...David G. Hunter © by Duke University Press 2003 Rereading the Jovinianist Controversy: Asceticism and Clerical Authority in Late Ancient Christianity...

... reexamines Book to a Mother 's adaptation of allegories of the cloister and its transformation of clerical practices of reading alongside lollard polemical writings that also sidestep priestly authority and institutional religion in Christian life. Although Book 's use of polemical discourse has been...

... earlier centuries. Scrutinizing sources for the earliest burnings of heretics and witches up to the eleventh century shows that these burnings were mere lynchings and not the outcome of juridical processes administered by secular or clerical authorities. Not until the twelfth century did authorities...

... not be more different from Thomas, a representative of male apostolic and clerical authority in spite of his proverbial doubt. What is more, the textual sources of their stories are far from being equally authoritative; while the apostle Thomas appears in the Gospel of John, Mary s midwife Salome appears...

... ritual clerical authority This article starts with the idea that the body was the site where religion was experienced, and the body affected the way religion was felt and practiced. Drawing inspiration from American sociologists of religion like Nancy Ammerman, Robert Orsi, and Meredith McGuire, I...

..., writing new catechisms, biblical commentaries, guides to holy living and dying, and even religious broadsides, all of which were central to the contemporary book market. 73 Around 1600, there were at least fifteen published clerical authors in Suffolk alone, a county that contained only about three...

... with the devil demonstrate that she requires no external confessor to determine that her visions are inspired by God. This would have been an especially important tactic for defending the vitae themselves from later accusations that they were not appropriately vetted by clerical authorities. In her Liber...

... practices with those more clerically authorized and more emotionally contained. Such a reading would especially mesh with the assumption of clerical author- ship, suggesting a late medieval debate about modes of devotional practice 330  Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 46.2 / 2016...

... in vernacular adaptations of Latin, clerical-­authored devotional texts for laypeople.6 The Livre also bears wit- ness to the assimilation of what we might think of as specialized medical knowledge by literate laypeople and to the powerful possibilities for active self-­shaping inherent in later medieval...

... of visions from God in an embodied fashion. Before considering how Julian responds to the suspicious techniques developed to interpret women's visions and bodies, however, let us first turn to what authorizes these tactics: the judgments of clerics and the meaning assigned to the devil in the trials...

... are invested with strik- ing authority, autonomy, and liturgical agency. In this respect, we might see them as figuring an orthodox claim not only for the propriety of the material stuff of liturgy, but also for the genuine grace-­filled character of liturgical objects and their clerical handlers...

... as a means of gaining fiscal and political power over the Scottish kingdom. The female bodies are simply the most memorable effects produced by this agenda, as the women of Scot- land react against this clerical abuse and the misogynist behavior it provokes from the nation’s men...

... an ancient authority parallel the increase in clerical authority brought about by Caroline and Laudian ecclesiastical policies—which raises the third controversial ques- tion about discipline, its relation to hierarchy. According to Julian Davies, Carolinism...

..., and Latin Europe: changes in educational structures and hence in the social repro- duction of the clerical elite in question and the relationship of its members to the family and the state, including the centralization of authority, secu- lar and spiritual. The impact of these changes on the relationship...

... of Dionysius made him a contested authority in Thomas's time, and in his battles with secular clergy the Dominican theologian shows himself a more careful interpreter of the pseudo‐Areopagite than his contemporaries, who purported to defend hierarchy against the mendicants. This study presents the reading...

... that the author of the Gesta Francorum presents? The Gesta author and these three authors who reference his text all wrote within a few years of each other, and all four seem to have clerical training. The most obvious point of difference lies in their regional background. The authors of the three other...

... that conferred the power to conse- crate and absolve, which authorized the clerical monopoly over the minis- tering of sacramental life and the cure of souls. In common with its aristocratic and colonial counterparts, ecclesiastical power was structured as a matrix...

... that guaranteed the authority of those very garments. This article investigates Durandus's delicate (and sometimes not so delicate) handling of these discrepancies with an eye toward the larger theoretical questions involved when material objects, and especially clothes, are used to convey material transcendence...

... in which the authors read the main altarpiece. As we saw, there narrative is allegedly the repressed supplement which the New Historicists pull into the light, the “story ‘behind’ Joos van Gent’s represented ritual” (88). There we have a production allegedly for “the clerical elite” (90) associated...

... of compilation is itself an instance of reception, an active, authorizing mode of reading that “compel[s] texts to change their meanings.”10 Moreover, as Arthur Bahr argues, compilation invites a par- ticular interpretive stance from subsequent readers. Compilation is at once material and “perspectival...