saucier, catherine
“Rejoice, Texandria, for Oda!” Thus begins the series of chants and readings commemorating the virgin St Oda, patron of the village that took her name—Sint-Oedenrode—in the late medieval liturgy of the town of ’s-Hertogenbosch. Overt praise for the surrounding region, Texandria, extending across the northern limits of the duchy of Brabant and dioce...
Puigvert Solà, Joaquim M.
La Reforma catòlica derivada del Concili de Trento es va difondre a la Cata-lunya dels segles XVI i XVII per múltiples i diversos camins des de les ciutats i les viles «levítiques». Els agents que col·laboraren en la seva difusió foren múltiples, religiosos i civils: sínodes diocesans, rectors de parròquies, visitadors episcopals, frares predicador...
Carraz, Damien
In the past thirty years or so, historiography has taken into account the fact that the military orders were also religious institutions, whose members were bound to a regular form of life and were the vectors of an original spirituality. However, it has not really moved beyond an internalist approach to these institutions, in the sense that histor...
Alves, Aléssio Alonso
ABSTRACT This article explores the civic-liturgical context of three sermons by the friar Preacher Giordano da Pisa, delivered during a same week of 1304 in Florence (two on Sunday and one on Thursday), all of them from the verse of Matthew 9, 1 (Venit in civitatem suam). Based on considerations regarding the choice of the biblical verse, as well a...
García Arnal, María Jesús
En el transcurso del siglo XIII, los gobiernos urbanos de la Corona de Aragón mostraron una preocupación creciente por reforzar su recién adquirida autoridad. Una de las soluciones, aunque no la única, fue adoptar atributos religiosos que dotasen al conjunto de sus habitantes de un foco de identidad colectiva en un fenómeno que la historiografía ha...
Humphreys, Brendan
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Politics in Central Europe
This article seeks to define a certain form of exceptionalism - missionist exceptionalism - and ask to what extent it applies to Russia. The method will be a broad comparative analysis. The core argument is that missionist exceptionalism is fundamentally paradoxical; that polities make largely similar claims about themselves while pleading sui gene...
Buylaert, Frederik De Rock, Jelle Van Bruaene, Anne-Laure
This article discusses a woodcut series with an elaborate iconographic representation of the Flemish city of Ghent, printed in 1524 by Pieter de Keysere. The three-sheet composition consists of a city view, an image of the allegorical Maiden of Ghent, and an extensive heraldic program with the coat of arms of prominent Ghent families and of the Ghe...
Boicu, Dragoș
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Review of Ecumenical Studies Sibiu
The present research addresses matters concerning the relationship between Church and state during the reign of Theodosius II of Rome, analyzing especially the case of legitimization of the imperial authority found in the first half of the fifth century when the Empress Pulcheria tried to identify herself with the Virgin Mary before her subjects in...
