{"title":"8 The Cult of Thomas Aquinas’s Relics at the Dawn of the Dominican Reform and the Great Western Schism","authors":"M. Räsänen","doi":"10.1515/9789048537174-010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048537174-010","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter reconstructs the cultural and theological politics of the celebrations\u0000 of Thomas Aquinas’s translatio, looking closely at the liturgy used to\u0000 commemorate the day. It argues that the veneration of Aquinas’s relics, as\u0000 well as the masses said in his honor, enabled him to figure as a healer and\u0000 an agent of reform. Aquinas comes to be projected as an Avignon saint, in a\u0000 cult promulgated by Elias Raymundus of Toulouse. This chapter shows how\u0000 commemorative practices interwove to produce this reforming Avignon\u0000 saint, particularly looking at hagiography, ritual, and, the display of relics.","PeriodicalId":403884,"journal":{"name":"The Intellectual Dynamism of the High Middle Ages","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129915900","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":"9 Food for the Journey The Thirteenth-Century French Version of Guiard of Laon’s Sermon on the Twelve Fruits of the Eucharist","authors":"Jeanne B. Pinder","doi":"10.1515/9789048537174-011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048537174-011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":403884,"journal":{"name":"The Intellectual Dynamism of the High Middle Ages","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126004442","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 Invention of the French Royal Mistress","authors":"Tracy Adams","doi":"10.5117/9789462985933_ch15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5117/9789462985933_ch15","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter considers how classical ideas were transformed in the service\u0000 of legitimizing the mistress as a woman of authority. In particular, it\u0000 explores how the mythological figure of Diana was used in tableaux\u0000 and pageants to represent the mistress, and to authorize her location in\u0000 the court. The emergence of a mythological imaginary over the course\u0000 of the sixteenth century in France, which to some degree replaced the\u0000 identification of the royal family with the Holy Family, made space for\u0000 different types of authority, as well as valourizing carnality.","PeriodicalId":403884,"journal":{"name":"The Intellectual Dynamism of the High Middle Ages","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131762577","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":"In Praise of Women","authors":"C. James","doi":"10.5117/9789462985933_ch14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5117/9789462985933_ch14","url":null,"abstract":"Giovanni Sabadino degli Arienti’s Gynevera de le clare donne, a manuscript\u0000 collection of 31 female biographies, completed in early 1492, aimed to\u0000 defend, and even to normalize, the exercise of political authority by elite\u0000 women. Based loosely on Giovanni Boccaccio’s De mulieribus claris,\u0000 but written in Italian, not Latin, it departed radically from its model by\u0000 excluding women who had acquired notoriety through wickedness or been\u0000 undone by the supposedly innate failings of their sex. Instead, it focused\u0000 on those who had achieved worldly renown through remarkable, but\u0000 always virtuous, conduct. This essay analyzes the cultural and political\u0000 context of this text and why it found favor with women such as the young\u0000 Isabella d’Este, marchioness of Mantua.","PeriodicalId":403884,"journal":{"name":"The Intellectual Dynamism of the High Middle Ages","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133729617","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":"13 The Miroir des dames, the Chapelet des vertus, and Christine de Pizan’s Sources","authors":"Karen Green","doi":"10.1515/9789048537174-015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048537174-015","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter offers a reading of the Othea Epistre, an early work by Christine\u0000 de Pizan. It has been generally supposed that Christine was influenced\u0000 by a text called the Fleurs de toutes vertues, as the Othea seemingly borrows\u0000 a great deal from it. This chapter tests this assumption, widely accepted\u0000 in the scholarship, by questioning why it has generally been assumed\u0000 that the Fleurs predates the Othea. The chapter argues that there is little\u0000 evidence that the Fleurs predated Christine’s text. Instead, deploying\u0000 philological analysis, the chapter shows that it is much more likely that\u0000 the anonymous author of the Fleurs borrowed from the Othea.","PeriodicalId":403884,"journal":{"name":"The Intellectual Dynamism of the High Middle Ages","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130764986","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":"1 Carnal Compassion Peter Abelard’s Conflicted Approach to Empathy","authors":"J. Ruys","doi":"10.1515/9789048537174-003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048537174-003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":403884,"journal":{"name":"The Intellectual Dynamism of the High Middle Ages","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125049221","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":"Authority and Innovation in Bernard of Clairvaux ’s De gratia et libero arbitrio","authors":"M. Colish","doi":"10.5117/9789462985933_ch03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5117/9789462985933_ch03","url":null,"abstract":"Twelfth-century scholastics are renowned for their willingness to reassess\u0000 and to criticize patristic authorities, with monastic authors typically\u0000 understood as far more conservative in this regard. Bernard’s treatise\u0000 revises that view. It reflects Bernard’s willingness to depart sharply from\u0000 the late Augustine on grace and free will and to invoke a patristic-age\u0000 monastic authority, John Cassian, in so doing. Bernard’s own position,\u0000 accenting the liberty of our postlapsarian free will and its full collaboration\u0000 with divine grace, displays both his uses of, and departures from, these\u0000 two authorities.","PeriodicalId":403884,"journal":{"name":"The Intellectual Dynamism of the High Middle Ages","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125482663","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":"6 Dirty Laundry Thomas Becket’s Hair Shirt and the Making of a Saint","authors":"Karen Bollermann, C. Nederman","doi":"10.1515/9789048537174-008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048537174-008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":403884,"journal":{"name":"The Intellectual Dynamism of the High Middle Ages","volume":"97 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114507275","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":"14 In Praise of Women Giovanni Sabadino degli Arienti’s Gynevera de le clare donne","authors":"Carolyn James","doi":"10.1515/9789048537174-016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048537174-016","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":403884,"journal":{"name":"The Intellectual Dynamism of the High Middle Ages","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115199382","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":"Attuning to the Cosmos","authors":"Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides","doi":"10.2307/J.CTV1XG5H66.15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/J.CTV1XG5H66.15","url":null,"abstract":"The essay discusses music and silence as two important paradigms for\u0000 articulating spiritual progress in the Platonic corpus and its reception\u0000 by Neoplatonic and Christian thinkers. After examining the importance\u0000 of music in Plato’s theory of the soul, mainly in the Republic and the\u0000 Timaeus, I argue that he appreciated music as a spiritual awakening, as\u0000 preparation for the truth which is always experienced in deafening silence.\u0000 Proclus, a sensitive reader of Plato, and later thinkers such as Proclus and\u0000 Boethius, provided a secure path for the survival of Platonic ideas in the\u0000 West. Petrarch, a meticulous reader of Augustine, grappling with the same\u0000 Platonic notions that frustrated the fourth-century theologian, experiments\u0000 boldly with Platonic silence in the Secretum and his Rime Sparse.","PeriodicalId":403884,"journal":{"name":"The Intellectual Dynamism of the High Middle Ages","volume":"2016 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128052235","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}