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    • The ‘Universal Prayer’ in the Ancient Latin Liturgies

      The ‘Universal Prayer’ in the Ancient Latin Liturgies

      Patristic Evidence and Liturgical Texts

      The reinstatement of the Universal Prayer into the Roman liturgy following the Second Vatican Council prompted Paul De Clerck to research its origins and development, taking as his primary model the ancient Roman of Good Friday. The result has been a marvellous gift to liturgical scholars, as his meticulous study of texts from both East and West brings to light direct and indirect relationships and provides significant insight into the way in which Western liturgical families developed their intercessory formularies.

      The first part of his study is devoted to analysis of allusions to the found in the writings of the Fathers and ecclesiastical writers of the first five centuries, with the aim of discovering the prehistory of the ‘prayer of the faithful’ particularly with regard to its content, form and placement within the liturgy. The second part of the study analyses and compares the oldest preserved texts that shed light on the prayer. Chief among these are the in its various iterations, the of Rome (and parallels in other Churches) and the Gallic and Hispanic , together with relevant texts from Celtic and Gallican sources.

      The translation of the French text will provide English-speaking scholars across the globe access to this excellent work and encourage similar in-depth research into liturgical sources that will continue to enhance the celebration of the Church’s liturgy and the full and conscious participation of the entire faithful.

    • Theatres of Belief: Music and Conversion in the Early Modern City

      Theatres of Belief: Music and Conversion in the Early Modern City

      These eleven essays, all centrally concerned with the intimate relationship between sound, religion, and society in the early modern world, present a sequence of test cases located in a wide variety of urban environments in Europe and the Americas. Written by an international cast of acclaimed historians and musicologists, they explore in depth the interrelated notions of conversion and confessionalisation in the shared belief that the early modern city was neither socially static nor religiously uniform. With its examples drawn from the Holy Roman Empire and the Southern Netherlands, the pluri-religious Mediterranean, and the colonial Americas both North and South, this book takes discussion of the urban soundscape, so often discussed in purely traditional terms of European institutional histories, to a new level of engagement with the concept of a totally immersive acoustic environment as conceptualised by R. Murray Schafer. From the Protestants of Douai, a bastion of the Catholic Reformation, to the bi-confessional city of Augsburg and seventeenth-century Farmington in Connecticut, where the indigenous Indian population fashioned a separate Christian entity, the intertwined religious, musical, and emotional lives of specifically grounded communities of early modern men and women are here vividly brought to life.

    • Themistius and Aristotle

      Themistius and Aristotle

      Teaching Philosophy from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages

      This is the first book length examining closely Themistius’ philosophical thought and his understanding of Aristotelian philosophy. Themistius, well known as an eloquent orator and political personality of Constantinople during the fourth century ad, is an influential commentator on works of Aristotle. By assessing both of these aspects of Themistius’ intellectual accomplishments, the present work explores and contextualizes his thought in both his paraphrases of the works of Aristotle and in his orations. Themistius’ interpretation of Aristotelian thought, deeply influential in both the Arab and Latin worlds, and his strategy for teaching Aristotle, even outside the professional schools of philosophy, are major foci of this study.

      In particular, this work explicates Themistius’ understanding of the nature and causality of the First Principle, of the cosmic order, and of the human soul and intellect. It argues that Themistius’ approach reflects not only the systematization imparted by Alexander of Aphrodisias to the doctrines of Aristotle, but also the increasing, though oftentimes silent, influence of Plotinus. This is evident in the consideration of the three philosophical issues of God, cosmos, and soul analysed in Themistius, which reveal the preponderance of Plotinus’ philosophy reflected in the Themistian orations. Concomitantly, it explores how Themistius’ teachings proved decisive in the medieval understanding of Aristotle both among Arabic and Hebrew readers, as well as in the universities of Latin Europe. As such, this study challenges our understanding of philosophy in fourth-century Constantinople.

