J R Webb
Biographic Data
| ID | 6440083 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J R Webb |
| GIVEN NAMES | J R |
| FAMILY NAME | Webb |
| SIGNATURE | WEBB J R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bridgewater State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Earliest Reference to a Vandal King Crocus
The legendary details regarding a barbarian king named Crocus (Chrocus, Croscus) have echoed in historical and hagiographical accounts well beyond their first appearance in the sixth and seventh centuries. Some of the earliest references to this violent war leader show variation as to his ethnicity and the chronology of his activity. This article emphasizes a lesser-known but early hagiographical text commemorating the martyrdom of Desiderius (Di…
Representations of the warrior‐bishop in eleventh‐century L otharingia
Given the legal proscriptions against clerics bearing arms, the biographers of bishops who engaged in warfare faced a difficult task when they attempted to justify their heroes' military activities. In eleventh‐century L otharingia, they did so by styling bishops as defenders of an oppressed populace. Two such biographies from L iège reach the opposite assessment of the warrior‐bishop. Their contrasting tone reveals changes in attitudes about the…
Knowledge Will Be Manifold”
Thus wrote Michelet to open his monumental history of France. By deploying this prophetic line from the book of Daniel in support of a positivistic approach to historical science, he was participating in a discourse on this perplexing passage that spanned nearly two millennia. He perhaps surmised this, though he probably did not know how deeply the passage penetrated into the intellectual tradition of the West or that he was favoring one interpre…
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Knowledge Will Be Manifold”
Thus wrote Michelet to open his monumental history of France. By deploying this prophetic line from the book of Daniel in support of a positivistic approach to historical science, he was participating in a discourse on this perplexing passage that spanned nearly two millennia. He perhaps surmised this, though he probably did not know how deeply the passage penetrated into the intellectual tradition of the West or that he was favoring one interpre…
Representations of the warrior‐bishop in eleventh‐century L otharingia
Given the legal proscriptions against clerics bearing arms, the biographers of bishops who engaged in warfare faced a difficult task when they attempted to justify their heroes' military activities. In eleventh‐century L otharingia, they did so by styling bishops as defenders of an oppressed populace. Two such biographies from L iège reach the opposite assessment of the warrior‐bishop. Their contrasting tone reveals changes in attitudes about the…
The Earliest Reference to a Vandal King Crocus
The legendary details regarding a barbarian king named Crocus (Chrocus, Croscus) have echoed in historical and hagiographical accounts well beyond their first appearance in the sixth and seventh centuries. Some of the earliest references to this violent war leader show variation as to his ethnicity and the chronology of his activity. This article emphasizes a lesser-known but early hagiographical text commemorating the martyrdom of Desiderius (Di…
Ancient history (2 works) · Classics (2 works) · Classics (2 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works) · Medieval Literature and History (2 works) · Art (1 work) · Barbarian (1 work) · Bishops (1 work) · Chronology (1 work)