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Encyclopedia > Werner Rolevinck

Werner Rolevinck (1425-1502) was a Carthusian monk and wrote important chronicles on the history of westphalia and the world. He was born near Laer and later lived in cologne A Carthusian Monastery in Jerez, Spain The Carthusians are a Christian religious order founded by St Bruno in 1084. ... A Roman Catholic monk A monk is a person who practices monasticism, adopting a strict religious and ascetic lifestyle, usually in community with others following the same path. ... History is a term for information about the past. ... Westphalia (in German, Westfalen) is a (historic) region in Germany, centred on the cities of Dortmund, Münster, Bielefeld, and Osnabrück and now included in the Bundesland of North Rhine-Westphalia (and the (south-)west of Lower Saxony). ... The World in Plate Carrée Projection The World (XXI) is a Major Arcana card in Tarot In English, world is rooted in a compound of the obsolete words were, man, and eld, age; thus, its oldest meaning is Age of Man. ... Laer is a district of the city of Bochum in the Ruhr area in North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany. ... Map of Germany showing Cologne Cologne skyline at night. ...


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Vita (1179 words)
"Werner Rolevinck and the Fasciculus Temporum," in Medieval to Early Culture 2: Normative Centering.
"Werner Rolevinck's Fasciculus Temporum: A Carthusian View of the Holy Roman Empire." Die Kartäuser Und Das Heilige Römische Reich: Festsaal des Bezirksklinikums in der Kartause Prüll, Regensburg, Germany, Fall 1997.
"Werner Rolevinck and the Fasciculus Temporum: Carthusian Historiography in the Late Middle Ages." Normative Zentrierung in Herrschaftsausübung Kirchenreform und Kultureller Organisation, Netherlands Research School for Medieval Studies and Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster.
libri europae (988 words)
Dans ce dernier traité, Rolevinck défendit des idées conservatrices, en accord avec les structures de pouvoir existantes, tout en soulignant la nécessité du maintien de la paix sociale.
En plus, Rolevinck fait référence à la notion des six âges du monde, fort répandue dans les chroniques universelles du moyen âge à cause de son importance pour l'histoire sacrée.
Ein Beitrag zur Lebensgeschichte Werner Rolevincks und zum Erscheinungsjahr seines Westfalenbuches, in: Westfälische Zeitschrift 130, 1980, p.
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