Medieval Callings

Author : Jacques Le Goff
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1995-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0226470873

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These essays by eleven internationally renowned historians present nuanced profiles of the major social and professional groups—the callings-of the Middle Ages. The contributors focus on attitudes of medieval men and women toward their own society. Through a variety of techniques, from a reading of the Song of Roland to a reading of administrative records, they identify characteristic viewpoints of members of the fighting class, the clergy, and the peasantry. Along with vivid descriptions of what life was like for warrior knights, monks, high churchmen, criminals, lepers, shepherds, and prostitutes, this innovative approach offers a valuable new perspective on the complex social dynamics of feudal Europe. "Very useful discussions of texts, both learned and literary."—Christopher Dyer, Times Literary Supplement Contributors: Mariateresa Fumagalli Beonio Brocchieri, Franco Cardini, Enrico Castelnuovo, Giovanni Cherubini, Bronislaw Geremek, Aron Ja. Gurevich, Christiane Klapisch-Zuber, Jacques Le Goff, Giovanni Miccoli, Jacques Rossiaud, and André Vauchez.

Author : Madeleine Pelner Cosman,Linda Gale Jones
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 987 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781438109077

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Handbook to Life in the Medieval World, 3-Volume Set by Madeleine Pelner Cosman,Linda Gale Jones Pdf

Capturing the essence of life in great civilizations of the past, each volume in the

Author : JohnR. Decker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351540070

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The Technology of Salvation and the Art of Geertgen tot Sint Jans by JohnR. Decker Pdf

Investigating the complex interactions between devotional imagery and Church doctrine in the Low Countries during the fifteenth century, this book demonstrates how the pictorial arts intersected with popular religious practice. The author reconstructs the conceptual frameworks underlying the use and production of religious art in this period and provides a more nuanced understanding of the use of images in the process of soul formation. This study delves into the complexity of the early modern system of personal justification and argues that religious images and objects were part of a larger 'Technology of Salvation.' In order to make these connections clearer, the author analyzes selected works by Geertgen tot Sint Jans (Little Gerard at St. John's) and shows how they functioned within their larger social and historical milieu.

Author : Helge Vidar Holm,Sissel Lægreid,Torgeir Skorgen
Publisher : Aarhus Universitetsforlag
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9788771840377

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Europe and Its Interior Other(s) by Helge Vidar Holm,Sissel Lægreid,Torgeir Skorgen Pdf

Who were and who are the European other(s), and how have their socio-cultural circumstances been aesthetically expressed and discussed in works of literature and art in European history? Members of the interdisciplinary group of researchers "The Borders of Europe" address these questions in this book and shed new light on the notion of European transnational identity, self-conscience and exclusion. Making a mental, space-time journey across and beyond internal and external borders of Europe - moving from medieval times to the present, from Istanbul to the northernmost tip of Norway - the authors show how the dangerous dynamics of othering, estrangement, intolerance and hatred have become an inherent part of the continent's history.

Author : Ann W. Astell
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015047854800

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Lay Sanctity, Medieval and Modern by Ann W. Astell Pdf

This volume of interdisciplinary essays focuses on the shifting points of intersection between the changing historical definitions of laity and sanctity. It features an examination of a series of individual lay saints, in order to explore how these figures perceived their own lay status.

Author : William Granara
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786726070

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Narrating Muslim Sicily by William Granara Pdf

In 902 the last Byzantine stronghold in Sicily fell, and the island would remain under Muslim control until the arrival of the Normans in the eleventh century. Drawing on a lifetime of translating and linguistic experience, William Granara here focuses on the various ways in which medieval Arab historians, geographers, jurists and philologists imagined and articulated their ever-changing identities in this turbulent period. All of these authors sought to make sense of the island's dramatic twists, including conquest and struggles over political sovereignty, and the painful decline of social and cultural life. Writing about Siqilliya involved drawing from memory, conjecture and then-current theories of why nations and people rose and fell. In so doing, Granara considers and translates, often for the first time, a vast range of primary sources - from the master chronicles of Ibn al-Athir and Ibn Khadun to biographical dictionaries, geographical works, legal treatises and poetry - and modern scholarship not available in English. He charts the shift from Sicily as 'warrior outpost' to vital and productive hub that would transform the medieval Islamic world, and indeed the entire Mediterranean.

Author : Kenneth Baxter Wolf
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Poverty
ISBN : 9780195182804

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The Poverty of Riches by Kenneth Baxter Wolf Pdf

Saint Francis of Assisi is arguably the most attractive saint ever produced by the Catholic Church. Based on a reconsideration of the earliest biographies of the saint, and Francis's own writings, this title sheds light on the inherent ironies of poverty as a spiritual discipline and its relationship to poverty as a socio-economic affliction.

