Religion In The Medieval West

Author : John Van Engen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000949964

Get Book

Religion in the History of the Medieval West by John Van Engen Pdf

These ten essays by John Van Engen situate religion in the history of medieval Western Europe: as an unavoidable presence in everyday life, as a conceptual framework for social and political life, as a force integral to its historical dynamics. Four of the essays are bibliographical and retrospective in nature, reviewing the field broadly, but also pointing toward a more dialectical approach to understanding the interaction of religion and society in the European middle ages. Other studies deal with large topics usually subsumed under the abstract term 'Christianization'. They grapple with learned sources as well as those associated with 'popular' religion, and show what can be gained from an imaginative use of all that lawyers and theologians said about religion in their society. The essays, finally, look for the quality and dynamic of change, even inventiveness, released by religious action and conviction in medieval European society.

Author : Bernard Hamilton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2003-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 034080839X

Get Book

Religion in the Medieval West by Bernard Hamilton Pdf

Western European civilization in the medieval centuries was a time of significant development as the ascendency of the Roman Catholic Church spread Christianity throughout Europe. This book examines the religious life of this formative period, the history of the institutional Church, and focuses on the interaction between the Church and secular members of society. This new edition has been updated, and includes new visual evidence and a glossary of technical terms.

Author : Bernard Hamilton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Church history
ISBN : OCLC:1036801245

Get Book

Religion in the Medieval West. [Mit Kt. -Skizzen U. Fig.] (1. Publ.) by Bernard Hamilton Pdf

Author : Dr Conrad Leyser,Dr Lesley Smith
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781409482710

Get Book

Motherhood, Religion, and Society in Medieval Europe, 400–1400 by Dr Conrad Leyser,Dr Lesley Smith Pdf

Who can concentrate on thoughts of Scripture or philosophy and be able to endure babies crying … ? Will he put up with the constant muddle and squalor which small children bring into the home? The wealthy can do so … but philosophers lead a very different life … So, according to Peter Abelard, did his wife Heloise state in characteristically stark terms the antithetical demands of family and scholarship. Heloise was not alone in making this assumption. Sources from Jerome onward never cease to remind us that the life of the mind stands at odds with life in the family. For all that we have moved in the past two generations beyond kings and battles, fiefs and barons, motherhood has remained a blind spot for medieval historians. Whatever the reasons, the result is that the historiography of the medieval period is largely motherless. The aim of this book is to insist that this picture is intolerably one-dimensional, and to begin to change it. The volume is focussed on the paradox of motherhood in the European Middle Ages: to be a mother is at once to hold great power, and by the same token to be acutely vulnerable. The essays look to analyse the powers and the dangers of motherhood within the warp and weft of social history, beginning with the premise that religious discourse or practice served as a medium in which mothers (and others) could assess their situation, defend claims, and make accusations. Within this frame, three main themes emerge: survival, agency, and institutionalization. The volume spans the length and breadth of the Middle Ages, from late Roman North Africa through ninth-century Byzantium to late medieval Somerset, drawing in a range of types of historian, including textual scholars, literary critics, students of religion and economic historians. The unity of the volume arises from the very diversity of approaches within it, all addressed to the central topic.

Author : John H. Van Engen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Church history
ISBN : 2004003235

Get Book

Religion in the History of the Medieval West by John H. Van Engen Pdf

Author : Sarah Hamilton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317325321

Get Book

Church and People in the Medieval West, 900-1200 by Sarah Hamilton Pdf

During the middle ages, belief in God was the single more important principle for every person, and the all-powerful church was the most important institution. It is impossible to understand the medieval world without understanding the religious vision of the time, and this new textbook offers an approach which explores the meaning of this in day-to-day life, as well as the theory behind it. Church and People in the Medieval West gets to the root of belief in the Middle Ages, covering topics including pastoral reform, popular religion, monasticism, heresy and much more, throughout the central middle ages from 900-1200. Suitable for undergraduate courses in medieval history, and those returning to or approaching the subject for the first time.

