Brian Cummings
Biographic Data
| ID | 3871702 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brian Cummings |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brian |
| FAMILY NAME | Cummings |
| SIGNATURE | CUMMINGS B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of York |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7701-9354 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A Catholic Perspective on Covid-19
It took nearly two thousand years for society to recognize the Hippocratic insistence that “the doctor knows best” 1 was an inadequate approach to medical decisionmaking. Today, patient-centered medicine has come to understand that the individual patient has a significant role in the decisionmaking process. 2
Gay Erasmus
This article provides a new framework for understanding sexuality in Erasmus. It examines his correspondence with the monk Servaas Rogerszoon and with other familiars, making a critique of the use of letters for life writing before and after P. S. Allen’s edition. It discusses monastic contexts, especially within the Augustinian order, and humanist knowledge of same-sex values in Greek and Latin philology. Moving beyond biography, it recreates di…
Memory and Affect in Shakespeare's England
Bibliophobia: The End and the Beginning of the Book
How the Alphabet Came to Greece from Africa
This chapter is centred on the origins of the modern alphabet in ancient Greece. It opens with a philosophical discussion of the account of the invention of writing in Plato’s Phaedrus . Plato attacks writing as the source of a pharmakon— a medicine that is also a poison. This is traced, as it is in Plato, back to hieroglyphics in ancient Egypt. The history of their decipherment by Champollion in the Napoleonic period is introduced in order to in…
Remembering the Reformation
The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: From Aggressive Treatment to Care of the Dying, Insights from Art and Poetry
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
From Death to Life: Ethical Issues in Postmortem Sperm Retrieval as a Source of New Life
This paper examines and critiques the ethical issues in postmortem sperm retrieval and the use of postmortem sperm to create new life. The article was occasioned by the recent request of the parents of a West Point cadet who died in a skiing accident at the Academy to retrieve and use his sperm to honor his memory and perpetuate the family name. The request occasioned national media attention. A trial court judge in New York in a two-page order a…
Memory and the English Reformation
The dramatic religious revolutions of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries involved a battle over social memory. On one side, the Reformation repudiated key aspects of medieval commemorative culture; on the other, traditional religion claimed that Protestantism was a religion without memory. This volume shows how religious memory was sometimes attacked and extinguished, while at other times rehabilitated in a modified guise. It investigates ho…
Palinodiam Canere: Rhetoric, Philosophy, & Theology in Erasmus
Multievent Project: Remembering the Reformation , Universities of Cambridge and York, United Kingdom
Shakespeare and Early Modern Religion
Written by an international team of literary scholars and historians, this collaborative volume illuminates the diversity of early modern religious beliefs and practices in Shakespeare's England, and considers how religious culture is imaginatively reanimated in Shakespeare's plays. Fourteen new essays explore the creative ways Shakespeare engaged with the multifaceted dimensions of Protestantism, Catholicism, non-Christian religions including Ju…
Encyclopaedic Erasmus
Copiousness as an idea is centrally identified with E rasmus. De copia was a milestone in establishing E rasmus as a humanist scholar after its first publication in P aris in 1512. In turn, this book was a major influence on theories of rhetoric, and of writing in general, throughout the sixteenth century. Following on from C icero, E rasmus argues that style must be abundant in order to be effective, and that abundance consists of two primary el…
The Problem of Protestant Culture: Biblical Literalism and Literary Biblicism
Protestant culture, Patrick Collinson wrote, is often seen as a problem, or even a “nonentity.” The difficulty centres on the cultural value of the post-Reformation Bible. Charles Taylor has written eloquently of the gulf between scriptural truth and secular truth, and the slow death of literalism that this has entailed. James Simpson has endorsed this thesis in reverse, by decrying the literalism of Protestant readings as a curse on modern liber…
Religion
Cultural Reformations: Medieval and Renaissance in Literary History
The deepest periodic division in English literary history has been between the medieval and the early modern. 'Cultural Reformations' initiates discussion on many fronts in which both periods look different in dialogue with each other.
