{"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":null,"pages":null},"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":null,"pages":null},"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}
{"title":"Sacred Sisters: Gender, Sanctity and Power in Medieval Ireland by Maeve Callan (review)","authors":"Chelsey Collins","doi":"10.5325/jmedirelicult.48.2.0252","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jmedirelicult.48.2.0252","url":null,"abstract":"Maeve Callan’s Sacred Sisters: Gender, Sanctity, and Power in Medieval Ireland, like many of her works, aims to be accessible to a general audience interested in gender and early Irish history and so navigates the line between academic and popular history. For the scholar, much of the value of Sacred Sisters lies in its study of neglected female saints such as Moninne, Samthann, and Íte, who were likely much more prominent in medieval Ireland than surviving evidence would suggest and who have long needed investigation. For future academic writing on these saints, Callan’s work will undoubtedly be the starting point, and she has collected sometimes scant source material into a single place, particularly for saints like Gobniat who lack hagiography altogether. Similarly, Callan has collected the lives of the initial saints Moninne, Brigid, Íte, and Samthann in her Appendix B, and though none are newly translated, they are usefully gathered for future scholarship (much of the material can also be accessed in The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing, Volume IV: Irish Women’s Writings and Traditions, ed. Bourke et al. [Cork University Press, 2002]).","PeriodicalId":40395,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46135264","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 International Contribution to the Study of Jacopone da Todi","authors":"Claudio Peri, A. Halpin","doi":"10.5325/jmedirelicult.48.2.0205","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jmedirelicult.48.2.0205","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:This article lists 113 bibliographic references from the last 110 years, of books and other critical works on Jacopone da Todi, published in languages other than Italian and/or in countries other than Italy. This research is part of a larger project to create an international database of all publications concerning Jacopone. The specific purpose of the article is to revisit and update comments made by Louise Katainen in 1996, asserting that Italian scholars had neglected contributions in English on Jacopone and that this had resulted in an \"impoverished understanding\" of the great poet and mystic of Todi.","PeriodicalId":40395,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46569928","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":"Chaucer's Prayers: Writing Christian and Pagan Devotion","authors":"Antje Elisa Chan","doi":"10.5325/jmedirelicult.48.1.0099","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jmedirelicult.48.1.0099","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40395,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42330839","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":"Pearl and Aquinas: Rival Models for Transforming Grief","authors":"Sheryl Overmyer","doi":"10.5325/jmedirelicult.48.1.0068","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jmedirelicult.48.1.0068","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:This article compares the Pearl and Thomas Aquinas on emotions, will, reason, and the character of the virtues. I focus on the figure of the Jeweler, who in his struggle with grief and longyng, foregoes the high-medieval understanding of moral transformation found in Thomas. Pearl and Aquinas fashion distinct models of emotion, which differ on notions of desire, intellect, habituation, and practices. Ultimately, I demur from newer Pearl studies that tie the poem’s theological and moral debts to Thomas and orthodox versions of pre-Reformation Catholicism, arguing instead that Pearl occupies a unique place in the late-medieval history of emotion.","PeriodicalId":40395,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42636758","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":"Biblical Commentary and Translation in Later Medieval England: Experiments in Interpretation","authors":"Audrey Southgate","doi":"10.5325/jmedirelicult.48.1.0096","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jmedirelicult.48.1.0096","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40395,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46970621","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":"Supersession and Conversion: The Adversus Judaeos Liturgical Dramas of Saint-Martial de Limoges","authors":"Regula Meyer Evitt","doi":"10.5325/jmedirelicult.48.1.0021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jmedirelicult.48.1.0021","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:The adversus Judaeos tropes deeply embedded in the Saint-Martial de Limoges liturgical dramas in BN lat.1139 recommend radical ways of rethinking the organizing concepts that might inform this collection of devotional performances. Early eleventh-century liturgical records from Saint-Martial de Limoges demonstrate profound tensions between apocalyptic and eschatological thinking. Millenarian anxieties combine with news of the 1009 ce Muslim destruction of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem to inspire unusual levels of antagonism toward the contemporary Jewish community in Limoges, including retrospective historical narratives by Christian clerics Rodulfus Glaber and Ademar of Chabannes of forced conversions, exile, and death as tools used to disperse Limoges’s Jewish community after purported exegetical debates in 1010 ce. The Limoges liturgical dramas manifest these tensions between Christian apocalyptic and eschatological thinking, collectively reflecting a shared Christian cultural commitment to supersessionist representations of Jews and Judaism as end-of-time witnesses at the Christian Eschaton.","PeriodicalId":40395,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70849788","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":"Conversion, Circumcision, and Ritual Murder in Medieval Europe by Paola Tartakoff (review)","authors":"T. Izbicki","doi":"10.5325/jmedirelicult.48.1.0108","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jmedirelicult.48.1.0108","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40395,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43115886","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 Bible and Crusade Narrative in the Twelfth Century by Katherine Allen Smith (review)","authors":"Phyllis G. Jestice","doi":"10.5325/jmedirelicult.48.1.0105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jmedirelicult.48.1.0105","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40395,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42398876","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}