{"title":"Simon Magus and Simon Peter in Medieval Irish and English Legends","authors":"","doi":"10.1163/9789047415466_013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789047415466_013","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":190993,"journal":{"name":"Simon Magus in Patristic, Medieval and Early Modern Traditions","volume":"80 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117081611","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Simon Magus, Nicolas of Antioch, and Muhammad","authors":"","doi":"10.1163/9789047415466_014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789047415466_014","url":null,"abstract":"Scholars of the Middle Ages have established that in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, there was an intellectual shift in the Christian polemic against Islam. Whereas in earlier centuries heresiologists defined Islam as pagan, in the high Middle Ages the prevailing opinion emerged that it was instead a heresy. Medieval writers, who drew upon a rich theological tradition dating to the patristic era, sustained and expanded this new perspective. Many of the patristic theological refutations against heretics proved once again useful as groups such as the Waldensians, Albigensians, and others made serious challenges against the dominant orthodoxy. Even though Islam had already been a formidable presence in the Mediterranean— especially since the conquest of the Iberian Peninsula in the early eighth century—in the high Middle Ages the continued expansion of Islam, including its defeat of the Crusaders, was perceived to be an increased threat to Christendom. A corollary development was the greater interest in Islam—mainly to discredit or refute it—by some leading western Christian theologians. One thing is certain: medieval writers were intent on demonstrating the heretical nature of Islamic doctrines and the perversity of Islamic morality. Medieval polemicists, however, resorted to a standard theological weapon to assault Islam, typology. Through typology medieval writers were capable of constructing alleged historical and doctrinal links between","PeriodicalId":190993,"journal":{"name":"Simon Magus in Patristic, Medieval and Early Modern Traditions","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126937641","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Simon Magus, Dogs, and Simon Peter”","authors":"","doi":"10.1163/9789047415466_012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789047415466_012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":190993,"journal":{"name":"Simon Magus in Patristic, Medieval and Early Modern Traditions","volume":"101 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131630387","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Fall of Simon Magus in Early Christian Commentary","authors":"A. Ferreiro","doi":"10.1163/9789047415466_011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789047415466_011","url":null,"abstract":"subsequent fall —the result of apostolic intervention— is the most frequently recalled apocryphal New Testament event in the art and literature of the Middle Ages, even in the Baroque era. The medieval reception of this apocryphal legend was derived both from the «Acts of Peter» (Acta Petri) and «The Passion of Peter and Paul» (Passio) and from the commentary of the Church Fathers of this episode. This article brings together the patristic exegesis of the Fall of Simon Magus to ascertain the reception of the apocryphal material and its pedagogical adaptation by the Church Fathers. It also identifies the major themes which the Church Fathers promoted through the use of the Fall of Simon Magus even though written across many centuries, from disparate geographical regions, and representing distinct ecclesial communities. Any discussion of Simon Magus in the patristic era must begin with Justin Martyr and his contemporaries of the second century. Justin says nothing about Simon Magus and Peter engaging in an all for nothing confrontation in the presence of Nero. He does, however, place Simon Magus in Rome where Simon astonished the crowds, the sacred [Roman] senate, and presumably","PeriodicalId":190993,"journal":{"name":"Simon Magus in Patristic, Medieval and Early Modern Traditions","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115853417","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pope Clement I, Martin of Tours and Simon Magus in the Cathedral of León, Spain","authors":"","doi":"10.1163/9789047415466_016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789047415466_016","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":190993,"journal":{"name":"Simon Magus in Patristic, Medieval and Early Modern Traditions","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115861250","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}