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[ 55 ]. The letter has been examined sympathetically by Cuttino and Lyman (1978), Fryde (1979) and Mortimer (2003, 2005, 2010), 8 and more sceptically by Haines (1996, 2003), Phillips (2010) and King (2016). 9 Phillips provides a full survey of the recent literature and King directly addresses Ian Mortimer’s latest argument. Despite the rumours of Edward’s survival, the normal narrative of England’s history during the Middle
response to which order the said John has done nothing and is not going to do anything; therefore she asks to be given grace and a remedy in God’s name for this, since she has nothing else to live on. 1 The reminiscence of Virginia Woolf is borrowed from Elizabeth Robertson, ‘An Anchorhold of Her Own: Female anchoritic literature in thirteenth century England’ in Equally in
. 3 For an excellent introductory survey see William Harmless, Desert Christians: An introduction to the literature of early monasticism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004). 4 The Rule of Saint Benedict in Latin and in English with Notes , edited and translated by Timothy Fry OSB (Collegeville: The Liturgical Press, 1981), 1
quotes it extensively in both books (mostly towards the beginning of Book 1 and the end of Book 2) and presumably derived the Epitaphium ’s two-book structure from it as well. The De excessu is an example of the consolatio , a genre with deep roots in classical literature, in which the author or speaker sought to assuage his own grief and that of his audience by developing a set of standard themes, e.g., that death brought an end to suffering, that all men are mortal and that the prospect of a better life awaited the soul after death. 95 The ancient consolatio
kind of assault on the reason, and by the urging of fear, as well as of love. … Therefore (if you are literate) you should gladly read holy literature, saints’ lives, the passions of the martyrs, devout meditations; and, from amongst all these, you should read particularly frequently whichever tends in your experience most to increase your devotion. By reading you will certainly see that, ever since the beginning
medieval period is usually divided up and studied today. Those who study theology, literature, and art tend to focus on the GL to the exclusion of the circumstances in which it was created: in this, Duffy is hardly unusual. 7 At the same time, historians have not generally connected medieval Genoa with great cultural achievements—unlike Florence or Venice, or even Genoa's arch-rival Pisa. For many years, especially
and psalms that the literate clergy would have recited. (Something similar was done for anchorites a couple of centuries earlier; compare [ 19 ].) The stand-alone texts known as the Cambridge Rule and Rule of Celestine are more elaborate [ 54 ], [ 56 ] and, though their spiritual trajectory remains comparatively low, their links to Aelred’s Rule of Life for a Recluse connect them directly with the literature of
. 24 The bishop’s legal officers. 25 The manor of Stepney was one of the bishop of London’s principal residences in the Middle Ages. 26 See C. David Benson, ‘Piers Plowman as Poetic Pillory: The Pillory and the Cross’ in Medieval Literature and Historical Inquiry
of gossip. 77 I.e., for the intervention of the rebels that spring. 78 That is, according to the terms of the Ordinatio imperii of 817: MGH Capit . 2.1 no. 136, pp. 270–5; on this capitulary, see Patzold, ‘Loyale Palastrebellion’, and De Jong, Penitential State , pp. 24–8, with reference to older literature. 79 Wala’s sudden fall from grace in late 830. Wala was not allowed to attend the October 830 council at Nijmegen, but was instead sent back to Corbie and ordered to resume the monastic life. At the Aachen assembly held in February 831, the rebels
of King Gundaforus of India, that he will establish foundations that will never grow old and build walls that will never fall down. See Passio S. Thomae Apostoli, c. 4 , p. 5: colloco fundamenta quae numquam veterescunt, exstruo parietes qui numquam corruant. 275 Saxon resistance to Frankish rule ended in 804 after Charlemagne deported Saxons en masse from the lands east of the Elbe into Francia. Conversion of the Saxons followed on the heels of their subjugation. See most recently Rembold, Conquest , with reference to older literature. 276 Isaiah 61