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The transmission of Boethius' de consolatione Philosophiae in the Carolingian age.(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2009; ... The question of the transmission of Boethius' De consolatione Philosophiae (c.524) has given rise to more than one fascinating--but not always irrefutable--theory. There is nonetheless something of a consensus among Boethian scholars, who regard Alcuin (735-804) as the providential figure ...
The creation grove in the Cosmographia of Bernard Silvestris.(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2009; ... The twelfth-century Cosmographia of Bernard Silvestris is an allegorical treatise on the formation of the cosmos and man by a family of goddess figures, whose creative activities are narrated across alternating chapters of verse and prose. The form and content of the work are primarily ...
Rhetoric, narrative, and conceptions of history in the French prose Brut.(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Scholars writing about the Prose Brut used to be concerned mainly with the value of its various continuations as a primary source for later medieval English history. (1) 'Even historians of historical literature', remarks John Gillingham, 'have tended to study the Brut primarily as ...
Disputations, literary and inquisitorial: the conversion of the heretic Sicart of Figueiras.(Report)
Mar 22, 2009; ... One of the most striking aspects of the medieval Inquisition is how few Catholic voices spoke out against it. Around 1048, before the creation of the Inquisition, Wazo, the Bishop of Liege, had urged his fellow ecclesiastics to show forbearance with heretics, reminding them that God 'non ...
Mixing languages on the manor.(Report)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Multilingualism in medieval England Medieval multilingualism in England has become a significant subject of study in recent years. (1) Much more is now known about the linguistic multi-competence displayed by language users in England, depending on textual type and function, in ...