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Table of contents
- Mary wills it? The cult of the Virgin Mary and the crusading movement during the High Middle Ages
- How Rituals Form and Transform: The Scrutiny Rite from Medieval to Modern Times
- Piety in the Devil’s city: Religious life in Verona during the reign of Ezzelino da Romano 1215–1260
- Creative and daring spaces in speculative theology: Literary strategies for doctrinal self-authorization in Julian of Norwich’s “A Revelation of Love” and Marguerite Porete’s “The Mirror of Simple Souls”
- The politics of eating and cooking in medieval English romance
- Auralities: Sound Cultures and the Experience of Hearing in Late Medieval England
- The Sacraments in the “Compilatio questionum theologie” of Magister Martinus: Critical edition with commentary
- Thirteenth-Century English Religious Lyrics, Religious Women, And the Cistercian Imagination
- Le “translateur” translate: L’imaginaire et l’autorite d’un romancier medieval a travers le cycle post-vulgate et son adaptation portugaise
- A historical-theological critique of the new perspective on Paul
- The deified citizens of “The City of God”: How Augustine applies the patristic doctine of theosis to the citizens of “The City of God”
- Contingency and Connotation in the Thirteenth-Century Refrain
- Extracting cultural information from ship timber
- The Cult of the Saints and its Christological Foundations in Eustratios of Constantinople’s De statu animarum post mortem
- Bridging East and West: A Study of Crusader Jerusalem in the Literature and Chronicles of the Early Crusades
- From Viking Chiefdoms to Medieval State in Iceland: The Evolution of Social Power Structures in the Mosfell Valley
- A pneumatology of Christian knowledge: The Holy Spirit and the performance of the mystery of God in Augustine and Barth
- Perceval the Welshman: Identity in medieval British romance
- The noble household servant in inter medieval England
- The origins of christian military orders in middle ages
- Thomas Aquinas and Denis the Areopagite on the being of creatures
- The truth of judgment in St. Augustine’s “De Magistro”
- An historical sketch of the cogitative force in the Middle Ages: Its transition through the Orient to the Occident
- Friar Benedict the Pole of Vratislava his mission to Mongolia and his narrative (1245–1247)
- La philosophie du droit selon saint Thomas
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Document 1 of 25
Mary wills it? The cult of the Virgin Mary and the crusading movement during the High Middle Ages
Author: Ryan, Vincent
Publication info: Saint Louis University, ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing, 2012. 3539615.
Abstract: In a post-9/11 world the Crusades have received renewed attention for the possible ways that these medieval conflicts may have shaped our current geo-political climate. In academic circles, Crusades scholarship has been booming since the early 1980s. When examining the motives of the crusaders, historians now generally discard the old Marxist models of primarily economic impulses in favor of a more nuanced model that presents a plurality of motives–with religious piety being particularly emphasized. Pope Urban II’s fusion of pilgrimage spirituality with knightly warfare in his call for the First Crusade ignited an overwhelming response. To boost enlistment for the upcoming crusade, preachers regularly spoke on themes of sacrifice, penance, and taking up one’s cross. Though this Christ-centered spirituality was the overriding religious mantra of the Crusades, it was not the only one. While not as central, the cult of the Virgin Mary also occupied a significant place in the devotional milieu of the crusading movement. However, the intersection of Marian piety and the Crusades has been typically overlooked. Yet the connection between the Crusades and the cult of the Virgin Mary was actually established in the early stages of the crusading movement. Pope Urban II recommended that the clergy pray the Little Office of Our Lady every Saturday for the success of the First Crusade. Moreover, the success of the early crusaders resulted in an increased contact with the elaborate Mariology of the Byzantine East and a surge in the flood Marian relics in the West, contributing to the growing devotion to Christ’s mother in medieval Europe. Over the course of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, the cult of the Virgin Mary continued to figure prominently in crusading spirituality and the crusading movement in general. Through an examination of chronicles, charters, sermons, and theological treatises I will demonstrate how the Crusades served as both a catalyst and a vehicle for the growth of the cult of the Virgin Mary in Europe during the High Middle Ages, while at the same time Marian piety evolved into a core component of the spiritual dynamics and apparatus of the crusading movement.
Subject: Religious history; European history; Medieval history
Classification: 0320: Religious history; 0335: European history; 0581: Medieval history
Identifier / keyword: Philosophy, religion and theology, Social sciences, Crusades, Cult of the Virgin, Latin East, Marian devotion, Pilgrimage, Urban II, Cult of the Virgin Mary, High Middle Ages
Title: Mary wills it? The cult of the Virgin Mary and the crusading movement during the High Middle Ages
Number of pages: 244
Publication year: 2012
Degree date: 2012
School code: 0193
Source: DAI-A 74/02(E), Aug 2013
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781267640253
Advisor: Madden, Thomas F.
Committee member: Smith, Damian, Gavitt, Philip
University/institution: Saint Louis University
Department: History
University location: United States — Missouri
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3539615
ProQuest document ID: 1095536530
Copyright: Copyright ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing 2012
Database: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Full Text
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Document 2 of 25
How Rituals Form and Transform: The Scrutiny Rite from Medieval to Modern Times
Author: Mann, Patricia M.
Publication info: The Catholic University of America, ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing, 2011. 3439969.
Abstract: “Ritual catechesis” is a popular topic among today’s liturgists and catechetical leaders, but this dyad has long been a topic in the Church. The Fathers of the Church knew ritual catechesis and treated it in their preaching. This dissertation explores the scrutiny rite as an important part of the catechumenate process. Scrutinies flourished in the fifth century, faded into disuse in the Middle Ages, and have been restored to regular Lenten Sunday practice since the Second Vatican Council. Our study is methodological: how does the ritual of the scrutinies, as catechesis, form and transform? The study begins with the relationship among liturgy, ritual, and catechesis. Catherine Bell serves as a guide to Ritual Studies. Then, turning to the history of Christian initiation, I explore evidence about the scrutinies from Roman and Frankish liturgical sources, following Antoine Chavasse’s insights. After the collapse of the scrutiny into a single celebration (eighth century), the medieval ritual re-expanded in a process of restoration before and after the Second Vatican Council. The 1988 pastoral adaptation of the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults for the United States is a key source for my final reflections. The last chapter integrates the liturgical and theological study of the previous chapters, to reveal the scrutiny as a source of catechesis. The scrutiny emerges as a transformative ritual. It catechizes through gestures and words. The early medieval scrutiny was dramatic, taking place while the elect stood fasting and naked as Satan was adjured to be gone. The present rite, less dramatic, still evokes transformation by its symbols and words. The scrutinies catechize the elect in an active way about Satan, evil, and the victorious power of grace. This catechesis is a formation that combines intellect and emotion, liturgy and teaching, word and act, to touch the hearts and minds of the elect. It affects and effects who they are as members of the Church. The scrutiny forms and transforms a new member of God’s People, a new part of Christ’s body, a new building block in the temple of the Spirit.
