St Gertrude’s Synecdoche: The Problem of Writing the Sacred Heart
St Gertrude’s Synecdoche: The Problem of Writing the Sacred Heart Jenkins, Eve B. Essays in Medieval Studies, vol. 14 (1997) Abstract St Gertrude…
The Lives of Umiliana de’ Cerchi: Representations of Female Sainthood in Thirteenth-Century Florence
The Lives of Umiliana de’ Cerchi: Representations of Female Sainthood in Thirteenth-Century Florence Schuchman, Anne M. Essays in Medieval Studies, vol. 14 (1997)…
Ælfric’s Sources and His Gendered Audiences
Ælfric’s Sources and His Gendered Audiences Klein, Stacy S. Essays in Medieval Studies, vol. 13 (1996) Abstract Ælfric’s prose adaptation of the apocryphal…
The Word Made Flesh: The Perception of Holiness in the Texts of Late Medieval and Early Modern Women in England
The Word Made Flesh: The Perception of Holiness in the Texts of Late Medieval and Early Modern Women in England By Amy Kathleen Howard…
Mysticism, Meditation, and Identification in The Book of Margery Kempe
Mysticism, Meditation, and Identification in The Book of Margery Kempe Coulson, Carolyn Essays in Medieval Studies, vol. 12 (1995) Abstract In most of…
The Virgin Above the Writing in the First Vita of Douce 114
The Virgin Above the Writing in the First Vita of Douce 114 Clouse, Rebecca Essays in Medieval Studies, vol. 11 (1994) Abstract Elizabeth…
Source Readings on the Practice and Spirituality of Chant: New Texts, New Approaches
Source Readings on the Practice and Spirituality of Chant: New Texts, New Approaches Lochner, Fabian C. Essays in Medieval Studies, vol. 8 (1991)…
Delicious Matyr: Feminine Courtesy in Middle English Devotional Literature for Women
Delicious Matyr: Feminine Courtesy in Middle English Devotional Literature for Women Bartlett, Anne C. Essays in Medieval Studies, vol. 9 (1992) Abstract Near…
An Architecture of the Self: New Metaphors for Monastic Enclosure
An Architecture of the Self:New Metaphors for Monastic Enclosure Caldwell, Ellen M. Essays in Medieval Studies, vol. 8 (1991) Abstract Much of the…
Techne in the Kentish Hymn
Techne in the Kentish Hymn Keefer, Sarah Larratt Essays in Medieval Studies, vol. 6 (1989) Abstract Little interest to date has been paid…
Anchoritic Traditions of Medieval Europe
Anchoritic Traditions of Medieval Europe Edited by Liz Herbert McAvoy Boydell Press, 2010 ISBN: 9781843835202 The practice of anchoritism – religious enclosure which…
Teaching Anchoritic Texts: The Shock of the Old
Teaching Anchoritic Texts: The Shock of the Old By Alexandra Barratt Approaching medieval English anchoritic and mystical texts, edited by Dee Dyas, Valerie…
Franciscan Chant as a Late Medieval Expression in the Liturgy
Franciscan Chant as a Late Medieval Expression in the Liturgy Wagner, Lavern John Essays in Medieval Studies, vol. 5 (1988) Abstract When St.…
Franciscan Books of Hours from Italy in the Newberry Library
Franciscan Books of Hours from Italy in the Newberry Library Hutton, Paula Essays in Medieval Studies, vol. 4 (1987) Abstract The study of…
The Order of the Texts in the Bodley 34 Manuscript: The Function of Repetition and Recall in a Manuscript Addressed to Nuns
The Order of the Texts in the Bodley 34 Manuscript: The Function of Repetition and Recall in a Manuscript Addressed to Nuns Mockridge,…
Pagans and Christians at the frontier: Viking burial in the Danelaw
The rapid conversion of Scandinavian settlers, so we are led to believe, demonstrates the weakness of their own pagan religions in the face of an all-embracing Christianity, and provides another example of their eagerness to become assimilated.
Weeping Statues and Bleeding Bread: Miracles in the Later Middle Ages
In the period between 1150 and 1550 a number of Christians in western Europe made pilgrimages to places where material objects–among them paintings, statues, relics, and Eucharistic wafers–allegedly erupted into life by such activities as bleeding, weeping, and walking about.
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…
“God our Mother”: The Feminine Cosmology of Julian of Norwich and Hildegard of Bingen
“God our Mother”: The Feminine Cosmology of Julian of Norwich and Hildegard of Bingen Hudson, Jennifer A. Medieval Forum, vol. 1 (2002) Abstract…
Inventing the Lollard Past : The Afterlife of a Medieval Sermon in Early Modern England
This essay explores the evolving significance of a famous fourteenth-century Paul’s Cross sermon by Thomas Wimbledon in late medieval and early modern England and its transmission from manuscript to print.
“On Account of Scandal …”: Priests, Their Children, and the Ecclesiastical Demand for Celibacy
By the late Middle Ages canon law demanded that the higher orders of clerics lead a celibate life. In reality, however, throughout the medieval period and into the early modern era a significant minority fell far from this ideal.