Sharon Gail Bruce
Biographic Data
| ID | 78427 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sharon Gail Bruce |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sharon Gail |
| FAMILY NAME | Bruce |
| SIGNATURE | BRUCE S G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Colorado System |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8129-815X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Emperor and the Elephant: Christians and Muslims in the Age of Charlemagne By Sam Ottewill-Soulsby
Cullen J. Chandler, Introduction to the Carolingian Age . London and New York: Routledge, 2024, 167 pp., 6 figures; 3 maps
It has been more than a decade since the publication of the most recent English language overview of Carolingian history (ca. 750‐900 C.E.). In 2011, Cambridge University Press published The Carolingian World , a sprawling survey that alternated meaty chapters on political narrative with those devoted to themes like rural life, the economy, and elite culture. In the book under review, Cullen J. Chandler offers a more concise introduction to the s…
Graham A. Loud, The Social World of the Abbey of Cava, c. 1020–1300 . Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2021, xviii, 417 pp
The book under review provides the first comprehensive introduction in English to the history of the abbey of Holy Trinity, Cava. Founded in the countryside northwest of Salerno around 1020, the community grew from modest beginnings to become one of the most influential religious houses in southern Italy, thanks in no small part to the patronage of the Norman aristocracy, who conquered the region in the 1070s. A century later, Cava boasted over 1…
Veterum vestigia patrum: The Greek Patriarchs in the Manuscript Culture of Early Medieval Europe
This article draws attention to the availability of Latin translations of Greek patristic literature in western reading communities before the year 800 through a survey of the contents of hundreds of surviving manuscripts from the Merovingian and Carolingian periods. An examination of the presence of the translated works of eastern church fathers in the 8th-century florilegium known as The Book of Sparks ( Liber scintillarum) and monastic library…
Textual Triage and Pastoral Care in the Carolingian Age: The Example of the Rule of Benedict
The sixth-century Rule of Benedict became a foundational text for the practice of Christian monasticism in medieval Europe, but its utility extended outside of the monastery as well. In the Carolingian period church prelates repurposed parts of this influential monastic handbook for the purpose of pastoral care. In the decades around 800 CE, excerpts from the rule appeared in several composite manuscripts made for the instruction of parish priest…
The Apple of His Eye: Converts from Islam in the Reign of Louis IX. By William Chester Jordan
In this slender book, William Chester Jordan explores the overlooked sources for King Louis IX’s program of converting Muslims to Christianity in the context of his failed crusade of 1248–1252 and his efforts to resettle these new converts in northern France. Jordan is no stranger to thirteenth-century Europe. For forty years, in book after book, he has examined the administrative acumen of the later Capetians from numerous perspectives, includin…
The Lost Patriarchs Project: Recovering the Greek Fathers in the medieval Latin tradition
This article calls attention to an important, yet neglected, subset of medieval Latin sources: the dozens upon dozens of works of late antique and early Byzantine Christian Greek authors translated into Latin between the second and the thirteenth centuries. It also introduces a new initiative to study these sources: The Lost Patriarchs Project. The goal of this article is threefold. First, it presents a sample of the deep, virtually untouched res…
The Dark Age of Herodotus: Shards of a Fugitive History in Early Medieval Europe
Klosterflucht und Bittgang: Apostasie und monastische Mobilität im 15. Jahrhundert
Klosterflucht und Bittgang: Apostasie und monastische Mobilität im 15. Jahrhundert. Milena Svec Goetschi. Zürcher Beiträge zur Geschichtswissenschaft 7. Cologne: Böhlau Verlag, 2015. 550 pp. €70. - Volume 70 Issue 1
Pursuing Authenticity From Process to Outcome in a Community-Based Participatory Research Study of Intimate Partner Violence and HIV Vulnerability in North Karnataka, India
