The ‘Malleus’ Metaphor in Medieval Characterization
The metaphor of St. Augustine as a hammer against the heretics occurs twice in the writings of John Capgrave, the learned English Augustinian friar of the fifteenth century. In his Life of St. Augustine which, in substance, is a free translation of Jordan of Saxony's Vita S. Augustini into Engl...
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Cambridge University Press
1945
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Traditio
Year: 1945, Volume: 3, Pages: 389-392 |
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| Summary: | The metaphor of St. Augustine as a hammer against the heretics occurs twice in the writings of John Capgrave, the learned English Augustinian friar of the fifteenth century. In his Life of St. Augustine which, in substance, is a free translation of Jordan of Saxony's Vita S. Augustini into English, Capgrave devotes chapter 40 in its entirety to the relentless war St. Augustine waged against the Donatists, Manichaeans, and Pelagians, and it is in this connection that he calls the Saint ‘an hard hambyr', euyr knokkyng up-on hem.’ Again, in his Chronicle of England, speaking of the Priscillianists and Pelagians, he says that ‘these heresies were beten and knokked be the myty hambir of God, whech was called Augustine.’ |
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| ISSN: | 2166-5508 |
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0362152900016950 |