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... those questions the author examines the special character and critical tensions of Carolingian monasticism and why the monk chose the lives and sayings of the desert fathers to copy while on campaign. From a single sentence in an obscure manuscript, a world of associations and connections opens...

...James E. Goehring © by Duke University Press 2003 The Dark Side of Landscape: Ideology and Power in the Christian Myth of the Desert James E. Goehring...

... of Lamentations. © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 a Tears in the Desert: Baroque Adaptations of the Book of Lamentations by John Donne and Francisco de Quevedo...

... University Bloomington, Indiana According to a famous monastic saying, the Egyptian desert in Late Antiq- uity was the place where, as in some recent theory about gender in history, “there are no women.”1 To be sure, the desert was Žlled with thoughts of women, memories...

... provides the model for Peter Brown’s holy man, most recently deŽned by Brown in terms of the “‘transformation ’ of his person, through a Spirit-Ž lled ascetic discipline and through the imaginative alchemy associated with the return of Adam, in the desert, to his Paradise Regained.”4...

... 2017 Erratum for Paul Edward Dutton, The Desert War of a Carolingian Monk. Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 47, no. 1 (January 2017: 75 119). At the top of page 83 of the article, the following paragraph should immediately precede the paragraph that begins The text and script...

... community in a particularly intensified form.25 It is not surprising that the Christian spatial imagination at an important formative stage in the early fourth century was shaped by desert hermetism, by the withdrawal into a forbidding wilderness. Just as Emperor Constan- tine turned toward...

... in the study beyond Hiltipiric, the wife of Úo, who goes on [the Carolingian military] campaign [to Hunia (Hungary and she can only be mentioned in a footnote. There are a few desert women “mothers,” but they are not prominent in the commentaries of the desert fathers, so I do not deal with them...

... of the desert fathers? Could his choice say some- thing significant about the scribe, his monastery, and perhaps even the world of Carolingian monasticism? The manuscript’s scribe, Dutton shows us, was Ellenhart, a deacon and monk at the Benedictine monastery of St-­Emmeram in Regensburg. Bringing...

... . . . et in se ostendit.” Not only did he go alone to deserts and mountains to pray, but he “ran about preaching, healing the sick, correcting people, feeding the hungry, procuring wine for wedding feasts without it, consoling the afflicted, for example Martha, Mary, and others” [discurrebat...

... Fathers, this general conception of apatheia became even more explicit. The sayings of the Desert Fathers return time and again to the subjects of distraction and attention, and when Evagrius of Pontus in the late fourth century systematized the ascetic teachings, he used apatheia to refer not only...

...-8219542 © 2020 by Duke University Press Medieval Pilgrimage as Heterotopia: The Pilgrim as Maritime Adventurer and Aspiring Crusader in Saewulf s Relatio de situ Jerusalem Suzanne M. Yeager Fordham University Bronx, New York To ride upon ships, to tread through deserts, Dens of lions, mountains...

... Travels: A Sixteenth-­Century Muslim between Worlds (New York: Hill and Wang, 2006). 9 Paul Edward Dutton, “The Desert War of a Carolingian Monk,” Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 47, no. 1 (2017): 75 – 119. 10 Ibid., 75. Szijártó...

... their part, the Solomon and Saturn dialogues highlight the problem of deserted, inhospitable, poisonous places in which the nonhuman world remains hostile and language is confused and ineffective. Thus, both sets of texts attest to the importance of the nonhuman world in early medieval science...

... hybrids portrayed in this text is a “goat-man” that a holy hermit encounters in a desert and later recounts to Mandeville's narrator. The narration initially presents this creature as simply a monster, but the reality is more complicated: In þe deserte of þe land of Egipte a haly hermite mette on a tyme...

..., an Augustinian canon named Simon arrived in Cremona, having traveled there from Paris, capital city of medieval theology. He was appalled by a local practice which seemed to be flourishing without official censure or restraint. The nearby Church of St. John of the Desert was offer- ing on Ascension Day...

... or deserter is a polemical term, denoting a person who has abandoned his or her original religion, in Julian’s case Christianity in favor of “paganism. ” Hence, by denoting him as such, Christianity sets the agenda from which Julian “deviates. ” However, almost all the works on Julian, including those...

... and her readers. Considering the immense sacrifice involved in Christ’s Passion, the poet announces, “These high deserts invites my low- ely Muse / To write of Him, and pardon crave of thee” (265 – 66). Lanyer adopts a conventionally meek pose as she presents her work to her patron and the public...

... effects its meanings within a program that relates encountering, recognizing, and accept- ing Christ and the Christian doctrine (the Annunciation, Christ restoring the sight of the man born blind, Mary Magdalene attending to Christ’s feet) to stories of life in the desert (the flight...

... of Modernity as a specific period of history. The stopping of The Middle Ages creates a historical wasteland which it is now possible to fill with the stories of whatever one desires. Bacon says it in his Novum Organum of 1620: “There are deserts and wastelands...