Bede on Sickness, Episcopal Identity and Monastic Asceticism

Bede on the Papacy

It is clear from Bede’sHistoria ecclesiastica that England then enjoyed close relations with the Roman Church. Some passages in the work have been seen as reflecting a high doctrine of the papacy, but when carefully read they turn out to be devoid of any understanding of the papacy. The same is true of Bede’s discussions of Christ’s words to Peter (Matthew xvi.18a, 19) in his writing on the Bib...

Mapping Monastic Geographicity Or Appeasing Ghosts of Monastic Subjects1

Rarely do the same apparitions inhabit the work of modern theorists of subjectivity, politics, ethnicity, the Sanskrit cosmopolis and medieval architecture at once. However, the South Asianist historian who ponders the work of Charles Taylor, Partha Chatterjee, James Scott and Sheldon Pollock cannot help notice the apparitions of monastic subjects within each. Tamara Sears has gestured at the s...

Episcopal Hospital Reports, Philadelphia, Vol. II

Medieval monastic mortality: hazard analysis of mortality differences between monastic and nonmonastic cemeteries in England.

Scholarship on life in medieval European monasteries has revealed a variety of factors that potentially affected mortality in these communities. Though there is some evidence based on age-at-death distributions from England that monastic males lived longer than members of the general public, what is missing from the literature is an explicit examination of how the risks of mortality within medi...

BEDE: A Microprocessor-Based Machine Translation System

The proposed paper d e s c r i b e s an o n g o i n 6 r e s e a r c h p r o ~eo t b e i n g c a r r i e d out by s t a f f and s t u d e n t s a t t he Cen t r e f o r Computa t iona l L i n g u i s t i c s t o d e s i g n a. l i m i t e d s y n t a x c o n t r o l l e d v o c a b u l a r y machine t r a n s l a t i o n sys tem o f s o p h i s t i c a t e d d e s i g n t o run on .a m i c r o p...