Community-based participatory research has been seen to hold great promise by researchers aiming to bridge research and action in global health programs and practice. However, there is still much debate around whether achieving authenticity in terms of in-depth collaboration between community and academic partners is possible while pursuing academic expectations for quality. This article describes the community-based methodology for a qualitative…
An Exploration of Decision-Making Processes on Infant Delivery Site from the Perspective of Pregnant Women, New Mothers, and Their Families in Northern Karnataka, India
Ecclesia in medio nationis’: Reflections on the Study of Monasticism in the Central Middle Ages—Réflexions sur l’étude du monachisme au moyen âge central, ed. Steven Vanderputten and Brigitte Meijns
This is a relatively little book with a big agenda. In late 2009, Steven Vanderputten and Brigitte Meijns convened a small conference at the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium to explore the state of current scholarship in central medieval monasticism (c.900–1050) and to reflect in particular on the interaction of religious communities with the outside world ‘as a key paradigm with which investigations into the monastic phenomenon can be fr…
Peaceful Kings: Peace, Power, and the Early Medieval Political Imagination , by Paul J. E. Kershaw
Peaceful Kings: Peace, Power, and the Early Medieval Political Imagination, by Paul J. E. Kershaw. Oxford, UK, Oxford University Press, 2011. xviii, 313 pp. $120.00 US (cloth). In Wim Wenders' haunting film, Der Himmel uber Berlin (1987), an old man who personifies the ancient Greek poet Homer ruminates on the topic of peace in human history, while leafing through a copy of August Sander's book of photographs, Menschen des 20. Jahrhunderts, in th…
Unprecedented Nuclear Strikes of the Invincible Army: A Realistic Assessment of North Korea's Operational Nuclear Capability
IntroductionAlthough North Korea's KCNA news often threatens to launch nuclear strikes, in reality, the North Korean nuclear program has limited offensive capability.1 Just how limited is a matter of dispute between well-informed observers and analysts. South Korea's defense minister, Kim Kwan-j in, for example noted recently that it was possible that North Korea had miniaturized a nuclear warhead as there had been, in his opinion, enough time fo…
North Korean Nuclear Nationalism and the Threat of Nuclear War in Korea
This essay reviews the status of nuclear threat in Korea and analyzes the appropriate policy response to the emergence of the DPRK as a nuclear‐armed state. We suggest that as of 2009, the DPRK made the ROK the main target of its nuclear strategy rather than the USA, as was the case from 1991–2009. The sinking of the ROK corvette Cheonan in 2010 provides a mini‐case‐study of the collision of ROK and DPRK historical trajectories, and portends cont…
Construire une société seigneuriale: Itinéraire et ecclésiologie de l'abbé Odon de Cluny (fin du IXe-milieu du Xe siècle) - By Isabelle Rosé
The Abbey of Cluny: A Collection of Essays to Mark the Eleven-Hundredth Anniversary of its Foundation, by Giles Constable
Journal Article The Abbey of Cluny: A Collection of Essays to Mark the Eleven-Hundredth Anniversary of its Foundation, by Giles Constable Get access The Abbey of Cluny: A Collection of Essays to Mark the Eleven-Hundredth Anniversary of its Foundation, by Giles Constable (Berlin: Lit Verlag, 2010; pp. xiv + 568. Eur 54.90). Scott G. Bruce Scott G. Bruce University of Colorado at Boulder Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Goo…
The Rome of Pope Paschal I: Papal Power, Urban Renovation, Church Rebuilding and Relic Translation, 817-824 by Caroline J. Goodson
Park Chung Hee, the US-ROK Strategic Relationship, and the Bomb
Declassified US Embassy Seoul cables related to nuclear proliferation during the Park Chung Hee era show that, far from making South Korea more secure, Park's toying with the nuclear option made him an unpredictable and even dangerous client who needed restraint in the eyes of US policymakers
The Chronicle of Hugh of Flavigny: Reform and the Investiture Contest in the Late Eleventh Century
