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{"title":"Veterum vestigia patrum: The Greek Patriarchs in the Manuscript Culture of Early Medieval Europe","authors":"S. Bruce","doi":"10.1177/0012580621994704","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0012580621994704","url":null,"abstract":"This article draws attention to the availability of Latin translations of Greek patristic literature in western reading communities before the year 800 through a survey of the contents of hundreds of surviving manuscripts from the Merovingian and Carolingian periods. An examination of the presence of the translated works of eastern church fathers in the 8th-century florilegium known as The Book of Sparks (Liber scintillarum) and monastic library catalogs from the early 9th century corroborates the impression left by the manuscript evidence. Taken together, these sources allow us to gauge the popularity of particular eastern authors among Latin readers in early medieval Europe and to weigh the influence and importance of Greek patristics in the western monastic tradition.","PeriodicalId":443619,"journal":{"name":"The Downside Review","volume":"114 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128137430","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":"Guest Editor’s Preface","authors":"B. Pohl","doi":"10.1177/0012580621995692","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0012580621995692","url":null,"abstract":"This special issue forms a capstone for the collaborative research project ‘History for the Community: Monk-Historians and Communal Heritage’ funded by the British Academy (MD19190021) and conducted by myself (Dr Benjamin Pohl, University of Bristol, principal investigator) and the monastic community of Downside Abbey over a 15-month period in 2019–2021. The project capitalised on the renewed public and scholarly interest in the history and communal heritage of monasticism in its various forms seen in recent years, both in the United Kingdom and internationally, through an innovative, engagement-led approach for studying examples of historical writing, thought and identity in monastic communities from the Middle Ages to the present day. The aim was to showcase these communities as centres of historical activity where cultural knowledge has been collected, curated and preserved for centuries in ways that are of interest not only to the global academic community but also equally to the general public. Downside Abbey proved an invaluable and ideally placed partner in this project with its well-established roots in both public and scholarly culture, particularly (though by no means exclusively) in the Southwest region and Bristol’s surroundings. Drawing on these important relationships and institutional partnerships – most recently, the Centre for Monastic Heritage between Downside Abbey and the University of Bristol with its Centre for Medieval Studies (https://www.bristol.ac.uk/arts/research/centres/medieval/) – we successfully launched a year-long programme of collaborative activities and events attracting substantial audiences from academic and non-academic backgrounds alike. Besides public talks and workshops held at Downside Abbey, the Faculty of Theology in Fulda (where I was awarded a Gangolf Schrimpf Visiting Fellowship at the Bibliotheca Fuldensis project: https://www.bibliotheca-fuldensis.de/) and, following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in the spring of 2020, in virtual format, the project brought these audiences into dialogue through the online exhibition ‘History & Community: 20 Exhibits from Downside Abbey’ (http://www.historyandcommunity.com/). Featuring 20 carefully curated exhibits from Downside’s heritage collections selected and prepared","PeriodicalId":443619,"journal":{"name":"The Downside Review","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128824083","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":"Visions of Heaven and Hell: A Monastic Literature","authors":"E. Gardiner","doi":"10.1177/0012580621997061","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0012580621997061","url":null,"abstract":"Medieval otherworld visions comprise a monastic genre: monks almost universally recur as either visionaries, vision scribes or both. With this in mind, the intention of this article is to interrogate the authorial and narrative intent of these monastic visions to determine whether the audience originally addressed and the concerns expressed could be located exclusively within the monastic enclosure. After examining 36 monastic visions dating from the late 6th to the early 13th century, ranging geographically from Ireland to Italy, it emerges that while many visions specifically addressed monks, nuns, abbots and abbesses about their actions in this life and destinies in the next, many also focused on life outside the monastery.","PeriodicalId":443619,"journal":{"name":"The Downside Review","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132996074","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":"History and Hagiography: The Vita Sancti Servani and the Foundation of Culross Abbey","authors":"V. Hodgson","doi":"10.1177/0012580621996135","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0012580621996135","url":null,"abstract":"The Cistercian abbey of Culross was founded in 1217 on the site of an earlier church known locally to have been established by St Serf. This heritage was successfully appropriated by the new abbey through the adoption of the cult. As successors to the saint and his church, the monks were entitled to inherit their patron’s landed territories, but much of this property seems to have been in other hands. A comparison of the earliest landed endowment of Culross Abbey with the cult landscape presented by the Vita Sancti Servani reveals that certain alienated properties appear to have been reclaimed on this basis. For this