Conrad Leyser
Biographic Data
| ID | 2326702 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Conrad Leyser |
| GIVEN NAMES | Conrad |
| FAMILY NAME | Leyser |
| SIGNATURE | LEYSER C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 23 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Through the eyes of a deacon
This is a study of the cults of two holy deacons at Rome: St Stephen and St Laurence. It is argued that the narratives associated with these saints were a medium for the resolution of two key, overlapping areas of tension: status anxiety within the clerical hierarchy, and relations between clergy and wealthy lay patrons. Controlling the ambitions of lesser clergy on the one hand, and on the other commanding the attention of major donors, absorbed…
Introduction The transformation of law in the late and post‐Roman world
The Transformation of Law in the Late and Post-Roman World
Law, memory, and priestly office in Rome, c .500
This essay sets the development of Christian thinking about law and clerical office in the wider context of the discussion of office in the later Roman empire. It offers a reassessment of the work of Dionysius Exiguus, a well‐known translator from Greek into Latin of the Acts of the fourth‐ and fifth‐century church councils, and a compiler of papal decretals. The essay attempts to place Dionysius’ work in its immediate Roman context, in the conte…
Settlement, Landscape and Narrative
And the Lord set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him. And Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden. And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch. Genesis 4:15–17 Some seventy years ago, in his What Happened in History, the archaeologist Gordon Childe proposed a model for th…
George E. Demacopoulos. Gregory the Great
“Holy Jacob desired Rachel, but in the night received Lia,” says Pope Gregory the Great (d. 604) in his Homilies on Ezekiel, “because every one who is converted to the Lord, desires the contemplative life, longs for the rest of the everlasting Country; but first it is necessary that in the night of the present life he work what good he can, and exert himself in labour, that is to say, receive Lia, that afterwards in the embraces of Rachel he may …
Making Early Medieval Societies
Making Early Medieval Societies explores a fundamental question: what held the small- and large-scale communities of the late Roman and early medieval West together, at a time when the world seemed to be falling apart? Historians and anthropologists have traditionally asked parallel questions about the rise and fall of empires and how societies create a sense of belonging and social order in the absence of strong governmental institutions. This b…
Introduction to the Princeton Classics Edition
Making Early Medieval Societies
The King's Two Bodies
GLENN W. Olsen. Of Sodomites, Effeminates, Hermaphrodites, and Androgynes
This book, which concerns forbidden desires, wrestles with its own temptation, named, with dry wit, as that of “illicit generalization” (p. 42). Glenn W. Olsen's view is that the history of sexuality is best advanced not by grand narratives of transformation but by close, humane, and learned readings of particular texts. The result is a sustained meditation on an eleventh-century tract on clerical sodomy, as remarkable for its breadth as its dept…
Peaceful Kings
Episcopal Office in the Italy of Liudprand of Cremona, c.890-c.970
Journal Article Episcopal Office in the Italy of Liudprand of Cremona, c.890–c.970 Get access Conrad Leyser Conrad Leyser Worcester College, Oxford [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXV, Issue 515, August 2010, Pages 795–817, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/ceq160 Published: 01 August 2010
Late Antiquity in the Medieval West
This chapter contains sections titled: Letters and the Renewing of Memory: The Carolingian Renaissance Sites of Memory: Monasticism and the Cult of the Saints The Making of Gregory “the Great” Conclusion Bibliographical Note
Perceptions of the Past in the Early Middle Ages
Presented here are three studies of eighth- and ninth-century historiography, viewed as part of a larger project of Carolingian self-understanding in relation to the past. The first study surveys the Christian world chronicle tradition established by Eusebius, continued in the fourth century by Jerome, and in the Carolingian Empire by writers such as Ado of Vienna and Regino of Prüm. The second draws together a range of texts—pilgrim itineraries,…
Das monastische Experiment
The Uses of the Desert in the Sixth-Century West
This essay surveys the cultural uses of the Egyptian desert in western ascetic culture across the fifth and sixth centuries. Challenging the commonly-held assumption that the desert was effectively suppressed by clerical hierarchies or monastic communities in the West, the essay argues that the institutions of the episcopacy and the monastery, the twin pillars of the medieval Church, in fact sought to lay their foundations squarely in the memory …
Dark Age Rome
This paper represents a report on work in progress at the University of Manchester’s Centre for Late Antiquity. The goal of our research is to open a new chapter in research on late ancient and Early Medieval Rome, through the systematic collation and diffusion of relatively neglected sources, in particular the Roman gesta martyrum . They are not usually considered as a source for the social history of the city, because of their transparently ten…
The Year 1000
The Early History of Greed
Journal Article The Early History of Greed: The Sin of Avarice in Early Medieval Thought and Literature Get access Conrad Leyser Conrad Leyser Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 118, Issue 477, June 2003, Pages 741–742, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/118.477.741 Published: 01 June 2003
