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Early Modern Privacy: Sources and Approaches, Michael Green, Lars Cyril Nørgaard, Mette Birkedal Bruun (eds.), Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2022
Interdisciplinary Studies in Early Modern Culture Privacy is often viewed as a modern phenomenon.... more Interdisciplinary Studies in Early Modern Culture Privacy is often viewed as a modern phenomenon. Early Modern Privacy: Sources and Approaches challenges this view. This collection examines instances, experiences, and spaces of early modern privacy, and opens new avenues to understanding the structures and dynamics that shape early modern societies. Scholars of architectural history, art history, church history, economic history, gender history, history of law, history of literature, history of medicine, history of science, and social history detail how privacy and the private manifest within a wide array of sources, discourses, practices, and spatial programmes. In doing so, they tackle the methodological challenges of early modern privacy, in all its rich, historical specificity.
The Unfamiliar Familiar: Armand-Jean de Rancé (1626-1700) between Withdrawal and Engagement, 2017
This work is my Doktordisputats (the Danish equivalent of the Habilitation) which I defended in J... more This work is my Doktordisputats (the Danish equivalent of the Habilitation) which I defended in June 2017. I plan to work it into a more publishable format. However, with my current intense engagement in the Centre for Privacy Studies (www.teol.ku.dk), the Privacy Studies Journal (https://privacystudies.org/about/) and the research project "STAY HOME: The home during the corona-crisis - and after" (https://stayhomestudier.dk/) I have had to realize that such a reworking is not imminent. Thus I have decided to make the work available in its original format. I have made only a few formal corrections which means, among other things, that important scholarship that has been published since 2017 has not been taken into consideration.
This volume is a study of spatial structures in Bernard of Clairvaux’s Parables. It lays out a sp... more This volume is a study of spatial structures in Bernard of Clairvaux’s Parables. It lays out a spiritual topography which is linked to the rumination of the Bible. The topography ranges across such locations as Paradise, Babylon, the bridegroom's chamber, and the Celestial Jerusalem, and man navigates it in the character of peregrinus and viator.
The first part of the study addresses the spiritual topography and the hermeneutics of its mapping. The second and larger part examines each of Bernard's eight parables and the ways in which he reformulates issues central to monastic tradition – militia Christi, for example, God's image and likeness in man, contemptus mundi, the quest for beatitude – as voyages within spiritual landscapes.
Book chapters by Mette Birkedal Bruun
Quid est sacramentum? Visual Representation of Sacred Mysteries in Early Modern Europe, 1400-1700’, 2019
(DNRF 138). I thank each of my PRIVACY colleagues for having inspired the insights presented here... more (DNRF 138). I thank each of my PRIVACY colleagues for having inspired the insights presented here. I am particularly grateful to Lars Nørgaard. Thanks are due also to Anne Régent-Susini, Walter Melion, and Lee Palmer Wandel, as well as to the other participants of the conference Quid est sacramentum for stimulating questions.
Managing Time. Literature and Devotion in Early Modern France, 2017
Devotional manuals and catechisms organize time. They structure days, weeks, months and years acc... more Devotional manuals and catechisms organize time. They structure days, weeks, months and years according to liturgical rhythms and daily prayers; they prescribe particular exercises for particular hours of the day and meditative programmes for eight- or ten-day retreats. Such guidelines hinge on the idea that a purposeful investment of earthly time will secure eternity. This chapter examines the temporal tension between liturgical time and daily chores, between prayer and pastime, between time and eternity.
The Oxford Handbook of the Baroque, 2019
A penchant for retreat permeates baroque devotion. Prayer is key, and withdrawal from the world c... more A penchant for retreat permeates baroque devotion. Prayer is key, and withdrawal from the world corroborates sincere prayer. Some believers retreat to the cloister for an existence of permanent absorption, but believers are generally enjoined to retreat for a few days annually to follow a devotional program, or for moments of prayer across the day. While verbal prayer is seen as a basic expression of devotion, mental prayer is generally deemed more efficacious, demanding as it does the believer's full attention. Chapels, chambers, and gardens are privileged sites of devout absorption; prayer books, rosaries, and devotional images sustain the inward turn; manuals teach the practice; and written and drawn portraits show those who master it. This chapter presents the ideal of devotional retreat in prayer as well as some of its spatial, spiritual, corporeal, and material corollaries.
