Convents, Courts and Colleges: The Prioress and the Second Nun
Pilgrimage, after Whitby, and before Vatican II, was a secular activity, a performance of piety by the laity, not by the clergy; although there were a few exceptions.7 Chaucer’s Monk, Friar, Prioress, Nun, Priest, Summoner, Pardoner and Parson ought not to be here. Their presence is outrageous comedy. Inns were forbidden to the cloistered clergy who, if they had to travel, were enjoined to stay in other monastic establishments along their route.
“The Letter Kills, But the Spirit Gives Life”: The Rise of Learning in the Franciscan Order, 1210-1310
The twelfth century was marked by a general enthusiasm for two phenomena: scholastic learning and voluntary poverty. The division of society into clergy and laymen maintained itself in response to these two enthusiasms.
Retroactive Heresy: The influence of early Christian heresies on the identification and reaction to heretical sects
The medieval Church viewed itself as Defender of the Faith, the destroyer of the unbelievers, the wrong believers. These heretics were to be reviled and feared as perverters of God’s word. The perverters of orthodoxy were, ultimately, not to be distinguished from one another, but rather known by catchphrases.
The monastic response to Papal reform: Summi Magistri and it reception
This is a question which has dogged the history of the interaction between Rome and the Black monks, and it brings a second question in its wake – what were the medieval Popes trying to do with monasticism?
The Medieval Friaries of London
The five friaries under review are the houses that lasted up to the Dissolution in 1538: the Dominican Black Friars, the Franciscan Grey Friars, Carmelite White Friars, Augustinian Austin Friars and the house of Crossed or Crutched Friars
The Friar of Carcassonne
The Friar of Carcassonne: Revolt against the Inquisition in the Last Days of the Cathars By Stephen O’Shea Douglas and McIntyre, 2011 ISBN…
Getty Museum acquires 13th century Bible
The J. Paul Getty Museum has acquired the Abbey Bible, a 13th-century Italian book that is considered to be an important example of…
Adelard of Bath and Roger Bacon: early English natural philosophers and scientists
Adelard of Bath and Roger Bacon: early English natural philosophers and scientists Hackett, Jeremiah M. Endeavour, Vol. 26(2) 2002 Abstract The image of Roger Bacon…
Sisters Between Gender and the Medieval Beguines
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“Neoplatonic Influence in the Writings of Robert Grosseteste”
“Neoplatonic Influence in the Writings of Robert Grosseteste” Hendrix, John Shannon (Roger Williams University) School of Architecture, Art, and Historic Preservation Faculty Papers (2008) Abstract…
Conversion Anxieties in the Crown of Aragón in the Later Middle Ages
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The Letters of Eljigidei, Hülegü, and Abaqa: Mongol Overtures or Christian Ventriloquism?
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Ethics and poetics: the architectural vision of Saint Francis of Assisi
Ethics and poetics: the architectural vision of Saint Francis of Assisi Caicco, Gregory Paul (McGill University) Phd Philosophy Thesis, McGill University (1998) Abstract…
Learning by Doing: Coping with Inquisitors in Medieval Languedoc
Among these is the rich mass of documentation relating to the inquisition of heretical depravity in Languedoc in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries
Pope John XXII and the Franciscan ideal of absolute poverty
Pope John XXII and the Franciscan ideal of absolute poverty By Melanie Brunner PhD Dissertation, University of Leeds, 2006 Abstract: My thesis offers…
“Family Life and the Garment of Love: St. Francis and Nicholas Bozon’s ‘Lives of St. Elizabeth of Hungary and St. Agnes’
The Third Annual Medievalists@Penn Graduate Student Conference – Family Matters Panel I: Sisters In Spirit “Family Life and the Garment of Love: St.…
Conflicting loyalties: the Irish Franciscans and the English Crown in the High Middle Ages
Conflicting loyalties: the Irish Franciscans and the English Crown in the High Middle Ages Muller, Anne (Catholic University, Eichstätt) Proceedings of the Royal Irish…
Auxiliary Preachers in the Northern Province: Supplementing the Parish Clergy in the Late Thirteenth and Early Fourteenth Centuries
Auxiliary Preachers in the Northern Province: Supplementing the Parish Clergy in the Late Thirteenth and Early Fourteenth Centuries Birkett,Helen Marginalia, Vol. 7, (2008) Abstract…
Oaks, Wolves and Love: Celtic Monks and Northern Forests
Oaks, Wolves and Love: Celtic Monks and Northern Forests Powen Bratton, Susan Journal of Forest History, V.33:1 (1989) Abstract In 1967 Lynn White,…
“The Bad Behaviour of Friars and Women in the Medieval Catalan fabliaux and Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales”
“The Bad Behaviour of Friars and Women in the Medieval Catalan fabliaux and Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales” Méndez, Jerónimo (University of Valencia) BAD BEHAVIOUR Volume 3(1) (2010)…
Homo religiosus of the late middle ages. The Bernardine’s model of popular religion
Homo religiosus of the late middle ages. The Bernardine’s model of popular religion Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza, Wydział Historyczny, Praca doktorska, Poznań (2004) Szulc, Alicja (Uniwersytet im.…
The spirituality and mysticism of nature in the early Franciscan tradition
The spirituality and mysticism of nature in the early Franciscan tradition By Mary E. Share PhD Dissertation, University of South Africa, 2004 Abstract:…
Reading Devotion. Asceticism and Affectivity in Love’s Mirror
In this article, I will examine the affective elements of Love’s Mirror in an effort to re-evaluate its connections to late-medieval devotional culture.
Luca Pacioli: the Father of Accounting Education
Luca Pacioli: the Father of Accounting Education Sangster, Alan (Middlesex University Business School, London, UK) Scataglini Belghitar, Giovanna (Balliol College, University of Oxford, UK)…
Duns Scotus on Divine Substance and the Trinity
Duns Scotus on Divine Substance and the Trinity Cross, Richard (Oriel College, Oxford) Medieval Philosophy and Theology 11 (2003) Abstract Charting a course…