Alexander Murray

• University of Oxford

The linguistic peculiarities of Renaissance Italy can be traced to the uniqueness of its Roman inheritance. The Empire had developed and diffused Latin, which was inherited by the Church, contributing to its authority. The latter was shared after the millennium by the lawyers and ideologists of the independent cities. But this confederated supremac...

Authority and Resistance in the Investiture Contest. The Polemical Literature of the Late Eleventh Century. By RobinsonI. S.. Pp. x + 195. New York: Manchester University Press, Holmes & Meier Publishers, Inc.1978, £13.50. - Volume 31 Issue 4 - Alexander Murray

Jacobus (de Voragine): Die Elsässische Legenda Aurea, I: Das Normalcorpus. Edited by WilliamsU. and Williams-KrappW.. (Würzburger Forschungen. Texte und Textgeschichte, 3.) Pp. lxxvii + 826. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1980. DM. 264. - Volume 33 Issue 2 - Alexander Murray

Saints and Society. The two worlds of Western Christendom, 1000–1700. By WeinsteinDonald and BellRudolph M.. Pp. xii + 314. Chicago-London: University of Chicago Press, 1983. £20. - Volume 36 Issue 1 - Alexander Murray

Den Irrtum liquidieren. Bücherverbrennungen im Mittelalter. By WernerThomas. (Veröffentlichungen des Max-Planck Instituts für Geschichte, 225.) Pp. 816+56 black-and-white and colour plates. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2007. €118. 978 3 525 35880 1 - Volume 60 Issue 3 - Alexander Murray

Collectaneum exemplorum ac visionum Clarevallense e codice Trecensi 946. By LegendreOlivier. (Corpus Christianorum. Continuatio Mediaevalis, 208.) Pp. cxiv+470. Turnhout: Brepols, 2005. €250. 2 503 05089 1 - Volume 59 Issue 1 - Alexander Murray

This book presents an account of the life and work of the distinguished scholar and public figure Gilbert Murray (1866-1957). Sixteen contributors survey his childhood, his work in the theatre and in international relations, his Greek scholarship and contributions on religion and philosophy, his friendships (including those with Bertrand Russell an...

Rees Davies was a Welsh historian who wrote about, among other subjects, the English; Bede, an English historian who wrote about, among other subjects, the Welsh - or rather, in both cases, not the Welsh (a Germanic term for 'foreign') but the Brytaniaid (Britons). This chapter shows that Bede's references to the Brytaniaid betray a racial animus,...

Belief and unbelief in medieval Europe. By ArnoldJohn H.. Pp. viii+320. London: Hodder Arnold, 2005. £16.99 (paper). 10 0 340 80786 5; 13 978 0 340 80786 6 - Volume 58 Issue 3 - Alexander Murray

List of illustrations List of Abbreviations List of Contributors Brenda Bolton, An Appreciation, Barrie Dobson Bibliography of the writings of Brenda M. Bolton Introduction, Frances Andrews Part One: Innocent III The Growling of the Lion and the Humming of the Fly: Gregory the Great and Innocent III, Christoph Egger Produced in Sin: Innocent III's...

This lecture attempts to reveal that the Inquisition and the Renaissance were two aspects of one phenomenon, which is the halting emergence of a new entity, the territorial state. The lecture first describes the Inquisition and how it affected the sixteenth-century Renaissance. The element of violence, or killing people, is also examined. The secon...

People with a logical turn of mind say that the history of the world can be summarised in a sentence. A précis of mediaval historian Richard William Southern's work made in that spirit would identify two characteristics, one housed inside the other, and both quite apart from the question of its quality as a work of art. The first is his sympathy fo...

Bernard of Clairvaux and the shape of monastic thought. Broken dreams. By PrangerM. B.. (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, 56.) Pp. xii + 379. Leiden: Brill. 1994. Nlg. 150. 90 04 10055 5; 0920 8607 - Volume 47 Issue 1 - Alexander Murray

Guillaume Durand, Eveque de Mende (v. 1230-1206). Canoniste, liturgiste et homme politique. Actes de la Table Ronde du C.N.R.S., Mende 24-7 mai iggo. Edited by Gy OPPierre-Marie. (Centre Regional de Publication de Paris.) Pp. 242 incl. ills. Paris: Editions du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 1992. Fr. 200. 2 222 04667 X - Volume 44 Is...

Träume im Mittelalter. Ikonologische Studien. Edited by BaglianiAgostino Paravicini and StabileGiorgio. Pp. 260 incl. numerous ills. Stuttgart: Belser, 1989. DM 98. 3 7360 1954 5 - Volume 43 Issue 4 - Alexander Murray

As a clerical court the medieval Inquisition could not impose the death penalty. So it relied on the ‘secular arm’ to do so. How far did this reliance lead to the subordination of the heresy court to secular purposes? A Tuscan inquisitor, in 1332–34, is seen systematically threatening rich victims with prosecution so that he can sell them immunity....

Everyone is familiar with the notion of an ‘Age of Faith’. It is the idea that, at some time in the past, everyone believed what religious authority told them to believe. In this paper I propose to test the truth of this idea, in one period, and one region. I have chosen thirteenth-century Italy. The Middle Ages stand, par excellence , as the Age...

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