Subject: Religious history; Religious education
Classification: 0320: Religious history; 0527: Religious education
Identifier / keyword: Philosophy, religion and theology, Education, Catechesis, Catechumenate, Scrutiny, Ritual
Title: How Rituals Form and Transform: The Scrutiny Rite from Medieval to Modern Times
Number of pages: 295
Publication year: 2011
Degree date: 2011
School code: 0043
Source: DAI-A 72/04, Oct 2011
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781124460383
Advisor: Witczak, Michael G.
Committee member: Schreiber, Margaret, Dooley, Catherine
University/institution: The Catholic University of America
Department: Religious Education/Catechetics
University location: United States — District of Columbia
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3439969
ProQuest document ID: 852513841
Copyright: Copyright ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing 2011
Database: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Full Text
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Document 3 of 25
Piety in the Devil’s city: Religious life in Verona during the reign of Ezzelino da Romano 1215–1260
Author: Stiles, Jennifer Elizabeth Wyka
Publication info: Saint Louis University, ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing, 2011. 3440168.
Abstract: During the High Middle Ages, the city of Verona in Northern Italy stood at the geographic, political, and social crossroads of imperial and papal power. However, during the first half of the thirteenth century, Lord Ezzelino da Romano’s affiliation with the Holy Roman Emperor, Frederick II, put the city at odds with the Church. Ezzelino’s support of imperial interests in the region at the expense of the papacy, as well as his persecution of large numbers of the laity and clergy alike resulted in him being declared an excommunicate for most of the years between 1225 and 1260. Papal condemnation fell most heavily upon the shoulders of Frederick II and his sympathizer, Ezzelino, but the papal bulls lay interdict and threatened excommunication upon all the citizens living within the region. Events culminated in Pope Innocent IV issuing an interdict against the city in 1249 and his successor Alexander IV declaring a crusade against the heretics of Verona in 1254. As a result of the interdict, parish churches closed their doors, their bells fell silent, and the clergy ceased to dispense the sacraments that had long been an essential component of life in the Christianized west of the Middle Ages. It is such uncertainty that often drives souls to seek spiritual comfort, and yet the official channels of the Church, the most widely acknowledged conduits to God at the time, were obstructed by both papal and political actions. How did the citizens of Verona respond? Much has been written about the imperial papal contest in Italy, but this dissertation is not, at its heart, another Guelf-Ghibelline investigation, rather it examines a variety of contemporary sources including, wills, donations and letters, to explore how the struggle between sacred and secular powers influenced popular religious life in the city of Verona.
Subject: Religious history; European history; Medieval history
Classification: 0320: Religious history; 0335: European history; 0581: Medieval history
Identifier / keyword: Philosophy, religion and theology, Social sciences, Crusade, Ezzelino III, da Romano, Interdict, Piety, Romano, Verona, Italy
Title: Piety in the Devil’s city: Religious life in Verona during the reign of Ezzelino da Romano 1215–1260
Number of pages: 225
Publication year: 2011
Degree date: 2011
School code: 0193
Source: DAI-A 72/04, Oct 2011
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781124467153
Advisor: Madden, Thomas F.
Committee member: Gavitt, Phillip, Hitchcock, James
University/institution: Saint Louis University
Department: History
University location: United States — Missouri
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3440168
ProQuest document ID: 853648514
Copyright: Copyright ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing 2011
Database: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Full Text
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Document 4 of 25
Creative and daring spaces in speculative theology: Literary strategies for doctrinal self-authorization in Julian of Norwich’s “A Revelation of Love” and Marguerite Porete’s “The Mirror of Simple Souls”
Author: Juilfs, Jonathan
Publication info: University of Notre Dame, ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing, 2011. 3441734.
Abstract: In the cases of the two remarkable late-medieval women who are the primary subjects of this dissertation, Julian of Norwich and Marguerite Porete, I have sought to understand more comprehensively both where the Bible appears in their texts, whether by direct citation or less overt allusion, and what larger impact biblical texts may have on the larger organization and structural features of their texts. Through detailed examination of the roles which biblical language plays in Julian’s Revelation of Love and Marguerite’s Mirror of Simple Souls, I argue that the culturally-assumed limitations of medieval women’s capacities to understand the Bible were not only erroneous but also gave way to original and insightful interpretations of various scriptural passages that serve strategically well the broader theological and rhetorical aims of both writers. Biblical citations or allusions do not appear in A Revelation or in The Mirror simply as external defenses of doctrinal claims (i.e. a proof-texts); instead, they function organically in the bodies of the texts, offering conceptual “seeds” that, when nurtured by divine insight (as transmitted through Julian’s vision and Marguerite’s mystical experience) and personal reflection, germinate into identifiable structures of thought. Both women thus cleverly mold scriptural and scripture-like narratives to fit the contours of their respective speculative theologies. These rhetorical acts of self-authorization, by reference to or engagement with the supreme authority of the Church, illuminate the adroitness of both to navigate the seemingly un-navigable paradoxes of their respective claims, as women, to visionary or mystical authority. Such textual and conceptual comparisons between Julian’s Revelation and Marguerite’s Mirror are instructive because they travel together ( The Mirror in Middle English translation) in one surviving fifteenth-century manuscript, an historical curiosity that suggests that at least one Carthusian compiler read or heard thematic relationships between the two textual traveling companions. Such a rare opportunity for comparative investigation of two very sophisticated texts ultimately renders various insights into how two clever, female interpreters of Scripture in the later Middle Ages elaborated on and challenged popular orthodoxies currently circulating among both the laity and the clergy of the late-medieval Church.
Subject: Medieval literature; Romance literature; Religious history; British and Irish literature
Classification: 0297: Medieval literature; 0313: Romance literature; 0320: Religious history; 0593: British and Irish literature
Identifier / keyword: Philosophy, religion and theology, Language, literature and linguistics, Mystical, Visionary literature, Vernacular mysticism, Late-medieval England, Late-medieval France, Heresy, Julian of Norwich, Porete, Marguerite, Revelation of Love, Mirror of Simple Souls
Title: Creative and daring spaces in speculative theology: Literary strategies for doctrinal self-authorization in Julian of Norwich’s “A Revelation of Love” and Marguerite Porete’s “The Mirror of Simple Souls”
Number of pages: 313
Publication year: 2011
Degree date: 2011
School code: 0165
Source: DAI-A 72/04, Oct 2011
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781124468006
Advisor: Kerby-Fulton, Kathryn
University/institution: University of Notre Dame
University location: United States — Indiana
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3441734
ProQuest document ID: 851871020
Copyright: Copyright ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing 2011
Database: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Full Text
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Document 5 of 25
The politics of eating and cooking in medieval English romance
Author: Hostetter, Aaron Kenneth
Publication info: Princeton University, ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing, 2011. 3445552.
