Peter Darby
Biographic Data
| ID | 5747190 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Darby |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Darby |
| SIGNATURE | DARBY P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nottingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5664-7706 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Bishop Torhthelm’s letter to Boniface
In c .738, St Boniface distributed a circular letter to a broad audience of ecclesiastics in England. One response to that letter survives, written by Torhthelm, bishop of the Middle Angles (737–64). The letter is written in an allusive style and borrows heavily from its main source, Pope Vitalian’s letter to Oswiu, king of Northumbria. This essay offers a comprehensive study of Torhthelm’s letter and provides new insights into the culture of let…
Ælfflæd of Whitby’s Letter to Adela of Pfalzel
In early medieval Northumbria, the monastery of Whitby emerged as an important centre of religious, cultural, and political influence under the leadership of its abbesses. Whitby was a double monastery governed by women of high status, notably Hild and her successor Ælfflæd, both of whom were closely connected to the secular aristocracy. This article offers a comprehensive analysis of Ælfflæd’s Latin letter to the continental abbess Adela, one of…
Celia Chazelle, The Codex Amiatinus and its ‘Sister’ Bibles
The Presentation of Jerome’s First Letter to Paulinus of Nola in the Codex Amiatinus Pentateuch Diagram
A diagram in the first quire of the Codex Amiatinus features five textual captions arranged in cruciform formation, one for each book of the Pentateuch. These are taken from Jerome’s first letter to Paulinus of Nola (Epistle 53) which was written in 394 ad. This article examines the diagram’s colours, geometric structure, manuscript location and script. It suggests that the Pentateuch diagram should be regarded as a highly original piece of visua…
The Codex Amiatinus Maiestas Domini and the Gospel Prefaces of Jerome
The manuscript art of the early medieval West was intimately connected to the textual cultures associated with Christian monasticism. The act of pairing illuminations and written content opens up myriad possibilities for meaningful correspondences to be made between image and text. Such opportunities were regularly exploited in the illuminated manuscripts produced in Britain and Ireland between the sixth and ninth centuries. 1 The illuminators of…
The Apocalypse in the Early Middle Ages, by James T. Palmer
This book, by James T. Palmer, provides a detailed overview of the different ways in which apocalyptic thought interacted with social, theological and political changes across six and a half centuries of early medieval history ( c .380– c. 1033). The book was written, the author tells us, because he was surprised to find, after committing to teach the subject to undergraduates, that a single-volume treatment of early medieval apocalypticism did n…
B ede, iconoclasm and the T emple of S olomon
In B ede's lifetime ( c .673–735) the churches at W earmouth‐ J arrow were richly decorated with panel paintings from Rome. This essay examines the significance that those paintings held for B ede and his community, and it reveals the strategies that B ede employed to defend them in his commentary on the T emple of S olomon ( D e templo ), which was written after images had become a contentious issue in B yzantium during the reign of E mperor L e…
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B ede, iconoclasm and the T emple of S olomon
In B ede's lifetime ( c .673–735) the churches at W earmouth‐ J arrow were richly decorated with panel paintings from Rome. This essay examines the significance that those paintings held for B ede and his community, and it reveals the strategies that B ede employed to defend them in his commentary on the T emple of S olomon ( D e templo ), which was written after images had become a contentious issue in B yzantium during the reign of E mperor L e…
The Apocalypse in the Early Middle Ages, by James T. Palmer
This book, by James T. Palmer, provides a detailed overview of the different ways in which apocalyptic thought interacted with social, theological and political changes across six and a half centuries of early medieval history ( c .380– c. 1033). The book was written, the author tells us, because he was surprised to find, after committing to teach the subject to undergraduates, that a single-volume treatment of early medieval apocalypticism did n…
The Codex Amiatinus Maiestas Domini and the Gospel Prefaces of Jerome
The manuscript art of the early medieval West was intimately connected to the textual cultures associated with Christian monasticism. The act of pairing illuminations and written content opens up myriad possibilities for meaningful correspondences to be made between image and text. Such opportunities were regularly exploited in the illuminated manuscripts produced in Britain and Ireland between the sixth and ninth centuries. 1 The illuminators of…
The Presentation of Jerome’s First Letter to Paulinus of Nola in the Codex Amiatinus Pentateuch Diagram
A diagram in the first quire of the Codex Amiatinus features five textual captions arranged in cruciform formation, one for each book of the Pentateuch. These are taken from Jerome’s first letter to Paulinus of Nola (Epistle 53) which was written in 394 ad. This article examines the diagram’s colours, geometric structure, manuscript location and script. It suggests that the Pentateuch diagram should be regarded as a highly original piece of visua…
Celia Chazelle, The Codex Amiatinus and its ‘Sister’ Bibles
Ælfflæd of Whitby’s Letter to Adela of Pfalzel
In early medieval Northumbria, the monastery of Whitby emerged as an important centre of religious, cultural, and political influence under the leadership of its abbesses. Whitby was a double monastery governed by women of high status, notably Hild and her successor Ælfflæd, both of whom were closely connected to the secular aristocracy. This article offers a comprehensive analysis of Ælfflæd’s Latin letter to the continental abbess Adela, one of…
Bishop Torhthelm’s letter to Boniface
In c .738, St Boniface distributed a circular letter to a broad audience of ecclesiastics in England. One response to that letter survives, written by Torhthelm, bishop of the Middle Angles (737–64). The letter is written in an allusive style and borrows heavily from its main source, Pope Vitalian’s letter to Oswiu, king of Northumbria. This essay offers a comprehensive study of Torhthelm’s letter and provides new insights into the culture of let…
History (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Byzantine Studies and History (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Classics (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Historical and Linguistic Studies (3 works) · Historical and Religious Studies of Rome (3 works) · History (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works)