This book examines Hugh of Flavigny's Chronicon, a work of pro-papal propaganda written in the Empire in the decade or so following the death of Pope Gregory VII in 1085. Although presented as a universal history, Hugh's Chronicon was first and foremost a polemic against King Henry IV, attacking both the flaws in his character and the failings of his policies. The work relies heavily on the letters of Gregory VII for its orientation and content. …
From Martyr to Monument: The Abbey of Cluny as Cultural Patrimony
The abbey of Cluny looms large over the religious landscape of the central middle ages. During the tenure of Abbot Hugh the Great (1049–1109), the community tripled in size to more than 300 monks, and work had begun on the building complex known to historians of church architecture as Cluny III, the largest basilica in western Europe at the time. Moreover, before the advent of the new monastic orders of the twelfth century, most notably the Ciste…
The Bishop Reformed: Studies of Episcopal Power and Culture in the Central Middle Ages – Edited by John S. Ott and Anna Trumbore Jones
Ketzerei und Inquisition im Mittelalter . Jörg Oberste
Canossa: Die Entzauberung der Welt . Stefan Weinfurter
Monastic Bodies: Discipline and Salvation in Shenoute of Atripe. By Caroline T. Schroeder
Much of what we know about late antique monasticism in the eastern Mediterranean comes from the texts produced by charismatic ascetics and their followers: sermons, letters, rules of conduct, and sacred biographies written in Coptic, Greek, and Syriac. Recently, scholars of the late ancient world have turned to these sources to reconstruct and contextualize the religious and social worlds of the “great old men” of the desert and the communities t…
North Korean Nuclear Nationalism and the Threat of Nuclear War in Korea
This essay reviews the status of nuclear threat in Korea and analyzes the appropriate policy response to the emergence of the DPRK as a nuclear‐armed state. We suggest that as of 2009, the DPRK made the ROK the main target of its nuclear strategy rather than the USA, as was the case from 1991–2009. The sinking of the ROK corvette Cheonan in 2010 provides a mini‐case‐study of the collision of ROK and DPRK historical trajectories, and portends cont…
Pursuing Authenticity From Process to Outcome in a Community-Based Participatory Research Study of Intimate Partner Violence and HIV Vulnerability in North Karnataka, India
Community-based participatory research has been seen to hold great promise by researchers aiming to bridge research and action in global health programs and practice. However, there is still much debate around whether achieving authenticity in terms of in-depth collaboration between community and academic partners is possible while pursuing academic expectations for quality. This article describes the community-based methodology for a qualitative…
From Martyr to Monument: The Abbey of Cluny as Cultural Patrimony
The abbey of Cluny looms large over the religious landscape of the central middle ages. During the tenure of Abbot Hugh the Great (1049–1109), the community tripled in size to more than 300 monks, and work had begun on the building complex known to historians of church architecture as Cluny III, the largest basilica in western Europe at the time. Moreover, before the advent of the new monastic orders of the twelfth century, most notably the Ciste…
An abbot between two cultures: Maiolus of Cluny considers the Muslims of La Garde‐Freinet
In July 972, Muslim raiders from the citadel of Fraxinetum (modern La Garde‐Freinet) abducted Abbot Maiolus of Cluny and his entourage as they crossed the Great Saint Bernard Pass ( Mons Iovis ) in the western Alps. This article analyses a little‐known letter that Maiolus sent to his Cluniac brethren to secure payment for his release. Interwoven with biblical passages drawn from the Book of Samuel and the Psalter, the abbot's ransom letter provid…
Das Eigene und das Fremde: Identität und Fremdheit in den Chroniken Adams von Bremen, Helmolds von Bosau und Arnolds von Lübeck . Volker Scior
The Cartulary of Montier-en-Der, 666-1129 . Constance Brittain Bouchard
Recueil des chartes de l'abbaye de Clairvaux au XIIe siècle . Jean Waquet , Jean-Marc Roger , Laurent Veyssière
South Korea's Power Play at the Six-Party Talks
