Pub Date : 2022-07-01DOI: 10.5325/jmedirelicult.48.2.0257
T. Rotman
JMRC_48_2_06_Book_Reviews.indd Page 257 22/07/22 4:42 PM gives a sense of the complex and shifting histories of the Passion relics over centuries, as they moved around Europe and the Holy Land, reaching diverse audiences and accruing varied and overlapping meanings and uses. Yet the broad geographical and chronological scope of this study means that at times Hahn’s analysis jumps rapidly from one image or object to another, thus perhaps losing both a sense of how uses and perceptions of Passion relics changed over time, and the nuances and insights that result from detailed analysis. Indeed, the most effective parts of this study are Hahn’s sustained analyses of single objects, particularly her discussions of the Chapel of the Holy Cross at Karlštejn Castle, devised by Charles IV of Bohemia in the 1360s to house his collection of Passion relics, and the enameled Toulouse châsse made in the late twelfth century to contain a True Cross reliquary. Here, with a thorough elucidation of the unusual iconography of the châsse, Hahn skilfully shows how the reception of this relic was shaped by its role in the gift economy, its political and royal associations, and its specific geographical context in the Abbey of Saint-Sernin and the city of Toulouse. In her introduction, Hahn expresses a hope that her work will be accessible to students, advanced scholars, and the curious public. With this book, she has successfully achieved this goal; it is a rich and engaging contribution to the study of Passion relics, and medieval devotion to the Passion more broadly, which has much to offer newcomers to the field and scholars alike.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-01DOI: 10.5325/jmedirelicult.48.2.0271
Claire Kilgore
JMRC_48_2_06_Book_Reviews.indd Page 271 22/07/22 4:42 PM than those deriving from relations based on force (its relations with its own internal components, and those with its congeners—invariably rivals and virtual adversaries)” (279). Lefebvre’s attention to issues of state violence and systems of power distribution among the elite can shed additional light on Fitzgerald’s own discussion of Satan’s rebellion against divine authority and his construction of a subversive, alternative kingdom in hell. Fitzgerald’s work opens the door for future studies that more fully explore the interaction of sovereignty and space in early England. Fitzgerald chooses not to critically address how many of the rebel angels narratives are couched within appeals to English origin myths, English exceptionalism, and English as God’s chosen heirs—conversations that continue to be crucial within studies of early English literary and political histories. Bringing her work into conversation with recent scholarship on white heritage politics and early English texts would bring a fruitful and necessary dimension to this conversation about power, territory, inheritance, and dissent. Rebel Angels also presents numerous opportunities to examine Satan’s subversion of God’s territorial sovereignty through the lens of queer theory and queer modes of production and creation. Overall, the book will be valuable to any student or scholar researching early English history and religious culture. The close readings of Old English poetry also present valuable insight into literary culture’s interactions with spiritual and secular systems of power and governance.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-01DOI: 10.5325/jmedirelicult.48.2.0252
Chelsey Collins
Maeve Callan’s Sacred Sisters: Gender, Sanctity, and Power in Medieval Ireland, like many of her works, aims to be accessible to a general audience interested in gender and early Irish history and so navigates the line between academic and popular history. For the scholar, much of the value of Sacred Sisters lies in its study of neglected female saints such as Moninne, Samthann, and Íte, who were likely much more prominent in medieval Ireland than surviving evidence would suggest and who have long needed investigation. For future academic writing on these saints, Callan’s work will undoubtedly be the starting point, and she has collected sometimes scant source material into a single place, particularly for saints like Gobniat who lack hagiography altogether. Similarly, Callan has collected the lives of the initial saints Moninne, Brigid, Íte, and Samthann in her Appendix B, and though none are newly translated, they are usefully gathered for future scholarship (much of the material can also be accessed in The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing, Volume IV: Irish Women’s Writings and Traditions, ed. Bourke et al. [Cork University Press, 2002]).
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Pub Date : 2022-07-01DOI: 10.5325/jmedirelicult.48.2.0205
Claudio Peri, A. Halpin
abstract:This article lists 113 bibliographic references from the last 110 years, of books and other critical works on Jacopone da Todi, published in languages other than Italian and/or in countries other than Italy. This research is part of a larger project to create an international database of all publications concerning Jacopone. The specific purpose of the article is to revisit and update comments made by Louise Katainen in 1996, asserting that Italian scholars had neglected contributions in English on Jacopone and that this had resulted in an "impoverished understanding" of the great poet and mystic of Todi.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.5325/jmedirelicult.48.1.0068
Sheryl Overmyer
abstract:This article compares the Pearl and Thomas Aquinas on emotions, will, reason, and the character of the virtues. I focus on the figure of the Jeweler, who in his struggle with grief and longyng, foregoes the high-medieval understanding of moral transformation found in Thomas. Pearl and Aquinas fashion distinct models of emotion, which differ on notions of desire, intellect, habituation, and practices. Ultimately, I demur from newer Pearl studies that tie the poem’s theological and moral debts to Thomas and orthodox versions of pre-Reformation Catholicism, arguing instead that Pearl occupies a unique place in the late-medieval history of emotion.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.5325/jmedirelicult.48.1.0099
Antje Elisa Chan
{"title":"Chaucer's Prayers: Writing Christian and Pagan Devotion","authors":"Antje Elisa Chan","doi":"10.5325/jmedirelicult.48.1.0099","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jmedirelicult.48.1.0099","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40395,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42330839","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.5325/jmedirelicult.48.1.0021
Regula Meyer Evitt
abstract:The adversus Judaeos tropes deeply embedded in the Saint-Martial de Limoges liturgical dramas in BN lat.1139 recommend radical ways of rethinking the organizing concepts that might inform this collection of devotional performances. Early eleventh-century liturgical records from Saint-Martial de Limoges demonstrate profound tensions between apocalyptic and eschatological thinking. Millenarian anxieties combine with news of the 1009 ce Muslim destruction of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem to inspire unusual levels of antagonism toward the contemporary Jewish community in Limoges, including retrospective historical narratives by Christian clerics Rodulfus Glaber and Ademar of Chabannes of forced conversions, exile, and death as tools used to disperse Limoges’s Jewish community after purported exegetical debates in 1010 ce. The Limoges liturgical dramas manifest these tensions between Christian apocalyptic and eschatological thinking, collectively reflecting a shared Christian cultural commitment to supersessionist representations of Jews and Judaism as end-of-time witnesses at the Christian Eschaton.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.5325/jmedirelicult.48.1.0096
Audrey Southgate
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Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.5325/jmedirelicult.48.1.0108
T. Izbicki
{"title":"Conversion, Circumcision, and Ritual Murder in Medieval Europe by Paola Tartakoff (review)","authors":"T. Izbicki","doi":"10.5325/jmedirelicult.48.1.0108","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jmedirelicult.48.1.0108","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40395,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures","volume":"48 1","pages":"108 - 109"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43115886","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.5325/jmedirelicult.48.1.0045
Brandon Alakas
abstract:Prologues at the beginning of The Orcherd of Syon, which reimagine sCatherine of Siena’s Dialogo as a garden through which readers stroll, promote a material understanding of reading rooted in a complex notion of what occurred when devout readers encountered contemplative texts. These horticultural metaphors merit careful attention because they align Birgittine meditative reading with broader approaches among female religious toward food practice, the material world, and imitatio. Drawing these discourses together, The Orcherd, this article argues, offers readers an opportunity to communicate directly with God in a way akin to visionaries and prophets.
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