Abstract: The imaginative seat of English narrative poetry lies in the stomach. Itself a delectable genre–a stew of images, idioms, ideas, and inspirations–romance derives part of its pleasure and purpose from representations of the material processes of food. Authors of romance frequently mobilize scenes of cooking and consumption to dramatize political and economic tensions in aristocratic culture–tensions that may expose the ideological roots lying beneath the elaborate literary productions of England. The imagination of food in these vernacular narratives, I argue, caters to the wide world around. The Politics of Eating and Cooking ranges across the literary history of the English Middle Ages, beginning in the Anglo-Saxon era, taking a detour into Old French, and wrapping up in the Middle English of the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries. As technology and taste change over time, the representation of food and eating stays rather more conservative. Political questions may shift and vary, but the signifying, authorizing power of cuisine endures. This is because food reminds us of our basic condition in the world, material and spiritual: our relationship to labor; our concern with status, our relation to government; our yearning for a narrative of historical progress. As all my sites of argument suggest, food plays a fundamental role in medieval romance. Food imagery implies a sacrament, but also takes the measure of an often brutal material world. The Politics of Eating and Cooking , in its widest scope, shows how the political imaginary of medieval narratives emanates from the symbolic, material, and phenomenological presence of food. Food imagery draws the exotic into the quotidian world and brings a resonant mythography to the material bases of social power. Key to the examination of serious social and economic problems, eating and cooking expose the social artifices and the artistic skill of literary works through which culture reads its illuminations and shadows.
Subject: Medieval literature; British and Irish literature
Classification: 0297: Medieval literature; 0593: British and Irish literature
Identifier / keyword: Language, literature and linguistics, Eating, Cooking, Romances, Middle Ages
Title: The politics of eating and cooking in medieval English romance
Number of pages: 246
Publication year: 2011
Degree date: 2011
School code: 0181
Source: DAI-A 72/04, Oct 2011
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781124488899
Advisor: Smith, D. Vance, Davis, Kathleen
University/institution: Princeton University
University location: United States — New Jersey
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3445552
ProQuest document ID: 854862261
Copyright: Copyright ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing 2011
Database: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Full Text
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Document 6 of 25
Auralities: Sound Cultures and the Experience of Hearing in Late Medieval England
Author: Albin, Andrew Justin
Publication info: Brandeis University, ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing, 2011. 3439918.
Abstract: This dissertation pursues two goals: first, the elaboration of an arsenal of critical tools that allow literary critics to listen to historical sound cultures, and second, the application of these tools to a range of late medieval English texts to recover their sounded dimension and reveal the sounding and hearing practices that structure their meanings. I insist that a shift in critical attention towards the underexplored field of aurality discovers a powerful region of late medieval lived experience and cultural influence whose traces the material text embeds. Each chapter of the dissertation centers on one text or group of texts that collectively range in genre, audience, and performance context: Chaucer’s Prioresses Tale, the mystical Latin treatises of Richard Rolle, the Corpus Christi shepherd’s plays, and John Skelton’s early poem “Phyllyp Sparowe.” Through attentive and often unconventional readings, I uncover how these texts register the dynamics of late medieval sound experience and examine how aurality contributes to the design, diffusion, contest, and revision of late medieval identities and communities. I rehear a complex array of culturally located voices that shaped not only the meanings ascribed to aural experience–the audition of music, of poetry, of the Latin mass, of the vernacular play, and so on–but that also shaped the material, felt sensations that sound experience produced in specific and differently constructed bodies.
Subject: Medieval literature; British and Irish literature
Classification: 0297: Medieval literature; 0593: British and Irish literature
Identifier / keyword: Language, literature and linguistics, England, Sound cultures, Chaucer, Geoffrey, Rolle, Richard, Skelton, John, Hearing, Medieval, Music, Musica humana, Performance, Sound
Title: Auralities: Sound Cultures and the Experience of Hearing in Late Medieval England
Number of pages: 392
Publication year: 2011
Degree date: 2011
School code: 0021
Source: DAI-A 72/04, Oct 2011
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781124459776
Advisor: Campbell, Mary Baine
Committee member: King, Thomas A., Nichols, Stephen G.
University/institution: Brandeis University
Department: English and American Literature
University location: United States — Massachusetts
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3439918
ProQuest document ID: 852350369
Copyright: Copyright ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing 2011
Database: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Full Text
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Document 7 of 25
The Sacraments in the “Compilatio questionum theologie” of Magister Martinus: Critical edition with commentary
Author: Hall, John Anderson
Publication info: University of Notre Dame, ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing, 2011. 3441731.
Abstract: Scholarship has frequently cited a Magister Martinus who wrote a theological text around 1200. Hitherto, however, the most valuable aspects of this text have not been recognized, and at the same time many misunderstandings about it have prevailed. Both result in part from the fact that no edition of the text is available. This dissertation partially alleviates these problems. It includes an edition from all manuscripts of Martinus’ section on the sacraments. It also addresses certain misunderstandings about Martinus to present a new interpretation of this text. This dissertation corrects a longstanding assumption that Martinus belonged to the school of Gilbert of Poitiers and complicates an incompatible but equally venerable assumption that he was a follower of Peter of Poitiers. It points out Martinus’ extensive use of canon law and the practical and casuistic nature of Martinus’ text, features which have almost escaped notice. Although Martinus’ text unmistakably fits the genre of a theological summa, in these features Martinus’ text is exceptional relative to contemporary works in that genre. This dissertation therefore claims that Martinus’ identification with canon law makes his text a valuable witness to the relationship between theology and canon law in the schools in the early period of scholasticism. This dissertation further suggests that because of its practical concerns, Martinus’ text resembles contemporary works which scholars have identified as belonging to a literature of pastoral care. It will therefore be useful to scholars who try to refine the scholarly conception of this literature of pastoral care in the late twelfth century. This dissertation provides new access to and a new interpretation of Magister Martinus’ Compilatio questionum theologie.
Subject: Religious history; Theology; Medieval history
Classification: 0320: Religious history; 0469: Theology; 0581: Medieval history
Identifier / keyword: Philosophy, religion and theology, Social sciences, Compilatio questionum theologie, Martinus, Magister, Sacraments, Scholasticism, Canon law, Critical edition
Title: The Sacraments in the “Compilatio questionum theologie” of Magister Martinus: Critical edition with commentary
Number of pages: 418
Publication year: 2011
Degree date: 2011
School code: 0165
Source: DAI-A 72/04, Oct 2011
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781124467979
Advisor: Prugl, Thomas, Van Engen, John
University/institution: University of Notre Dame
University location: United States — Indiana
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3441731
ProQuest document ID: 851871689
Copyright: Copyright ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing 2011
Database: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Full Text
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Document 8 of 25
Thirteenth-Century English Religious Lyrics, Religious Women, And the Cistercian Imagination
Author: Allen, Charlotte
Publication info: The Catholic University of America, ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing, 2011. 3439955.