Living Together: Roland Barthes the Individual and the Community, 2018
In the chapter on enclosure (clôture), Barthes turns his attention to physically demarcated forms... more In the chapter on enclosure (clôture), Barthes turns his attention to physically demarcated forms of existence. The dynamic between text and praxis underlies the chapter and indeed the very publication of Comment vivre ensemble. On the one hand, the "novelistic simulations of everyday spaces" studied by Barthes oscillate between animal and human modes of being on one side, and on the other literary explorations of such modes of being in descriptions of the correlation between space and existence, and Barthes discusses the capacity of fictive texts to bring out nuances pertaining to this correlation. On the other hand, the translation of Barthes's lectures at the Collège de France into a textual whole, complete with explanatory notes, involves a transposition from oral discourse to edited text, from academic praxis to literary representation and from the enclosure of the academic auditory and its scholarly community to an indefinite and partly anonymous universe of readers and commentators. The interaction between text and practice is explored in the substance of Barthes's work and exploited in the emergence of the volume. The generic challenges and dynamic potential of this interaction are worth keeping in mind as we turn to texts that present a monastic vision of (co)habitation. Our point of departure is taken in Barthes's concern with clôture as a physical boundary and as a demarcation of privacy.
Solitudo: Spaces, Places, and Times of Solitude in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe, 2018
The Play of Construction and Modification, 2004
Papers by Mette Birkedal Bruun
xii acknowledgements lar. Especially I thank Centre leader Nils Holger Petersen for his vigilance... more xii acknowledgements lar. Especially I thank Centre leader Nils Holger Petersen for his vigilance, ambition, and unfailing wideness of perspective. Eyolf Østrem and Sven R. Havsteen's distinct personal versions of intellectual diligence have been an invaluable stimulus, and conversations with Sven have been a recurrent source of intellectual revitalization. The other institutional backdrop to this work is that of the Department of Church History at the University of Copenhagen. I remain thankful to the Dean of Faculty, Steffen Kjeldgaard-Pedersen, for the hospitality that first secured this affiliation, and should like to thank my colleagues at the department for a spirited milieu. First and foremost Tine Reeh, friend, dynamo, and inspiration in the ongoing endeavours to balance theory and source work. For theoretical motivation and interest in the project I moreover thank Niels Kastfelt of the Centre for Africa Studies,
Aarhus University Press eBooks, Jan 25, 2021
Fordham University Press eBooks, Dec 31, 2022
Early Modern Privacy: Sources and Approaches, Michael Green, Lars Cyril Nørgaard, Mette Birkedal Bruun (eds.), Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2022
Interdisciplinary Studies in Early Modern Culture Privacy is often viewed as a modern phenomenon.... more Interdisciplinary Studies in Early Modern Culture Privacy is often viewed as a modern phenomenon. Early Modern Privacy: Sources and Approaches challenges this view. This collection examines instances, experiences, and spaces of early modern privacy, and opens new avenues to understanding the structures and dynamics that shape early modern societies. Scholars of architectural history, art history, church history, economic history, gender history, history of law, history of literature, history of medicine, history of science, and social history detail how privacy and the private manifest within a wide array of sources, discourses, practices, and spatial programmes. In doing so, they tackle the methodological challenges of early modern privacy, in all its rich, historical specificity.
The Unfamiliar Familiar: Armand-Jean de Rancé (1626-1700) between Withdrawal and Engagement, 2017
This work is my Doktordisputats (the Danish equivalent of the Habilitation) which I defended in J... more This work is my Doktordisputats (the Danish equivalent of the Habilitation) which I defended in June 2017. I plan to work it into a more publishable format. However, with my current intense engagement in the Centre for Privacy Studies (www.teol.ku.dk), the Privacy Studies Journal (https://privacystudies.org/about/) and the research project "STAY HOME: The home during the corona-crisis - and after" (https://stayhomestudier.dk/) I have had to realize that such a reworking is not imminent. Thus I have decided to make the work available in its original format. I have made only a few formal corrections which means, among other things, that important scholarship that has been published since 2017 has not been taken into consideration.
