Monastery

In the novel Timeline by Michael Crichton the author develops the theme of teamwork using the motif of communication. The team uses their radios to communicate important info, the group uses their earpieces to listen to each other when they are trying to share things, and the team collaborates to make plans, explain info, and get things done quicker and more efficiently. Criton developed the theme of teamwork through the supporting motif of communication by showing the teams using equipment and…

Martin Luther and Ferdinand Magellan are both easily two of the most well known and influential men in history. Yet, both men inspired the world in very different ways. Martin Luther, a devoted German monk, and Ferdinand Magellan, a courageous Portuguese explorer, made changes to the pre-modern world that still make a mark today. Ferdinand Magellan, always remembered as an adventurous navigator, was the first European to cross the Pacific Ocean, circumnavigate the globe, and discover new sea…

It began with noble intentions, though the intentions would be weighed down with a call of duty he was not prepared for. A boy who was more inclined to write poetry and create beautiful things would grow into a man with the same creative aspirations. That boy would one day be known as Pope Gregory I and he had decided early that he would forego the expectations of a politically-driven family that assumed he would become an important public figure. He chose a life of service to the people. The…

They also went unrecognized for quite some time until Metropolitan Archbishop Athanasius Yeshue Samuel, head monastery of St. Mark’s Syrian Orthodox Monastery showed the Dead Sea Scrolls to Eleazar Lup Sukenik. Sukenik was a professor of Archeology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. After Sukenik seen pieces of fragments of the scrolls, he personally took a trip to Bethlehem to…

One of the most interesting things about architecture is how the cultural ideas of a certain time period shape architectural form. Culture reflects the ideals and the entire way of life of a group of people. As cultural ideas change over time, so do the buildings that go with it. While there are broad periods where many cultures had a set of shared beliefs, each region had its own twist on the physical interpretation of those values. Romanesque architecture emerged from a time of religion…

During the dark ages, the belief in witchcraft, commerce and the draconian response by the church to the threat of the Black Death, accelerated and in many ways helped spread the Bubonic Plague. Yersinia Pestis, often referred to as the Black Plague or the Black Death is a bacterial infection found mainly in rodents and their fleas, however, it was the rat fleas that spread the plague to humans, while the rats, simply carried the plague from region to region. Ole Benedictow (2005, para. 33)…

made up of those with clergy. Most mentally ill people in Russia were taken into monasteries until asylums were introduced in the mid-1800s. Mentally ill patients in clergy-run institutions were cared for under humane conditions, even though the whole populations could not be treated, the population grew. Saint Mary of Bethlehem, located in London, England, is the most infamous mental institution. What once was a monastery, started taking the mentally ill, in 1547, after Henry VII announced the…

Galileo Galilei was a famous Italian astronomer, mathematician, physicist, philosopher, author, and professor. He is greatly considered one of the most famous and influential astronomers, mathematicians, and physicists in the history of mankind. Galileo Galilei was born on February 15, 1564, in Pisa, Duchy of Florence, Italy. Galileo’s mother was Giulia Ammannati. His father Vincenzo Galilei was an Italian lutenist, merchant, and composer. Galileo had five siblings: Virgina Galilei,…

A tea from 2150 years ago was found in the Han Yang Lin Mausoleum. It was a tomb built for the Emperor Jing Di the fourth emperor of the Western Han Dynasty, near the city of Xi’an in China.The tomb was discovered by the monks of the Gurgyam monastery in 2005 and a systematic excavation was made in 2012. The tomb was buried under a river, with a square wooden coffin and a preserved skeleton. Other Artifacts were also found such as silk pieces, ceramics, pottery figures, ceramic animals, wooden…

Monasteries are fill with those who are a scandal to them. Letting Abelard know that she is aware of how the church works and that she is not completely a follower of those ideas. Regardless of their love at the end of the story Abelard and Heloise look for…