M. Callan, M. Starzynski, Anna Zajchowska-Bołtromiuk, Thomas J. Millay, Antje Elisa Chan, Alicia Smith, Hope Doherty-Harrison, Nicola Estrafallaces, Moa Airijoki, A. Kraebel, Stacie Vos, Shannon Godlove, Nikolas O Hoel, Minji Lee
{"title":"\"A Savage and Sacrilegious Race, Hostile to God and Humanity\": Religion, Racism, and Ireland's Colonization","authors":"M. Callan, M. Starzynski, Anna Zajchowska-Bołtromiuk, Thomas J. Millay, Antje Elisa Chan, Alicia Smith, Hope Doherty-Harrison, Nicola Estrafallaces, Moa Airijoki, A. Kraebel, Stacie Vos, Shannon Godlove, Nikolas O Hoel, Minji Lee","doi":"10.5325/jmedirelicult.49.1.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jmedirelicult.49.1.0001","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:Though the Irish became Christian in the fifth century and had helped spread Christianity throughout Britain and the Continent since the sixth, when England's Norman nobility set imperialist eyes upon Ireland in the twelfth century, the papacy pronounced the Irish fallen from the faith, otherizing them to justify their invasion. The imperialist colonialism that the English imposed on Africa, Asia, Australia, and the Americas, they imposed on their neighbors first, where physical characteristics couldn't provide as convenient an excuse; instead, they made religion the pretext for their racism, even though all involved were Catholics and the Irish had been since long before their colonizers' conversion.","PeriodicalId":40395,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures","volume":"49 1","pages":"1 - 115 - 116 - 119 - 119 - 122 - 122 - 124 - 125 - 127 - 128 - 132 - 132 - 135 - 135 - 140 - 140 -"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48810525","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 Saint of the Time of the Plague—Szymon of Lipnica OFM († 1482) and his Liber Miraculorum: An Example of the Late-Medieval Polish Collection of Miracles","authors":"M. Starzynski, Anna Zajchowska-Bołtromiuk","doi":"10.5325/jmedirelicult.49.1.0028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jmedirelicult.49.1.0028","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:Simon of Lipnica, who died in 1482, was counted among the blessed in 1685, has been a saint of the Catholic Church since 2007, and was a Franciscan Observant associated with the priory founded by Johannes of Capestrano in the suburb of Krakow, is one of the not fully recognized figures building the image of Polish religious culture. After his death, a \"miracle office\" was established in the Bernardine priory, where miraculous events through the intercession of Simon were recorded meticulously on an ongoing basis. In this way, the largest Polish late-medieval collection de miraculis was created. Drawing from the new critical edition, this article presents this monument not only in the context of the first years of Simon's \"miracle office\" but also in the context of the development of the miraculum as a literary genre.","PeriodicalId":40395,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures","volume":"49 1","pages":"28 - 47"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43637872","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 Enclosed Garden and the Medieval Religious Imaginary by Liz Herbert McAvoy (review)","authors":"Laura Moncion","doi":"10.5325/jmedirelicult.48.2.0261","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jmedirelicult.48.2.0261","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40395,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures","volume":"48 1","pages":"261 - 263"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49100918","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":"Holy Instruction, Demonic Deceit, and the Body: A Translation of Jean Gerson's Sermon on Angels (Collatio de Angelis)","authors":"Andrew Fogleman","doi":"10.5325/jmedirelicult.48.2.0147","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jmedirelicult.48.2.0147","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:Jean Gerson (1363–1429), theologian and chancellor of the University of Paris, is well known for his writings on the \"discernment of spirits.\" Gerson's Sermon on Angels (1392), translated here, provides his earliest thoughts on judging the supernatural. In it, Gerson explains how angels instruct and demons seduce the cognitive faculties of men and women. The related challenges of authenticating true religious visions and exposing demonic or naturalistic fakes led Gerson to doubt some would-be visionaries and even question the role of visionary evidence in canonization trials. While these doubts are also articulated in his later, better-known treatises on discernment, he describes how he came to those conclusions here, in an exploration of the physiology of visions and demonic deception. Gerson's sermon highlights the delicate role that cognition plays in assessing supernatural experiences and helps to explain the criticisms of ascetic practices included in his later treatises on spiritual