- 1. Traces of otherness in St. Thomas Aquinas’ theology of grace
- 2. To love and be loved: Petrarchan friendship in the “Canzoniere” and the “Triumphs”
- 3. Inseparable companion: The consolation of Heloise
- 4. Fairies, Kingship, and the British Past in Walter Map’s “De Nugis Curialium” and “Sir Orfeo”
- 5. Power and Political Communication. Feasting and Gift Giving in Medieval Iceland
- 6. Secrecy and the Social Construction of Heresy in Medieval Languedoc
- 7. Pre-Modern Iberian Fragments in the Present: Studies in Philology, Time, Representation and Value
- 8. Bromance in the Middle Ages: The impact of sodomy on the development of male-male friendships in medieval literature
- 9. The medieval tragic mode and the representation of tragedy in Middle English literature: A study of “Morte Arthure”, “Pearl”, “Troilus and Criseyde”, and “The Testament of Cresseid”
- 10. The intellectualistic foundation of freedom in the doctrine of St. Thomas Aquinas
- 11. The politics of translatio: The visual representation of the translation of relics in the early Christian and medieval period, the case of St. Stephen
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Document 1 of 11
Traces of otherness in St. Thomas Aquinas’ theology of grace
Author: Fagge, Michael Luiz
Publication info: Duquesne University, ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing, 2011. 3444303.
Abstract: This dissertation looks into the work of St. Thomas Aquinas and addresses his theology of grace through the lens of the postmodern concern for the other. The first chapter sets up the postmodern view using Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida to draw out the fundamental grounding for the concern for the other. In chapters two and three, St. Thomas’ theology of nature and then grace are examined focusing on his particular focus on the other. In his work we find that there is a concern for the other and a structure to the human person that supports this concern. Using Clarkeian interpretation of St. Thomas along with unique analysis both a nature and a grace that is for the self and for the other is discovered. In the fourth chapter this structure is put in dialogue with the postmodern thinkers especially Jean-Luc Marion.
Subject: Theology
Classification: 0469: Theology
Identifier / keyword: Philosophy, religion and theology, Thomas Aquinas, Saint, Grace, Otherness, Thomism
Title: Traces of otherness in St. Thomas Aquinas’ theology of grace
Number of pages: 239
Publication year: 2011
Degree date: 2011
School code: 0067
Source: DAI-A 72/05, Nov 2011
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781124517759
Advisor: Worgul, George S.
Committee member: Bordeianu, Radu, Wright, William
University/institution: Duquesne University
Department: Theology
University location: United States — Pennsylvania
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3444303
ProQuest document ID: 858359180
Document URL: http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/858359180?accountid=14709
Copyright: Copyright ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing 2011
Database: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Full Text
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To love and be loved: Petrarchan friendship in the “Canzoniere” and the “Triumphs”
Author: Anderson, Elizabeth
Publication info: The University of Chicago, ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing, 2011. 3445015.
Abstract: Petrarch does not dedicate a single work to the topic of friendship, but it nonetheless figures as an underlying principle in each of his works. Despite a number of important investigations of friendship in Petrarch’s Latin works, the connection between amor amicitia and his poetry remains unexamined. This dissertation delineates the key components of Petrarchan friendship in his vernacular works and contextualizes the role of friendship in the amorous and penitential narrative that spans across the Canzoniere and the Triumphs . The concept of intersubjectivity provides the prism through which to examine the psychological and social bond of friendship in Petrarch’s vernacular poetry, and it is an approach that complements the many readings that focus on Petrarch’s qualities as an isolated subject. The Introductory Chapter contextualizes Petrarch’s concept of friendship in relation to his major Latin influences, Cicero and Augustine. The intersubjective approach is explained and tied to the key components of Petrarchan friendship. Chapter One deals with the “Triumph of Love.” The ongoing interaction with the vero amico illustrates the intersubjective quality of friendship, and the exemplum of Sophonisba and Massinissa demonstrates how Petrarchan friendship can co-exist with cupidinous love. Chapter Two addresses the question of Laura’s subjectivity through a reading of the dialogue between Petrarch and Laura the “Triumph of Death II.” Chapter Three argues that in the Canzoniere Petrarch depicts his ongoing struggle to achieve peace in his dynamic with Laura, which he resolves in friendship, culminating in sonnet 362 where Laura appears in a dream and addresses him as “Amico.” The marginal reordering of the final thirty poems suggests that the resolution in friendship is the penultimate step in his conversion narrative. Chapter Four compares Petrarch’s bond with Laura to Dante’s bond with Beatrice, especially the different role of faithfulness to the beloved in each poet’s conversion narrative.
