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Teaching the Creed and Articles of Faith in England: Lateran IV to Ignorantia sacerdotum
Posted on April 14, 2013 | No CommentsThe broad conclusion of this thesis is that the available evidence shows that the basic principles of Christian doctrine were available both to the lower clergy who would preach and teach the Creed and Articles of Faith and also to the laity who would receive this preaching and instruction. -
Dramatic ritual and preaching in late Anglo-Saxon England
Posted on April 8, 2013 | No CommentsMy thesis involves an examination of the dramatic liturgical ritual of the late Anglo-Saxon period and its relationship to other aspects of Christian worship, especially vernacular preaching. -
Making the martyr: the liturgical persona of Saint Thomas Becket in visual imagery
Posted on February 10, 2013 | No CommentsHow was the historical figure of the worldly chancellor reconciled to the saintly archbishop who was martyred for his faith on the floor of Canterbury Cathedral? One of the most important vehicles of expression in the Middle Ages was the liturgy. -
Scottish saints cults and pilgrimage from the Black Death to the Reformation, c.1349-1560
Posted on January 15, 2013 | No CommentsThis thesis will question this premise and provide the first indepth study of the cults of St Andrew, Columba of Iona/Dunkeld, Kentigern of Glasgow and Ninian of Whithorn in a late medieval Scottish context, as well as the lesser known northern saint, Duthac of Tain. -
The Mystery of the Marble Man and his Hat: A Reconsideration of the Bari Episcopal Throne
Posted on December 31, 2012 | No CommentsUntil the twentieth century, the throne was universally held to have been sculpted in or immediately before 1098 for Elias, the abbot of San Nicola and archbishop of Bari and Canosa. -
Church Wall Paintings and Mosaics: Principles of their arrangement and relationship to church architecture
Posted on December 16, 2012 | No CommentsThe history of Orthodox church wall-painting and mosaics, East and West, is a very rich one. On the one hand it reveals tremendous creativity in the Church’s response to architectural and pastoral changes. On the other hand it shows how consistently it has been faithful to unchanging spiritual principles. -
English Mystery Plays – Staging Patterns and Orality Features
Posted on December 16, 2012 | No CommentsMedieval English theatre is a term covering a large body of plays, performances and theatrical activities. The entire period of medieval drama spans for five hundred years. -
“The Eucharist and the Negotiation of Orthodoxy in the High Middle Ages”
Posted on November 15, 2012 | No CommentsThis paper is part of Adam Hoose's dissertation. It examined the differences between Waldensians and Franciscans in their treatment of the Eucharist. It also explored why the Waldensians were unsuccessful in their bid to become a legitimate religious order and were eventually marginalized as heretics. -
“Kings as Catechumens: Royal Conversion Narratives and Easter in the Historia Ecclesiastica” by Carolyn Twomey (Boston College)
Posted on November 3, 2012 | No CommentsThis is the first paper from the Haskins Conference at Boston College - it focused on Bede's narratives of Royal conversion. -
Sacrilege, Sacrifice and John Barbour’s Bruce
Posted on October 13, 2012 | No CommentsThe narrative accomplished on this plane is critical to the foundation, or re-foundation, of royal order after a usurpation, yet it is more than a dynastic expedient;3 rather, it is a story that, even as it bridges the gaps in credibility and legitimacy attendant upon a new royal line, primally reinforces the governing fictions of kingship as an institution. -
Performance, transmission and devotion: understanding the Anglo-Saxon prayer books, c.800-1050
Posted on September 28, 2012 | No CommentsThis thesis offers a corrective to standard histories of medieval devotion that circumvent the Anglo-‐Saxon contribution to medieval piety, by investigating private prayers found in certain manuscripts between 800 and 1050. It examines the manuscript tradition of prayer, to reveal the reality of prayer performance in Anglo-‐Saxon England. -
A Cluniac Office of the Dead
Posted on July 17, 2012 | No CommentsThe office of the dead has become a familiar portion of the divine office to anyone who studies chant, but this is the limit of most research. Although Cluny maintained a reputation for its frequent celebration of the office of the dead, the Cluniac office of the dead has only been mentioned in passing in many chant studies. -
