Search for dissertations about: "Dionysius"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 swedish dissertations containing the word Dionysius.

  2. 1. The Syriac chronicle of Pseudo-Dionysius of Tel-Maḥre : a study in the history of historiography

    Author : Witold Witakowski; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Semitic languages; Semitiska språk;

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  4. 2. Expositiones sequentiarum : Medieval Sequence Commentaries and Prologues. Editions with Introductions

    Author : Erika Kihlman; Gunilla Iversen; Susan Boynton; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Medieval Latin; sequence commentaries; prologue; Alan of Lille; Pseudo-Dionysius; John Scottus Eriugena; Gregory the Great; the ‘Aristotelian tradition’; angels; angelical hierarchy; glosses; etymology; Ad celebres rex; Latin language; Latin;

    Abstract : The sequence commentary emerged as a new branch of medieval commentary literature in the twelfth century. The sequence itself, sung in the Roman Mass, was a hugely influential genre—several thousands of sequence texts are known today—but the fact that the Middle Ages also produced commentaries on this liturgical poetry has been hitherto practically unknown and very few commentary texts have been edited. READ MORE

  5. 3. Sketching the Invisible : Patterns of Church and City in Theodoret of Cyrrhus' Philotheos Historia

    Author : Andreas Westergren; Kyrko- och missionsstudier; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Late Antiquity; biography; hagiography; panegyric; asceticism; monasticism; Syria; Antioch; Symeon the Stylite; pilgrimage; relics; cult of the saints; civic ideals; invention of tradition; the role of the bishop; ecclesiology; sacralization; christianization; philosophy; Neoplatonism; Libanius; Dionysius Areopagita;

    Abstract : The fundamental question in this work concerns the ideal relation between asceticism and society in a 5th c. writing (C.E.), the Philotheos Historia (PH), written in elaborate Greek by the learned bishop of Cyrrhus, Theodoret. READ MORE

  6. 4. Pearl and Contemplative Writing

    Author : Annika Sylén-Lagerholm; Engelska; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; The Cloud of Unknowing; Julian of Norwich; Margery Kempe; Richard Rolle; Walter Hilton; dream visions in literature; mysticism and literature; Thomas Aquinas and literature; Pseudo-Dionysius in England; religion and literature; literature and theology; medieval English poetry; women and medieval literature; Middle English literature; Gawain author; contemplative writers in medieval England; Pearl author; Pearl; English language and literature; Engelska språk och litteratur ; General and comparative literature; literature criticism; literary theory; Allmän och jämförande litteratur; litteraturkritik; litteraturteori;

    Abstract : This dissertation places Pearl in the context of works by the English fourteenth-century contemplative writers (‘mystics’), as well as of patristic and other theological treatises, focusing on the theme of comprehending and speaking about a transcendent divine dimension. The purpose is to show that Pearl and the works of Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, Walter Hilton, Richard Rolle and the author of The Cloud of Unknowing share a concern with attempting to express the inexpressible. READ MORE

  7. 5. 'Pancosmic' Church - Specific Romanesc: Ecclesiological Themes in the Writings of Nichifor Crainic between 1922 and 1944

    Author : Christine Mary Hall; Sven-Erik Brodd; Kaisamari Hintikka; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Crainic; ‘pancosmic’ Church; Church-State relations; demophilia; ethnocracy; specificul românesc; Gândirea; Romanian Orthodox Church; cosmic ecclesiology; Dionysius the Pseudo-Areopagite; hesychasm; theosis; hierarchy; nationalism; Church studies; Kyrkovetenskap;

    Abstract : This thesis is concerned with the Romanian Orthodox poet, director of the journal G�ndirea, and theologian, Nichifor Crainic (1889-1972), and with the two over-arching ecclesiological themes in his writings between 1922 and 1944 ? the pancosmic Church and specificul rom�nesc (the particularity of Romanian identity). Though these are fundamentally related to each other, there are many tensions between them, as the relationship between local and particular identity and pancosmic universality is worked out against the complex political backdrop of 20-th century Romania. READ MORE