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This led, Silberman suggests, to "movements of desperation where people harked back to a purity of faith and looked for signs of messianic redemption." The city's dominant religious authorities, skewered in the Gospels, were the Sadducees, who made up most of the Temple elite, and the Pharisees, respected for...
"I know his work very well," Loeb Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology David G. Mitten said. "He's probably the leading scholar in Western medieval art. His books on all kinds of things, especially medieval art and female monastic communities, have been groundbreaking works."
During the first Baccalaureate sermons, monastic devotion was expected of a candidate while he "sat with bowed head over which his hood was drawn, a picture of abject humility and utter embarrassment," according to Cambridge's 13th-century statutes as quoted by Gomes in the Baccalaureate service's program.
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Spyridon first alarmed his flock in early 1997, when one of his appointees reassigned seminary staff members who had recommended expelling a priest involved in a homosexual-harassment complaint. Critics claim Spyridon wanted to hush the case up. They also said he was traditionalist and high-handed, espousing monastic beards...