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The Christology of the Anglo-Saxon Homilies
… the representations of Christ in the Old English homilies, by analysing as separate groups the homilies of Ælfric, Wulfstan, and the anonymous collections in the Blickling Homiliary and the Vercelli Book. The introduction outlines the background and contexts of the homilies, their significance, …
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"Wulfstan's Vocabulary: A Glossary Of The ""homilies"" With Commentary"
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Structure and Style in the Blickling Homilies for the Temporale
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The homilies of Mose bar Kepha on the early chapters of the Gospels.
… edition of a Syriac text known as the Book of Homilies attributed to the Jacobite (i.e. Syrian Crthodox) bishop of Mosul Mose bar Kepha. The Book of Homilies is a collection of approximately thirtyeight treatises for the festivals of the liturgical year. The present edition consists of twelve …
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Books, Homilies, and Medicine: Sogdian Christians and Christian Networks along the Silk Roads
Along the trade routes of late antique and early medieval Eurasia, Sogdian Christians stood within a confluence of networks. As Sogdians, they belonged to a people recognized for maintaining one of the most expansive and renowned trading networks in history. On these so-called Silk Roads, Sogdian …
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Exploring homilies and hymnody : the thematic relationship between George Whitefield's sermons and "A collection of hymns for social worship".
This thesis examines George Whitefield's A Collection of Hymns for Social Worship and presents a thematic analysis of the hymn book's lyrical content. This research contributes to a fuller understanding of Whitefield's evangelistic mission, provides a perspective on Whitefield's views on singing …
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Christ, the Spirit and Human Transformation in Gregory of Nyssa's In Canticum Canticorum
… earlier works. In Part II, Gregory's fifteen homilies on the Song of Songs are analysed in light of key structures of thought explored in Part I. Special emphasis is placed on Gregory's trinitarian theology, christology and pneumatology, as well as the relationship between 'doctrinal' and …
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'Deor and nytenu mid us': animals in the works of Ǽelfric
… animals in Ælfric’s Lives of Saints and Catholic Homilies, outlining the transmission process of various sources of animal knowledge available to and used by Ælfric. The contexts in which Ælfric uses animals, which sources he uses in these passages and how he deviates from his source material (if …
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The assembled body: Anatomical enumeration and embodiment in Anglo-Saxon devotional texts
… as a number of Ælfric of Eynsham's vernacular homilies. This project demonstrates how Anglo-Saxon authors employed such enumerative anatomical catalogs to highlight the vibrancy of the flesh at moments spiritual uncertainty. Casting the material body as an assemblage of agents, this rhetorical …
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The functions of empathy in Anglo-Saxon England
… England across a broad corpus of anonymous homilies, saints’ lives, elegies, and heroic poems including Beowulf. The first three chapters identify cultural concepts and literary strategies that enabled Anglo-Saxon writers and readers to express and experience narrative empathy as well as …
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Textual Representations of Almsgiving in Late Anglo-Saxon England
… the textual references to almsgiving in the homilies, law codes, wills and charters of the tenth and eleventh centuries in order to determine first, how almsgiving was conceptualised by ecclesiastical authorities, and second, how almsgiving by the laity was understood to function in society. …
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"Freedom of Speech and Religion?": Psychological Intelligence that Overthrew a Guatemalan Government, 1952-1954
… two ways: first by Catholic priests in Sunday homilies and second by a clandestine radio station (codenamed SHERWOOD). Together these forms of propaganda helped sway an ambivalent public (sixty percent of the Guatemalan population was indifferent toward its leader less than a month before the …
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From the Resurrection to the Ascension: Christ's post Resurrection appearances in Byzantine Art
… narrative reveals the way in which homilies and hymns inspire art. Another important figure of these apparitions, which receives special attention, is the Magdalene, whose significance rivalled that of the Virgin’s. While the Marys at the Tomb and the Chairete were two of the most …
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Soul and Body: Reading the Anglo -Saxon Self Through the Vercelli Book
… of selfhood. Many of Vercelli's poems and homilies represent subjectivity through 'soul-and-body,' a popular medieval literary motif which describes the soul's physical departure from the body at death and its subsequent addresses to the body in the after-life. Vercelli's soul-and-body …
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Rebel angels: political theology and the fall of the angels tradition in old English literature
… Benedictine Reform era (c. 964-984), vernacular homilies written during the Viking raids (c. 1002-1023), verse saints’ lives by Cynewulf, the anonymous poems Andreas and Guthlac A, and the Old English biblical poetry of the Junius Manuscript (Genesis A, Genesis B, and Christ and Satan). This …
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"We Are Strangers in this Life": Theology, Liminality, and the Exiled in Anglo-Saxon Literature
… literature, biblical commentaries, hagiography, homilies, and monastic regula in Anglo-Saxon England as a way to contextualize the theological concept of being in exile, and its meaning for Anglo-Saxon Christians and the spiritual identity they constructed as liminal people. </p>
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