Stealing Obedience

Author : Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442662582

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Stealing Obedience by Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe Pdf

Narratives of monastic life in Anglo-Saxon England depict individuals as responsible agents in the assumption and performance of religious identities. To modern eyes, however, many of the ‘choices’ they make would actually appear to be compulsory. Stealing Obedience explores how a Christian notion of agent action – where freedom incurs responsibility – was a component of identity in the last hundred years of Anglo-Saxon England, and investigates where agency (in the modern sense) might be sought in these narratives. Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe looks at Benedictine monasticism through the writings of Ælfric, Anselm, Osbern of Canterbury, and Goscelin of Saint-Bertin, as well as liturgy, canon and civil law, chronicle, dialogue, and hagiography, to analyse the practice of obedience in the monastic context. Stealing Obedience brings a highly original approach to the study of Anglo-Saxon narratives of obedience in the adoption of religious identity.

Author : Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780802097071

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Stealing Obedience by Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe Pdf

Explores how a Christian notion of freedom incurring responsibility was a component of identity, examining secular writings, liturgy, canon and civil law, chronicle, dialogue, and hagiography to analyze the practice of obedience in the monastic context.

Author : Mark Atherton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786731548

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The Making of England by Mark Atherton Pdf

During the tenth century England began to emerge as a distinct country with an identity that was both part of yet separate from 'Christendom'. The reigns of Athelstan, Edgar and Ethelred witnessed the emergence of many key institutions: the formation of towns on modern street plans; an efficient administration; and a serviceable system of tax. Mark Atherton here shows how the stories, legends, biographies and chronicles of Anglo-Saxon England reflected both this exciting time of innovation as well as the myriad lives, loves and hates of the people who wrote them. He demonstrates, too, that this was a nation coming of age, ahead of its time in its use not of the Book-Latin used elsewhere in Europe, but of a narrative Old English prose devised for law and practical governance of the nation-state, for prayer and preaching, and above all for exploring a rich and daring new literature. This prose was unique, but until now it has been neglected for the poetry. Bringing a volatile age to vivid and muscular life, Atherton argues that it was the vernacular of Alfred the Great, as much as Viking war, that truly forged the nation.

Author : Wolfgang Musculus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1258 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1563
Category : Bible
ISBN : UCD:31175035144628

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Common Places of Christian Religion by Wolfgang Musculus Pdf

Author : Alice Jorgensen,Frances McCormack,Jonathan Wilcox
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317180883

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Anglo-Saxon Emotions by Alice Jorgensen,Frances McCormack,Jonathan Wilcox Pdf

Research into the emotions is beginning to gain momentum in Anglo-Saxon studies. In order to integrate early medieval Britain into the wider scholarly research into the history of emotions (a major theme in other fields and a key field in interdisciplinary studies), this volume brings together established scholars, who have already made significant contributions to the study of Anglo-Saxon mental and emotional life, with younger scholars. The volume presents a tight focus - on emotion (rather than psychological life more generally), on Anglo-Saxon England and on language and literature - with contrasting approaches that will open up debate. The volume considers a range of methodologies and theoretical perspectives, examines the interplay of emotion and textuality, explores how emotion is conveyed through gesture, interrogates emotions in religious devotional literature, and considers the place of emotion in heroic culture. Each chapter asks questions about what is culturally distinctive about emotion in Anglo-Saxon England and what interpretative moves have to be made to read emotion in Old English texts, as well as considering how ideas about and representations of emotion might relate to lived experience. Taken together the essays in this collection indicate the current state of the field and preview important work to come. By exploring methodologies and materials for the study of Anglo-Saxon emotions, particularly focusing on Old English language and literature, it will both stimulate further study within the discipline and make a distinctive contribution to the wider interdisciplinary conversation about emotions.

Author : Wilfrid Rumble
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2004-12-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781847141446

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Doing Austin Justice by Wilfrid Rumble Pdf

Austin was an towering presence in 19th-century English jurisprudence, and many of his ideas remain viable today. They include his conception of analytical jurisprudence, his sharp distinction between law and morality, and his utilitarian theory of resistance to government. Yet he has always had his critics and they have become ever shriller in the last 50 years. If it is not a requirement of political correctness to belittle his ideas, the tendency to do so is widespread. Critics often dismiss Austin with a wave of the hand, or reduce his jurisprudence to a few of his ideas, such as his conception of law as a command or his notion of a legally unlimited sovereign. Whatever approach is taken, Austin's doctrines tend to be abstracted from their historical context and vastly oversimplified. For example, the utilitarian ethical theories that he expounded in three of the six chapters of the only book that he published in his lifetime are usually ignored. Accordingly, there has been a failure to recognize the complexity and inner tensions of his legal philosophy. There is not one John Austin, but at least half-a-dozen. Nothing makes this clearer than the diverse responses to his work in the 19th century. Wilfrid E. Rumble's study thus fills a large gap in the literature about this important figure. It will be of substantial interest not only to historians of ideas, law, and the 19th century, but also to jurists, legal philosophers, and political theorists.

Author : Jennifer A. Lorden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009390316

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Forms of Devotion in Early English Poetry by Jennifer A. Lorden Pdf

Firmly establishes the importance of early affective devotion in the hybrid poetics of the earliest English poetry.

Author : Æthelwold
Publisher : Liturgical Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780879074982

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The Old English Rule of Saint Benedict by Æthelwold Pdf

Awarded 2019 Best Edition or Translation of an Anglo-Saxon (or Anglo-Latin) Text by the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists St. Æthelwold (904/9 –984), abbot of Abingdon and bishop of Winchester, made the first translation of the Rule of Saint Benedict into English (or, indeed, into any vernacular language) as part of the tenth-century English Benedictine Reform. This movement dramatically affected the trajectory of religious life in early medieval England and influenced the ways in which secular power was conceived and wielded in the kingdom. Æthelwold's translation into Old English reworks Benedict’s Latin text through numerous silent additions, omissions, and instances of explanatory material, revealing an Anglo-Saxon ecclesiastical and political reformer intent on making this foundational Latin text more readily accessible to the new monks and nuns of the Reform and to the laity. Presented with related texts composed in Old English, this volume makes Æthelwold’s transformation of Benedict’s Rule available in Modern English translation for the first time.

