of devotions called the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary ...
Bruder Wernher
MHG poet and musician, active c.1217–50.The description Bruder (brother) suggests that he was a religiously inclined layman (see laity) or eventually entered a monastery. Seventy-six of his verses, ...
burial
For Hindus the normal means of corpse disposal is cremation; however, the bodies of children (who have not yet entered on the ritual life) and of saṃnyāsins and other ascetics (who are considered to ...
Byzantine dance
Inherited from antiquity, with many types transmitted with rules for rhythm and mele, usually choreographed to the beats of poetic metres. A common thread can be traced through the tradition ...
canon law
The body of rules or laws developing gradually, imposed by church authority in matters of its own organization and discipline (extending also to matters of belief).
canonization
In the RC Church the definitive sentence by which the Pope declares a particular dead person to have already entered into heavenly glory and ordains for the new ‘saint’ a public cult throughout the ...
Canterbury
A city in Kent, SE England, the seat of the Archbishop of Canterbury. St Augustine established a church and monastery there in 597, and it became a place of medieval pilgrimage, to the shrine of St ...
capitulary
A Carolingian legal document recording administrative procedures or legislation enacted at the annual assembly. Charlemagne issued three types of capitularies: capitula missorum, administrative ...
chalice for the laity
The use of the chalice for the Communion of the Laity in both kinds, attested from the origins of the liturgy of the Roman Church, fell progressively into disuse. With ...
church
The word denotes both a church building and the Christian community, local or universal. The origins of the Church as a sect within 1st-cent. Judaism lie in the Lord's choice of twelve disciples ...
clergy
The body of all people ordained for religious duties, especially in the Christian Church. Recorded from Middle English, the word comes via Old French, based on ecclesiastical Latin clericus ...
clerics
Patristic tradition designated by the Greek term cleros those who, as successors to the Levites of Israel, were devoted to the service of the altar. In the classic period of ...
compactata of Jihlava
The negotiations bearing on a compromise between Czech Catholics and Hussites, on the normalization of their relations with the Church, represented by the council of Basel, and on the rights ...
