Sentences with phrase «in medieval studies»

At Swarthmore College, she majored in Medieval Studies.

For a person whose passion is medieval history, a school of education might not seem a natural fit, but for Valerie Piro pursuing a master's in higher education at HGSE — while seemingly unusual — makes perfect sense in her path toward a Ph.D. in medieval studies.

I regret any tendency to mislead readers who do not have a background in medieval studies.

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As time went on, scientific study grew increasingly apart from the dominant religion, which was mired in its Greek and medieval thought.

Although the university provided the setting for some of the most enduring theology of the medieval and Reformation eras, and though the philosophy of religion in the modern period emerged under similar auspices, the recent development of departments of religious studies in secular universities represents a unique phenomenon that has profound implications for theology.

The initial answer is: by studying the medieval masters in earnest.

I was a twenty - seven - year - old junior professor of medieval and Reformation theology at the University of Nottingham, and I happened to be in town for a day or two of study.

Actually the two have been brought together in the history of Christian thought which Professor Nygren traces so superbly in his study, but all attempts at synthesis, including that of St. Augustine with his doctrine of love as caritas, and that of the medieval theologians and mystics who saw the problem and tried to make a place for unselfish love within the Christian doctrine, really obscured and corrupted the fundamental Christian truth which was recovered by Luther in the Protestant Reformation.

In this study I have referred more than once to the Isenheim altar - piece by the medieval painter Grünewald.

(See the discussion of this in Joseph Owens, The Doctrine of Being in Aristotle's Metaphysics [Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 1978]-RRB-.

A first chapter considers how the medieval quadrivium of arithmetic, geometry, astronomy and music became separated from the study of philosophy and theology, as if the quadrivium was an end in itself rather than the way in which a person was made ready for the study of philosophy and theology.

Gustave E. von Grunebaum is an Islamic scholar who seeks to observe Islam objectively, neither as a Westerner nor as an Islamic apologist; his Medieval Islam: A Study in Cultural Orientation is a perceptive, and at times provocative, analysis of the period of development following the initial expansion of Islam.

Although A Christian Pilgrim in Medieval Iraq is primarily a translation and a historical study of the writings of Riccoldo da Montecroce, George - Tvrtkovic, the translator, has a theological agenda.

Cantor makes the «founding era» of medieval studies the period from 1895 to about 1965, and in nine chapters he discusses twenty scholars whom he calls «master medievalists,» with their students.

It is not surprising that it was through a study of Paul that Martin Luther, who had plagued his body in order to be sure of eternal salvation by the statutory methods of medieval religion, found a great burden fall from his shoulders, when he rediscovered the role of faith in bringing freedom to men.

To judge the prize, the Council will be joined by leading experts in related disciplines, including US food scientist and writer Harold McGee; Massimo Montanari, a professor of Medieval History at Bologna University and one of the leading world experts in Food Studies; renowned novelist Laura Esquivel; and Hilal Elver, Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food for the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR).

Outside study and later work was an interest in medieval church architecture, cricket, football, jazz and later bird watching and formula one motor racing.

High levels of violence are evident in cemeteries from other parts of medieval Europe such as Croatia, Krakowka says, which in one study showed a whopping 20.1 per cent of individuals had cranial fractures.

A better estimate might give him a clue to the monks» status: High - status medieval men buried in one churchyard in northern Italy averaged 171 cm, while lower status men averaged 164 cm, according to a study he published in 2011 in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology.

«This suggests that it was quite a different disease in the Bronze Age from what it was in medieval times,» says Johannes Krause, a paleogeneticist at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany, who was not involved with the study.

Urban society can be studied through housing types over a long time period, for example, but here they only appear to any extent in the medieval chapter, reflecting the preoccupation of architectural historians with this period.

Archaeologist Corey O'Driscoll of South East Archaeology in Canberra became interested in the traces left by hurled spears after reading studies of the wounds that medieval weapons inflicted on humans.

Mauro first questioned the science behind medieval glass while studying Gorilla Glass at Corning, where he worked for 18 years perfecting the product found in billions of electronic devices.

Now, a study by an international research team under the direction of the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW) in Berlin revealed that these gaited horses most likely originated in the 9th century medieval England.