Subject: Medieval literature; Romance literature
Classification: 0297: Medieval literature; 0313: Romance literature
Identifier / keyword: Language, literature and linguistics, Canzoniere, Friendship, Intersubjectivity, Petrarca, Francesco, Petrarch, Triumphs, Italy
Title: To love and be loved: Petrarchan friendship in the “Canzoniere” and the “Triumphs”
Number of pages: 139
Publication year: 2011
Degree date: 2011
School code: 0330
Source: DAI-A 72/05, Nov 2011
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781124535685
Advisor: Steinberg, Justin
Committee member: Weaver, Elissa, Nirenberg, David, Cachey, Theodore J., Jr.
University/institution: The University of Chicago
Department: Romance Languages and Literatures
University location: United States — Illinois
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3445015
ProQuest document ID: 860309299
Document URL: http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/860309299?accountid=14709
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Inseparable companion: The consolation of Heloise
Author: Ciscel, Carol Parsons
Publication info: The University of Memphis, ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing, 2010. 3448245.
Abstract: The twelfth-century love story of Abelard and Heloise, which has been both an inspiration for poets and novelists and a challenge and boon to historians, has often suffered from misinterpretation. Abelard was master of the Paris schools and wrote many works which have survived, but Heloise is represented almost entirely through letter exchanges with him. This work focuses on Heloise, now established as a scholar in her own right and the author of her letters, but importantly, it turns some crucial aspects of the traditional picture of Heloise upside down. She has been painted as a woman of unusually robust sexual appetites, who was never converted from a focus on Abelard to a focus on Christ, who was utterly silenced at Abelard’s command, and whose roles as lover and abbess are fundamentally irreconcilable. Although the greater carnality of women was a given for her contemporaries, her efforts to explain how much she valued Abelard’s friendship are a challenge to twenty-first-century preconceptions as well. As for her lack of conversion, I propose that consolation is a more important question; her loyalty to her vow to Abelard fully explains why she had to wait for him to incite her to God. The crux of my argument is that Heloise was, in fact, consoled by Abelard’s second letter. This view calls into question the usual interpretation of her promise to him to put a bridle on her pen. Rather than crushed, she is light-hearted as she engages Abelard in the philosophical dialogue she loved, now turned to the founding of the Paraclete. Once we realize this, it becomes possible, even easy, to integrate Heloise the lover with Heloise the abbess. The picture that emerges shows Heloise to be a woman of her time, albeit an exceptional one. In fact, what both lovers have to say about love closely reflects twelfth-century attitudes. The letters of Heloise rank among the great literary creations of any age and the view they give us of twelfth-century France is unusually personal, but they can be reliably viewed as an authentic woman’s voice from the twelfth century.
Subject: Medieval literature; Womens studies; Medieval history
Classification: 0297: Medieval literature; 0453: Womens studies; 0581: Medieval history
Identifier / keyword: Social sciences, Language, literature and linguistics, Peter Abelard, Heloise, Monasticism, Love letters
Title: Inseparable companion: The consolation of Heloise
Number of pages: 245
Publication year: 2010
Degree date: 2010
School code: 1194
Source: DAI-A 72/05, Nov 2011
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781124537894
Advisor: Blythe, James M.
University/institution: The University of Memphis
University location: United States — Tennessee
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3448245
ProQuest document ID: 859453570
Document URL: http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/859453570?accountid=14709
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Document 4 of 11
Fairies, Kingship, and the British Past in Walter Map’s “De Nugis Curialium” and “Sir Orfeo”
Author: Schwieterman, Patrick Joseph
Publication info: University of California, Berkeley, ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing, 2010. 3444701.
