The Crucified God In The Carolingian Era

Author : Celia Chazelle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2001-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 0521801036

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The Crucified God in the Carolingian Era by Celia Chazelle Pdf

The Carolingian 'Renaissance' of the late eighth and ninth centuries, in what is now France, western Germany and northern Italy, transformed medieval European culture. At the same time it engendered a need to ensure that clergy, monks and laity embraced orthodox Christian doctrine. This book offers a fresh perspective on the period by examining transformations in a major current of thought as revealed through literature and artistic imagery: the doctrine of the Passion and the crucified Christ. The evidence of a range of literary sources is surveyed - liturgical texts, poetry, hagiography, letters, homilies, exegetical and moral tractates - but special attention is given to writings from the discussions and debates concerning artistic images, Adoptionism, predestination and the Eucharist.

Author : Celia Martin Chazelle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Art, Carolingian
ISBN : OCLC:182537936

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The Crucified God in the Carolingian Era by Celia Martin Chazelle Pdf

Author : Andrew Louth
Publisher : St Vladimir's Seminary Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0881413208

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Greek East and Latin West by Andrew Louth Pdf

"This volume gives an account of the Church in the period from the end of the Sixth Ecumenical Synod in 681 to the Battle of Manzikert in 1071. Although "Greek East" and "Latin West" are becoming distinct entities during this expanse of time, the author treats them in parallel, observing the points at which their destinies coincide or conflict. The author notes developments within the whole of the Church rather than striving simply, or even primarily, to explain the eventual schism between Eastern and Western Christendom. Coveriing events both unique to each part (the Iconoclastic controversy in the East and the rise of the Carolingian Empire in the West) and common to each part (monastic reform, renaissance, and mission) the author skillfully portrays two Christian civilizations that share much in common yet become increasingly incomprehensible to one another. Despite curious synchronisms between East and West, the author demonstrates how two paths diverged from a once common route, and how eventually Byzantine Orthodoxy defined the Greek East over and against the Latin West in theological, religious, cultural, and political terms." -- Provided by publisher.

Author : F. LeRon Shults,Jan-Olav Henriksen
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011-07-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780802866264

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Saving Desire by F. LeRon Shults,Jan-Olav Henriksen Pdf

Traditional Christian theology has generally treated desire as a dark and negative force intimately related to sin something to be restricted and repressed, closeted and controlled. But, according to LeRon Shults and Jan-Olav Henriksen s Saving Desire, we see only part of the picture if we do not also perceive that desire can be a powerful force for great good. Grounding their work firmly in the experiential realm of human life, the eight eminent theologians contributing to this volume celebrate together the positivity, the sociality, and the physicality of saving desire that is, humankind s innate desire not only for the good life but also, more vitally, for the life-transforming goodness of God.

Author : John Munns
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781783271269

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Cross and Culture in Anglo-Norman England by John Munns Pdf

An examination of the passion and crucifixion of Christ as depicted in the visual and religious culture of Anglo-Norman England.

Author : Cullen J. Chandler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108474641

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Carolingian Catalonia by Cullen J. Chandler Pdf

Traces the political development of the Carolingian Spanish March and revises traditional interpretations of Catalonia's political and constitutional history.

Author : Hannah W. Matis
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004389250

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The Song of Songs in the Early Middle Ages by Hannah W. Matis Pdf

Hannah Matis examines how a biblical text was read by the most important figures within the ninth-century Carolingian Reform to think about the nature of Christ and the church.

Author : Matthew Bryan Gillis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192518279

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Heresy and Dissent in the Carolingian Empire by Matthew Bryan Gillis Pdf

Heresy and Dissent in the Carolingian Empire recounts the history of an exceptional ninth-century religious outlaw, Gottschalk of Orbais. Frankish Christianity required obedience to ecclesiastical superiors, voluntary participation in reform, and the belief that salvation was possible for all baptized believers. Yet Gottschalk-a mere priest-developed a controversial, Augustinian-based theology of predestination, claiming that only divine election through grace enabled eternal life. Gottschalk preached to Christians within the Frankish empire-including bishops-and non-Christians beyond its borders, scandalously demanding they confess his doctrine or be revealed as wicked reprobates. Even after his condemnations for heresy in the late 840s, Gottschalk continued his activities from prison thanks to monks who smuggled his pamphlets to a subterranean community of supporters. This study reconstructs the career of the Carolingian Empire's foremost religious dissenter in order to imagine that empire from the perspective of someone who worked to subvert its most fundamental beliefs. Examining the surviving evidence (including his own writings), Matthew Gillis analyzes Gottschalk's literary and spiritual self-representations, his modes of argument, his prophetic claims to martyrdom and miraculous powers, and his shocking defiance to bishops as strategies for influencing contemporaries in changing political circumstances. In the larger history of medieval heresy and dissent, Gottschalk's case reveals how the Carolingian Empire preserved order within the church through coercive reform. The hierarchy compelled Christians to accept correction of perceived sins and errors, while punishing as sources of spiritual corruption those rare dissenters who resisted its authority.