This volume is a study of spatial structures in Bernard of Clairvaux’s Parables. It lays out a sp... more This volume is a study of spatial structures in Bernard of Clairvaux’s Parables. It lays out a spiritual topography which is linked to the rumination of the Bible. The topography ranges across such locations as Paradise, Babylon, the bridegroom's chamber, and the Celestial Jerusalem, and man navigates it in the character of peregrinus and viator.
The first part of the study addresses the spiritual topography and the hermeneutics of its mapping. The second and larger part examines each of Bernard's eight parables and the ways in which he reformulates issues central to monastic tradition – militia Christi, for example, God's image and likeness in man, contemptus mundi, the quest for beatitude – as voyages within spiritual landscapes.
Quid est sacramentum? Visual Representation of Sacred Mysteries in Early Modern Europe, 1400-1700’, 2019
(DNRF 138). I thank each of my PRIVACY colleagues for having inspired the insights presented here... more (DNRF 138). I thank each of my PRIVACY colleagues for having inspired the insights presented here. I am particularly grateful to Lars Nørgaard. Thanks are due also to Anne Régent-Susini, Walter Melion, and Lee Palmer Wandel, as well as to the other participants of the conference Quid est sacramentum for stimulating questions.
Managing Time. Literature and Devotion in Early Modern France, 2017
Devotional manuals and catechisms organize time. They structure days, weeks, months and years acc... more Devotional manuals and catechisms organize time. They structure days, weeks, months and years according to liturgical rhythms and daily prayers; they prescribe particular exercises for particular hours of the day and meditative programmes for eight- or ten-day retreats. Such guidelines hinge on the idea that a purposeful investment of earthly time will secure eternity. This chapter examines the temporal tension between liturgical time and daily chores, between prayer and pastime, between time and eternity.
The Oxford Handbook of the Baroque, 2019
A penchant for retreat permeates baroque devotion. Prayer is key, and withdrawal from the world c... more A penchant for retreat permeates baroque devotion. Prayer is key, and withdrawal from the world corroborates sincere prayer. Some believers retreat to the cloister for an existence of permanent absorption, but believers are generally enjoined to retreat for a few days annually to follow a devotional program, or for moments of prayer across the day. While verbal prayer is seen as a basic expression of devotion, mental prayer is generally deemed more efficacious, demanding as it does the believer's full attention. Chapels, chambers, and gardens are privileged sites of devout absorption; prayer books, rosaries, and devotional images sustain the inward turn; manuals teach the practice; and written and drawn portraits show those who master it. This chapter presents the ideal of devotional retreat in prayer as well as some of its spatial, spiritual, corporeal, and material corollaries.
Living Together: Roland Barthes the Individual and the Community, 2018
In the chapter on enclosure (clôture), Barthes turns his attention to physically demarcated forms... more In the chapter on enclosure (clôture), Barthes turns his attention to physically demarcated forms of existence. The dynamic between text and praxis underlies the chapter and indeed the very publication of Comment vivre ensemble. On the one hand, the "novelistic simulations of everyday spaces" studied by Barthes oscillate between animal and human modes of being on one side, and on the other literary explorations of such modes of being in descriptions of the correlation between space and existence, and Barthes discusses the capacity of fictive texts to bring out nuances pertaining to this correlation. On the other hand, the translation of Barthes's lectures at the Collège de France into a textual whole, complete with explanatory notes, involves a transposition from oral discourse to edited text, from academic praxis to literary representation and from the enclosure of the academic auditory and its scholarly community to an indefinite and partly anonymous universe of readers and commentators. The interaction between text and practice is explored in the substance of Barthes's work and exploited in the emergence of the volume. The generic challenges and dynamic potential of this interaction are worth keeping in mind as we turn to texts that present a monastic vision of (co)habitation. Our point of departure is taken in Barthes's concern with clôture as a physical boundary and as a demarcation of privacy.