Abstract: My dissertation focuses on two fairy narratives from medieval Britain: the tale of Herla in Walter Map’s twelfth-century De Nugis Curialium, and the early fourteenth-century romance Sir Orfeo. I contend that in both texts, fairies become intimately associated with conceptions of the ancient British past, and, more narrowly, with the idea of a specifically insular kingship that seeks its legitimization within that past. In Chapter One, I argue that Map’s longer version of the Herla narrative is his own synthesis of traditional materials, intended to highlight the continuity of a notion of British kingship that includes the pygmy king, Herla and Henry II. In Chapter Two, I contend that the two fifteenth-century versions of Sir Orfeo are likely descendants of an intermediary version that was copied from the Auchinleck text after it had been mutilated; therefore, the conflation of Thrace with Winchester in the Auchinleck version is unlikely to be an interpolation by a scribe. In Chapter Three, I examine the Orfeo poet’s manipulation of his sources, both actual and ostensible. I assert that through the substitution of insular fairies for the Classical gods, the poet audaciously claims for the story of Orpheus an origin in the British past. Similarly, he implies that his poem, rather than being a translation of a now-lost Lai d’Orphey, is instead the English “original” of that work. In Chapter Four, I examine the depiction of the fairies in Sir Orfeo. Drawing on a range of medieval fairy narratives as a basis of comparison, I argue that the Orfeo poet seemingly invites the use of conventional aspects of fairy alterity as an interpretive paradigm early in the poem, only to dissolve boundaries between the fairy and human realms later in the work; in this manner, he prepares the way for the climax of the narrative, in which the fairy king, Orfeo, and the steward are all figured as types of a virtuous British kingship.
Subject: Medieval literature; Folklore; British and Irish literature
Classification: 0297: Medieval literature; 0358: Folklore; 0593: British and Irish literature
Identifier / keyword: Social sciences, Language, literature and linguistics, Auchinleck manuscript, De Nugis Curialium, Fairies, Kingship, Sir Orfeo, Map, Walter
Title: Fairies, Kingship, and the British Past in Walter Map’s “De Nugis Curialium” and “Sir Orfeo”
Number of pages: 187
Publication year: 2010
Degree date: 2010
School code: 0028
Source: DAI-A 72/05, Nov 2011
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781124528311
Advisor: Nolan, Maura
Committee member: Miller, Jennifer, Lindow, John
University/institution: University of California, Berkeley
Department: English
University location: United States — California
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3444701
ProQuest document ID: 859003403
Document URL: http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/859003403?accountid=14709
Copyright: Copyright ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing 2010
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Document 5 of 11
Power and Political Communication. Feasting and Gift Giving in Medieval Iceland
Author: Palsson, Vidar
Publication info: University of California, Berkeley, ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing, 2010. 3444686.
Abstract: The present study has a double primary aim. Firstly, it seeks to analyze the sociopolitical functionality of feasting and gift giving as modes of political communication in later twelfth- and thirteenth-century Iceland, primarily but not exclusively through its secular prose narratives. Secondly, it aims to place that functionality within the larger framework of the power and politics that shape its applications and perception. Feasts and gifts established friendships. Unlike modern friendship, its medieval namesake was anything but a free and spontaneous practice, and neither were its primary modes and media of expression. None of these elements were the casual business of just anyone. The argumentative structure of the present study aims roughly to correspond to the preliminary and general historiographical sketch with which it opens: while duly emphasizing the contractual functions of demonstrative action, the backbone of traditional scholarship, it also highlights its framework of power, subjectivity, limitations, and ultimate ambiguity, as more recent studies have justifiably urged. It emphasizes action as discourse.
Subject: Icelandic & Scandinavian literature; Medieval history
Classification: 0362: Icelandic & Scandinavian literature; 0581: Medieval history
Identifier / keyword: Social sciences, Language, literature and linguistics, Iceland, Political communication, Feast, Feasting, Gift, Gift giving, Power, Ritual
Title: Power and Political Communication. Feasting and Gift Giving in Medieval Iceland
Number of pages: 199
Publication year: 2010
Degree date: 2010
School code: 0028
Source: DAI-A 72/05, Nov 2011
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781124528168
Advisor: Lindow, John, Brady, Thomas A., Jr.
Committee member: Miller, Maureen C., Clover, Carol J.
University/institution: University of California, Berkeley
Department: History
University location: United States — California
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3444686
ProQuest document ID: 859004871
Copyright: Copyright ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing 2010
Database: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Full Text
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Document 6 of 11
Secrecy and the Social Construction of Heresy in Medieval Languedoc
Author: Bilodeau, John
Publication info: Concordia University (Canada), ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing, 2010. NR71132.
