Les actes des évêques d’Avranches, ca. 990-1253 : esquisse d’un premier bilan by Richard Allen

“…Of course, the history of the diocese of Avranches, which was the smallest as well as the poorest of the ecclesiastical province of Rouen, is marked by some of the greatest misfortunes to befall the duchy’s patrimony (the collapse of the cathedral, the destruction of the archives of Saint-Lô), but enough material does survive to allow not only for an insight into one of the lesser-known episcopal chanceries of Normandy, but also for the opportunity to better understand numerous historical, diplomatic, archaeological, prosopographical and topographical facts.…”
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The Establishment and Development of Muftiates in Tsarist Russia by Alper Alp

“…Factors which influenced foundation process of Orenburg Ecclesiastical Assembly, Crimean Muftiate, Southern Caucasia Sunnite and Shiite Muftiates, their duties and authorities were put forward. …”
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At the origins of the Jesuit presence in Sardinia by Roberto Ibba

“…The appropriation of ecclesiastical rents by the Company creates considerable tension with the parish priests of the community, who feel that they are impoverished and penalised. …”
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Monges e mosteiros galegos em Portugal (séculos XII-XV) by Francisco Javier Pérez Rodríguez

“…The policy of Portuguese monarchs regarding such property is also analysed while paying particular attention to political relations between Portuguese and Spanish kings. The ecclesiastical relations between Galician monasteries and the neighbouring kingdom are also subject of study: basically, the existing data at the archbishop's see of Braga –metropolitan see up to the Western Schism – and the pontifical authorization granted to Galician abbots to intervene in Portuguese affairs. …”
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L’incontinence de la chair by Julien Théry

“…The norms of Christian life and clerical authority were imposed in depth in Western societies from the thirteenth century onward, a time of a pastoral revolution, whose development was conditioned by the establishment of unprecedented papal control over members of the high ecclesiastical hierarchy. The exercise of this control notably took the singular form of frequent investigative procedures against prelates who were accused of various « excesses » or « enormities », among which breaches of chastity, grouped under the name « incontinence of the flesh », were very frequently associated with faults in spiritual and temporal government. …”
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Les rivalités entre les factions de pouvoir du régime franquiste, vues sous le prisme de la politique censoriale by Anne Laure Feuillastre

“…The censorial policy evolved according to the personality in charge of the Ministry: Manuel Fraga Iribarne, Minister between 1962 and 1969, tried to lead a political opening up but was confronted with the immobilist sector embodied by ecclesiastical authorities and technocrats. Using some concrete examples of official documents, plays and censorship archives, this work aims to highlight the infightings for power.…”
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Quelques cas de séparation pour adultère masculin entre xvie et xviie siècles : arguments et enjeux by Claire Chatelain, Raphaëlle Lapôtre, Camille Noûs

“…Based on case studies centered on couples' requests for separation by the judicial means of male adultery or cohabitation in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, this article compares two types of competent jurisdictions for this charge, one secular and royal, the other ecclesiastical ; and two types of procedures, one accusatory and the other inquisitorial. …”
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Les actes de waqf des manuscrits arabes chrétiens de la Bibliothèque nationale de France by Gérard Troupeau

“…The author studies around 15 documents preserved in the National Library of France (BNF) ; these manuscripts, which were bequeathed to a church or a monastery, belong to Christian Arabs who established them as waqf After having translated the entire text of these documents, highlighting various elements within them, the author emphasises their interest for the study of geography as well as ecclesiastical history thanks to the informations given in these manuscripts about the founders of different waqf-s and their beneficiaries.…”
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Historia cantada. La organización campesina en Formosa en la década del sesenta by Cristian Eduardo  Vazquez

“…The article is structured upon the premise that the song was an important device used by the different ecclesiastical and governmental institutions present in the provincial rural environment. …”
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Réseaux catholiques féminins. Une perspective de genre sur une mobilisation transnationale. by Magali Della Sudda

