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...Andrea Denny-Brown A medieval and early modern “best seller,” William Durandus's monumental late-thirteenth-century liturgical treatise, Rationale Divinorum Officiorum , offered its readers a definitive, codified explanation for almost every aspect of church symbolism. A close look at its book...

...Romedio Schmitz-Esser This essay looks at the practice of burning corpses in the Middle Ages. Much research has concentrated on the later medieval period; however, the punishment of burning and its specific motivations and rationales for crimes such as heresy, witchcraft, and magic go back to much...

... and the eighteenth centuries, in order to show how these laws operated to reconcile the interests of the privileged few with the common good. Legislators and preachers aimed to redistribute resources by taking advantage of the wealthy's passion for ostentation. The moral rationale for regulating consumption stressed...

... of the figure's presence even when its origins, intentions, and trajectories remain murky.” 8 The REED (Records of Early English Drama) project, to which Ingram refers, is based on an avowedly evolutionary and teleological model; see the rationale and mission outlined by Sally-Beth MacLean, “Birthing...

..., William, Bishop of Mende. The “Rationale divinorum offi- ciorum”: The Foundational Symbolism of the Early Church, Its Structure, Decoration, Sacraments, and Vestments, Books I, III, and IV. Translated by John M. Neale et al. Louisville, Ky.: Fons Vitae, 2007. xxxviii, 436 pp.; illus. throughout...

... canonist and liturgical writer, William Durandus, whose monumental eight-volume Rationale Divinorum Officiorum, written shortly after 1286, devotes one entire book to the changing “fashions” of garments worn by the clergy, who no longer followed traditional or bibli- cal prescriptions...

... church and lands.”10 Drawing upon the scholarship of the chronicle’s editor, E. O. Blake, Ridyard uses her analysis of guardianship to demonstrate the monks’ rationale for their presentation: the loss of lands and wealth associated with the emergence of the diocese in the early twelfth century...

... and enabling analysis at different scales. Indeed, convergence and scale are precisely the rationale for the READ- IT project (2018 2020), which aims to aggregate existing resources for the history of reading from the eighteenth to twenty- first centuries.20 Finally, the collision of multiple temporalities...

... it is a unifying paradigm for research into medieval and early modern England. This is certainly true within my own discipline, literary history. Although literary scholars are not, and cannot be expected to be, historical demographers, the study of literature has a clearer rationale than many fields...

..., sets up a theology of cognition that makes the reform of the cognitive faculties through meditation both possible and spiritually efficacious. In so doing, this preamble provides a powerful rationale for Henry’s assumption that his text’s medical discourses could have physiological...

... from people of all classes found in formularies, followed by English translations.] Durand, William. Rationale V: Commentary on the Divine Office. Trans- lated and edited by Timothy M. Thibodeau. Corpus Christianorum in Translation, vol. 23. Turnhout, Belg.: Brepols, 2015. 227 pp. Paper eur...

..., because Master Wace rhymes all of the Latin text that Pers (Peter Langtoft) frequently skips.] This passage shows Mannyng’s rationale in the process of translation. He values Wace’s text because it is more faithful to Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Latin text than is Langtoft’s Chronicle. However...

... issue draws a conceptual boundary around late Elizabethan and Jacobean England. The rationale for this, of course, is not to isolate England from the rest of the world but rather to consider the driving forces within England that shaped, influenced, and determined the nation s approach to diplomatic...

...) These comments, the implications of which will be explored in this essay, register a respect for past devotional writing far from the norm of the day, and they provide some rationale for Batman’s ambitious antiquarian e orts to save books in manuscript and print for posterity. That much of the impetus...

..., Supplement (1919): 108 21. 73 Wilkinson notes that it is difficult to determine Saewulf s computation of Egyptian Days, as Saewulf s system of computing such days may not have been the same as that used by Durandus, whose Rationale divinorum set the standard for Latin litur- gical calendars. See...

..., the modes of seeing, and the rationales for seeing may all be revealed. The familiar layers of history, the logistics of travel, the claims of monarchs, and the exigencies of pilgrimage and war shape the map just as do the sciences of measurement and the experiences of the witness observer...

... the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles IV, encouraged the Electors of the Empire to learn foreign languages, in the Golden Bull of 1356, his rationale was that the Empire oversaw the laws and government “of various nations, distinct in their cus- toms, life and language.”21...

.... This argument is made explicitly in several chapters of Adversus Jovinianum, where Jerome shows an awareness both of Siricius’s legislation on clerical celibacy and of its rationale. 47 When the apostle Paul prescribed that the bishop should be a “man of one wife,” Jerome argued (citing 1 Tim. 3:2– 4...

... purchaser of a book published by Fust and Schoeffer (or indeed any other printed book) was James Goldwell, fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, who acquired a copy of Durandus’s Rationale divinorum (printed at Mainz in 1459) at Hamburg in 1465.20 It is possible...

... translation.] Durand, William. William Durand on the Clergy and Their Vestments: A New Translation of Books 2  –  3 of the “Rationale divinorum officiorum.” Translated and edited by Timothy M. Thibodeau. Scranton, Pa.: Univer- sity of Scranton Press, 2010. xii, 262 pp. Paper $35.00. Erasmus, Desiderius...