Mulieres sanctae

1973 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 77-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brenda M. Bolton
Keyword(s):  
Urban Communities ◽  
Religious Life ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Religious Feeling ◽  
Secular Clergy ◽  
History Of ◽  
Mendicant Orders ◽  
The Church

The early thirteenth century was an extraordinary period in the history of piety. Throughout Europe, and especially in urban communities, lay men and women were seized by a new religious fervour which could be satisfied neither by the new orders nor by the secular clergy. Lay groups proliferated, proclaiming the absolute and literal value of the gospels and practising a new life-style, the vita apostolica. This religious feeling led to the formation, on the eve of the fourth lateran council, of numerous orders of ‘poor men’ and shortly afterwards, to the foundation of the mendicant orders. From this novel interpretation of evangelical life women by no means wished to be excluded and many female groups sprang simultaneously into being in areas as far distant as Flanders and Italy. Yet how were such groups to be regarded because current attitudes to women were based on inconsistent and contradictory doctrines? It was difficult to provide the conditions under which they could achieve their desire for sanctity as they were not allowed to enter the various orders available to men. How then were men to reply to the demands of these women for participation in religious life? That there should be a reply was evident from the widespread heresy in just those areas in which the ferment of urban life encouraged the association of pious women. And heretics were dangerously successful with them! For the church, the existence of religious and semi-religious communities of women raised, in turn, many problems, not least the practicalities involved in both pastoral care and economic maintenance. Only, after 1215, when it attempted to regulate and discipline them, did it realise the widespread enthusiasm on which their movement was based.

The Hebrew Translation of the Carolingian Lord's Prayer: A Case Study in Using Linguistics to Understand History

AJS Review ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-47
Author(s):  
Eitan Berkowitz
Keyword(s):  
Religious Life ◽  
Ninth Century ◽  
Linguistic Analysis ◽  
Lord's Prayer ◽  
Future Studies ◽  
Language Study ◽  
History Of ◽  
Textual Research ◽  
The Church

Through a linguistic analysis of the Hebrew Lord's Prayer, this article endeavors to reach a new understanding of the function of this text in the lives of its users, concluding that the ninth-century Carolingian writer/translator meant for this text to be sung aloud. This article goes back to the basics of textual research—philology and language study—in order to determine the correct historical framework through which to understand this much-debated text, thus adding to our understanding of the religious life and practice of the nuns of Essen at the polyglottic crossroads of Latin and German, Hebrew and Greek. This paper is also an invitation for future studies to continue its effort to rewrite the history of Hebrew in the church, for historians to broaden their toolbox, and for linguists and philologists to contribute their insights to other fields.

Female Strategies for Success in a Male-ordered World: the Benedictine Convent of Le Murate in Florence in the Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Centuries

1990 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. 209-221 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. J. P Lowe
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Large City ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Active Life ◽  
The Family ◽  
Direct Competition ◽  
History Of ◽  
Place Of Origin ◽  
The Church

This paper will centre on the relationships of women to men and women to women which form the backbone of the history of the Benedictine convent of Le Murate in Florence in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. Le Murate started in a quiet way with one pious woman deciding to live virtuously by herself, but under no rule, in a house on the Ponte Rubaconte in 1390, and expanded to become perhaps the largest female convent in Florence in 1515, situated on Via Ghibellina, with 200 enclosed women and their servants living under the Rule of St Benedict. I want to examine the relations between these nuns and the outside world and look at how the male government of the outside world, secular and ecclesiastical, both at an individual level and in a more collective, formal way, tried to restrain and weaken this group of females, even to the point of forbidding them to earn their own livelihood. I would like to posit that religious life on a large scale and in a large city offered opportunities for the exercise of power by women not available to those of the female sex who stayed within the structure of the family and who were, therefore, in direct competition with men at every stage. Daughters, sisters, wives, and widows were legally and socially subject to their male relatives, in varying degrees. Nuns were not, and were permitted a measure of self-government. Just how irksome, worrying, and unacceptable to men it was for women to take their own decisions will become clear later. Barred by their sex from an active life in the hierarchy of the Church, and barred by their Order from an active life in the community, nevertheless in the Renaissance these enclosed Benedictine nuns devised strategies for obtaining access to power and money unparalleled by their secular counterparts. Le Murate exerted a strong attraction on women, both the powerful and famous and the more ordinary. Due to the increasing politicization of Florentine society, it secured, in addition, the patronage of the two most important Florentine political families during the period, the Medici and the Soderini. It was this seeming capacity to mobilize support from every sector of the population, regardless of sex, social group, income, political hue, or place of origin, which enabled the convent to prosper.