Abstract: Nearly all of the brief Middle English lyric poems that began to appear in manuscripts during the first half of the thirteenth century are religious in nature, and nearly all either concern the passion of Christ or are prayers to his mother, Mary. Very often the two motifs appear in tandem, in poems that place both speaker and audience at the foot of Christ’s cross where Mary is engulfed in a sorrow that the reader is asked to experience empathetically. This dissertation argues that the lyrics grew out of a prose meditative genre, in particular a Cistercian meditative genre related to twelfth-century exegesis of the Song of Songs, that offered readers a series of visual tableaux of events in the life of Christ to experience imaginatively. The passion of Christ was a central focus of this sort of meditation. The English Cistercian abbot Aelred of Rievaulx’s De institutione inclusarum, a treatise addressed to his anchoress-sister, offered a model of this genre that was widely copied and imitated, and some of the earliest English religious lyrics appear either as part of those prose meditative texts or as appendices thereto. Eventually both the prose texts and the lyrics became devotional reading for laypeople. This dissertation examines the literary relationship between the lyrics and the prose texts and some of the manuscripts where the earliest Middle English religious lyrics appear.
Subject: Medieval literature; Religious history; Medieval history
Classification: 0297: Medieval literature; 0320: Religious history; 0581: Medieval history
Identifier / keyword: Philosophy, religion and theology, Social sciences, Language, literature and linguistics, Religious lyrics, Tnirteenth century, Women religious, Cistercian, Devotional, English, Lyric, Manuscript, Medieval, Thirteenth
Title: Thirteenth-Century English Religious Lyrics, Religious Women, And the Cistercian Imagination
Number of pages: 451
Publication year: 2011
Degree date: 2011
School code: 0043
Source: DAI-A 72/04, Oct 2011
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781124460239
Advisor: Wright, Stephen K.
Committee member: Jansen, Katherine L., Grimbert, Joan T.
University/institution: The Catholic University of America
Department: Medieval and Byzantine Studies
University location: United States — District of Columbia
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3439955
ProQuest document ID: 852425813
Copyright: Copyright ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing 2011
Database: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Full Text
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Le “translateur” translate: L’imaginaire et l’autorite d’un romancier medieval a travers le cycle post-vulgate et son adaptation portugaise
Author: Santos, Eugenia Neves dos
Publication info: Universite de Montreal (Canada), ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing, 2010. NR70432.
Abstract: The Portuguese translation of the Post-Vulgate Cycle completed towards the end of the 13 th century and entitled A Demanda do Santo Graal offers an interesting prism to grasp, within the context and through a set of displacement and of reconfiguration, the characteristics of the Queste Post-Vulgate ‘s imagination, otherwise difficult to access. The Demanda do Santo Grail gives the reader access to the imagination of the Medieval French novel while tracing the different aspects of its evolution outside of its linguistic borders in an era where the writer is no longer a translator, but becomes an auctor . This work mainly shows how the Queste Post-Vulgate , read in conjunction with the Portuguese translation/adaptation, illustrates the evolution of the novel and the concept of author while distinguishing between the translator, the creator and the writer. This important distinction between the different representations of the writer during the medieval period allows one to understand their literary subjectivity in the narrative from the beginning to the end of the Middle Ages. KEY WORDS : Middle Ages, Quête du Graal, Post-Vulgate, Demanda do Santo Graal, translator, writer, translation, adaptation, inventio, dispositio, elocutio , intertextuality, palimpsest, imagination, merveilleux, aesthetics, desire, troubadour, reader, senefiance, memory.
Subject: Medieval literature
Classification: 0297: Medieval literature
Identifier / keyword: Language, literature and linguistics, Translation, Quete du Graal, Post-Vulgate, Intertextuality, Palimpsest, Portuguese
Title: Le “translateur” translate: L’imaginaire et l’autorite d’un romancier medieval a travers le cycle post-vulgate et son adaptation portugaise
Number of pages: 401
Publication year: 2010
Degree date: 2010
School code: 0992
Source: DAI-A 72/04, Oct 2011
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9780494704325
University/institution: Universite de Montreal (Canada)
University location: Canada
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: French
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: NR70432
ProQuest document ID: 853730287
Copyright: Copyright ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing 2010
Database: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Full Text
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Document 10 of 25
A historical-theological critique of the new perspective on Paul
Author: O’Kelley, Aaron Thomas
Publication info: The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing, 2010. 3445601.
Abstract: This dissertation argues that the new perspective on Paul rests on a faulty heremeneutical presupposition. This presupposition is that covenantal nomism (as advocated by E. P. Sanders as a proper conception of Second Temple Judaism) could not have served as a foil for Paul in the development of a doctrine of justification that resembles that of the Reformation. The presupposition is faulty because Sanders’s portrayal of Judaism as grace-based has no bearing on the categories that defined the shape of the doctrine of justification during the Reformation period and beyond. The study neither accepts nor rejects Sanders’s portrayal of Judaism. Instead, it accepts Sanders’s claim for the sake of argument and then demonstrates that his claim does not warrant a radical revision of the Reformation approach to the Pauline writings. Chapter 1 demonstrates the strong dependence of the new perspective on Sanders’s work and the hermeneutical presupposition that his work Paul and Palestinian Judaism has generated. Chapter 2 sets the historical-theological background for the thesis by surveying important works in the pre-Reformation Catholic scholastic period, as well as the decree of the Council of Trent on justification, in order to demonstrate that, much like covenantal nomism, the emerging Roman Catholicism of the late medieval and Reformation periods was a grace-based, yet monocovenantal, religion. Chapter 3 surveys the works of three prominent Reformers–Martin Luther, Philip Melanchthon, and John Calvin–in order to demonstrate that what defines the Reformation doctrine of justification is not grace per se but rather a doctrine of alien righteousness, situated within a bicovenantal framework, in which there is an uncompromising divine demand for perfect obedience. Chapter 4 traces the same themes–perfect obedience, bicovenantalism, and alien righteousness–into the post-Reformation period in order to demonstrate that these are the categories that define the “old perspective” on Paul. Chapter 5 summarizes the foregoing observations, argues that the new perspective’s hermeneutical presupposition is unwarranted, and then concludes with exegetical observations that demonstrate a bicovenantal theology in Paul that is similar to that of the Reformation doctrine of justification, one that could have easily arisen in the context of a prevailing covenantal nomism.
Subject: Biblical studies; Divinity; Theology
Classification: 0321: Biblical studies; 0376: Divinity; 0469: Theology
Identifier / keyword: Philosophy, religion and theology, Justification, Bicovenantalism, New perspective on Paul, Paul the Apostle, Saint, Imputation, Covenantal nomism
Title: A historical-theological critique of the new perspective on Paul
Number of pages: 242
Publication year: 2010
Degree date: 2010
School code: 0207
Source: DAI-A 72/04, Oct 2011
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781124493244
Advisor: Allison, Gregg R.
