Alcuin blamires biography of martin
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New Medieval Literatures 17
An invigorating annual for those who are interested in medieval textual cultures and open to ways in which diverse post-modern methodologies may be applied to them. Alcuin Blamires, Review of English Studies
New Medieval Literatures is an annual of work on medieval textual cultures, aiming to engage with intellectual and cultural pluralism in the Middle Ages and now. Its scope is inclusive of work across the theoretical, archival, philological, and historicist methodologies associated with medieval literary studies, and embraces both the British Isles and Europe.
Essays in this volume engage with the relations between humans and nonhumans; the power of inanimate objects to animate humans and texts; literary deployments of medical, aesthetic, and economic discourses; the language of friendship; and the surprising value of early readers' casual annotations. Texts discussed include Beowulf, works by Rolle, Chaucer, Langland, Gower, and Lydgate; lyrics of the Occitan troubadour Marcabru and the French poet Richard de Fournival; and the Anglo-Saxon versions of Boethius's De Consolatione Philosophiae and Augustine's Soliloquia.
Wendy Scase is Geoffrey Shepherd Professor of Medieval English Literature at the University of Birmingham; Davi
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Harry Blamires and ‘The Christian Mind’
The obituary of Harry Blamires recently printed in the Times newspaper came as a shock. Not having heard of this writer for years, one assumed he had long passed away, but through he columns of this daily newspaper one learned that he had recently died, 21 November, aged 101 years and 15 days. The obituary was quite fascinating and reads as follows:
As the self-styled scourge of ‘trendy theologians’. Harry Blamires considered it a badge of honour when he was booed off stage by theology students at the University of Kent in the mid-1960s. With his fogeyish attire and his unreconstructed belief that the Church of England would be doomed if it tried to modernise, he made no concessions to the sensibilities of redbrick universities.
The students’ abusive response did not worry him unduly, because he preferred the company of his own set and enjoyed stirring things up, as he had done with his book The Christian Mind in 1963. It had been a counterblast to the fashionable ‘South Bank’ theologians of the day, warning that their approach would herald an age of humanist secularism and moral relativism.
The book gained a wide readership in seminaries and other Christian institutions and was speciall
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Course description
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