Christianization And Commonwealth In Early Medieval Europe

Author : Nathan J. Ristuccia
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780198810209

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Christianization and Commonwealth in Early Medieval Europe by Nathan J. Ristuccia Pdf

Christianization and Commonwealth in Early Medieval Europe re-examines the alterations in Western European life that followed widespread conversion to Christianity-the phenomena traditionally termed "Christianization". It refocuses scholarly paradigms for Christianization around the development of mandatory rituals. One prominent ritual, Rogationtide supplies an ideal case study demonstrating a new paradigm of "Christianization without religion." Christianization in the Middle Ages was not a slow process through which a Christian system of religious beliefs and practices replaced an earlier pagan system. In the Middle Ages, religion did not exist in the sense of a fixed system of belief bounded off from other spheres of life. Rather, Christianization was primarily ritual performance. Being a Christian meant joining a local church community. After the fall of Rome, mandatory rituals such as Rogationtide arose to separate a Christian commonwealth from the pagans, heretics, and Jews outside it. A Latin West between the polis and the parish had its own institution-the Rogation procession-for organizing local communities. For medieval people, sectarian borders were often flexible and rituals served to demarcate these borders. Rogationtide is an ideal case study of this demarcation, because it was an emotionally powerful feast, which combined pageantry with doctrinal instruction, community formation, social ranking, devotional exercises, and bodily mortification. As a result, rival groups quarrelled over the holiday's meaning and procedure, sometimes violently, in order to reshape the local order and ban people and practices as non-Christian.

Author : Ristuccia
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1066687679

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Christianization and Commonwealth in Early Medieval Europe by Ristuccia Pdf

Author : Ingrid Rembold
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107196216

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Conquest and Christianization by Ingrid Rembold Pdf

Re-evaluates the political integration and Christianization of Saxony following its violent conquest (772-804) by Charlemagne.

Author : James C. Russell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1996-06-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199880331

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The Germanization of Early Medieval Christianity by James C. Russell Pdf

While historians of Christianity have generally acknowledged some degree of Germanic influence in the development of early medieval Christianity, Russell goes further, arguing for a fundamental Germanic reinterpretation of Christianity. This first full-scale treatment of the subject follows a truly interdisciplinary approach, applying to the early medieval period a sociohistorical method similar to that which has already proven fruitful in explicating the history of Early Christianity and Late Antiquity. The encounter of the Germanic peoples with Christianity is studied from within the larger context of the encounter of a predominantly "world-accepting" Indo-European folk-religiosity with predominantly "world-rejecting" religious movements. While the first part of the book develops a general model of religious transformation for such encounters, the second part applies this model to the Germano-Christian scenario. Russell shows how a Christian missionary policy of temporary accommodation inadvertently contributed to a reciprocal Germanization of Christianity.

Author : Nora Berend
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2007-11-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139468367

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Christianization and the Rise of Christian Monarchy by Nora Berend Pdf

This 2007 text is a comparative, analysis of one of the most fundamental stages in the formation of Europe. Leading scholars explore the role of the spread of Christianity and the formation of new principalities in the birth of Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Bohemia, Hungary, Poland and Rus' around the year 1000. Drawing on history, archaeology and art history, and emphasizing problems related to the sources and historiographical debates, they demonstrate the complex interdependence between the processes of religious and political change, covering conditions prior to the introduction of Christianity, the adoption of Christianity, and the development of the rulers' power. Regional patterns emerge, highlighting both the similarities in ruler-sponsored cases of Christianization, and differences in the consolidation of power and in institutions introduced by Christianity. The essays reveal how local societies adopted Christianity; medieval ideas of what constituted the dividing line between Christians and non-Christians; and the connections between Christianity and power.

Author : David Petts
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781780931661

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Pagan and Christian by David Petts Pdf

The conversion to Christianity was a key cultural process that saw the transformation of Europe from classical to medieval world. The growth of the Church has been closely linked with the development of other key institutions, such as the state. It has also been highlighted as a factor in changing attitudes to issues such as the body, time and landscapes. While the study of conversion in the early medieval world has increasingly become a focus for both historians and archaeologists, there has been a lack of engagement with the methodological and theoretical problems underpinning any attempt to explore the archaeology of belief. This book, illustrated with case studies and examples drawn from a range of sources, including the 'Celtic' west, Anglo-Saxon England, Scandinavia and Eastern Europe, tackles some of these important issues. In particular it explores two under-theorised aspects of conversion: the relationship between archaeology and belief, and an attempt to re-centre the 'pagan' as a key element in the conversion process.

Author : Daniel E. Bornstein
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781451405774

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Medieval Christianity by Daniel E. Bornstein Pdf

Author : Walter Pohl,Gerda Heydemann
Publisher : Brepols Pub
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 2503543278

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Post-Roman Transitions by Walter Pohl,Gerda Heydemann Pdf

What were the social contexts, cultural resources, and political consequences of the new models for identification which emerged during the transition from the Roman empire to the medieval world? This volume looks at changing identities during the transition from the Roman empire to a political world defined by a different kingdoms and peoples in western Europe. It addresses 'ethnicity' in the context of alternative modes of identification, mainly Christianity and Romanness. To widen the horizon of current debates, it shows that the ancient dichotomy between barbarians and Romans is hardly helpful in understanding the complex transitions to a post-imperial age in the West. In a broad sweep of regional examples, from Spain and North Africa to Dalmatia and the British Isles, the book follows the unfolding of Christian and barbarian identities: How were both the Roman and the barbarian past used for the formation and legitimation of new identities?

