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A Companion to Observant Reform in the Late Middle Ages and Beyond
The Observant Movement was a widespread effort to reform religious life across Europe. It took root around 1400, and for a century and more thereafter it inspired or shaped much that became central to European religion and culture. The Observants produced many of the leading religious figures of the later Middle Ages—Catherine of Siena, Bernardino of Siena and Savonarola in Italy, Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros in Spain, and in Germany Martin Luther himself. This volume provides scholars with a current, synthetic introduction to the Observant Movement. Its essays also seek collectively to expand the horizons of our study of Observant reform, and to open new avenues for future scholarship. Contributors are Michael D. Bailey, Pietro Delcorno, Tamar Herzig, Anne Huijbers, James D. Mixson, Alison More, Carolyn Muessig, Maria Giuseppina Muzzarelli, Bert Roest, Timothy Schmitz, and Gabriella Zarri.
Fifteenth-Century Studies
This volume of Fifteenth-Century Studies is derived from the 1995 Fifteenth-Century Symposium, held in Kaprun, Austria. As usual, it includes essays on numerous aspects of life during the time:interdisciplinary in approach, topics include Piers Plowman, Christine de Pizan, and Ovid in the Florentine renaissance. Examinations of the recent critical attention given to late-medieval drama and to Villon complete the volume.
Segregation – Integration – Assimilation
There is a widespread concern today with the role and experiences of ethnic and religious minorities, and their potential for conflict and harmony with 'host communities' and with each other, especially in towns. Interest in historical aspects of these phenomena is growing rapidly, not least in studies of the long and complex history of the towns of Central and Eastern Europe. Most such studies focus on particular places or on particular groups, but this volume offers a broader view covering the period from the tenth to the sixteenth century and regions from Germany to Dalmatia and from Epirus to Livonia, with an emphasis on the territory of medieval Hungary. The focus is on the changing nat...
Transformations of Romanness
Roman identity is one of the most interesting cases of social identity because in the course of time, it could mean so many different things: for instance, Greek-speaking subjects of the Byzantine empire, inhabitants of the city of Rome, autonomous civic or regional groups, Latin speakers under ‘barbarian’ rule in the West or, increasingly, representatives of the Church of Rome. Eventually, the Christian dimension of Roman identity gained ground. The shifting concepts of Romanness represent a methodological challenge for studies of ethnicity because, depending on its uses, Roman identity may be regarded as ‘ethnic’ in a broad sense, but under most criteria, it is not. Romanness is indeed a test case how an established and prestigious social identity can acquire many different shades of meaning, which we would class as civic, political, imperial, ethnic, cultural, legal, religious, regional or as status groups. This book offers comprehensive overviews of the meaning of Romanness in most (former) Roman provinces, complemented by a number of comparative and thematic studies. A similarly wide-ranging overview has not been available so far.
The Accusativus Cum Infinitivo and Quod Clauses in the Revelaciones of St. Bridget of Sweden
This study investigates the variation between the accusativus cum infinitivo (a.c.i.) and quod clauses with verba sentiendi and declarandi in the Revelaciones, Books I-VII, of St. Bridget of Sweden (1303-73). This variation is considered to be a characteristic feature of late and mediaeval Latin. The author analyses grammatical patterns which are important or decisive for the choice of construction after the main verb in the text of the Revelaciones. These patterns are connected with semantic criteri such as assertivity, with the category of co-reference and with stylistic factors and must be regarded as fundamental to the Latinity of the Revelaciones. An examination of the moods in quod clauses, the sequence of moods and tenses and a brief survey of subordinate constructions with verba voluntatis and curandi is also included.
Die Gründungsgeschichte der Abtei Brauweiler
Im April 1024 zogen die ersten Mönche in die neu gegründete Benediktinerabtei St. Nikolaus in Brauweiler ein. Sie war das letzte von mehreren Klöstern, die innerhalb weniger Jahrzehnte von Mitgliedern der ottonischen Familie oder dieser nahestehender Persönlichkeiten aus sächsischem Adel im Rheinland gestiftet und ausgestattet wurden. Hinter der Gründung der Abtei Brauweiler standen Mathilde, eine Tochter Kaiser Ottos II., und ihr Gemahl, der lothringische Pfalzgraf Erenfrid (Ezzo). Obwohl zehn Kinder aus der Ehe hervorgingen, war die Familie schon nach wenigen Jahrzehnten nahezu erloschen, und die junge Abtei geriet in bedrohliche Turbulenzen. Von diesen Entwicklungen berichtet um 1080 der Verfasser der Gründungsgeschichte der Abtei Brauweiler (Fundatio monasterii Brunwilarensis) ebenso wie von den verheißungsvollen, ruhmreichen Anfängen. Dabei verbindet er in ansprechender Weise historische Tatsachen mit legendenhafte Motiven und Wundererzählungen zu einer für diese Epoche einzigartigen Familiengeschichte mit hohem Quellenwert. Die Edition bietet parallel zum lateinischen Text die deutsche Erstübersetzung nebst Einführung und Kommentar.
Empires and Indigenous Peoples
The Romans who established their rule on three continents and the Europeans who first established new homes in North America interacted with communities of Indigenous peoples with their own histories and cultures. Sweeping in its scope and rigorous in its scholarship, Empires and Indigenous Peoples expands our understanding of their historical parallels and raises general questions about the nature of the various imperial encounters. In this book, leading scholars of ancient Roman and early anglophone North America examine the mutual perceptions of the Indigenous and the imperial actors. They investigate the rhetoric of civilization and barbarism and its expression in military policies. Indi...
Versus de Sanctis Barlaam et Josaphat
Die Legende von den heiligen Barlaam und Josaphat handelt von der Bekehrung des Königssohnes Josaphat zum Christentum durch den Mönch Barlaam. Infolgedessen konvertierte Josaphats Vater Advennir sowie sein ganzes Königreich zum christlichen Glauben. Die Legende hat ihre Wurzeln im Orient und erinnert an die Geschichte von der inneren Erweckung des indischen Prinzen Siddharta Gautama zum Buddha. In Westeuropa wurde sie durch Übersetzung aus dem Griechischen ins Lateinische seit der Mitte des 11. Jahrhunderts weit verbreitet und ist als «Vulgatfassung» in zahlreichen Handschriften erhalten. Auf deren Grundlage ist die Barlaamlegende im 12. oder frühen 13. Jahrhundert von einem unbekannt...
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Nova de Veteribus
Der Band vereint mehr als 60 Beiträge, in denen der große internationale Freundes-, Kollegen- und Schülerkreis des Freiburger Mittellateiners überraschende Neufunde präsentiert, zentrale literarische Werke neu beleuchtet und methodisch innovativ Zugang zu Texten der klassischen, mittelalterlichen und neuzeitlichen Latinität erschließt. Entsprechend den weitgespannten Arbeitsgebieten des Geehrten finden sich darunter Studien zu Paläographie, Kodikologie, Bibliotheksgeschichte, Theologie, den Artes liberales, der Visionsliteratur, der Geschichte und zur Interdependenz der Volkssprachen mit dem Lateinischen.
