... method of Aquinas as a contemplative project, motivated and delineated by the mendicant controversies of the thirteenth century, and undertaken alongside the obscure Dionysius within their common pursuit of religious perfection. Thomas Aquinas Pseudo‐Dionysius theology church hierarchy mendicant...

... antifraternal sentiment combined with anxiety about the expanding power and mobility of labor- ers.15 The fusion of these ideological positions resulted in a deep suspicion of able-bodied mendicancy and indiscriminate charity, practices that came to be criminalized in the vast body of labor legislation...

... in lectures and a weekly disputatio, in which students debated sometimes controversial sub- jects.77 And it is in this latter element of an aspiring Dominican s curriculum that we might find a place for the Epistole. The text is, after all, laden with topics that could elicit debate: the validity of Islam...

... the contemporary text of Shakespeare's tragedy records the ephemeral performance of a play that includes a performance of mendicant medieval evangelism by an absentee student from the Protestant University of Wittenberg. The division of “late medieval” from “early modern” is a convenient fiction, of course...

... of the Middle Ages, we see the degree to which the ideal medieval Christianity described by Gregory is of a different order than the later accounts of the Reformation and its conse- quences. His treatment of medieval mendicancy in chapter five, for instance, is closer to Roberto Rossellini’s cinematic...

... of Robert Hegge’s early childhood than it was true of the library of Durham by 1625, when he was a scholar at Oxford writing The Legend of St. Cuthbert. By the 1620s, in a backlash against the Pilkington years, Bishop Richard Neile and especially the controversial canon John Cosin who succeeded him...

..., eds. Mendicants and Merchants in the Medieval Mediterranean. Special Offprint of Medieval Encounters, vol. 18. Leiden: Brill, 2012. 297 pp.; 17 figs. Paper $68.00. Ellenblum, Ronnie. The Collapse of the Eastern Mediterranean: Climate Change and the Decline of the East, 950–­1072. Cambridge...

... difficulties in this regard. In her own lifetime, the visionary was a controversial figure, whose virtuous practice unsettled the very understanding of traditionally accepted virtues in the minds of her friends and foes alike.8 The Life itself gives ample evidence of Raymond’s efforts to defend...

... distinguishes between Abbey of the Holy Ghost and the antifraternal lollard tract Jon and Richard by defining Abbey 's focus as “pious exhortation” and Jon and Richard 's as primarily polemic. 14 While these discussions rightly demonstrate that controversial texts are not representative of lollard...

... followers. During the Parisian controversies over the new mendicant orders in the thirteenth century, in which quantitative disorder figures prominently in interpretations of the friars’ apocalyptic threat to the church. 41 The proliferation of commodities and traders in the mercantile world, which...

... and cool in the womb could evoke some of these contemporary medical aspects of intersex, while the presence of a secondary sex characteristic of the initial gender might produce the ambiguity that has led to controversial surgical interventions to assign gender to intersex persons. Turning...

..., Mich.: Eerdmans, 1995), xii. 5 I am grateful to the JMEMS anonymous reader for noting the relationship between late-fourteenth-century controversies surrounding the sacrament of penance and the failures of penance in the allegory of Piers Plowman. Chief among the criticisms...

..., their Chojnacki / Patronage of the Body  87 choices sharply diverged from those of their womenfolk. Two-­thirds of the men, forty of the sixty cases, sought interment in male monasteries, with the majority of these, twenty-­four, electing Venice’s great mendicant edifices: twelve choosing Santi Giovanni e...

..., and reformist pedigree, he could also call up images of dutiful subservience and incapacity for complex argument and public controversy. In The Reasonableness of Christianity (1695), John Locke s impatience with superfine theological distinctions has an upshot in declar- Revere / The Conditions of Mercy 409...

... the pastoral reforms of the Carolingians in the ninth century and the efforts to reach out to the laity associated with the rise of the mendicant friars and the Fourth Lateran Council of 1215.17 On the other hand, early modernists have been busily modifying the traditional chronology...

... of the city, but also a fine intellectual who took a stand on the main theological debate on moral econ- omy of his time—the Monte comune controversy.67 Although determining whether theological and juridical theories may have influenced trade and finance goes beyond the scope of this study, the case...

... (see 483–86 above) is perhaps less controversial than their account of feudal agriculture. Where their analysis now seems most problematic is in their description of medi- eval handicraft production as the “guild system.” After all, Marx and Engels themselves were well aware that not all medieval...