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The emergence of nuns as members or associates or followers of the Cistercian Order is shrouded in uncertainty. They are not mentioned in the earliest document of the White Monks, the Exordium Parvum, compiled by perhaps 1150, nor in the first codification of Cistercian statutes in 1202. Yet, by the year 1200, in France alone some one hundred nunneries claimed to be Cistercian. From the early to mid-thirteenth century there was to be a rapid g...

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¿¿ In the first section of this fascinating study, 'Cistercian Chronicles and the Events of Nature', David Williams reveals the wealth of information to be gleaned from medieval and later Cistercian chronicles on the effects felt from earthquakes, floods, drought, extreme temperatures, pestilence and plague, as well as the impact of eclipses and comets, on the monks themselves and on the wider population. The second section of the book provide...

This new and updated edition of The Lawyer's Guide to Strategic Practice Management provides law firm leaders with the very latest guidance and market knowledge on how to improve and refine current management strategies in order to thrive and compete in today's legal marketplace.

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Excerpt from The North American Review, 1843, Vol. 56We apprehend that it might be found ou examination, that the houses and places in which the gratification of taste was least thought of, are those which make the happiest impres sion upon the eye. If the artist would draw an American landscape, he rejoices not in the tall mansion, with its Grecian facade, and its kitchen after the manner of a tail in the rear, but rather in the steep-roofed ...

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The first book designed specifically for hospitalists and other hospital-based staff who need concise, evidence-based guidance on the vital topic of caring for older hospitalized patients Hospitalists' Guide to the Care of Older Patients is an up-to-date, practical reference in geriatric medicine for hospitalists, as well as other physicians and nurses working in the hospital setting. The book uses numerous tables, figures, and images to high...

David H. Williams portrays every aspect of the life of the Cistercian monks and nuns of England and Wales in the half-century prior to the complete extinction of the religious orders. Until the closing years vocations remained fairly stable, and it is evident that despite occasional lapses from the high moral standards the Order expected, their calling was paramount to many of those who chose this path. This book examines in great detail, and ...

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Excerpt from The North American Review, 1843, Vol. 56We apprehend that it might be found ou examination, that the houses and places in which the gratification of taste was least thought of, are those which make the happiest impres sion upon the eye. If the artist would draw an American landscape, he rejoices not in the tall mansion, with its Grecian facade, and its kitchen after the manner of a tail in the rear, but rather in the steep-roofed ...