Richard J. Serina, Jr., Nicholas of Cusa’s Brixen Sermons and Late Medieval Church Reform. (Studies in the History of Christian Traditions 182.) Boston and Leiden: Brill, 2016. Pp. xiv, 257. $149. ISBN: 978-90-04-32172-4.

Recent studies on the history of reform in the early and medieval church have been highly influenced by the works of Gerhart Ladner. In his writings Ladner stresses primarily the ideological foundations of reform. He distinguishes, moreover, the idea of reform from other types of renewal. In contrast with cosmological, vitalistic, and millenaristic renewal, reform implies conscious intention and finality. Church reform, consequently, both in its personal and institutional dimensions necessarily involves some concept of what a church should be. For this reason in most reform ideologies the idea of the ecclesia primitiva has played an important role. The primitive Church is regarded as a privileged moment in the history of the Church since it was in immediate personal contact with its founder and the direct recipient of his message.

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The Late Medieval Church - Francis Oakley: The Western Church in the Later Middle Ages. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1979. $22.50) - Steven Ozment: The Age of Reform, 1250–1550: An Intellectual and Religious History of Late Medieval and Reformation Europe. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1980. Pp. 438. $35.00.)

The Review of Politics ◽

10.1017/s0034670500046672 ◽

1982 ◽

Vol 44 (3) ◽

pp. 442-444

Author(s):

John Van Engen

Keyword(s):

Middle Ages ◽

Religious History ◽

New Haven ◽

Yale University ◽

Late Medieval ◽

Cornell University ◽

Medieval Church ◽

History Of

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Nicholas of Cusa's Brixen Sermons and Late Medieval Church Reform

10.1163/9789004326767 ◽

2016 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Richard J. Serina

Keyword(s):

Church Reform ◽

Late Medieval ◽

Medieval Church

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The Power of the Saints and the Authority of the Popes: The History of Sainthood and Late Medieval Canonization Processes

Church and Belief in the Middle Ages ◽

10.1017/9789048525720.007 ◽

2016 ◽

pp. 117-140

Author(s):

Gábor Klaniczay

Keyword(s):

Late Medieval ◽

History Of

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Matthew Cheung Salisbury, Worship in Medieval England. Past Imperfect Series. Croydon: ARC Humanities Press, 2018, 92 pages.

Mediaevistik ◽

10.3726/med.2019.01.42 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 32 (1) ◽

pp. 315-318

Author(s):

Jane Beal

Keyword(s):

English Translation ◽

Recent Book ◽

Medieval England ◽

Late Medieval ◽

Cambridge University ◽

Liturgical Studies ◽

University Of Oxford ◽

Medieval Church ◽

Late Medieval England ◽

The University

Matthew Cheung Salisbury, a Lecturer in Music at University and Worcester College, Oxford, and a member of the Faculty of Music at the University of Oxford, wrote this book for ARC Humanities Press’s Past Imperfect series (a series comparable to Oxford’s Very Short Introductions). Two of his recent, significant contributions to the field of medieval liturgical studies include The Secular Office in Late-Medieval England (Turnhout: Brepols, 2015) and, as editor and translator, Medieval Latin Liturgy in English Translation (Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 2017). In keeping with the work of editors Thomas Heffernan and E. Ann Matter in The Liturgy of the Medieval Church, 2nd ed. (Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 2005) and Richard W. Pfaff in The Liturgy of Medieval England: A History (Cambridge University Press, 2009), this most recent book provides a fascinating overview of the liturgy of the medieval church, specifically in England. Salisbury’s expertise is evident on every page.

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Negation and Nonveridicality in the History of Greek

10.1093/oso/9780198712404.001.0001 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Katerina Chatzopoulou

Keyword(s):

Quantitative Data ◽

Qualitative Data ◽

Inertial Forces ◽

Greek Language ◽

Late Medieval ◽

Polarity Item ◽

Syntactic Change ◽

History Of ◽

The Asymmetry ◽

Diachronic Development

This study is an investigation of the expression of negation in the history of Greek, through quantitative data from representative texts from three major stages of vernacular Greek (Attic Greek, Koine, Late Medieval Greek), and qualitative data from Homeric Greek until Standard Modern. The contrast between two complementary negators, NEG1 and NEG2, is explained in terms of sensitivity of NEG2 μη‎ to nonveridicality: NEG2 is a polarity item in all stages of the Greek language, an item licensed by nonveridicality. The asymmetry in the diachronic development of the Greek negator system (the replacement of NEG1 and the preservation of NEG2) is explained with reference to the particulars of the uses of NEG2, specifically the inertial forces drawn by the nonnegative uses of NEG2, which being nonnegative did not experience the renewal pressures predicted by the Jespersen’s Cycle. These are its complementizer uses: (i) as a question particle, and (ii) in introducing verbs of fear complements. A viewpoint for Jespersen’s Cycle is proposed that abstracts away from the morphosyntactic and phonological particulars of the phenomenon and explicitly places its regularities in the semantics, accommodating not only for Greek, but for numerous other languages that deviate in different ways from the traditional description of Jespersen’s Cycle. The developments observed in the history of the Greek negator system agree with current generative theories of syntactic change, regarding the notions of up-the-tree movement.

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At the Edge of Reformation

10.1093/oso/9780198834199.001.0001 ◽

2019 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Peter Linehan

Keyword(s):

Civil War ◽

Fourteenth Century ◽

Black Death ◽

The West ◽

Late Medieval ◽

Medieval Europe ◽

History Of ◽

Portuguese Society ◽

The Relationship ◽

The Church

This book springs from its author’s continuing interest in the history of Spain and Portugal—on this occasion in the first half of the fourteenth century between the recovery of each kingdom from widespread anarchy and civil war and the onset of the Black Death. Focussing on ecclesiastical aspects of the period in that region (Galicia in particular) and secular attitudes to the privatization of the Church, it raises inter alios the question why developments there did not lead to a permanent sundering of the relationship with Rome (or Avignon) two centuries ahead of that outcome elsewhere in the West. In addressing such issues, as well as of neglected material in Spanish and Portuguese archives, use is made of the also unpublished so-called ‘secret’ registers of the popes of the period. The issues it raises concern not only Spanish and Portuguese society in general but also the developing relationship further afield of the components of the eternal quadrilateral (pope, king, episcopate, and secular nobility) in late medieval Europe, as well as of the activity in that period of those caterpillars of the commonwealth, the secular-minded sapientes. In this context, attention is given to the hitherto neglected attempt of Afonso IV of Portugal to appropriate the privileges of the primatial church of his kingdom and to advance the glorification of his Castilian son-in-law, Alfonso XI, as God’s vicegerent in his.

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