Conscience and the law in Thomas More
No figure in the early modern period is more identified with an ideal of personal conscience than Thomas More. However, the figure of More in modern imagination is almost completely at variance with the view of historians. Indeed, according to this consensus, far from being radically modern, More's understanding of conscience is carefully orthodox and conservative, in line with the scholastic concept of synderesis as developed by Bonaventure and …
‘The Oral Versus The Written’: The debates over Scripture in More and Tyndale
The relationship between scripture and tradition has always been recognised as central to the controversy between More and Tyndale in the late 1520s and early 1530s. It was already one of the key issues in the English campaign against Luther instigated in 1521, and in the 1540s became one of the lynchpins of confessional identity both among Catholic theologians at Trent and in the English reformed articles of 1553. This is often seen as a doctrin…
Martin Marprelate and the Popular Voice
The curious career of ‘Martin Marprelate, gentleman’ is one of the most notorious and at the same time elusive episodes in the history of English puritanism, inspiring endless if largely futile speculation into the identity of its author. Part literary canard, part political scandal, part detective story, for around a calendar year between October 1588 and September 1589, Martin and his associates kept one step ahead of the pursuivants and produc…
Luther and the Book: The Iconography of the Ninety-Five Theses
Luther’s Ninety-Five Theses are not perhaps the book of the millennium, but they have some claim to being one of the books of the half-millennium. Few books in Church history can have had as much effect as this single-page broadsheet. Through this text, or so it is sometimes represented, Western Christianity was cut in two. The Ninety-Five Theses heralded the new age of print, with its capacity to transform culture in ways which have a strong res…
The Literary Culture of the Reformation: Grammar and Grace
To examine the Reformation in writing and the writing of the Reformation is to uncover an unfamiliar archaeology of religion: an underground network of text and commentary, of translation and controversy. In this study, Brian Cummings not only provides a new visibility to the complex cultural processes of writing in England and the Continent, he also underlines the significance of the neglected hinterland of grammar during this turbulent period.
Literally Speaking, or, the Literal Sense from Augustine to Lacan
Justifying God in Tyndale's English
Milton's promise to 'justify the ways of God to men' is a phrase which has entered the English language, not only because of the poet's genius and stamina in apparently fulfilling his promise, but because of the brazenness of the ambition in the first place. The word that sticks in the mind is the strange verb justify. Pope, rewriting the line in An Essay on Man, changed just that one word in offering instead to 'vindicate the ways of God to Man'…
Literally Speaking, or, the Literal Sense from Augustine to Lacan
Gay Erasmus
This article provides a new framework for understanding sexuality in Erasmus. It examines his correspondence with the monk Servaas Rogerszoon and with other familiars, making a critique of the use of letters for life writing before and after P. S. Allen’s edition. It discusses monastic contexts, especially within the Augustinian order, and humanist knowledge of same-sex values in Greek and Latin philology. Moving beyond biography, it recreates di…
Encyclopaedic Erasmus
Copiousness as an idea is centrally identified with E rasmus. De copia was a milestone in establishing E rasmus as a humanist scholar after its first publication in P aris in 1512. In turn, this book was a major influence on theories of rhetoric, and of writing in general, throughout the sixteenth century. Following on from C icero, E rasmus argues that style must be abundant in order to be effective, and that abundance consists of two primary el…
Conscience and the law in Thomas More
No figure in the early modern period is more identified with an ideal of personal conscience than Thomas More. However, the figure of More in modern imagination is almost completely at variance with the view of historians. Indeed, according to this consensus, far from being radically modern, More's understanding of conscience is carefully orthodox and conservative, in line with the scholastic concept of synderesis as developed by Bonaventure and …
Justifying God in Tyndale's English
Milton's promise to 'justify the ways of God to men' is a phrase which has entered the English language, not only because of the poet's genius and stamina in apparently fulfilling his promise, but because of the brazenness of the ambition in the first place. The word that sticks in the mind is the strange verb justify. Pope, rewriting the line in An Essay on Man, changed just that one word in offering instead to 'vindicate the ways of God to Man'…
Literally Speaking, or, the Literal Sense from Augustine to Lacan
The Literary Culture of the Reformation: Grammar and Grace
To examine the Reformation in writing and the writing of the Reformation is to uncover an unfamiliar archaeology of religion: an underground network of text and commentary, of translation and controversy. In this study, Brian Cummings not only provides a new visibility to the complex cultural processes of writing in England and the Continent, he also underlines the significance of the neglected hinterland of grammar during this turbulent period.