    • Theologica Minora

      Theologica Minora

      The Minor Genres of Byzantine Theological Literature

      The title of this volume, “Theologica Minora”, may wrongly suggest that the essays contained herein purport an antiquarian interest in some minor theological quibbles within the vast ocean that is Byzantine theological literature. On the contrary, this volume illuminates texts and theological genres which have so far remained unexplored or underinvestigated by the vast majority of scholars. Whilst unlocking the as yet unknown troves of florilegia, religious poetry, and monastic kephalaia, this volume investigates the cultural background of these different endeavors and provides an image of Byzantine theological literature which repudiates the rigid narratives proposed to date.

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    • Theorizing Old Norse Myth

      Theorizing Old Norse Myth

      This collection explores the theoretical and methodological foundations through which we understand Old Norse myths and the mythological world, and the medieval sources in which we find expressions of these. Some contributions take a broad, comparative perspective; some address specific details of Old Norse myths and mythology; and some devote their attention to questions concerning either individual gods and deities, or more topographical and spatial matters (such as conceptions of pagan cult sites). The elements discussed provide an introductory and general overview of scholarly enquiry into myth and ritual, as well as an attempt to define myth and theory for Old Norse scholarship. The articles also offer a rehabilitation of the comparative method alongside a discussion of the concept of ‘cultural memory’ and of the cognitive functions that myths may have performed in early Scandinavian society. Particular subjects of interest include analyses of the enigmatic god Heimdallr, as well as the more well-known Óðinn, the deities, the female , and the ‘elves’ or . Text-based discussions are set alongside recent archaeological discoveries of cult buildings and cult sites in Scandinavia, together with a discussion of the most enigmatic site of all: Uppsala in Sweden. The key themes discussed throughout this volume are brought together in the concluding chapter, in a comprehensive summary that sheds new light on current scholarly perspectives.

    • Thomas of Cantimpré: The Collected Saints' Lives

      Thomas of Cantimpré: The Collected Saints' Lives

      Abbot John of Cantimpré, Christina the Astonishing, Margaret of Ypres, and Lutgard of Aywières

      The Dominican Thomas of Cantimpré (. 1200-. 1270) was a key figure in the 'evangelical awakening' of the thirteenth century. A prolific hagiographer, he lauded such diverse subjects as the abbot and apostolic preacher John of Cantimpré; the teenaged ascetic Margaret of Ypres, an urban recluse who died at twenty; Lutgard of Aywières, a Cistercian nun and mystic; and the theatrical, mentally troubled Christina 'the Astonishing' of Sint-Truiden. Thomas had few peers in portraying the ritual theatre of penance. He gives us such memorable scenes as a naked moneylender led out of a pit by a rope, a formerly rapacious prince kissing his peasants’ feet as he restores their stolen goods, St Christina leaping into fires and boiling cauldrons to save souls in purgatory, and the deceased Pope Innocent III in agony, begging St Lutgard for her prayers. In this volume readers will find all four lively and eventful lives between the same covers for the first time. The has been newly translated by Barbara Newman, who has also supplied a new introduction. The other three are revised reprints from Margot H. King's Peregrina Translations Series.

    • Three Pilgrimages to the Holy Land

      Three Pilgrimages to the Holy Land

      This edition presents English translations of the accounts of three important twelfth-century travellers to the Holy Land, the Anglo-Saxon Saewulf and the Germans John of Würzburg and Theoderic, based on the edition of the Latin texts. Saewulf travelled to the Holy Land soon after its capture by the First Crusade in 1099. His travelogue, framed by accounts of his outward sea journeys from southern Italy to Jaffa and back to Constantinople, describes the buildings and holy sites of Jerusalem and its surrounding countryside as they appeared in the early years of the Frankish kingdom, before the major building works that characterized the short century of Christian rule over the city were fully under way. In contrast, the two German descriptions give more detailed accounts of the transformation that the city and surrounding landscape had undergone and of the new churches and monasteries and their artistic programmes that had been created by the 1160s and 1170s. The translated texts are preceded by an introduction placing the texts in their historical context and are accompanied by brief explanatory notes with bibliographical indications for further information.

      The source texts of this volume appeared in as (, 139), edited by R.B.C. Huygens. References to the corresponding pages of the edition are provided in the margins of this translation.

