Augustine Archive
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Wonders and Wisdom: Anglo-Saxons and the East
Posted on April 11, 2013 | No CommentsWhat the Anglo-Saxons ‘‘knew’’ about Moslems and Jews, and about Babylon and Egypt and India, depended upon Biblical exegesis, saints’ lives, and other texts derived from Latin sources. Numerous Old English texts, as well as Latin versions that circulated and were copied in Anglo-Saxon England, concern Asia; these are quite varied in genre and in content. -
Reality and Truth in Thomas of York: Study and Text
Posted on March 10, 2013 | No CommentsThe investigation is conducted through a study of opposites into which being is divided. These opposites are principally the one and the many, potency and act, truth and falsity. -
The Light was retreating before Darkness: Tales of the Witch hunt and climate change
Posted on March 10, 2013 | No CommentsLittle by little, out of the old conviction —pagan and Christian— of evil interference in atmospheric phenomena evolved the belief that some people may use malign sorcery to set off whirlwinds hail, frosts, floods and other destructive weather events. -
Eriugena: The Medieval Irish Genius Between Augustine and Aquinas
Posted on August 17, 2012 | No CommentsCarolingian thinker Johannes Scottus Eriugena (810-877 CE) is the author of numerous philosophical and theological works. -
The emotion of Shame in Medieval Philosophy
Posted on June 20, 2012 | No CommentsIn his Summa theologiae, Thomas Aquinas presents a very detailed taxonomy of emotions which is influenced by some earlier medieval theories. -
Thomas Bradwardine: Forgotten Medieval Augustinian
Posted on May 20, 2012 | No CommentsIn spite of this dearth of scholarly publications on Bradwardine, he deserves serious consideration. From a church historical perspective, he represents a resurgence of a relatively pure Augustinianism in the late Middle Ages. -
Consorting with the other: Re-constructing scholastic, rhetorical and literary attitudes to pagans and paganism in the Middle Ages
Posted on April 11, 2012 | No CommentsMy thesis suggests that Christian culture in the late antique to medieval period consciously adapted pagan cultures for its own ends, with a particular view to the usefulness of pagan cultures. -
The Conjugal Debt and Medieval Canon Law
Posted on March 22, 2012 | No CommentsThe apostle Paul was the earliest influential spokesman for a Christian view of marriage and sexuality. Marital sex was, for Paul, a safeguard against human weakness (1 Cor. 7.1-2). -
Theological Works of the Venerable Bede and their Literary and Manuscript Presentation, with Special Reference to the Gospel Homilies
Posted on February 19, 2012 | No CommentsBede’s theology is complex and closely interwoven; as we can observe, the different themes are interleaved within the homilies. Though Bede was profoundly influenced by Gregory, Augustine and the other Church Fathers, he combined their theologies in a new way that has had a lasting influence. -
Writers in religious orders and their lay patrons in late medieval England
Posted on February 6, 2012 | No CommentsCritics have long recognized that the religious orders played an important part in the production of vernacular devotional literature in late medieval England. The orders were well suited to this task. Reading and writing were an important part of the life of those who lived under a rule. -
Speakerly Women and Scribal Men
Posted on September 12, 2011 | No CommentsSpeakerly Women and Scribal Men Neufeld, Christine Oral Tradition, 14/2 (1999) Abstract I want to begin my discussion of oral tradition and manuscript authority by drawing attention to the term... -
Virginity and the married-virgin saints in Ælfric’s Lives of Saints: the translation of an ideal
Posted on September 9, 2011 | No CommentsVirginity and the married-virgin saints in Ælfric’s Lives of Saints: the translation of an ideal Smith, Liesl Ruth Thesis: Doctor of Philosophy,Graduate Department of Medieval Studies,University of Toronto (2000) Abstract... -
