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19 produkter
Lay Sanctity, Medieval and Modern
A Search for Models
Inbunden, 2000
1537 kr
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This volume of interdisciplinary essays focuses on the shifting points of intersection between the changing historical definitions of laity and sanctity. It features an examination of a series of individual lay "saints", in order to explore how these figures perceived their own lay status.
Lay Sanctity, Medieval and Modern
A Search for Models
Häftad, 2001
615 kr
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Inspired by Vatican II, which attributed a special apostolate to the laity and affirmed their calling to holiness, this volume of original essays focuses on the shifting points of intersection between changing historical definitions of laity and sanctity. Ann W. Astell and ten other scholars …
Sacrifice, Scripture, and Substitution
Readings in Ancient Judaism and Christianity
Av Ann W. Astell, Sandor Goodhart
Häftad, 2011
758 kr
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This collection of essays focuses on sacrifice in the context of Jewish and Christian scripture and is inspired by the thought and writings of René Girard. The contributors engage in a dialogue with Girard in their search for answers to key questions about the relation between religion and violence.
Joan of Arc and Sacrificial Authorship
Häftad, 2003
437 kr
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A host of modern authors have portrayed Joan of Arc as a heroine, telling her story as a way of commenting on their own situation in a world where the power of art has decreased. Astell argues that many authors have seen their own artistic vocation in the visions and voices that inspired Joan.
Saving Fear in Christian Spirituality
Inbunden, 2019
1033 kr
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Starting with the Bible itself, this collection of seventeen essays explores the place of holy fear in Christian spirituality from the early church to the present and argues that this fear is paradoxically linked in various ways to fear's seeming opposite, love.
Sacrifice, Scripture, and Substitution
Readings in Ancient Judaism and Christianity
Av Ann W. Astell, Sandor Goodhart
Inbunden, 2022
2265 kr
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This collection of essays focuses on sacrifice in the context of Jewish and Christian scripture and is inspired by the thought and writings of René Girard. The contributors engage in a dialogue with Girard in their search for answers to key questions about the relation between religion and …
Saint's Life and the Senses of Scripture
Hagiography As Exegesis
Inbunden, 2024
2605 kr
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Through close examination of ancient, medieval, and modern Lives of the saints, Ann W. Astell demonstrates how the historical transformation of hagiography as a genre correlates with similar changes in biblical studies.Christian hagiography flourished from the fourth to the fifteenth centuries, …
Saint's Life and the Senses of Scripture
Hagiography As Exegesis
Häftad, 2026
587 kr
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Through close examination of ancient, medieval, and modern Lives of the saints, Ann W. Astell demonstrates how the historical transformation of hagiography as a genre correlates with similar changes in biblical studies. Christian hagiography flourished from the fourth to the fifteenth centuries, …
Song of Songs in the Middle Ages
Inbunden, 1990
715 kr
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Included among the sacred books of Judaism and Christianity alike, the Song of Songs does not mention God at all; on the surface it is a lyrical exchange between unnamed lovers who articulate the range of emotions associated with sexual love. Ann W. Astell here examines medieval reader response, …
Chaucer and the Universe of Learning
Inbunden, 1996
1196 kr
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The order of the fragments making up the Canterbury Tales and the structure of that collection have long been questioned. Ann W. Astell proposes that Chaucer intended the order that is preserved in what is known as the Ellesmere manuscript. In supporting her claim, Astell reveals a wealth of …
Political Allegory in Late Medieval England
Inbunden, 1999
822 kr
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Ann W. Astell here affords a radically new understanding of the rhetorical nature of allegorical poetry in the late Middle Ages. She shows that major English writers of that era—among them, William Langland, John Gower, Geoffrey Chaucer, and the Gawain-poet—offered in their works of fiction timely …
Eating Beauty
The Eucharist and the Spiritual Arts of the Middle Ages
Inbunden, 2006
743 kr
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"The enigmatic link between the natural and artistic beauty that is to be contemplated but not eaten, on the one hand, and the eucharistic beauty that is both seen (with the eyes of faith) and eaten, on the other, intrigues me and inspires this book. One cannot ask theo-aesthetic questions about …
Song of Songs in the Middle Ages
Häftad, 1995
488 kr
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Included among the sacred books of Judaism and Christianity alike, the Song of Songs does not mention God at all; on the surface it is a lyrical exchange between unnamed lovers who articulate the range of emotions associated with sexual love. Ann W. Astell here examines medieval reader response, …
Three Pseudo-Bernardine Works
Av Ann W. Astell, Joseph Wawrykow
Häftad, 2018
374 kr
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During the "Silver Age" of the Cistercians (the late twelfth and thirteenth centuries), pseudepigraphical compositions bearing the name Bernard flourished. Important for the history of monasticism and, more broadly, of Christian spiritual formation and practice, these little-studied writings …
Liturgical Sermons
The Durham and Lincoln Collections, Sermons 47-84
Av Aelred of Rievaulx, Ann W. Astell
Häftad, 2019
650 kr
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Aelred, abbot of the Yorkshire Cistercian abbey of Rievaulx from 1147 to 1167, wrote six spiritual treatises, seven historical treatises, and 182 liturgical sermons, many of which he delivered as chapter talks to his monks. Translations of the first twenty-eight of these sermons appeared in CF 58 …
Three Pseudo-Bernardine Works
Av Joseph Wawrykow, Ann W. Astell
E-bok, 2018
428 kr
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During the "Silver Age" of the Cistercians (the late twelfth and thirteenth centuries), pseudepigraphical compositions bearing the name Bernard flourished. Important for the history of monasticism and, more broadly, of Christian spiritual formation and practice, these little-studied writings …
Eating Beauty
The Eucharist and the Spiritual Arts of the Middle Ages
Häftad, 2016
488 kr
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"The enigmatic link between the natural and artistic beauty that is to be contemplated but not eaten, on the one hand, and the eucharistic beauty that is both seen (with the eyes of faith) and eaten, on the other, intrigues me and inspires this book. One cannot ask theo-aesthetic questions about …
Job, Boethius, and Epic Truth
Häftad, 2019
317 kr
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Calling into question the common assumption that the Middle Ages produced no secondary epics, Ann W. Astell here revises a key chapter in literary history. She examines the connections between the Book of Job and Boethius' s Consolation of Philosophy—texts closely associated with each other in the …
Magistra Doctissima
Essays in Honor of Bonnie Wheeler
Av Dorsey Armstrong, Ann W. Astell m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
382 kr
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The editors of this volume use its title to honor Bonnie Wheeler for her many scholarly achievements and to celebrate her wide-ranging contributions to medieval studies in the United States. There are sections on Old and Middle English Literature, Arthuriana Then and Now, Joan of Arc Then and Now, …
