Medievalists.net » John of Salisbury 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 Military Technology in the writings of John of Salisbury http://www.medievalists.net/2014/03/19/military-technology-writings-john-salisbury/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/03/19/military-technology-writings-john-salisbury/#comments Wed, 19 Mar 2014 22:50:52 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=48411 John was one of the best-educated men of his day and worked as a clerk to the archbishops of Canterbury; later in life, he became the treasurer of Exeter Cathedral and also the bishop of Chartres. John was a prolific author who wrote three major books, two saints’ lives, two moralistic poems, and 325 personal letters.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/03/19/military-technology-writings-john-salisbury/feed/ 0 Double sex, double pleasure? Hermaphrodites and the medieval laws http://www.medievalists.net/2013/08/05/double-sex-double-pleasure-hermaphrodites-and-the-medieval-laws/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/08/05/double-sex-double-pleasure-hermaphrodites-and-the-medieval-laws/#comments Mon, 05 Aug 2013 14:01:58 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=42631 I think the question of how the medieval laws dealt with ambivalent bodies deserves some attention in own right. The more general question is: how did medieval societies deal with experiences that challenged accepted views of what was normal?

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/08/05/double-sex-double-pleasure-hermaphrodites-and-the-medieval-laws/feed/ 0 Bernard of Morlaix: the literature of complaint, the Latin tradition and the twelfth-century “Renaissance” http://www.medievalists.net/2013/03/09/bernard-of-morlaix-the-literature-of-complaint-the-latin-tradition-and-the-twelfth-century-renaissance/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/03/09/bernard-of-morlaix-the-literature-of-complaint-the-latin-tradition-and-the-twelfth-century-renaissance/#comments Sun, 10 Mar 2013 02:26:04 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=39685 Bernard of Morlaix was a monk of the order of Cluny who flourished around 1140. Excerpts from one of his poems appear in some anthologies of medieval Latin verse1 and he is briefly noticed in some works on the twelfth-century renaissance, but he has received little critical attention and only one of his poems has been translated from the Latin.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/03/09/bernard-of-morlaix-the-literature-of-complaint-the-latin-tradition-and-the-twelfth-century-renaissance/feed/ 0 Melchizedek as Exemplar for Kingship in Twelfth-Century Political Thought http://www.medievalists.net/2012/07/29/melchizedek-as-exemplar-for-kingship-in-twelfth-century-political-thought/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/07/29/melchizedek-as-exemplar-for-kingship-in-twelfth-century-political-thought/#comments Sun, 29 Jul 2012 14:25:51 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=34278 The figure of Melchizedek, ‘king of Salem’ and ‘priest of God Most High’,was less prominently featured in political writings than Saul, David, Solo-mon, and other biblical rulers.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/07/29/melchizedek-as-exemplar-for-kingship-in-twelfth-century-political-thought/feed/ 0 John of Salisbury’s Entheticus and the Classical Tradition of Satire http://www.medievalists.net/2012/07/17/john-of-salisburys-entheticus-and-the-classical-tradition-of-satire/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/07/17/john-of-salisburys-entheticus-and-the-classical-tradition-of-satire/#comments Tue, 17 Jul 2012 06:53:11 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=33898 iterary historians of the Middle Ages, with few exceptions, have haltingly dismissed or merely acknowledged the Entheticus. To Wright and Sinclair it was simply "a curious poem."

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/07/17/john-of-salisburys-entheticus-and-the-classical-tradition-of-satire/feed/ 0 John of Salisbury: An Argument for Philosophy within Education http://www.medievalists.net/2011/07/25/john-of-salisbury-an-argument-for-philosophy-within-education/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/07/25/john-of-salisbury-an-argument-for-philosophy-within-education/#comments Mon, 25 Jul 2011 14:40:09 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=23250 John of Salisbury: An Argument for Philosophy within Education Turgeon, Wendy C. ANALYTIC TEACHING Vol. 18 No.2 (1999) Abstract Many commentators on the movement known as Philosophy for Children stress the notion that this movement is not simply a specific curriculum or program. Lipman, Sharp and others invite us to re-examine the role and nature […]

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