“…The main source material comes from the rich documentation of the Vatican's Secret Archives, namely, for the period under consideration, the extraordinary ecclesiastical affairs collection, that the Secretary of State and that of the Nunciature in France. …”
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Teologiese aantekeninge by die Jubileum van "Ons Theologische Seminarium" op Stellenbosch by R. M. Britz

“…A careful assessment of the contemporary Dutch Reformed theological and ecclesiastical journals reveals theintroduction of the critical theological views of what Bebbington described as the “Liberal Evangelicals.” …”
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Les grèves d’étudiants au quartier latin au temps de François Villon by Sophie Brouquet

“…This spirit was coupled with real independence, dearly acquired against the municipal, ecclesiastical, and royal authorities. The history of the University of Paris is made up of these more or less long, more or less violent conflicts which agitated teachers and students. …”
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Gemeentediakonaat as plaasvervanger vir staatsondersteunde sinodale barmhartigheidsdiens in die Ned. Geref. Kerk by André Oosthuizen, Piet Strauss

“…Various people and synods reflected on the deformation phenomenon in the ecclesiastical deaconate and propagated a "deaconal reformation". …”
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Le rôle des monastères dans le droit pénal et religieux : la pratique de la pénitence dans la Russie du xviiie siècle by Elena Marasinova

“…These documents allow us to draw the preliminary conclusion of a gradual humanisation of punishments in Russia in the second half of the eighteenth century and the introduction of religious practices into criminal sentencing, with a parallel reduction in the scope of ecclesiastical jurisdiction.…”
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"In saeculo et ex saeculo". Characteristics of the secular institutes by Andrea  Michl

“…For this reason, there are also only a few canonical and ecclesiastical documents. Since the characteristics of secular institutes, in contrast to traditional monastic communities, are rather unknown, this article aims to contribute to making them somewhat better known and to present the regulations on various elements, such as spirituality, community life, governance and asset management. …”
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Feminist Theology and Christian Ministry by John Stephanus Klaasen

“… Christian ministry in Catholic, traditional Protestant and Anglican churches is based on the hierarchical and patriarchal ecclesiastical models that separate male and female. Such division gives rise to antagonisms and dualisms which inform the ministry of the church. …”
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Umori preriformistici in un umanista meridionale: Antonio Galateo by Domenico Defilippis

“…In the production of Anthonio De Ferrariis Galateo, academic pontaniano, is possible to individualize a precise position of the author towards the religion and the ecclesiastical apparatuses. In the exposure of the Pater noster, in the Hermit, in the De situ Iapygiae and in the epistolario, the most known humanist in Puglia shows to slant for a religiousness that he am respectful extremely of the dictated evangelical and he openly condemns the behaviors of the tall hierarchies of the Church, since they seem disattendere the message of the Christ. …”
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Dans la solitude des autres : pour une histoire sociale et politique du concept de solitudo au Moyen Âge by Gabriel Castanho

“…The following step of our research will propose a comparison between the meanings used in various types of documents, what will reveal a process of monopolization and ecclesiastical regulation of isolation. Finally, two major conclusions will be imperative : 1) the medieval solitude aims at balancing, between utopia and ideology, the antisocial tensions around the religious desire of abandonment of the world ; 2) the importance of the concept of solitude for the political history itself.…”
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Faire connaissance avec une mulier religiosa dans les Pays-Bas méridionaux du xiiie siècle by Anne-Laure Méril-Bellini delle Stelle

“…Identifying the canvas allows indeed to better understand their place and role among their contemporaries, or at least those that the ecclesiastical reformers would see them assume. Thus, behind the topoi of the reputation of holiness and the divine intercession exerted through them, a range of social practices and of specific relationship emerge as a watermark of these scenes.…”
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THE GENEVAN PSALMS (1562) IN THE HUNGARIAN CHORAL LITERATURE by Éva PÉTER

“… At the middle of the 20th century in a time of the upturn of the general musical culture Hungarian composers having experience with ecclesiastical music created adaptations of various levels of difficulty for the tunes of the Genevan psalms. …”
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