John Wortley
Biographic Data
| ID | 1431114 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Wortley |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Wortley |
| SIGNATURE | WORTLEY J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manitoba |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Local Correspondence of the Royal African Company of England, 1681–1699, Vol. 3
Comte Paul Riant, Exuviae sacrae Constantinopolitanae
Exuviae can mean both the armour stripped from the defeated and also “special attributes of gods carried in processions”, hence it is a most appropriate title for this work which is mainly concerned with the holy relics which the participants in the Fourth Crusade carried off from the vanquished capital on the Bosporus. They took a great deal else beside relics of course, but the relics were of particular importance, partly because (as A. Frolow …
The origins of Christian veneration of body-parts
Why did Christians chose to retain human corpses unburied and to dismember them, when most other people felt obliged to dispose of the dead, usually by burial or incineration? Three possible reasons are discussed. First, the marked emphasis on physical contact in all the biblical cases of healing (a buried body cannot be touched). Secondly, incinerated remains could be legally retained unburied and may have provided the earliest objects of Christ…
The Life of Lazaros of Mt. Galesion
The Local Correspondence of the Royal African Company of England, 1681–1699, Vol. 2
The Correspondence of Ignatios the Deacon. Ignatios the Deacon , Cyril Mango , Stephanos Efthymiadis
Holy Women of Byzantium
Symeon the Holy Fool
Aging and the Aged in Aesopic Fables
Little attempt has been made to re-assess the attitudes to aging and old age of the ancient-medieval Greek-speaking world on the basis of the literary remains (which are common to both) since Richardson (1933). There are however some collections (proverbs, sayings, "purple passages" from literature and so forth) which include material revealing attitudes which are in fact quite different from those of today and which can even be surprising. One s…
Digenes Akrites
Saint Nicholas of Myra, Bari, and Manhattan
Byzantium and Bulgaria
Les listes de préséance Byzantines des IXe et Xe siècles . Nicolas Oikonomidès
The Art of the Byzantine Empire 312-1453 Cyril Mango Englewood-Cliffs, NJ
The Art of the Byzantine Empire 312-1453 Cyril Mango Englewood-Cliffs, NJ
Les listes de préséance Byzantines des IXe et Xe siècles . Nicolas Oikonomidès
Byzantium and Bulgaria
Saint Nicholas of Myra, Bari, and Manhattan
Digenes Akrites
Symeon the Holy Fool
Aging and the Aged in Aesopic Fables
Little attempt has been made to re-assess the attitudes to aging and old age of the ancient-medieval Greek-speaking world on the basis of the literary remains (which are common to both) since Richardson (1933). There are however some collections (proverbs, sayings, "purple passages" from literature and so forth) which include material revealing attitudes which are in fact quite different from those of today and which can even be surprising. One s…
Holy Women of Byzantium
The Correspondence of Ignatios the Deacon. Ignatios the Deacon , Cyril Mango , Stephanos Efthymiadis
The Local Correspondence of the Royal African Company of England, 1681–1699, Vol. 2
The Life of Lazaros of Mt. Galesion
The Local Correspondence of the Royal African Company of England, 1681–1699, Vol. 3
Comte Paul Riant, Exuviae sacrae Constantinopolitanae
Exuviae can mean both the armour stripped from the defeated and also “special attributes of gods carried in processions”, hence it is a most appropriate title for this work which is mainly concerned with the holy relics which the participants in the Fourth Crusade carried off from the vanquished capital on the Bosporus. They took a great deal else beside relics of course, but the relics were of particular importance, partly because (as A. Frolow …
The origins of Christian veneration of body-parts
Why did Christians chose to retain human corpses unburied and to dismember them, when most other people felt obliged to dispose of the dead, usually by burial or incineration? Three possible reasons are discussed. First, the marked emphasis on physical contact in all the biblical cases of healing (a buried body cannot be touched). Secondly, incinerated remains could be legally retained unburied and may have provided the earliest objects of Christ…
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