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Nocturns. Opening verse of matins. Nocturns (Latin: nocturni or nocturna) is a Christian canonical hour said in the nighttime. In the liturgy of the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church, nocturns refer to the sections into which the canonical hour of matins was divided from the fourth or fifth century until after the Second Vatican Council. [1][2 ...
Nocturnal Revels title page. Nocturnal Revels is a 1779 two-volume book about prostitution in 18th-century London during the reign of George II.. The title page introduces the book as "the history of King's-Place and other modern nunneries", with authorship by a "monk of the Order of St Francis", and "containing their [the nunneries'] mysteries, devotions and sacrifices, comprising also, the ...
Colin Pittendrigh. Colin Stephenson Pittendrigh (October 13, 1918 – March 19, 1996) [1] was a British-born biologist who spent most of his adult life in the United States. Pittendrigh is regarded as the "father of the biological clock," and founded the modern field of chronobiology alongside Jürgen Aschoff and Erwin Bünning.
v. t. e. Epinomis (Greek: Ἐπινομίς, or On the Laws) is the final dialogue in the Platonic corpus, a follow-on conversation among the interlocutors of Laws – a twelve-book exploration of the best way to structure a polis. The participants in the conversation were Clinias of Crete, Megillus of Sparta, and an unnamed Athenian.
Konstantinos is the name of a practicing occultist and neopagan and the author of seven spiritual and occult books on nocturnal witchcraft, all published by Llewellyn Worldwide. In a 2002 interview [1] he mentioned additional plans for an Occult Truth series which was to begin with Vampires: The Occult Truth, with the following book being ...
The Night Battles. The Night Battles: Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries is a historical study of the benandanti folk custom of 16th and 17th century Friuli, Northeastern Italy. It was written by the Italian historian Carlo Ginzburg, then of the University of Bologna, and first published by the company ...
Since the death of the historical Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama, Buddhist monastic communities ("sangha") have periodically convened to settle doctrinal and disciplinary disputes and to revise and correct the contents of the Buddhist canons. These gatherings are often termed Buddhist "councils" (Pāli and Sanskrit: saṅgīti, literally meaning ...
Cathemerality, sometimes called "metaturnality", is an organismal activity pattern of irregular intervals during the day or night in which food is acquired, socializing with other organisms occurs, and any other activities necessary for livelihood are undertaken. [1] This activity differs from the generally monophasic pattern (sleeping once per ...