... an implicit imperative. It is from here that the poem's demand for spiritual renewal comes. Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018 Middle English dialogue and debate literature pastoral care conversion strategy Piers Plowman Dives and Pauper ...

... and normative authority of nature, but also in complex dialogue with contemporary pastoral theory and moral philosophy (which rejected wet-nursing), as well as contemporary social practices, values, and beliefs. Physicians recognized maternal breastfeeding as the best and most natural option because...

... (d. 1280), who present the scholastic high point of the history of emo- tions, and William Peraldus (d. 1271), known for his concern for preaching and the theology of pastoral care.9 By examining a selection of historical sources that manifest more varied and positive ideas of shame from antiquity...

... community”: it encompasses the education of the laity, as well as a concern for pastoral care. 36 As Caroline Walker Bynum has shown, “docere verbo et exemplo” [teaching by word and example] was particularly important, following Gregory the Great's assertion that “the pastor or preacher should lead...

.... Anderson, Joel D. Reimagining Christendom: Writing Iceland's Bishops into the Roman Church, 1200–1350 . The Middles Ages Series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023. xvi, 240 pp., 3 figs., 2 maps, 3 tables. Hardcover, ebook. Barr, Beth Allison. The Pastoral Care of Women in Late...

... for everything. Shifting to a slightly less intimate example, consider the sermon. In Gregory the Great's treatise On Pastoral Care (ca. 590), the central assumption is that effective preaching requires an understanding of the mind of one's audience. So chapter 1 begins, No one presumes to teach an art...

..., established and maintained by the Roman Church over the following decades with two principal goals: first, the pastoral care of Christians living in the Maghreb, including captives, merchants, and especially mercenaries and their fami- lies; and second, the spread of the Christian faith among...

... death. As a result, English institutional culture was radically simplified, as responsibility for pastoral care and liturgical per- formance, previously held by the two different wings of the English Church, were both arrogated to the temporal power. Instead of three cultural actants— secular...

... was to be restorative, curative, personal, pastoral care in no merely formal sense.”29 The same might be said of Herbert’s “Disci- pline,” which follows “the gentle path” of this alternative to civil power to its source. In a sense, Herbert’s rigorous pursuit...

... was an established archbishopric. Mis- sionizing efforts at this time would thus have been refocused by the mendi- cant orders on bringing erring Christians back to the fold. Examining Mechthild’s book in the context of the Dominican mission of pastoral care, we see...

..., Religious Education in Thirteenth- Century England: The Creed and Articles of the Faith (Leiden: Brill, and his “Teaching the Creed and the Articles of the Faith in England, – in A Companion to Pastoral Care in the Late Middle Ages – ed. Ronald J. Stansbury (Leiden: Brill...

... from the world altogether. Shakespeare’s pastoral comedy, con- cerned as it is with “spiritual care,” finally resituates the sacred in an “in-­ between” locale at the margins of the forest and connects it to a hospitium or site of shelter — the “sheepcote” (2.4.83) in which Rosalind and Celia find...

... of Pastoral Care (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1992), 125. 34 See, e.g., Michigan's model jury instructions for inferring state of mind in homicide cases (M Crim JI 16.21). My thanks to Gabe Mendlow for this reference. 35 Cesare Beccaria, “On Crimes and Punishments...

... relationship between humans and animals in preindustrial pastoralism. Oikeiôsis becomes ecology as Corin, whose name subsists between “care” and “cure,” attends to human nature in concert with ovine nature. Although The Praise of Folly does not directly address abuses of hospitality, the Book...

... article “‘Wild pastorall encounter’: John Evelyn, John Beale and the Renegotiation of Pastoral in the Mid–Seventeenth Century,” Douglas Chambers traces what he identifies as the “shattering of the arcadian ideal of Stuart politics [that] inevitably brought with it the destruction of its pas- toral...

... for these poems, enabling subsequent performances both by professional storytellers or by pilgrims themselves, in inns or hospices, on the road, or after they had returned home. Previous consideration of Dati s religious poems has identified his primary motivation as a duty of pastoral care, as well as a desire...

... an unlikely source for reformed Elizabethan readers in which to recognize valuable religious lore. But, in fact, these readers go far beyond repudiating “papistical” errors to demonstrate both the past roots of their own reformed theologies and the continuing pastoral utilities of much of the medieval text...

... and the inevitable twin of that desired dissolution: the unraveling of discursive confidence that must accompany, and perhaps produces, the desire for self-dissolution. Elegiac writing unwrites itself. The article then looks behind the literature to the pastoral incitation to crush both selfhood and the self's...

... pp. Paper eur 46.00. [Selection of early modern letters by women, illustrating the development of epistolary writing, which have never been edited or have been forgotten since their original publication.] Gregory I, Pope. The Old English Pastoral Care [ Regula pastoralis ]. Edited...

..., mortality rates, and marriage patterns through the careful yet speculative reconstitution of family groups. 19 While parish registers are unequivocally the best source of raw demographic data available for sixteenth-century Europe, and while they generate the best available estimates of demographic...