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The Ostrogoths in Italy By Biagio Saitta Polis: Revista de ideas y formas políticas de la Antigüedad Clásica, Vol. 11 (1999) Introduction: The attempt at Roman-Germanic cohabitation which Odoacer (Odovacar) successfully made between 476 und 489 was taken even further by the Ostrogoths. Coming from the middle Danube, they arrived in Italy with the approval […]
Constructed Landscapes and Social Memory; Tales of St. Samson in Early Medieval Cornwall Harvey, Dr. David C. (Department of Geography, University of Exeter) Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, Vol. 20:2 (2002) Abstract This article considers the historical geography of place and space within the context of medieval Britain. Through examining the geography invoked within a […]
The Western Roman Embassy to the Court of Attila in AD 449 By Hrvoje Gracanin Byzantinoslavica, Vol. 61 (2003) Abstract: Based on the analysis of an early Byzantine source, The History of Byzantium and of the Period of Attila, by Priscus of Panium, the author tires to form a plausible conjecture about the true purpose […]
Contextualizing Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of the English People with Bioarchaeological Data – Reassessing Anglo-Saxon Culture, Health, and Disease By Joseph Z. Boyer The School of Historical Studies Postgraduate Forum E-Journal Edition, Vol. 7 (2009) Abstract: Both the limitations of paleopathological data and the lack of textual remains from early Anglo-Saxon Britain create difficulties when trying to interpret culture, […]
Dish to cash, cash to ash : the last Roman parasite and the birth of a comic profession Vidovic, Goran MA Thesis in Medieval Studies, Central European University, Budapest, May (2009) Abstract The subject of the thesis is the unconventional role of the parasite Mandrogerus in the early fifth-century Latin comedy, the Querolus. The topos of parasitic […]
A catastrophe remembered: a meteorite impact of the fifth century AD in the Abruzzo, central Italy Roberto Santilli, , Jens Ormo, Angelo P. Rossi, Goro Komatsu Antiquity, Volume: 77 Number: 296 (2003) Abstract A meteorite impact crater in the Sirente mountains, central Abruzzo has recently been dated to the four/fifth century AD. The author shows that […]
Reasons for Political Instability in the Visigothic Kingdom in Iberia Bourassa, Gillian Washington College Review, Vol.15 (2007) Abstract Europe experienced significant changes during the fourth and fifth centuries of the Common Era, as the Roman Empire declined and several new kingdoms rose to prominence in the West as a result of the migrations of various Germanic […]
A Survey of the Anglo-Saxon Cruciform Brooches of Florid Type Leeds, E. T. Pocock, Michael Medieval Archaeology, Vol.15 (1971) Abstract This short study o f the English cruciform brooches in the latest and most elaborate phase o f their development was lift practically completed by E. T . Leeds before his death in 1955. My best […]
The Three Young Men in The Furnace and The Art of Ecphrasis in The Coptic Sermon By Theophilus of Alexandria Polański, Tomasz (Kraków) Studies in Ancient Art and Civilization, vol.10, Kraków (2007) Abstract The church interiors in the East in the period of the 4th-7th century were adorned with images of Christ, the apostles, prophets […]
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 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 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 Ideology of Monastic and Aristocratic Community in Late Roman Gaul By Ralph W. Mathisen Polis: Revista de ideas y formas políticas de la Antigüedad Clásica, Vol. 6 (1994) Abstract: During the fifth century, with the arrival of the barbarians and the rise of the Christian church, aristocratic society in Gaul was sorely threatened. This […]
The Original Godfather: Ricimer and the Fall of Rome By Max Flomen Hirundo, the McGill Journal of Classical Studies, Vol.8 (2009-10) Introduction: As the Western Roman Empire lurched towards collapse during the last quarter of the fifth century, no fewer than four men claimed the title of emperor between 456 and 472 C.E. Despite their […]
Amma Syncletica: A Spirituality of Experience By Mary Forman Vox Benedictina: A Journal of Translations from Monastic Sources, Vol. 10:2 (1993) Introduction: The Vita Syncleticae is a mid-fifth century work which presents an ideal “amma” who may or may not be based on historical evidence. The fact that there may have been a historical person […]
Missing, Presumed Buried? Bone Diagenesis and the Under-Representation of Anglo-Saxon Children Buckberry, Jo Assemblage, Issue 5 (2000) Abstract Sam Lucy (1994: 26) has stated that a ‘recognised feature of pre-Christian early medieval cemeteries in eastern England is the smaller number of younger burials recovered’. Although taphonomic factors such as the increased rate of decay of […]
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 […]
The Beauty of Reasoning: A Reexamination of Hypatia of Alexandra By Bryan J. Whitfield The Mathematics Educator, Vol.6:1 (1995) No handiwork of Callimachus, Who handled marble as if it were bronze, Made draperies that seemed to rise When sea-wind swept the corner, stands. The vagaries of war, decay, accident, and time have effaced more than […]
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 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 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.” […]
Antioch was a city attempting to transition from a Greco-Roman Pagan society to an orthodox Christian society in a recently Christian empire.
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 […]
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