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Autor:
David Aers
Publikováno v:
Religions, Vol 10, Iss 8, p 458 (2019)
Charity turns out to be the virtue which is both the root and the fruit of salvation in Langland’s Piers Plowman, a late fourteenth-century poem, the greatest theological poem in English. It takes time, suffering and error upon error for Wille, the
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https://doaj.org/article/f422305f38ba467a978b64d5bf83d1c4
Autor:
David Aers
Concepts of predestination and reprobation were central issues in the Protestant Reformation, especially within Calvinist churches, and thus have often been studied primarily in the historical context of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In Ve
Autor:
David Aers
In Beyond Reformation? An Essay on William Langland's Piers Plowman and the End of Constantinian Christianity, David Aers presents a sustained and profound close reading of the final version of William Langland's Piers Plowman, the most searching Chr
Autor:
David Aers
Publikováno v:
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies. 52:445-482
This essay argues that Calvinist versions of God and human redemption cannot be adequately grasped without studying the medieval traditions from which they emerged. Beginning with a close reading of Calvin's extremely violent understanding of the ato
Autor:
David Aers, Sarah Beckwith
Publikováno v:
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies. 52:407-413
The tradition of the virtues was the model for moral practice from Aristotle to Luther. This tradition framed practices of living well in relation to visions of the good, and in its later Christian version, of God. One became good through practice, j
Autor:
David Aers
Publikováno v:
The English Historical Review. 135:999-1003
Publikováno v:
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies. 50:293-321
Chronicles of fifteenth-century England teem with severed heads. Frequently, these texts focus less on the event of decapitation than on its enduring result: namely, the modified and adorned head of the deceased, spiked and exhibited in a prominent p
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies. 50:233-268
Saewulf’s Relatio de situ Jerusalem is one of the most significant yet understudied pilgrim texts of the twelfth century. Documenting the Jerusalem-bound traveler’s adventures through the medieval Mediterranean, the text is the first extant pilgr
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies. 50:377-402
This article addresses Lucy Hutchinson’s Order and Disorder, an epic, twenty-canto retelling of Genesis. Scholars have often considered Hutchinson’s poem an inferior version of Paradise Lost insofar as it does not transgress biblical narrative. A
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies. 50:323-347
Leonardo Bruni’s Dialogi ad Petrum Paulum Histrum has long been studied as a manifesto of the humanist divergence from medieval culture. This article reconsiders the role of Bruni’s Dialogi in the development of Italian humanism and especially in