Epic Lives And Monasticism In The Middle Ages 800 1050

Author : Anna Lisa Taylor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781107030503

Get Book

Epic Lives and Monasticism in the Middle Ages, 800-1050 by Anna Lisa Taylor Pdf

This is the first book to focus on Latin epic verse saints' lives in their medieval historical contexts. Anna Taylor examines how these works promoted bonds of friendship and expressed rivalries among writers, monasteries, saints, earthly patrons, teachers, and students in Western Europe in the central middle ages. Using philological, codicological, and microhistorical approaches, Professor Taylor reveals new insights that will reshape our understanding of monasticism, patronage, and education. These texts give historians an unprecedented glimpse inside the early medieval classroom, provide a nuanced view of the complicated synthesis of the Christian and Classical heritages, and show the cultural importance and varied functions of poetic composition in the ninth, tenth, and eleventh centuries.

Author : Anna Lisa Taylor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107244979

Get Book

Epic Lives and Monasticism in the Middle Ages, 800–1050 by Anna Lisa Taylor Pdf

This is the first book to focus on Latin epic verse saints' lives in their medieval historical contexts. Anna Taylor examines how these works promoted bonds of friendship and expressed rivalries among writers, monasteries, saints, earthly patrons, teachers and students in Western Europe in the central Middle Ages. Using philological, codicological and microhistorical approaches, Professor Taylor reveals new insights that will reshape our understanding of monasticism, patronage and education. These texts give historians an unprecedented glimpse inside the early medieval classroom, provide a nuanced view of the complicated synthesis of the Christian and Classical heritages, and show the cultural importance and varied functions of poetic composition in the ninth, tenth and eleventh centuries.

Author : Bernice M. Kaczynski
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780191003950

Get Book

The Oxford Handbook of Christian Monasticism by Bernice M. Kaczynski Pdf

The Handbook takes as its subject the complex phenomenon of Christian monasticism. It addresses, for the first time in one volume, the multiple strands of Christian monastic practice. Forty-four essays consider historical and thematic aspects of the Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Protestant, and Anglican traditions, as well as contemporary 'new monasticism'. The essays in the book span a period of nearly two thousand years—from late ancient times, through the medieval and early modern eras, on to the present day. Taken together, they offer, not a narrative survey, but rather a map of the vast terrain. The intention of the Handbook is to provide a balance of some essential historical coverage with a representative sample of current thinking on monasticism. It presents the work of both academic and monastic authors, and the essays are best understood as a series of loosely-linked episodes, forming a long chain of enquiry, and allowing for various points of view. The authors are a diverse and international group, who bring a wide range of critical perspectives to bear on pertinent themes and issues. They indicate developing trends in their areas of specialisation. The individual contributions, and the volume as a whole, set out an agenda for the future direction of monastic studies. In today's world, where there is increasing interest in all world monasticisms, where scholars are adopting more capacious, global approaches to their investigations, and where monks and nuns are casting a fresh eye on their ancient traditions, this publication is especially timely.

Author : Albrecht Classen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 652 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9783111190228

Get Book

Globalism in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age by Albrecht Classen Pdf

Although it is fashionable among modernists to claim that globalism emerged only since ca. 1800, the opposite can well be documented through careful comparative and transdisciplinary studies, as this volume demonstrates, offering a wide range of innovative perspectives on often neglected literary, philosophical, historical, or medical documents. Texts, images, ideas, knowledge, and objects migrated throughout the world already in the pre-modern world, even if the quantitative level compared to the modern world might have been different. In fact, by means of translations and trade, for instance, global connections were established and maintained over the centuries. Archetypal motifs developed in many literatures indicate how much pre-modern people actually shared. But we also discover hard-core facts of global economic exchange, import of exotic medicine, and, on another level, intensive intellectual debates on religious issues. Literary evidence serves best to expose the extent to which contacts with people in foreign countries were imaginable, often desirable, and at times feared, of course. The pre-modern world was much more on the move and reached out to distant lands out of curiosity, economic interests, and political and military concerns. Diplomats crisscrossed the continents, and artists, poets, and craftsmen traveled widely. We can identify, for instance, both the Vikings and the Arabs as global players long before the rise of modern globalism, so this volume promises to rewrite many of our traditional notions about pre-modern worldviews, economic conditions, and the literary sharing on a global level, as perhaps best expressed by the genre of the fable.