Christine de Pizan’s City of Ladies: A Monumental (Re)construction of, by, and for Women of All Time
Posted on September 2, 2011 | No CommentsChristine de Pizan’s City of Ladies: A Monumental (Re)construction of, by, and for Women ofAll Time Wagner, Jill E. Medieval Feminist Forum, 44, no. 1 (2008) Abstract Christine de Pizan’s Book of... -
Sex and the single saint physicality in Anglo-Saxon female saints’ lives
Posted on July 31, 2011 | No CommentsSex and the single saint physicality in Anglo-Saxon female saints’ lives Elliot,Winter Suzanne (The University of Georgia) PhD Philosophy, The University of Georgia, Atehns (2004) Abstract This study examines the treatment... -
Why Jerusalem? Why then? A study of the religious significance of Jerusalem to the West in 1095
Posted on July 19, 2011 | No CommentsWhy Jerusalem? Why then? A study of the religious significance of Jerusalem to the West in 1095 Larson, Erin (Clemson University) PhD Thesis, Clemson University, May (2010) Abstract One of the... -
Enjoying the saints in late antiquity
Posted on April 21, 2011 | No CommentsEnjoying the saints in late antiquity By Peter Brown Early Medieval Europe, Volume 9, Issue 1 (2000) Abstract: The discovery at Mainz by Franĉois Dolbeau of a new collection of... -
Sins of Tongues, Pains of Members: Speech, Division and Sacrament in Late Medieval Exempla
Posted on February 23, 2011 | No CommentsSins of Tongues, Pains of Members: Speech, Division and Sacrament in Late Medieval Exempla Langum, V.E. Marginalia, Vol. 6, (2006-2007) Cambridge Yearbook Abstract Late medieval exempla teem with burned and... -
Narratives of time: Augustine and Joachim of Fiore
Posted on January 15, 2011 | No CommentsNarratives of time: Augustine and Joachim of Fiore Rossato, Noeli Dutra Mirabilia 11, Tempo e Eternidade na Idade Média, Jun-Dez (2010) Abstract The Book XI of Augustine’s Confessions is analyzed based on the... -
Time and Eternity in Saint Augustine
Posted on January 7, 2011 | No CommentsTime and Eternity in Saint Augustine Costa, Marcos Roberto Nunes Mirabilia 11, Tempo e Eternidade na Idade Média, Jun-Dez (2010) Abstract Every Augustinian disputation regarding to time – eternity relation arises from... -
In perfect future. The End of Time in Augustine, the apocalyptic and Gnostic
Posted on January 7, 2011 | No CommentsIn perfect future. The End of Time in Augustine, the apocalyptic and Gnostic Jimenez, Jimenez Luis Felipe Mirabilia 11,Tiempo y Eternidad en la Edad Media, Jun-Dez (2010) Abstract Augustine’s reflection on time, from... -
Saint Augustine: Faith, Hope and Charity
Posted on January 1, 2011 | No CommentsSaint Augustine: Faith, Hope and Charity Detoni, Emerson Mirabilia 11, Time and Eternity in the Middle Ages, Jun-Dec (2010) Abstract Before the God’s revelation, that proposes his salvation project, the human being is... -
The free will and the evil in Saint Augustine
Posted on January 1, 2011 | No CommentsThe free will and the evil in Saint Augustine Bellei, Ricardo J., Buzinaro, Délcio Marques Mirabilia – Journal of Ancient and Medieval History, Vol. 11, Jan-Jun (2010) Abstract Saint Augustine... -
The Fall of Humanity: Weakness of the Will and Moral Responsibility in the Later Augustine
Posted on November 2, 2010 | No CommentsThe Fall of Humanity: Weakness of the Will and Moral Responsibility in the Later Augustine A. Pang-White, Ann (University of Scranton) Medieval Philosophy and Theology 9 (2000) Abstract Akrasia (or,... -
Augustine’s Ambivalence About Temporality: His Two Accounts of Time
Posted on October 26, 2010 | No CommentsAugustine’s Ambivalence About Temporality: His Two Accounts of Time Gross, Charlotte (North Carolina State University) Medieval Philosophy and Theology 8 (1999) Abstract At the close of his discussion of time... -
Splendid Vices? Augustine For and Against Pagan Virtues
Posted on October 26, 2010 | No CommentsSplendid Vices? Augustine For and Against Pagan Virtues Irwin, T. H. (Cornell University) Medieval Philosophy and Theology 8 (1999) Abstract Augustine is notorious for his claim that the so-called virtues...
