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TL;DR: In this article, Roman-barbarian relations in the north of Britain in the context of cultural interactions on the other imperial frontiers are examined and a rethinking of northern British politics is put forward.
Abstract: This article examines Roman-barbarian relations in the north of Britain in the context of cultural interactions on the other imperial frontiers. On the basis of the less confrontational model of Romano-barbarian interaction that this suggests, a rethinking of northern British politics is put forward. The withdrawal of effective Roman presence from the northern frontier (suggested in the later fourth century) caused political crises in the region between the walls and a break-up of the earlier Pictish confederacy. Change around 600 led, in turn, to the submerging of the British polities that had dominated the region since 400 by new powers, the English and the Scots, whose kingdoms’ foundation might belong to this period. Internal Pictish strife might explain why the Picts do not seem to be a very active player in the early seventh-century politics that are visible to us.
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TL;DR: This paper examined three counts of this area circa 981, when one of them received a letter from Lothar, and found each of them using a different strategy to justify their possession of what had once been regalian rights.
Abstract: The end of the Carolingian dynasty shortly after the death of King Lothar III (954–86) has tended to overwrite that king’s considerable activity in his reign. This is especially evident in the counties of the old Spanish March, now mostly parts of Catalonia, as they came under renewed pressure from the caliphate of Cordoba. This article examines three counts of this area circa 981, when one of them received a letter from Lothar, and finds each of them using a different strategy to justify their possession of what had once been regalian rights. By examining changes in their representations, it goes on to show that the rulers here relied on royalist ideological arguments sufficiently to enable a king to make his voice heard at their courts even in the very last years of the Carolingian era
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TL;DR: The collaboratively authored Summa Halensis as discussed by the authors is widely regarded as the first attempt to articulate a distinctly Franciscan intellectual tradition, and it employs Augustine's thought inconsistently, to argue both for and against the same position.
Abstract: The collaboratively authored Summa Halensis is widely regarded as the first attempt to articulate a distinctly Franciscan intellectual tradition. This paper will examine one of its initial sections, on the knowledge of God, which lays the conceptual foundation for the rest of the work. While the Summa, like most scholastic texts, invokes many authoritative sources in this context, it gives pride of place to the work of Augustine. Nevertheless, it employs Augustine’s thought inconsistently, to argue both for and against the same position. On this basis, the paper will seek to elucidate the method whereby scholastic thinkers manipulated authoritative sources for their own ends. By the same token, it will demonstrate that the Summa’s authors, far from attempting to ‘systematize’ the thought of Augustine as some have supposed, were engaged in an effort to develop an innovative tradition of their own, which reflected their unique spiritual and ministerial vision as Franciscans.
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TL;DR: The history of medieval monastic reading consists above all in the internalization and tropological application of biblical and patristic literature as mentioned in this paper and the developments in these practices are charted through a survey of the different texts that supported monastic exegesis.
Abstract: Monastic reading and interpretation are examined in two complementary modes: firstly, the basic practices and theories, which pertain throughout the medieval period, are described; secondly, the developments in these practices are charted through a survey of the different texts that supported monastic exegesis. The history of medieval monastic reading consists above all in the internalization and tropological application of biblical and patristic literature.
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