scholarly journals From Scandinavian Missionary Activity to an African local Church: A History of the Free Pentecostal Fellowship in Kenya (1955 to 2018)

2020 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Muoki Joshua
Keyword(s):  
Local Church ◽  
Church Leaders ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Oral Narratives ◽  
Financial Instability ◽  
National Institutions ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Church

This article reconstructs the history of a Pentecostal denomination in Kenya that was established by Scandinavian missionaries from two missionary agencies, namely the Norwegian Pentecostal Mission (NPM) and Swedish Free Mission (SFM), during the early 1950s. It relies on oral narratives by early African clerics, missionaries and church leaders as well as archival materials such as minutes, correspondence and reports to argue that the 60-year history of the Free Pentecostal Fellowship in Kenya (FPFK) may be periodised into three major epochs: the period of beginnings (1955–1984); the period of collaboration (1984–1996); and the period of nationalisation (1997–2018). It further contests that the present challenges for the church, such as the schism between Swedish and Norwegian sections, financial instability and the collapse of its national institutions, as well as an over emphasis on rural evangelism and a failure to penetrate the Kenyan urban life, are directly linked to its Scandinavian heritage.

Ethnicity, Confession, Nation – The Development of Concepts in the History of Transylvania in Religious Life

2020 ◽  
Vol 65 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-162
Author(s):  
Ioan Chirilă
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Religious Life ◽  
The Political ◽  
National Consciousness ◽  
Political Leaders ◽  
Orthodox Christian ◽  
Historical Reality ◽  
National Division ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Church

"The church has had to accept the national division of Europe since the Middle Ages and adapt to this situation. This issue is relatively unclear in the case of Tran-sylvania. N. Iorga stated about the Orthodox Christian consciousness that “it was so strong that it hindered the creation of a strong national consciousness”, and this would allow us to see in the ecclesiastical organization a form of expression of uni-tary organization of Romanian ethnicity in Transylvania. The time of Transylvani-an principalities and voivodeships shows us that most often the ecclesiastical leaders were also the political leaders (see the case of Prince Andrew Báthory who was Archbishop of Warmia – Poland); so, the two concepts of ethnicity and confession reflected the same historical reality during those times. The two concepts will be-come separated only later, after the emergence of confessions other than the Eastern rite. In support of our statement, we have the correspondence between the Hungar-ian kings and officials and the papacy. Before dealing with these perspectives, we shall pin down the terminology to grant the reader the possibility to understand the historical situations through a kind of thinking marked by the imprint of the Holy Scripture. Keywords: ethnicity, people, confession, dynamic status, national consciousness, Transyl-vania, the church. "

The Revival of the Religious Life

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol Engelhardt
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Gender Roles ◽  
Religious Life ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
Popular Opinion ◽  
Oxford Movement ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Many ◽  
Significant Figures ◽  
Productive Role

This chapter examines one of the most significant achievements of the Oxford Movement, the establishment of vowed religious communities for women. It discusses some of the most significant figures in the history of these sisterhoods and describes the work undertaken by the approximately 10,000 women who belonged to one of the many communities established in the second half of the nineteenth century. Acknowledging that in many ways these communities ratified existing gender roles, this chapter also sees that by standing firm against opposition from bishops and popular opinion, these women and their male supporters contributed to an alternative and productive role for women.

