Ecclesiastical History Archive
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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. -
Perfect Virgins and Suicidal Maniacs: Monks in Early Thirteenth-Century Pastoralia
Posted on May 18, 2012 | No CommentsThis summary is of a paper that was the last in the English Cistercian series at Kalamazoo. -
Prayer in Peasant Communities: Ideals and Practices of Prayer in the Late Medieval Ecclesiastical Province of Uppsala, Sweden
Posted on May 16, 2012 | No CommentsThe most ordinary way to act during prayer was to stand with hands together, palm against palm, and to pray in the vernacular often using mental themes to enhance the devotion. -
What Can Historians Do with Clerical Masculinity? Lessons from Medieval Europe
Posted on May 15, 2012 | No CommentsClerical masculinity, the subject of this volume, has the power to revitalize connections between modern and premodern histories. -
A Renaissance Instrument to Support Nonprofits: The Sale of Private Chapels in Florentine Churches
Posted on April 30, 2012 | No CommentsMost visitors to Florence today assume that the extraordinary examples of religious art and architecture were commissioned by the local church, and that each church was largely controlled by the Vatican. In fact, most church art was privately commissioned and privately owned, and the local churches had a large degree of local autonomy. -
Friar Benedict the Pole of Vratislava his mission to Mongolia and his narrative (1245-1247)
Posted on April 26, 2012 | No CommentsThis is a study of the life and achievements of the Franciscan, Benedict the Pole of Vratislavia, who was sent with an Apostolic mission by Pope Innocent 17 in 1245 to the Great Khan of the Mongols. -
Personal Piety or Priestly Persuasion: Evidence of Pilgrimage Bequests in the Wills of the Archdeaconry of Sudbury, 1439-1474
Posted on April 23, 2012 | No CommentsHowever, when we consider the number of individuals, particularly from the lower orders, who actually undertook a pilgrimage at some point in their lives, we find that we actually know remarkably little about them. -
St George of England: a study of sainthood and legend
Posted on April 23, 2012 | No CommentsIn1222,23 years after the death of Lionheart in the reign of young Henry III, the council of Oxford meeting in Osney Abbey fixed St.George’s Day 23 April as a national festival. It is said that EdwardIII made St. George the patron saint of England in 1344 (or 48) and in Windsor he enlarged the chapel of St. Edward to become the chapel of St. George. -
The origin of chantries
Posted on April 22, 2012 | No CommentsThroughout Western Europe, the chantry and the chantry chapel represented a characteristic form of late medieval piety, to which large resources were committed, both spiritual and temporal. -
Flowers for the Book-binder’s Wife: An Investigation of Florilegia and Early Modern Women’s Writing
Posted on April 22, 2012 | No CommentsTo an early modern, nothing could be fully learned through a “hands off” approach. Heidi Brayman Hackel corroborates this with her book, Reading Material. Critical to early modern thoughts on comprehension was “taking note,” a phrasing that carried the double implication of both noticing and annotating... -
Lollard Theology: A Soteriological Analysis of the English Wycliffite Sermon Cycle
Posted on April 17, 2012 | No CommentsPrototestant ideas are evident throughout Wyclif's later works and the flood of Wycliffite tracts and writings which were published in the late 1370's and 80's; but they are most clearly and systematically communicated in the collection of English Wycliffite sermons which were compiled, one sermon for each of the services in the church calendar year, sometime near, or soon after, the end of Wyclif's life. -
Medieval Vicars Choral – Choristers and Property Dealers
Posted on April 5, 2012 | No CommentsThe Medieval vicars choral were a small specialised body of clergy, who became essential to the operation of the English secular cathedrals. -
Authority and freedom: the medieval roots of an understanding of religious freedom
Posted on March 28, 2012 | No CommentsSome regard religious freedom as a product of the Enlightenment. However, the roots of a later understanding of religious freedom as articulated in Dignitatis Humanae of the Second Vatican Council lie in the Middle Ages. -
Philosopher-king: Nechtan mac Der Ilei
Posted on March 25, 2012 | No CommentsLike so much of the history of the early church in Scotland, it is bound up with modern political and religious factionalism. Was Naiton an English imperialist flunky? A Romanist stooge, allowing the authority of the Pope and St Peter into his realm? -
The Adoption of Christianity by the Irish and Anglo-Saxons: The Creation of Two Different Christian Societies
Posted on March 23, 2012 | No CommentsFrom the Celts to the Anglo-Saxons, nomadic tribes of Europe fostered pagan beliefs. Today, few records exist to explain these faiths because of their roots in oral tradition and a demise of animistic traditions brought about by the adaptation of a new conviction.
