The contributors explore the life, thought, and works of Aelred, 12th-century Cistercian abbot of... more The contributors explore the life, thought, and works of Aelred, 12th-century Cistercian abbot of Rievaulx Abbey, his sermons, spirituality, and histories and highlight their principal themes (e.g., friendship, community, lay spirituality, and saints’ lives).
The contributors explore the life, thought, and works of Aelred, 12th-century Cistercian abbot of... more The contributors explore the life, thought, and works of Aelred, 12th-century Cistercian abbot of Rievaulx Abbey, his sermons, spirituality, and histories and highlight their principal themes (e.g., friendship, community, lay spirituality, and saints’ lives).
The contributors explore the life, thought, and works of Aelred, 12th-century Cistercian abbot of... more The contributors explore the life, thought, and works of Aelred, 12th-century Cistercian abbot of Rievaulx Abbey, his sermons, spirituality, and histories and highlight their principal themes (e.g., friendship, community, lay spirituality, and saints’ lives).
... Medieval Anglican 99 Marsha L Dutton American, Anglican, and Catholic 120 R. William Franklin... more ... Medieval Anglican 99 Marsha L Dutton American, Anglican, and Catholic 120 R. William Franklin Finding a Voice, Defining a Space: John Henry Hobart and the Americanization of Anglicanism 129 Robert Bruce Mullin The Breadth of Orthodoxy: On Phillips Brooks 144 Joseph ...
The medieval existence of a sexual meaning for the word cunning, rendering the word itself availa... more The medieval existence of a sexual meaning for the word cunning, rendering the word itself available for sexual puns, remains unrecognized today, in part because the Middle English Dictionary (MED) fails to include any instance demonstrating such use. But a line from the popular Proverbs of Hending, written before 1325, witnesses to the fourteenth-century availability of the sense. This article discusses the value of literary puns, shows numerous instances in which Chaucer appears to pun sexually on the word cunning, and explains the incarnational implications of the linking of body and spirit in such a pun. It also explores the MED's omission of the relevant quotation from the entry for cunning, examining the MED's archived slips and considering the editorial conventions that should have required inclusion of the evidence from the Proverbs of Hending.
The contributors explore the life, thought, and works of Aelred, 12th-century Cistercian abbot of... more The contributors explore the life, thought, and works of Aelred, 12th-century Cistercian abbot of Rievaulx Abbey, his sermons, spirituality, and histories and highlight their principal themes (e.g., friendship, community, lay spirituality, and saints’ lives).
The contributors explore the life, thought, and works of Aelred, 12th-century Cistercian abbot of... more The contributors explore the life, thought, and works of Aelred, 12th-century Cistercian abbot of Rievaulx Abbey, his sermons, spirituality, and histories and highlight their principal themes (e.g., friendship, community, lay spirituality, and saints’ lives).
The contributors explore the life, thought, and works of Aelred, 12th-century Cistercian abbot of... more The contributors explore the life, thought, and works of Aelred, 12th-century Cistercian abbot of Rievaulx Abbey, his sermons, spirituality, and histories and highlight their principal themes (e.g., friendship, community, lay spirituality, and saints’ lives).
... Medieval Anglican 99 Marsha L Dutton American, Anglican, and Catholic 120 R. William Franklin... more ... Medieval Anglican 99 Marsha L Dutton American, Anglican, and Catholic 120 R. William Franklin Finding a Voice, Defining a Space: John Henry Hobart and the Americanization of Anglicanism 129 Robert Bruce Mullin The Breadth of Orthodoxy: On Phillips Brooks 144 Joseph ...
The medieval existence of a sexual meaning for the word cunning, rendering the word itself availa... more The medieval existence of a sexual meaning for the word cunning, rendering the word itself available for sexual puns, remains unrecognized today, in part because the Middle English Dictionary (MED) fails to include any instance demonstrating such use. But a line from the popular Proverbs of Hending, written before 1325, witnesses to the fourteenth-century availability of the sense. This article discusses the value of literary puns, shows numerous instances in which Chaucer appears to pun sexually on the word cunning, and explains the incarnational implications of the linking of body and spirit in such a pun. It also explores the MED's omission of the relevant quotation from the entry for cunning, examining the MED's archived slips and considering the editorial conventions that should have required inclusion of the evidence from the Proverbs of Hending.
Aelred's seven historical works have finally all been published in critical editions in two volum... more Aelred's seven historical works have finally all been published in critical editions in two volumes in Corpus Christianorum, Continuatio Mediaevalis. This review article considers the strengths and a few problems of each of them, particularly praising their unusually thorough and helpful introductions.
FOR YOUR OWN PEOPLE: Aelred of Rievaulx’s Pastoral Prayer. , 2008
Contains an overview of the purpose and themes of Aelred's late work, his Oratio Pastoralis (Past... more Contains an overview of the purpose and themes of Aelred's late work, his Oratio Pastoralis (Pastoral Prayer), as well as an overview of Aelred's life, a description of the work's single manuscript, from Jesus College Cambridge, and the Prayer's editorial and translation history. Argues that the work should not be read as a transparent revelation of Aelred's emotions but as a consideration of the relationship of an abbot to his community, originating in part in Aelred's familiarity with a genre of such works popular in the 11th and 12th centuries.
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