Author : Michele Campopiano,Henry Bainton
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9781903153734

Get Book

Universal Chronicles in the High Middle Ages by Michele Campopiano,Henry Bainton Pdf

New perspectives on and interpretations of the popular medieval genre of the universal chronicle.

Author : John Higgins
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2024-03-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501515590

Get Book

Hiberno-Latin Saints’ ‘Lives’ in the Seventh Century by John Higgins Pdf

As part of the historicizing corpus of seventh-century Irish writing, the Lives framed the narrative of the early saints as an effective weapon in contemporary political and ecclesiastical conflicts. Cogitosus’s Life of Brigit, Muirchú’s and Tírechán’s accounts of Saint Patrick, and Adomnán’s Life of Columba created the understanding of the history of early Ireland that has endured to this day. How did the writers accomplish this through their literary choices? The authors of Irish saints’ Lives used the literary form of hagiography (Christian biography), miracle stories, and an elaborate rhetorical style to present the words and actions of their subjects. These Lives created a narrative of early Irish history that supported the political/ecclesiastical elites by showing that their power derived from the actions of their patron saints.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780192659132

Get Book

by Anonim Pdf

Author : Gert Melville
Publisher : Liturgical Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780879074999

Get Book

The World of Medieval Monasticism by Gert Melville Pdf

This book surveys the full panorama of ten centuries of Christian monastic life. It moves from the deserts of Egypt and the Frankish monasteries of early medieval Europe to the religious ruptures of the eleventh and twelfth centuries and the reforms of the later Middle Ages. Throughout that story the book balances a rich sense of detail with a broader synthetic view. It presents the history of religious life and its orders as a complex braid woven from multiple strands: individual and community, spirit and institution, rule and custom, church and world. The result is a synthesis that places religious life at the center of European history and presents its institutions as key catalysts of Europe’s move toward modernity.

Author : Matthew Bryan Gillis
Publisher : Trivent Publishing
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9786156405210

Get Book

Religious Horror and Holy War in Viking Age Francia by Matthew Bryan Gillis Pdf

Religious Horror and Holy War in Viking Age Francia explores how authorities in western Francia used horror rhetoric to cast Christian soldiers, who robbed the poor and the church, as monsters that devoured human flesh and drank human blood. Adapting modern literary horror approaches to medieval sources, this study reveals how such rhetoric served as a form of spiritual weaponry in the clergy's attempts to correct and condemn wayward military men. This investigation, therefore, unearths long-forgotten Carolingian thought about the dreadful spiritual reality of internal enemies during a time of political division and the Northmens depredations. Yet such horror also informed a new understanding of Christian heroism that developed in relation to the wars fought against the invaders. This vision of heroic soldiers, which included military martyrs, culminated in ideas about holy war against the pagans. Thus Carolingian religious horror and holy war together belonged to a body of ideas about the spiritual, unseen side of the church's cosmic conflict against evil that foreshadowed later medieval Crusading thought.

Author : Rosalind Brown-Grant,Patrizia Carmassi,Gisela Drossbach,Anne D. Hedeman,Victoria Turner,Iolanda Ventura
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501513329

Get Book

Inscribing Knowledge in the Medieval Book by Rosalind Brown-Grant,Patrizia Carmassi,Gisela Drossbach,Anne D. Hedeman,Victoria Turner,Iolanda Ventura Pdf

This collection of essays examines how the paratextual apparatus of medieval manuscripts both inscribes and expresses power relations between the producers and consumers of knowledge in this important period of intellectual history. It seeks to define which paratextual features – annotations, commentaries, corrections, glosses, images, prologues, rubrics, and titles – are common to manuscripts from different branches of medieval knowledge and how they function in any particular discipline. It reveals how these visual expressions of power that organize and compile thought on the written page are consciously applied, negotiated or resisted by authors, scribes, artists, patrons and readers. This collection, which brings together scholars from the history of the book, law, science, medicine, literature, art, philosophy and music, interrogates the role played by paratexts in establishing authority, constructing bodies of knowledge, promoting education, shaping reader response, and preserving or subverting tradition in medieval manuscript culture.

