I want to begin my discussion of oral tradition and manuscript authority by drawing attention to the term ‘old wives’ tale.’
Christine de Pizan’s City of Ladies: A Monumental (Re)construction of, by, and for Women of All Time
September 2, 2011 By
Christine 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 the City of Ladies, written over six centuries ago, is neither simple nor simplistic. As the first known history of women in Western civilization from […]
Sex and the single saint physicality in Anglo-Saxon female saints’ lives
July 31, 2011 By
This study examines the treatment of the female body in several Anglo-Saxon saints’ lives.
Why Jerusalem? Why then? A study of the religious significance of Jerusalem to the West in 1095
July 19, 2011 By
Why 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 fascinating aspects of this research is how what individuals believe to be true leads to collective action as a society. Research for this paper will […]
Enjoying the saints in late antiquity
April 21, 2011 By
Enjoying 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 sermons of Augustine has enabled us to study, in far greater detail, the attitude of Augustine to the reform of the cult of the martyrs […]
Sins of Tongues, Pains of Members: Speech, Division and Sacrament in Late Medieval Exempla
February 23, 2011 By
Sins 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 chewed tongues, cleaved bodies, engorged genitals and rotting corpses. Designed both to engage and instruct, effective exempla ‘removent taedium’ and ‘somnolentiam fugant’ in the visceral details […]
Narratives of time: Augustine and Joachim of Fiore
January 15, 2011 By
Narratives 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 mutual implication between the themes of triplicate present and distention of the soul. The solution shown is that of the ontological paradox and to that […]
Time and Eternity in Saint Augustine
January 7, 2011 By
Time 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 the need of combating the Manicheans and, by indirection, all those ones that affirmed, asserted world eternity, that denied ex nihilo Jewish – Christian Creation […]
In perfect future. The End of Time in Augustine, the apocalyptic and Gnostic
January 7, 2011 By
In 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 the level of individual salvation and the transcendence of the heavenly city located from the beginning on Earth, able to characterize or shape of medieval […]
Saint Augustine: Faith, Hope and Charity
January 1, 2011 By
Saint 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 invited to answer through faith, hope and charity. Believing, waiting and loving the man place himself into the dynamic of the existence towards to God. […]
The free will and the evil in Saint Augustine
January 1, 2011 By
The 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 (354-340). One of the greatest exponents of the Christian philosophy is inserted in a reality where the Christianity has just become his official doctrine of […]
The Fall of Humanity: Weakness of the Will and Moral Responsibility in the Later Augustine
November 2, 2010 By
The 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, weakness of the will), often defined as “the moral state of agents who act against their better judgment”—a definition first given by Aristotle in the […]
Augustine’s Ambivalence About Temporality: His Two Accounts of Time
October 26, 2010 By
Augustine’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 in Book 11 of the Confessions (397– 401), Augustine abandons his empirical inquiry for an impassioned prayer. He writes: Behold, my life is a dispersion […]
Splendid Vices? Augustine For and Against Pagan Virtues
October 26, 2010 By
Splendid 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 of pagans are not genuine virtues at all. Bayle refers to this claim when he describes the sort of virtue that one ought to be […]
Augustine on Reasoning from One’s Own Case
October 19, 2010 By
Augustine on Reasoning from One’s Own Case Matthews, Gareth B. (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) Medieval Philosophy and Theology 7 (1998) Abstract Forty years ago Norman Malcolm presented a now-famous paper at the Eastern Division meetings of the American Philosophical Association in Burlington, Vermont. Malcolm’s paper, like the symposium itself, was titled “Knowledge of Other Minds.” […]
“Truth” is a Divine Name: Hitherto Unpublished Papers of Edward A. Synan, 1918-1997.
October 12, 2010 By
“Truth” is a Divine Name: Hitherto Unpublished Papers of Edward A. Synan, 1918-1997 Edited by Janice L. Schultz-Aldrich Rodopi, 2010 ISBN: 978-90-420-3154-8 This volume contains essays on an array of topics originally presented orally by a master teacher and scholar. With characteristic rhetorical elegance, Msgr. Synan, late professor at the Pontifical Institute in Toronto, delivered […]
Augustine on Theological Fatalism: The Argument of De Libero Arbitrio
October 1, 2010 By
Augustine on Theological Fatalism: The Argument of De Libero Arbitrio Hunt, David P. Medieval Philosophy and Theology, vol. 5, no. 1 (1996) Abstract Recent critiques of theological fatalism-the position that divine foreknowledge is incompatible with creaturely freedom-have tended to attach themselves to one or another of the analyses put forward by various medieval thinkers. The […]
Augustine on Original Perception
September 17, 2010 By
Augustine on Original Perception Obertello, Luca Medieval Philosophy and Theology, vol. 1 (1991) Abstract The image of God in the human person is to be found, according to St. Augustine, in the “highest part” of the human mind, to which he reserves the name mens.ι “One’s mind [mens],” he says, “is not of the same […]
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