University/institution: The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
University location: United States — Kentucky
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3445601
ProQuest document ID: 856123937
Copyright: Copyright ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing 2010
Database: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Full Text
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Document 11 of 25
The deified citizens of “The City of God”: How Augustine applies the patristic doctrine of theosis to the citizens of “The City of God”
Author: Persons, Claude O’Shedrick, Jr.
Publication info: Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing, 2010. 3445933.
Abstract: This dissertation examines how Augustine applies the patristic doctrine of theosis to the citizens of The City of God . It demonstrates that Augustine claims that God deifies the citizens of The City of God , largely consistent with the patristic understanding of theosis he inherited. It demonstrates how Augustine in The City of God embraces the patristic consensus view of theosis , rejects a certain Father’s view, or innovates the consensus view in the Christian doctrines most intimately connected to theosis . Chapter one introduces both the Christian doctrine of theosis and the thesis that Augustine applies this doctrine to the citizens of The City of God . Because this dissertation considers the relationship between the Christian doctrine of theosis and The City of God , concerns about the legitimacy of a Christian doctrine of theosis itself and about such a relationship are introduced. The extent of this relationship is a point of controversy and also receives attention. The dissertation briefly introduces early patristic theosis , and a survey of the recent evangelical consideration of theosis identifies what a doctrine of theosis must avoid to remain Christian. Chapter two shows how Augustine addresses many of the concerns evangelicals have about theosis as he distinguishes Christian deification from non-Christian deification. The distinctions are found in who deifies, the means of deification, the status of the deified, the status of the deified’s body, and the quality of the deified’s life after death, but not in terminology. The chapter summarizes these distinctions by concluding that Augustine’s doctrine of theosis maintains an ontological distinction between God and the deified, i.e. a distinction between Creator and creature, as do his patristic predecessors. Chapter three considers the relationship between the theosis of Augustine and his patristic predecessors in the doctrines of humanity and sin. Special attention is given to how Augustine identifies the image of God in humanity and how sin affected that image, as well as how Augustine’s treatment corresponds to the treatment previous patristic proponents gave these questions. This chapter concludes by surmising that both Augustine and his patristic predecessors understand the imago Dei as relational compatibility with God. Chapter four demonstrates how both Augustine and his patristic predecessors believe that the relational compatibility of humankind with God is embodied in and restored by the incarnation of Christ. Both share in the growing consensus of the church the belief that Christ is both genuinely divine and genuinely human, granting that the Chalcedonian formulas are anachronistic at this point in church history. Both likewise emphasize the incarnation of Christ in such a way that it becomes theological shorthand for the work of Christ in redemption. Both argue that Christ’s condescension permits a kind of Christian ascension, so that the incarnation of Christ and the deification of the Christian are counterparts of the Christian salvation story. Chapter five gives attention to the explicit place theosis inhabits in Augustine’s doctrine of salvation in The City of God . The prominence Augustine gives to theosis in The City of God is compared to the prominence given to it by his patristic predecessors. Before the chapter presents the bolder and more comprehensive expressions of Augustine’s doctrine of theosis , it presents the doctrine’s broader theological framework in categories parallel to theosis . This chapter also considers the eschatology of Augustine’s deification, the relationship between God’s grace and the human will, and the communal (rather than individualistic) character of theosis in The City of God and Augustine’s patristic predecessors. The chapter concludes by asserting a prominent place for theosis in Augustine’s doctrine of salvation in The City of God , yet not the majority position Augustine’s Greek patristic predecessors granted theosis . Chapter six concludes the dissertation by reconsidering both the thesis proper and the criteria by which Gösta Hallonsten urges theologians to distinguish between a theme of theosis and a doctrine of theosis . 1 This chapter argues that Augustine’s presentation of theosis in The City of God constitutes a doctrine of theosis by the criteria Hallonsten approves. The final pages consider some implications of finding a doctrine of theosis in Augustine’s The City of God . 1 Gösta Hallonsten, ” Theosis in Recent Research,” in Partakers of the Divine Nature: The History and Development of Deification in the Christian Traditions (ed. Michael J. Christensen and Jeffrey A. Wittung; Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2007), 281-93.
Subject: Religion; Religious history; Theology
Classification: 0318: Religion; 0320: Religious history; 0469: Theology
Identifier / keyword: Philosophy, religion and theology, City of God, Theosis, Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo, Divinization, Deification, Latin theology
Title: The deified citizens of “The City of God”: How Augustine applies the patristic doctine of theosis to the citizens of “The City of God”
Number of pages: 457
Publication year: 2010
Degree date: 2010
School code: 1342
Source: DAI-A 72/04, Oct 2011
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781124495804
Advisor: Nelson, David P.
University/institution: Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary
University location: United States — North Carolina
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3445933
ProQuest document ID: 859269743
Copyright: Copyright ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing 2010
Database: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Full Text
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Document 12 of 25
Contingency and Connotation in the Thirteenth-Century Refrain
Author: Terry, James R.
Publication info: University of Washington, ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing, 2010. 3443196.
Abstract: Refrains in thirteenth-century French music and literature have been notoriously difficult to characterize and define. This dissertation aims to develop a definition of the refrain that draws these texts together as a unified corpus while accounting for their heterogeneity, proposing that all refrains contain an inherent “refrain/author contingency” that establishes them as such. Refrain/author contingency means that a line becomes a refrain because it functions within a work on a deeper level than its semantic meaning, and reveals authorial intentionality in the choice and placement of a refrain within a work. Consequently, the discussion extends beyond functionality to include the compositional strategies of medieval composers and the aural perception of refrains.
Subject: Medieval literature; Romance literature; Music
Classification: 0297: Medieval literature; 0313: Romance literature; 0413: Music
Identifier / keyword: Communication and the arts, Language, literature and linguistics, Refrains, Old French, Renart, Motets, Connotation
Title: Contingency and Connotation in the Thirteenth-Century Refrain
Number of pages: 237
Publication year: 2010
Degree date: 2010
School code: 0250
Source: DAI-A 72/04, Oct 2011
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781124490205
Advisor: Delcourt, Denyse
University/institution: University of Washington
University location: United States — Washington
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3443196
ProQuest document ID: 854982943
Copyright: Copyright ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing 2010
Database: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Full Text
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Document 13 of 25
Extracting cultural information from ship timber
Author: Creasman, Pearce Paul
Publication info: Texas A&M University, ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing, 2010. 3446659.