Author : Beatrice Radden Keefe
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004463325

Get Book

The Illustrated Afterlife of Terence’s Comedies (800–1200) by Beatrice Radden Keefe Pdf

This is a book about Roman comedy, ancient theatre imagery, and seven medieval illustrated manuscripts of Terence’s six Latin comedies. These manuscript illustrations, made between 800 and 1200, enabled their medieval readers to view these comedies as “mirrors of life”.

Author : C.H. Lawrence
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317877318

Get Book

Medieval Monasticism by C.H. Lawrence Pdf

Hugh Lawrence's book ranges right across Europe and the Middle East as well as reconstructing the internal life, experience and aims of the medieval cloister, he also explores the many-sided relationships between the monasteries and the secular world from which they drew recruits. This Third Edition contains new thoughts and perspectives throughout.

Author : Courtney M. Booker,Anne A. Latowsky
Publisher : Trivent Publishing
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2023-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9786156405678

Get Book

In This Modern Age by Courtney M. Booker,Anne A. Latowsky Pdf

In This Modern Age: Medieval Studies in Honor of Paul Edward Dutton is a collection of fourteen essays by scholars of the Carolingian era specializing in history, art history, and literature. The volume is divided into five sections, which treat early medieval Latin literary and historiographical culture, images and objects, interpretations of natural phenomena, and the subject of nostalgia. Reflecting Dutton's pathbreaking work, the contributions all evince the great impact of his teaching and erudition over the past thirty years since the publication of his seminal books Carolingian Civilization: A Reader (1993), The Politics of Dreaming in the Carolingian Empire (1994), The Poetry and Paintings of the First Bible of Charles the Bald (with Herbert L. Kessler) (1997), Charlemagne's Courtier: The Complete Einhard (1998), Charlemagne's Mustache: And Other Cultural Clusters of a Dark Age (2004), together with his many influential articles. This body of highly distinctive, stimulating, and evocative scholarship has fundamentally transformed Carolingian studies, inspiring younger scholars to enter the field and encouraging established scholars to develop it in new directions. The essays in this volume individually pay tribute to Dutton in their illumination of diverse aspects of Carolingian intellectual, textual, and visual culture, with its famously idiosyncratic revival of Christian-Roman learning, aesthetics, and ideas. Gathered together, they offer an expression of gratitude for the risks that he took and the generosity that he has always shown.

Author : Richard Fletcher,Johanna Hanink
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-21
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781107159082

Get Book

Creative Lives in Classical Antiquity by Richard Fletcher,Johanna Hanink Pdf

This book examines how the biographical traditions of ancient poets and artists parallel the creative processes of biographers themselves, both within antiquity and beyond. Each chapter explores a range of biographical material that highlights the complexity of how readers and viewers imagine the lives of ancient creator-figures.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004681088

Get Book

Rethinking Reform in the Latin West, 10th to Early 12th Century by Anonim Pdf

This collection of studies investigates how people of the 10th to early 12th century experienced and represented processes of intentional change in the Church, and what the consequences are of modern scholars’ reliance on ‘reform’ to describe and interpret these processes. In 11 thematic chapters it takes stock of the current state of research and offers suggestions to deepen our understanding of the ideological, institutional, and cultural dynamics at play. Contributors are Julia Barrow, Robert F. Berkhofer III, Gordon Blennemann, Katy Cubitt, Nicolangelo D'Acunto, Anne-Marie Helvétius, Ludger Körntgen, Rutger Kramer, Brigitte Meijns, Diane Reilly, Rachel Stone, and Steven Vanderputten.