Noel Harold Kaylor, Jr. and Philip Edward Phillips, eds., A Companion to Boethius in the Middle Ages. (Brill’s Companions to the Christian Tradition.) Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2012. Pp. xxii, 661. $274.00. ISBN 978-90-04-18354-4.Table of contents available online at https://brill.com/view/title/14271

Speculum ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 93 (3) ◽  
pp. 863-865
Author(s):  
Kylie Murray
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Christian Tradition ◽  
The Middle Ages

V. Leges fundamentales: Gesetze, die gleicher sind als andere? Vom Inhalt zum Begriff

2021 ◽  
Vol 107 (1) ◽  
pp. 219-254
Author(s):  
Mathias Schmoeckel
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Christian Tradition ◽  
Central Authority ◽  
European Heritage ◽  
The Middle Ages

Abstract Leges fundamentals: Laws Higher than Others? Their Development from the Concept to the Term. This article investigates the tradition of laws with a higher, central authority, which can be found in the Christian tradition from the Middle Ages to the 16th century, when the Calvinist party finally coined the term “loi fondamentale”. The contrast to other national discussions shows the different starting points and contents of a notion, which rapidly became a common European heritage and merged with the equally new concept of “constitution”.

A Reading of Robert De Boron

PMLA ◽  
1965 ◽  
Vol 80 (5) ◽  
pp. 499-507
Author(s):  
Mary E. Giffin
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Christian Tradition ◽  
Arthurian Literature ◽  
Robert De Boron ◽  
The Middle Ages

In writing the chapter on “The Work of Robert de Boron and the Didot Perceval” for Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages, Pierre Le Gentil shows that many questions remain unanswered for readers of the Metrical Joseph. Beyond the statements which we understand as the poet's—that at the time when he told the story of the graal he was with his lord Gautier de Montbéliard in peace, that no one had yet told the story, and that he intends to continue with stories of Alain, Petrus, Moyses, and Bron—we have been guided in our reading largely by conjecture. From the fragment of the Merlin which follows the Metrical Joseph in MS. fr. 20047 of the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, we can see that the poet places the two works within the concept of the struggle between Christ and Satan for the soul of man. Several of his sources have been pointed out; but beyond a few conclusions from the text itself, a reader wonders at the strange combination of Christian tradition and Celtic legend which Robert de Boron has effected in these two works. Discussions have been complicated by manuscripts of works related in various ways to the poems of MS. fr. 20047, and by the proliferation of stories of the Grail following Robert de Boron's Christianization of Celtic stories which had been circulating for about a hundred years before his time.

scholarly journals A Fortuna no Roman de Fauvel e sua relação com a tradição literária e religiosa da Civitate Dei e da Consolatio philosophiae na Idade Média

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (7) ◽  
pp. 105
Author(s):  
Jaqueline Silva de Macedo
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Medieval Literature ◽  
Divine Providence ◽  
Christian Tradition ◽  
14Th Century ◽  
The World ◽  
The Middle Ages

Este trabalho versará acerca da interação da tradição cristã e não cristã na representação da deusa no medievo e sob a ótica da Civitate Dei de Agostinho e da Consoloatio philosiphae de Boécio, mostrando a distinção entre "naturezas" entre Fauvel e Fortuna, esta, descrita como a própria Providência divina e equalizada à Sabedoria, sua irmã.Herdeira de divindades grega e romana, a Fortuna na Idade Média será vista como auxiliadora da providência divina perdendo o caráter deífico que lhe era próprio e sendo a ocasião e a sorte características de seu poder. Uma das narrativas poéticas medievais, no entanto, retoma a divindade de Fortuna retratando-a como filha de Deus e encarregada de governar o mundo, mas recuperando características da Antiguidade. Trata-se do Roman de Fauvel, poema elaborado na França do século XIV.Palavras-chave: Literatura medieval, Fortuna, Roman de Fauvel. AbstractThis paper will deal with the interaction of Christian and non-Christian tradition in the representation of the medieval goddess and from the perspective of Augustine's Civitate Dei and Boethius' Consolatio philosophiae, showing the distinction between "natures" Fauvel and Fortune, which is described as divine Providence itself and equalized to Wisdom, his sister.Heiress of Greek and Roman deities, Fortune in the Middle Ages will be seen as a helper of divine providence losing its deific character proper and accentuating the occasion and luck as characteristics of its performance. One of the medieval poetic narratives, however, takes up the deity of Fortune, portraying her as a daughter of God and charged with ruling the world, but recovering characteristics of antiquity. It is the Roman de Fauvel, a poem written in 14th century France.Keywords: Medieval literature, Fortune, Roman de Fauvel.

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