So I'm back to the grind of school. This semester is shaping up to be interesting, and hopefully more fun than last semester. Certainly busier than last semester.
I spent the other day in Waterloo doing research for Kazoo, and it was most productive. I'm looking forward to spending more time working on it. Also, I think my Medieval Child class will be a very good one for me to have taken in the future. I just get a very good feeling about it right now and I'm looking forward to it. Really, all of my medieval studies right now I'm looking forward to and enjoying.
To sleep for now, but I will try to update more often, especially as I'm doing more school stuff again.
Showing posts with label Petronilla. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Petronilla. Show all posts
12 January 2009
15 September 2008
ICMS 2009
So I can now say that I have submitted an abstract for ICMS and had it accepted!
Of course, this means I actually have to write a paper, now, and present it. But still, I am excited and looking forward to scrounging up the time to actually work on this.
Of course, this means I actually have to write a paper, now, and present it. But still, I am excited and looking forward to scrounging up the time to actually work on this.
30 August 2008
The Beginnings of an Abstract
So I'm looking at the story of Saint Petronilla (I'd include a link, but both wikipedia and new advent have failed me by giving either weird versions of the story or no real story at all) for a paper to give at Kalamazoo this coming year. The version I'm working with comes from Ælfric's Lives of Saints.
The summed up story is that Peter makes her ill for her benefit. Then Titus asks him why he lets her be ill when he heals everyone else and Peter says that it's good for her, but to prove that he can heal her, he tells her to get up and make dinner. So she does and she's totally healthy; she makes dinner, then goes to lie down and Peter makes her ill again. And from this she learned to fear God and later God healed her again and she went on to heal many others.
Now, aside from the fact that Peter comes off as looking like an arrogant jerk, it is interesting that in this time of healing for all, it is illness -- imposed illness, even -- that is edifying for her. The whole passage (there are a lot more miracles and the most detailed sound lifted out of Acts and dropped into other places) is meant to tell the miracles of Saint Peter to honour him and to edify the reader. However, the second story about Petronilla (there are two at the end of this series of tales of Saint Peter) is very different stylistically. So I am hoping to examine the intent of these exact tales. And in any event, it's a neat story.
The summed up story is that Peter makes her ill for her benefit. Then Titus asks him why he lets her be ill when he heals everyone else and Peter says that it's good for her, but to prove that he can heal her, he tells her to get up and make dinner. So she does and she's totally healthy; she makes dinner, then goes to lie down and Peter makes her ill again. And from this she learned to fear God and later God healed her again and she went on to heal many others.
Now, aside from the fact that Peter comes off as looking like an arrogant jerk, it is interesting that in this time of healing for all, it is illness -- imposed illness, even -- that is edifying for her. The whole passage (there are a lot more miracles and the most detailed sound lifted out of Acts and dropped into other places) is meant to tell the miracles of Saint Peter to honour him and to edify the reader. However, the second story about Petronilla (there are two at the end of this series of tales of Saint Peter) is very different stylistically. So I am hoping to examine the intent of these exact tales. And in any event, it's a neat story.
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