Welcome to our book review site go-pdf.online!

You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.

Sign up

In the Mirror of the Prodigal Son
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 564

In the Mirror of the Prodigal Son

  • Type: Book
  • -
  • Published: 2017-09-25
  • -
  • Publisher: BRILL

In In the Mirror of the Prodigal Son: The Pastoral Uses of a Biblical Narrative (c. 1200-1550) Pietro Delcorno reconstructs how this biblical parable became, particularly through preaching, a key master narrative in shaping religious identity in medieval and Reformation Europe.

Observant Reforms and Cultural Production in Europe
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 304

Observant Reforms and Cultural Production in Europe

  • Categories: Art

The impetus of religious reform between ca. 1380-1520, which expressed itself in a variety of Observant initiatives in many religious orders all over Europe, and also brought forth the Devotio moderna movement in the late medieval Low Countries, had considerable repercussions for the production of a wide range of religious texts, and the embrace of other forms of cultural production (scribal activities, liturgical innovations, art, music, religious architecture). At the same time, the very impetus of reform within late medieval religious orders and the wish to return to a more modest religious lifestyle in accordance with monastic and mendicant rules, and ultimately with the commands of Chri...

Poverty, Eschatology and the Medieval Church
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 515

Poverty, Eschatology and the Medieval Church

  • Type: Book
  • -
  • Published: 2023-07-03
  • -
  • Publisher: BRILL

This volume is a collection of essays written in honor of David Burr, emeritus professor at the Polytechnic University of Virginia (Blacksburg): a scholar who has spent a career researching and publishing on the multi-faceted phenomenon of the Spiritual Franciscans (late 13th-early 14th century) and, in particular, on the life and writings of Peter of John Olivi in southern France. Representing some of the finest scholars in the field these eighteen scholarly essays touch on aspects of both phenomena. Three essays are devoted to the historiography of David Burr; three are dedicated to medieval Apocalypticism; another seven deal specifically with Peter of John Olivi; and five final essays explore aspects of the Spiritual Franciscans, their precursors and adherents. Contributors are C. Colt Anderson, Marco Bartoli, Michael F. Cusato, Gilbert Dahan, Alberto Forni, Fortunato Iozzelli, Philip D. Krey, Robert E. Lerner, Warren Lewis, Michele Lodone, Kevin Madigan, Antonio Montefusco, Delfi I. Nieto-Isabel, Dabney G. Park, Sylvain Piron, Gian Luca PotestĂ , Marco Rainini, and Paolo Vian.

The Jewish-Christian Encounter in Medieval Preaching
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 344

The Jewish-Christian Encounter in Medieval Preaching

  • Type: Book
  • -
  • Published: 2014-10-03
  • -
  • Publisher: Routledge

This book explores the complexity of preaching as a phenomenon in the medieval Jewish-Christian encounter. This was not only an "encounter" as physical meeting or confrontation (such as the forced attendance of Jews at Christian sermons that took place across Europe), but also an "imaginary" or theological encounter in which Jews remained a figure from a distant constructed time and place who served only to underline and verify Christian teachings. Contributors also explore the Jewish response to Christian anti-Jewish preaching in their own preaching and religious instruction.

Roberto Caracciolo da Lecce (1425-1495)
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 549

Roberto Caracciolo da Lecce (1425-1495)

  • Type: Book
  • -
  • Published: 2022-02-14
  • -
  • Publisher: BRILL

The book offers a renewed study of the life and works of one of the most famous popular preachers and sermon authors of Renaissance Italy, providing a reference work on the figure of Roberto Caracciolo and a reading of his times.

Religious Orders and Religious Identity Formation, ca. 1420-1620
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 272

Religious Orders and Religious Identity Formation, ca. 1420-1620

  • Type: Book
  • -
  • Published: 2016-01-12
  • -
  • Publisher: BRILL

This volume deals with the transformative force of Observant reforms during the long fifteenth century, and with the massive literary output by Observant religious, leading to encompassing models of religious perfection that had an effect far into the sixteenth century.

A Companion to Observant Reform in the Late Middle Ages and Beyond
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 445

A Companion to Observant Reform in the Late Middle Ages and Beyond

  • Type: Book
  • -
  • Published: 2015-06-02
  • -
  • Publisher: BRILL

The Observant reform of the religious orders remains one of the most important yet understudied religious movements of the later Middle Ages. This volume provides scholars with a current, synthetic introduction to the field, and suggests new avenues for future scholarship.

Early Thirteenth-Century English Franciscan Thought
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 440

Early Thirteenth-Century English Franciscan Thought

The thirteenth century was a dynamic period in intellectual history which witnessed the establishment of the first universities, most famously at Paris and Oxford. At these and other major European centres of learning, English-born Franciscans came to hold prominent roles both in the university faculties of the arts and theology and in the local studia across Europe that were primarily responsible for training Franciscans. This volume explores the contributions to scholarship of some of the leading English Franciscans or Franciscan associates from this period, including Roger Bacon, Adam Marsh, John Pecham, Thomas of Yorke, Roger Marston, Robert Grosseteste, Adam of Exeter, Richard Rufus of Cornwall, and Bartholomew of England. Through focussed studies of these figures’ signature ideas, contributions will provide a basis for drawing comparisons between the English Franciscan school and others that existed at the time, most famously at Paris.

The Oxford Handbook of Christian Monasticism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 743

The Oxford Handbook of Christian Monasticism

The Oxford Handbook of Christian Monasticism addresses, for the first time in one volume, multiple strands of Christian monastic practice. Forty-four essays consider historical and thematic aspects of the Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Protestant, and Anglican traditions, as well as contemporary 'new monasticism'.

The Cult of St Clare of Assisi in Early Modern Italy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 272

The Cult of St Clare of Assisi in Early Modern Italy

  • Categories: Art
  • Type: Book
  • -
  • Published: 2017-07-05
  • -
  • Publisher: Routledge

Notwithstanding the wealth of material published about St Clare of Assisi (1193-1253) in the context of medieval scholarship, and the wealth of visual material regarding her, there is a dearth of published scholarship concerning her cult in the early modern period. This work examines the representations of St Clare in the Italian visual tradition from the thirteenth century on, but especially between the fifteenth and the mid-seventeenth centuries, in the context of mendicant activity. Through an examination of such diverse visual images as prints, drawings, panels, sculptures, minor arts, and frescoes in relation to sermons of Franciscan preachers, starting in the thirteenth century but focusing primarily on the later tradition of early modernity, the book highlights the cult of women saints and its role in the reform movements of the Osservanza and the Catholic Reformation and in the face of Muslim-Christian encounter of the early modern era. Debby?s analyses of the preaching of the times and iconographic examination of neglected artistic sources makes the book a significant contribution to research in art history, sermon studies, gender studies, and theology.