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Imagining the Self, Imagining the Other
This collection of essays re-examines the dynamics of Jewish indentity and Jewish-Christian relations in the Middle Ages and Early Modern period, from the perspective of visual culture, especially manuscript illustration.
Antoine de la Sale
Un médiéviste pourrait sourire aujourd'hui encore de savoir qu'en 1970 Julia Kristeva donnait une lecture sémiologique de Jean de Saintré d'Antoine de La Sale, parce qu'il se serait agi du " premier roman français écrit en prose ". On verra combien cette approche était neuve et juste. Cependant ni " la valeur personnelle de l'auteur ", ni " l'importance esthétique de l'oeuvre " ne l'intéressaient. Tout au contraire, c'était " plutôt par leur anonymat, ou si l'on veut par leur " insignifiance " que ces écrits mérit[ai]ent notre attention comme lieu d'un changement structural ". De façon contradictoire, le présent ouvrage entend montrer combien les ...
Human Nature in Early Franciscan Thought
In this book, Lydia Schumacher challenges the common assumption that early Franciscan thought simply reiterates the longstanding tradition of Augustine. She demonstrates how scholars from this tradition incorporated the work of Islamic and Jewish philosophers, whose works had recently been translated from Arabic, with a view to developing a unique approach to questions of human nature. These questions pertain to perennial philosophical concerns about the relationship between the body and the soul, the work of human cognition and sensation, and the power of free will. By highlighting the Arabic sources of early Franciscan views on these matters, Schumacher illustrates how scholars working in the early thirteenth century anticipated later developments in Franciscan thought which have often been described as novel or unprecedented. Above all, her study demonstrates that the early Franciscan philosophy of human nature was formulated with a view to bolstering the order's specific theological and religious ideals.
Scholarly Community at the Early University of Paris
This book explores the individuals and ideas involved in one of the most transformative periods in higher education's history.
How Marriage Became One of the Sacraments
An indispensable guide to how marriage acquired the status of a sacrament. This book analyzes in detail how medieval theologians explained the place of matrimony in the church and her law, and how the bitter debates of the sixteenth century elevated the doctrine to a dogma of the Catholic faith.
