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Re‐examining Hrabanus Maurus’ letter on incest and magic

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 31, Issue 2, Page 252-273, May 2023., 2023
This article offers a reanalysis of Hrabanus’ mid‐ninth‐century text De magicis artibus. Often read and studied as a complete work, the De magicis artibus is in fact one portion of a longer text that also discusses incest and marriage practices. Furthermore, the single surviving copy of the text is deliberately attached to another work by Hrabanus, his
Matthew B. Edholm
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The Animalistic Gullet and the Godlike Soul: Reframing Sacrifice in Midrash Leviticus Rabbah [PDF]

, 2014
This article proposes an analysis of two homiletic units in the Palestinian Midrash Leviticus Rabbah, which revolve around biblical chapters pertaining to sacrifices.
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‘When God sees us in the circuses’: Salvian of Marseille’s De gubernatione Dei and the critique of Roman society

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 31, Issue 1, Page 3-22, February 2023., 2023
This article addresses Salvian of Marseille’s treatise on God’s governance (De gubernatione Dei), one of the most important sources for the Germanic peoples’ period of migration at the beginning of the fifth century. It focuses in particular on Salvian’s critique of public entertainment, in the middle of Book VI.
Jonathan Stutz
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Literalising Metaphor in the Poetry of Robert Southwell☆

Renaissance Studies, Volume 37, Issue 1, Page 75-91, February 2023., 2023
Abstract This article focuses on a distinctive feature of Robert Southwell's poetic technique, namely, his approach to metaphor. I argue that a number of Southwell's metaphors have a surprisingly literal quality where their vehicles are given greater prominence than their tenors.
Conor McKee
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The lost Missal of Alcuin and the Carolingian sacramentaries of Tours

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 30, Issue 3, Page 350-383, August 2022., 2022
Letters of Alcuin of York attest that he composed a liturgical book he called a ‘missal’ while he was abbot of St Martin's basilica in Tours. No manuscripts of this missal survive. It has to be recovered from much later sacramentaries copied in Tours, which have been subject to significant subsequent reworking.
Arthur Westwell
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Percorsi editoriali delle opere di Pier Damiani. Considerazioni storiografiche e metodologiche preliminari [PDF]

, 2015
ITALIANO: Partendo dalle edizioni critiche recenti che hanno riguardato numerose opere di Pier Damiani alla luce del clima di rinnovamento degli studi damianei si prendono in esame alcuni percorsi della tradizione testuale di Pier Damiani in epoca ...
Longo, Umberto
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"Nomen illi mors, et infernus sequebatur" Spunti esegetico-iconografici sul maligno nella tradizione del "Tractatus de Apocalipsin" di Beato di Liébana [PDF]

, 2015
If normally a common book is wrote to be read, there are some books that cannot be read and correctly interpreted. One of these, I suppose, is the Apocalypse of John.
Della Serra, Manlio
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Ex 3,14 dans l’oeuvre d’Augustin : Une révision de la liste des Bénédictins de Beuron et de la liste de James W. Wiles et un complément du Corpus Augustinianum Gissense II, de la Patrologia latina et du Corpus Christianorum [PDF]

, 2008
Cet article consiste en une révision et une mise à jour, comprenant des corrections et des ajouts, de la liste des Bénédictins de Beuron et de la liste de James W.
Falardeau, Sébastien
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Peace‐making Through the Blood of Christ: Insights from Nicholas Cabasilas and the Orthodox Tradition

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article treats Nicholas Cabasilas as an emblematic theologian of peace from the Orthodox tradition whose profound reflections on peace speak directly to our contemporary moment of turmoil. Writing amidst the untold upheavals of fourteenth‐century Byzantium, Cabasilas distills much of his inherited exegetical, ascetic, and liturgical ...
Alexis Torrance
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Negotiating Faith in the Sixteenth Century: Edmund Horde's Personal Notebook in Trinity College Dublin 352

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article will demonstrate the intersectional nature of manuscript and print, as well as the importance of the printing press to Recusant readers. The article will consider TCD 352 as a manuscript or notebook for whom the material and immaterial nature of the book changes as both the Counter‐Reformation movement intensifies and the ...
Niamh Pattwell
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