Célí Dé, Spiritual Reform in Ireland 750-900

1982 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 516
Author(s):  
Pádraig Ó hÁdhmaill ◽  
Peter O. Dwyer
Keyword(s):  
Spiritual Reform

A Mathematical Turn

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Oosterhoff
Keyword(s):  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
University Reform ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Nicholas Of Cusa ◽  
Devotio Moderna ◽  
Court Politics ◽  
Spiritual Reform ◽  
The University

Lefèvre described his own mathematical turn as a kind of conversion. This chapter explains what motivated his turn to mathematics, considering the place of mathematics in fifteenth-century Paris in relation to court politics and Lefèvre’s own connections to Italian humanists. But more importantly, Lefèvre’s attitude to learning and the propaedeutic value of mathematics drew on the context of late medieval spiritual reform, with its emphasis on conversion and care of the soul. In particular, Lefèvre’s turn to university reform seems to have responded to the works of Ramon Lull, alongside the devotio moderna and Nicholas of Cusa, which he printed in important collections. With such influences, Lefèvre chose the university as the site for intellectual reform.

Andrea del Sarto’s Disputation on the Trinity and the “Sighs of Holy Desire”

2017 ◽  
Vol 80 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-34
Author(s):  
Steven J. Cody
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual History ◽  
Spiritual Learning ◽  
Spiritual Reform ◽  
The Trinity

Abstract Andrea del Sarto’s Disputation on the Trinity (1517) engages with powerful traditions of spiritual learning that can be traced back to St. Augustine’s theological writings. This paper asks how and in what ways Andrea’s altarpiece might belong to such a rich intellectual history. The analysis connects Augustinian notions of desire and reform to the painting’s iconography and to the artist’s composition and treatment of color. This line of inquiry not only has exciting implications for the study of Renaissance altarpieces; it also lays the groundwork for a larger study of Andrea del Sarto and of his contributions to the period’s sense of spiritual reform, broadly conceived.

Tibet from Buddhism to Communism

1986 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 76-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heather Stoddard
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Small Population ◽  
Ancien Regime ◽  
Research Opportunities ◽  
Internal Development ◽  
Spiritual Reform ◽  
Ancien Régime ◽  
Scholarly Attention

The conflict between Mohammed and Marx has received a fair amount of scholarly attention; so have the occasional attempts at syncretism, fusing the two visions. The confrontation of Buddha and Marx is just as interesting, and has been explored rather less. There are certain parallels between Buddhism and Islam. Both contain a High Tradition of great, scholarly sophistication which lends itself to purification, and can constitute the banner of political and spiritual ‘Reform’ and revival. This has in fact happened within both Islam and Buddhism. But within the two most thoroughly Buddhism‐dominated societies, Mongolia and Tibet, the process was not allowed to run its course. Each of these countries has a small population, and in each case what might have been the natural internal development was distorted by the overwhelming might of a great communist power. In neither case, however, has the victory of Marx over Buddha been complete or uncontested. The crucial events did not happen simultaneously in the two countries, but happened about three decades later in Tibet than they had in Mongolia. The present article contains insights into and information about the last years of the ancien régime in Tibet, based on unique understanding and research opportunities.

The Moresca Dance in Counter-Reformation Rome: Court Medicine and the Moderation of Exceptional Bodies

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Kavvadia
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Medical Discourse ◽  
Religious Discourse ◽  
Court Culture ◽  
Dance Culture ◽  
Counter Reformation ◽  
Body And Soul ◽  
Spiritual Reform ◽  
The Catholic Church

In the early modern elite court culture, dance held a prominent sociopolitical position. Nevertheless, in the Counter-Reformation era, the Catholic Church put dance culture under scrutiny. The moresca, one of the most popular dance spectacles that expressed the elite’s taste in exceptional and wondrous bodies, was criticized as deviant by Catholic reformers. In this criticism, the religious discourse often overlapped with contemporary medical discourse, which considered aspects of dance culture as unhealthy for both body and soul. In Counter-Reformation Rome, Girolamo Mercuriale, the court physician of Cardinal Alessandro Farnese, following the aspirations of the Counter-Reformation papacy for spiritual reform, moderates in his medical treatise De arte gymnastica the controversial moresca: by modifying it into a medical exercise, he regulates the moresca in both medical and religious terms, making it an appropriate body practice for the elite.