scholarly journals Al-Qur’an Dan Relasi Harmonis Antar Umat Beragama

alashriyyah ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 23
Author(s):  
Umi Waheeda
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Religious Life ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
Community Living ◽  
West Papua ◽  
History Of ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

With the diversity of religions and ethnicities, in Indonesia, it is not easy to create conditions for safe, peaceful and peaceful community living. There have been many riots between ethnic groups, between religions, between races and between groups. Many of the victims of their lives and property have fallen most of the recent riots in Waimena, West Papua. How does the Qur'an provide an example for us for harmonious relations between religious communities? Harmonious relations between religious communities is emphasized in the Qur'an. Islam as a religion Rahmatan lil alamin upholds the harmony of religious life among humans. Can be seen from the history of Islam from the start of the Prophet s.a.w. until now. Muslims are always defending never want to attack first, to the shelves that can not be tolerated then they fight back. During this time Islam, as a religion of peace, a religion that likes peace, became tarnished because of doing some radical and extremist Muslim groups. Who uses Islam to get the master. Hiding behind a mask, in the name of Islam. This has an impact on the disruption of the relationship of protection between religious communities. There are many explanations in the Qur'an about building tolerant relationships in religion. To live in harmony with harmonious relations between religions we must develop between people. To live safely, peacefully.

The Tithe-Heresy of Friar William Russell

1976 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Craig A. Robertson
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Religious Life ◽  
Lay Persons ◽  
History Of ◽  
Parish Churches ◽  
Parish Clergy ◽  
Clear And Present Danger ◽  
The City ◽  
The Church ◽  
At Will

The growth of subjectivity in the religious life of the later Middle Ages, in discipline and worship as well as doctrine, both without and within the corporation of the clergy, was an important motif in the history of the Church in England. A more personal interpretation of religious obligations affected even matters of bedrock importance to the life of the organized church, such as the duty of tithing. Of particular interest in this connection in England was the cause célèbre created in London in the 1420's by a maverick Franciscan, William Russell, who preached that under certain conditions lay persons might devote their personal tithes at will to any pious or charitable use. Russell's sermon led to his condemnation as a heretic. But the reasons for the extraordinary controversy that he stirred up become clear only when one recognizes the place of his sermon in a long dispute between the parish clergy of London and their parishoners about the precise obligation of personal tithes in the city.The prosecution of William Russell before Archbishop Henry Chichele and the Convocation of Canterbury was an odd affair and, in spite of their prolixity, its records leave unsolvable riddles for medievalists. The process against Russell comprises the longest trial in Archbishop Chichele's register—perhaps in that of any medieval Archbishop of Canterbury. Minutes of the prosecution and wordy ancillary documents fill all or parts of twenty-six folio pages of the register (fifty-two printed pages in the splendid printed edition of E.F. Jacob). Yet in reading this material one gathers hardly more than a crabbed impression of the learned proofs and literary citations that Russell mustered in defense of this teaching on personal tithes. What is most striking to a reader of this transcript is the vehemence with which Archbishop Chichele and his clergy in the Convocation prosecuted this errant friar, in whose sermon they saw a clear and present danger to the endowment of London parish churches.

Ecclesiastical Geography of Colonial Brazil

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Evergton Sales Souza
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Colonial Society ◽  
Documentary Sources ◽  
Secular Clergy ◽  
History Of ◽  
American Colony ◽  
Colonial Brazil ◽  
The Church

