Alberto FerreiroSeattle Pacific University | SPU · Department of History
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St. Agnes of Rome became one of the most celebrated martyrs of the fourth century. Her passion story was popularized by several Church Fathers, most notably Pope Damasus, Prudentius, and Ambrose of Milan. In the Middle Ages, Jacobus of Voragine widely disseminated her hagiography through his Legenda Aurea. St. Vicent Ferrer (1350-1419) dedicated a...
One of the most widely venerated saints in the Middle Ages was St. Martin of Tours whose cult continues to this day in many parts of the world. In the Middle Ages, he became as popular as other major saints such as Thomas Becket, Santiago de Compostela and the Virgin Mary. St. Martin's cult became very prominent in the Iberian Peninsula before and...
Gregory of Tours (538-594 AD) achieved notoriety mainly for his massive Libri historiarum decem that he intended for wide dissemination and to be used to compose sermons by the bishops and other clergy beyond his death. The topic of preaching and sermons has been studied by some modern scholars, but in limited fashion. Moreover, even though Gregory...
In 2009 two monographs appeared on Priscillian, including the present volume in French. Another study by Marco Conti is the first complete English translation of Priscillian's works, thus making it a very different study from the one under consideration here. Both monographs, however, are testimony to how Priscillian continues to generate great int...
Vicent Ferrer is without question one of the most compelling and prolific Dominican preachers of the late Middle Ages. Although his preaching mission transpired in many places he especially carried out much of it in France. In France we witness, particularly in Provence, the emergence of the cult of Mary Magdalene that was vigorously promoted by th...
Vicent Ferrer is without question one of the most compelling and prolific Dominican preachers of the late Middle Ages. Although his preaching mission transpired in many places he especially carried out much of it in France. In France we witness, particularly in Provence, the emergence of the cult of Mary Magdalene that was vigorously promoted by th...
Western Europe in the fifth and sixth centuries was still undergoing dramatic changes, due primarily to the settlement of «barbarians», particularly in Gaul and Spain, in what were once two of the most prosperous of the Roman Empire. The impact of these newcomers, as research continues to demonstrate, was multivaried 1. The church in the West at th...
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Priscillian von Avila zog in Gallien und Italien im 4. Jh. breite Aufmerksamkeit auf sich, was dazu führte, daß einige Bischöfe ihn aller möglichen Häresien verdächtigten. Unter diesen Häresievorwürfen findet sich auch der Vorwurf, Priscillian und seine Anhänger verträten hinsichtlich des Verzichts auf Fleischgenuß eine manichäische...
Battling Demons. Witchcraft, Heresy, and Reform in the Late Middle Ages. By BaileyMichael D.. Magic in History Series. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2003. xii + 200 pp. $65.00 cloth; $22.50 paper. - Volume 73 Issue 3 - Alberto Ferreiro
Scholars of the Middle Ages have established that in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, there was an intellectual shift in the Christian polemic against Islam. Whereas in earlier centuries heresiologists defined Islam as pagan, in the high Middle Ages the prevailing opinion emerged that it was instead a heresy. Medieval writers, who drew upon a...
Western Views of Islam in Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Edited by BlanksDavid R. and FrassettoMichael. New York: St. Martin's, 1999. viii + 235 pp. $45.00 cloth. - Volume 72 Issue 1 - Alberto Ferreiro
Journal of Early Christian Studies 7.4 (1999) 616-618
With the appearance of this volume it will be exactly thirty years ago that the Fathers of the Church series published the second volume of the Iberian Fathers, translated and edited by Claude W. Barlow. It has been a long time coming. Although there has been marked advancement among scholars of...
Priscillian was censured of both doctrinal heresy and sexual immorality by his accusers. On the question of his alleged sexual exploits, this issue merits a closer look than has been previously done by modern researchers. Some scholars believe the conciliar decrees of the Iberian Peninsula regarding relations between men and women are a response, d...
Priscillian was censured of both doctrinal heresy and sexual immorality by his accusers. On the question of his alleged sexual exploits, this issue merits a closer look than has been previously done by modern researchers. Some scholars believe the conciliar decrees of the Iberian Peninsula regarding relations between men and women are a response, d...
Vincent Ferrer was born in Valencia on January 23, 1350 and died at Vannes (Brittany) on April 5, 1419. He grew up in a devout family, and by 1367 had joined the Order of Preachers in Valencia. As a member of the Dominican Order, Vincent Ferrer underwent extensive academic and pastoral training from 1370 to 1378 in preparation for a life of scholar...
Journal of Early Christian Studies 5.1 (1997) 105-106
Francisco-Javier Tovar Paz. Tractatus, Sermones Atque Homiliae: El cultivo del género literario del discurso homilético en la Hispania tardoantigua y visigoda.Anejos del Anuario de Estudios Filoldiscurso homCáceres: Universidad de Extremadura, 1994. Pp. 335 (n.p.).
In the last thirty years there...
Journal of Early Christian Studies 5.3 (1997) 458-460
Virginia Burrus. The Making of a Heretic. Gender, Authority, and the Priscillianist Controversy. Transformations of the Classical Heritage 24. Berkeley: University of California, 1995. Pp. xi + 252. $45.00 cloth.
This study confirms that there continues to be no dearth of interest in Priscillian...
Au IV e siecle, l'heresie priscillianiste occupe les esprits en France et en Espagne. Priscillien est un des nombreux ascetes qui attirent hommes et femmes a sa suite. Sa mort n'a pas marque la fin de ses idees; au contraire, en France au VI e siecle ou le priscillianisme est present, Vincent de Lerins tourne son attention vers Priscillien a l'inte...
Gregory's narrative in his De virtutibus sancti Martini (1.11) has been the source of much discussion by modern scholars. The text bears directly on the process of the conversion of the Sueves out of Arianism to Catholic Christianity in sixth-century Gallaecia during the reign of the Suevic King Chararic (550?-558?), a personage unidentified by any...
Peter Heather's study on the Goths is a welcome addition to a significant amount of recent scholarly research on the Goths, both in the eastern and western context. One need only cite the works by Wolfram (1979), Burns (1984), and the Acta of several important congresses in Madrid (1985), Toledo (1989), and Paris (1991), to single out a few.
By the...
Of the literary bequest from the Middle Ages, homilies provide one of the more useful tools in helping us to understand the medieval mind, at least from the perspective of the Church. Homilies provide us with insight on a number of levels, extending well beyond the personal viewpoint of those who wrote and preached them. They also clearly reflect t...
In 1064 a large army of foreign troops, especially Normans and Catalans, fought against the Muslims at the fortress city of Barbastro, located in Zaragoza. The siege of Barbastro is, for several reasons, one of the most controversial battles of the early reconquest in Spain. Some of the problems that historians of the crusades and the reconquest ha...
One of the principal sources for the Iberian Peninsula in the sixth-century A.D. is the Chronica of John of Biclaro. As is characteristic of the chronicles of the Iberian Peninsula in Visigothic Spain, beginning already in the fifth century with Hydatius, it is brief. Yet it offers a great deal of information on major events and of the people, both...
Alberto Ferreiro , Seattle Pacific University, beto@paul.spu.edu