Medievalists.net » Gregorian Reform http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Sun, 06 Dec 2015 23:06:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Irish Hagiographical Lives in the Twelfth Century: Church Reform before the Anglo-Norman Invasion http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/07/irish-hagiographical-lives-twelfth-century-church-reform-anglo-norman-invasion/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/07/irish-hagiographical-lives-twelfth-century-church-reform-anglo-norman-invasion/#comments Sun, 07 Sep 2014 22:37:08 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=52403 In order to further disentangle the reality and fiction of this view of culture versus barbarity and of reform versus wickedness, I shall analyse twelfth-century Irish vitae.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/07/irish-hagiographical-lives-twelfth-century-church-reform-anglo-norman-invasion/feed/ 0 Women’s Devotional Bequests of Textiles in the Late Medieval English Parish Church, c.1350-1550 http://www.medievalists.net/2014/08/18/womens-devotional-bequests-textiles-late-medieval-english-parish-church-c-1350-1550/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/08/18/womens-devotional-bequests-textiles-late-medieval-english-parish-church-c-1350-1550/#comments Mon, 18 Aug 2014 09:59:34 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=51936 My investigation is set within the context of the current high level of interest in the workings of the late medieval parish.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/08/18/womens-devotional-bequests-textiles-late-medieval-english-parish-church-c-1350-1550/feed/ 0 Royal and Magnate Bastards in the Later Middle Ages: The View from Scotland http://www.medievalists.net/2014/06/15/royal-magnate-bastards-later-middle-ages-view-scotland/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/06/15/royal-magnate-bastards-later-middle-ages-view-scotland/#comments Sun, 15 Jun 2014 23:59:54 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=50441 Theory and Practice in Scotland and Elsewhere Medieval Scotland’s law on bastardy is set out in the lawbook Regiam Majestatem (c.1320)...In England things were different, as Michael Hicks has demonstrated. Admittedly, English heraldic practice eventually followed the French, and the formula ‘X bastard of Y’ is occasionally found for magnates’ bastards.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/06/15/royal-magnate-bastards-later-middle-ages-view-scotland/feed/ 0 Pope Gregory VII: A Church Reformer http://www.medievalists.net/2013/12/27/pope-gregory-vii-a-church-reformer/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/12/27/pope-gregory-vii-a-church-reformer/#comments Fri, 27 Dec 2013 06:32:49 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=46085 By the time that Hildebrand was appointed Pope Gregory VII, the Church was in dire need of change and direction.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/12/27/pope-gregory-vii-a-church-reformer/feed/ 0 Inquiring into Adultery and Other Wicked Deeds: Episcopal Justice in Tenth- and Early Eleventh-Century Italy http://www.medievalists.net/2013/07/18/inquiring-into-adultery-and-other-wicked-deeds-episcopal-justice-in-tenth-and-early-eleventh-century-italy/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/07/18/inquiring-into-adultery-and-other-wicked-deeds-episcopal-justice-in-tenth-and-early-eleventh-century-italy/#comments Thu, 18 Jul 2013 15:05:15 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=42185 This article suggests that Italian bishops often had recourse to spiritual penalties to exercise their coercive authority over serious offences during the tenth and early eleventh centuries.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/07/18/inquiring-into-adultery-and-other-wicked-deeds-episcopal-justice-in-tenth-and-early-eleventh-century-italy/feed/ 0 The Consuetudines canonice of Lund http://www.medievalists.net/2012/12/04/the-consuetudines-canonice-of-lund/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/12/04/the-consuetudines-canonice-of-lund/#comments Wed, 05 Dec 2012 02:50:10 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=37486 In this paper we shall deal with the customs in Lund, the so-called Consuetudines canonice.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/12/04/the-consuetudines-canonice-of-lund/feed/ 0 Temptation and Redemption: A Monastic Life in Stone http://www.medievalists.net/2012/03/23/temptation-and-redemption-a-monastic-life-in-stone/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/03/23/temptation-and-redemption-a-monastic-life-in-stone/#comments Fri, 23 Mar 2012 15:45:24 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=30414 The monks who wrote the legend of Eugenia and those of the other transvestite women/monks were explicitly including a female in an all male monastic milieu. Women, as a rule, were not allowed in male monastic enclosures; the Rule at Cluny strictly forbade any women to enter the grounds.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/03/23/temptation-and-redemption-a-monastic-life-in-stone/feed/ 0 Retroactive Heresy: The influence of early Christian heresies on the identification and reaction to heretical sects http://www.medievalists.net/2012/02/20/retroactive-heresy-the-influence-of-early-christian-heresies-on-the-identification-and-reaction-to-heretical-sects/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/02/20/retroactive-heresy-the-influence-of-early-christian-heresies-on-the-identification-and-reaction-to-heretical-sects/#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 07:28:45 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=29415 The medieval Church viewed itself as Defender of the Faith, the destroyer of the unbelievers, the wrong believers. These heretics were to be reviled and feared as perverters of God’s word. The perverters of orthodoxy were, ultimately, not to be distinguished from one another, but rather known by catchphrases.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/02/20/retroactive-heresy-the-influence-of-early-christian-heresies-on-the-identification-and-reaction-to-heretical-sects/feed/ 0 The monastic response to Papal reform: Summi Magistri and it reception http://www.medievalists.net/2011/12/04/the-monastic-response-to-papal-reform-summi-magistri-and-it-reception/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/12/04/the-monastic-response-to-papal-reform-summi-magistri-and-it-reception/#comments Sun, 04 Dec 2011 21:17:57 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=27688 This is a question which has dogged the history of the interaction between Rome and the Black monks, and it brings a second question in its wake - what were the medieval Popes trying to do with monasticism?

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2011/12/04/the-monastic-response-to-papal-reform-summi-magistri-and-it-reception/feed/ 0 Why God Became Man: Saint Anselm, Cur Deus Homo, and a Religious Challenge in Anglo-Norman England http://www.medievalists.net/2011/09/22/why-god-became-man-saint-anselm-cur-deus-homo-and-a-religious-challenge-in-anglo-norman-england/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/09/22/why-god-became-man-saint-anselm-cur-deus-homo-and-a-religious-challenge-in-anglo-norman-england/#comments Thu, 22 Sep 2011 16:14:08 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=25689 Anselm's great contributions to the history of ideas have been the province of philosophers and theologians, while historians have concentrated on his actions as monk, abbot, and Archbishop of Canterbury during the Gregorian Reform.

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