Michael Edward Moore
NAVIGARE PER MARE LVCIDVM.
We can be inspired by the capacity of higher education to liberate the mind, and by the living presence of old books, by letters and words written on paper, scribbled in margins, jotted down in journals or notebooks. Friendship provides illumination for these studies. The humanities are a major legacy of the ancient and medieval past.
Moore's research has centered on ecclesiastical, legal and scholarly traditions of Europe from late antiquity through the Middle Ages. Philology and hermeneutics, the "love of learning and literature, and the desire to know" allow us to discover the traces of earlier centuries and people.
Exploring the connection between modern and medieval times, Moore has written on topics such as humanism, the papacy, the monastery of Cluny, the history of torture, and Carolingian political culture. He has explored later thinkers such as Nicholas of Cusa, Jean Mabillon, Søren Kierkegaard, Félix Ravaisson, Emmanuel Lévinas, and Czeslaw Milosz.
To follow the winding, half-hidden paths that lead from older traditions to the complexity of modern culture, calls for a "different humanism" and ultimately an arcadian practice of presence.
"Your only resource is to work far from the world, indifferent to its judgments. It is perhaps best if it rejects you and thus obliges you to fall back on yourself, to grow interiorly" (Sertillanges, The Intellectual Life).
Michael Edward Moore, http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5409-2674
We can be inspired by the capacity of higher education to liberate the mind, and by the living presence of old books, by letters and words written on paper, scribbled in margins, jotted down in journals or notebooks. Friendship provides illumination for these studies. The humanities are a major legacy of the ancient and medieval past.
Moore's research has centered on ecclesiastical, legal and scholarly traditions of Europe from late antiquity through the Middle Ages. Philology and hermeneutics, the "love of learning and literature, and the desire to know" allow us to discover the traces of earlier centuries and people.
Exploring the connection between modern and medieval times, Moore has written on topics such as humanism, the papacy, the monastery of Cluny, the history of torture, and Carolingian political culture. He has explored later thinkers such as Nicholas of Cusa, Jean Mabillon, Søren Kierkegaard, Félix Ravaisson, Emmanuel Lévinas, and Czeslaw Milosz.
To follow the winding, half-hidden paths that lead from older traditions to the complexity of modern culture, calls for a "different humanism" and ultimately an arcadian practice of presence.
"Your only resource is to work far from the world, indifferent to its judgments. It is perhaps best if it rejects you and thus obliges you to fall back on yourself, to grow interiorly" (Sertillanges, The Intellectual Life).
Michael Edward Moore, http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5409-2674
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Michael Moore has published an essay, on the pinnacle of philosophy in the philosophy of Cusanus: "Theoria in Cusanus and Gadamer: The Joy of Contemplation"
This book examines the interaction of bishops and kings from the Gallic period of the fourth century to the breakup of the Carolingian Empire in about 850. We see that kings and bishops powerfully influenced one another, and that the character of Frankish kingship was transformed during the rise of the Carolingian Empire by the ideas, law and ritual activities of bishops. Indeed, the building of the Empire, and the sense of religious mission which inspired it can be attributed to the royal adoption of an episcopal platform. Royal power became ritualized and christianized. Episcopal power was transformed at the same time, because by virtue of living in the Empire they helped create, bishops could act on a cross-cultural, even Church-wide level. Published: Catholic University of America Press. 2011.http://cuapress.cua.edu/books/viewbook.cfm?book=MOSK
Papers by Michael Edward Moore
Michael Moore has published an essay, on the pinnacle of philosophy in the philosophy of Cusanus: "Theoria in Cusanus and Gadamer: The Joy of Contemplation"
This book examines the interaction of bishops and kings from the Gallic period of the fourth century to the breakup of the Carolingian Empire in about 850. We see that kings and bishops powerfully influenced one another, and that the character of Frankish kingship was transformed during the rise of the Carolingian Empire by the ideas, law and ritual activities of bishops. Indeed, the building of the Empire, and the sense of religious mission which inspired it can be attributed to the royal adoption of an episcopal platform. Royal power became ritualized and christianized. Episcopal power was transformed at the same time, because by virtue of living in the Empire they helped create, bishops could act on a cross-cultural, even Church-wide level. Published: Catholic University of America Press. 2011.http://cuapress.cua.edu/books/viewbook.cfm?book=MOSK
Long ago as certain spirits reacted to the world, their breath became language on ancient tongues and was captured with the scratching of pens. For the history of concepts, Begriffsgeschichte, the study of words and their meanings comes to the fore, seeing language as the inner life of history. It seems true to say with Van Gelderen that "For the study of history language is the house of being." As an ancient practice, philology is well-suited to the study of old relics of language and the exploration of various abandoned houses of meaning. "