Mary and the Jews in Anglo-Norman Monastic Culture
Posted on July 15, 2012 | No CommentsThis thesis looks at the ways in which Benedictine monks contributed to the fashioning of images of Jews in sources related to the Marian cult in the post-Conquest period, 1066-1154. -
The Libro de la Regla Vieja of the Cathedral of Seville as a Musicological Source
Posted on April 22, 2012 | No CommentsThe significance of this regla de coro to Seville’s pre-Tridentine use prompted me to seek here a deeper understanding of the book, and especially the textual transmission of its contents, confusion over which has led, hitherto, to most of the difficulties and errors concerning its dating. -
VAGANTES: Between Tradition and Change: Monastic Reform in Three fifteenth-century German Redactions of the Life of Saint Mary of Egypt
Posted on March 30, 2012 | No CommentsUsing the life of St. Mary of Egypt, this paper will consider three different Middle High German versions produced by reform communities and will analyze how the reform ideologies and goals manifest in the texts. -
A Reassessment of the Feast of Fools: A Rough and Holy Liturgy
Posted on March 18, 2012 | No CommentsA younger contemporary of Richard of St.-Victor, Jean Beleth (fl. 1160), acknowledged the popular name of the feast: “The feast of the subdeacons, which we call ‘of fools’, by some is executed on the Circumcision, but by others on Epiphany or its octave.' -
Tutoring the Affections: Liturgy and Christian Formation in the Early Church
Posted on March 5, 2012 | No CommentsDuring Easter week in the early 390s Saint Ambrose preached a series of sermons to the newly baptized. Known by the title On the Mysteries, these sermons have often been studied for what one can learn about early Christian worship and sacramental theology -
The Concept of Purgatory in England
Posted on February 26, 2012 | No CommentsThe notion of purgatory or a third place had great and direct impact on the way people thought because this third place was the immediate destination of the soul after death in the minds of most Christians. People imagined at death that this would be the next form of being. -
The Liturgical Context of Ælfric’s Homilies for Rogation
Posted on February 12, 2012 | No CommentsTo search out Ælfric’s sources is also to inquire into his method of composition, to guess at the principles that guided him to some sources and away from others. Malcolm Godden has provided a remarkably full list of Ælfric’s sources, and suggests that Ælfric relied on relatively few volumes to compose his homilies. -
Christian Marriage in Byzantium: The Canonical and Liturgical Tradition
Posted on February 2, 2012 | No CommentsAll Byzantine Christians were offered a choice between celibate asceticism and married life, but in either case they were called to anticipate in their lives the eschatological Kingdom of God. -
Interpreting a medieval church through liturgy
Posted on January 30, 2012 | No CommentsSome of us still feel that an attempt to bring the old liturgy of the church to life again would transport us best of all across the centuries to Tudor times. For churches are built primarily for liturgy – it is their staple diet. -
Popular Piety in the Middle Ages: What is Popular?
Posted on January 17, 2012 | No CommentsTo speak, then of a 'Learned faith' of the Middle Ages (or, for that matter, of any age) over and against a 'Popular faith,' as though it were a higher, purer form of faith, is hardly correct. -
Power Through Purity: The Virgin Martyrs and Women’s Salvation in
Posted on September 7, 2011 | No CommentsPower Through Purity: The Virgin Martyrs and Women’s Salvation in Pre-Reformation Scotland Fitch, Audrey-Beth Women in Scotland : C.1100 – c.1750, edited by Elizabeth Ewan and Maureen M. Meikle (East... -
Fama et Memoria: Portraits of Female Patrons in Mosaic Pavements of Churches in Byzantine Palestine and Arabia
Posted on September 2, 2011 | No CommentsFama et Memoria: Portraits of Female Patrons in Mosaic Pavements of Churches in ByzantinePalestine and Arabia Britt, Karen C. Medieval Feminist Forum, 44, no. 2 (2008) Abstract When we think of... -
The Alphabetum catholicorum of Arnaldus of Villanova, an edition and study
Posted on August 24, 2011 | No CommentsThe Alphabetum catholicorum of Arnaldus of Villanova, an edition and study Burnam, Hope Lampert (university of Toronto) PhD Thesis, University of Toronto (1996) Abstract On the title page to the...