The five friaries under review are the houses that lasted up to the Dissolution in 1538: the Dominican Black Friars, the Franciscan Grey Friars, Carmelite White Friars, Augustinian Austin Friars and the house of Crossed or Crutched Friars
The Spiritual and the Supernatural according to Thomas Aquinas
October 16, 2011 By
The Spiritual and the Supernatural according to Thomas Aquinas Murray, Andrew A paper delivered at the Biennial Conference in Philosophy, Religion and Culture, ‘The Supernatural’, Catholic Institute of Sydney, 3 – 4 October (1998) Abstract As we investigate in this conference what is meant by “supernatural” and whether or not we wish to admit anything […]
The Friar of Carcassonne
October 15, 2011 By
The Friar of Carcassonne: Revolt against the Inquisition in the Last Days of the Cathars By Stephen O’Shea Douglas and McIntyre, 2011 ISBN 978-1-55365-551-0 Publisher’s Synopsis: The dramatic story of a courageous friar who battled king, pope and Inquisition in his search for justice. Nearly a century had passed since the French region of Languedoc […]
Getty Museum acquires 13th century Bible
September 7, 2011 By
The J. Paul Getty Museum has acquired the Abbey Bible, a 13th-century Italian book that is considered to be an important example of Gothic era illuminated manuscripts. The medieval Bible is named for a previous owner, who was a celebrated collector of Italian manuscripts. Produced for the use of a Dominican monastery, the Abbey Bible […]
Sisters Between Gender and the Medieval Beguines
September 3, 2011 By
Sisters Between Gender and the Medieval Beguines Stoner, Abby Ex Post Facto: Journal of the History Students at San Francisco State University, Vol.5:2 (1995) Abstract The Beguines of northern Europe have been called the first women’s movement in Christian history. This group of religiously dedicated laywomen, who took no permanent vows, followed no prescribed rule, supported themselves […]
The Dominican priory and convent of medieval Roskilde, Denmark
August 6, 2011 By
The Dominican priory and convent of medieval Roskilde, Denmark By Johnny Grandjean Gøgsig Jakobsen Dominican History Newsletter, Vol. 14 (2005) Introduction: The city of Roskilde is situated on the central part of Zealand, which is the biggest of the Danish isles. It was founded in the middle of the tenth century as the main seat […]
God, the Devil, and Cupid: A Tripartite Formula for a Sinful Death
August 3, 2011 By
God, the Devil, and Cupid: A Tripartite Formula for a Sinful Death Leaños, Jaime (University of Nevada – Reno) eHumanista: Volume 9, (2007) Abstract Can there be evil without good? Do people have freedom of choice, or is what they do always outside their control? Is there such a thing as sin? If so, what […]
The Letters of Eljigidei, Hülegü, and Abaqa: Mongol Overtures or Christian Ventriloquism?
July 27, 2011 By
The Letters of Eljigidei, Hülegü, and Abaqa: Mongol Overtures or Christian Ventriloquism? Aigle, Denise (French Institute for the Middle East – Damascus) Inner Asia 7 (2005) Abstract This paper deals with the Great Khans and Ilkhans’ letters, and with the question of their authenticity. Generally, these letters were written in Mongolian, but very few of […]
EARLY MEDIEVAL CEMETERIES AND LIVING CONDITIONS IN SIGTUNA, SWEDEN
July 24, 2011 By
EARLY MEDIEVAL CEMETERIES AND LIVING CONDITIONS IN SIGTUNA, SWEDEN Kjellström, Anna & Wikström, Anders Paper given at the 4th International Congress of Medieval and Modern Archaeology (2007) Abstract Sigtuna is situated at a branch of the Lake Mälaren in eastern central Sweden (figure 1), about 35 km north of Birka and 35 km south of Gamla Uppsala (Old […]
When did the Dominicans Arrive in Tallinn?
