Late Medieval Heresy: New Perspectives. Studies in Honor of Robert E. Lerner, ed. Michael D. Bailey and Sean L. Field. Heresy and Inquisition in the Middle Ages Series. Woodbridge, Suffolk: York Medieval Press and Boydell & Brewer, 2018, xiii, 267 pp.

Mediaevistik ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 457-459
Author(s):  
Linda Burke
Keyword(s):  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Medieval Heresy ◽  
The Middle Ages

This highly readable Festschrift provides new insights into “the staggering variety of things a person could believe or do” in order to be persecuted as a heretic in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Western Europe, as noted by Barbara Newman (248). The author-editors chose to focus this wide-ranging volume on relatively neglected figures, largely passing over the well-cultivated field of Wycliffe and the Hussites (4–5). Contributors have honored Professor Lerner’s example by their choice of a focused theme for the collection (11): the emphasis on manuscript sources (9–13), and a recognition of historiography as inevitably entwined with contemporary issues (vii, 11).

“Si dictare velis”: Versified Artes dictandi and Late Medieval Writing Pedagogy

1996 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 265-288 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Camargo
Keyword(s):  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Writing Pedagogy ◽  
Letter Writing ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
The Middle Ages

Abstract: Among the hundreds of medieval treatises on letter writing (artes dictandi) are at least four that are written entirely in hexameter verse. Moreover, the verse treatises by Jupiter Monoculus and Otto of Lüneburg are preserved in dozens of fourteenth- and fifteenth-century manuscripts, where they are usually accompanied by commentaries. The surprising popularity of these texts is due in part to their curricular association with the most successful general composition textbook of the Middle Ages, Geoffrey of Vinsauf's Poetria nova, which is also written in hexameters. In addition, they served the same pedagogical functions as the verses that are embedded in many prose artes dictandi: they give pleasure through variety, they provide concise summaries of doctrine, and they facilitate memorization through the use of meter and (often) rhyme.

scholarly journals “Detrusio: Penal Cloistering in the Middle Ages,” Revue Bénédictine 118 (2008): 89-108

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guy Geltner
Keyword(s):  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Lay People ◽  
The Middle Ages

Documents and examines the use of monasteries as spaces and places of penal incarceration for lay people in western Europe between the fifth and fifteenth century.

Preaching to the Laity in Fifteenth-Century Germany: Johannes Nider's ‘Harps’

1983 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Dahmus
Keyword(s):  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Religious Literature ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
Late Fifteenth ◽  
The Middle Ages

Bernd Moeller concludes in his often-quoted study of late medieval German piety that ‘one could dare to call the late fifteenth century in Germany one of the most churchly-minded and devout periods of the Middle Ages’. In his review of Moeller's work, W. D.J. Cargill Thompson points out that the ‘profound conservatism’ of this religiosity, which included devotion to the mass, veneration of saints and their relics, and the reading of vast amounts of religious literature, poses a problem for our understanding of the causes of the Reformation. How does one reconcile this traditional churchliness with the ‘remarkable suddenness’ of its collapse after 1520? One would have expected greater resistance to Lutheran ideas than actually occurred.

Select documents XXXIX: The religious outlook of a Gaelic lord: a new light on Thomas Óg Maguire

1986 ◽  
Vol 25 (98) ◽  
pp. 195-197
Author(s):  
Michael J Haren
Keyword(s):  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Principal Point ◽  
Scholarly Research ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Irish History ◽  
Ecclesiastical History ◽  
Important Development ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
The Middle Ages

The recent accession to the Vatican Archives of registers of the Sacred Penitentiary, a category of business which remained closed when the general records of the papacy were opened to scholarly research at large in 1881, is an important development. It has especially exciting implications for late medieval Irish history The availability of the Penitentiary material will greatly facilitate an undertaking which is of prime importance but for which the sources are otherwise scanty the study of religious sentiment in Ireland in the period from about the second decade of the fifteenth century, when these registers begin, to the Reformation. This is an aspect of ecclesiastical history to which the legalistic and contentious documents of the beneficiary deposits, the principal point of contact between Ireland and the papacy in the middle ages — though immensely valuable in their own right — do not readily lend themselves.

Homer in the French Renaissance*

2006 ◽  
Vol 59 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Ford
Keyword(s):  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Publishing History ◽  
French Renaissance ◽  
Small Band ◽  
Student Audience ◽  
The Middle Ages

AbstractAlthough the works of Homer remained unknown in Western Europe for much of the Middle Ages, their reappearance was welcomed enthusiastically in France toward the end of the fifteenth century by the small band of scholars capable of reading Greek. The founding of the Collège des lecteurs royaux in 1530 gave a fillip to Homeric studies, and partial editions of Homer were printed in Paris, aimed at a student audience. French translations also helped to bring the poems to a wider audience. However, the question of the interpretation of Homer was central to the reception of the two epics, and, after examining the publishing history, this paper sets out to assess how succeeding generations of scholars set about reading and teaching the prince of poets.

Regional Identities and Cultures of Medieval Jews

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
North Africa ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Regional Identity ◽  
Asia Minor ◽  
The Balkans ◽  
Rich Variety ◽  
Regional Cultures ◽  
The Rich ◽  
The Middle Ages

Though the existence of Jewish regional cultures is widely known, the origins of the most prominent groups, Ashkenaz and Sepharad, are poorly understood, and the rich variety of other regional Jewish identities is often overlooked. Yet all these subcultures emerged in the Middle Ages. Scholars contributing to the present study were invited to consider how such regional identities were fashioned, propagated, reinforced, contested, and reshaped — and to reflect on the developments, events, or encounters that made these identities manifest. They were asked to identify how subcultural identities proved to be useful, and the circumstances in which they were deployed. The resulting volume spans the ninth to sixteenth centuries, and explores Jewish cultural developments in western Europe, the Balkans, North Africa, and Asia Minor. In its own way, each chapter considers factors — demographic, geographical, historical, economic, political, institutional, legal, intellectual, theological, cultural, and even biological — that led medieval Jews to conceive of themselves, or to be perceived by others, as bearers of a discrete Jewish regional identity. Notwithstanding the singularity of each chapter, they collectively attest to the inherent dynamism of Jewish regional identities.

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