The participants at the six-party talks should consider the full scope of activities needed to implement the South Korean scheme; that they should explore an alternative approach that would link the Russian and South Korean grids, thereby achieving the same outcome at lower cost and lesser political risk; and that the six parties should consider adopting a short-term, alternative package rather than resuming HFO deliveries to the DPRK because thi…
Silence and Sign Language in Medieval Monasticism: The Cluniac Tradition, c.900–1200
Silence and Sign Language in Medieval Monasticism explores the rationales for religious silence in early medieval abbeys and the use of nonverbal forms of communication among monks when rules of silence forbade them from speaking. After examining the spiritual benefits of personal silence as a form of protection against the perils of sinful discourse in early monastic thought, this work shows how the monks of the Abbey of Cluny (founded in 910 in…
An abbot between two cultures: Maiolus of Cluny considers the Muslims of La Garde‐Freinet
In July 972, Muslim raiders from the citadel of Fraxinetum (modern La Garde‐Freinet) abducted Abbot Maiolus of Cluny and his entourage as they crossed the Great Saint Bernard Pass ( Mons Iovis ) in the western Alps. This article analyses a little‐known letter that Maiolus sent to his Cluniac brethren to secure payment for his release. Interwoven with biblical passages drawn from the Book of Samuel and the Psalter, the abbot's ransom letter provid…
L'ordre du Temple dans la basse vallée du Rhône (1124-1312): Ordres militaires, croisades et sociétés méridionales . Damien Carraz
Canossa: Die Entzauberung der Welt . Stefan Weinfurter
Monastic Bodies: Discipline and Salvation in Shenoute of Atripe. By Caroline T. Schroeder
Much of what we know about late antique monasticism in the eastern Mediterranean comes from the texts produced by charismatic ascetics and their followers: sermons, letters, rules of conduct, and sacred biographies written in Coptic, Greek, and Syriac. Recently, scholars of the late ancient world have turned to these sources to reconstruct and contextualize the religious and social worlds of the “great old men” of the desert and the communities t…
The Bishop Reformed: Studies of Episcopal Power and Culture in the Central Middle Ages – Edited by John S. Ott and Anna Trumbore Jones
Ketzerei und Inquisition im Mittelalter . Jörg Oberste
The Chronicle of Hugh of Flavigny: Reform and the Investiture Contest in the Late Eleventh Century
This book examines Hugh of Flavigny's Chronicon, a work of pro-papal propaganda written in the Empire in the decade or so following the death of Pope Gregory VII in 1085. Although presented as a universal history, Hugh's Chronicon was first and foremost a polemic against King Henry IV, attacking both the flaws in his character and the failings of his policies. The work relies heavily on the letters of Gregory VII for its orientation and content. …
From Martyr to Monument: The Abbey of Cluny as Cultural Patrimony
The abbey of Cluny looms large over the religious landscape of the central middle ages. During the tenure of Abbot Hugh the Great (1049–1109), the community tripled in size to more than 300 monks, and work had begun on the building complex known to historians of church architecture as Cluny III, the largest basilica in western Europe at the time. Moreover, before the advent of the new monastic orders of the twelfth century, most notably the Ciste…
North Korean Nuclear Nationalism and the Threat of Nuclear War in Korea
This essay reviews the status of nuclear threat in Korea and analyzes the appropriate policy response to the emergence of the DPRK as a nuclear‐armed state. We suggest that as of 2009, the DPRK made the ROK the main target of its nuclear strategy rather than the USA, as was the case from 1991–2009. The sinking of the ROK corvette Cheonan in 2010 provides a mini‐case‐study of the collision of ROK and DPRK historical trajectories, and portends cont…
Construire une société seigneuriale: Itinéraire et ecclésiologie de l'abbé Odon de Cluny (fin du IXe-milieu du Xe siècle) - By Isabelle Rosé
The Abbey of Cluny: A Collection of Essays to Mark the Eleven-Hundredth Anniversary of its Foundation, by Giles Constable
