Traditio Volume 73: December

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Dryhthelm's Desire Compunction and Bede's Celestial Topography

Carlson, Erik

2018 Traditio

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Modern critics usually read the vision of Dryhthelm as an account of a man frightened into penitential asceticism even though Bede explains that Dryhthelm lived out his days in the desire for heaven, not fear of punishment. While fear is an important part of Dryhthelm's...

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Crowland Abbey as Anglo-Saxon Sanctuary in the Pseudo-Ingulf Chronicle

Brady, Lindy

2018 Traditio

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Crowland Abbey was one of many English monasteries after the Norman Conquest to forge documents that claimed a right to permanent sanctuary rooted in the Anglo-Saxon period. Yet Crowland's claims stand out because while other ecclesiastical chronicles that grounded their...

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The Papacy and the Commutation of Crusading Vows from one Area of Conflict to Another (1095âC. 1300)

Forey, A. J.

2018 Traditio

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The practice of diverting crusaders from one area of conflict to another can be traced back at least as far as the beginning of the twelfth century. Commuting of vows in this way was early recognized to be a papal prerogative and usually involved crusaders who had originally...

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Glossing the Gloss Reading Peter Lombard's Collectanea on the Pauline Epistles as a Historical Act

O'Hagan, Peter

2018 Traditio

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Peter Lombard's influential commentary on the Pauline Epistles, the Collectanea in omnes divi Pauli epistolas, has received little extended analysis in scholarly literature, despite its recognized importance both in its own right and as key for the development of...

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The Mongol Invasions between Epistolography and Prophecy The Case of the Letter "AD Flagellum," C. 1235/36â1338

Grant, Alasdair C.

2018 Traditio

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This is a study of an apocalyptic Latin letter (incipit "Ad flagellum humani generis"), surviving in manuscripts from the mid-thirteenth to fourteenth centuries, that describes an apparent aggressive invasion of an ascetic army in the distant East, led by a figure...

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Fluidity in Stillness A Reading of Hadewijch's Strofische Gedichten/Poems in Stanzas

Mir, Anita

2018 Traditio

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That women felt and men thought has long been the predominant lens through which medieval Christian writing has been analyzed. The work of the religious women vernacular theologians, or Beguines, who emerged across North Europe from the twelfth to the thirteenth centuries has...

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The Marvelous between Dante and Boccaccio

Kriesel, James C.

2018 Traditio

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In the late Middle Ages, authors of fiction, historical texts, and travel narratives discussed issues related to the places and spaces of marvels. Writers debated whether local, western occurrences could be as wondrousâand thus worthy of being recorded in writingâas...

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Metaphysics and Testimonial Knowledge in the Super Iohannem of Albert the Great

Casteigt, Julie

2018 Traditio

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This article examines Albert the Great's interpretation of John 1:7 concerning John the Baptist: "He came as a witness, to testify about the Light, so that all might believe through him." Commenting on this verse, Albert develops the idea that the metaphysical approach to...

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The Work Called Congesta and Fifteenth-Century English Theology

Wenzel, Siegfried

2018 Traditio

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Congesta, written about the middle of the fifteenth century in England and only partially preserved, is a massive sermon commentary, originally in five volumes, covering the Sundays of the church year, some feast days and common sermons for saints, and two special...

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