    • Three Women of Liège

      Three Women of Liège

      A Critical Edition of and Commentary on the Middle English Lives of Elizabeth of Spalbeek, Christina Mirabilis, and Marie d'Oignies

      Elizabeth of Spalbeek, Christina Mirabilis, and Marie d'Oignies were three of the famous late twelfth-/early thirteenth-century 'holy women' from the region of Brabant and Liège: their life stories (written in Latin by Philip of Clairvaux, Thomas of Cantimpré, and Jacques of Vitry) were read throughout later medieval Europe, and Margery Kempe modelled her Book, and her life, upon Marie’s. The Latin lives of these beguine saints were not well known in England, but they were translated into English in the fifteenth century, and survive in a single manuscript together in Oxford, Bodleian Library, Douce 114.

      is the first critical edition of these Lives, which represent some of the only evidence of English interest in continental female mysticism. This edition includes an introduction that discusses the role of the manuscript in England and three essays that analyze the roles of these beguines in their Low Countries home of Liège along with the English reception of their lives. The edition itself is also extensively annotated and glossed, making it accessible to any scholar of English medieval literature.

    • Three empires, three cities

      Three empires, three cities

      Identity, material culture and legitimacy in Venice, Ravenna and Rome, 750-1000

      This book focuses on three Italian cities in the early middle ages, Rome, Ravenna and Venice, and looks at them in a new light. The unifying element linking them was their common Byzantine past, since they remained in the sphere of imperial power after the creation of the Lombard kingdom in the late 6 century, up to 750. What happened to them when their links with the Byzantine Empire were almost entirely severed in the 8 century? Did they remain socially and culturally heirs of Byzantium in the 9 and 10 centuries in their political structures, social organisation, material culture, ideological frame of reference and representation of identity? Or did they become part of the next imperial powers of Italy, the Carolingian and the Ottonian empires? A workshop in Oxford in 2014 brought together an international group of specialists to discuss these questions in a comparative context; the excitement of their debates is captured in the discussion sections linking the papers in this volume. Early medieval Italy can be seen in a new way as a result.

    • Through Words, Not Wounds

      Through Words, Not Wounds

      History and Theology in the Chronicle of Henry of Livonia

      The chronicle of Henry of Livonia has long been recognized as the single most important source on the early history of Livonia and Estonia in the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries.

      The chronicler describes in great detail how the people of the region were subjected to intense campaigns of crusading and mission from the 1180s until the 1220s, primarily at the hands of ecclesiastical and secular powers of Northern Germany (Saxony), Denmark and Sweden. The chronicler himself, a German cleric named Henry (), was not only active in recording the events that happened around him. He also took a very active role as a missionary and interpreter among the indigenous population as well as joining the armies of crusaders on campaign, making this chronicle both a first-hand account and a very intriguing narrative. Papal missionary politics and theological ideas are intermingled in the chronicle with detailed descriptions of military campaigns, raids and sieges, making the entire chronicle a fascinating read.

      The aim of this book is to clarify the ways in which Henry construes the historical events that he describes, portraying them as the continuation of a form of sacred history that was initiated by God in biblical times and continued by clerics and crusaders among Henry’s own peers.

    • Through the Bone and Marrow

      Through the Bone and Marrow

      Re-examining Theological Encounters with Dance in Medieval Europe

      This book is a conversation starter. The author is re-imagining the theological landscape of historical practices of dance in order to open up a space where further explorations can be made. This is done in a two step manner. First, the book uncovers the restrictions of earlier research on the topic of dance in and around churches. In the second step, Hellsten suggests a practice for how historical sources can be imagined in a new frame. Opening up a new field of previously neglected and much needed historical studies on Dance in the Christian churches of the Latin West this study aims at questioning old paradigms and opening new vistas rather than reinterpreting concrete liturgical manuscripts or scrutinizing all the details of the historical sources presented.

      The Donner Institute for Research in Religion and Culture in Turku, Finland has awarded its Nordic Research Prize 2021 to Dr. theol. Laura Hellsten for her creative research widening our understanding of sacral dance in general and of the role of dance in the Christian church in particular.

