Feeding the Brethren: Grain Provisioning of Norwich Cathedral Priory, c. 1280-1370
Feeding the Brethren: Grain Provisioning of Norwich Cathedral Priory, c. 1280-1370 By Philip Slavin PhD Dissertation, University of Toronto, 2008 Abstract: The present dissertation…
Around a theme. The female community of the Order of St. James in Portugal: a journey from the late 15th century to the 16th century
Around a theme. The female community of the Order of St. James in Portugal: a journey from the late 15th century to the…
Institutionalization and Vita Religiosa. New Approaches towards the History of the Medieval Religious Orders
Institutionalization and Vita Religiosa. New Approaches towards the History of the Medieval Religious Orders By Anne Müller Journal of the Oxford University History Society,…
The Other Saint Bernard: The ‘Troubled and Varied Career’ of Bernard of Abbeville, Abbot of Tiron
His abbey was the source for more than a hundred communities throughout France and, perhaps surprisingly, in Scotland, Wales and England.
Spirituality of Francis and Clare of Assisi
Spirituality of Francis and Clare of Assisi Lecture by Br. Bill Short, O.F.M. Franciscan School of Theology & Graduate Union – Berkeley, CA Given…
Pluteus from the island of Rab from the later 6th or 7th century
Pluteus from the island of Rab from the later 6th or 7th century Jarak, M. Opvscvla Archaeologica Papers of the Department of Archaeology,…
Using Internet Resources for Researching Religious History: the Dominican Order in Medieval Spain as Case Study
Using Internet Resources for Researching Religious History: the Dominican Order in Medieval Spain as Case Study By Rita Ríos de la Llave Bridging the…
Liturgical Readings of the Cathedral Office for Saint Cuthbert
Liturgical Readings of the Cathedral Office for Saint Cuthbert Lenz, Karmen The Heroic Age, Issue 12 (May 2009) Abstract The tenth-century rhymed Office…
Two Recently-Discovered Passages of the Pseudo-Basil’s Admonition to a Spiritual Son (De admonitio ad filium spiritualem) in Smaragdus’ Commentary on the Rule of St. Benedict (Expositio in regulam s. Benedicti) and the Letters (Epistolae) of Alcuin
Two Recently-Discovered Passages of the Pseudo-Basil’s Admonition to a Spiritual Son (De admonitio ad filium spiritualem) in Smaragdus’ Commentary on the Rule of…
Heroes, Saints, and Martyrs: Holy Kingship from Bede to Aelfric
Heroes, Saints, and Martyrs: Holy Kingship from Bede to Aelfric Hare, Kent G. The Heroic Age, Issue 9 (Oct 2006) Abstract Warfare played…
Columba and Spiritual Proximity
Columba and Spiritual Proximity Rolfe, Alexander The Heroic Age Issue 7 Spring 2004 Abstract Argues that nearness to other monks was a dominant…
The Teutonic Knights in the Holy Land, 1190-1291
The Teutonic Knights in the Holy Land, 1190-1291 By Nicholas Morton Boydell, 2009 ISBN: 9781843834779 The Teutonic Order was founded in 1190 to provide…
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.
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.
Trois techniques d’excavation Nouvelles recherches sur le complexe Basarabi-Murfatlar
Trois techniques d’excavation Nouvelles recherches sur le complexe Basarabi-Murfatlar Agrigoroaei, Vladimir Studia Patzinaka, 4.1, 2007, pp. 45-71 Abstract Les églises rupestres de Basarabi-Murfatlar…
The ‘Rurikid sign’ from the B3 church at Basarabi-Murfatlar
The ‘Rurikid sign’ from the B3 church at Basarabi-Murfatlar Fetisov, Alexsander Studia Patzinaka, 4.1, 2007, pp. 29-44 Abstract The complex of cave churches…
The Role of Medieval Women as Monastic Patrons
The Role of Medieval Women as Monastic Patrons Lambert, Erin The Endnote, vol. 2 (2005) Abstract Studies of the medieval world reveal a…
Monasticism and medicine: Gendered activities in healing practices, 500-1100
Monasticism and medicine: Gendered activities in healing practices, 500-1100 By Lori Ann Woods MA Thesis: University of Calgary, 1998 Introduction: In the late…
British Christian continuity in Anglo-Saxon England: the case of Sherborne/Lanprobi
British Christian continuity in Anglo-Saxon England: the case of Sherborne/Lanprobi By Martin Grimmer Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association, Vol. 1 (2005)…
Some Monte Cassino Scribes in the Eleventh Century
Some Monte Cassino Scribes in the Eleventh Century By Francis Newton Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Vol. 7 (1975) Introduction: The revival of the…
Reading Theology to the Brothers: The Background to St. Anthony’s Opus Dominicale
Reading Theology to the Brothers: The Background to St. Anthony’s Opus Dominicale By Paul Spilsbury Commercium: An Electronic Journal of Franciscan Studies, Vol. 1 (2008)…
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…
The Croatian Glagolitic Rule of St. Benedict
The Croatian Glagolitic Rule of St. Benedict By Marija-Ana Dürrigl Croatian Medical Journal, Vol 44:1 (2003) Introduction: Croatian medieval culture held a specific position between…
Community, Identity and the Redemption of Captives: Comparative perspectives across the Mediterranean
Community, Identity and the Redemption of Captives: Comparative perspectives across the Mediterranean By James William Brodman Anuario de Estudios Medievales, Vol 36:1 (2006) Abstract: Yvonne…
Templars (and Hospitallers) in Essex
Cressing Temple, about 10 miles northeast of Chelmsford in Essex, is thought to be the earliest settlement of the Knights Templar in England.