reason, the Vita must be understood as a piece of history writing: it recorded past events as they were known locally to have occurred. The Vita is our window into what that version of history was.","PeriodicalId":443619,"journal":{"name":"The Downside Review","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132384453","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":"History, Memory and Community in Cistercian Normandy (12th–13th Centuries)","authors":"Richard Allen","doi":"10.1177/0012580621995456","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0012580621995456","url":null,"abstract":"While the textual production of Normandy’s Cistercian abbeys has not lacked for scholarly attention, a detailed study of Cistercian historical writing in the duchy remains to be written. This article looks in small part to fill this historiographical gap by examining those historical works produced in and copied by the Cistercian abbeys of Normandy between the beginning of the 12th and the end of the 13th centuries. In doing so, it aims to shed new light on the sorts of historical texts copied or written by Normandy’s White Monks. It contextualises these works within the historiographical culture of both the duchy itself and the wider Cistercian world, and shows how the Cistercians of Normandy played a distinctive role in the transmission of key historical texts, among them the universal chronicle of Sigebert of Gembloux (c. 1030–1112) and Einhard’s Vita Karoli Magni. It includes a ‘reconstruction’ of the so-called Chronicon Gofferni.","PeriodicalId":443619,"journal":{"name":"The Downside Review","volume":"73 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127638139","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":"They Lived Under That Rule as Do Those Who Have Succeeded Them: Simultaneity and Conflict in the Foundation Narratives of a French Women’s Convent (10th–18th Centuries)","authors":"S. Vanderputten","doi":"10.1177/0012580620963834","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0012580620963834","url":null,"abstract":"While foundation accounts of medieval religious institutions have been the focus of intense scholarly interest for decades, so far there has been comparatively little interest in how successive versions related to each other in the perception of medieval and early modern observers. This essay considers that question via a case study of three such narratives about the 930s creation of Bouxières Abbey, a convent of women religious in France’s eastern region of Lorraine. At the heart of its argument stands the hypothesis that these conflicting narratives of origins were allowed to coexist in the memory culture of this small convent because they related to different arguments in its identity narrative. As such, it hopes to contribute to an ill-understood aspect of foundation narratives as a literary genre and a memorial practice in religious communities, with particular attention to long-term developments.","PeriodicalId":443619,"journal":{"name":"The Downside Review","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115839467","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":"Book Review: Thomas Merton, A Course in Desert Spirituality. Fifteen Sessions with the Famous Trappist Monk","authors":"D. A. Brumwell","doi":"10.1177/0012580620980846","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0012580620980846","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":443619,"journal":{"name":"The Downside Review","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128368358","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":"Book Review: Louis Roy, Embracing Desire","authors":"J. Melling","doi":"10.1177/0012580620980848","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0012580620980848","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":443619,"journal":{"name":"The Downside Review","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116968844","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":"Book Review: Tim Perry, The Theology of Benedict XVI. A Protestant Appreciation","authors":"D. A. Brumwell","doi":"10.1177/0012580620980851","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0012580620980851","url":null,"abstract":"the reader wishes to follow up the references and read further. The mysteries take the reader through the principal events of Christ’s life, including Pentecost and the Parousia, and many of these chapters are truly excellent. The chapters on the Annunciation and Birth are especially good and the chapter on the Resurrection is surprisingly short. Throughout these chapters, Nichols places great emphasis on the historicity of the events being relayed, but without losing sight of the deeper meaning. This is particularly evident in the chapter on the Transfiguration. The mountain is traditionally identified with Mount Tabor, but Nichols accepts Bargil Pixner’s conclusion that Mount Hermon is a more likely site. This short yet densely packed book is well worth reading, but it is a pity that it is so expensive. At US$85, very few readers will feel able to justify the expense of buying this book, and even many institutional libraries will think twice. Perhaps a paperback edition will be published later at a more reasonable price.","PeriodicalId":443619,"journal":{"name":"The Downside Review","volume":"19 20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131620133","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":"Book Review: Aidan Nichols OP, Deep Mysteries: God, Christ, and Ourselves","authors":"D. A. Brumwell","doi":"10.1177/0012580620980847","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0012580620980847","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":443619,"journal":{"name":"The Downside Review","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121064296","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}