Luther and the Book: The Iconography of the Ninety-Five Theses
Luther’s Ninety-Five Theses are not perhaps the book of the millennium, but they have some claim to being one of the books of the half-millennium. Few books in Church history can have had as much effect as this single-page broadsheet. Through this text, or so it is sometimes represented, Western Christianity was cut in two. The Ninety-Five Theses heralded the new age of print, with its capacity to transform culture in ways which have a strong res…
Martin Marprelate and the Popular Voice
The curious career of ‘Martin Marprelate, gentleman’ is one of the most notorious and at the same time elusive episodes in the history of English puritanism, inspiring endless if largely futile speculation into the identity of its author. Part literary canard, part political scandal, part detective story, for around a calendar year between October 1588 and September 1589, Martin and his associates kept one step ahead of the pursuivants and produc…
‘The Oral Versus The Written’: The debates over Scripture in More and Tyndale
The relationship between scripture and tradition has always been recognised as central to the controversy between More and Tyndale in the late 1520s and early 1530s. It was already one of the key issues in the English campaign against Luther instigated in 1521, and in the 1540s became one of the lynchpins of confessional identity both among Catholic theologians at Trent and in the English reformed articles of 1553. This is often seen as a doctrin…
Conscience and the law in Thomas More
No figure in the early modern period is more identified with an ideal of personal conscience than Thomas More. However, the figure of More in modern imagination is almost completely at variance with the view of historians. Indeed, according to this consensus, far from being radically modern, More's understanding of conscience is carefully orthodox and conservative, in line with the scholastic concept of synderesis as developed by Bonaventure and …
Cultural Reformations: Medieval and Renaissance in Literary History
The deepest periodic division in English literary history has been between the medieval and the early modern. 'Cultural Reformations' initiates discussion on many fronts in which both periods look different in dialogue with each other.
Religion
The Problem of Protestant Culture: Biblical Literalism and Literary Biblicism
Protestant culture, Patrick Collinson wrote, is often seen as a problem, or even a “nonentity.” The difficulty centres on the cultural value of the post-Reformation Bible. Charles Taylor has written eloquently of the gulf between scriptural truth and secular truth, and the slow death of literalism that this has entailed. James Simpson has endorsed this thesis in reverse, by decrying the literalism of Protestant readings as a curse on modern liber…
Encyclopaedic Erasmus
Copiousness as an idea is centrally identified with E rasmus. De copia was a milestone in establishing E rasmus as a humanist scholar after its first publication in P aris in 1512. In turn, this book was a major influence on theories of rhetoric, and of writing in general, throughout the sixteenth century. Following on from C icero, E rasmus argues that style must be abundant in order to be effective, and that abundance consists of two primary el…
Shakespeare and Early Modern Religion
Written by an international team of literary scholars and historians, this collaborative volume illuminates the diversity of early modern religious beliefs and practices in Shakespeare's England, and considers how religious culture is imaginatively reanimated in Shakespeare's plays. Fourteen new essays explore the creative ways Shakespeare engaged with the multifaceted dimensions of Protestantism, Catholicism, non-Christian religions including Ju…
Palinodiam Canere: Rhetoric, Philosophy, & Theology in Erasmus
Multievent Project: Remembering the Reformation , Universities of Cambridge and York, United Kingdom
Remembering the Reformation
The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: From Aggressive Treatment to Care of the Dying, Insights from Art and Poetry
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
From Death to Life: Ethical Issues in Postmortem Sperm Retrieval as a Source of New Life
This paper examines and critiques the ethical issues in postmortem sperm retrieval and the use of postmortem sperm to create new life. The article was occasioned by the recent request of the parents of a West Point cadet who died in a skiing accident at the Academy to retrieve and use his sperm to honor his memory and perpetuate the family name. The request occasioned national media attention. A trial court judge in New York in a two-page order a…
Memory and the English Reformation
The dramatic religious revolutions of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries involved a battle over social memory. On one side, the Reformation repudiated key aspects of medieval commemorative culture; on the other, traditional religion claimed that Protestantism was a religion without memory. This volume shows how religious memory was sometimes attacked and extinguished, while at other times rehabilitated in a modified guise. It investigates ho…
Bibliophobia: The End and the Beginning of the Book
How the Alphabet Came to Greece from Africa
This chapter is centred on the origins of the modern alphabet in ancient Greece. It opens with a philosophical discussion of the account of the invention of writing in Plato’s Phaedrus . Plato attacks writing as the source of a pharmakon— a medicine that is also a poison. This is traced, as it is in Plato, back to hieroglyphics in ancient Egypt. The history of their decipherment by Champollion in the Napoleonic period is introduced in order to in…
Memory and Affect in Shakespeare's England
A Catholic Perspective on Covid-19
It took nearly two thousand years for society to recognize the Hippocratic insistence that “the doctor knows best” 1 was an inadequate approach to medical decisionmaking. Today, patient-centered medicine has come to understand that the individual patient has a significant role in the decisionmaking process. 2
Gay Erasmus
This article provides a new framework for understanding sexuality in Erasmus. It examines his correspondence with the monk Servaas Rogerszoon and with other familiars, making a critique of the use of letters for life writing before and after P. S. Allen’s edition. It discusses monastic contexts, especially within the Augustinian order, and humanist knowledge of same-sex values in Greek and Latin philology. Moving beyond biography, it recreates di…
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