Author : Richard N. Bailey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Bible
ISBN : UCAL:B4924950
The Durham Cassiodorus
Richard N. Bailey
The Durham Cassiodorus
The Durham Cassiodorus Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of The Durham Cassiodorus book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.
Medieval Images, Icons, and Illustrated English Literary Texts
Maidie Hilmo
Author : Maidie Hilmo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351918558
Medieval Images, Icons, and Illustrated English Literary Texts by Maidie Hilmo Pdf
The function of images in the major illustrated English poetic works from the Anglo-Saxon period to the early fifteenth century is the primary concern of this book. Hilmo argues that the illustrations have not been sufficiently understood because modern judgments about their artistic merit and fidelity to the literary texts have got in the way of a historical understanding of their function. The author here proves that artists took their work seriously because images represented an invisible order of reality, that they were familiar with the vernacular poems, and that they were innovative in adapting existing iconographies to guide the ethical reading process of their audience. To provide a theoretical basis for the understanding of early monuments, artefacts, and texts, she examines patristic opinions on image-making, supported by the most authoritative modern sources. Fresh emphasis is given to the iconic nature of medieval images from the time of the iconoclastic debates of the 8th and 9th centuries to the renewed anxiety of image-making at the time of the Lollard attacks on images. She offers an important revision of the reading of the Ruthwell Cross, which changes radically the interpretation of the Cross as a whole. Among the manuscripts examined here are the Caedmon, Auchinleck, Vernon, and Pearl manuscripts. Hilmo's thesis is not confined to overtly religious texts and images, but deals also with historical writing, such as Layamon's Brut, and with poetry designed ostensibly for entertainment, such as the Canterbury Tales. This study convincingly demonstrates how the visual and the verbal interactively manifest the real "text" of each illustrated literary work. The artistic elements place vernacular works within a larger iconographic framework in which human composition is seen to relate to the activities of the divine Author and Artificer.Whether iconic or anti-iconic in stance, images, by their nature, were a potent means of influencing the way an English author's words, accessible in the vernacular, were thought about and understood within the context of the theology of the Incarnation that informed them and governed their aesthetic of spiritual function. This is the first study to cover the range of illustrated English poems from the Anglo-Saxon period to the early 15th century.
The Codex Amiatinus and its “Sister” Bibles: Scripture, Liturgy, and Art in the Milieu of the Venerable Bede
Celia Chazelle
Author : Celia Chazelle
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 662 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004391321
The Codex Amiatinus and its “Sister” Bibles: Scripture, Liturgy, and Art in the Milieu of the Venerable Bede by Celia Chazelle Pdf
The Codex Amiatinus and its “Sister” Bibles examines the full Bibles made at Wearmouth–Jarrow under Ceolfrith (d. 716) and Bede (d. 735), and the circumstances of their production. Amiatinus is the oldest Latin full Bible to survive largely intact.
The Lindisfarne Gospels
Richard Gameson
Author : Richard Gameson
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004337848
The Lindisfarne Gospels by Richard Gameson Pdf
Twelve expert contributions examine the text, art, and Old English gloss of this masterpiece of Anglo-Saxon book culture in relation to its archaeological, historical, cultural, and art-historical contexts, Insular and Continental.
Carolingian Renewal
Donald A. Bullough
Author : Donald A. Bullough
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Carolingians
ISBN : 0719033543
Carolingian Renewal by Donald A. Bullough Pdf
A collection of eight lectures published over the past 20 years, in which Bullough (medieval history, U. of St. Andrews) looks at the ninth-century Carolingian court, focusing on the pan-European cultural elements. He combines his own close analysis of texts with the work of other scholars. Distributed in the U.S. by St. Martin's Press. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Emotion and the History of Rhetoric in the Middle Ages
Rita Copeland
Author : Rita Copeland
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192659750
Emotion and the History of Rhetoric in the Middle Ages by Rita Copeland Pdf
Rhetoric is an engine of social discourse and the art charged with generating and swaying emotion. The history of rhetoric provides a continuous structure by which we can measure how emotions were understood, articulated, and mobilized under various historical circumstances and social contracts. This book is about how rhetoric in the West, from Late Antiquity to the later Middle Ages, represented the role of emotion in shaping persuasions. It is the first book-length study of medieval rhetoric and the emotions, coloring that rhetorical history between about 600 CE and the cusp of early modernity. Rhetoric in the Middle Ages, as in other periods, constituted the gateway training for anyone engaged in emotionally persuasive writing. Medieval rhetorical thought on emotion has multiple strands of influence and sedimentations of practice. The earliest and most persistent tradition treated emotional persuasion as a property of surface stylistic effect, which can be seen in the medieval rhetorics of poetry and prose, and in literary production. But the impact of Aristotelian rhetoric, which reached the Latin West in the thirteenth century, gave emotional persuasion a core role in reasoning, incorporating it into the key device of proof, the enthymeme. In Aristotle, medieval teachers and writers found a new rhetorical language to explain the social and psychological factors that affect an audience. With Aristotelian rhetoric, the emotions became political. The impact of Aristotle's rhetorical approach to emotions was to be felt in medieval political treatises, in poetry, and in preaching.