    • Théodulf d’Orléans (vers 760-821)

      Théodulf d’Orléans (vers 760-821)

      Histoire et mémoire d’un évêque carolingien

      Parmi les lettrés entrés au service de Charlemagne à la fin du VIII siècle, Théodulf est une figure à la fois représentative et singulière. Par ses productions et ses fonctions de , d’évêque, d’abbé, il contribue à l’élaboration et à la mise en œuvre des réformes et fait partie des proches du souverain. Sa déposition en 818 jette cependant une ombre sur sa carrière et sur ce qu’il est possible d’en reconstituer. À partir de l’étude de son œuvre et des variations de son image dans les sources du premier Moyen Âge, y compris manuscrites, cet ouvrage examine les différentes facettes de son action et de son parcours, comme lettré et comme prélat, et met en lumière le jeu d’échelles qui caractérise les réformes carolingiennes. Grâce à l’analyse de son environnement relationnel, la participation de Théodulf à la révolte de Bernard d’Italie et sa disgrâce font l’objet de nouvelles hypothèses.

    • Théorie et pratiques des élites au Haut Moyen Âge. Conception, perception et réalisation sociale

      Théorie et pratiques des élites au Haut Moyen Âge. Conception, perception et réalisation sociale

      Theorie und Praxis frühmittelalterlicher Eliten. Konzepte, Wahrnehmung und soziale Umsetzung

      Le programme de recherche international sur «Les élites dans le haut Moyen Âge occidental. Formation, identité, reproduction» (2002-2009) s’est donné pour objectif d’examiner dans une perspective comparative, à l’échelle européenne, les catégories sociales dominantes aussi bien laïques qu’ecclésiastiques, celles de la cour autant que celles des régions. Le sixième et dernier volume issu de ce projet fournit d’abord un bilan et une synthèse des travaux. Il associe par ailleurs à ces premiers acquis une analyse des concepts, de la perception et de la façon dont les élites se concevaient elles-mêmes. Il tente enfin de vérifier, sur la base de dossiers régionaux ou d’enquêtes sur des catégories particulières, dans quelle mesure la perception médiévale était en conformité avec les pratiques.L’étude du vocabulaire et des concepts relatifs aux élites du haut Moyen Âge s’est orientée autour du questionnement suivant: qu’est-ce qui, du point de vue moderne, relève des élites? Qui, du point de vue des contemporains, appartenait à ce(s) groupe(s) dominant(s)? Selon quels critères lexicaux et conceptuels définissait-on les élites? Par quels moyens se démarquaient-elles dans la perspective des contemporains et à leurs propres yeux? Établissait-on une hiérarchie entre les critères de distinction? Selon quels modèles théoriques étaient-ils distingués (et quel contenu donnait-on à ces modèles)? Dans quelle mesure les concepts actuels d’élites sont-ils applicables au haut Moyen Âge? Au registre des pratiques sociales, plusieurs études de cas permettent de saisir ce qui démarquait concrètement les élites par rapport au reste de la population, tout en se demandant dans quelle mesure cette réalité sociale correspondait aux représentations mentales des élites et si les concepts s’adaptaient à une réalité changeante, ou l’inverse. Plusieurs types d’élites sont envisagés, avec leurs particularités, leurs hiérarchies internes et leurs évolutions, enfin l’imbrication des groupes dominants entre eux.

    • Théories et pratiques de la prière à la fin de l’antiquité

      Théories et pratiques de la prière à la fin de l’antiquité

      La prière est, à la fin de l’Antiquité, non seulement un élément essentiel de la pratique religieuse, publique et privée, mais aussi un objet éminent de réflexion philosophique et théologique, aussi bien au sein de la religion gréco-romaine que dans le christianisme. Les différents modes de rapport entre les théories et les pratiques de la prière forment ainsi la matière de ce livre, qui réunit quatorze contributions (suivies d'un épilogue) consacrées aux diverses facettes d’une interaction multiforme qui rend nécessaire la collaboration des spécialistes de différentes disciplines : histoire religieuse des mondes grec et romain, philosophie religieuse tardo-antique et littérature patristique. Cette collaboration se reflète dans un ensemble de questions qui traversent les contributions réunies dans ce volume : le lexique de la prière ; la tension entre ses dimensions personnelle et publique ; le contexte rituel des prières ; la géographie de la prière, donnant lieu à une tension entre les prières liées à un espace précis et les prières à caractère universel ; le lien entre prière et affectivité, celle des dieux, mais aussi celle des orants ; la polarité entre la prière vocale et la prière silencieuse, à la fois dans les milieux chrétiens et païens.

