Medievalists.net » Jacques de Vitry 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 The Power of Word: Preachers in Medieval Dubrovnik http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/28/power-word-preachers-medieval-dubrovnik/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/28/power-word-preachers-medieval-dubrovnik/#comments Sun, 28 Sep 2014 16:22:07 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=52921 In the pastoral of the Franciscan and Dominican orders preaching became the principal task of their mission. Preaching manuals represented the basis of the new art. The preachers also used sermon collections, Bible concordances and exempla collections.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/28/power-word-preachers-medieval-dubrovnik/feed/ 0 Women, Heresy, and Crusade: Toward a Context for Jacques de Vitry’s Relationship to the Early Beguines http://www.medievalists.net/2014/08/06/women-heresy-crusade-toward-context-jacques-de-vitrys-relationship-early-beguines/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/08/06/women-heresy-crusade-toward-context-jacques-de-vitrys-relationship-early-beguines/#comments Wed, 06 Aug 2014 13:20:05 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=51669 Grundmann‘s search for a founding figure is understandable in light of the problematic nature of Beguine institutional history. Beguine historiography has long struggled with the anomalous lack of clear foundation documents and accounts.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/08/06/women-heresy-crusade-toward-context-jacques-de-vitrys-relationship-early-beguines/feed/ 0 The Chaste Erotics of Marie d’Oignies and Jacques de Vitry http://www.medievalists.net/2013/08/01/the-chaste-erotics-of-marie-doignies-and-jacques-de-vitry-2/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/08/01/the-chaste-erotics-of-marie-doignies-and-jacques-de-vitry-2/#comments Thu, 01 Aug 2013 19:41:47 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=42547 The Chaste Erotics of Marie d’Oignies and Jacques de Vitry Jennifer Brown (Marymount Manhattan College) Journal of the History of Sexuality, Vol. 19, No. 1, January (2010) Abstract IN JACQUES DE VITRY’S THIRTEENTH-CENTURY vita of Marie d’Oignies, the hagiographer, or author of a sacred biography, implicates himself in his knowledge of a priest’s surprising reaction […]

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/08/01/the-chaste-erotics-of-marie-doignies-and-jacques-de-vitry-2/feed/ 0 Ciceronian rhetoric and the art of medieval French hagiography http://www.medievalists.net/2012/09/02/ciceronian-rhetoric-and-the-art-of-medieval-french-hagiography/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/09/02/ciceronian-rhetoric-and-the-art-of-medieval-french-hagiography/#comments Sun, 02 Sep 2012 17:28:03 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=35306 In the lives of the saints, it is clear that medieval hagiography reflects the statement, 'Antiquity has a twofold life in the Middle Ages: reception and transformation.'

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/09/02/ciceronian-rhetoric-and-the-art-of-medieval-french-hagiography/feed/ 0 The Chaste Erotics of Marie d’Oignies and Jacques de Vitry http://www.medievalists.net/2012/08/30/the-chaste-erotics-of-marie-doignies-and-jacques-de-vitry/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/08/30/the-chaste-erotics-of-marie-doignies-and-jacques-de-vitry/#comments Thu, 30 Aug 2012 06:34:05 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=35258 In this article I would like to look at Marie's ascetic and devotional practices and how Jacques, as both confessor and hagiographer, implicates himself into these practices.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/08/30/the-chaste-erotics-of-marie-doignies-and-jacques-de-vitry/feed/ 0 Gerard of Nazareth, John Bale and the origins of the Carmelite Order http://www.medievalists.net/2012/08/23/gerard-of-nazareth-john-bale-and-the-origins-of-the-carmelite-order/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/08/23/gerard-of-nazareth-john-bale-and-the-origins-of-the-carmelite-order/#comments Thu, 23 Aug 2012 06:00:07 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=35051 The phenomenon of eremitical monasticism in western Europe in the eleventh and twelfth centuries has been studied extensively,2 but little material has been found that might shed light on the foundation of eremitical communities by Franks in the Latin East.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/08/23/gerard-of-nazareth-john-bale-and-the-origins-of-the-carmelite-order/feed/ 0 Blood and body : women’s religious practices in late medieval Europe http://www.medievalists.net/2011/09/10/blood-and-body-womens-religious-practices-in-late-medieval-europe/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/09/10/blood-and-body-womens-religious-practices-in-late-medieval-europe/#comments Sat, 10 Sep 2011 22:16:56 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=25251 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 […]

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