Author : Robin M. Jensen
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780674979291

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The Cross by Robin M. Jensen Pdf

“This erudite history illuminates the social, cultural, as well as theological developments of the cross” through 2000 years of its symbolic evolution (Library Journal). Jesus’s death on the cross posed a dilemma for Saint Paul and the early Church fathers. Crucifixion was a humiliating form of execution reserved for slaves and criminals. How could their messiah and savior have been subjected to such an ignominious death? Wrestling with this paradox, they reimagined the cross as a triumphant expression of Christ’s sacrificial love and miraculous resurrection. Over time, the symbol’s transformation raised myriad doctrinal questions, particularly about the crucifix―the cross with the figure of Christ―and whether it should emphasize Jesus’s suffering or his glorification. How should Jesus’s body be depicted: alive or dead, naked or dressed? Should it be shown at all? Robin Jensen’s wide-ranging study focuses on the cross in painting and literature, the quest for the “true cross” in Jerusalem, and the symbol’s role in conflicts from the Crusades to wars of colonial conquest. The Cross also reveals how Jews and Muslims viewed the most sacred of all Christian emblems and explains its role in public life in the West today.

Author : Ian Levy,Gary Macy,Kristen Van Ausdall
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004221727

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A Companion to the Eucharist in the Middle Ages by Ian Levy,Gary Macy,Kristen Van Ausdall Pdf

This volume presents the medieval Eucharist in all its glory combining introductory essays on the liturgy, art, theology, architecture, devotion and theology from the early, high and late medieval periods.

Author : Beatrice Kitzinger,Joshua O’Driscoll
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110578393

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After the Carolingians by Beatrice Kitzinger,Joshua O’Driscoll Pdf

A volume that introduces new sources and offers fresh perspectives on a key era of transition, this book is of value to art historians and historians alike. From the dissolution of the Carolingian empire to the onset of the so-called 12th-century Renaissance, the transformative 10th–11th centuries witnessed the production of a significant number of illuminated manuscripts from present-day France, Belgium, Spain, and Italy, alongside the better-known works from Anglo-Saxon England and the Holy Roman Empire. While the hybrid styles evident in book painting reflect the movement and re-organization of people and codices, many of the manuscripts also display a highly creative engagement with the art of the past. Likewise, their handling of subject matter—whether common or new for book illumination—attests to vibrant artistic energy and innovation. On the basis of rarely studied scientific, religious, and literary manuscripts, the contributions in this volume address a range of issues, including the engagement of 10th–11th century bookmakers with their Carolingian and Antique legacies, the interwoven geographies of book production, and matters of modern politics and historiography that have shaped the study of this complex period.

Author : Annie Montgomery Labatt
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781498571166

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Emerging Iconographies of Medieval Rome by Annie Montgomery Labatt Pdf

Emerging Iconographies of Medieval Rome examines the development of Christian iconographies that had not yet established themselves as canonical images, but which were being tried out in various ways in early Christian Rome. This book focuses on four different iconographical forms that appeared in Rome during the eighth and ninth centuries: the Anastasis, the Transfiguration, the Maria Regina, and the Sickness of Hezekiah—all of which were labeled “Byzantine” by major mid-twentieth century scholars. The trend has been to readily accede to the pronouncements of those prominent authors, subjugating these rich images to a grand narrative that privileges the East and turns Rome into an artistic backwater. In this study, Annie Montgomery Labatt reacts against traditional scholarship which presents Rome as merely an adjunct of the East. It studies medieval images with formal and stylistic analyses in combination with use of the writings of the patristics and early medieval thinkers. The experimentation and innovation in the Christian iconographies of Rome in the eighth and ninth centuries provides an affirmation of the artistic vibrancy of Rome in the period before a divided East and West. Labatt revisits and revives a lost and forgotten Rome—not as a peripheral adjunct of the East, but as a center of creativity and artistic innovation.

Author : Nina Rowe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-04
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780521197441

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The Jew, the Cathedral and the Medieval City by Nina Rowe Pdf

This book examines the Synagoga-Ecclesia motif in the thirteenth century and argues that the figures conveyed a political message of Christian ascendancy and Jewish submission.

Author : Patricia Ranft
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9780739174326

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How the Doctrine of the Incarnation Shaped Western Culture by Patricia Ranft Pdf

In recent years numerous scholars in disciplines not traditionally associated with theology have promoted an interesting thesis. They maintain that one particular Christian doctrine, the Incarnation, had an inordinate influence on the shape of Western culture. The doctrine, they say, was so radical that it mandated an epistemological break with pagan society's perception of the universe and forced Christians to form a new culture. As medieval society worked out the consequences of the doctrine, it gave birth to those attitudes, institutions, and actions that define modern Western culture. The claims are well argued, but it is a historically untested thesis. How the Doctrine of Incarnation Shaped Western Culture is a response to the situation. It investigates whether the presence of the doctrine had the definitive effect on Western culture that so many scholars claim it did. It searches early Christian and medieval sources for evidence and concludes that the doctrine had a dominant effect on the developing culture. No other idea was as omnipresent or pervasive in Western society during its formative stage as the Incarnation doctrine. The doctrine was influential in the establishment of every major facet of Western culture. Its paradox, irrationality, and juxtaposition of opposites created a tension that cried out for resolution, and society responded accordingly. The ideas within the doctrine acted as catalysts for cultural change. As a result, the West developed its most characteristic traits and forged a path that was uniquely its own.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004467514

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Art and Worship in the Insular World by Anonim Pdf

The book examines the lived experience of worship in early medieval England and Ireland, ranging from public experience of church and stone sculptures, to monastic life, to personal contemplation of, and meditation on, manuscript illuminations and other devotional objects.