Abstract: Secrecy is a powerful tool in religious conflict. The careful manipulation of information is critical to the strategic success of a religious group in its attempt to gain recognition of its legitimacy and status in a community or region. This work uses the historical context of the encounter between the Church and the Good Men and Women of Languedoc in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries to analyze the use of secrecy the discourse of religious conflict. Reports from Languedoc describe communities who have left the institutions of the Church behind, and fallen into what the Church interprets as dangerous heresy. The “dangerous heresy” are the beliefs and practices of people who self-identify as “Good Christians”. The encounters between the representatives of the Church and the Good Christians begin with debate and argumentation and proceed into war and physical coercion. At the beginning of the thirteenth century, the allies of the Church assemble armies in order to extirpate the heresy from the lands around Toulouse. Following the Albigensian crusade, the Inquisition is founded to finish the work of reconciling the people of the region of Languedoc to the rest of Christendom. This thesis looks at the role played by secrecy in the conflict and its overall impact on the outcome.
Subject: Medieval literature; Religious history
Classification: 0297: Medieval literature; 0320: Religious history
Identifier / keyword: Philosophy, religion and theology, Language, literature and linguistics, Heresy, Social construction, Secrecy, Languedoc, France
Title: Secrecy and the Social Construction of Heresy in Medieval Languedoc
Number of pages: 266
Publication year: 2010
Degree date: 2010
School code: 0228
Source: DAI-A 72/05, Nov 2011
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9780494711323
University/institution: Concordia University (Canada)
University location: Canada
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: NR71132
ProQuest document ID: 859267134
Document URL: http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/859267134?accountid=14709
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Pre-Modern Iberian Fragments in the Present: Studies in Philology, Time, Representation and Value
Author: Bamford, Heather Marie
Publication info: University of California, Berkeley, ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing, 2010. 3444594.
Abstract: This dissertation examines the uses of medieval and early-modern Iberian cultural objects in the present. It draws on the notion of fragment and actual fragmentary testimonies to study how premodern Iberian things and texts are reconstituted and used for various projects of personal, institutional, national and transnational reconstitution in the present. The corpus objects are necessarily diverse in chronological scope, with examples from the medieval, early-modern and modern periods, and touch upon works of many genres: chivalric romance, royal and personal correspondence, early-modern and modern historiography, Hispano-Arabic and Hispano-Hebrew lyric, inscriptions, pre-modern and modern biographies and 21 st century book exhibitions. The dissertation proposes that Iberian fragments are engaged in various forms of reconstitution or production in the present and, at the same time, are held as timeless, unchanging entities that have the capability to allow users to connect with something genuinely old, truly Spanish and, indeed, eternal. These methods of reconstitution include philology; the writing of history and attempts to understand the meaning of past time; the employment of fragments in debates about the origins of literature in Spain or, alternatively, pluralism and cultural sensitivity; and the collection of old books and the rare book market. To investigate the thesis regarding the existence of fragments between production and belief, I build on work on “presence” by Jean Luc Nancy, H. U. Gumbrecht, Eelco Runia, F. R. Ankersmit and others. Presence refers to the way in which the past is recalled or imagined in the present, or to the effects of present objects on observers and users. I compare the situation of the fragment with the status of the concept of presence. Specifically, the dissertation advances that the notions of presence as developed by the above authors reside between the pulls of production and metaphysics, as do fragments. The project presents four case studies, each studying one of the modes of reconstitution outlined above, a different motif of fragmentation and an element of the above tension in presence, which I call the “presence dialectic.” The first chapter posits philology as a means of reconstitution in working with highly fragmentary chivalric manuscripts to examine the impact of the fragments’ physical presence on philological practice. The second chapter moves to two 16 th and 17 th century codices comprised of different “fragments” compiled by well-known bibliographers. It analyzes how early-modern scholars conceived of and brought together past times through the collection of documents, building a framework for characterizing the time of an old, physically present book. Chapters three and four shift away from fragmentary manuscripts or codices comprised of “fragments” to two very different forms of completion. The third chapter studies the “romance kharjas “, two complete muwassah[dotbelow]at and concepts of representation to examine the fragmentation of poetry by critics as a form of filling in the gaps of Iberian literary history. In analyzing the muwassah[dotbelow]at as literature, the chapter investigates the opposition of representation to a less-situational, freer presence. The fourth chapter evinces the thesis of the presence dialectic by querying the meaning of the word “value” in the collection and sale of pre-modern Iberian material in the modern age. It draws on the rise of Hispanism in the United States through an analysis of the formation of the Boston Public Library and The Hispanic Society of America. The project works across medieval and early modern studies, philosophy of history and cultural studies to assess the reconstitution of pre-modern Iberian cultural objects in the present and their use for present-day projects of reconstitution. The dissertation looks both forwards and backwards, locating the activity of the modern medievalist as one that both historicizes and negotiates a use of the old material in the present. In doing so, the project intends to contribute usable philological studies on specific manuscripts, to further work on presence and to explore critically the meaning of the term “material culture.”