Abstract: This dissertation is rooted in one general question: what can the wood from ships reveal about the people and cultures who built them? Shipwrecks are only the last chapter of a complex story, and while the last fifty years of nautical archaeology have managed to rewrite a number of these chapters, much of the information unrelated to a ship’s final voyage remains a mystery. However, portions of that mystery can be exposed by an examination of the timbers. An approach for the cultural investigation of ship timbers is presented and attempts are made to establish the most reliable information possible from the largely unheralded treasures of underwater excavations: timbers. By introducing the written record, iconographic record, and the social, economic, and political factors to the archaeological record a more complete analysis of the cultural implications of ship and boat timbers is possible. I test the effectiveness of the approach in three varied case-studies to demonstrate its limits and usefulness: ancient Egypt’s Middle Kingdom, the Mediterranean under Athenian influence, and Portugal and the Iberian Peninsula during the Discoveries. The results of these studies demonstrate how ship timbers can be studied in order to better understand the people who built the vessels.
Subject: Archaeology; Economic history; Ancient history
Classification: 0324: Archaeology; 0509: Economic history; 0579: Ancient history
Identifier / keyword: Social sciences, Ship timber, Portugal, Nautical archaeology, Age of Discovery, Egyptology, Classical Mediterranean
Title: Extracting cultural information from ship timber
Number of pages: 227
Publication year: 2010
Degree date: 2010
School code: 0803
Source: DAI-A 72/04, Oct 2011
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781124509600
Advisor: Vieira de Castro, Filipe
University/institution: Texas A & M University
University location: United States — Texas
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3446659
ProQuest document ID: 856582319
Copyright: Copyright ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing 2010
Database: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Full Text
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Document 14 of 25
The Cult of the Saints and its Christological Foundations in Eustratios of Constantinople’s De statu animarum post mortem
Author: Demos, Louis
Publication info: Harvard Divinity School, ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing, 2010. 3440445.
Abstract: In this study, I propose that the cult of the saints in Eustratios of Constantinople’s De statu animarum post mortem has a Christological foundation. I examine this thesis from cultural, historical, and theological contexts. The first chapter serves as an introduction, focusing on the theological and political processes that lead to the Christological definition of the Council of Chalcedon (451), which declared that Christ has two natures, divine and human, united in one hypostasis or person. Chapter two examines Eustratios’ motivation for writing his work, a defense against the claims proposed by some, unnamed by Eustratios, that the souls of the departed are in a state of sleep and have no power to intervene in human affairs after death. The third chapter argues that Eustratios wrote his work between 582 and 593. The evidence for this is a careful comparison and analysis of Eustratios’ De statu animarum and Gregory the Great of Rome’s fourth book of Dialogues, revealing that Eustratios wrote his work first. The final chapter demonstrates how the saints and their activities as described by Eustratios have a Christological basis. Drawing upon a Christological model of imitation of the life Christ and the Christological neologisms of the sixth century, the souls of the saints, in carrying out God’s work, participate in his virtues in their enhypostasized realities. Closely aligned with this foundation in Eustratios’ work is the theme of theosis, deification, with the souls of departed saints described as having been perfected God-like and which participate in an immortal life with God in heaven through salvation in Jesus Christ. In his text, translated in an appendix, Eustratios argues that human souls are intelligible, incorporeal, and active after death, since they have transcended the time and space limitations of the human body. The activity of the saints after death can only be achieved by holy and gentle souls in cooperation with God’s power, whose aim is human salvation. The text concludes with an argument that the souls of the departed are benefited by the prayers of the living.
Subject: Religious history; Theology
Classification: 0320: Religious history; 0330: Religious history; 0469: Theology
Identifier / keyword: Philosophy, religion and theology, Social sciences, Christology, Byzantine Christianity, Eastern Christianity, Saints, Sanctification, Theosis
Title: The Cult of the Saints and its Christological Foundations in Eustratios of Constantinople’s De statu animarum post mortem
Number of pages: 322
Publication year: 2010
Degree date: 2010
School code: 1584
Source: DAI-A 72/04, Oct 2011
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781124479224
Advisor: Bovon, Francois
Committee member: Duffy, John, Madigan, Kevin, Skedros, James
University/institution: Harvard Divinity School
Department: Theology
University location: United States — Massachusetts
Degree: Th.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3440445
ProQuest document ID: 854511249
Copyright: Copyright ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing 2010
Database: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Full Text
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Document 15 of 25
Bridging East and West: A Study of Crusader Jerusalem in the Literature and Chronicles of the Early Crusades
Author: Boyadjian, Tamar Marie
Publication info: University of California, Los Angeles, ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing, 2010. 3446812.
Abstract: Traditionally, a study of crusading literature has always taken the approach of setting “east” against “west,” a model which presents the crusades as a fragmented series of events, and a methodology which ultimately provides a fractional study of the textual traditions at hand. This dissertation project, which explores representations of the city of Jerusalem during the period of the early crusades in the Arabic, Armenian, French, and English traditions, breaks away from a compartmentalized study of crusading literature, by considering source material, in their original languages, as analogous and comparable. By placing texts which might not have had any literary contact alongside one another, this study offers a transnational and intercultural approach to the study of the crusades. Moreover, in its inclusion of material in the Arabic and Armenian traditions, this dissertation moves away from previous trends in the scholarship of the crusades, which have not only focused primarily on sources from Western Europe, but have also ignored and oftentimes discredited the materials from the east. As such, this project both broadens our understandings of the crusading period and the city of Jerusalem through its analyses of literature and urban space within the theological, historical, and literary framework of a number of traditions. Positioning itself around the axis of the two major battles over the city of Jerusalem (1097 and 1187) this dissertation devotes two chapters to each of these events, offering an eastern and western perspective respectively. The dissertation argues that each of these perspectives produces a textual image of the city of Jerusalem in their narratives, named as the envisaged , which embodies the social, cultural, and religious attitudes towards Jerusalem present within each of these respective traditions. However, this dissertation further suggests that the approach and modes of representing Jerusalem are in fact shared among these variant accounts–each one of these narratives considers Jerusalem as a sacred, physical, and disputed space which they must redeem from the enemy. I respectively name these categories as the sacrosanct , the geo-topographical , and the contested and discuss their appearance within each of the literary and historiographic traditions at hand.
Subject: Comparative literature; Medieval literature; Middle Eastern history; Near Eastern Studies
Classification: 0295: Comparative literature; 0297: Medieval literature; 0333: Middle Eastern history; 0559: Near Eastern Studies
Identifier / keyword: Social sciences, Language, literature and linguistics, Crusades, Jerusalem, Crusader Jerusalem, Medieval lament, Armenians, Near Eastern studies
Title: Bridging East and West: A Study of Crusader Jerusalem in the Literature and Chronicles of the Early Crusades
Number of pages: 232
Publication year: 2010
Degree date: 2010
School code: 0031
Source: DAI-A 72/04, Oct 2011
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781124505381
Advisor: Fisher, Matthew, Stahuljak, Zrinka
University/institution: University of California, Los Angeles
University location: United States — California
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3446812
ProQuest document ID: 858223986
Copyright: Copyright ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing 2010
Database: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Full Text
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Document 16 of 25
From Viking Chiefdoms to Medieval State in Iceland: The Evolution of Social Power Structures in the Mosfell Valley
Author: Zori, Davide Marco
Publication info: University of California, Los Angeles, ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing, 2010. 3446793.
