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... often confined their work to individual case studies of politico-economic history. 3 The few overviews of contacts between the English and Greek churches occur mostly within works on Orthodox-Anglican dialogue; however, such works leave aside both the role of English Catholicism and the broader...

... not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. English Reformation philological and theological scholarship Jewish sources Arabic sources Greek Orthodox sources The geography of Reformation England used to be clearly defined, if not self-evident. It stood in stark contrast to the wider spread...

... that the Romanian voivodes and their subjects were Greek Orthodox all along, and that they struggled to enforce Orthodoxy in a process that complemented the emancipation and liberation of the territory. In developing a methodology to investigate conversion in fourteenth- century Wallachia...

... work consisting of three dialogues between an orthodox and an opponent expressing a variety of heretical positions, each dialogue with a orilegium attached of passages adduced to support the orthodox position. 46 Scholars have naturally been interested in the nature and source of the citations...

..., as already mentioned, Ivan III sent to Alexander a gold cross with inscriptions of saints. This cross, which is usually the only gift mentioned in other sources, likely was a cross of the Orthodox style, with three bars and iconographic depictions of saints — a form that was probably very alien...

... of Christ in each and every eucharistic host becomes the one means for the individual worshipper of conjoining times that otherwise increasingly divide. The Orthodox sense, by contrast, is hierarchi- cal. Whenever the liturgy is said on earth it is said simultaneously in heaven...

... of the leading intellectuals of his day. Indeed, Gregory, later honored as “the Theologian,” is one of the most widely read and most inuential authors of Byzantium, one of the three “Hierarchs” of the Orthodox Churches (with Basil of Caesarea and John Chrysostom), and a quintessential “Father...

... and venerable gold icon of the Theotokos, holding the Son whom she was most blessed to bear.” 8 On the other hand, our single extant Greek account scripted by the prodigious polymath, Michael Psellos, touches on the veil while also noting a change in the icon of the Theotokos without describing the latter...

... into imperial Chris- tian identity. In 415, a priest named Lucianus from the suburbs of Jerusalem had visions that supposedly led him to discover the bones of Stephen the first martyr.33 While he recorded his tale in Greek, we have extant two roughly contemporary Latin translations, designed to “travel...

... the Mediterranean rose and fell over the long term with the regimes that grew, clashed, and ulti- mately collapsed along its shores. Fledgling empires fueled their growth with captives taken in the process of conquest: whether Greek, Roman, Arab, or Turk, their cyclical quests for dominance both depended...

... to the courts of Muslim and Greek Orthodox rulers. The cosmopolitan potential of chivalry finds its limit in Tafur’s writing about Constantinople. Marked by circumspection about the kinds of cross-cultural and interfaith exchanges that characterized Mediterranean courts, the Andanças ’ treatment of Greek...

... of Bethlehem were the only important shrines that the Franks found in working order. Most of the other churches were in ruins: this was true of most of the churches outside the walls of Jerusa- lem and of the Orthodox cathedral of Nazareth. 68 The Relatio reflects such destruction, reporting how the Greek...

... The book's journey from the excitable (and exciting) world of millenarian Christians in the Civil War to the study of one high church orthodox (and ostensibly less exciting) scholar has much to teach us about how Jewish texts were read and valued in late seventeenth-century England, and the crucial part...

... guidebooks; more common is evidence for purchasing souvenirs from the holy sites. Records suggest that pilgrims overwhelmingly preferred to rely on the oral, performative experience offered by local tour guides, either Fran- ciscans, local Greek Orthodox Christians, or Palestinian Jews and Muslims. That said...

... Notre Dame, Indiana Near the end of John Milton’s brief epic, Paradise Regained, the Son of God emphatically dismisses Satan’s offer of the wisdom of classical Greek philosophers: Alas what can they teach, and not mislead; Ignorant of themselves, of God much more...

... Sugg / Flame into Being  143 experience, and one which for many survived William Harvey’s assertion of the circulation of the blood.11 Just where, though, did the spirits end and the soul begin? The fine- ness of that line is already indicated by the relatively orthodox description...

..., George E., and Aristotle Papanikolaou, eds. Orthodox Readings of Augustine . Orthodox Christianity and Contemporary Thought. New York: Fordham University Press, 2020. 314 pp. Paperback. Del Soldato, Eva. Early Modern Aristotle: On the Making and Unmaking of Authority . Philadelphia: University...

... (see fig. 3). His commentary is drawn from other authorities, typically patristic (Latin fathers much more than Greek) and scholastic: Augustine, Gregory, Leo, and especially Thomas Aquinas. On the very first page, five out of five glosses are credited to “St. Thom[as all of which can...

.... Render unto the Sultan: Power, Authority, and the Greek Orthodox Church in the Early Ottoman Centuries. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. xv, 256 pp.; 9 figs., 2 tables. $99.00. Peers, Glenn, ed. Byzantine Things in the World. Houston: The Menil Col- lection, 2013. 191 pp.; 100 color plates...

..., the two modes collide when a vaguely identified coalition of Greek princes commission Agamem- non’s son Orestes to persuade Achilles’s son Pyrrhus to surrender Hector’s son Astyanax to them so that they might kill him and obliterate the last traces of Trojan royalty. In this play about sons...