Solitudo: Spaces, Places, and Times of Solitude in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe, 2018
The Play of Construction and Modification, 2004
xii acknowledgements lar. Especially I thank Centre leader Nils Holger Petersen for his vigilance... more xii acknowledgements lar. Especially I thank Centre leader Nils Holger Petersen for his vigilance, ambition, and unfailing wideness of perspective. Eyolf Østrem and Sven R. Havsteen's distinct personal versions of intellectual diligence have been an invaluable stimulus, and conversations with Sven have been a recurrent source of intellectual revitalization. The other institutional backdrop to this work is that of the Department of Church History at the University of Copenhagen. I remain thankful to the Dean of Faculty, Steffen Kjeldgaard-Pedersen, for the hospitality that first secured this affiliation, and should like to thank my colleagues at the department for a spirited milieu. First and foremost Tine Reeh, friend, dynamo, and inspiration in the ongoing endeavours to balance theory and source work. For theoretical motivation and interest in the project I moreover thank Niels Kastfelt of the Centre for Africa Studies,
Aarhus University Press eBooks, Jan 25, 2021
Fordham University Press eBooks, Dec 31, 2022
BRILL eBooks, 2007
Parabola II is set in two scenarios: the first implies Jerusalem, Babylon, and the battlefield be... more Parabola II is set in two scenarios: the first implies Jerusalem, Babylon, and the battlefield between them, the second the besieged castle of Justice and the new Jerusalem. The parable is launched on a note of generality constituting the basic enmity between Babylon and Jerusalem. Against this ontological foil, the narrative unrolls as a case history, the particularity of which is indicated by the shift in the sixth line from the present tense, which states the basic belligerent situation of all times, to the past tense in the narration of this specific incident. This parable seems to be more attentive to liminal zones and points of transition than both Parabola I and Parabola III, and in the discussion this chapter considers more thoroughly the question of gaps and boundaries of the spiritual topography.Keywords: Babylon; Jerusalem; Parabola II; Parabola III; spiritual topography
BRILL eBooks, 2007
Parabolae (Par) VIII makes a somewhat anaemic contrast to the full-blooded Par VII, and a somewha... more Parabolae (Par) VIII makes a somewhat anaemic contrast to the full-blooded Par VII, and a somewhat pale finale to the parabolic tour. The topographical indications are scarce. The plot of the parable is set in three stages which are only indirectly indicated: the location of the offence, the location of the punishment, and the locus of condemnation. Or, in the terms of the other part of the analogy: saeculum, professio monastica, and an undefined place which is only hinted at as a place which is neither of the two. The point of the parable lies inherent in this last location; the monk's monastic profession was about to earn him the mercy of God, but he rejected it and earned himself instead duplex poena. These allusions to the trajectory of the monk are elaborated through two features which may be said to hinge on the topographical idea.Keywords: God; monk; Parabolae (Par) VIII; professio monastica
Brepols Publishers eBooks, 2011
Dansk teologisk tidsskrift, Jan 15, 2020
The article presents Armand-Jean de Rancé's reform of the Cistercian abbey of La Trappe. It posit... more The article presents Armand-Jean de Rancé's reform of the Cistercian abbey of La Trappe. It positions Rancé's ascetic programme within the wider devotional culture of seventeenth-century France, and explores in three registers the inherent dynamic between withdrawal from the world and engagement with the world. The first register concerns the abbot's biography, the argument being that the familial, societal and ecclesiastical circles inhabited by Rancé before and after his conversion are more closely connected than has been traditionally seen. The second is dedicated to the position of La Trappe in contemporary society and a discussion of the continuous traffic across the monastic wall of texts, guests, rumours and myths. The third involves an examination of the role of withdrawal and engagement in Rancé's reform and its ascetic programme, showing how the abbot expounds the central notion of solitude as a place, a condition and a strategy. The article presents key insights from the author's doctoral thesis, which was defended at the University of Copenhagen in June 2017.
