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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"saints' lives"”.
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Saints' lives and typika: the Constantinopolitan monastery of Panagiou in the eleventh century
… the Athonite. I demonstrate that the two extant Lives, Vita A by Athanasius "the Younger" and the Lavriot Vita B, go back to a lost common model which I call Vita prima. Through a comparison of passages which are found both in the Petritzonitissa Typikon and in Vita A and Vita B I show that there …
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Cumann Comnae: Constructing Christian Identities in The Book of Lismore’s Homiletic Saints’ Lives
… this dissertation examines the nine homiletic saints’ lives in the fifteenth-century Book of Lismore. Specifically, the focus is on representations of the Eucharist, the axiomatic sacrament of Latin Christendom in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, and how writers of and audiences for these …
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Vengeance and saintly cursing in the saints’ Lives of England and Ireland, c. 1060-1215
… of divine vengeance and saintly cursing in the saints’ Lives of England and Ireland, c. 1060-1215. The dissertation considers four case studies of primary material: the hagiographical and historical writings of the English Benedictines (Goscelin of Saint-Bertin, Eadmer of Canterbury, and William …
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The functions of empathy in Anglo-Saxon 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 cognitive …
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Religious propaganda in selected Anglo-Saxton literature
… the argument that the primary purpose of the Saints' Lives in question is that of instruments of persuasion. After a description of the rites of Anglo-Saxon paganism, an attempt is made to outline the manner in which the Christian missionaries used certain aspects of pagan belief to promote …
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Language Domains and Status in Middle Cornish
… is based on the Cornish medieval miracle and saints' lives plays, and a question arising is their use of non-Cornish phrases, which has been remarked on for many years, with no consensus of what their use means. Is there a pattern in its use, or is it random, and does this compare with the …
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Humour in vernacular hagiography from the tenth to the thirteenth century in England
… and purpose of literary humour in vernacular saints’ lives circulating from the late tenth to the late thirteenth century in England. Although humour has often been acknowledged in hagiographic narratives as either a given standard or as a non sequitur, to date there exists no sustained study …
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Rebel angels: political theology and the fall of the angels tradition in old English literature
… 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 project demonstrates how Anglo-Saxon authors appropriated the fall …
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Die habsburgischen Heiligen des Jakob Mennel
Im Mittelpunkt der folgenden Betrachtungen stehen insgesamt drei Fassungen eines Heiligenlegendars, das Kaiser Maximilian I. im Jahre 1505 als Teil der Fürstlichen Chronik in Auftrag gab. Jakob Mennel, Freiburger Stadtschreiber und Hofhistoriograph am Hofe des Habsburgers, wurde mit diesem …
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Devotion to St John the Baptist in England in the Middle Ages.
… of veneration for the universal, scriptural saints in the Middle Ages. The chief source is the sermons of the period in Latin and English, supplemented by vernacular legendaries, liturgy, primers and prayer books, representations of the Baptist in art, saints' lives, plays, relics, folklore …
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Private devotion in England on the eve of the Reformation illustrated from works printed or reprinted in the period 1530-40
… translations, doctrinal and polemic works, saintS lives and sermons) available in print to English readers in the years immediately preceding England's break with Rome. It shows that there were far more Catholic works of devotion, many of them written or printed for the first time 1520 - 35, …
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Expanded Universes: Reading French Literature of the Long Thirteenth Century with Twentieth and Twenty-First Century American Comics and Fandom Practices
… universe, through a reading of a sequence of saints’ lives and miracles in Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Bibliothèque de l’Arsenal, MS 3516. Chapter 4 explores the formal qualities of vernacular hagiography with reference to fanfiction. Chapter 5 reads the lives of Saints Juliane, …
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The poetics of religious conversion in medieval English literature
… apostles' missions and by the vast collection of saints' lives. Chapters One and Two chiefly consider the public sphere--the roles of kings in forging a Christian nation and of the apostles in forging a Christian world. Chapter One examines the application of the Constantinian model of conversion …
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Childbirth Beliefs and Practices in England, c. 1400-1580
… devotional and medical texts, including prayers, saints’ lives, charms and textual amulets, the thesis relocates and contextualises childbirth therapeutics within late medieval devotion and healing practices. The childbirth space, often considered static and enclosed, is argued here to be dynamic …
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The Anna Selbdritt in late medieval Germany : meaning and function of religious image
… dedicated to her and in the writing of lives and other texts. These texts, which were republished elsewhere in Germany, were of crucial importance in heightening Anne's popularity for they attributed to her a power unprecedented in saints' lives, the power to help souls achieve …
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"And if Men Might also Imitate her Virtues" An Examination of Goscelin of Saint-Bertin's Hagiographies of the Female Saints of Ely and Their Role in the Creation of Historic Memory
… the hagiographies written about the royal female saints of Ely by the Flemish monk Goscelin of Saint-Bertin in the late eleventh century as a form of postcolonial literature and memory creation. Goscelin was a renowned writer of Anglo-Saxon saints’ lives. Through his hagiographies he not only …
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Constructing Episcopal Sainthood in Late Medieval Sweden : The Cases of Brynolphus Algoti and Nicolaus Hermanni
… lived religion and the formation of the cults of saints. This study examines how the saints’ lives were transformed into hagiographic lives, how historical and personal incidents intertwined with the literary conventions of the hagiographic genre and traditional saintly features, and what was …