Was St Edmund killed by the Vikings in Essex?
If confirmed, the new proposal would change our understanding of the early history of Suffolk and especially of the town and abbey of Bury St Edmunds.
Divine Love in a World History Perspective: Contributions of Medieval Female Saint
Scholars have noted that similar notions of Divine Love have existed among the mystical traditions within Christianity, Islam and Hinduism.
The Other Mary: The Absence of Mary Magdalene in the Santa Maria in Trastevere
My research examines the social context throughout Rome during the medieval era, the status of prostitution, spatial analysis of Trastevere, and the inevitable entrance of promiscuity through the Santa Maria Basilica in Trastevere.
The Problem of Miracles and Methodology in Hagiography Research
In the following paragraphs I hope to bring to light the current state of study of hagiography and the issues which beset it.
Responses to Mental Illness in Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century Normandy
To what extent was mental illness attributed to the devil? What was the view of illnesses which had physical signs and non-physical signs? What about mental illness caused by trauma?
Alienated from the womb: abortion in the early medieval West, c.500-900
Early medieval churchmen, rulers, and jurists saw multiple things in abortion and there were multiple perspectives upon abortion.
HASKINS CONFERENCE: Hagiography at the Frontiers: Jocelin of Furness and his Near Contemporaries
This paper focuses on the writing of Cistercian Jocelin of Furness.
Homo Sacer: Power, Life and the Sexual Body in Old French Saints’ Lives
It might of course be argued that the comfort for this torture that Christine receives by God’s grace draws attention away from the cruelty of her punishments…
Analysis of the Putative Remains of a European Patron Saint – St. Birgitta
According to legend, the skulls of St. Birgitta and her daughter Katarina are maintained in a relic shrine in Vadstena abbey, mid Sweden.
Poetry, Patronage, and Politics: Epic Saints’ Lives in Western Francia, 800-1000
t: Monastic authors in western Francia during the central Middle Ages composed and exchanged Latin verse saints’ lives (vitae metricae) to create communities of saints, emperors, bishops, teachers, and students
Unwilling Pilgrimage: Vikings, Relics, and the Politics of Exile during the Carolingian era
Unwilling Pilgrimage: Vikings, Relics, and the Politics of Exile during the Carolingian era By Daniel C. DeSelm PhD Dissertation, University of Michigan, 2009…
The Making of Saint Martin
The Making of Saint Martin By Piotr Morawski, Gorjan Dimitrov, Henriette L E Rasmussen, Amalie Frese and Julie Jacobsen Thesis, Roskilde University, 2005…
Royal, Aristocratic and Bourgois Patronage: the Examples of Chartres Cathedral and the Church of St. Martin in Candes
Royal, Aristocratic and Bourgois Patronage: the Examples of Chartres Cathedral and the Church of St.Martin in Candes Lutan, Sara (Department of Art History, Tel Aviv University)…
The Tale of Peter and Fervoniia: The Text and the Icon
The Tale of Peter and Fervoniia: The Text and the Icon By Priscilla Hunt Elementa, Vol.3 (1997) Introduction: The enigmatic Tale of Peter…
Indecent bodies: gender and the monstrous in medieval English literature
Indecent bodies: gender and the monstrous in medieval English literature Oswald, Dana Morgan Thesis: Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, English, (2005) Abstract While…
Cathedrals and the Cult of Saints in Eleventh and Twelfth-Century Wales
The cathedral churches of the four bishoprics of the Welsh, the reformed episcopal sees that emerged in the eleventh and twelfth centuries at Bangor, St Davids, Llandaf, and Llanelwy, had at their heart the cult of local founding bishops.
“Apud Lotharingos Altus et Doctus”: Leofric of Exeter, 1050-1072
“Apud Lotharingos Altus et Doctus”: Leofric of Exeter, 1050-1072 Corradini, Erika (University of Leicester) The Proceedings of the Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies…
Saints, Monks and Bishops; cult and authority in the diocese of Wells (England) before the Norman Conquest
Saints, Monks and Bishops; cult and authority in the diocese of Wells (England) before the Norman Conquest Costen, Michael (University of Bristol, UK)…
Miracles of healing in Anglo-Celtic Northumbria as recorded by the venerable Bede and his contemporaries: a reappraisal in the light of twentieth century experience
Miracles of healing in Anglo-Celtic Northumbria as recorded by the venerable Bede and his contemporaries: a reappraisal in the light of twentieth century…
Blood and body : women’s religious practices in late medieval Europe
Blood and body : women’s religious practices in late medieval Europe Tudesko, Jenny L. Thesis: M.A., History, California State University, Sacramento (2009) Abstract…
Virginity and the married-virgin saints in Ælfric’s Lives of Saints: the translation of an ideal
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…
A history of women religious in the early Irish Church : the hagiographical evidence
A history of women religious in the early Irish Church : the hagiographical evidence Anderson, Jill J. Thesis: Doctor of Philosophy, University…
Breaking Through the Stained Glass Barrier: The Voices of Etheldreda,
Breaking Through the Stained Glass Barrier: The Voices of Etheldreda, Catherine of Alexandria, and Margaret of Antioch Delsigne, Jill Scripps College (2004) Abstract…
Mary Magdalen and the mendicants: The preaching of penance in the late Middle Ages
Mary Magdalen and the mendicants: The preaching of penance in the late Middle Ages Jansen, Katherine L.(Princeton University) Journal of Medieval History 21…
Patterns of Polemic: Medieval Women and Christian Doctrinal Reform
Patterns of Polemic: Medieval Women and Christian Doctrinal Reform Green, Robert Published Online in, “My Life As A Cat” (2009) Abstract The Christianity of…