Journal Article The Abbey of Cluny: A Collection of Essays to Mark the Eleven-Hundredth Anniversary of its Foundation, by Giles Constable Get access The Abbey of Cluny: A Collection of Essays to Mark the Eleven-Hundredth Anniversary of its Foundation, by Giles Constable (Berlin: Lit Verlag, 2010; pp. xiv + 568. Eur 54.90). Scott G. Bruce Scott G. Bruce University of Colorado at Boulder Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Goo…
The Rome of Pope Paschal I: Papal Power, Urban Renovation, Church Rebuilding and Relic Translation, 817-824 by Caroline J. Goodson
Park Chung Hee, the US-ROK Strategic Relationship, and the Bomb
Declassified US Embassy Seoul cables related to nuclear proliferation during the Park Chung Hee era show that, far from making South Korea more secure, Park's toying with the nuclear option made him an unpredictable and even dangerous client who needed restraint in the eyes of US policymakers
Unprecedented Nuclear Strikes of the Invincible Army: A Realistic Assessment of North Korea's Operational Nuclear Capability
IntroductionAlthough North Korea's KCNA news often threatens to launch nuclear strikes, in reality, the North Korean nuclear program has limited offensive capability.1 Just how limited is a matter of dispute between well-informed observers and analysts. South Korea's defense minister, Kim Kwan-j in, for example noted recently that it was possible that North Korea had miniaturized a nuclear warhead as there had been, in his opinion, enough time fo…
Peaceful Kings: Peace, Power, and the Early Medieval Political Imagination , by Paul J. E. Kershaw
Peaceful Kings: Peace, Power, and the Early Medieval Political Imagination, by Paul J. E. Kershaw. Oxford, UK, Oxford University Press, 2011. xviii, 313 pp. $120.00 US (cloth). In Wim Wenders' haunting film, Der Himmel uber Berlin (1987), an old man who personifies the ancient Greek poet Homer ruminates on the topic of peace in human history, while leafing through a copy of August Sander's book of photographs, Menschen des 20. Jahrhunderts, in th…
Ecclesia in medio nationis’: Reflections on the Study of Monasticism in the Central Middle Ages—Réflexions sur l’étude du monachisme au moyen âge central, ed. Steven Vanderputten and Brigitte Meijns
This is a relatively little book with a big agenda. In late 2009, Steven Vanderputten and Brigitte Meijns convened a small conference at the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium to explore the state of current scholarship in central medieval monasticism (c.900–1050) and to reflect in particular on the interaction of religious communities with the outside world ‘as a key paradigm with which investigations into the monastic phenomenon can be fr…
An Exploration of Decision-Making Processes on Infant Delivery Site from the Perspective of Pregnant Women, New Mothers, and Their Families in Northern Karnataka, India
Klosterflucht und Bittgang: Apostasie und monastische Mobilität im 15. Jahrhundert
Klosterflucht und Bittgang: Apostasie und monastische Mobilität im 15. Jahrhundert. Milena Svec Goetschi. Zürcher Beiträge zur Geschichtswissenschaft 7. Cologne: Böhlau Verlag, 2015. 550 pp. €70. - Volume 70 Issue 1
Pursuing Authenticity From Process to Outcome in a Community-Based Participatory Research Study of Intimate Partner Violence and HIV Vulnerability in North Karnataka, India
Community-based participatory research has been seen to hold great promise by researchers aiming to bridge research and action in global health programs and practice. However, there is still much debate around whether achieving authenticity in terms of in-depth collaboration between community and academic partners is possible while pursuing academic expectations for quality. This article describes the community-based methodology for a qualitative…
The Lost Patriarchs Project: Recovering the Greek Fathers in the medieval Latin tradition
This article calls attention to an important, yet neglected, subset of medieval Latin sources: the dozens upon dozens of works of late antique and early Byzantine Christian Greek authors translated into Latin between the second and the thirteenth centuries. It also introduces a new initiative to study these sources: The Lost Patriarchs Project. The goal of this article is threefold. First, it presents a sample of the deep, virtually untouched res…
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