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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2012) 42 (1): 13–33.
Published: 01 January 2012
....” Infused
virtue is virtue in the fullest, truest sense. When referring to the infused vir-
tues that make their possessor good at the supernatural level and incline that
person to acts pleasing to God, Aquinas has especially in mind the theologi-
cal virtues, of faith, hope, and charity. These he...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2012) 42 (1): 35–57.
Published: 01 January 2012
... the completion of the first process to look system-
atically for proofs of heroism in the practice of the three theological virtues
(faith, hope, and charity) and the four cardinal virtues (prudence, temper-
ance, fortitude, and justice). The criterion of heroic virtue can be said...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2020) 50 (2): 403–429.
Published: 01 May 2020
.... The figures Charity, Prudence, Discretion, and Piety in the palace Beautiful likewise Revere / The Conditions of Mercy 417 make up a female community of virtue, whose life together is filled with table fellowship, music, visionary experience, and theological instruction: Chris- tiana and Mercie will join...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2022) 52 (3): 533–565.
Published: 01 September 2022
... suffering virtue of charity compassion King Lear begins with a traumatic amputation, as a loving daughter is cut off from family and community by her proud, unseeing father. The language through which Lear severs Cordelia from his royal body is apocalyptic: he commands that she be utterly...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2022) 52 (3): 483–501.
Published: 01 September 2022
... and charitye receive it worthelye and in such wyse also virtuallye” (64). Charity, too, is transformative; it is a virtue with a vir that needs to be properly transmitted to be correctly embodied and enacted. The problem with Tyndale's translation of caritas as love rather than charity is, like...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2012) 42 (1): 131–155.
Published: 01 January 2012
...
In the light of Aquinas’s position, we can answer Augustine’s ques-
tion “Can there be moral virtues without charity?” and explain why both an
Irwin / Luther’s Attack on Self-Love 137
affirmative and a negative answer are correct, because they apply to different...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (3): 593–615.
Published: 01 September 2024
... “merchant”—have to engage in beneficence toward their neighbors. 17 Downham’s text exemplifies a complex and supple understanding of the virtue of charity and almsgiving. In The Plea of the Poore , the exercise of beneficence firmly grounds personal and voluntary , rather than institutional...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2012) 42 (1): 83–105.
Published: 01 January 2012
... In the tradition of the
remedial virtues, envy was contrasted with charity, itself described in terms
that emphasize compassion and love of one’s neighbor.7 Envy is thus a vice
that is conditioned by one’s emotional disposition toward others, leading to
actions that comprise the variously ennumerated...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2014) 44 (2): 345–371.
Published: 01 May 2014
... sev-
eral letters as “Marta.” Bridget of Sweden addressed a long chapter from her
Revelations, written in the 1370s, to the virtues of the two sisters. Even as she
praised Mary’s capacity for contemplation, she finds in Martha the emblem
of a mother and active giver of charity, two of Bridget’s...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2021) 51 (2): 215–240.
Published: 01 May 2021
..., Faith, and Patience play a role in the stabilizing of the Abbey, and the author further imagines the allegorical cloister governed by personifications of Christian virtues such as Charity serving as an abbess, Wisdom as a prioress, and Meekness as subprioress. As the Abbey of the Holy Ghost...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2016) 46 (3): 583–602.
Published: 01 September 2016
... to incremental improvements in the virtues of charity and
justice was sufficient, and, indeed, a failure to accept that many would be
saved by mere implicit faith (156). For the great success of medieval Christi-
anity, on Gregory’s account, was the simple fact that it was an “institution-
alized worldview...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2012) 42 (1): 1–12.
Published: 01 January 2012
... of interlinked virtues that sustains
the church as a body. Raymond emphasizes that Catherine’s heroic virtue is
grounded in divine charity and in her union with Christ the Rock. While
his purpose is to elevate her virtue and her claim to sainthood, this does not
compete with acknowledging her dependence...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2012) 42 (1): 59–81.
Published: 01 January 2012
....
In a veritable cascade of interlocutors, Langland has created a process of dia-
lectical exploration. This long process is led, with the help of the liturgy, to
the theological virtues and the embodiment of charity in Jesus the Samari-
tan, who becomes Christ the conqueror on the cross and Christ...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2022) 52 (3): 445–482.
Published: 01 September 2022
...—is to attend closely to the way that influential thinkers and actors articulated the relations between God and his creation through their theories of human redemption and understandings of charity, the chief virtue of Christian life, and by examining the attendant ethical, social, and political repercussions...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2007) 37 (2): 305–334.
Published: 01 May 2007
... to be resurrected.”
12 Maria Moisa, Rubin, and Aers all discuss the increasing emphasis on discriminate
charity as a crucial component of a widespread cultural shift newly viewing poverty as
a form of idleness and labor as the highest virtue. See Moisa, “Fourteenth-Century
Preachers’ Views...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2021) 51 (2): 285–319.
Published: 01 May 2021
... as participants in those sacred events they are witnessing. 66 At the Scuola Grande di San Rocco, the programmatic use of Charity figures amplifies the importance of “good works” in Catholicism and depicts this virtue as a Judeo-Christian feature that connects Old and New Testaments. Such repeated...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2015) 45 (2): 395–418.
Published: 01 May 2015
... chastity by putting it in the place
of charity in the Pauline triad (1 Cor. 13:13), but the dynamic of the speech
quoted above stages the connection between the two other virtues, faith and
hope. How so? Milton may have meant the lines to act out a pun on the
Latin for faith (fides) and confidence...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2022) 52 (3): 407–413.
Published: 01 September 2022
... of the theological virtues: love. Taking the excoriating assay of love in King Lear, she explores the language of “exchanging” and “enforcing” charity, in particular through her figuration of Poor Tom. The legacy of Erasmus in Shakespeare's work is central to Julia Lupton's exploration of Shakespeare's As You...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2021) 51 (3): 553–575.
Published: 01 September 2021
... virtues (charity, prudence, discretion) and vices (intemperance, gossip, calumny) that constitute Masonic ethics. A Masonic song entitled “La Gloire de la Philosophie,” for instance, calls Freemasonry a “brilliant school of virtue” to which Aristotle, Lucretius, and Plato have done nothing worthy...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2017) 47 (3): 415–435.
Published: 01 September 2017
... the seem-
ingly abstruse questions of translation might have been inflected in a larger
culture of readers. As Adam and Eve prepare to leave Eden near the end
of Paradise Lost (1674), the archangel Michael instructs them in a series of
virtues, among them the chief virtue “Love, / By name to come...
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