July 23, 2011 By
When did the Dominicans Arrive in Tallinn? Tamm, Marek Tuna, No.4 (2009) Abstract It is difficult to overestimate the significance of the Order of Preachers in the history of Estonia’s Christianization. It was the first religious order to establish a permanent foothold on the territory of Estonia and spent centuries conducting its mission work among […]
Learning by Doing: Coping with Inquisitors in Medieval Languedoc
May 30, 2011 By
Inquisition, Repression, and Ridicule
March 21, 2011 By
Inquisition, Repression, and Ridicule Hibbs, Albert R. Engineering and Science (December 1974-January 1975) Abstract In the spring of the year 1498,Moro, the Duke of Sforza, held a gathering of scholars in the large hall of the Sforza Palace in Milan. The affair was called “The Duel of Learning.” There were arguments among the learned men concerning the […]
THE PROCESS OF TRANCE, HEAVENLY AND DIABOLIC APPARITIONS IN JOHANNES NIDER’S FORMICARIUS
March 21, 2011 By
THE PROCESS OF TRANCE, HEAVENLY AND DIABOLIC APPARITIONS IN JOHANNES NIDER’S FORMICARIUS Klaniczay, Gábor Procession, Performance, Liturgy, and Ritual, ed. Nancy van Deusen, Ottawa: Claremont Cultural Studies (2007) Abstract Johannes Nider (1380-1438) is a frequently mentioned but rarely studied ecclesiastical writer and reformer of the first half of the fifteenth century. After entering the Dominican order […]
Henry Suso’s Horologium Sapientiae in fifteenth-century France: images of reading and writing in Brussels Royal Library MS IV 111
February 9, 2011 By
Henry Suso’s Horologium Sapientiae in fifteenth-century France: images of reading and writing in Brussels Royal Library MS IV 111 Rozenski Jr., Steven Word & Image, Volume 26, Issue 4, December (2010) Abstract Henry Suso, despite the frustrated epigraph above, loved his books. The Swabian Dominican (ca. 1295-1366) was constantly immersed in textuality: reading contemplative and devotional texts, writing […]
Auxiliary Preachers in the Northern Province: Supplementing the Parish Clergy in the Late Thirteenth and Early Fourteenth Centuries
February 3, 2011 By
Auxiliary Preachers in the Northern Province: Supplementing the Parish Clergy in the Late Thirteenth and Early Fourteenth Centuries Birkett,Helen Marginalia, Vol. 7, (2008) Abstract By the thirteenth century, the prolonged period of economic and demographic growth experienced by Western Europe had brought profound changes to the religious landscape. Itinerant preachers who followed the trade routes between […]
The Black Death and the Burning of Jews
January 25, 2011 By
Curiously, far less attention has been devoted to the most monumental of medieval Jewish persecutions, one that eradicated almost entirely the principal Jewish communities of Europe — those of the Rhineland — along with many other areas.
“Checkmate to the time, the forms and the place…”. Meister Eckhart between flowing of time and stillness of Eternity
January 15, 2011 By
“Checkmate to the time, the forms and the place…”. Meister Eckhart between flowing of time and stillness of Eternity Raschietti, Matteo Mirabilia 11, Tempo e Eternidade na Idade Média, Jun-Dez (2010) Abstract The conception of time in Eckhart’s reflection is a fundamental point that joins the thought of German Dominican: the metaphysic model of development of being […]
“The Bad Behaviour of Friars and Women in the Medieval Catalan fabliaux and Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales”
January 11, 2011 By
“The Bad Behaviour of Friars and Women in the Medieval Catalan fabliaux and Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales” Méndez, Jerónimo (University of Valencia) BAD BEHAVIOUR Volume 3(1) (2010) Abstract Medieval Catalan narrative works or fabliaux contain many examples of bad behaviour on the part of priests and particularly friars from mendicants orders (usually Franciscans and Dominicans). They perpetrate many deceptions […]
Can Atheism be Rational? A Reading of Thomas Aquinas
January 10, 2011 By
Can Atheism be Rational? A Reading of Thomas Aquinas BROCK, STEPHEN L. Acta Philosophica, vol. 11 (2002) Abstract Does St Thomas Aquinas have anything to teach us on the subject of atheism? We might doubt it, even if we share his basic outlook. The reason would be the very fact that in his day there were […]
If God is eternal
January 8, 2011 By
If God is eternal Muller, Pe. Dilonei Pedro Mirabilia 11, Tempo e Eternidade na Idade Média, Jun-Dez (2010) Abstract This study focuses on comprehending some of the aspects about God’s eternity in São Tomas. He talks about the question of the eternity of God in the first part of the Summa Theologiae, the tenth question. The eternity […]
Relations Without Polyadic Properties: Albert the Great On the Nature and Ontological Status of Relations
January 2, 2011 By
Relations Without Polyadic Properties: Albert the Great On the Nature and Ontological Status of Relations Brower, Jeffrey E. (Purdue University) Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie Vol.83, (2001) Abstract I think it would be fair to say that, until about 1900, philosophers were generally reluctant to admit the existence of what are nowadays called polyadic properties (for our […]
The Studies of Exact and Natural Sciences in the History of the Dubrovnik Dominicans
January 1, 2011 By
The Studies of Exact and Natural Sciences in the History of the Dubrovnik Dominicans Šanjek, Franjo Dubrovnik Annals 1 (1997) Abstract As their order was modeled after universities, the Dominicans originally pursued classical studies, philosophy, theology, and both exact and natural sciences, offering »solid foundation in the quest for greater wisdom«. Valuable codices, incunabula and rare […]
MENTAL EXISTENCE IN THOMAS AQUINAS AND AVICENNA
December 14, 2010 By
MENTAL EXISTENCE IN THOMAS AQUINAS AND AVICENNA Black, Deborah L. Mediaeval Studies, Vol. 61 (1999) Abstract Traditionally it was the case that in philosophical circles, when the name of Thomas Aquinas was raised, the doctrine that would most readily come to mind was the distinction between essence and existence, and the related claim that the act […]
Analogy, Semantics, and Hermeneutics: The “Concept versus Judgment” Critique of Cajetan’s De Nominum Analogia
November 21, 2010 By
Analogy, Semantics, and Hermeneutics: The “Concept versus Judgment” Critique of Cajetan’s De Nominum Analogia P. Hochschild, Joshua (Wheaton College) Medieval Philosophy and Theology 11 (2003) Abstract Cajetan’s treatment of analogy in De Nominum Analogia is well known as the most influential and sophisticated theory of a central issue in Thomistic philosophy. The late twentieth century […]
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