If material bodies have inherent, animating powers—or virtues, in the premodern sense—
then those bodies typically and most insistently associated in the premodern period with …

This book explores the ways in which theologians at the early University of Paris promoted
the development of this new centre of education into a prominent institution within late …

Modern hegemonic masculinity often entails a focus on the past, a longing for an imagined
time when men had more authority and power. I argue that this orientation toward the past …

The medieval Church's concern with moral reform contributed to the emergence of a genre
of literature in the thirteenth century dedicated to the vices and virtues. Inspired by monastic …

This brief, popular work on confession, here for convenience abbreviated as QC, is ascribed
to Robert Grosseteste (ca. 1168–1253), bishop of Lincoln (1235–53), in most of the known …

The Rolle materials here rank among the seven or eight most extensive collections of the
hermit's Latin. 2 Moreover, these materials are largely fo-cused upon Rolle's larger and …

This paper argues that Aubrey Gwynn's attribution of the Latin treatise De tribus habitaculis
animae to Patrick, bishop of Dublin (d. 1084), is based on flawed argumentation. The …

This paper is a detailed study of a unique vernacular Lord's Prayer from a thirteenth-century
manuscript from Pavia, Bibliotheca Universitaria MS Aldini 69. The text is an interesting …

The central argument of this thesis is that Rolle's major works were written and disseminated
in the context of Rolle's own pastoral ministry, that they are embedded in traditional literature …

El manuscrito 5 de la Biblioteca de la Shrewsbury School contiene una de las trece copias
independientes de los libros V y VI del Speculum doctrinale de Vicente de Beauvais. Este …