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medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture On Sunday, August 27, 2006, at 10:37 pm, Paul Chandler wrote: > Thanks especially for drawing attention to the very fine > online encyclopedia of philosophy from Stanford, which I had not known > about. Mendelson's through and dense but clear and illuminating > entry on Augustine is a marvel, a model of the brilliant encyclopedia > entry. You're very welcome. The _Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy_ http://plato.stanford.edu/index.html combines scholarly excellence with a commitment both to keeping its entries current and to making them available without charge on the Web (which latter it hopes to achieve for the indefinite future by raising a large endowment now). There are already entries on a fair number of medieval thinkers, to say nothing of medievally pertinent ancients such as Augustine. See the Table of Contents: http://plato.stanford.edu/contents.html#a And now for some visuals pertaining to Augustine. Remains of A.'s basilica at Hippo Regius: http://tinyurl.com/sysyh A. in a wall painting (sixth-century) in the Lateran Palace, Rome: http://tinyurl.com/h6zao A. in a mosaic (twelfth- or perhaps early thirteenth-century) in the Cappella Palatina at Palermo: http://www.augustinus.it/iconografia/immagini/augustinus_009.jpg The late thirteenth-century church of Sant'Agostino at San Gimignano (SI) in Tuscany: Aerial view: http://www.wga.hu/art/g/gozzoli/4gimigna/0view.jpg Note the location on a promontory on the edge of the old city. Naples' contemporary Sant'Agostino alla Zecca is similarly situated. Other views: http://www.sangimignano.com/sgago1.jpg http://www.hotelcisterna.it/img/santagostino2.jpg http://www.hotelcisterna.it/img/santagostino.jpg Views of A.'s fourteenth-century tomb in the Basilica di San Pietro in Ciel d'Oro at Pavia (PV) in Lombardy: http://www.augustinus.it/iconografia/immagini/augustinus_204.jpg http://web.tiscali.it/ghirardacci/bellandi/SAgostino_Arca.jpg http://tinyurl.com/dmk3e Website on the tomb: http://tinyurl.com/lthau Courtauld images: http://tinyurl.com/kan8e In 1842 an elbow from A.'s relics contained therein was brought from Pavia to today's Annaba (medieval Bo^ne, ancient Hippo Regius) in Tunisia for the building/consecration of A.'s modern basilica there. Expandable views of the relic and of related modern artifacts, put on display for an international conference in 2001, are here: http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/jod/algeria/relics.html Benozzo Gozzoli's fresco cycle (1464-65) of scenes from the life of A., in San Gimignano's Chiesa di Sant'Agostino: Context in the church: http://tinyurl.com/hbrc8 http://www.wga.hu/art/g/gozzoli/4gimigna/1view.jpg Scheme of the cycle: http://www.wga.hu/art/g/gozzoli/4gimigna/2scheme.jpg Expandable views of the frescoes: http://tinyurl.com/j6om4 Carlo Crivelli, Jerome and A. (1490), Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice: http://www.bramarte.it/400/img/cri5.jpg Note the demon, also present in the thirteenth-century miniature from Pierpont Morgan Library, ms. M. 92, shown here: http://www.princeton.edu/~heresy/ Best again, John Dillon ********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: join medieval-religion YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: leave medieval-religion to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/medieval-religion.html