Religious Life Archive
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Confronting the End: The Interpretation of the Last Judgment in a Novgorod Wisdom Icon
Posted on May 22, 2012 | No CommentsA large Novgorod icon, dated in the mid-fifteenth or early sixteenth century, has been called a Last Judgment composition by scholarship. -
Paradise in Africa: The History of a Geographical Myth from its Origins in Medieval Thought to its Gradual Demise in Early Modern Europe
Posted on May 19, 2012 | No CommentsWhere was Paradise to be found? In this regard, a considerable number of different locations have been proposed. -
Perfect Virgins and Suicidal Maniacs: Monks in Early Thirteenth-Century Pastoralia
Posted on May 18, 2012 | No CommentsThis summary is of a paper that was the last in the English Cistercian series at Kalamazoo. -
The hanging of William Cragh: anatomy of a miracle
Posted on May 18, 2012 | No CommentsOn Monday 12 November 1291, Welsh rebels, William Cragh and Traharn ap Howel, were dragged from the dungeons of Swansea Castle and hanged on the nearby gallows. That, by all reason, should have been the end of the story – except that it was not. -
Aereld of Rievaulx and the Creation of An Anglo Saxon Past
Posted on May 18, 2012 | No CommentsThis paper summary is part of a session on English Cistercians and focused on Aelred of Rievaulx and the abbey of Hexum. -
Prayer in Peasant Communities: Ideals and Practices of Prayer in the Late Medieval Ecclesiastical Province of Uppsala, Sweden
Posted on May 16, 2012 | No CommentsThe most ordinary way to act during prayer was to stand with hands together, palm against palm, and to pray in the vernacular often using mental themes to enhance the devotion. -
What Can Historians Do with Clerical Masculinity? Lessons from Medieval Europe
Posted on May 15, 2012 | No CommentsClerical masculinity, the subject of this volume, has the power to revitalize connections between modern and premodern histories. -
Margot Fassler wins 2012 Otto Gründler Book Prize
Posted on May 14, 2012 | No CommentsMargot Fassler, Keough-Hesburgh Professor of Music History and Liturgy at the University of Notre Dame, was awarded the 2012 Otto Gründler Book Prize for her book The Virgin of Chartres: Making History Through Liturgy and the Arts. -
Tourists and Tabulae in Late Medieval London
Posted on May 4, 2012 | No CommentsMichael Van Dussen examines a late-medieval Czech account of St Paul's Cathedral in London -
An introduction to the investigation into the mental health of female medieval mystics
Posted on May 2, 2012 | No CommentsWhile the Medieval ascription to madness is known, in the light of recent psychological and medical insights, I will explore alternative explanations for the extreme behaviour of devout women in the Middle Ages. -
A Renaissance Instrument to Support Nonprofits: The Sale of Private Chapels in Florentine Churches
Posted on April 30, 2012 | No CommentsMost visitors to Florence today assume that the extraordinary examples of religious art and architecture were commissioned by the local church, and that each church was largely controlled by the Vatican. In fact, most church art was privately commissioned and privately owned, and the local churches had a large degree of local autonomy. -
From Other Worldly to Worldly: Materialism, Anomie, and the Decline of Catharism’s Charismatic Appeal
Posted on April 29, 2012 | No CommentsThe Cathars believed in a dualist cosmology that posited the existence of two coeternal gods, one good and one evil. -
Cistercian Spirituality and Emergence of the Coronation of the Virgin in the Late Middle Ages
Posted on April 29, 2012 | No CommentsAlong with the popular devotion to the Virgin Mary, the theme of the 'Coronation of the Virgin' acquired high popularity through the artistic representation of the Virgin. -
Craftsmanship of the Digby Mary Magdalene play
Posted on April 27, 2012 | No CommentsThe Digby Mary Magdalene is contained in the Digby MS. 133 of the Bodlein Library. Included in the Manuscript are three other plays, Killing of the Children, The Conversion of St Paul, and a portion of Wisdom. -
Clerical Conceptions of Magic and the Stereotype of the Female Witch
Posted on April 24, 2012 | No CommentsOne of the specific aspects of witchcraft that has seen considerable attention in recent years is its relationship to gender. Both Bailey and Broedel have made admirable contributions to uncovering the historical development of a feminine witch concept.