Crossing Boundaries
Eric Cambridge,Jane Hawkes
Author : Eric Cambridge,Jane Hawkes
Publisher : Oxbow Books Limited
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781785703102
Crossing Boundaries by Eric Cambridge,Jane Hawkes Pdf
Interdisciplinary studies are increasingly widely recognised as being among the most fruitful approaches to generating original perspectives on the medieval past. In this major collection of 27 papers, contributors transcend traditional disciplinary boundaries to offer new approaches to a number of themes ranging in time from late antiquity to the high Middle Ages. The main focus is on material culture, but also includes insights into the compositional techniques of Bede and the Beowulf-poet, and the strategies adopted by anonymous scribes to record information in unfamiliar languages. Contributors offer fresh insights into some of the most iconic survivals from the period, from the wooden doors of Sta Sabina in Rome to the Ruthwell Cross, and from St Cuthbert’s coffin to the design of its final resting place, the Romanesque cathedral at Durham. Important thematic surveys reveal early medieval Welsh and Pictish carvers interacting with the political and intellectual concerns of the wider Insular and continental world. Other contributors consider what it is to be Viking, revealing how radically present perceptions shape our understanding of the past, how recent archaeological work reveals the inadequacy of the traditional categorisation of the Vikings as ‘incomers’, and how recontextualising Viking material culture can lead to unexpected insights into famous historical episodes such as King Edgar’s boat trip on the Dee. Recent landmark finds, notably the runic-inscribed Saltfleetby spindle whorl and the sword pommel from Beckley, are also published here for the first time in comprehensive analyses which will remain the fundamental discussions of these spectacular objects for many years to come.This book will be indispensable reading for everyone interested in medieval culture.
The Durham Liber Vitae and Its Context
David W. Rollason
Author : David W. Rollason
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Durham Liber vitae
ISBN : 1843830604
The Durham Liber Vitae and Its Context by David W. Rollason Pdf
The several thousand names recorded here cast light on how the church in Northumbria interacted with contemporary lay and ecclesiastical society over six hundred years.
History, Hagiography and Biblical Exegesis
Jennifer O'Reilly
Author : Jennifer O'Reilly
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429588617
History, Hagiography and Biblical Exegesis by Jennifer O'Reilly Pdf
When she died in 2016, Dr Jennifer O’Reilly left behind a body of published and unpublished work in three areas of medieval studies: the iconography of the Gospel Books produced in early medieval Ireland and Anglo-Saxon England; the writings of Bede and his older Irish contemporary, Adomnán of Iona; and the early lives of Thomas Becket. In these three areas she explored the connections between historical texts, artistic images and biblical exegesis. This volume is a collection of 16 essays, old and new, relating history and exegesis in the writings of Bede and Adomnán, and in the lives of Thomas Becket. The first part consists of seven studies of Bede’s writings, notably his biblical commentaries and his Ecclesiastical History. Two of the essays are published here for the first time. The five studies in the second part, devoted to Adomnán, discuss his life of Saint Columba (the Vita Columbae) and his guide to the Holy Places (De locis sanctis). One essay (‘The Bible as Map’), published posthumously, compares his presentation of a major theme, the earthly and heavenly Jerusalem, with the approach adopted by Bede. The third section consists of two essays on the lives of Thomas Becket that were composed shortly after his death. They examine, in the context of patristic exegesis, the biblical images invoked in the texts in order to show how the saint’s biographers understood the complex relationship between hagiography and history. With the exception of the Jarrow Lecture on Bede and the essays on Becket, the studies in both parts were published originally in edited books, some of them now hard to come by. (CS1078).
The Intellectual Foundations of the English Benedictine Reform
Mechthild Gretsch
Author : Mechthild Gretsch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1999-03-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139425391
The Intellectual Foundations of the English Benedictine Reform by Mechthild Gretsch Pdf
This book explores the intellectual foundations of the Benedictine reform in tenth-century England. It examines the importance of the vernacular at Bishop Æthelwold's influential Winchester school. Æthelwold's early career is also examined, showing the influence King Æthelstan's court had on intellectual and spiritual thought.
