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The article discusses the history of Christian life in Scandinavia in the 12th century, with reference to biographical literature on religious figures, the history of Christian leadership and practices in Scandinavia, and comparison between Christianity in Scandinavia with practices and leadership elsewhere in Europe, particularly those areas which practiced Christianity earlier. Topics discussed include the concept of the Christianization of Scandinavia, the historiography of Christianity in Scandinavia, and disparities between material evidence and written sources.

Discusses the efforts of U.S. priests to preserve European manuscript collections, such as the Vatican Manuscript Library collections, after World War II. Decision of Jesuit priest Lowrie J. Daly and Reverend Joseph F. Donnelly to microfilm the books and manuscripts in the Vatican library; Information on the Benedictine proposal; Tour of European libraries by scholar Paul Oskar Kristellar to describe existing medieval manuscript collections.

Examines the Postilla of Guillermos, a very popular printed resource among preachers and laity in the decades prior to the Reformation. Line by line commentary on the gospel and epistle lections for Sundays and feast days; Support for several late medieval styles of preaching; Stylistically adaptable; Preaching on penitence congenial to a range of theological positions common in northern Europe.

This article probes the the Christian texts and medieval contexts to reveal the shifting relations between ancient theater and ninth- and twelfth-century European liturgical allegory. The author marks the growing importance of the material world and the corporeality of Jesus Christ in Latin Christian thought and an attendant change in attitude toward Greco-Roman theater and Christian representation in general by focusing on the crossing of Christianity's spiritual truths with the material conditions of the Greco-Roman theater. By reading the Prooemium from the 821 version of Liber Officialis of Amalarius of Metz as a countertext, the author traces a shift in Christian thought that allowed Honorius to compare a priest celebrating the Eucharist to a tragedian. The author convincingly demonstrates how theatrical performance had been transformed from Augustine's idolatrous, abject relic into a useful tool by the twelfth century.

Explores the evolution of national literatures in Europe. Concept of Christian literature; Female heroism; Significance of ancient heroes; Belief in life after death accompanied by divine judgment; Description of the books "Beowulf" and "Christianity," by Mary Parker.

Presents the 'Sermones feriales et communes,' a twenty-five Latin model sermon collection by the European Christian preacher Jacques de Vitry. Title of the old testament book in which the sermon is based; Discussion for the seven days of the week and their cosmological significance in the creation story; Evidence to the role of de Vitry as Christian reformer.