discernment.","PeriodicalId":40395,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures","volume":"48 1","pages":"147 - 177"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43078828","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":"Denying Sameness, Making Race: Medieval Anti-judaism","authors":"Samantha Katz Seal","doi":"10.5325/jmedirelicult.48.2.0243","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jmedirelicult.48.2.0243","url":null,"abstract":"In the Middle English romance The King of Tars, a Muslim sultan’s skin color famously transforms upon his conversion to Christianity. “His hide that blac and lothely was / Al white bicom thurth Godes gras.” Much has been written about the racial fantasy thus enacted within the poem, but in the contexts of this essay, I’m particularly struck not by the transformation itself but rather by its utility as a visual sign. For when the Sultan’s Christian wife beholds his new appearance, “wist sche wele in hir thought / on Mahoun leved he nought / For chaunged was his hewe.” In other words, the Sultan’s skin color becomes a semiotic display of the authenticity of his review essay","PeriodicalId":40395,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures","volume":"48 1","pages":"243 - 251"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47567075","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":"Passion Relics and the Medieval Imagination: Art, Architecture, and Society by Cynthia Hahn (review)","authors":"Johanna Pollick","doi":"10.5325/jmedirelicult.48.2.0255","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jmedirelicult.48.2.0255","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40395,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures","volume":"48 1","pages":"255 - 257"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41856640","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":"Rebel Angels: Space and Sovereignty in Anglo-Saxon England","authors":"M. Leake","doi":"10.5325/jmedirelicult.48.2.0266","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jmedirelicult.48.2.0266","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40395,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47526586","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":"English Nuns with a Continental Vision: The Adaptation of a Revelation of Six Psalms for Hampole Priory","authors":"Clarck Drieshen","doi":"10.5325/jmedirelicult.48.2.0178","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jmedirelicult.48.2.0178","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:A unique fifteenth-century Middle English visionary account survives about a nun of Hampole Priory who saves the soul of her deceased brother. Scholars have long considered it an authentic narrative from Hampole Priory. Yet, near-identical texts in Dutch and German manuscripts suggest that it is a translation of a Continental source instead. My analysis shows that while the Continental versions were designed for female religious readers, the English version was adapted for a lay audience. I argue that Hampole Priory used the reworked narrative to promote its intercessory prayers among and attract donations from lay benefactors.","PeriodicalId":40395,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures","volume":"48 1","pages":"178 - 204"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49420520","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":"Reading the Old Norse-Icelandic \"Maríu saga\" in Its Manuscript Contexts by Daniel C. Najork (review)","authors":"S. Eriksen","doi":"10.5325/jmedirelicult.48.2.0264","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jmedirelicult.48.2.0264","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40395,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures","volume":"48 1","pages":"264 - 266"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45702520","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":"A Little Treatise Against Fleshly Affections: Edited from London, British Library, MS Royal 17 C XVIII","authors":"Ana Rita Parreiras Reis","doi":"10.5325/jmedirelicult.48.2.0113","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jmedirelicult.48.2.0113","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The aim of this article is to introduce an anonymous late fifteenth-century treatise of religious guidance, A Little Treatise Against Fleshly Affections. Presently edited for the first time from London, British Library, MS Royal 17 C xviii, this short Middle English treatise was devised as a tool of diagnosis, prevention, and cure for individuals troubled by feelings of inordinate carnal love. Alongside the text itself and formal editorial considerations, the present edition offers a discussion of the treatise’s textual relationship with David of Augsburg’s De exterioris et interioris hominis compositione and its potential origin and relation to Syon Abbey, as well as its intended audiences.","PeriodicalId":40395,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46070847","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}