Old English Runes
Gaby Waxenberger,Kerstin Kazzazi,John Hines
Author : Gaby Waxenberger,Kerstin Kazzazi,John Hines
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110796902
Old English Runes by Gaby Waxenberger,Kerstin Kazzazi,John Hines Pdf
This volume presents contributions to the conference Old English Runes Workshop, organised by the Eichstätt-München Research Unit of the Academy project Runic Writing in the Germanic Languages (RuneS) and held at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt in March 2012. The conference brought together experts working in an area broadly referred to as Runology. Scholars working with runic objects come from several different fields of specialisation, and the aim was to provide more mutual insight into the various methodologies and theoretical paradigms used in these different approaches to the study of runes or, in the present instance more specifically, runic inscriptions generally assigned to the English and/or the Frisian runic corpora. Success in that aim should automatically bring with it the reciprocal benefit of improving access to and understanding of the runic evidence, expanding and enhancing insights gained within such closely connected areas of study of the Early-Mediaeval past.
The Art of Words: Bede and Theodulf
Paul Meyvaert
Author : Paul Meyvaert
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000951134
The Art of Words: Bede and Theodulf by Paul Meyvaert Pdf
Medieval art is wordy; inscriptions and poems, commentaries and chronicles accompany and adorn it. The Art of Words presents a series of detective stories by a renowned explorer of medieval philological evidence who here examines the thought and objects of the Venerable Bede and Theodulf of Orleans. What physical objects did Bede have in mind, for example, when writing about the paintings of his monastic churches? How did he conceive of the division of biblical books into chapters? Why was the famous Libri Carolini made for Charlemagne never published? Indeed what did it mean in the Middle Ages to publish something? Pursuing the story of Bede's calendar shows how Valentine's Day began with a reference to birds. To unravel the meaning of the image of Ezra in the Codex Amiatinus the author then demonstrates the importance of knowing the books that Bede knew and wrote. The final topic is the celebrated Apse mosaic of Germigny-des-Prés, how it was saved from destruction and how Theodulf's words explain what we see. Words matter and, in these studies Paul Meyvaert constantly delights the reader with careful excavations of that place in medieval art and thought where images and words connect and collide.
The Anglo-Saxon Library
Michael Lapidge
Author : Michael Lapidge
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2006-01-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191533013
The Anglo-Saxon Library by Michael Lapidge Pdf
The cardinal role of Anglo-Saxon libraries in the transmission of classical and patristic literature to the later middle ages has long been recognized, for these libraries sustained the researches of those English scholars whose writings determined the curriculum of medieval schools: Aldhelm, Bede, and Alcuin, to name only the best known. Yet this is the first full-length account of the nature and holdings of Anglo-Saxon libraries from the sixth century to the eleventh. The early chapters discuss libraries in antiquity, notably at Alexandria and republican and imperial Rome, and also the Christian libraries of late antiquity which supplied books to Anglo-Saxon England. Because Anglo-Saxon libraries themselves have almost completely vanished, three classes of evidence need to be combined in order to form a detailed impression of their holdings: surviving inventories, surviving manuscripts, and citations of classical and patristic works by Anglo-Saxon authors themselves. After setting out the problems entailed in using such evidence, the book provides appendices containing editions of all surviving Anglo-Saxon inventories, lists of all Anglo-Saxon manuscripts exported to continental libraries during the eighth century and then all manuscripts re-imported into England in the tenth, as well as a catalogue of all citations of classical and patristic literature by Anglo-Saxon authors. A comprehensive index, arranged alphabetically by author, combines these various classes of evidence so that the reader can see at a glance what books were known where and by whom in Anglo-Saxon England. The book thus provides, within a single volume, a vast amount of information on the books and learning of the schools which determined the course of medieval literary culture.
The Psalms in the Early Irish Church
Martin J. McNamara
Author : Martin J. McNamara
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2000-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567540348
The Psalms in the Early Irish Church by Martin J. McNamara Pdf
A creative, independent, Irish exegetical tradition was well established by the year 700 CE, influencing Northumbria but not Continental Europe. This book contains eight studies by the distinguished Irish biblical scholar, Martin McNamara, which he has published over the past twenty-five years, on the Latin biblical texts (Vulgate, Gallicanum and Jerome's Hebraicum) of the Psalter and commentaries on it in Ireland from 600 CE onwards. The oldest Irish Vulgate text, the Cathach of St Columba of Iona (died 597), shows signs of correction against the Irish recension of the Hebrew text. The central exegetical tradition is strongly Antiochene, being dependent on the commentary of Theodore of Mopsuestia (in Julian's translation), while another branch understands the Psalms as principally about David, rather than christologically or as about later Jewish history.
The Text of the Old Testament in Anglo-Saxon England
Richard Marsden
Author : Richard Marsden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1995-11-02
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 0521464773
The Text of the Old Testament in Anglo-Saxon England by Richard Marsden Pdf
This 1995 book is a study of the transmission of the Vulgate Old Testament in Anglo-Saxon England.