Amsterdam University Press eBooks, Dec 31, 2024
Amsterdam University Press eBooks, Mar 18, 2024
Springer eBooks, 2024
This volume demonstrates a variety of ways of tracing private conversations in sources from early... more This volume demonstrates a variety of ways of tracing private conversations in sources from early modern Europe. Private conversations turn up in journals and diaries (Reinburg, Péter, and Simon), annotations (Bardenheuer), court records (Horsley and Wiślicz), songs (Wiślicz), fiction (Benison), and theological treatises (Nørgaard). Sometimes they may be envisioned based on circumstantial evidence (Kaminska and Kocsis). Each of these genres abides by its own set of standardised norms and-occasionally-editorial processes. Aimed at different audiences and
BRILL eBooks, 2007
Parabola III (Par III) presents a narrativization of the dialectic between ascetic progression an... more Parabola III (Par III) presents a narrativization of the dialectic between ascetic progression and relapse which is otherwise depicted in De gradibus humilitatis et superbiae. The parable does not have the simultaneity of the treatise; here the tension takes the form of a development from lapse to retained progression. Par III zooms in on actors proceeding from Babylon and Jerusalem respectively, and on the forces which motivate them. Like Par I, this parable directs its attention to one single person, thereby offering a clear point of identification. It differs significantly from the other parables, except from Par VII, in being more elaborate in the description of the restitution of its protagonist. This parable primarily gives occasion for a discussion of the way in which the topographical point of view is conveyed and the way in which the audience are to apply this topography.Keywords: Babylon; De gradibus humilitatis et superbiae; Jerusalem; Parabola III; spiritual topography
BRILL eBooks, 2007
In Parabolae (Par) VI, Bernard has left the simple figurative outline for a much more intricate a... more In Parabolae (Par) VI, Bernard has left the simple figurative outline for a much more intricate allegorical scope. Par VI resembles Par IV in that it treats the four wounds of the Church. Par VI, however, is structured around the vertical movements of the king's son. First he inspects the lower realms of his father and then returns to court, then he overtakes Gabriel as he goes down (descendo) to Mary, and eventually he ascends, leaving his bride in Jerusalem. The parable is set in four stages. The first one implies a move between the heavenly Jerusalem and Babylon. The second is the nuptial donation of symbolic and allegorical gifts. The third is set in Jerusalem and describes the four tribulations of the Church. The fourth and last stage describes contemporary everyday activity of the Devil.Keywords: Babylon; Bernard; Church; Jerusalem; Parabolae (Par) VI
BRILL eBooks, 2007
Parabola IV is set in three stages: First, the introduction to the wedding and the wedding itself... more Parabola IV is set in three stages: First, the introduction to the wedding and the wedding itself; this part takes place in the home of father and son, in Egypt, and in the cubiculumof the bridegroom. Second, the collective psychomachia, as it were, of Ecclesia peregrinans, in which Ecclesia is at once locus and participant in the battle; this takes place in a composite topography of ways, forts, and territory. The third stage calls for Ecclesia to stay on the right track and for the parousiato take place. The parable maintains its allegorical storyline throughout; not once is the king's son referred to explicitly as Christ, just as the father remains simply "the father". Only in Par IV.5 is Jesus mentioned, as the goal that Ecclesia ought to follow; and it is not till the final non-parabolic entreaty that Ecclesia is named sponsa Christi.Keywords: Christ; cubiculum; De Ecclesia Quae Captiva Erat; Egypt; Parabola IV; psychomachia; spiritual topography
BRILL eBooks, 2007
Parabola V betrays much of the similitudo. The substance is reined in tight analogies, and there ... more Parabola V betrays much of the similitudo. The substance is reined in tight analogies, and there is not much room for surplus of meaning. The parable is first and foremost a narration about the anatomy of the corpus of virtues and vices. This chapter focuses partly on the structure on which this anatomy hinges: the civitas of the human soul and the arcesand domus within it, partly on the other topographical allusions of the parable. In this parable, the topographical impetus is to a great extent of an auxiliary nature. The city offers structure to the presentation of the virtues, and the Babylonian allusions offer biblical horror to their dissolution. One of the main functions of the parable is perhaps that it serves as a negative foil for the key characteristics of the other parables.Keywords: arces; Babylonian allusions; biblical text; civitas; domus; Parabola V; spiritual topography; vices; virtues
BRILL eBooks, 2007
