The paper will focus on the choices made by lfric for these different contexts choices of feast, source-texts, and mode of presentation with the intention of discovering more about lfric s sensitivity to different needs and the significance of the cross in the different religious contexts found within the Reform period. This paper will explore the iconographic and ideological relationship between the illustrated programs of the two books. A text found in BL Cotton Tiberius A. iii, fol. 59rv and in CCCC 391, pp. 617-18, however, seems to be situated at the intersection of these two usually separate genres.
Many scholars spend their lives usefully establishing intellectual contexts for English poetry.
The trouble is that the most innovative and exciting theological thought was often highly technical and written in Latin and Greek. A good example is the monothelete controversy of the seventh and early eighth century. It led to the martyrdom of Pope Martin I and of Maximus the Confessor. It is good to record that Martin, the last pope to be martyred, was martyred in the same cause as the most innovative theologian of the age, Maximus. In that controversy, at least, there was no opposition between good theology and the papacy.