Pub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.5325/jmedirelicult.47.2.0215
Lehfeldt
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Pub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.5325/jmedirelicult.47.2.0210
Witcombe
The aim of this review paper is to expose a new state of matter exhibited by strongly correlated Fermi systems represented by various heavy-fermion (HF) metals, two-dimensional liquids like 3 He, compounds with quantum spin liquids, quasicrystals, and systems with one-dimensional quantum spin liquid. We name these various systems HF compounds, since they exhibit the behavior typical of HF metals. In HF compounds at zero temperature the unique phase transition, dubbed throughout as the fermion condensation quantum phase transition (FCQPT) can occur; this FCQPT creates flat bands which in turn lead to the specific state, known as the fermion condensate. Unlimited increase of the effective mass of quasiparticles signifies FCQPT; these quasiparticles determine the thermodynamic, transport and relaxation properties of HF compounds. Our discussion of numerous salient experimental data within the framework of FCQPT resolves the mystery of the new state of matter. Thus, FCQPT and the fermion condensation can be considered as the universal reason for the non-Fermi liquid behavior observed in various HF compounds. We show analytically and using arguments based completely on the experimental grounds that these systems exhibit universal scaling behavior of their thermodynamic, transport and relaxation properties. Therefore, the quantum physics of different HF compounds is universal, and emerges regardless of the microscopic structure of the compounds. This uniform behavior allows us to view it as the main characteristic of a new state of matter exhibited by HF compounds.
{"title":"Review","authors":"Witcombe","doi":"10.5325/jmedirelicult.47.2.0210","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jmedirelicult.47.2.0210","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this review paper is to expose a new state of matter exhibited by strongly correlated Fermi systems represented by various heavy-fermion (HF) metals, two-dimensional liquids like 3 He, compounds with quantum spin liquids, quasicrystals, and systems with one-dimensional quantum spin liquid. We name these various systems HF compounds, since they exhibit the behavior typical of HF metals. In HF compounds at zero temperature the unique phase transition, dubbed throughout as the fermion condensation quantum phase transition (FCQPT) can occur; this FCQPT creates flat bands which in turn lead to the specific state, known as the fermion condensate. Unlimited increase of the effective mass of quasiparticles signifies FCQPT; these quasiparticles determine the thermodynamic, transport and relaxation properties of HF compounds. Our discussion of numerous salient experimental data within the framework of FCQPT resolves the mystery of the new state of matter. Thus, FCQPT and the fermion condensation can be considered as the universal reason for the non-Fermi liquid behavior observed in various HF compounds. We show analytically and using arguments based completely on the experimental grounds that these systems exhibit universal scaling behavior of their thermodynamic, transport and relaxation properties. Therefore, the quantum physics of different HF compounds is universal, and emerges regardless of the microscopic structure of the compounds. This uniform behavior allows us to view it as the main characteristic of a new state of matter exhibited by HF compounds.","PeriodicalId":40395,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87788960","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 : 2020-08-04DOI: 10.5325/jmedirelicult.46.2.0115
A. Lazikani
abstract:Rabi'a Al-Adawiya (ca. 717–801) and Julian of Norwich (ca. 1343–1416) offer fertile ground for comparative study, but they have yet to be studied together in depth. This article is the first sustained comparative analysis of these two crucial voices, each dominant in research on Islamic and Christian love respectively. There are powerful correspondences between the contemplatives' approaches to divine love. Both Julian and Rabi'a seek an apprehension of the ineffable Beloved in their prose and poetry respectively. Attention will rest primarily on these women's approaches to divine familiarity and indwelling; these approaches are enshrined in their prayer practice and in their imaged enclosures.
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Pub Date : 2020-08-04DOI: 10.5325/jmedirelicult.46.2.0097
W. H. Campbell
abstract:Late medieval English mysticism and devotion was shaped by the preaching of the friars. This article studies the Lenten cycle of sermons in an English Franciscan preacher's handbook from the late thirteenth century, demonstrating that the preacher paid much less attention to confession or the sacraments in general than might have been expected, preferring the more subtle and interior aspects of Christian life. This both presumed and created a lay audience able to profit from more advanced spiritual teaching.
{"title":"Lenten Preaching in Thirteenth-Century England: The Case of a Franciscan Sermon Handbook","authors":"W. H. Campbell","doi":"10.5325/jmedirelicult.46.2.0097","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jmedirelicult.46.2.0097","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:Late medieval English mysticism and devotion was shaped by the preaching of the friars. This article studies the Lenten cycle of sermons in an English Franciscan preacher's handbook from the late thirteenth century, demonstrating that the preacher paid much less attention to confession or the sacraments in general than might have been expected, preferring the more subtle and interior aspects of Christian life. This both presumed and created a lay audience able to profit from more advanced spiritual teaching.","PeriodicalId":40395,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48936580","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 : 2020-08-04DOI: 10.5325/jmedirelicult.46.2.0137
C. Roman
abstract:This article explores the ways William of Saint-Thierry performs sound writing, a writing about sound that invites readers to reinterrogate their relationship with the original text and explore its sound possibilities. As well, this article considers the very notion of exegetical writing to be an exploration of sensual principles. In the case of William of Saint-Thierry's Exposition on the Song of Songs, William takes the reader through a sonic journey of the body and soul in order to explore avenues of worship that are not scopic in their focus. William's approach to unio mystica with God is through the mouth and the ear—paralinguistic sound becomes the sound event in which union with God is realized.