In most cases, Bernard evokes the spiritual topography through almost offhand allusions; there ar... more In most cases, Bernard evokes the spiritual topography through almost offhand allusions; there are, however, a few texts in which a more methodical mapping is laid out. Parabola I is one of them. This parable offers a narrative elaboration of several crucial Bernardine themes. It exhibits the love of God. The parabolic version, however, is rather different from that of Bernard's most prominent works on this subject. The parable centres on the basic love of God for man displayed in creation. The map of Parabola I presents five different places: Paradise, the land or landscape outside Paradise where the son meets the old robber, regio dissimilitudinis, the castle of Wisdom, and the heavenly palace. It gives particular rise to a closer inspection of the topos of Paradise, the employment of landscape features, the vice of wandering, regio dissimilitudinis, and the general structure of the topography.Keywords: Bernard; castle of Wisdom; Parabola I; Paradise; regio dissimilitudinis; spiritual topography
BRILL eBooks, 2007
The topographical underpinning of Bernard's oeuvre consolidates a repeating pattern in the te... more The topographical underpinning of Bernard's oeuvre consolidates a repeating pattern in the texts; a degree of sameness allowing for, and indeed promoting, moulding and differentiation. This textual repetition is congenial to the repetitive pattern of fall, restoration, and relapse. The basic thesis of this chapter is that in his work, Bernard addresses this navigation through a number of different genres within the broad categories of sermons, letters, and treatises. The chapter constitutes a frame of reference as well as a frame of interrogation for the textual analyses of the parables. Bernard's spiritual topography is set out with the Bible as its land and its hinterland. His texts work this context from within biblical passages read in the light of other biblical passages, and with the monastic demand for ruminating appropriation never out of mind.Keywords: Bernard; biblical passages; parables; spiritual topography
BRILL eBooks, 2007
Parabolae (Par) VII is set in two separate scenarios each of which contains its own topographical... more Parabolae (Par) VII is set in two separate scenarios each of which contains its own topographical complexity, and each of which proposes an answer to the double question, "Where do you come from, and where do you go?" The overall scenario and spiritual framework of the narrative is the monastic plot. This plot is unfolded around the via of the monk (with a short necessary deviation into the cubiculum) and tells how the monk went to the market and met Christ on his way. The via of the monk takes its point of departure in the monastery from which he sets out and is aimed at the heavenly kingdom that he buys on his way. Anthropologically, the two different yet interactive plots of Par VII each has its specific stress on the aspect of respectively viator and peregrinus.Keywords: Anthropology; Christ; monastic plot; monk; Parabolae (Par) VII; peregrinus; spiritual framework; viator
This is the first of three volumes from the project 'Authority and Persuasion: the Role of Co... more This is the first of three volumes from the project 'Authority and Persuasion: the Role of Commonplaces in Western Europe (c.1450-c.1800)'. The project was launched by the universities of Copenhagen, Durham and Groningen and involved scholars from a range of disciplines who researched the use of commonplaces as a means of persuasion in the early modern world. Commonplace as a technical term refers to the loci communes collected in late medieval and early modern commonplace books. In the project, however, the notion of commonplace was broadened to include means of persuasion in all kinds of texts as well as the visual arts, theatre, music and other media. This broader notion embraces metaphors, proverbs, figures, and expressions that enjoyed both a history of use in a given society or language community and a wide currency in that society. This first volume, subtitles 'Reformation, Counter-Reformation and Revolt', focuses on the role of argument from commonplaces, whether linguistic, textual, visual, performative, or musical, during a period of rapid and far-reaching ideological and social change characterised by theological controversies and political turmoil. Progressing from a strict to a more flexible definition of the commonplace, the thirteen contributions to this volume explore the role of the commonplace in the early modern classroom, its place in contemporary polemic and controversy as well as its relationship with (disputed) authority, and trace its presence across a variety of media in the visual, theatrical, and spatial arts. The second volume concerns 'Consolidation of God-given Power', and the third volume deals with 'Legitimation of Authority'.
This book provides an introduction to current work and new directions in the study of medieval li... more This book provides an introduction to current work and new directions in the study of medieval liturgy.
It focuses primarily on so-called occasional rituals such as burial, church consecration, exorcism and excommunication rather than on the Mass and Office. Recent research on such rites challenges many established ideas, especially about the extent to which they differed from place to place and over time, and how the surviving evidence should be interpreted. These essays are designed to offer guidance about current thinking, especially for those who are new to the subject, want to know more about it, or wish to conduct research on liturgical topics.