    • Tiaudelet

      Tiaudelet

      Theodulus in Medieval France

      The Medieval French text (9400 lines) known as is here edited for the first time. It is a lively debate poem which translates Theodulus’s and adds a lengthy commentary to each stanza. It was last investigated in 1915 when A. Parducci published five modest extracts. It is found in a manuscript which represents a sort of vernacular ‘Liber Catonianus’, offering classical texts which formed the basis of the educational curriculum in the arts in French translation. It debates the value of two traditions: the classical and biblical, with the educational aim of increasing knowledge of classical and Scriptural narratives. As an appendix to the edition is provided the text of the only other French translation of Theodulus, by Jean Le Fèvre, as represented by the unique copy in the National Library of Scotland, of the early print by Jan Brulelou of Bruges.

    • Time and Eternity

      Time and Eternity

      The Medieval Discourse

      This volume is composed of selected papers from the main strand ‘Time and Eternity’ at the seventh International Medieval Congress held in July 2000. It attests to the fact that the medieval experience of time and eternity was rich and complex, and that its investigation is open to various approaches and methods. Time and (the possibility or impossibility of) its beginning and its end were frontiers to be explored and to be understood.

      To make the reader more familiar with the field of study, the volume begins with Wesley Stevens’s plenary address ‘A Present Sense of Things Past: ?’, a stimulating introduction not only with regard to some of the basic problems in conceptualizing the nature of time but also to the dating of historical events and the use of calendars for that purpose.

      Following Stevens’s essay, the volume is organised into seven broader themes covering a variety of questions and trying to offer new insights into the medieval perception and constructions of time. They deal with the computation of time and the use of calendars; Jewish concepts of time and redemption; Christian philosophies of eternity and time; monastic and clerical conceptions; literary representations; time and art; and apocalyptic expectations. The volume’s selection of authors is international in scope and represents some of the leading current scholarship in the field. It proves that we still ‘thirst to know the power and the nature of time’ (St Augustine).

    • Tipologia de la literatura médica latina. Antigüedad, edad media, renacimiento

      Tipologia de la literatura médica latina. Antigüedad, edad media, renacimiento

      El interés por las formas literarias de la literatura médica ha ido creciendo progresivamente ya que atiende cada vez más a las formas de la literatura médica características de las distintas épocas, compartidas en su mayoría con otras ramas de la ciencia como la filosofía, la teología o el derecho. Pero faltaba una visión de conjunto de estos textos médicos desde el punto de vista literario. La tipología de esos tratados es un indicio revelador de su origen, finalidad, cultura del autor y demanda social. Este estudio pretende mostrar un panorama general de las formas literarias de los estudios médicos y sus medios de expresión. El estudio del comportamiento de los escritores médicos ante el hecho de escribir proporciona una dimensión, como complemento, de gran relieve para los estudios estrictamente doctrinales. El escritor es un hombre de su tiempo y, como tal, refleja sus usos y modos.

      Enraízados en la tradición de la Antigüedad y siguiendo una distribución armónica de la medicina , y , los géneros literarios de la literatura médica medieval, por influjo de la filosofía y teología escolásticas, conocieron una riqueza asombrosa de formas literarias, como , etc., que afectaron también a la tipología de su lengua. El Renacimiento fue otra época de renovación en la que continúan algunos géneros de corte tradicional, otros decaen o se transforman, mientras que toman cuerpo otras actividades más filológicas a veces que doctrinales, como las ediciones o los críticos. Cada época revela los problemas con los que se enfrentaron los escritores médicos al intentar forjar unas formas literarias y una terminología basadas en unos conocimientos médicos -en muchos casos expresados originariamente en otra lengua- y darles la forma literaria que consideraban más apropiada para publicar sus logros.

      Un estudio como éste puede ser útil para todos aquellos que desde el campo de la Filología, la Historia en general o de la Historia de la Ciencia y de la Medicina o de la cultura en particular, deseen adentrarse en la literatura médica.

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