For many years Brazil was a mission land, a space for evangelization mostly occupied by non-Christian peoples and targets of the conversion work of Catholic missionaries. Furthermore, the slowness of the colonizing—and missionary—advance toward the vast sertões of Portuguese America meant that a large part of the territory remained outside the principal organizing institutions of the colonial space, among which was the diocesan church. However, by confusing the space effectively occupied by colonization with what would eventually form the extension of the territorial possessions of the Portuguese monarchy, the field was opened to mistaken perceptions about the presence and importance of the diocesan Church in colonial Brazil. Since 2000, the proliferation of studies about the episcopacy and different aspects of the structures and actions related to episcopal power has contributed to a change in the understanding of its role and relevance in the development of the Church and the Luso-American colony. Contemporary historians, more attentive to documentary sources related to diocesan administration, have sought to show that the diocesan geography of Portuguese America had greater complexity and importance than has been attributed to it by incautious researchers convinced they were aware of the limitations of the role played by secular clergy in the construction of the Church and Catholicism. Emerging out of recent 21st-century studies is a better knowledge of diocesan structures—bishoprics, ecclesiastic administrations, parishes, chapels—and the functioning of the mechanisms of pastoral vigilance and the punishment of deviants, whether they were clerics or simple believers. This demystifies the idea that the royal Padroado was a nefarious obstacle to the development of the diocesan church in Brazil and shows the importance of the study of diocesan geography not only for the understanding of the history of the Church and Catholicism but also for the development of colonial society.

Russian Religious Life in the Soviet Era

2020 ◽  
pp. 59-75
Author(s):  
Zoe Knox
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Religious Life ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Russian Orthodoxy ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
History Of ◽  
Soviet Russia ◽  
State Relations ◽  
Russian Religious Thought

This chapter provides an overview of the history of Russian religious life from the October 1917 Russian Revolution, when the Bolsheviks seized power and imposed their radical secularist agenda, to 1991, when Soviet rule ended and, with it, the atheist campaign. It charts the major political developments that religious institutions, individual believers, and faith communities were forced to respond to and which underlay theological debates both in the Soviet Union and in the Russian diaspora. Recent scholarship has overturned the widely held view that in the communist period Russian Orthodoxy was out-dated, irrelevant, and marginal as a facet of identity, and in its place a scholarship has emerged which recognizes the variety of experiences within the Orthodox tradition and beyond it, of churches functioning openly and operating underground. Religious communities were forced to react to policy and practice emanating from the communist party, making a survey of Soviet religious policy critical for understanding Russian religious thought since 1917. The chapter also outlines key developments affecting believers in the years immediately after the collapse of the USSR and highlights the profound influence of the Soviet era on religious life and thought and on church–state relations in post-Soviet Russia.

Fasciculi Zizaniorum I

1961 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-45
Author(s):  
James Crompton
Keyword(s):  
Thirteenth Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
Latin Text ◽  
Single Source ◽  
The Bible ◽  
History Of ◽  
John Wyclif ◽  
Mendicant Orders ◽  
The Church

Fasciculi Zizaniorum. has become the bible of ‘Wycliffite’ and early protestant studies. The best known collection of materials relating to John Wyclif and his heresies, and roughly contemporary with what is described, it is the most important single source for the history of John Wyclif. The full title—Fasciculi Zizaniorum magistri Johannis Wycliff cum Tritico—is derived from the description which precedes the opening narrative in the MS. A great deal more is included in the MS. than this title would at first sight suggest. The collection also contains much about the heresies of the Oxford followers of Wyclif, about his leading opponents and the cases of many early Lollards. It also includes the Latin text of the two statutes against Lollards, De Haeretico Comburendo of 1401 and the Leicester Statute of 1414. To these Lollard materials are added the proceedings of the Council of Constance against Wyclif, John Hus and Jerome of Prague, and summaries of condemnation of heresies made by the Church before Wyclif's day, beginning with those condemned at Oxford and Paris in the thirteenth century. The other works are mostly concerned with the age-long controversies over Apostolic Poverty and the Mendicant Orders: a selection from the writings of archbishop Fitzralph of Armagh; the proceedings against the Irish Cistercian, Henry Crump, in 1392; the Protectorium Pauperis of the Carmelite, Richard Maidstone; the Defence of the Carmelite Order written in 1374 by Richard Hornby. The last two works in the MS., a sermon by John Hornby and the well known treatise against Wyclif's Trialogus by the Franciscan, William Woodford, are incomplete.

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