Medievalists.net » Jerome http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Sun, 06 Dec 2015 19:35:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Medieval Lisbon: Jerónimos Monastery http://www.medievalists.net/2015/10/25/medieval-lisbon-jeronimos-monastery/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/10/25/medieval-lisbon-jeronimos-monastery/#comments Sun, 25 Oct 2015 16:54:04 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=62002 Of the four medieval #placestosee in Lisbon, Jerónimos Monastery, Mosteiro dos Jerónimos, was my favourite. The monastery is located in Belém, a suburb of Lisbon, that is famous for the 16th century monastery, as well as for its world famous pastry shop, Pastéis de Belém...

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/10/25/medieval-lisbon-jeronimos-monastery/feed/ 0 Knowledge of Ephraim’s Writings in the Merovingian and Carolingian Age http://www.medievalists.net/2012/10/04/knowledge-of-ephraims-writings-in-the-merovingian-and-carolingian-age/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/10/04/knowledge-of-ephraims-writings-in-the-merovingian-and-carolingian-age/#comments Thu, 04 Oct 2012 19:58:42 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=36214 The florilegium entitled Liber Scintillarum, the book of sparks from the words of God and of his saints, was composed by the monk Defensor of Ligugé. Our evidence for the life and date of Defensor derives entirely from his preface.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/10/04/knowledge-of-ephraims-writings-in-the-merovingian-and-carolingian-age/feed/ 0 The Vulgate Genesis and St. Jerome’s Attitudes to Women http://www.medievalists.net/2012/03/22/the-vulgate-genesis-and-st-jeromes-attitudes-to-women/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/03/22/the-vulgate-genesis-and-st-jeromes-attitudes-to-women/#comments Thu, 22 Mar 2012 16:27:42 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=30395 It is Jerome's hostility to women (and his suspicion and fear of them) that is usually emphasized. Some of my examples show evidence of this bias. But some of my examples also show a great warmth and sensitivity on his part to the women concerned in the passages, and I am inclined to attribute to St. Jerome a much more sympathetic and affectionate nature than does David Wiesen...

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/03/22/the-vulgate-genesis-and-st-jeromes-attitudes-to-women/feed/ 0 Virginity and the married-virgin saints in Ælfric’s Lives of Saints: the translation of an ideal http://www.medievalists.net/2011/09/09/virginity-and-the-married-virgin-saints-in-%c3%a6lfrics-lives-of-saints-the-translation-of-an-ideal/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/09/09/virginity-and-the-married-virgin-saints-in-%c3%a6lfrics-lives-of-saints-the-translation-of-an-ideal/#comments Fri, 09 Sep 2011 17:54:35 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=25222 Virginity and the married-virgin saints in Ælfric’s Lives of Saints: the translation of an ideal Smith, Liesl Ruth Thesis: Doctor of Philosophy,Graduate Department of Medieval Studies,University of Toronto (2000) Abstract Among the narratives included in his Lives of Saints, Ælfric of Eynsham translates three passiones of married-virgin saints: Passio Sancti Iuliani et Sponse Eius Basilisse, […]

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