Diana Wood
Biographic Data
| ID | 5846095 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Diana Wood |
| GIVEN NAMES | Diana |
| FAMILY NAME | Wood |
| SIGNATURE | WOOD D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of East Anglia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Discipline and Diversity in the Medieval English Sunday
The medieval Church had strict disciplinary rules about how Sunday should be observed, but in England there was considerable diversity in interpreting and honouring them. The medieval English Sunday is a vast and challenging subject, yet despite this, and the controversy excited by the Sunday Trading Act of 1994 which allowed shops to open, it has excited little recent attention. The discipline of Sunday was laid down in the Third Commandment (Ex…
Lesyng of Tyme’
Then came Sloth, all be-slobbered, with two slimy eyes. ‘I must sit down to be shriven,’ quoth he, ‘or else I shall fall asleep. I can’t stand or prop myself up, or kneel without a hassock. If I were put to bed, no amount of bell-ringing would get me up until I was ready for dinner – well, not unless I had to relieve myself This is Langland’s description of Sloth in Piers Plowman . Originally a monastic vice, meaning boredom with the cell, sloth,…
John of Ayton’s ‘Grumbling Gloss’
The canonist John of Ayton was described by Maitland as being ‘a little too human to be strictly scientific’. His best-known work, the commentary on the legatine constitutions of Otto (1237) and Ottobuono (1268), was dubbed a ‘grumbling gloss’, which often became ‘a growl against the bad world in which he lives, the greedy prelates, the hypocritical friars, the rapacious officials’. But this, while it may not make him the ideal canonist, is preci…
Vatikanische Akten zur Geschichte des Bistums Passau und der Herzöge und Österreich (1342–1378), I
Vatikanische Akten zur Geschichte des Bistums Passau und der Herzöge und Österreich (1342–1378), I: Klemens VI (1342–52); II: Innocenz VI (1352–62). Edited by Josef Lenzenweger. (Acta Pataviensia Austriaca, II, 4.) Pp. 780 incl. 2 plates; pp. 612 incl. 2 plates. Vienna: Osterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften/Österreichisches Kulturinstituts in Rom, Vol. I 1974 (1992); Vol. II 1992. öS 1,400/DM 200 (each vol.). 3 7001 0073 9; 3 7001 1993 3 - …
Novo sensu sacram adulterare Scripturam
Medieval biblical commentators traditionally interpreted the Bible in terms of the ‘four senses’ of Scripture—the literal-historical and the three ‘spiritual’ senses, the allegorical, the tropological or moral, and the anagogical. Recently attention has been focused on the use of a variation of the allegorical sense, namely, political allegory. This was the application of a biblical text to a current political situation or argument. The Roman rev…
Infidels and Jews
Clement VI was a pope who appeared to face both ways. This impression is confirmed by the fact that some historians have hailed him as a humanist pope, if not the first humanist pope, whereas his conception of the Christian society and of papal sovereignty followed thoroughly traditional and authoritarian lines. A glance at his best known political sermon, that preached in 1346 to approve the future emperor Charles IV as king of the Romans, would…
Omnino Partialitate Cessante
The attitude of the Limousin pope Clement VI to the early stages of the Hundred Years War between France and England occasioned conflicting verdicts. These varied predictably according to the nationality of their authors. One of the pope’s biographers, the Frenchman Jean la Porte, hailed him as a creator of concord, a lover of peace. By contrast the Englishman William of Ockham accused Clement of being ‘schismatic’, in the sense that he deliberat…
The sermon literature of pope Clement VI
Maximus sermocinator verbi Dei is the description of pope Clement VI, formerly Pierre Roger, given by a fourteenth-century French chronicler. Others of the pope’s compatriots were equally fulsome in their adulation. An Italian chronicler, perhaps an ex-student at the university of Paris, where Pierre Roger had been a master in theology, records: . . . gratissimus fuit sermocinator. Quum cathedram concionaturus aut disputaturus ascendebat, tota Pa…
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The sermon literature of pope Clement VI
Maximus sermocinator verbi Dei is the description of pope Clement VI, formerly Pierre Roger, given by a fourteenth-century French chronicler. Others of the pope’s compatriots were equally fulsome in their adulation. An Italian chronicler, perhaps an ex-student at the university of Paris, where Pierre Roger had been a master in theology, records: . . . gratissimus fuit sermocinator. Quum cathedram concionaturus aut disputaturus ascendebat, tota Pa…
Omnino Partialitate Cessante
The attitude of the Limousin pope Clement VI to the early stages of the Hundred Years War between France and England occasioned conflicting verdicts. These varied predictably according to the nationality of their authors. One of the pope’s biographers, the Frenchman Jean la Porte, hailed him as a creator of concord, a lover of peace. By contrast the Englishman William of Ockham accused Clement of being ‘schismatic’, in the sense that he deliberat…
Infidels and Jews
Clement VI was a pope who appeared to face both ways. This impression is confirmed by the fact that some historians have hailed him as a humanist pope, if not the first humanist pope, whereas his conception of the Christian society and of papal sovereignty followed thoroughly traditional and authoritarian lines. A glance at his best known political sermon, that preached in 1346 to approve the future emperor Charles IV as king of the Romans, would…
Novo sensu sacram adulterare Scripturam
Medieval biblical commentators traditionally interpreted the Bible in terms of the ‘four senses’ of Scripture—the literal-historical and the three ‘spiritual’ senses, the allegorical, the tropological or moral, and the anagogical. Recently attention has been focused on the use of a variation of the allegorical sense, namely, political allegory. This was the application of a biblical text to a current political situation or argument. The Roman rev…
Vatikanische Akten zur Geschichte des Bistums Passau und der Herzöge und Österreich (1342–1378), I
Vatikanische Akten zur Geschichte des Bistums Passau und der Herzöge und Österreich (1342–1378), I: Klemens VI (1342–52); II: Innocenz VI (1352–62). Edited by Josef Lenzenweger. (Acta Pataviensia Austriaca, II, 4.) Pp. 780 incl. 2 plates; pp. 612 incl. 2 plates. Vienna: Osterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften/Österreichisches Kulturinstituts in Rom, Vol. I 1974 (1992); Vol. II 1992. öS 1,400/DM 200 (each vol.). 3 7001 0073 9; 3 7001 1993 3 - …
John of Ayton’s ‘Grumbling Gloss’
The canonist John of Ayton was described by Maitland as being ‘a little too human to be strictly scientific’. His best-known work, the commentary on the legatine constitutions of Otto (1237) and Ottobuono (1268), was dubbed a ‘grumbling gloss’, which often became ‘a growl against the bad world in which he lives, the greedy prelates, the hypocritical friars, the rapacious officials’. But this, while it may not make him the ideal canonist, is preci…
Lesyng of Tyme’
Then came Sloth, all be-slobbered, with two slimy eyes. ‘I must sit down to be shriven,’ quoth he, ‘or else I shall fall asleep. I can’t stand or prop myself up, or kneel without a hassock. If I were put to bed, no amount of bell-ringing would get me up until I was ready for dinner – well, not unless I had to relieve myself This is Langland’s description of Sloth in Piers Plowman . Originally a monastic vice, meaning boredom with the cell, sloth,…
Discipline and Diversity in the Medieval English Sunday
The medieval Church had strict disciplinary rules about how Sunday should be observed, but in England there was considerable diversity in interpreting and honouring them. The medieval English Sunday is a vast and challenging subject, yet despite this, and the controversy excited by the Sunday Trading Act of 1994 which allowed shops to open, it has excited little recent attention. The discipline of Sunday was laid down in the Third Commandment (Ex…
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