Author : Reindert Leonard Falkenburg,Walter S. Melion,Todd M. Richardson
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : UCSD:31822037134699

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Image and Imagination of the Religious Self in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe by Reindert Leonard Falkenburg,Walter S. Melion,Todd M. Richardson Pdf

One of the central and defining beliefs in late-medieval and early-modern spirituality was the notion of the formability of the religious self. Identified with the soul, the self was conceived, indeed experienced, not as an abstraction, but rather as an essential spiritual persona, as well as the intellectual and sensory center of a human being. This volume investigates the role played by images construed as formal and semantic variables - mental images, visual tropes and figures, pictorial and textual representations - in generating and sustaining processes of meditation that led the viewer or reader from outward perception to various forms of inward perception and spiritual discernment. The fifteen articles address the history of the soul as a cultural construct, an internal locus of self-formation where the divine is seen to dwell and the person may experience her/himself as a place inhabited by the spirit of God. Three central questions are approached from various disciplines: first, how was the self-contained soul created in God's likeness, yet stained by sin and as such susceptible both to destructive and redemptive forces, refashioned as a porous and malleable entity susceptible to metaphysical effects and human practices, such as self-investigation, meditative prayer, and other techniques of inwardness? Second, how did such practices constitutive of an inner liturgy prepare the soul - the anima, bride - for an encounter with God that trains, purifies, moulds, shapes, and transforms the religious self? Finally, in this process of self-reformation, how were images of place and space mobilized, how were loci found, and how did the soul come to see itself situated within these places mapped upon itself?

Author : David Worthington
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047444589

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British and Irish Emigrants and Exiles in Europe, 1603-1688 by David Worthington Pdf

This book comprises the first full-length comparison of Scottish, Irish, English and Welsh migration within Europe in the early modern period. The contributions demonstrate the fruitfulness of pursuing a comparative approach to seventeenth-century British and Irish history.

Author : DonaldR. Kelley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351545105

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The Descent of Ideas by DonaldR. Kelley Pdf

The 'history of ideas', better known these days as intellectual history, is a flourishing field of study which has been the object of much controversy but hardly any historical exploration. This major new work from Donald R. Kelley is the first comprehensive history of intellectual history, tracing the study of the history of thought from ancient, medieval and early modern times, its emergence as the 'history of ideas' in the 18th century, and its subsequent expansion. The point of departure for this study is the perspective opened up by Victor Cousin in the early 19th-century on 'Eclecticism' and its association with the history of philosophy established by Renaissance scholars. Kelley considers a broad range of topics, including the rivalry between 'ideas' and language, the rise of cultural history, the contributions of certain 19th- and 20th-century practitioners of the history of ideas in interdisciplinary areas of philosophy, literature and the sciences, and finally the current state of intellectual history. The central theme of the book is the interplay between the canon of philosophical thought and the tradition of language and textual study, the divergence of the latter marking the 'descent of ideas' into the realm of cultural history.

Author : Kathleen A. Cahalan,Douglas J. Schuurman
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781467446020

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Calling in Today's World by Kathleen A. Cahalan,Douglas J. Schuurman Pdf

Comparative religious insights into the meaning of vocation in today's world The concept of "vocation" or "calling" is a distinctively Christian concern, grounded in the long-held belief that we find our meaning, purpose, and fulfillment in God. But what about religions other than Christianity? What does it mean for someone from another faith tradition to understand calling or vocation? In this book contributors with expertise in Catholic and Protestant Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism and Daoism, and secular humanism explore the idea of calling from these eight faith perspectives. The contributors search their respective traditions' sacred texts, key figures, practices, and concepts for wisdom on the meaning of vocation. Greater understanding of diverse faith traditions, say Kathleen Cahalan and Douglas Schuurman, will hopefully increase and improve efforts to build a better, more humane world. CONTRIBUTORS Mark Berkson (Confucianism and Daoism) Kathleen A. Cahalan (Catholicism) Amy Eilberg (Judaism) John Kelsay (Islam) Edward Langerak (Secularism) Anantanand Rambachan (Hinduism) Douglas J. Schuurman (Protestantism) Mark Unno (Buddhism)

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Anglican Communion
ISBN : OXFORD:555026704

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Churchman by Anonim Pdf

Author : Constance M. Furey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521849876

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Erasmus, Contarini, and the Religious Republic of Letters by Constance M. Furey Pdf

This 2005 book examines how the religious search for meaning shaped contemporary assumptions about friendship, gender, reading and writing.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Middle Ages
ISBN : UVA:X006023253

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The Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Electronic journals
ISBN : UCAL:B4928522

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The Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies by Anonim Pdf