Saints and Hagiography
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One of the rarest afflictions to come across within twelfth century English hagiography is the double disability of being deaf and mute; in fact, of the eight hagiographic sources, and two-hundred and ninety-two accounts of individuals,... more
"Jutta of Sangerhausen. A ‘new saint’ in the wake of Elizabeth of Thuringia? Jutta of Sangerhausen (Thuringia/Germany) is a less known representative of the religious movements of the 13th Century Western Europe, a lay woman who spent... more
"Representations", N. 129, Winter 2015. The essay analyzes the project of maintaining the body of V. I. Lenin in the Mausoleum in Moscow for the past ninety years, focusing on the unique biological science that developed around this... more
סיפור נסיעת הבעש"ט לארץ ישראל מגנזי ברסלב
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One of the more astounding books produced by Bratslav Hasidism is Liqquṭei tefilot (1822–1827), composed by R. Nathan Sternhartz of Nemirov, which established a whole new genre in Bratslav literature. This article discusses the book's... more
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The article focuses on the Antiochian Menologion (in Arabic: “Book of the Wheel,” Kitāb al-Dūlāb)—a collection of festal homilies and lives of saints for the entire liturgical year (September to August). This extensive work (originally in... more
Review "This excellent study is [...] recommended for academic libraries." Daniel Scheide, Florida Atlantic University, Association of Jewish Libraries Reviews, Volume VII, No. 2... more
Abstract (ITA): Il monachesimo che è giunto fino ai nostri giorni, con le sue caratteristiche maturate nella tradizione latina occidentale nel corso di molti secoli, può apparire uniforme e “standardizzato”. In realtà, quando ci si... more
This paper discusses the role of the Roman amphitheatre in Salona during the rise of Christianity and subsequent prohibition of gladiator games. Following the rich history from the times of Roman rule in antiquity, a degradation of once... more
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Le lezioni intendono delineare l’evoluzione del monachesimo benedettino in ambito “europeo”, in un arco cronologico compreso tra il VI e il XII secolo. Si analizzeranno, in maniera concisa, alcuni aspetti-chiave: – le origini e il primo... more
Abstract (ITA): In questo contributo si propone l’analisi di due importanti opere agiografiche relative a due grandi personaggi del Medioevo, fondamentali per le sorti del monachesimo “europeo”: san Benedetto da Norcia (autore della... more
תוכן העניינים פתח דבר מבוא: הערה על מבטים פרק ראשון: שבחי רודקינסון רודקינסון כמו"ל חסידי: טשרנוביץ ולבוב • בין חסידות להשכלה: ז'יטומיר וּורשה • "בצוארו כפתור... more
According to Giorgio Agamben, a “state of exception” is established by the sovereign's decision to suspend the law, and the archetypical state of exception is the Nazi concentration camp. At the same time, Agamben notes that boundaries... more
This is a work-in-progress and differently structured version of the article: "ST ADALBERTUS DOMESTICUS. PATTERNS OF MISSIONING AND EPISCOPAL POWER IN POLAND AND SCANDINAVIA IN THE ELEVENTH TO THIRTEENTH CENTURIES" Acta Poloniae Historica... more
Jonatan Meir, “The Politics of Printing the Book Sefer Likutei Tefilot" This essay discusses one of the more astounding books produced by Bratslav Hasidism – Likutei Tefilot, composed by R. Nathan Sternharz of Nemirov between 1822 and... more
Abstract (ITA): Il corpus delle opere gregoriane, insieme alle tradizioni diffuse sul territorio e da esse originate, rappresentano utili tasselli nel tentativo di comprendere i meccanismi di diffusione del carisma monastico in... more
MA-Program Intellectual Encounters of the Islamicate World Thesis, Free University of Berlin, Germany
Abstract (ITA): Il monachesimo, fin dalle sue più remote origini, può essere definito anche come un fenomeno sociale profondamente radicato nel territorio. Per rendersi conto di quanto possa essere stretto il rapporto tra i monaci e il... more
Questo breve ciclo di lezioni è rivolto agli studenti della Laurea Specialistica in “Antropologia culturale ed etnologia” e della Laurea Specialistica in “Filosofia”. Esso intende delineare alcuni caratteri basilari della società... more
RESUMEN: Teniendo en cuenta la acción misericordiosa de Dios en los hombres y la respuesta de éstos a Dios, se pasa revista tanto al don de la conversión (fruto de la misericordia divina) como a las obras de misericordia impulsadas por... more
In Syria, there are two dominant scholarly opinions on ritual self-flagellation, which rest on different understandings of health and healing, and which form the topic of the first part of this chapter. The second examines miracle stories... more
In every period in history the definition of insanity is pertinent, and its meaning is different. We owe this perception to a large movement in the scholarship of the nineteen-sixties and seventies that changed our concept of what... more
Jewish mysticism has many forms. In his epochal Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism, Gershom Scholem however defined Luranic Kabbalah, Sabbatianism, and Hasidim as three different stages in the same process of mystical articulation. In his... more
The "anonymous Passio S. Dionysii", which is listed by the Bollandistes as BHL 2178, was apparently composed by a monk of Saint-Denis in Paris during the abbacy of Waldo (806-814). It drew substantially on the earlier, eight-century... more
Abstract (ITA): Quando si pensa al monachesimo medievale, subito lo si collega alla Regola di san Benedetto da Norcia. Questo riferimento è sicuramente fondato, ma allo stesso tempo non scontato. Il “dominio” della Regola benedettina... more
The topic and role of shame and honour in Ælfric’s Vitae has hardly been problematized. This lacuna in the scholarship is perhaps the more surprising in view of the fact that both concepts appear to play a prominent role, not only in many... more