Saint Gildas and the Pestilent Dragon: A Meander through the Sixth-Century Landscape With a Most Notable Guru
The historical value of the pilgrimage episode in the Life of Gildas by the Monk of Ruys is defended by advancing solutions to the problems of composition-dating, integrity of tradition, motivation, and the appearance of a dragon. An approach is taken to delimiting the date of the pilgrimage in light of the Yellow Death pandemic and the geopolitics of the contemporary Mediterranean world.
Adomnán, Iona, and the Life of St. Columba: Their Place Among Continental Saints
Adomnán, Iona, and the Life of St. Columba: Their Place Among Continental Saints Wetherill, Jeffrey The Heroic Age Issue 6 Spring 2003 Abstract…
Art and reform in tenth-century Rome – the paintings of S. Maria in Pallara
The medieval wall paintings of the church of S. Maria in Pallara, situated on the Palatine Hill, Rome, provide insight into the intellectual use of images in the Middle Ages. The fragmentary apse programme survives, supplemented by antiquarian drawings that include copies of lost nave cycles and a lost donor portrait of their patron, Petrus Medicus.
St. Martin of Braga : sources for his tolerance toward the rustici in sixth century Galicia
St. Martin of Braga : sources for his tolerance toward the rustici in sixth century Galicia By Edward Kim Follis Master’s Thesis, University of…
GILDAS AND THE CITY OF THE LEGIONS
GILDAS AND THE CITY OF THE LEGIONS Field, P.J.C. The Heroic Age, Issue 1, Spring/Summer 1999 Abstract What Gildas calls “the City of…
Saint Ladislas on Stove Tiles
Saint Ladislas on Stove Tiles By Ana Maria Gruia Studia Patzinaka, 2, 2006 Abstract: Religious images and especially the saints are very frequent…
Royal Sainthood Revisited. New Dimensions of the Cult of Saint Ladislas (14th-15th centuries)
The saintly prince, Ladislas, then, espied a Pagan carrying on the back of his horse a beautiful Hungarian maiden.
Eikonomachia: The Afterlife of the “Iconoclastic Controversy” in Byzantium
Eikonomachia: The Afterlife of the “Iconoclastic Controversy” in Byzantium By Charles Barber Iconoclasm: The War on Images: 6th Annual Platsis Symposium (2007) Introduction:…
Iconoclasm in Byzantium: myths and realities
Byzantine iconoclasm has been wrapped in an almost impenetrable membrane of attitudes and assumptions, many of them conflicting.
Violent Imagery in Late Medieval Piety
Anyone who has done even the most cursory sight-seeing in European churches has encountered the apparent expressionism and morbidity of late medieval piety.
Anselm & Becket: Two Canterbury Saints’ Lives
Anselm & Becket: Two Canterbury Saints’ Lives By John Salisbury Translated by Ronald E. Peppin Pontifical Insitute of Mediaeval Studies, 2009 ISBN: 978–0–88844–298–7…
Anchoress and Abbess in Ninth-Century Saxony
Anchoress and Abbess in Ninth-Century Saxony: The Lives of Liutbirga of Wendhausen and Hathumoda of Gandersheim By Frederick Paxton Catholic University of America Press, 2009 ISBN: 978-0-8132-1569-3 Around…
Martyrdom, Murder, and Magic: Child Saints and Their Cults in Medieval Europe
Martyrdom, Murder, and Magic: Child Saints and Their Cults in Medieval Europe By Patricia Healy Wasyliw Peter Lang Publishing, 2008 ISBN: 978-0-8204-2764-5 Martyrdom, Murder,…
Saints’ Cults in the Celtic World
Saints’ Cults in the Celtic World Edited by Steve Boardman, John Reuben Davies and Eila Williamson Boydell and Brewer, 2009 ISBN: 9781843834328 The way in…
Saints and Orators: the role of religion in cementing the legitimacy of the Jagiellonian dynasty in Poland and abroad, 1480-1506
Saints and Orators: the role of religion in cementing the legitimacy of the Jagiellonian dynasty in Poland and abroad, 1480-1506 By Natalia Nowakowska…
Satan as Myth and Metaphor In The Life of St. Antony of Egypt
Satan as Myth and Metaphor In The Life of St. Antony of Egypt By Benjamin Cox Published Online (2003) Introduction: Among certain groups of…
The Father Sees in Secret: Secrecy and Humility in the Lives of Two Saints Simeon
The Father Sees in Secret: Secrecy and Humility in the Lives of Two Saints Simeon By Benjamin Cox Published Online (2003) Introduction: The early…
The Garden of St. Francis: Plants, Landscape, and Economy in Thirteenth-Century Italy
Popularly associated with the environmental movement, St. Francis (ca. 1182–1226) has long been figured as having an intense devotion to nature
Representing Nobility, Charity and sainthood : Aspects of the European Movement of the Mendicant Orders in the 13th and 14th Centuries
Representing Nobility, Charity and sainthood : Aspects of the European Movement of the Mendicant Orders in the 13th and 14th Centuries By Raphaela Averkorn…
The year 1009: St Bruno of Querfurt between Poland and Rus’
The year 1009: St Bruno of Querfurt between Poland and Rus’ By Darius Baronas Journal of Medieval History, Vol.34:1 (2008) Abstract: This paper deals with…
The Virgin In The Tower: St Barbara In Medieval And Modern Hagiography
The Virgin In The Tower: St Barbara In Medieval And Modern Hagiography By Felicity Cable Trinity College Dublin Journal of Postgraduate Research, Vol.6 (2006)…
Theological and Polemical Uses of Hagiography: A Consideration of Bonaventure’s Legenda Major of St. Francis
Theological and Polemical Uses of Hagiography: A Consideration of Bonaventure’s Legenda Major of St. Francis Hubert, Susan J. Comitatus Vol.29 (1998) Introduction Bonaventure’s…
Medieval Christianity: The State of the Field
Medieval Christianity: The State of the Field By Katherine J. Gill Religion Compass, Vol.1 (2004) Abstract: As in other academic disciplines, historical Christianity…
Peter Martyr: The Inquisitor as Saint
Peter Martyr: The Inquisitor as Saint Caldwell, Christine Comitatus Vol.31 (2000) Introduction When Stefano Vermigli, a Florentine shoemaker, was distraught over the deaths…
Sanctity in the North: Saints, Lives, and Cults in Medieval Scandinavia
Sanctity in the North: Saints, Lives, and Cults in Medieval Scandinavia Edited by Thomas Andrew DuBois University of Toronto Press, 2008 With original translations…