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‘Joining into God's breath’: travail of the negative as a connection between mysticism and political activism

open access: yesThe Heythrop Journal, Volume 64, Issue 4, Page 474-488, July 2023., 2023
This essay argues that a negative hermeneutics, i.e., a hermeneutics that takes its starting point from the experience of gaps, failures, and limits, is a suitable lens for the study of mysticism. It uses the concept of travail of the negative, which focuses on the dynamics of a continuous ‘unsaying’ and ‘subverting’ of traditional expressions of faith
Edda Wolff
wiley   +1 more source

The Knightly Brothers of Bernard of Clairvaux and the Twelfth‐Century Cistercian Lay Monk*

open access: yesJournal of Religious History, Volume 47, Issue 2, Page 295-317, June 2023., 2023
Abbot Bernard of Clairvaux (r. 1115–1153) was a prominent twelfth‐century religious leader whose knightly family collectively converted to monastic life with him in adulthood around 1113. Following Clairvaux's foundation in 1115, Bernard's brothers held roles of significant estate seniority despite their own professional limitations as newly converted ...
Joseph Millan‐Cole
wiley   +1 more source

Re‐examining Hrabanus Maurus’ letter on incest and magic

open access: yesEarly 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
wiley   +1 more source

Spojrzenie Hugona ze Świętego Wiktora na proceder symonii. Dziesiąta część drugiej księgi De sacramentis christianae fidei – wstęp, przekład, komentarz

open access: yesWrocławski Przegląd Teologiczny, 2023
Artykuł prezentuje tłumaczenie części dziesiątej drugiej księgi traktatu De sacramentis christianae fidei Hugona ze Świętego Wiktora (ur. ok. 1096, zm. 1141), poświęconej zagadnieniu symonii (De simonia).
Łukasz Libowski
doaj   +1 more source

The Animalistic Gullet and the Godlike Soul: Reframing Sacrifice in Midrash Leviticus Rabbah [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This article proposes an analysis of two homiletic units in the Palestinian Midrash Leviticus Rabbah, which revolve around biblical chapters pertaining to sacrifices.
Albeck   +59 more
core   +1 more source

‘When God sees us in the circuses’: Salvian of Marseille’s De gubernatione Dei and the critique of Roman society

open access: yesEarly 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
wiley   +1 more source

Literalising Metaphor in the Poetry of Robert Southwell☆

open access: yesRenaissance 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
wiley   +1 more source

The lost Missal of Alcuin and the Carolingian sacramentaries of Tours

open access: yesEarly 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
wiley   +1 more source

Dzieje patrystyki w środowisku krakowskim (Zarys)

open access: yesVox Patrum, 1999
Dai ultimi anni XIV secolo, alla corte della santa regina Hedvige, si possono trovare le radici degli studi sui Padri nel nostro ambiente. Ma la storia della patrologia e collegata con la storia dell’Accademia di Cracovia.
Jan W. Żelazny
doaj   +1 more source

Digital Greek Patristic Catena (DGPC). A brief presentation [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Data Mining and Digital Humanities, 2017
The project is to develop a database, which is planned to include all available information on the use of the Bible in the patristic works of Migne's Patrologia Graeca.
Athanasios Paparnakis   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

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