"Language:Chinese.Paperback. Pub Date: April. 2002 Pages: 292 Publisher: Camidge. University Press Friendship was a quality valued Highly in ancient Greece and Rome. And was also REGARDED AS Highly significant in Nascent Christianity. Carolinne White's aim in this study is to DESCRIBE AND compare the ideas about friendship developed by the Christians. whose culture was in many ways dependent upon its pagan background. and thus to develop ..."
"St Benedict's inspirational work has been guiding Benedictine monks for fifteen centuries, and the Penguin Classics edition of The Rule of Benedict is translated with an introduction and notes by Carolinne White. Founder of a monastery at Monte Cassino, between Rome and Naples, in the sixth century, St Benedict intended his Rule to be a practical guide to Christian monastic life. Based on the key precepts of humility, obedience and lo ..."
"The autobiographical poems of Gregory of Nazianzus, fourth-century Father of the Greek church, are remarkable not only for a highly individual picture of the Byzantine world but also for moments that are intimate, passionate, and moving. The book contains Greek text and facing English translation of a selection from his one hundred or so surviving poems. Gregory is best known for the five orations he gave in Constantinople but, De Vita ..."
Early Christian Latin Poets(1st Edition) (The Early Church Fathers) by CarolinneWhite Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2000 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-415-18783-1, ISBN: 0-415-18783-4
"Christian Latin poetry from the fourth to sixth centuries was hugely influential on English and French medieval literature. In this, the first substantial overview of this poetry, Carolinne White sets the works in their literary and historical context, including translations of over thirty poems and excerpts, many never translated into English before."
"'Perpetua shouted out with joy as the sword pierced her, for she wanted to taste some of the pain and she even guided the hesitant hand of the trainee gladiator towards her own throat' Lives of Roman Christian Women is a unique collection of letters and documents from the third to the fifth centuries, celebrating Christian women from across the Roman Empire. During a crucial period in which Christianity transformed from a persecuted fai ..."
"Written between the mid-fourth and late sixth centuries to commemorate and glorify the achievements of early Christian saints, these six biographies depict men who devoted themselves to solitude, poverty and prayer. Athanasius records Antony's extreme seclusion in the Egyptian desert, despite temptation by the devil and visits from his followers. Jerome also shows those who fled persecution or withdrew from society to pursue lives of ch ..."
"St. Augustine was one of the most remarkable figures of the early Church. In his famous classic, Confessions, Augustine reveals his struggles with temptation as well as his passionate love of God. This work has extracts chosen from his Confessions that express Augustine's wisdom and his mystical yearning for God, as well as his dissolute youth, his ascent to the imperial court in Milan, and his conversion to Christianity at the ag ..."
"Augustine was one of the most remarkable figures of the early Christian church. Born in North Africa in A.D. 354, the son of a pagan farmer, he rose to become Bishop of Hippo and a hugely influential Christian writer, whose Confessions are still loved today for their humanity and spiritual depth. In this gorgeously illustrated volume Oxford scholar Carolinne White presents fresh translations of choice passages from the Confessions. The ..."
Early Christian Latin Poets(1st Edition) (The Early Church Fathers) by CarolinneWhite Hardcover, 208 Pages, Published 2000 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-415-18782-4, ISBN: 0-415-18782-6
"Christian Latin poetry from the fourth to sixth centuries was hugely influential on English and French medieval literature. In this, the first substantial overview of this poetry, Carolinne White sets the works in their literary and historical context, including translations of over thirty poems and excerpts, many never translated into English before."
"Between 1515 and 1533 Erasmus wrote commentaries on eleven psalms, his only treatment of texts from the Old Testament. His principal aim was, as in his Paraphrases, to contribute, through the exposition of the Bible, to the renewal of preaching and devotional literature. This second of three volumes of the Expositions of the Psalms in the Collected Works of Erasmus, continues the chronological sequence of composition, containing comment ..."
"This translation is illustrated with miniatures and decoration taken from illuminated manuscripts of the Confessions in the medieval collection at the British Library. The book is organized round extracts chosen to best express St Augustine's philosophy and mystical love of God."
"In this, the first substantial overview of this poetry, Carolinne White sets the works in their literary and historical context, including translations of over thirty poems and excerpts, many never translated into English before."
"The autobiographical poems of Gregory of Nazianzus, fourth-century Father of the Greek church, are remarkable not only for a highly individual picture of the Byzantine world but also for moments that are intimate, passionate, and moving. The book contains Greek text and facing English translation of a selection from his one hundred or so surviving poems. Gregory is best known for the five orations he gave in Constantinople but, De Vita ..."
"This translation into English of the extant correspondence between St Jerome at Bethlehem and St. Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, presents these letters, written during the years 394-419, in chronological order. This volume also contains explanatory notes for each of the 17 letters, as well as two letters from Jerome and Augustine relating to their correspondence, and an introduction discussing the main themes with which their correspondenc ..."
Latin in Medieval Britain (Proceedings of the British Academy) by British Academy Hardcover, 380 Pages, Published 2017 by Oxford Univ Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-19-726608-3, ISBN: 0-19-726608-8
"by Gregory of Nyssa Macrina Macrina was born in about 325 and died in 380,
living her whole life in what is now central Turkey. She was the eldest child of
Christian parents from families that had suffered much for their faith. Gregory
wrote anĀ ..."
"It is known as The Rule of the Master, 37 as it takes the form, popular in this
period, of a prolonged question-and-answer session between pupil and master.
About three times the length of Benedict's Rule, it is much more expansive in its
teachings and also covers additional topics, such as a commentary on the Lord's
Prayer, advice on how to wake the abbot for the service by tapping his feet and
on wet dreams. In Chapter 5 it also ..."