Bringing together scholars working in different disciplines (history, literature, architectural history, musicology and theology), time periods (from the ninth to the fifteenth centuries) and intellectual traditions, this collection demonstrates the great potential that liturgical evidence offers for understanding many aspects of the Middle Ages. It includes essays that discuss the practicalities of researching liturgical rituals; show through case studies the problems caused by over-reliance on modern editions; explore the range of sources for particular ceremonies and the sort of questions which can be asked of them; and go beyond the rites themselves to investigate how liturgy was practised and understood in the medieval period.
Contents: Introduction, Helen Gittos and Sarah Hamilton. Researching Rites: Researching the history of rites, Helen Gittos; Researching rites for the dying and the dead, Frederick S. Paxton; Approaches to early medieval music and rites, William T. Flynn. Questioning Authority and Tradition: Questioning the authority of Vogel and Elze’s Pontificale Romano-Germanique, Henry Parkes; Rethinking the uses of Sarum and York: a historiographical essay, Matthew Cheung Salisbury. Diversity: Interpreting diversity: excommunication rites in the 10th and 11th centuries, Sarah Hamilton; Medieval exorcism: liturgical and hagiographical sources, Florence Chave-Mahir; Rites for dedicating churches, Mette Birkedal Bruun and Louis I. Hamilton. Texts and Performance: Architecture as evidence for liturgical performance, Carolyn Marino Malone; Liturgical texts and performance practices, Carol Symes. Bibliography; Index.
This series focuses on innovative scholarship in the areas of intellectual history and the histor... more This series focuses on innovative scholarship in the areas of intellectual history and the history of ideas, particularly as they relate to the communication of knowledge within and among diverse scholarly, literary, religious and social communities across Western Europe. Interdisciplinary in nature, the series especially encourages new methodological outlooks that draw on the disciplines of philosophy, theology, musicology, anthropology, paleography and codicology.
Sarah B. Lynch's _Elementary and Grammar Education in Late Medieval France_ is the inaugural volu... more Sarah B. Lynch's _Elementary and Grammar Education in Late Medieval France_ is the inaugural volume in the Knowledge Communities series published by Amsterdam University Press.
In considering applicants for the associate professorship, the main emphasis will be on each appl... more In considering applicants for the associate professorship, the main emphasis will be on each applicant’s ability to contribute thematically to research within the newly established Danish National Research Foundation Centre for Privacy Studies and its examination of the ways in which notions of privacy shape relations between individuals and society across diverse historical contexts, read more here.
Furthermore the ideal candidate should demonstrate an active research agenda within the fields of ancient and medieval church history, preferably with a focus upon the history of theology, and including a documented high level of the implied language skills (especially Latin).
https://stayhomestudier.dk/2022/01/11/stay-home-conference/ What is home and how do we relate to,... more https://stayhomestudier.dk/2022/01/11/stay-home-conference/
What is home and how do we relate to, inhabit, shape, experience, and use it? Home is described in terms of shape, space, and scale, but also in terms of experiences, relationships, and emotions. During the corona crisis home became a central yet contested term. What does it mean to stay at home? What makes a home? What about those without a home? The pandemic might be a catalyst for thinking about home in new ways-not only as a safe or as a private space, but maybe also as an unsafe space or a space that is sometimes public or professional. We invite scholars to think with us about the home. The aim of the conference is to share and discuss new perspectives on the home-in particular perspectives that emerge during crises and may inform future conceptualizations of human dwelling. We invite speakers to deliver research and design perspectives on the home as a physical, social, digital, and existential place in past, present, and future.
The Danish National Research Foundation Centre for Privacy Studies (PRIVACY) at the University of... more The Danish National Research Foundation Centre for Privacy Studies (PRIVACY) at the University of Copenhagen invites applications for its inaugural conference. We encourage scholars from throughout the humanities, social sciences, and architecture to investigate notions, concepts, usages, and practices of privacy by focusing on early modern historical sources. Researchers will have an opportunity to reexamine and discuss source material in order to understand practices, spaces and ideas of privacy (and connected concepts) that emerged in the early modern period. We invite considerations of practice and performances of privacy and its opposites, even in cases where sources might not explicitly mention terms related to privacy. We also encourage analyses of terminology, vocabulary, and languages related to privacy, for example, in sources mentioning words using the prefix priv-. We are particularly interested in contributions that approach the subject of privacy from an interdisciplinary perspective.