The Binchester head is African in appearance, but Dr Petts, who is also Associate Director of Durham University's Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, said experts were unsure whether these features were deliberate or coincidental.

This view on historic temperatures, particularly in the Medieval Warm Period, has been reversed by a number of more rigorous studies.

It is even more outrageous when you look in detail at what is actually involved in collecting the proxy data used in the medieval period in the key multiproxy studies.

Paintings have been getting more colourful and more complex in terms of brightness and contrast since the Medieval period, a study in Scientific Reports demonstrates.

Medieval versions are much closer and easier to study: still extant in the roaming sampradayas being researched by the daring scholars of the Hatha Yoga Project at SOAS.

I fell in love with teaching when I had to do it to pay for my training in French linguistics and medieval studies.

I went to the University of Dallas and have my BA in History, a minor in Medieval and Renaissance studies and my teaching certification.

They meet cute, fall in love — she studies medieval Spanish literature and he, physics, and it's the difference that attracts — all is beautiful, and then one day Hawking takes a nasty fall and it is revealed that he has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (or ALS) and only two years left to live (Hawking, born in 1942, is still alive as of this writing).

The story is repeated with Marianne (Constance Rousseau), a college student studying French medieval and Renaissance literature, who is taken in as well by the young man's charm and by his insistence that his neuroscience thesis had been published.

9 - 1 GCSE British Medicine Through Time 1250 - 200 Summary of the basic content for whole of the Medicine unit in four sections Medieval Medicine Renaissance Medicine Industrial Medicine Modern Medicine Simple and easy to use for students, colour coded per theme Tailored for Edexcel, but can be used for AQA, OCR, WJEC, iGCSE Does not include the WW1 British Sector Medicine depth study.

Studying medieval seals and badges shows us how people pledged their loyalty in these often troubled times.

Students make up two large letters in pencil crayons learning to draw stylising their own pictures and study a number of medieval examples of letters and learn to elongate and to distort their own pictures capturing a simple picture with expression.

«One of the great things about being here at HGSE is that you get to study marginalized groups in a modern sense, but the methodology and theory behind it can be applied very broadly,» says Piro, whose research centers on studying disability in Europe's early medieval period.

According to Lorenzo, if a history class is studying medieval Europe, «the PE department can create a series of coordinated, related PE courses in archery, juggling, and orienteering.»

The elementary kids are immersed in «unit studies»: On a Tuesday morning, the three - hour Medieval Times class includes a computer activity in which they dress knights and design posters for lost dragons.

Charlotte will be taking a place at Colchester Sixth Form College to study A levels in Maths, Further Maths, Medieval History and Physics.

There will be a less prominent world history section and pupils will be asked to study a theme such as changes in politics, religion or culture across the medieval, early modern and modern eras.

She also spent a year studying medieval history, art history, and literature in Poitiers, France, the inspiration for Mirabilis.

I graduated from Purdue University before the turn of the (21st) century with a Bachelor of Arts in History and Creative Writing, with a Medieval Studies minor.

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He continued his study of Greek and Latin literature, as well as medieval philosophy, scripture, and theology, at Fordham University, where he completed both a B.A. in classical literature and philosophy, and a pontifical degree in philosophy.

Despite the prevalence of warfare and conflict in early medieval society, and a veritable industry of medieval historians studying it, there has in fact been very little attention paid to the subject of head wounds and facial damage in the course of war and / or punitive justice.

This book examines social and medical responses to the disfigured face in early medieval Europe, arguing that the study of head and facial injuries can offer a new contribution to the history of early medieval medicine and culture, as well as exploring the language of violence and social interactions.

Derek Murphy has an MA in Harry Potter and a PhD in Paradise Lost; studied fine art in Florence and philosophy in Malta; and has been featured in CNN for running writing retreats in medieval castles.

Thea studied medieval and renaissance history, art and architecture in Oxford, England, lists Lake Como, Italy, as her favorite travel destination, and helped study nuisance black bears in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas, but she still believes there's no place like the grand prairies of South Dakota.

When I studied Medieval art history in college, one of the places that most intrigued me was southern Spain.