St. Francis and the Inner Gold: An Alchemical Vision of Christian Transformation
Saint Francis, an alchemist only in a symbolic sense: his life speaks of transformation
I'm writing from Rimini, in Romagna. Here, as comedian Giacobazzi would say, every Romagnolo has a few basic things...
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A beer while you were painting a Gospel?
THE GOSPEL OF SAINT FRANCIS
The Lectiones evangeliorum Clm 21597, a manuscript from 1462 born in Weihenstephan
The Gospel of St. Francis: a manuscript born where beer was also made
Imagine a Benedictine monk hunched...
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Gero Codex: History of the Ottonian Manuscript between Reichenau, Empire, and Faith
Reichenau Abbey: The Scriptorium That Transformed Books into Power
There are manuscripts that not only tell the story of the text they contain, but also the world that produced them.
The Gero Codex, also...
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