In his sixth-century work commonly known as the De hebdomadibus, Boethius (ca. 480-524) poses the question of how created things or substances can be good just as they are - that is, good just by existing - without being the same as the source of all goodness, God, who is understood to be Goodness Itself. In his commentary written in the ......
This volume completes the commentary on all the Psalms written by Theodoret, bishop of Cyrus, in the decade before the Council of Chalcedon held in 451 CE, "a triumph of Antiochene theology", in the words of J.N.D. Kelly. The work thus bears the marks of the theological currents of those years, especially as Theodoret was instrumental in convening ......
Now in its third decade, Studies in the Age of Chaucer is well established as the premier periodical in Chaucer studies and in later Middle English literature. In addition to its annual bibliography of Chaucer scholarship and authoritative reviews on new books of interest to Chaucerians, Volume 22 contains original scholarship by both young and ......
Eighteen varied yet strikingly complementary approaches to The Canterbury Tales challenge the reader to fuller appreciation of Chaucer's art both in its formal aspects and in its larger human implications. Numerous artistic and historical problems are treated in these essays, including the narrative point of view established by Chaucer the ......
A Bibliographical Guide to the Manuscripts and Literature
In this first volume of the History of Medieval Canon Law series, Lotte Kery presents a bibliographical survey of the chronological and systematic canonical collections in the Latin West from the beginnings of Christianity to Gratian's Decretum. Divided into three large chronological periods - Early Medieval, Carolingian, and Gregorian Reform - ......
Exile is a political act involving loss of power. Five authors--Cicero, Ovid, Seneca the Younger, Dio Chrysostomus, and Anicius Manlius Boethius--all exiled from Rome, are examined in this fascinating study of the depiction of exile. Although separated from the first four by several centuries, Boethius has an intellectual, circumstantial, and ......
Exile is a political act involving loss of power. Five authors -- Cicero, Ovid, Seneca the Younger, Dio Chrysostomus, and Anicius Manlius Boethius -- all exiled from Rome, are examined in this fascinating study of the depiction of exile. Although separated from the first four by several centuries, Boethius has an intellectual, circumstantial, and ......
Representations of Christ in the Texts and Images of the Orders of Preachers
Christ among the Medieval Dominicans adopts a genuinely multi-disciplinary approach to its topic, bringing together the research of experts in a wide variety of fields. The essays in this volume provide many perspectives (theology, philosophy, spirituality, institutional and social history, art history, Latin and vernacular literature, and ......
