Saint Michael The Archangel In Medieval English Legend
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Saint Michael The Archangel In Medieval English Legend
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Author : Richard Freeman Johnson
language : en
Publisher: Boydell Press
Release Date : 2005
Saint Michael The Archangel In Medieval English Legend written by Richard Freeman Johnson and has been published by Boydell Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Literary Criticism categories.
The cult and legends of St Michael the archangel were widespread in medieval England, and this book - the first full-length study of the subject - offers a comprehensive examination of their genesis and diffusion. Part I identifies and analyses the concerns, conflicts, and roles with which St Michael is associated, from scriptural and apocryphal literature through to the homiletic literature of the medieval period. Part II begins with a discussion of the vernacular recensions of the popular account of the archangel's earthly interventions, and goes on to survey the legendary accounts in Old English, Anglo-Norman, and Middle English of the archangel and his roles as guardian, intercessor, psychopomp, and warrior-angel follows. The Appendices contain the first English translation of the archangel's hagiographic foundation-myth; an annotated bibliographical list and motif index of textual materials relating to the archangel; and an essay on the iconographic representations of the archangel in medieval England. RICHARD F. JOHNSON is Assistant Professor of English at William Rainey Harper College.
The Cult Of Saint Michael The Archangel In Anglo Saxon England
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Author : Richard Freeman Johnson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
The Cult Of Saint Michael The Archangel In Anglo Saxon England written by Richard Freeman Johnson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with categories.
Although there exists a vast body of work on St. Michael the Archangel, there has never been a detailed analysis of the cult of the Archangel in Anglo-Saxon England. The dissertation explores the origins of the legends of St. Michael in the literature of the biblical era, studies the development of the legends and cult of the Archangel, and examines the ways in which the legends were conditioned to accommodate the Anglo-Saxon world in which they functioned.
Contesting Orthodoxy In Medieval And Early Modern Europe
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Author : Louise Nyholm Kallestrup
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2017-02-04
Contesting Orthodoxy In Medieval And Early Modern Europe written by Louise Nyholm Kallestrup and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-04 with History categories.
This book breaks with three common scholarly barriers of periodization, discipline and geography in its exploration of the related themes of heresy, magic and witchcraft. It sets aside constructed chronological boundaries, and in doing so aims to achieve a clearer picture of what ‘went before’, as well as what ‘came after’. Thus the volume demonstrates continuity as well as change in the concepts and understandings of magic, heresy and witchcraft. In addition, the geographical pattern of similarities and diversities suggests a comparative approach, transcending confessional as well as national borders. Throughout the medieval and early modern period, the orthodoxy of the Christian Church was continuously contested. The challenge of heterodoxy, especially as expressed in various kinds of heresy, magic and witchcraft, was constantly present during the period 1200-1650. Neither contesters nor followers of orthodoxy were homogeneous groups or fractions. They themselves and their ideas changed from one century to the next, from region to region, even from city to city, but within a common framework of interpretation. This collection of essays focuses on this complex.
Signs Of Devotion
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Author : Virginia Blanton
language : en
Publisher: Penn State Press
Release Date : 2010-11-01
Signs Of Devotion written by Virginia Blanton and has been published by Penn State Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-01 with Religion categories.
Catholic Reformation In Protestant Britain
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Author : Alexandra Walsham
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-04-15
Catholic Reformation In Protestant Britain written by Alexandra Walsham and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-15 with History categories.