Subject: Medieval literature; Romance literature
Classification: 0297: Medieval literature; 0313: Romance literature
Identifier / keyword: Language, literature and linguistics, Fragment, Iberia, Presence, Cultural objects
Title: Pre-Modern Iberian Fragments in the Present: Studies in Philology, Time, Representation and Value
Number of pages: 136
Publication year: 2010
Degree date: 2010
School code: 0028
Source: DAI-A 72/05, Nov 2011
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781124527185
Advisor: Rodriguez-Velasco, Jesus, Rabasa, Jose
Committee member: Ulrich Gumbrecht, Hans, Navarrete, Ignacio, Hult, David
University/institution: University of California, Berkeley
Department: Hispanic Languages & Literatures
University location: United States — California
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3444594
ProQuest document ID: 859003378
Document URL: http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/859003378?accountid=14709
Copyright: Copyright ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing 2010
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Document 8 of 11
Bromance in the Middle Ages: The impact of sodomy on the development of male-male friendships in medieval literature
Author: Severe, Richard
Publication info: Purdue University, ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing, 2010. 3444781.
Abstract: This dissertation makes a connection between sodomy and male-male friendships–two social issues that many scholars have approached separately in critical discussions about medieval masculinity and sexuality. I argue that the social and historical fear of sodomy impacted the ways in which male-male friendships were represented in popular medieval literature. Using an interdisciplinary approach, this project combines literary analysis, queer and gender theory, and historical research. I begin by exploring the fear of sodomy through critical examination of historical texts written during the mid-eleventh century, a period of intense social reform. I then extend the recent critical discussions on sexual identity and male friendship by analyzing models of friendship in two popular treatises, Cicero’s De amicitia (44 B.C.E.) and Aelred’s De spirituali amicitia (c.1147). I argue that Aelred’s treatise, written during a period when the Church sought to reform the sexual practices of the clergy, builds on the Ciceronian model and demonstrates how close male friendships in the monastery could exist as long as certain protocols were observed that presumably precluded the possibility of sodomitical acts. I contend that the seminal works of Aelred and Cicero influenced multiple models of friendship seen in popular medieval texts, in which relationships between men are mediated in order to address the potential for homoerotic desire. These triangulated models of friendship are best demonstrated in stories such as the Old French version of Ami et Amile, an anonymous thirteenth-century tale of close male friendship in which the relationship between Ami and Amile is mediated by the Divine, violence and women; Geoffrey Chaucer’s fourteenth-century narrative, Troilus and Criseyde, where the relationship between Troilus and Pandarus is mediated by the ideals of courtly love; and lastly, Thomas Malory’s Morte d’Arthur, which uses the Pentecostal Oath as a means for maintaining friendships between knights in the chivalric community.
Subject: Medieval literature; Social research; GLBT Studies; Gender studies
Classification: 0297: Medieval literature; 0344: Social research; 0492: GLBT Studies; 0733: Gender studies
Identifier / keyword: Social sciences, Language, literature and linguistics, Bromance, Cicero, Marcus Tullius, Friendship, Homosexuality, Masculinity, Sodomy
Title: Bromance in the Middle Ages: The impact of sodomy on the development of male-male friendships in medieval literature
Number of pages: 242
Publication year: 2010
Degree date: 2010
School code: 0183
Source: DAI-A 72/05, Nov 2011
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781124529127
Advisor: Armstrong, S. Dorsey
Committee member: Astell, Ann, Hughes, Shaun F.D., Leverage, Paula
University/institution: Purdue University
Department: English
University location: United States — Indiana
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3444781
ProQuest document ID: 859003389
Document URL: http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/859003389?accountid=14709
Copyright: Copyright ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing 2010
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Document 9 of 11
The medieval tragic mode and the representation of tragedy in Middle English literature: A study of “Morte Arthure”, “Pearl”, “Troilus and Criseyde”, and “The Testament of Cresseid”
Author: Couch, William H.
