Religious history

Religious history

Imagining Zoroaster’s Domestic Life

How did medieval Zoroastrians imagine the family of Zoroaster, the founding figure of their religion?

Kiyan Foroutan • 08-01-2021

Cultural History · Art History · Manuscript Studies · Religious history · Music

Persian roots of Puccini’s opera Turandot

What is the place on earth that saw the sun only once? What is it that all beings have, human beings, angels, fairies, demons, anything that grazes and flies, heaven and earth, anything that God has created? How did a Persian story grow to a world opera?

Asghar Seyed Gohrab • 29-11-2019

Cultural History · Literature · Religious history

Hoe kwam Mozes aan zijn spraakgebrek? Legenden en verklaringen in Oudfranse Bijbelvertalingen

Oudfranse Bijbels, net als anderstalige middeleeuwse vertalingen van de Latijnse Bijbel in de volkstaal, volgen meestal wel de Bijbeltekst, maar proberen zoveel mogelijk onduidelijkheden te verklaren of de tekst te verlevendigen.

Julia Szirmai • 31-07-2019

Cultural History · Manuscript Studies · Religious history

Coming out of the cave: monks in society in seventh and eighth century Egypt

Starvation, solitude and saintliness. These are not the first words that come to mind when looking at the lives of Egyptian monks in the seventh and eighth century. At least, not when you look at their letters and documents on papyrus and potsherds.

Eline Scheerlinck • 28-06-2019

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Imagining Zoroaster’s Domestic Life

Persian roots of Puccini’s opera Turandot

Hoe kwam Mozes aan zijn spraakgebrek? Legenden en verklaringen in Oudfranse Bijbelvertalingen

Coming out of the cave: monks in society in seventh and eighth century Egypt