Quasi-religious Women and Canon Lawyers in the Later Middle Ages
Whether they were secular canonesses or beguines, tertiaries or Sisters of the Common Life, quasi-religious women in the later Middle Ages lived their lives against a backdrop of struggle and insecurity resulting, in large measure, from their ambivalent legal status. Because they lacked one or more of the canonical earmarks of religious women ......
American Catholicism and the Rise of Neoconservative Catholics
In the wake of Vatican II and the political and social upheavals of the 1960s, disruption and disagreement rent the Catholic Church in America. Since then a diversity of opinions on a variety of political and religious questions found expression in the church, leading to a fragmented understanding of Catholic identity. Liberal, conservative, ......
St. Patrick's is the oldest Roman Catholic parish in Washington, D.C. Since 1794 it has participated in all aspects of the life of the nation's capital, witnessing the city's evolution from a struggling community into a world capital. A history of this congregation provides a particularly useful vantage point from which to trace the development of ......
Washington DC's mother church has often assumed a role in church-state relations - this look at its history describes the city's development and the issues that have shaped national policies and Catholicism in the US: race relations, religious freedom, education, immigration, and others.
The Labor of Language in Pearl, Herbert's Temple, and Blake's Jerusalem
This study examines how the poet of "Pearl", George Herbert, and William Blake each grounds his own poetics in an understanding of figurative language drawn from the New Testament parables - specifically from the metaphorical language of Jesus, who brought to fruition a radically new understanding of "building the Kingdom". Thorpe traces the ......
The Psalms, used as hymns for liturgy, have also been read as guidance for the spiritual life. Composed between 364 and 367, Hilary of Poitiers' commentary on the Psalms was the last of his writings before his death. In what appears to be a substantial but conventional commentary, Hilary also employs the Psalms to explore three progressive stages ......
A General History of the Polish Immigration in America
The first Polish presence in North America lies shrouded in the mists of historical legend. There most certainly were Poles in the Jamestown colony as early as 1608; yet there exists only fragmentary and inconclusive evidence regarding either an earlier Polish presence or the purpose and activities of those who settled in colonial Virginia. There ......
The English historian of culture Christopher Dawson (1889-1970) was an independent scholar and the author of more than twenty books. He served as assistant lecturer in the History of Culture, University College, Exeter (1925), Forwood Lecturer in the Philosophy of Religion, University of Liverpool (1934), Gifford Lecturer at the University of ......
