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Ordo renascendi est crescere posse malis (Rutilius Namatianus I.140): the sack of Rome and the resilience of western Roman aristocracies

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 2, Page 139-157, May 2025.
Rutilius Namatianus’ poem De reditu suo was written a few years after the devastation of Rome in 410. It has been read as nostalgia for Rome’s past greatness written in a climate of senatorial escapism. This article revises this reading, instead analysing the poem as the literary expression of resilience on the part of the traditional western ...
Sophie Kultzen
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To Each According to their Needs: Anarchist Praxis as a Resource for Byzantine Theological Ethics [PDF]

, 2018
I argue that anarchist ideas for organising human communities could be a useful practical resource for Christian ethics. I demonstrate this firstly by introducing the main theological ideas underlying Maximus the Confessor’s ethics, a theologian ...
Dewhurst, Emma Brown
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Biblical exegesis at Wearmouth‐Jarrow before Bede? The Hereford commentary on Matthew

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 2, Page 183-219, May 2025.
This article examines a previously neglected fragment of an early medieval commentary on Matthew’s Gospel, the bifolium Hereford Cathedral Library, P. II. 10. I argue on palaeographical grounds that this fragment was produced in Bede’s monastery of Wearmouth‐Jarrow in the first decades of the eighth century, at roughly the same time as the production ...
Samuel Cardwell
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Shadows over Shulamith: Giordano Bruno's De umbris idearum and the Song of Songs [PDF]

, 2015
This article focuses on the use of one verse from the Biblical Songs of Songs in central passages of Giordano Bruno's first published book on the art of memory. De umbris idearum [On the Shadows of Ideas] not solely aims at improving mnemonic capacities,
Kodera, Sergius
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Per dynamin – per energian: Hrotsvit of Gandersheim’s knowledge of Greek

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 2, Page 220-243, May 2025.
This paper investigates Hrotsvit of Gandersheim’s knowledge of Greek. It proceeds from three questions. First, what resources for learning Greek were available in tenth‐century Germany? Second, were there any figures in her ambit from whom she could have learned?
Graham Robert Johnson
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Moral restraints on wealth accumulation on papal estates in the long sixth century: revisiting Pope Gregory’s policies on alienating and ceding church property

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 1, Page 50-70, February 2025.
Alienation of church property was in most cases forbidden under both imperial and ecclesiastical legislation. Nevertheless, between 592 and 599 Pope Gregory the Great dealt with ten cases in which property was either relinquished by churches or in which he deliberated whether to compel churches to relinquish property. His justification for disposing of
Roy Flechner
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“Where Now for Visible Unity?”

The Ecumenical Review, Volume 76, Issue 5, Page 542-553, December 2024.
Abstract This article provides a short introduction to the activities and the spirit of the World Council of Churches for the ecumenical year 2025 by paying particular attention to the commemoration and anniversary celebration of the First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea, which will take place in October 2025 in Egypt under the theme “Where now for ...
Martin Illert
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Syriac Apocalyptic and the Body Politic: from Individual Salvation to the Fate of the State. Notes on Seventh Century Texts [PDF]

, 2012
One of the main goals of this paper is to comment on the eschatological notion of “end” as found in a Syriac apocalyptic text of the seventh century, the Syriac Apocalypse of Daniel (or Pseudo-Daniel), recently edited by Matthias Henze and the possible ...
Ubierna, Pablo
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I, monster: queerness and the Liber Monstrorum in early medieval St Gall

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 32, Issue 4, Page 543-564, November 2024.
This article analyses a ninth‐century copy of the Liber monstrorum from St Gall in which the first monster, a ‘human of both sexes’, speaks in the first person. The scribe also put the Liber monstrorum into dialogue with Isidore of Seville’s Etymologiae, in which Isidore argued that monsters were not ‘contrary to nature’.
Michael Eber
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The role of the eucharist in the making of an ecclesiology according to haimo of auxerre’s commentary on I cor [PDF]

, 2015
Carolingian biblical exegesis presents itself as a synthesis of exegetical and theological patristic tradition in order to make it affordable to the Christians of that time.
Hernandez Rodriguez, Alfonso Maria
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