Your search found 538 results in 1 resource
18.17: "And if he [= brother] will not hear them [witnesses to God's word]: tell the church. And if he will not hear the church, let him be to thee as the heathen and publican." 175 us. Unique to H.
Canticles as allegorical accounts of the love between Christ and the Church. Origen and Gregory of Nyssa further developed the idea of Christ as bridegroom not only of the Church but of its individual members, an image which, while it
sympathized, suggesting that the God of Love is aligned with the Church, while the cuckoo "is associated with Christ . . . creating an opposition between Christ and Church which is counterintuitive but which is at the heart of Lollard
Furnivall, on the basis of line 3. 22 With sybbe ne fremde make no jangelyng. Complaints about layfolk talking in church were common in clerical writings. John Mirk instructs priests to command their parishioners to be quiet once the service
cross-staff, also stands there. Following the orthodoxy of the English Church, Audelay cites Thomass martyrdom in Marcolf and Solomon (line 342), reminding readers how the archbishop courageously defended the Church against pressure from secular powers. The sequential logic of the
in LA (trans. Ryan, 2.215). 75 his enemyes. In LA (trans. Ryan, 2.215) this passage, on Jerome's defense of the Church against heretics and the attacks he suffered in return, is carefully adapted from Sulpicius Severus, Dialogues 1.8, in which
by all classes in society (see note) (see note) a nun begun [to build] earlier; (see note) who had the church built name; enshrined (see note) seemed to him no disgrace; (see note) command; thither cut her [hair]; companions; (see
a parish priest's sermon, which concerns tithing and offering gifts to the priest. Instead of finding solace in his local church, he is asked to offer gifts of all kinds, including, in a bizarre passage, a cornucopia of vegetables and
Tubach. For manuscript abbreviations (ED, A, D, G, L, V), see the Introduction. Easter, the central liturgical season of the church year, includes not just Easter Sunday, the celebration of Christs Resurrection, but also the fifty days between Easter Sunday
a marriage consummated in bed but not solemnized in church was valid but not licit. In C it is stated explicitly that the couple, after their night together, go to church to get properly married; in H this is merely
Women, while painting a rather darker picture overall, acknowledges the significant role played by monastic women in the early Anglo-Saxon church; see especially her introduction, pp. 1-14. 11 McNamara, Sisters in Arms, p. 317. 12 Bennett and Smithers, eds., Early
discovers her secret abode and presides over the final events that welcome her back into the human community of the church: giving her the last sacraments, taking charge of her burial, and arranging for his own eventual burial next to
often had three levels, which were determined by the symbolism of the vessel as a representation of the Church. Like the Church at the Day of Judgment, the ark was a providentially chosen means to safety when all the world
controversial ideas into a political agenda which denounced the established church as hopelessly flawed and prelates (including the pope) as agents of Satan and Antichrist. Some of Wyclif's ideas about church temporalities found expression in the Peasants' Revolt of 1381;
Valerian in 258 by being roasted on a gridiron. Saint Stephen is usually considered the first martyr of the Christian Church; his death by stoning is recounted in Acts 68. Margarets eager appreciation of these saints lives is here presented
for Sir Clegess Christmas cherries is the apocryphal Pseudo-Matthew, one of several gospels that circulated from the times of early Church. In the Pseudo-Matthew, Mary, Joseph, and Jesus stop by a date palm during their flight to Egypt after the
here, and that of the priest Eleazar, told subsequently are so powerful . . . that they served the church fathers as a paradigm for Christian martyrdom (Patterson, Living Witnesses, p. 522, who cites Frend, Martyrdom, pp. 2257); they
inscriptions in her honor have survived until recent times. She was also one of the saints most frequently portrayed on church screens, in stained glass windows, and in small works of art for private use. Katherine's appeal was even broader
thare scho es Qwene Thidir scho bringe us all bedene. Amen.] purification second; the meeting with Christ; (t-note) third lay church signifies every burning wick symbolized clearly wherein (t-note) (t-note) signifies; (t-note) brittle; soft (see note) other although; need such
Encyclopedia of Medieval Church Art, p. 184, fig. 6.22). See also Clark, Dance of Death, pp. 910. 31 Dugdale, History of St. Pauls Cathedral in London, pp. 13132. 32 See King, Pre-Reformation Painted Glass in St. Andrews Church, Norwich. 33