Papers by Sam Conedera S.J.
Nova et vetera, Jun 1, 2023
Church History, Aug 31, 2023
Renaissance Quarterly, 2021
Fordham University Press eBooks, Apr 2, 2019
This chapter assesses how the military orders had an important place in Alfonso VIII's Ca... more This chapter assesses how the military orders had an important place in Alfonso VIII's Castile as defenders and settlers of the frontier with Islam, as well as contingents in major campaigns and rapid response forces in smaller engagements. They also acted as caretakers of the sick and liberators of captives; occasional keepers of the peace between quarreling Christians; and as intercessors before the heavenly court. Their mission—and the structure of life that was meant to fulfill it—came from the hierarchical Church, but Alfonso VIII's mediating role between the hierarchy and the orders meant that royal prerogative was normally decisive for how that mission was carried out. Alfonso VIII's patterns of giving show a clear preference for Calatrava and Santiago over their “universal” counterparts, the Hospital and the Temple. The king saw the Iberian orders as a wall and a shield of Christendom, a view that the orders themselves shared, but within the framework of their particular type of religious life.
Hispania-revista Espanola De Historia, 2016
Fordham University Press eBooks, May 1, 2015
Nova et vetera, 2021
Jacobs presents “Under Which Lyre” as a hilarious but prescient poem about a perennial pestilence... more Jacobs presents “Under Which Lyre” as a hilarious but prescient poem about a perennial pestilence of the modern university. "e Year of Our Lord 1943 has an idiosyncratic but delightful structure: diverse Fgures _ow in and out of a drama held together by a year (1943) and a common theme (Christian humanism). Jacobs’s tale relates the e@ort of Fve Christian intellectuals to construct a new Christian humanism in the wake of the catastrophic Second World War. Ce relevance of their project nearly eighty years later is evident. Ce philosophic challenges latent in modern science identiFed by Maritain, Eliot, Lewis, Auden, and Weil remain with us. And the accompanying technocratic and pragmatic vision of education is less questioned now than when they wrote. But their vision for an authentic human education, one that prioritizes the knowledge and love of eternal realities, that seeks spiritual freedom and shapes the ordo amoris of the student to respond well to the given structures of the universe, holds out direction and hope.
Comitatus-a Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2010
Comitatus-a Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2012
Comitatus-a Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2010
Comitatus-a Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2005
Comitatus-a Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2010
Comitatus-a Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2010
Beginning in the 1380s, in market towns along the IJssel River (east-central Netherlands) and in ... more Beginning in the 1380s, in market towns along the IJssel River (east-central Netherlands) and in the county of Holland, groups of women and men formed households organized as communes and a lifestyle centered on devotion. They lived on city streets alongside urban neighbors, managed properties and rents in common, and prepared textiles or books for local markets-all the while refusing to profess vows as religious or to acquire spouses and property as lay citizens. They defended their lifestyle, self-designed, as exemplary, and sustained it in the face of opposition, the women labeled ''beguines,'' the men ''lollards,'' epithets meant to mock or cast suspicion. They also spread, toward Münster to the east, Cologne and Liège to the southeast, Brabant and Flanders to the south, and eventually as far as Magdeburg and Rostock to the east and the Upper Rhine to the south. For the most part, in the first generation or two especially, these ''Modern-Day Devout'' puzzled contemporaries, their zeal surprising neighbors and churchmen, its intensity evoking admiration but also worry. For the Devout it was all the negligent parishioners and self-indulgent religious, the corruption of the ordinary, that seemed worrying. Parish-goers appeared ''crude and beastly'' in matters moral and spiritual, resistant to anything but required worship, 1 and the professed religious mostly compromised and hypocritical. The Devout resolved-over against indifferent parish routines, over against those who vowed religion but lived in privilege-to embody ''piety'' in the ''presentday,'' the rhetorical force of their term ''devotio moderna.'' This seemed admirable to some, annoyingly self-righteous to others. A story from the mid-1430s may help us visualize the tensions. Egbert ter Beeck, head for many years (1450-83) of the men's household in Deventer, was sent as a boy to the renowned school connected to the canons of St. Lebuin. He came from a gentry family in Wijhe, several miles north, and lived as a schoolboy with kinswomen in Deventer. He became drawn to the Brothers in good part by their ''collations,'' talks they offered on Sunday afternoons and feast days. Soon
Comitatus-a Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2010
Comitatus-a Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2012
Fordham University Press eBooks, May 1, 2015
Fordham University Press eBooks, May 1, 2015
King Alfonso VIII of Castile, 2019
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Papers by Sam Conedera S.J.