The survival and revival of Roman Catholicism in post-Reformation Britain remains the subject of lively debate. This volume examines key aspects of the evolution and experience of the Catholic communities of these Protestant kingdoms during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Rejecting an earlier preoccupation with recusants and martyrs, it highlights the importance of those who exhibited varying degrees of conformity with the ecclesiastical establishment and explores the moral and political dilemmas that confronted the clergy and laity. It reassesses the significance of the Counter Reformation mission as an evangelical enterprise; analyses its communication strategies and its impact on popular piety; and illuminates how Catholic ritual life creatively adapted itself to a climate of repression. Reacting sharply against the insularity of many previous accounts, this book investigates developments in the British Isles in relation to wider international initiatives for the renewal of the Catholic faith in Europe and for its plantation overseas. It emphasises the reciprocal interaction between Catholicism and anti-Catholicism throughout the period and casts fresh light on the nature of interconfessional relations in a pluralistic society. It argues that persecution and suffering paradoxically both constrained and facilitated the resurgence of the Church of Rome. They presented challenges and fostered internal frictions, but they also catalysed the process of religious identity formation and imbued English, Welsh and Scottish Catholicism with peculiar dynamism. Prefaced by an extensive new historiographical overview, this collection brings together a selection of Alexandra Walsham's essays written over the last fifteen years, fully revised and updated to reflect recent research in this flourishing field. Collectively these make a major contribution to our understanding of minority Catholicism and the Counter Reformation in the era after the Council of Trent.
Theorizing Legal Personhood In Late Medieval England
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language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2015-06-24
Theorizing Legal Personhood In Late Medieval England written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-24 with History categories.
Theorizing Legal Personhood in Late Medieval England offers an account of the fluidity and artificiality of legal personhood before the individualistic turn in law vis-à-vis juristictional pluralism.
The Use Of Hereford
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Author : Mr William Smith
language : en
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Release Date : 2015-10-28
The Use Of Hereford written by Mr William Smith and has been published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-28 with History categories.
The Use of Hereford, a local variation of the Roman rite, was one of the diocesan liturgies of medieval England before their abolition and replacement by the Book of Common Prayer in 1549. Unlike the widespread Use of Sarum, the Use of Hereford was confined principally to its diocese, which helped to maintain its individuality until the Reformation. This study seeks to catalogue and evaluate all the known surviving sources of the Use of Hereford, with particular reference to the missals and gradual, which so far have received little attention. In addition to these a variety of other material has been examined, including a number of little-known or unknown important fragments of early Hereford service-books dismembered at the Reformation and now hidden away as binding or other scrap in libraries and record offices.
The Old English Martyrology
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Author : Christine Rauer
language : en
Publisher: DS Brewer
Release Date : 2013
The Old English Martyrology written by Christine Rauer and has been published by DS Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
New edition with facing-page translation of a highly significant and influential Old English text.
Echoing Hooves Studies On Horses And Their Effects On Medieval Societies
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2022-07-04
Echoing Hooves Studies On Horses And Their Effects On Medieval Societies written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-07-04 with History categories.
The horse was the essential animal for the medieval world: means of transport, a vehicle of social status and a cherished companion. This volume explores the ways in which horses shaped medieval societies.
Heaven And Earth In Anglo Saxon England
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Author : Helen Foxhall Forbes
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-04-22
Heaven And Earth In Anglo Saxon England written by Helen Foxhall Forbes and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-22 with History categories.
Christian theology and religious belief were crucially important to Anglo-Saxon society, and are manifest in the surviving textual, visual and material evidence. This is the first full-length study investigating how Christian theology and religious beliefs permeated society and underpinned social values in early medieval England. The influence of the early medieval Church as an institution is widely acknowledged, but Christian theology itself is generally considered to have been accessible only to a small educated elite. This book shows that theology had a much greater and more significant impact than has been recognised. An examination of theology in its social context, and how it was bound up with local authorities and powers, reveals a much more subtle interpretation of secular processes, and shows how theological debate affected the ways that religious and lay individuals lived and died. This was not a one-way flow, however: this book also examines how social and cultural practices and interests affected the development of theology in Anglo-Saxon England, and how ’popular’ belief interacted with literary and academic traditions. Through case-studies, this book explores how theological debate and discussion affected the personal perspectives of Christian Anglo-Saxons, including where possible those who could not read. In all of these, it is clear that theology was not detached from society or from the experiences of lay people, but formed an essential constituent part.