Scholarship of the past few decades has succeeded in questioning the wholly objective status typically attributed to the terms of religious affiliation common in early modern England. This is not to s
This book reprints Virginia Brown's five lists of recently discovered Beneventan manuscript items, which first appeared in the journal "Mediaeval Studies." A preface and comprehensive indexes compiled
Henry, archdeacon of Huntingdon, England (ca 1088-ca 1154) has been admired for centuries as the author of the monumental "Historia Anglorum." The recent discovery of the "Anglicanus ortus" opens a ne
The need for an educated parochial clergy had been seen from early times and during the Middle Ages was articulated by popes, councils and generations of canonists. Uneducated parish priests, it was f
In the theological landscape of the later twelfth and early thirteenth centuries, Peter Comestor?s Historia scholastica stands out as a conspicuous yet strangely overlooked landmark. Like the Sentence
A common refrain in twelfth-century thought is that God alone knows the secrets of the heart. Originating in Scripture, the principle was elaborated exegetically to imply two distinct domains: one of
This book seeks to fill an important gap in our knowledge of painting in fifteenth-century France. Focusing on the work of ?the Master of Morgan 453,? an accomplished, if unnamed, manuscript illuminat
The later Middle Ages was a time of profound connection between the spheres of bureaucracy and art. By discussing the two together, this book argues that art-historical methods offer an important cont
