Marian Lyric in the Cistercian Monastery during the High Middle Ages
Marian Lyric in the Cistercian Monastery during the High Middle Ages Noell,Brian Comitatus Vol.30 (1999) Introduction Marian devotion has a long history within…
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…
The Icon of God and the Mirror of the Soul: Exploring the Origins of Iconography in Patristic Writing
The Icon of God and the Mirror of the Soul: Exploring the Origins of Iconography in Patristic Writing Andreopoulos, Andreas Comitatus Vol.31 (2000)…
“I am the Creator”: Birgitta of Sweden’s Feminine Divine
“I am the Creator”: Birgitta of Sweden’s Feminine Divine Bruce, Yvonne Comitatus Vol.32 (2001) Introduction: Critical writings about Saint Birgitta of Sweden (1302/3–1373) adopt…
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 Medieval Forum Vol.1 (2002) Abstract: This paper explores the…
Resurrection: Representation v. Reality in a Miracle of St John of Beverley
Resurrection: Representation v. Reality in a Miracle of St John of Beverley Wilson, Susan E. Medieval Forum Vol.1 (2002) Abstract A thirteenth-century miracle…
The Acts of Matthew and Andrew in the City of Cannibals
The Acts of Matthew and Andrew in the City of Cannibals Sharp, Tom Medieval Forum Vol.2 (2003) Abstract In the second century after…
“She Swims and Floats in Joy”: Marguerite Porete, an “Heretical” Mystic of the Later Middle Ages
“She Swims and Floats in Joy”: Marguerite Porete, an “Heretical” Mystic of the Later Middle Ages By Kathleen Garay Canadian Women’s Studies, Vol.…
The Writings of Julian of Norwich as Accomodation and Subversion
Julian’s status as presumed virginal celibate female mystic and anchoress (hermit) separated her from, and elevated
her above, the conventional status of “woman” during the medieval period
Christian Heroism and the West Saxon Achievement: The Old English Poetic Evidence
Christian Heroism and the West Saxon Achievement: The Old English Poetic Evidence Hare, Kent G. Medieval Forum Vol.4 (2004) In its existing manuscript…
Chaucer and the Early Church
Chaucer and the Early Church Kaiser, Melanie L. and Dean, James M. Medieval Forum Vol. 5 (2006) Although some Chaucerians have questioned the…
Quia nolunt dimittere credere pro credere, sed credere per intelligere: Ramon Llull and his Jewish Contemporaries
Quia nolunt dimittere credere pro credere, sed credere per intelligere: Ramon Llull and his Jewish Contemporaries By Harvey Hames Revista Mirabilia, vol.5 (2005)…
The military orders and the conversion of Muslims in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries
Although the relevance to conversion of charters which allude to the propagationor expansion of Christianity may be questioned, a very few twelfth- and early thirteenth-century sources do explicitly seek to link military orders with the convertingof Muslims.
In Search of Paradise: Time and Eternity in Alfonso X’s Cantiga 103
The story told in Alfonso’s cantiga 103 is not original to his court writers. In fact, as has been made abundantly clear in several studies to date (Hans-Jörg [Aarne-Thomson] 471A (“The Monk and the Bird”),4 Wagner, and Röhrich 124-45), the cantiga story is a variation of a legend that had already existed for at least one hundred years before its inclusion in the Cantigas collection (the compilation of which took place during the years spanning from 1257 to 1283).