The Emergence of Monasticism
1University of Manchester The Emergence of Monasticism: From the Desert Fathers to the Early Middle Ages MarilynDunn OxfordBlackwell 2000280£45
The temptations of cult
Pope Gregory the Great (590–604) was arguably the most important Roman writer and civic leader of the early middle ages; the Roman martyrs were certainly the most important cult figures of the city. However modern scholarship on the relationship between Gregory and the Roman martyrs remains curiously underdeveloped, and has been principally devoted to comparison of the gesta martyrum with the stories of Italian holy men and women (in particular S…
The Gender of Grace
This essay attempts to stage an encounter between post‐Foucauldian approaches to masculinity in the ancient world on the one hand, and the reading of Augustine of Hippo's idea of Original Sin as a disjunction of the will, put forward in Robert Markus's Saeculum: History and Society in the Theology of Saint Augustine . Emphasis is placed on Book XIV of the City of God , where Augustine emblematises the result of Original Sin not – pace Foucault – …
Shorter note. The Atlas of Medieval Europe. Angus MacKay, David Ditchburn
Journal Article Shorter note. The Atlas of Medieval Europe. Angus MacKay, David Ditchburn Get access C Leyser C Leyser University of Manchester, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 114, Issue 457, June 1999, Pages 703–704, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/114.457.703 Published: 01 June 1999
Custom, Truth, and Gender in Eleventh-Century Reform
The Lord did not say, “I am custom”, but “I am Truth”.’ So, allegedly, Pope Gregory VII, in words that – among medievalists at least – have become almost as well known as the Scriptural text to which they refer, ‘I am the way, the truth, and the life’ (John 14.6). The Gregorian dictum embodies the paradox at the centre of the movement for Church Reform in the eleventh century, a paradox which continues to shape historiographical discussion of the…
The temptations of cult
Pope Gregory the Great (590–604) was arguably the most important Roman writer and civic leader of the early middle ages; the Roman martyrs were certainly the most important cult figures of the city. However modern scholarship on the relationship between Gregory and the Roman martyrs remains curiously underdeveloped, and has been principally devoted to comparison of the gesta martyrum with the stories of Italian holy men and women (in particular S…
The Gender of Grace
This essay attempts to stage an encounter between post‐Foucauldian approaches to masculinity in the ancient world on the one hand, and the reading of Augustine of Hippo's idea of Original Sin as a disjunction of the will, put forward in Robert Markus's Saeculum: History and Society in the Theology of Saint Augustine . Emphasis is placed on Book XIV of the City of God , where Augustine emblematises the result of Original Sin not – pace Foucault – …
Introduction The transformation of law in the late and post‐Roman world
The Transformation of Law in the Late and Post-Roman World
Settlement, Landscape and Narrative
And the Lord set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him. And Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden. And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch. Genesis 4:15–17 Some seventy years ago, in his What Happened in History, the archaeologist Gordon Childe proposed a model for th…
Custom, Truth, and Gender in Eleventh-Century Reform
The Lord did not say, “I am custom”, but “I am Truth”.’ So, allegedly, Pope Gregory VII, in words that – among medievalists at least – have become almost as well known as the Scriptural text to which they refer, ‘I am the way, the truth, and the life’ (John 14.6). The Gregorian dictum embodies the paradox at the centre of the movement for Church Reform in the eleventh century, a paradox which continues to shape historiographical discussion of the…
Shorter note. The Atlas of Medieval Europe. Angus MacKay, David Ditchburn
Journal Article Shorter note. The Atlas of Medieval Europe. Angus MacKay, David Ditchburn Get access C Leyser C Leyser University of Manchester, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 114, Issue 457, June 1999, Pages 703–704, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/114.457.703 Published: 01 June 1999
The temptations of cult
Pope Gregory the Great (590–604) was arguably the most important Roman writer and civic leader of the early middle ages; the Roman martyrs were certainly the most important cult figures of the city. However modern scholarship on the relationship between Gregory and the Roman martyrs remains curiously underdeveloped, and has been principally devoted to comparison of the gesta martyrum with the stories of Italian holy men and women (in particular S…
The Gender of Grace
This essay attempts to stage an encounter between post‐Foucauldian approaches to masculinity in the ancient world on the one hand, and the reading of Augustine of Hippo's idea of Original Sin as a disjunction of the will, put forward in Robert Markus's Saeculum: History and Society in the Theology of Saint Augustine . Emphasis is placed on Book XIV of the City of God , where Augustine emblematises the result of Original Sin not – pace Foucault – …
The Emergence of Monasticism
1University of Manchester The Emergence of Monasticism: From the Desert Fathers to the Early Middle Ages MarilynDunn OxfordBlackwell 2000280£45
The Early History of Greed
