Belief And Culture In The Middle Ages

Author : Richard Gameson,Henrietta Leyser
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2001-04-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191543036

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Belief and Culture in the Middle Ages by Richard Gameson,Henrietta Leyser Pdf

Are there angels within spitting distance of men? What did Pope Gregory the Great think of pagans? Were the monks of Battle compulsive forgers? Is temptation always a bad thing? These and many other fascinating questions are explored in this book. Commisssioned in honour of the distinguished medieval historian, Henry Mayr-Harting and reflecting the range and focus of its honorand's interests, the twenty-five essays provide a panoramic and stimulating exploration of the interrelated fields of belief and culture in the middle ages. Sanctity and sacred biography, seduction and temptation, forgery and litigation, patronage and art production, conversion and oppression were all part of the rich fabric of medieval Christian culture that is scrutinized here. Individually the studies shed new light on a series of key issues and questions relating to the cultural, religious, and political history of the sixth-century church, of Anglo-Saxon and Norman England, and of Carolingian, Ottonian, and Investiture Contest Europe; while collectively they illuminate the interaction of Christianity and politics, of secular and sacred, and of belief and culture from late antiquity to the thirteenth century.

Author : Thomas F. X. Noble,John J. Contreni
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Christianity and culture
ISBN : UOM:39015011729848

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Religion, Culture, and Society in the Early Middle Ages by Thomas F. X. Noble,John J. Contreni Pdf

Author : Henry Mayr-Harting,Richard Gameson,Henrietta Leyser
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198208013

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Belief and Culture in the Middle Ages by Henry Mayr-Harting,Richard Gameson,Henrietta Leyser Pdf

Are there angels within spitting distance of men? What did Pope Gregory the Great think of pagans? Were the monks of Battle compulsive forgers? Is temptation always a bad thing? These and many other fascinating questions are explored in this book. Commisssioned in honour of the distinguished medieval historian, Henry Mayr-Harting and reflecting the range and focus of its honorand's interests, the twenty-five essays provide a panoramic and stimulating exploration of the interrelated fields of belief and culture in the middle ages. Sanctity and sacred biography, seduction and temptation, forgery and litigation, patronage and art production, conversion and oppression were all part of the rich fabric of medieval Christian culture that is scrutinized here. Individually the studies shed new light on a series of key issues and questions relating to the cultural, religious, and political history of the sixth-century church, of Anglo-Saxon and Norman England, and of Carolingian, Ottonian, and Investiture Contest Europe; while collectively they illuminate the interaction of Christianity and politics, of secular and sacred, and of belief and culture from late antiquity to the thirteenth century.

Author : Steven L. Kaplan
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783110854305

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Understanding Popular Culture by Steven L. Kaplan Pdf

Understanding Popular Culture

Author : Andrew P. Roach,James R. Simpson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317122500

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Heresy and the Making of European Culture by Andrew P. Roach,James R. Simpson Pdf

Scholars and analysts seeking to illuminate the extraordinary creativity and innovation evident in European medieval cultures and their afterlives have thus far neglected the important role of religious heresy. The papers collected here - reflecting the disciplines of history, literature, theology, philosophy, economics and law - examine the intellectual and social investments characteristic of both deliberate religious dissent such as the Cathars of Languedoc, the Balkan Bogomils, the Hussites of Bohemia and those who knowingly or unknowingly bent or broke the rules, creating their own 'unofficial orthodoxies'. Attempts to understand, police and eradicate all these, through methods such as the Inquisition, required no less ingenuity. The ambivalent dynamic evident in the tensions between coercion and dissent is still recognisable and productive in the world today.

Author : James G. Clark
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 1843833212

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The Culture of Medieval English Monasticism by James G. Clark Pdf

Examinations of the culture - artistic, material, musical - of English monasteries in the six centuries between the Conquest and the Dissolution. The cultural remains of England's abbeys and priories have always attracted scholarly attention but too often they have been studied in isolation, appreciated only for their artistic, codicological or intellectual features and notfor the insights they offer into the patterns of life and thought - the underlying norms, values and mentalité - of the communities of men and women which made them. Indeed, the distinguished monastic historian David Knowles doubted there would ever be sufficient evidence to recover "the mentality of the ordinary cloister monk". These twelve essays challenge this view. They exploit newly catalogued and newly discovered evidence - manuscript books, wall paintings, and even the traces of original monastic music - to recover the cultural dynamics of a cross-section of male and female communities. It is often claimed that over time the cultural traditions of the monasteries were suffocated by secular trends but here it is suggested that many houses remained a major cultural force even on the verge of the Reformation. James G. Clark is Professor of History at the University of Exeter. Contributors: DAVID BELL, ROGER BOWERS, JAMES CLARK, BARRIE COLLETT, MARY ERLER, G. R. EVANS, MIRIAM GILL, JOAN GREATREX, JULIAN HASELDINE, J. D. NORTH, ALAN PIPER, AND R. M. THOMSON.

