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medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture Meg, I have often found http://www.euratlas.com/ to be pretty useful. - Kurt On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 7:55 PM, Cormack, Margaret Jean <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture > > Greetings all, > I'm wondering if anyone can tell me where to go (on line if possible) to > indicate the boundaries of the successor states to the Byzantine empire > (after Constantinople was sacked by the crusaders in 1204) > and the extent of the Patriarchate of Constantinople up to the present day. > I'd really like to find a set of maps that would allow students to trace > the political forces that beset the empire and resulted in the branching > off of Kiev and eventually (self-) designation of Moscow as the "third > Rome". > I could spend hours hunting through maps on Wikipedia, but thought > someone might know of a useful site that would save me time. Even maps > from books would be scan-able! > Meg > > ________________________________________ > From: medieval-religion - Scholarly discussions of medieval religious > culture [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of John Dillon [ > [log in to unmask]] > Sent: Monday, March 16, 2015 10:53 AM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: [M-R] Fwd: Hypognosticon > > medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture > > Dear Rosemary, > > Thanks for this. > > Careful readers of the ODNB Life of Lawrence of Durham will have observed > that the most recent item cited in its bibliography is dated 1992. > Lawrence's chief work, the _Hypognosticon_, was edited in 2002 by Udo > Kindermann's former student and then colleague at Köln, Susanne Daub (now > professor of medieval Latin and Neo-Latin at Jena): _Gottes > Heilsplan--verdichtet : Edition des Hypognosticon des Laurentius > Dunelmensis_ (Erlangen: Palm & Enke). A major monograph on Lawrence, also > by Daub, appeared in 2005: _Von der Bibel zum Epos. Poetische Strategien > des Laurentius am geistlichen Hof von Durham_ (Köln: Böhlau). > > It is regrettable that Oxford has not found a reliable way of keeping > current the selective but still highly valuable bibliographies that > accompany the over 50,000 Lives in the ODNB. > > Best, > John Dillon > > On 03/16/15, Rosemary Hayes wrote: > > > > I hope you'll forgive me for forwarding the whole of this ODNB Life of > the Day, rather than the usual link. I'm using my iPad on a train and can't > edit easily, but thought the subject's ideas might be of interest to List > readers. > > > > > > Rosemary Hayes > > > > Sent from my iPad > > > > Begin forwarded message: > > > > > > > > > From: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> > > > Date: 16 March 2015 07:00:01 GMT > > > To: [log in to unmask] < > [log in to unmask]> > > > Subject: Hypognosticon > > > Reply-To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > New: the ODNB is offering two Research Bursaries for 2015-16: we’re > looking for interesting projects using the ODNB online in humanities > research. 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Kindermann has suggested > a date of 1114, but this is perhaps a little late. Along with his brother, > he was educated at the school of Holy Cross Church. From there he went to > Durham (which had had close connections with Waltham since the time of > Bishop Walcher), and became a monk during the episcopacy of Ranulf Flambard > (d. 1128). He notes the esteem in which he was held for his poetry and > singing, and eventually he became precentor in the monastery; at this time > he may have taught Ailred, later of Rievaulx. > > > > > > Under Bishop Geoffrey (1133-40) Lawrence moved temporarily to the > bishop's court as an official of some kind, but returned to the monastery > on Geoffrey's death. In 1143 the monastic tranquillity was disturbed when > William Cumin, at the instigation of David, king of Scots (in support of > the Empress Matilda), usurped the bishopric; his soldiers took over the > monastery, and some of the monks (including Lawrence, it seems) were forced > into exile. After military action Cumin was forced to leave in the autumn > of 1144, and Lawrence returned to the monastery. All these events are > described in his Dialogi. By 1147 Lawrence was sub-prior, and became prior > in 1149. In 1153 he led a deputation to Rome to seek papal confirmation of > the appointment of Hugh du Puiset as bishop of Durham (opposed by Henry > Murdac, archbishop of York). On return from the successful mission-on which > he obtained a forty-day indulgence for servants of St Cuthbert-Lawrence > fell sick in a French town, and died there on 16 or 18 March 1154; some > years later his body was returned to Durham for final burial. His death had > been foretold by Godric of Finchale (according to Reginald of Coldingham), > who told two Lawrences in his presence that neither would return to Durham. > Some scholars, from John Leland onwards, confused the poet with this second > Lawrence, who became first a monk at St Albans and later abbot of > Westminster. > > > > > > Lawrence of Durham's reputation rests on his extensive writings in > verse and prose. He sent his prose life of the Irish St Brigit (printed in > the Vitae sanctorum Hiberniae) to Ailred, whose father had sent a version > (in a 'semi-barbarous' state) to Lawrence for revision. His most popular > work, widely quoted in extracts, was the Hypognosticon. This is a verse > epic, in nine books of 4684 hexameters, on the redemption of mankind; it is > divided into the periods of natural law (ending at Moses), positive law > (ending with Herod), and grace (to the present), and further subdivided > into the six ages of the world and into temporal units based on faith > (Abraham), hope (Daniel), and charity (Christ). It was based on the Bible > and Josephus's Antiquitates Judaicae (of which a Latin text was available > in Durham, possibly annotated by Lawrence); it is enlivened by many > expansions and digressions; the final book, often dismissed (as in the > Dictionary of National Biography) as 'miscellaneous religious pieces', is > in fact a celebration of the benefits of the period of grace. Lawrence > notes that his first draft was lost, but he restored it from memory in a > month. > > > > > > Three short poems by Lawrence are extant: Tempora nec sexum, a poem on > man's fallen nature; Aura puer mulier, a rebuke to a friend for his > fickleness; and a dramatic re-enactment, in rhythmical verse, of the > resurrected Christ's appearance to the disciples. Lawrence also wrote five > prose speeches, probably as school exercises to teach forensic oratory, > though they seem to deal with real events: Laurentius pro Laurentio; Pro > naufragis; Pro iuvenibus; Invectio in Malgerium; and Pro Milone. These have > all been printed by U. Kindermann. The Consolatio de morte amici is a > prosimetrum closely modelled on Boethius's Consolatio philosophiae, in > which Lawrence is rebuked by a testy Consolator for his excessive grief. > > > > > > From a modern point of view, Lawrence's most interesting work is his > Dialogi, in four books of hexameters. It utilizes Lawrence's personal > history and that of Durham as a model for the working of divine grace in > human affairs. The first two books describe Lawrence's desolation at the > treatment suffered by Durham at the hands of Cumin and his soldiers. The > third book, set late in 1144, is about the divine grace that finally > persuaded Cumin to desist and repent. The last book is about vice, virtue, > God, and heaven. As its name indicates, the Dialogi is a series of > conversations between three friends, Lawrence and Philip (monks) and Peter > (a Breton); despite many classical allusions, they are delivered in an > informal style, full of banter, jokes, and personal arguments, showing that > God's grace operates not just in ancient history but among ordinary people > who behave in ordinary ways. > > > > > > Lawrence's only other claim to fame is that, because of a diatribe > against love (in the Hypognosticon), he was chosen as one of the three > 'angels' sent to dissuade Gawain from marriage, in the satirical poem De > coniuge non ducenda, written shortly after 1222. > > > > > > A. G. Rigg > > > > > > Sources M. L. Mistretta, ed., 'The "Hypognosticon" of Lawrence of > Durham: a preliminary text with an introduction', PhD diss., Fordham > University, New York, 1941 + Dialogi Laurentii Dunelmensis monachi ac > prioris, ed. J. Raine, SurtS, 70 (1880) + U. Kindermann, ed., Consolatio de > morte amici (1969) + W. W. Heist, ed., Vitae sanctorum Hiberniae ex codice > olim Salmanticensi nunc Bruxellensi, Subsidia Hagiographica, 28 (Brussels, > 1965), 1-37 + A. G. Rigg, A history of Anglo-Latin literature, 1066-1422 > (1992), 54-61 + D. Knowles, C. N. L. Brooke, and V. C. M. London, eds., The > heads of religious houses, England and Wales, 1: 940-1216 (1972), 43 + U. > Kindermann, 'Das Emmausgedicht des Laurentius von Durham', > Mittellateinisches Jahrbuch, 5 (1968), 79-100 + U. Kindermann, 'Die funf > Reden des Laurentius von Durham', Mittellateinisches Jahrbuch, 8 (1973), > 108-41 + Gaufridus de Coldingham [Geoffrey of Coldingham], 'De statu > ecclesiae Dunhelmensis', in Historiae Dunelmensis scriptores tres: > Gaufridus de Coldingham, Robertus de Graystanes, et Willielmus de Chambre, > ed. J. Raine, SurtS, 9 (1839), 3-31 + Reginald of Durham, Libellus de vita > et miraculis S. Godrici, heremitae de Finchale, ed. J. Stevenson, SurtS, 20 > (1847), 232-3 + A. G. Rigg, ed., Gawain on marriage: the textual tradition > of the 'De coniuge non ducenda' (1986) + A. Hoste, 'A survey of the > unedited work of Lawrence of Durham, with an edition of his letter to > Aelred', Sacris Erudiri, 11 (1960), 249-65 > > > Likenesses illuminated miniature, U. Durham L., Cosin MS V.iii.l, fol. > 22v [see illus.] > > > > > ********************************************************************** > To join the list, send the message: subscribe 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: unsubscribe 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: > > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.jiscmail.ac.uk_medieval-2Dreligion&d=AwIFaQ&c=7MSSWy9Bs2yocjNQzurxOQ&r=ck9DGMUVufrSrS57t_UT9k6In-tVqXkuW6oaFL10XQY&m=Rs6hX21_CY3pyO9QphEAGEqGKo4OAvZaWz4v4nsOdJs&s=KydkYnjRu3kSFngCscLPkvZHnXEpTMlXOsNReKIdbPY&e= > > ********************************************************************** > To join the list, send the message: subscribe 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: unsubscribe 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/medieval-religion > ********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: subscribe 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: unsubscribe 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/medieval-religion