Publication info: University of Ottawa (Canada), ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing, 1972. DC53716.
Abstract: Abstract not available.
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Subject: Medieval literature
Classification: 0297: Medieval literature
Identifier / keyword: Language, literature and linguistics, Middle English, Britain, Fiction, Medieval tragic mode
Title: The medieval tragic mode and the representation of tragedy in Middle English literature: A study of “Morte Arthure”, “Pearl”, “Troilus and Criseyde”, and “The Testament of Cresseid”
Number of pages: 219
Publication year: 1972
Degree date: 1972
School code: 0918
Source: DAI-A 72/05, Nov 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: DC53716
ProQuest document ID: 871500798
Document URL: http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/871500798?accountid=14709
Copyright: Copyright ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing 1972
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Document 10 of 11
The intellectualistic foundation of freedom in the doctrine of St. Thomas Aquinas
Author: Dore, James Wilfred
Publication info: University of Ottawa (Canada), ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing, 1941. DC53800.
Abstract: Abstract not available.
Subject: Religion; Philosophy
Classification: 0322: Religion; 0322: Philosophy
Identifier / keyword: Philosophy, religion and theology, Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, Philosophy of freedom
Title: The intellectualistic foundation of freedom in the doctrine of St. Thomas Aquinas
Number of pages: 205
Publication year: 1941
Degree date: 1941
School code: 0918
Source: DAI-A 72/05, Nov 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: DC53800
ProQuest document ID: 874006437
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1. The politics of translatio: The visual representation of the translation of relics in the early Christian and medieval period, the case of St. Stephen
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The politics of translatio: The visual representation of the translation of relics in the early Christian and medieval period, the case of St. Stephen
Author: Milanovic, Ljubomir
Publication info: Rutgers The State University of New Jersey – New Brunswick, ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing, 2011. 3444955.
Abstract: Early Christian and medieval representations of the ritual of translatio documented the circulation of relics both within and between medieval cultures. This dissertation elucidates the ways the ritual was used for religious and secular ends from the fourth to the fourteenth century in both the East and the West. Reliquaries transmuted abject human remains into objects of veneration. Neither fully alive nor dead, the saint’s body was suspended in a state of perpetual nondecay and endowed with super-natural powers of healing and protection for the faithful. I argue that representations of translatio exploited this essentially ambivalent status of the saint’s body for religious and secular ends. The detailed iconographic program of the Trier ivory provides a provenance for this phenomenon by linking the translation ritual to its Antique prototypes: the triumph and adventus . Accepting the hypothesis that this object represents the translatio n of the relics of St. Stephen to Constantinople in the fifth century, I identify the ivory as a prototype of the harnessing of the motif of translatio for secular ends. Later examples such as the mural cycles depicting the translatio of the relics of St. Stephen at San Lorenzo fuori le mura In Rome and the chapel of St Stephen in the monastery at Zièa in Serbia, reveal the further development of this pictorial tradition within a public context and its increasingly explicit conscription for secular ideological purposes. I focus on the case of St. Stephen due to his prominent role in Christian society and the broad dissemination of his cult. As the protomartyr, Stephen was the first individual to emulate Christ’s sacrifice. Christian rulers understood that their power derived directly from Christ and therefore aligned themselves with him. As shown in the Trier ivory and the murals at San Lorenzo and Zièa, by emphasizing their ability to translate and poses his body, they hoped to establish a divine provenance for their earthly powers. Through the representation of the translatio of St. Stephen, the secular and religious leaders depicted in or associated with these objects conscripted a highly sophisticated visual rhetoric to political ends.
Subject: Religious history; Art history
Classification: 0320: Religious history; 0377: Art history
Identifier / keyword: Philosophy, religion and theology, Communication and the arts, Translation, Relic, Body, Politics, Stephen, Saint, Early Christian, Visual representation
Title: The politics of translatio: The visual representation of the translation of relics in the early Christian and medieval period, the case of St. Stephen
Number of pages: 413
Publication year: 2011
Degree date: 2011
School code: 0190
Source: DAI-A 72/05, Nov 2011
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781124531434
Advisor: St. Clair Harvey, Archer
University/institution: Rutgers The State University of New Jersey – New Brunswick
Department: Graduate School – New Brunswick
University location: United States — New Jersey
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3444955
ProQuest document ID: 859440929