PhD scholarship at The Danish National Research Foundation Centre for Privacy Studies (3 years) h... more PhD scholarship at The Danish National Research Foundation Centre for Privacy Studies (3 years) https://employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=148617
Centre for Privacy Studies (PRIVACY), funded by the Danish National Research Foundation and based in Copenhagen, advertises 3-4 fully funded PhD positions within the fields of Architectural History, Church History, Legal History and History.
Applications must be submitted electronically no later than 15 April 2019
Centre for Privacy Studies (PRIVACY) advertises three fully funded Postdoc positions within the f... more Centre for Privacy Studies (PRIVACY) advertises three fully funded Postdoc positions within the fields of Church History, Architectural History, Legal History and History (2 years with the possibility of a one-year extension). PRIVACY is established with a grant of 50 mio DKK (ca. 6.7 mio Euro) from the Danish National Research Foundation and based at the University of Copenhagen.
PRIVACY was launched in the autumn of 2017 under the direction of Professor Mette Birkedal Bruun and runs for six years with the possibility of a four-year extension. It is hosted by the Department of Church History at the Faculty of Theology, University of Copenhagen, in association with the Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen and the School of Architecture, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservations (KADK), Copenhagen.
Deadline: 15 April 2019
Cîteaux : commentarii cistercienses 68, 2018
A review article on: David N. Bell, The Library of the Abbey of La Trappe from the Twelfth Centur... more A review article on: David N. Bell, The Library of the Abbey of La Trappe from the Twelfth Century to the French Revolution, with an Annotated Edition of the 1752 Catalogue (Medieval Church Studies 32; Cîteaux: Studia et Documenta 15). Turnhout: Brepols/Cîteaux–Commentarii cistercienses 2014)
Journal of Early Modern History 24, 2020
In his educational treatise, the Instruction du prince chrétien (1642), André Rivet, the tutor of... more In his educational treatise, the Instruction du prince chrétien (1642), André Rivet, the tutor of the future Willem II (1627-1650), presents his ideal of a virtuous prince well versed in the skills required to govern himself and his subjects. In the educational correspondences surrounding the future Dutch stadtholders we see some of these
theoretical principles played out in epistolary practice. Reading the correspondence against the foil of Rivet’s treatise brings to the fore a number of characteristics of his ideal prince: the intimate educational nexus between tutor, parents, and pupil; the way in which the prince is taught to navigate the interrelated spheres of self, household, and society; and finally, the ways in which the dichotomy between public and private is at once dissolved and affirmed in the educational molding of an early modern prince.
Journal of Early Modern History, 2020
In his educational treatise, the Instruction du prince chrétien (1642), André Rivet, the tutor of... more In his educational treatise, the Instruction du prince chrétien (1642), André Rivet, the tutor of the future Willem II (1627-1650), presents his ideal of a virtuous prince well versed in the skills required to govern himself and his subjects. In the educational correspondences surrounding the future Dutch stadtholders we see some of these theoretical principles played out in epistolary practice. Reading the correspondence against the foil of Rivet’s treatise brings to the fore a number of characteristics of his ideal prince: the intimate educational nexus between tutor, parents, and pupil; the way in which the prince is taught to navigate the interrelated spheres of self, household, and society; and finally, the ways in which the dichotomy between public and private is at once dissolved and affirmed in the educational molding of an early modern prince.
This series of seminars aims to address historical issues of privacy in Latin America, in Europe,... more This series of seminars aims to address historical issues of privacy in Latin America, in Europe, and transregionally. Each month, one of the participants will present a work-in-progress, which will be circulated in advance and discussed online via zoom. This event is open, and scholars of all countries are welcome to join. Meetings will be held on the last Thursday of the month at 17:00 CEST/CET. Exceptions will be informed in advance. The language of the seminar is English. If necessary, questions in Portuguese or Spanish can be posted on the chat and will be translated.
