Expositions of the Text: Aquinas’s Aristotelian Commentaries
Expositions of the Text: Aquinas’s Aristotelian Commentaries Jenkins, John Medieval Philosophy and Theology, vol. 5, no. 1 (1996) Abstract A slow but steady…
Ockham and Ambiguity
Ockham and Ambiguity Sinkler, Georgette Medieval Philosophy and Theology, vol. 4 (1994) Abstract In the Sophistichi eknchi, Aristotle identifies thirteen types of fallacies…
Five Irish psalter texts
Five Irish psalter texts By Martin McNamara Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, Vol. 109C (2009) Abstract: In 1973 the present writer published…
Duns Scotus on Autonomous Freedom and Divine Co-Causality
Duns Scotus on Autonomous Freedom and Divine Co-Causality Frank, William A. Medieval Philosophy and Theology, vol. 2 (1992) Abstract John Duns Scotus teaches…
Towards a Narrative Understanding of Thomistic Natural Law
Towards a Narrative Understanding of Thomistic Natural Law Hall, Pamela M. Medieval Philosophy and Theology, vol. 2 (1992) Abstract I wish to discuss…
Richard Rufus of Cornwall on Creation: The Reception of Aristotelian Physics in the West
Richard Rufus of Cornwall on Creation: The Reception of Aristotelian Physics in the West Wood, Rega Medieval Philosophy and Theology, vol. 2 (1992)…
Peter of Candia’s Hundred-Year “History” of the Theologian’s Role
Peter of Candia’s Hundred-Year “History” of the Theologian’s Role F. Brown, Stephen F. Medieval Philosophy and Theology, vol. 1 (1991) Abstract Pitros Philargis…
Aquinas’s Parasitic Cosmological Argument
Aquinas’s Parasitic Cosmological Argument MacDonald, Scott Medieval Philosophy and Theology, vol. 1 (1991) Abstract In Summa theobgiae (ST) 1.2.3 Aquinas says that his…
Helena, Heraclius and the True Cross
Helena, Heraclius and the True Cross By Hans A. Pohlsander Quidditas, Vol.25 (2004) Introduction: More than three hundred years stand between the empress Helena,…
The Fathers of the Church and the Evil Eye
The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how difficult even the most highly educated and sophisticated Christians of the late fourth and early fifth centuries found it to rid themselves of the idea that envy lends a malign power to men’s eyes.
Odo of Tournai’s De peccato originali and the Problem of Original Sin
Odo of Tournai’s De peccato originali and the Problem of Original Sin Resnick, Irven M. Medieval Philosophy and Theology, vol. 1 (1991) Abstract…
Tolerantia: A Medieval Concept
Tolerantia: A Medieval Concept By Istvan Bejczy Journal of the History of Ideas, Vol.58:3 (1997) Introduction: The notion of tolerance is generally considered…
Miri Rubin – Mother of God: A History of the Virgin Mary
Miri Rubin is medieval historian and Professor of Early Modern History at Queen Mary, University of London. In ‘Mother of God’, Rubin presents…
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 Müller, Anne Journal of the Oxford University History Society,…
Poverty and richly decorated garments : a re-evaluation of their significance in the Vita Christi of Isabel de Villena
Isabel de Villena (1430-1490) was the illegitimate daughter of Enrique de Villena, a wealthy nobleman of the kingdom of Aragon, and granddaughter of Pedro of Aragon.
The Autobiography of Guibert of Nogent
Identity in History Episode 3: Medieval Religious Identities Richard Godbehere examines the Autobiography of Guibert de Nogent: “Here we look at the definitions…
Recent Trends in the Study of the Middle Ages
Recent Trends in the Study of the Middle Ages By Giles Constable Annual of Medieval Studies at CEU, vol. 15 (2009) Introduction: My…
I Serve
I Serve By Rosanne E. Lortz Publisher: Anno Domini, January 1, 2009 ISBN: 9780979214547 This novel details the events of one knight, Sir…
Trials for Sorcery in Early Fourteenth-Century Avignon
Trials for Sorcery in Early Fourteenth-Century Avignon Session:Politics, Condemnation, and Sorcery in the Fourteenth Century By Robert Ticknor, Tulane University This paper dealt…
The Albigensian Crusade: A Historiographical Essay
The Albigensian Crusade:A Historiographical Essay By Eric O. Rummel Perspectives in History, Vol.21 (2005-6) Introduction: By the beginning of the 13th century an…
A Companion to Clare of Assisi: Life, Writings, and Spirituality
A Companion to Clare of Assisi: Life, Writings, and Spirituality By Joan Mueller Brill, 2010 ISBN: 978 90 04 18216 5 Clare of…
Confraternities, Memoria, and Law in Late Medieval Italy
To view medieval brotherhoods or confraternities as associations of laymen or clerics with predominantly religious functions almost automatically leads to the conclusion that fraternity and memoria have much in common.
Icon: A Word with Many Meanings
Helen Evans describes the many different kinds of icons that populated the Byzantine world, delving into the Met’s incredible collection of these venerable images.
Continental Women Mystics and English Readers
In 1406 Sir Henry later Lord Fitzhugh, trusted servant of King Henry IV, visited Vadstena, the Bridgettine monastery for men and women in Sweden. Vadstena was the mother-house of the Order of the Most Holy Saviour and had been founded by the controversial continental mystic St Bridget of Sweden, who had died in 1373 and had been canonized in Fitzhugh was so impressed by what he saw that he gave one of his manors near Cambridge as the future site for an English Bridgettine foundation.
The Astronomer
The Astronomer by Lawrence Goldstone Publisher: Bloomsbury USA, April 27, 2010 ISBN:9780802719867 Lawrence Goldstone’s The Astronomer is set against the political and religious…