Journal Article The Early History of Greed: The Sin of Avarice in Early Medieval Thought and Literature Get access Conrad Leyser Conrad Leyser Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 118, Issue 477, June 2003, Pages 741–742, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/118.477.741 Published: 01 June 2003
The Year 1000
The Uses of the Desert in the Sixth-Century West
This essay surveys the cultural uses of the Egyptian desert in western ascetic culture across the fifth and sixth centuries. Challenging the commonly-held assumption that the desert was effectively suppressed by clerical hierarchies or monastic communities in the West, the essay argues that the institutions of the episcopacy and the monastery, the twin pillars of the medieval Church, in fact sought to lay their foundations squarely in the memory …
Dark Age Rome
This paper represents a report on work in progress at the University of Manchester’s Centre for Late Antiquity. The goal of our research is to open a new chapter in research on late ancient and Early Medieval Rome, through the systematic collation and diffusion of relatively neglected sources, in particular the Roman gesta martyrum . They are not usually considered as a source for the social history of the city, because of their transparently ten…
Das monastische Experiment
Perceptions of the Past in the Early Middle Ages
Presented here are three studies of eighth- and ninth-century historiography, viewed as part of a larger project of Carolingian self-understanding in relation to the past. The first study surveys the Christian world chronicle tradition established by Eusebius, continued in the fourth century by Jerome, and in the Carolingian Empire by writers such as Ado of Vienna and Regino of Prüm. The second draws together a range of texts—pilgrim itineraries,…
Late Antiquity in the Medieval West
This chapter contains sections titled: Letters and the Renewing of Memory: The Carolingian Renaissance Sites of Memory: Monasticism and the Cult of the Saints The Making of Gregory “the Great” Conclusion Bibliographical Note
Episcopal Office in the Italy of Liudprand of Cremona, c.890-c.970
Journal Article Episcopal Office in the Italy of Liudprand of Cremona, c.890–c.970 Get access Conrad Leyser Conrad Leyser Worcester College, Oxford [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXV, Issue 515, August 2010, Pages 795–817, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/ceq160 Published: 01 August 2010
Peaceful Kings
GLENN W. Olsen. Of Sodomites, Effeminates, Hermaphrodites, and Androgynes
This book, which concerns forbidden desires, wrestles with its own temptation, named, with dry wit, as that of “illicit generalization” (p. 42). Glenn W. Olsen's view is that the history of sexuality is best advanced not by grand narratives of transformation but by close, humane, and learned readings of particular texts. The result is a sustained meditation on an eleventh-century tract on clerical sodomy, as remarkable for its breadth as its dept…
Making Early Medieval Societies
Making Early Medieval Societies explores a fundamental question: what held the small- and large-scale communities of the late Roman and early medieval West together, at a time when the world seemed to be falling apart? Historians and anthropologists have traditionally asked parallel questions about the rise and fall of empires and how societies create a sense of belonging and social order in the absence of strong governmental institutions. This b…
Introduction to the Princeton Classics Edition
Making Early Medieval Societies
The King's Two Bodies
George E. Demacopoulos. Gregory the Great
“Holy Jacob desired Rachel, but in the night received Lia,” says Pope Gregory the Great (d. 604) in his Homilies on Ezekiel, “because every one who is converted to the Lord, desires the contemplative life, longs for the rest of the everlasting Country; but first it is necessary that in the night of the present life he work what good he can, and exert himself in labour, that is to say, receive Lia, that afterwards in the embraces of Rachel he may …
Settlement, Landscape and Narrative
And the Lord set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him. And Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden. And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch. Genesis 4:15–17 Some seventy years ago, in his What Happened in History, the archaeologist Gordon Childe proposed a model for th…
Introduction The transformation of law in the late and post‐Roman world
The Transformation of Law in the Late and Post-Roman World
Law, memory, and priestly office in Rome, c .500
This essay sets the development of Christian thinking about law and clerical office in the wider context of the discussion of office in the later Roman empire. It offers a reassessment of the work of Dionysius Exiguus, a well‐known translator from Greek into Latin of the Acts of the fourth‐ and fifth‐century church councils, and a compiler of papal decretals. The essay attempts to place Dionysius’ work in its immediate Roman context, in the conte…
Through the eyes of a deacon
This is a study of the cults of two holy deacons at Rome: St Stephen and St Laurence. It is argued that the narratives associated with these saints were a medium for the resolution of two key, overlapping areas of tension: status anxiety within the clerical hierarchy, and relations between clergy and wealthy lay patrons. Controlling the ambitions of lesser clergy on the one hand, and on the other commanding the attention of major donors, absorbed…
History (20 works) · Classics (15 works) · Medieval Literature and History (15 works) · Art (12 works) · Historical and Religious Studies of Rome (12 works) · History (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Byzantine Studies and History (9 works) · Philosophy (9 works)