Author : Valerie L. Garver,Owen M. Phelan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317061243

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Rome and Religion in the Medieval World by Valerie L. Garver,Owen M. Phelan Pdf

Rome and Religion in the Medieval World provides a panoramic and interdisciplinary exploration of Rome and religious culture. The studies build upon or engage Thomas F.X. Noble’s interest in Rome, especially his landmark contributions to the origins of the Papal States and early medieval image controversies. Scholars from a variety of disciplines offer new viewpoints on key issues and questions relating to medieval religious, cultural and intellectual history. Each study explores different dimensions of Rome and religion, including medieval art, theology, material culture, politics, education, law, and religious practice. Drawing upon a wide range of sources, including manuscripts, relics, historical and normative texts, theological tracts, and poetry, the authors illuminate the complexities of medieval Christianity, especially as practiced in the city of Rome itself, and elsewhere in Europe when influenced by the idea of Rome. Some trace early medieval legacies to the early modern period when Protestant and Catholic theologians used early medieval religious texts to define and debate forms of Roman Christianity. The essays highlight and deepen scholarly appreciation of Rome in the rich and varied religious culture of the medieval world.

Author : L. Besserman
Publisher : Springer
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2006-02-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781403977274

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Sacred and Secular in Medieval and Early Modern Cultures by L. Besserman Pdf

This book illuminates the pervasive interplay of 'sacred' and 'secular' phenomena in the literature, history, politics, and religion of the Middle Ages and Early Modern periods. The essays gathered here constitute a new way of applying a classic dichotomy to major cultural phenomena of the pre-modern era.

Author : Thomas A. Fudgé
Publisher : Springer
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137566102

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Medieval Religion and its Anxieties by Thomas A. Fudgé Pdf

This book examines the broad varieties of religious belief, religious practices, and the influence of religion within medieval society. Religion in the Middle Ages was not monolithic. Medieval religion and the Latin Church are not synonymous. While theology and liturgy are important, an examination of animal trials, gargoyles, last judgments, various aspects of the medieval underworld, and the quest for salvation illuminate lesser known dimensions of religion in the Middle Ages. Several themes run throughout the book including visual culture, heresy and heretics, law and legal procedure, along with sexuality and an awareness of mentalities and anxieties. Although an expanse of 800 years has passed, the remains of those other Middle Ages can be seen today, forcing us to reassess our evaluations of this alluring and often overlooked past.

Author : Robin Macdonald,Emilie Murphy,Elizabeth L. Swann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317057185

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Sensing the Sacred in Medieval and Early Modern Culture by Robin Macdonald,Emilie Murphy,Elizabeth L. Swann Pdf

This volume traces transformations in attitudes toward, ideas about, and experiences of religion and the senses in the medieval and early modern period. Broad in temporal and geographical scope, it challenges traditional notions of periodisation, highlighting continuities as well as change. Rather than focusing on individual senses, the volume’s organisation emphasises the multisensoriality and embodied nature of religious practices and experiences, refusing easy distinctions between asceticism and excess. The senses were not passive, but rather active and reactive, res-ponding to and initiating change. As the contributions in this collection demonstrate, in the pre-modern era, sensing the sacred was a complex, vexed, and constantly evolving process, shaped by individuals, environment, and religious change. The volume will be essential reading not only for scholars of religion and the senses, but for anyone interested in histories of medieval and early modern bodies, material culture, affects, and affect theory.

Author : Naoë Kukita Yoshikawa
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781843844013

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Medicine, Religion and Gender in Medieval Culture by Naoë Kukita Yoshikawa Pdf

An exploration of the relations between medical and religious discourse and practice in medieval culture, focussing on how they are affected by gender.

Author : John Raymond Shinners
Publisher : Peterborough, Ont. : Broadview Press
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114451144

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Medieval Popular Religion, 1000-1500 by John Raymond Shinners Pdf

Comprising a variety of translated documents from the 11th to the early 16th centuries John Shinners' book demonstrates the rich diversity of religious life led by people in medieval Western Europe.

Author : Henry Bamford Parkes
Publisher : New York : Knopf, 1969 [c1968]
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Civilization, Medieval
ISBN : UCAL:$B466169

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The Divine Order by Henry Bamford Parkes Pdf

A richly documented cultural history of Europe from the decay of the Roman Empire to the death of Shakespeare.

Author : Albrecht Classen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 824 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110377637

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Handbook of Medieval Culture by Albrecht Classen Pdf

A follow-up publication to the Handbook of Medieval Studies, this new reference work turns to a different focus: medieval culture. Medieval research has grown tremendously in depth and breadth over the last decades. Particularly our understanding of medieval culture, of the basic living conditions, and the specific value system prevalent at that time has considerably expanded, to a point where we are in danger of no longer seeing the proverbial forest for the trees. The present, innovative handbook offers compact articles on essential topics, ideals, specific knowledge, and concepts defining the medieval world as comprehensively as possible. The topics covered in this new handbook pertain to issues such as love and marriage, belief in God, hell, and the devil, education, lordship and servitude, Christianity versus Judaism and Islam, health, medicine, the rural world, the rise of the urban class, travel, roads and bridges, entertainment, games, and sport activities, numbers, measuring, the education system, the papacy, saints, the senses, death, and money.

Author : Leonie V. Hicks,Elma Brenner
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Civilization, Medieval
ISBN : 2503536654

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Society and Culture in Medieval Rouen, 911-1300 by Leonie V. Hicks,Elma Brenner Pdf

"This book presents exciting new research on the society and culture of medieval Rouen by British and Continental historians. Divided into three sections, addressing space and representation, religious culture, and social networks, the volume is both wide-ranging and tightly focused. The key themes include Rouen's relationship with its environs, image and identity, social and political relationships, and Rouen's status as the 'capital' of Normandy. The essays discuss topics ranging from urban development and charity, to the city's aristocratic and ecclesiastical elites, the Jewish community, and the relationship of the Angevin kings with sRouen."--Page 4 of cover.