Abstract: This dissertation presents the results of an interdisciplinary regional study of medieval Icelandic society, beginning with the 9 th century settlement of the island and concluding when independent sociopolitical development halted in AD 1262. The nature of the power of medieval Icelandic chieftains has attracted scholarly attention from both historians and anthropologists, who have been drawn to the unusually rich corpus of information in the Icelandic sagas. These chieftains maintained power for several centuries without institutionalized taxation or the development of territorial polities. My research contributes to the understanding of this chiefly power by analyzing separate sources of social power and charting temporal change in the power structures with an interdisciplinary micro-regional study of the Mosfell Valley in southwest Iceland. Methodologically, I employ multiple lines of evidence, including medieval texts, place names, oral traditions, and archaeological data from regional surveys and excavations. Previous scholarly investigation has relied on textual sources to investigate Icelandic social structure and chiefly power. This is therefore the first regional study of long-term change at the local scale that integrates archaeological and textual sources, providing a detailed and nuanced understanding of the micro-processes in a specific medieval community. Structured in part by a network of kinship alliances, the settlement of the Mosfell Valley progressed rapidly, with at least three farms established in the first generation. By the early 11 th century, the Mosfell chieftains reached their apex of power through the articulation of economic, ideological, military, and political sources of power. The chieftains employed diverse strategies to advance their positions, including mobilization of the subsistence economy for investment in the chiefly political economy, control of a local port and access to prestige goods, and the use of materilialized pagan and Christian ideologies to centralize wealth and authority. Although the Mosfell chieftains shifted their strategies with the increasing stratification of Icelandic society, the region became marginalized as neighboring chieftains consolidated territorial power. Nevertheless, and in contrast power interpretations of 13 th century conditions, the agency of local leaders caused power in the Mosfell region to remain tired to personal authority and less dominated by territoriality than in neighboring regions.
Subject: Archaeology; Icelandic & Scandinavian literature; Medieval history
Classification: 0324: Archaeology; 0362: Icelandic & Scandinavian literature; 0581: Medieval history
Identifier / keyword: Social sciences, Language, literature and linguistics, Iceland, Archaeology, Medieval, Chiefs, Viking Age, Social power, Mosfell Valley, Chiefdoms
Title: From Viking Chiefdoms to Medieval State in Iceland: The Evolution of Social Power Structures in the Mosfell Valley
Number of pages: 666
Publication year: 2010
Degree date: 2010
School code: 0031
Source: DAI-A 72/04, Oct 2011
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781124506371
Advisor: Byock, Jessie
University/institution: University of California, Los Angeles
University location: United States — California
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3446793
ProQuest document ID: 858084652
Copyright: Copyright ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing 2010
Database: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Full Text
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Document 17 of 25
A pneumatology of Christian knowledge: The Holy Spirit and the performance of the mystery of God in Augustine and Barth
Author: Ables, Travis E.
Publication info: Vanderbilt University, ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing, 2010. 3445643.
Abstract: Abstract not available.
Subject: Religious history; Religion; Philosophy; Theology
Classification: 0320: Religious history; 0322: Religion; 0322: Philosophy; 0469: Theology
Identifier / keyword: Philosophy, religion and theology, Christian knowledge, Holy Spirit, Augustine, Karl Barth
Title: A pneumatology of Christian knowledge: The Holy Spirit and the performance of the mystery of God in Augustine and Barth
Number of pages: 321
Publication year: 2010
Degree date: 2010
School code: 0242
Source: DAI-A 72/04, Oct 2011
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781124492070
Advisor: DeHart, Paul
University/institution: Vanderbilt University
University location: United States — Tennessee
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3445643
ProQuest document ID: 854983257
Copyright: Copyright ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing 2010
Database: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Full Text
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Document 18 of 25
Perceval the Welshman: Identity in medieval British romance
Author: Bruneau, Julianne
Publication info: University of Notre Dame, ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing, 2009. 3441720.
Abstract: My dissertation examines the literary representation of Welshness in medieval Perceval romances, challenging the assumption that this category of identity is a remnant of the Celtic origins of Perceval and Grail romance. Instead I argue that Perceval’s Welshness is a way for these authors to engage their patrons and audiences in questions about what it means to be British in the Middle Ages. In my study I examine a series of texts which have hitherto been classified as “Grail romances” and argue that they are instead Perceval romances: that is, tales preoccupied not with the object of the hero’s quest but with his identity development. Whether in Chrétien de Troyes’s Conte du Graal, the Middle English Sir Percyvell of Galles, or the Morte Darthur of Sir Thomas Malory, Perceval’s mistakes are as essential to the plots of these romances as his achievements are. One clue to the medieval association of Perceval with identity is the recurring epithet li galois or de Galles, the Welshman, the one from Wales. Although Perceval’s Welshness is characterized differently in each romance, it always surfaces in relation to questions about his name, ancestry, achievement, education, and fitness to belong to chivalric society. His Welshness endures, even when his relationship to the grail does not. Ultimately, Perceval’s struggles with his own identity represent the struggles of individual readers to forge their own identities within communities.
Subject: Medieval literature; British and Irish literature
Classification: 0297: Medieval literature; 0593: British and Irish literature
Identifier / keyword: Language, literature and linguistics, Perceval, Medieval, Romance, Welshness
Title: Perceval the Welshman: Identity in medieval British romance
Number of pages: 322
Publication year: 2009
Degree date: 2009
School code: 0165
Source: DAI-A 72/04, Oct 2011
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781124467863
Advisor: Kerby-Fulton, Kathryn
University/institution: University of Notre Dame
University location: United States — Indiana
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3441720
ProQuest document ID: 851809037
Copyright: Copyright ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing 2009
Database: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Full Text
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Document 19 of 25
The noble household servant in inter medieval England
Author: Feng, Qi Jun
Publication info: Capital Normal University (People’s Republic of China), ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing, 2008. H435138.
