Sentences with phrase «of medieval studies»

A pioneering art historian in the field of medieval studies, he was also passionate about the great modern masters and was a champion of the artists of his own time.

An invitation to a house party hosted by a handsome duke may be her Cinderella moment — until she realizes that a fellow guest is none other than Stephen de Piaget, a scholar of medieval studies... and her nemesis.

Toronto, Ontario: The Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 1949.

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.

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

Ronald Knox: A Man for All Seasons edited by francesca bugliani knox pontifical institute of medieval studies, 416 pages, $ 65

Not exact matches

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.

He comes to this reflection on the present state of Catholicism with an intellect formed by the study of late medieval Catholic life.

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.

The theory of personal and official charisma will prove very fruitful; it has recently, been applied to the study of primitive society, Indo - European and Hebrew religion, and medieval Christianity.

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.

It stemmed from a fateful turning point that came at the height of medieval Islamic civilization, with the advent of «new interpreters of Islam who taught that acquisition of knowledge by Muslims meant only the study of Islamic theology.

Many of my students have told me that it was not until we studied Byzantine or medieval art that they were able to develop a genuine feel for the theology of these periods.

For someone whose own field of study, medieval and Renaissance English, requires a keen appreciation of language, this misunderstanding of the dynamics of Hebrew poetry is lamentable.

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.

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.

I am working on a book that shows by means of medieval rabbinical commentary, Hebrew semantics, and biblical genre studies, that Genesis 1 is scientifcally accurate and the first part of a semitic chiasm.

The Medieval and Renaissance worlds studied the ars moriendi — the art of dying.

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).

For instance, a breakthrough 2013 study by Australian scientists compared modern dental calculus to that of a small set of European skeletons spanning some 8,000 years, from the Stone Age through the late medieval period.

Heavier rainfall at the study sites from the year 0 to 400, and again during Europe's Medieval Warm Period, just before the Little Ice Age from about the year 800 to 1300, was probably caused by a centuries - long strengthening of El Niño.

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.

Her colleague on the excavation Søren Sindbæk, who is a professor of medieval archaeology at Aarhus University, adds: «The discovery of the new Viking fortress is a unique opportunity to learn more about the battles and conflicts of the Vikings, and gives us a new chance to study the most famous of our Viking monuments.»

Sarah Hainsworth, study author and Professor of Materials Engineering at the University of Leicester explains, «Richard's injuries represent a sustained attack or an attack by several assailants with weapons from the later medieval period.

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.

«Medieval manuscripts represent a relatively untapped store of biological information,» says biochemist Matthew Collins, whose team has studied this Gospel of Luke over the past 5 years.

By studying the skeletons of farmers, peasants, monks, and nobles, paleopathologists hope to find out what diseases killed people from medieval times until the present — and how their overall health fluctuated during famine, war, climate change, and other challenges.

The study of medieval literature may seem far removed from the rigor of 20th - century science.

Researchers from the University of Ferrara and University of Bologna studied the grave to find out more information about the life of the Medieval woman before she died.

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

If you look at the proxy portion of the new Moberg graphic, you see nothing that would be problematic for opponents of the hockey stick: it shows a striking Medieval Warm Period (MWP), a cold Little Ice Age and 20th century warming not quite reaching MWP levels by 1979, when the proxy portion of the study ends.

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

Juliette Le Gall is a visiting professor of French Medieval Studies researching and teaching at Noah's university for a semester.

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).

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.

The object offers a starting point for studying a range of aspects of the medieval period from the struggle between church and state to the nature and importance of religious devotion.

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.

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.

This activity could be done with the study of many different areas of the world and time periods, such as medieval times or WWII - ration situations.