Early Medieval Europe, Volume 32, Issue 3, Page 387-411, August 2024.Contradictions over the meaning of adoration (adoratio) in Theodulf of Orléans’ Opus Caroli regis contra synodum have been used to minimize the role of mistranslation in the late eighth‐century Greek–Latin dispute over images. This study, however, scrutinizes the contested meaning of adoration in the original manuscript to expose tensions among ...
Huw Foden
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The past and future of the study of Islamic esotericism
Religion Compass, Volume 18, Issue 7, July 2024.Abstract The study of Islamic esotericism, particularly the concept of al‐bāṭiniyya, remains fragmented. While often studied under various labels like “mysticism” and “occultism,” it is widely equated to Sufism. Scholars still hesitate to use the term al‐bāṭiniyya due to its historical pejorative connotations, linking it to extremist adherence to ...
Liana Saif
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The consul vanishes? On using and not using Gregory the Great's Register in early medieval England
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 106-127, February 2024.This article builds upon recent scholarship emphasizing the importance of Gregory the Great's Register as a key text of the Carolingian and post‐Carolingian library, exploring by contrast its peculiarly limited reception in England. It first surveys what little evidence we have for its citation by English ecclesiastics (post‐c.1000, mostly via Wulfstan)
Benjamin Savill
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, 2023 This paper aims to clarify the qualities of the Life of Saint Basil the Younger created in the10th century Constantinople in Byzantium, using the usual literary image "topos" as a criterion foranalysis. Overviewing the topos of the Greek hagiography from
DOI, Hideki
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Monasticism in seventh-century Northumbria and Neustria: a comparative study of the monasteries of Chelles, Jouarre, Monk Wearmouth/Jarrow and Whitby [PDF]
, 1998 This thesis studies a part of the monastic history of the kingdoms of Anglo- Saxon Northumbria and Merovingian Neustria. It is a comparative analysis of monasteries in the seventh century in these two kingdoms, focusing on four particularly famous houses,
Charmantier, Isabelle Renée Odile
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Saints' mobility and confinement: deconstructing Byzantine stories of (fe)male ascetics and monastics. [PDF]
Early Mediev Eur, 2023 Papavarnavas C.
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The early development of the cult of St Katherine of Alexandria with particular reference to England
, 2003 PhDSt Katherine of Alexandria, traditionally martyred c. 305, became one of the most popular saints of the later Middle Ages. Whilst most modem studies concentrate on the period of the cult's greatest popularity in the fourteenth and fifteenth ...
Walsh, Christine Louise
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Saintly doctors : the early iconography of SS. Cosmas and Damian in Italy [PDF]
The Italian iconography of the doctor saints Cosmas and Damian reflects fluctuations in the fortunes of the cult of those saints with significant variations in appearance and meaning being tied to changes in the position of the saints with respect to ...
Harrold, Jillian
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In enemy hands: the Byzantine experience of captivity between the seventh and tenth centuries. [PDF]
Early Mediev Eur, 2023 Simeonov G.
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The Cult of Hermylos and Stratonikos in the Byzantine Capital [PDF]
, 2022 In the calendars of Eastern Christian churches, the Early Christian martyrs Hermylos and Stratonikos of Belgrade – deacon Hermylos and prison guard Stratonikos – are commemorated on 13 January and 1 or 2 June. They were martyred under Emperor Licinius
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