Abstract: This thesis explores the noble household servants in later Medieval England and takes them as a special group from a sociological perspective. Based on the foreign research and study in this field, it analyzes the preserved household books in the later Medieval England, and focuses on clarifying the basic structure of the noble household servants in this period, the inter-dependent and co-existing relations between the nobles and their servants as well as the vicissitudes of the noble household and the noble household servants in this period. The present thesis consists of four chapters. In the first chapter the thesis probes the role of the household servants in the ordinary life, social network, social display and political activities. It also analyzes those servants’ hierarchy structure, functional structure, their origin and social circle, as well as their service cycle. The second chapter explores the acquirements of the servants in their belonged noble households. It is believed that such acquirements made such a servant position an honorable and dignified social position. The third chapter begins with an analysis of the inter-harm of the nobles and their servants, and it also carries out a deeper delving into how they joined in villainy and acted in collusion, as a result, this period is marked with the phenomenon of “evil master evil servant”. The last chapter explores the vicissitude of the noble household and the noble household servants in later Medieval England,then emphasizes the influence of each other which made by these vicissitude.
Subject: World History
Classification: 0506: World History
Identifier / keyword: (UMI)AAIH435138, Social sciences
Title: The noble household servant in inter medieval England
Publication year: 2008
Degree date: 2008
School code: 9011
Source: DAI-C 72/04, Dissertation Abstracts International
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
Advisor: Liu, Xin Cheng
University/institution: Capital Normal University (People’s Republic of China)
University location: Peoples Republic of China
Degree: M.A.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: Chinese
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: H435138
ProQuest document ID: 1026941412
Copyright: Copyright ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing 2008
Database: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Full Text
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Document 20 of 25
The origins of Christian military orders in middle ages
Author: Li, Yu
Publication info: Capital Normal University (People’s Republic of China), ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing, 2008. H435170.
Abstract: This thesis has made an investigation on the origin of Christian military orders in the middle ages. It also paid some attention to the transform of the judgement that the church held for those military orders. First of all, it described the big background for those military orders: crusade, and mentioned the origins of several main military orders. Secondly, it analysed the transform of the judgement of the church according the emergence of the military orders. During this time, the church altered its attitude about the war and the military stratum and admitted the military orders. Thirdly, it tried to seek the origin of the military orders from an angle of the traditional Christianity, including the influence the traditional orders made on them and the military factors in Bible. Finally, it evaluated the emergence of the Christian military orders in the middle ages. It considered the military orders seemed to be completely new things in the surface, but they adopted the rulers of the traditional orders. The military factors came from the military tradition of Christianity. Pushed by the crusade, the concept of ‘just war’ has developed into ‘holy war’. The admission and support of the church reflected the transform of its judgement on these new orders.
Subject: World History
Classification: 0506: World History
Identifier / keyword: (UMI)AAIH435170, Social sciences
Title: The origins of christian military orders in middle ages
Publication year: 2008
Degree date: 2008
School code: 9011
Source: DAI-C 72/04, Dissertation Abstracts International
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
Advisor: Liu, Cheng
University/institution: Capital Normal University (People’s Republic of China)
University location: Peoples Republic of China
Degree: M.A.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: H435170
ProQuest document ID: 1026941387
Copyright: Copyright ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing 2008
Database: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Full Text
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Document 21 of 25
Thomas Aquinas and Denis the Areopagite on the being of creatures
Author: Flood, Patrick F.
Publication info: University of Ottawa (Canada), ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing, 1968. DC53463.
Abstract: Abstract not available.
Subject: Metaphysics; Theology
Classification: 0396: Metaphysics; 0469: Theology
Identifier / keyword: Philosophy, religion and theology, Thomas Aquinas, Saint, Being of creatures, Denis the Areopagite, Saint
Title: Thomas Aquinas and Denis the Areopagite on the being of creatures
Number of pages: 221
Publication year: 1968
Degree date: 1968
School code: 0918
Source: DAI-A 72/04, Oct 2011
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
University/institution: University of Ottawa (Canada)
University location: Canada
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: DC53463
ProQuest document ID: 862764616
Copyright: Copyright ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing 1968
Database: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Full Text
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Document 22 of 25
The truth of judgment in St. Augustine’s “De Magistro”
Author: Golebiewski, Casimir Theodore
Publication info: University of Ottawa (Canada), ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing, 1957. DC53556.
Abstract: Abstract not available.
Subject: Theology
Classification: 0469: Theology
Identifier / keyword: Philosophy, religion and theology, Judgment, Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo, De Magistro
Title: The truth of judgment in St. Augustine’s “De Magistro”
Number of pages: 425
Publication year: 1957
Degree date: 1957
School code: 0918
Source: DAI-A 72/04, Oct 2011
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
University/institution: University of Ottawa (Canada)
University location: Canada
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: DC53556
ProQuest document ID: 861955297
Copyright: Copyright ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing 1957
Database: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Full Text
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Document 23 of 25
An historical sketch of the cogitative force in the Middle Ages: Its transition through the Orient to the Occident
Author: Dumont, Richard Edward
Publication info: University of Ottawa (Canada), ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing, 1952. DC53546.
Abstract: Abstract not available.
Subject: Medieval history
Classification: 0581: Medieval history
Identifier / keyword: Social sciences, Cogitative force, Middle Ages, Orient, Occident
Title: An historical sketch of the cogitative force in the Middle Ages: Its transition through the Orient to the Occident
Number of pages: 321
Publication year: 1952
Degree date: 1952
School code: 0918
Source: DAI-A 72/04, Oct 2011
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
University/institution: University of Ottawa (Canada)
University location: Canada
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: DC53546
ProQuest document ID: 865987469
Copyright: Copyright ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing 1952
Database: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Full Text
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Document 24 of 25
Friar Benedict the Pole of Vratislava his mission to Mongolia and his narrative (1245–1247)
Author: Szczesniak, Boleslaw
Publication info: University of Ottawa (Canada), ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing, 1950. DC53580.
Abstract: Abstract not available.
Subject: Biographies; Medieval history
Classification: 0304: Biographies; 0581: Medieval history
Identifier / keyword: Social sciences, Benedict the Pole of Vratislava, Mission, Mongolia
Title: Friar Benedict the Pole of Vratislava his mission to Mongolia and his narrative (1245–1247)
Number of pages: 354
Publication year: 1950
Degree date: 1950
School code: 0918
Source: DAI-A 72/04, Oct 2011
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
University/institution: University of Ottawa (Canada)
University location: Canada
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: DC53580
ProQuest document ID: 863202834
Copyright: Copyright ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing 1950
Database: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Full Text
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Document 25 of 25
La philosophie du droit selon saint Thomas
Author: Ostiguy, Roland
Publication info: University of Ottawa (Canada), ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing, 1945. DC53444.
Abstract: Abstract not available.
Subject: Law; Philosophy
Classification: 0398: Law; 0422: Philosophy
Identifier / keyword: Philosophy, religion and theology, Social sciences, Thomas Aquinas, Saint, Law, Philosophy of law
Title: La philosophie du droit selon saint Thomas
Number of pages: 305
Publication year: 1945
Degree date: 1945
School code: 0918
Source: DAI-A 72/04, Oct 2011
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
University/institution: University of Ottawa (Canada)
University location: Canada
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: French
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: DC53444
ProQuest document ID: 861954393