{"title":"William of Saint-Thierry and the Acoustics of Mystical Union","authors":"C. Roman","doi":"10.5325/jmedirelicult.46.2.0137","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jmedirelicult.46.2.0137","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:This article explores the ways William of Saint-Thierry performs sound writing, a writing about sound that invites readers to reinterrogate their relationship with the original text and explore its sound possibilities. As well, this article considers the very notion of exegetical writing to be an exploration of sensual principles. In the case of William of Saint-Thierry's Exposition on the Song of Songs, William takes the reader through a sonic journey of the body and soul in order to explore avenues of worship that are not scopic in their focus. William's approach to unio mystica with God is through the mouth and the ear—paralinguistic sound becomes the sound event in which union with God is realized.","PeriodicalId":40395,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45408132","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 : 2020-08-04DOI: 10.5325/jmedirelicult.46.2.0162
Louise Campion
abstract:This article examines the function of the fifteenth-century Middle English penitential lyric "O Man Unkynde" in two manuscripts. This lyric, which appears in five manuscripts, asks readers to "see" Christ's wounds. In three cases, this instruction is fulfilled by the presence of an accompanying image. In the two manuscripts with which I am concerned, the lyric appears without any complementary illustration. It discusses the way in which this absence of a visual referent might have altered the way in which the lyric was read by the readers of these two codices. In both instances, it argues that the interaction between the lyric and the other texts in the manuscripts suggests that it was regarded as a tool that might be used in the preparation of the reader for the sacrament of confession, and that inward visualization was key to the use of the lyric in these contexts.
{"title":"The Function of \"O Man Unkynde\" in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 330, and Trinity College Cambridge, MS O.2.53","authors":"Louise Campion","doi":"10.5325/jmedirelicult.46.2.0162","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jmedirelicult.46.2.0162","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:This article examines the function of the fifteenth-century Middle English penitential lyric \"O Man Unkynde\" in two manuscripts. This lyric, which appears in five manuscripts, asks readers to \"see\" Christ's wounds. In three cases, this instruction is fulfilled by the presence of an accompanying image. In the two manuscripts with which I am concerned, the lyric appears without any complementary illustration. It discusses the way in which this absence of a visual referent might have altered the way in which the lyric was read by the readers of these two codices. In both instances, it argues that the interaction between the lyric and the other texts in the manuscripts suggests that it was regarded as a tool that might be used in the preparation of the reader for the sacrament of confession, and that inward visualization was key to the use of the lyric in these contexts.","PeriodicalId":40395,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47998850","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 : 2020-07-01DOI: 10.5325/jmedirelicult.46.2.vii
B. Hasenfratz, Nicholas Watson
{"title":"In Memoriam: Catherine Innes-Parker","authors":"B. Hasenfratz, Nicholas Watson","doi":"10.5325/jmedirelicult.46.2.vii","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jmedirelicult.46.2.vii","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40395,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70849704","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 : 2020-02-12DOI: 10.5325/jmedirelicult.46.1.0071
Sarah Star
abstract:Julian's detailed descriptions of Christ's bleeding body, this article demonstrates, relies on physiological language that she shares with medical discourse. Reading A Revelation of Love alongside medieval medical treatises, such as Bartholomaeus Anglicus's De proprietatibus rerum or Henry Daniel's Liber Uricrisiarum, can help us better understand Julian's theology. She combines theology and medicine to construct a unique picture of a Jesus who, as a man, shares a physiological makeup with all humans and who, as a Savior, connects humans to the divine.
{"title":"\"The Precious Plenty\": Julian of Norwich's Visions in Blood","authors":"Sarah Star","doi":"10.5325/jmedirelicult.46.1.0071","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jmedirelicult.46.1.0071","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:Julian's detailed descriptions of Christ's bleeding body, this article demonstrates, relies on physiological language that she shares with medical discourse. Reading A Revelation of Love alongside medieval medical treatises, such as Bartholomaeus Anglicus's De proprietatibus rerum or Henry Daniel's Liber Uricrisiarum, can help us better understand Julian's theology. She combines theology and medicine to construct a unique picture of a Jesus who, as a man, shares a physiological makeup with all humans and who, as a Savior, connects humans to the divine.","PeriodicalId":40395,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-02-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48301537","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 : 2020-02-12DOI: 10.5325/jmedirelicult.46.1.0001
Joseph Millan‐Cole
abstract:The Grandmontine communities of the twelfth century developed a unique social vision of community organization based on the received spiritual teachings of the Auvergne hermit, Stephen of Muret. Central to their order was the subordination of clerics to lay brother governors. From this position, the Grandmontine clerics recorded their ideal of the "Good Man," and this vision of virtue became significant in later internal contests and conflicts over community leadership. This article examines the evolution and ruin of Grandmontine confraternity, with reference to other marginalized religious groups of the twelfth century with whom their struggles can be compared.
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Pub Date : 2020-02-12DOI: 10.5325/jmedirelicult.46.1.0027
Holly Johnson
abstract:That man was created in the image of a triune God has been the subject of much theological speculation. It was posited that this image is reflected within the human mind in the Augustinian triad of memory, understanding, and will. For a medieval preacher the challenge is to make this theological notion a lived reality for his audience. This article explores one preacher's approach to this challenge. In a lengthy sermon for Trinity Sunday, the English Benedictine monk-preacher Robert Rypon (ca. 1350–1421/22) elucidates the complex way the human mind was created to reflect the image of God and offers a retelling of biblical history as the deformation of this image. Rypon then presents a solution for restoring this image, which involves a radical reformation of the memory from which right understanding and a will for behaving virtuously inevitably follow. This article includes an edition of several sections of the sermon.
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