Albrecht Diem
Biographic Data
| ID | 1209282 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Albrecht Diem |
| GIVEN NAMES | Albrecht |
| FAMILY NAME | Diem |
| SIGNATURE | DIEM A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Syracuse University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2610-2043 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Regulating Passions: Emotional Discipline in Early Mediaeval Monastic Rules
Early mediaeval monastic rules not only provided outlines for organising communities, behavioural norms and disciplinary measures but also aimed at controlling, repressing and fostering emotions. They developed distinct strategies of emotional discipline based on different notions of the nature of emotions and their impact on the pursuit of salvation. I compare the emotional disciplines of three monastic rules: the Rule of Benedict, which became …
The Limitations of Asceticism
This article discusses the limitations and advantages of using ›asceticism‹ as a universal category and as a hermeneutic tool in the study of late antique religious life and comparative studies of religious communities. It first explores the roots and the history of the terms ›asceticism‹, ›Askese‹ and ›ascétisme‹ arguing that they originate from early modern scholarly traditions rather than being based on the language of late antique and early m…
Teaching Sodomy in a Carolingian Monastery: A Study of Walahfrid Strabo’s and Heito’s Visio Wettini
In 824 the monk and teacher Wetti of Reichenau experienced a terrifying vision in which an angel led him through an afterlife where monks, clerics and laypeople experienced a variety of temporal and eternal punishments. Only the intercession of saints, martyrs and virgins saves Wetti, who would have been irrevocably doomed because he had corrupted his students through his teaching, his bad example and his deeds. Wetti’s fellow monk Heito wrote a …
The Gender of the Religious: Wo/Men and the Invention of Monasticism
This article analyzes the different textual techniques that, by marginalizing female religious life, have created the common perception that female monasticism was a mere variant of a dominant male monastic model. As a counter to that common perception, I examine what female and male monasticism shared in the early middle ages, and I ask to what extent we can regard medieval monastic life as a sequence of unisex experiments, that is, experiments …
Columbans gestohlener Handschuh - ein (Anti-)Fetisch?: Beobachtungen zur Hierarchie und Macht der Objekte
Monks, Kings, and the Transformation of Sanctity: Jonas of Bobbio and the End of the Holy Man
The Limitations of Asceticism
This article discusses the limitations and advantages of using ›asceticism‹ as a universal category and as a hermeneutic tool in the study of late antique religious life and comparative studies of religious communities. It first explores the roots and the history of the terms ›asceticism‹, ›Askese‹ and ›ascétisme‹ arguing that they originate from early modern scholarly traditions rather than being based on the language of late antique and early m…
Monks, Kings, and the Transformation of Sanctity: Jonas of Bobbio and the End of the Holy Man
Monks, Kings, and the Transformation of Sanctity: Jonas of Bobbio and the End of the Holy Man
Columbans gestohlener Handschuh - ein (Anti-)Fetisch?: Beobachtungen zur Hierarchie und Macht der Objekte
The Gender of the Religious: Wo/Men and the Invention of Monasticism
This article analyzes the different textual techniques that, by marginalizing female religious life, have created the common perception that female monasticism was a mere variant of a dominant male monastic model. As a counter to that common perception, I examine what female and male monasticism shared in the early middle ages, and I ask to what extent we can regard medieval monastic life as a sequence of unisex experiments, that is, experiments …
Teaching Sodomy in a Carolingian Monastery: A Study of Walahfrid Strabo’s and Heito’s Visio Wettini
In 824 the monk and teacher Wetti of Reichenau experienced a terrifying vision in which an angel led him through an afterlife where monks, clerics and laypeople experienced a variety of temporal and eternal punishments. Only the intercession of saints, martyrs and virgins saves Wetti, who would have been irrevocably doomed because he had corrupted his students through his teaching, his bad example and his deeds. Wetti’s fellow monk Heito wrote a …
The Limitations of Asceticism
This article discusses the limitations and advantages of using ›asceticism‹ as a universal category and as a hermeneutic tool in the study of late antique religious life and comparative studies of religious communities. It first explores the roots and the history of the terms ›asceticism‹, ›Askese‹ and ›ascétisme‹ arguing that they originate from early modern scholarly traditions rather than being based on the language of late antique and early m…
Regulating Passions: Emotional Discipline in Early Mediaeval Monastic Rules
Early mediaeval monastic rules not only provided outlines for organising communities, behavioural norms and disciplinary measures but also aimed at controlling, repressing and fostering emotions. They developed distinct strategies of emotional discipline based on different notions of the nature of emotions and their impact on the pursuit of salvation. I compare the emotional disciplines of three monastic rules: the Rule of Benedict, which became …
Art (3 works) · History (3 works) · Medieval Literature and History (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity (3 works) · Classics (2 works) · Historical and Religious Studies of Rome (2 works) · Historical, Literary, and Cultural Studies (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Middle Ages (2 works)