Author : Hans Tossutti
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-31
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781473390065

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Companion Dog Training - A Practical Manual On Systematic Obedience; Dog Training In World And Picture by Hans Tossutti Pdf

“Successful training is possible only in the presence of perfect understanding between trainer and his dog.” This vintage guide provides 12 Lessons in how to train your dog including sitting, walking on a leash, and responding to signals. It contains all you need to know to raise and obedient dog for all the family to enjoy. Contents include: Psychology of Dog Training, What Equipment Do We Need, Praise and Punishment, Puppy Education, Obedience, Heeling on Leash, Right, Left, and About Turn, Sit, Lying Down, Staying Sit and Down Position, Finish, Come When Called, Heeling Free, Stopping in His Tracks When Signalled, Jumping, Long or Broad Jump, Retrieving, Preparation for Obedience Tests, A Preface to Trailing, Trailing or Tracking, Correction of Habits, Attack and Protection, Courier and Message Carrier Dogs, Red Cross or Casualty Dogs, Standard for Obedience Trials. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing many of these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Author : Jon R. Stock,Tim Otto,Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2006-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781597529907

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Inhabiting the Church by Jon R. Stock,Tim Otto,Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove Pdf

If the church is more than just a building, what could it mean to live in it--to inhabit it as a way of life? From their location in new monastic communities, Otto, Stock, and Wilson-Hartgrove ask what the church can learn from St. Benedict's vows of conversion, obedience, and stability about how to live as the people of God in the world. In story-telling and serious engagement with Scripture, old wisdom breathes life into a new monasticism. But, like all monastic wisdom, these reflections are not just for monks. They speak directly to the challenge of being the church in America today and the good news Christ offers for the whole world.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 910 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1851
Category : Justices of the peace
ISBN : STANFORD:36105060101859

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Justice of the Peace by Anonim Pdf

Author : Tiffany Beechy
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780268205140

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Aesthetics and the Incarnation in Early Medieval Britain by Tiffany Beechy Pdf

This rich study takes Insular art on its own terms, revealing a distinctive and unorthodox theology that will inevitably change how scholars view the long arc of English piety and the English literary tradition. Drawing on a wide range of critical methodologies, Aesthetics and the Incarnation in Early Medieval Britain treats this era as a “contact zone” of cultural clash and exchange, where Christianity encountered a rich amalgam of practices and attitudes, particularly regarding the sensible realm. Tiffany Beechy illustrates how local cultures, including the Irish learned tradition, received the “Word that was made flesh,” the central figure of Christian doctrine, in distinctive ways: the Word, for example, was verbal, related to words and signs, and was not at all ineffable. Likewise, the Word was often poetic—an enigma—and its powerful presence was not only hinted at (as St. Augustine would have it) but manifest in the mouth or on the page. Beechy examines how these Insular traditions received and expressed a distinctly iterable Incarnation. Often disavowed and condemned by orthodox authorities, this was in large part an implicit theology, expressed or embodied in form (such as art, compilation, or metaphor) rather than in treatises. Beechy demonstrates how these forms drew on various authorities especially important to Britain—Bede, Gregory the Great, and Isidore most prominent among them. Beechy’s study provides a prehistory in the English literary tradition for the better-known experimental poetics of Middle English devotion. The book is unusual in the diversity of its primary material, which includes visual art, including the Book of Kells; obscure and often cursorily treated texts such as Adamnán’s De locis sanctis (“On the holy lands”); and the difficult esoterica of the wisdom tradition.

Author : Rachel Stenner,Kaley Kramer,Adam James Smith
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030880552

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Print Culture, Agency, and Regionality in the Hand Press Period by Rachel Stenner,Kaley Kramer,Adam James Smith Pdf

Print Culture, Agency, and Regionality in the Hand Press Period illuminates the diverse ways that people in the British regional print trades exerted their agency through interventions in regional and national politics as well as their civic, commercial, and cultural contributions. Works printed in regional communities were a crucial part of developing narratives of local industrial, technological, and ideological progression. By moving away from understanding of print cultures outside of London as ‘provincial’, however, this book argues for a new understanding of ‘region’ as part of a network of places, emphasising opportunities for collaboration and creation that demonstrate the key role of regions within larger communities extending from the nation to the emerging sense of globality in this period. Through investigations of the men and women of the print trades outside of London, this collection casts new light on the strategies of self-representation evident in the work of regional print cultures, as well as their contributions to individual regional identities and national narratives.

Author : Rhonda L McDaniel
Publisher : Medieval Institute Publications
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781580443104

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The Third Gender and Aelfric's Lives of Saints by Rhonda L McDaniel Pdf

In The Third Gender, McDaniel addresses the idea of the "third gender" in early hagiography and Latin treatises on virginity and then examines Aelfric's treatment of gender in his translations of Latin monastic Lives for his non-monastic audiences. She first investigates patristic ideas about a "third gender" by describing this concept within the theoretical frameworks of monasticism and then turns to creating a historical and theological cultural context within which to locate an interpretation of Aelfric's portrayals of male and female saints.

Author : Kathryn Maude
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Women
ISBN : 9781843845966

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Addressing Women in Early Medieval Religious Texts by Kathryn Maude Pdf

An investigation into texts specifically addressed to women sheds new light on female literary cultures.