Annie Besant's Fight for Home Rule in India, 1910s–1920s

2021 ◽  
pp. 25-46
Author(s):  
Marie Terrier
Keyword(s):  
Primary Sources ◽  
Home Rule ◽  
Political Struggle ◽  
Nationalist Movement ◽  
Political Agitation ◽  
Spiritual Reform

Annie Besant is famous in England for her involvement in the socialist revival in the 1880s. In 1889, she adopted theosophy and decided to focus on moral and spiritual reform. She moved to India, which she considered the mother of spirituality in order to pursue her goal. In the following two decades, though she often came back to Britain, she almost completely severed the links with the British left. However, in the 1910s and 1920s, she was again at the forefront of political agitation and she had to deal with labour movements again, both in Britain and in India. This chapter acknowledges the large and controversial historiography concerning Annie Besant’s involvement in the Indian nationalist movement. Rather than focusing on specific events, it seeks to draw attention to the global logic of her fight for Home Rule in India which extended well into the 1920s. By using primary sources, some of which have remained unexplored so far, it also aims to analyse how she related her political struggle to labour movements.

Towards the Courtier: The University Formation of Public Servants in the Age of Richard Fox

2019 ◽  
pp. 9-21
Author(s):  
† Jeremy Catto
Keyword(s):  
Latin Literature ◽  
Church Fathers ◽  
Public Servants ◽  
New Era ◽  
Corpus Christi ◽  
History Of ◽  
Spiritual Reform ◽  
The University ◽  
The Church

This introductory chapter provides an overview of Corpus Christi College in Oxford, founded in 1517 by Bishop Richard Fox, which occupies a particular place in the history of English universities. Corpus Christi College was a new kind of foundation, with a humanist curriculum and a distinctive emphasis on pedagogy. Endowed with lecturers in ‘Humanity‘ (Latin literature), Greek, and Theology—the last appointed to teach Scripture and the church fathers rather than the medieval authorities—it seemed to harness the learning of the Renaissance to the contemporaneous project of spiritual reform and reformation. Moreover, Corpus Christi College’s trilingual library—containing texts in Latin, Greek, and Hebrew—was famously judged by Erasmus as a wonder of the world. So it is that Corpus has been identified as one of a ‘group of Renaissance colleges‘, introducing ‘a new era in the university‘.

Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
John Watts
Keyword(s):  
Latin Literature ◽  
Church Fathers ◽  
New Era ◽  
Corpus Christi ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Spiritual Reform ◽  
The University ◽  
The Church

Corpus Christi College, Oxford, founded just over five hundred years ago in 1517 by Bishop Richard Fox, occupies a particular place in the history of English universities. Together with Christ’s College, Cambridge (1506) and St John’s College, Cambridge (1511–16), it was a new kind of foundation, with a humanist curriculum and a distinctive emphasis on paedagogy. Endowed with lecturers in ‘Humanity’ (Latin literature), Greek and Theology, the last appointed to teach Scripture and the church fathers rather than the medieval authorities, it seemed to harness the learning of the Renaissance to the contemporaneous project of spiritual reform and reformation; and its trilingual library—containing texts in Latin, Greek and Hebrew—was famously judged by Erasmus a wonder of the world. So it is that Corpus has been identified as one of a ‘group of Renaissance colleges’, introducing ‘a new era in the university’....

Ezra • Nehemiah

1965 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacob M. Myers
Keyword(s):  
Near East ◽  
Biblical Interpretation ◽  
Biblical Studies ◽  
Professor Emeritus ◽  
Theological Seminary ◽  
Jigsaw Puzzle ◽  
Spiritual Renewal ◽  
The Bible ◽  
National Reconstruction ◽  
Spiritual Reform

The books of Ezra and Nehemiah, treated here as one larger work, continue the story of Israel's experience begun in the biblical books of I and II Chronicles. In the wake of Persia replacing Babylon as the ruling empire in the ancient Near East, the Judahites exiled in Babylon find reason to hope again. Their hope is rooted in the fulfillment of the prophetic promises that they would one day return to their homeland. Not only do the exiles return from Babylon with the support of the Persian ruler, but they renew their commitment to God. Two remarkable personalities – with strikingly different approaches to the same objective – are the architects of this rebuilding of a people so long without roots. Ezra, “the second Moses,” bases the renewal on the Torah and spiritual reform. Nehemiah, the accomplished politician and diplomat, keeps the renewal alive with his deft administrative hand. For all its usefulness in painting the historical picture, Ezra-Nehemiah presents an exceedingly complex textual jigsaw puzzle. The heart of the matter lies not in reconciling all the parallel lists, quotes, and different accounts of the same story, but in coming to a better understanding of how and when the Bible came to be written. The factors of spiritual renewal, national reconstruction, and biblical composition make Ezra-Nehemiah a key to biblical interpretation then and now. Jacob M. Myers was Professor Emeritus of Biblical Studies at Lutheran Theological Seminary, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, until his death in 1991. He is also the author of the Anchor Bible commentaries on II Chronicles and I & II Esdras.

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