Author : Orri Vesteinsson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2000-05-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780191543029

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The Christianization of Iceland by Orri Vesteinsson Pdf

In this first historical study of High-Medieval Iceland to be published in English, Dr Vesteinsson investigates the influence of the Christian Church on the formation of the earliest state structures in Iceland, from the conversion in 1000 to the union with Norway in 1262. In the history of mankind states and state structures have usually been established before the advent of written records. As a result historians are rarely able to trace with certainty the early development of complex structures of government. In Iceland, literacy and the practice of native history writing had been established by the beginning of the twelfth century; whereas the formation of a centralised government did not occur until more than a hundred years later. The early development of statelike structures has therefore been unusually well chronicled, in the Icelandic Sagas, and in the historical records of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Based on this wealth of material,The Christianization of Iceland is an important contribution to the discussion on the formation of states.

Author : Radoslaw Kotecki,Carsten Jensen,Stephen Bennet
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1641891335

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Christianity and War in Medieval East-Central Europe and Scandinavia by Radoslaw Kotecki,Carsten Jensen,Stephen Bennet Pdf

In this volume, a diverse selection of medieval historians investigate the intersection between religion, culture, and warfare in territories that were only integrated into Christendom in the High Middle Ages. The contributors analyse cultures that lay outside Charlemagne's limes and the frontiers of the Byzantine Empire, to consider a region stretching from the Balkans to the south, through Hungary and the Slavic lands (Poland, Bohemia, Rus), to the Baltic coastline with Polabia, Pomerania, Prussia, and Estonia, and reaching into Scandinavia.

Author : Steffen Patzold,Carine van van Rhijn
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110436204

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Men in the Middle by Steffen Patzold,Carine van van Rhijn Pdf

This volume studies local priests as central players in small communities of early medieval Europe. As clerics living among the laity, priests played a double role within their communities: that of local representatives of the Church and religious experts, and that of owners of land and other goods. By virtue of their membership of both the ecclesiastical and the secular world, they can be considered as ‘men in the middle’: people who brought politico-religious ideas and ideals to secular communities, and who linked the local to the supra-local via networks of landownerhsip. This book addresses both roles that local priests played by approaching them via their manuscripts, and via the charters that record transactions in which they were involved. Manuscripts once owned by local priests bear witness to their education and expertise, but also indicate how, for instance, ideals of the Carolingian reforms reached the lowest levels of early medieval society. The case-studies of collections of charters, on the other hand, show priests as active members of networks of the locally powerful in a variety of European regions. Notwithstanding many local variations, the contributions to this volume show that local priests as ‘men in the middle’ are a phenomenon shared by the early medieval world as a whole.

Author : Jakub Filonik,Christine Plastow,Rachel Zelnick-Abramovitz
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 976 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000847833

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Citizenship in Antiquity by Jakub Filonik,Christine Plastow,Rachel Zelnick-Abramovitz Pdf

Citizenship in Antiquity brings together scholars working on the multifaceted and changing dimensions of citizenship in the ancient Mediterranean, from the second millennium BCE to the first millennium CE, adopting a multidisciplinary and comparative perspective. The chapters in this volume cover numerous periods and regions – from the Ancient Near East, through the Greek and Hellenistic worlds and pre-Roman North Africa, to the Roman Empire and its continuations, and with excursuses to modernity. The contributors to this book adopt various contemporary theories, demonstrating the manifold meanings and ways of defining the concept and practices of citizenship and belonging in ancient societies and, in turn, of non-citizenship and non-belonging. Whether citizenship was defined by territorial belonging or blood descent, by privileged or exclusive access to resources or participation in communal decision-making, or by a sense of group belonging, such identifications were also open to discursive redefinitions and manipulation. Citizenship and belonging, as well as non-citizenship and non-belonging, had many shades and degrees; citizenship could be bought or faked, or even removed. By casting light on different areas of the Mediterranean over the course of antiquity, the volume seeks to explore this multi-layered notion of citizenship and contribute to an ongoing and relevant discourse. Citizenship in Antiquity offers a wide-ranging, comprehensive collection suitable for students and scholars of citizenship, politics, and society in the ancient Mediterranean world, as well as those working on citizenship throughout history interested in taking a comparative approach.

Author : Alex Fogleman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781009377423

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Knowledge, Faith, and Early Christian Initiation by Alex Fogleman Pdf

Presents a new history of the rise and development of catechesis in Latin Patristic Christianity that foregrounds core questions of knowledge, faith, and teaching. This book focuses on the critical relationship between teaching and epistemology

Author : Yaniv Fox
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009285018

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The Merovingians in Historiographical Tradition by Yaniv Fox Pdf

The Merovingian centuries were a foundational period in the historical consciousness of western Europe. The memory of the first dynasty of Frankish kings, their origin myths, accomplishments, and failures were used by generations of chroniclers, propagandists, and historians to justify a wide range of social and political agendas. The process of curating and editing the source material gave rise to a recognisable 'Merovingian narrative' with three distinct phases: meteoric ascent, stasis, and decline. Already in the seventh-century Chronicle of Fredegar, this tripartite model was invoked by a Merovingian queen to prophesy the fate of her descendants. This expert commentary sets out to understand how the story of the Merovingians was shaped through a process of continuous historiographical adaptation. It examines authors from across a millennium of historical writing and analyses their influences and objectives, charting the often-unexpected ways in which their narratives were received and developed.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 517 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004517035

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Female-Voice Song and Women’s Musical Agency in the Middle Ages by Anonim Pdf

This collection presents fresh evidence and new perspectives on the diverse ways in which women created and interacted with cultures of song between c. 600 and c. 1500.