This paper investigates the relationship between the 11th century Norman Dukes and the monastery from the monastic point of view.
HASKINS CONFERENCE: The Monks of Fécamp and their Ducal Patrons: Transformations of the Eleventh Century
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St Benedict of Nursia: the Birth of Western Monasticism
October 23, 2011 By
St Benedict of Nursia: the Birth of Western Monasticism Steele, Helen Published Online, Guernicus.com (2006) Abstract St Benedict of Nursia was the founder of western monasticism and an important figure in the early medieval church. Eschewing the dissolute lifestyle of Rome, he became an ascetic hermit, and then as others began to flock to him, he […]
Ralph de Limésy: Conqueror’s Nephew? The Origins of a Discounted Claim
September 15, 2011 By
Ralph de Limésy: Conqueror’s Nephew? The Origins of a Discounted Claim Jackson, Peter (University of Oxford) Prosopon Newsletter (1997) Abstract The name of Ralph de Limésy is well enough known to medieval prosopographers, both as a substantial tenant-in-chief in several counties in post-Conquest England and as the founder (ca 1095) of a Benedictine house at […]
Medieval Dreams: A Sample of Historical and Psychological Criticism
September 11, 2011 By
Deep into the Middle Ages, in Western Europe a small group of clergymen, mainly monks, had a monopoly on recording dreams in writing
Blood and body : women’s religious practices in late medieval Europe
September 10, 2011 By
Blood and body : women’s religious practices in late medieval Europe Tudesko, Jenny L. Thesis: M.A., History, California State University, Sacramento (2009) Abstract Religious women in thirteenth and fourteenth-century Western Europe developed forms of pious practice that were unique in their extreme devotions to the blood and body of Christ and unique in their use […]
Kingdoms and Beasts: The Early Prophecies of Hildegard of Bingen
September 3, 2011 By
Kingdoms and Beasts: The Early Prophecies of Hildegard of Bingen Czarski, Charles M. JOURNAL OF MILLENNIAL STUDIES, VOLUME I, ISSUE 2, Winter (1998) Abstract The twelfth-century Benedictine author Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) has long been famous for her first major work known as the Scivias, a description of her visions and her commentaries on them which she […]
The Shepherd Goes to War: Santo Domingo Revisited
August 3, 2011 By
The Shepherd Goes to War: Santo Domingo Revisited Daas, Martha M.(Old Dominion University) eHumanista: Volume 11, (2008) Abstract The thirteenth century was witness to a revolution in personal piety and the Camino de Santiago represented this new age. Pilgrimage in the Middle Ages became not only a symbol of devotion, but also a powerful method […]
San Isidoro exposed: the vicissitudes of research in Romanesque art
August 1, 2011 By
San Isidoro exposed: the vicissitudes of research in Romanesque art Williams, John (Henry Clay Frick Department of History of Art and Architecture, University of Pittsburgh) Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies, Vol. 3, No. 1, March (2011) Abstract Some forty years ago, by chance, the author’s campaign of recording through drawings the earliest parts of the church […]
Music in the Time of Saint Anselm
March 21, 2011 By
Music in the Time of Saint Anselm Cox, Donald R. (Saint Anselm College) The Saint Anselm Journal 2.1 (Fall 2004) Abstract The 11th century gave birth to a new artistic impulse as it also gave rise to original and systematic treatises about faith. St. Anselm, innovative theologian and Archbishop of Canterbury, contemplated the qualities of faith […]
An Essay on Cistercian Liturgy
January 9, 2011 By
An Essay on Cistercian Liturgy Kerr, Julie Cistercians in Yorkshire, University of Sheffield (2004) Abstract Concerning the mode and order of Divine services, the monks of Cîteaux decided right at the beginning to observe in everything the traditions of the Rule, cutting away entirely and rejecting all appendages to the psalms, orations and litanies, which were […]
St. Anselm of Canterbury and Romano Guardini
November 30, 2010 By
St. Anselm of Canterbury and Romano Guardini de Gaál, Ph.D., Father Emery (University of St. Mary of the Lake) The Saint Anselm Journal 2.1 (Fall 2004) Abstract Well before World War I, Romano Guardini had felt the deleterious impact of the Kantian critique of religion. As a reaction to Kant and the then prevailing Neo-Scholasticism, […]
Feudal Imagery or Christian Tradition? A Defense of the Rationale for Anselm’s Cur Deus Homo
November 29, 2010 By
Feudal Imagery or Christian Tradition? A Defense of the Rationale for Anselm’s Cur Deus Homo Cohen, Nicholas (Boston College) The Saint Anselm Journal 2.1 (Fall 2004) Abstract Anselm of Canterbury’s Cur Deus Homo (CDH) is one of the most important theological approaches to the issues of Incarnation and Atonement which may be found in the […]
Faith and Reason in Anselm: Two Models
November 29, 2010 By
Faith and Reason in Anselm: Two Models Brown, Montague (Saint Anselm College) The Saint Anselm Journal 2.1 (Fall 2004) Abstract In the preface to his Proslogion, Anselm gives titles to the two works known best as the Monologion and the Proslogion. These latter titles are for convenience; the full title of the Monologion is An […]
Human Free Will in Anselm and Descartes
November 29, 2010 By
Human Free Will in Anselm and Descartes Berman, Sophie (St. Francis College) The Saint Anselm Journal 2.1 (Fall 2004) Abstract Freedom is a central theme in Descartes’s philosophy, where it is linked to the theme of the infinite: it is through the freedom of the will, experienced as unlimited, that the human understands itself to […]
Arguments, Texts, and Contexts: Anselm’s Argument and the Friars
October 25, 2010 By
Arguments, Texts, and Contexts: Anselm’s Argument and the Friars Matthews, Scott Medieval Philosophy and Theology 8 (1999) Abstract The contrast between the reception of Anselm’s Proslogion in the work of Bonaventure and in the work of Thomas Aquinas is often held up as a classic example of their competing intellectual assumptions. Some have located the […]
Anselm’s Proslogion: The Desire for the Word
October 9, 2010 By
Anselm’s Proslogion: The Desire for the Word Sweeney, Eileen C. (Boston College) The Saint Anselm Journal 1.1 (Fall 2003) Abstract The paper confronts an important tension in Anselm’s project in the Proslogion that mirrors a conflict in how the Proslogion has been read. Some readers see the Proslogion as the successful search for necessary and […]
God’s Personal Freedom: A Response to Katherin Rogers
October 9, 2010 By
God’s Personal Freedom: A Response to Katherin Rogers Staley, Kevin M. (Saint Anselm College) The Saint Anselm Journal 1.1 (Fall 2003) Abstract This paper defends the thesis that God need not have created this world and could have created some other world. God’s freedom, as it pertains to creating, is the freedom of indifference. Many […]
Anselm on God’s Perfect Freedom
October 9, 2010 By
Anselm on God’s Perfect Freedom Rogers, Katherin A. (University of Delaware) The Saint Anselm Journal 1.1 (Fall 2003) Abstract According to the Catechism, “…God created the world according to his wisdom. It is not the product of any necessity whatever,…it proceeds from God’s free will; he wanted to make his creatures share in his being, […]
Anselm on the Cost of Salvation
October 6, 2010 By
Anselm on the Cost of Salvation Leftow, Brian Medieval Philosophy and Theology, vol. 6, no. 1 (1997) Abstract Anselm’s Cur Deus Homo (CDH) discusses a number of objections to the Christian claim that God became incarnate and atoned for human sin. One objection is this: if God is omnipotent and wise and offers humanity salvation, […]
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