Author : Valerie L. Garver,Owen M. Phelan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317061243

Get Book

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 : Thomas A. Fudgé
Publisher : Springer
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137566102

Get Book

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 : Henry Mayr-Harting
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Church and state
ISBN : 0754668983

Get Book

Religion and Society in the Medieval West, 600-1200 by Henry Mayr-Harting Pdf

The papers reprinted here all have to do with the very varied ways in which religion made an impact upon, or was intertwined with, political and social life. They span the period from 600 to 1200, with particular points of focus on early Anglo-Saxon England, Charlemagne, the Ottonian empire, and 12th-century England. In these articles, the Oxford historian Henry Mayr-Harting explores the religion of secular rulers, the religion (or relative lack of it) of bishops and churches, the religion of custodians at shrines or of recluses or artists, as well as religious phenomena such as angelic apparitions, conversion, or apocalypticism.

Author : Christine Walsh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351892001

Get Book

The Cult of St Katherine of Alexandria in Early Medieval Europe by Christine Walsh Pdf

St Katherine of Alexandria was one of the most popular saints in both the Orthodox and Latin Churches in the later Middle Ages, yet there has been little study of how her cult developed before c. 1200. This book redresses the balance, providing a thorough examination of the way the cult spread from the Greek-speaking lands of the Eastern Mediterranean and into Western Europe. The author uses the full range of source material available, including liturgical texts, hagiographies, chronicles and iconographical evidence, bringing together these often disparate sources to map the way in which the cult of St Katherine grew from its early stages in the Byzantine Empire up to c.1100, its transmission to Italy, and the introduction and development of the cult in Normandy and England up to c.1200. The book also includes appendices listing early manuscripts containing Katherine's Passio and including key original texts on St Katherine of the period. This study will be welcomed by scholars of medieval history and the history of medieval art, and as a case-study for all those with an interest in the development of medieval saint's cults.

Author : Gary Dickson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105025336293

Get Book

Religious Enthusiasm in the Medieval West by Gary Dickson Pdf

Collective religious enthusiasm was a many-sided, influential and widespread phenomenon in medieval Europe. This book focuses on particular 13th-century revivals and popular crusades, but does so in order to illuminate the nature of medieval western enthusiasm.

Author : Gordon Leff
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015060623652

Get Book

Heresy, Philosophy, and Religion in the Medieval West by Gordon Leff Pdf

The papers in this volume fall into four sections. The first part deals more generally with heresy, religious movements and the Church, while the second focuses on Wyclif, covering his path to dissent, his religious doctrines, and a doctrinal comparison with Hus. Philosophical themes come to the fore in the third section, which has papers on the decline of scholasticism in the 14th century and on the trivium, and also includes hitherto unpublished essays on the theology of Augustine's two cities and on Ockham and nominalism. The final part, with another two papers published here for the first time, discusses Christian, Augustinian and Franciscan concepts of man, and the concepts of natural rights according to Ockham and the Franciscans.

Author : Lesley Smith,Conrad Leyser
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317093961

Get Book

Motherhood, Religion, and Society in Medieval Europe, 400-1400 by Lesley Smith,Conrad Leyser Pdf

Who can concentrate on thoughts of Scripture or philosophy and be able to endure babies crying ... ? Will he put up with the constant muddle and squalor which small children bring into the home? The wealthy can do so ... but philosophers lead a very different life ... So, according to Peter Abelard, did his wife Heloise state in characteristically stark terms the antithetical demands of family and scholarship. Heloise was not alone in making this assumption. Sources from Jerome onward never cease to remind us that the life of the mind stands at odds with life in the family. For all that we have moved in the past two generations beyond kings and battles, fiefs and barons, motherhood has remained a blind spot for medieval historians. Whatever the reasons, the result is that the historiography of the medieval period is largely motherless. The aim of this book is to insist that this picture is intolerably one-dimensional, and to begin to change it. The volume is focussed on the paradox of motherhood in the European Middle Ages: to be a mother is at once to hold great power, and by the same token to be acutely vulnerable. The essays look to analyse the powers and the dangers of motherhood within the warp and weft of social history, beginning with the premise that religious discourse or practice served as a medium in which mothers (and others) could assess their situation, defend claims, and make accusations. Within this frame, three main themes emerge: survival, agency, and institutionalization. The volume spans the length and breadth of the Middle Ages, from late Roman North Africa through ninth-century Byzantium to late medieval Somerset, drawing in a range of types of historian, including textual scholars, literary critics, students of religion and economic historians. The unity of the volume arises from the very diversity of approaches within it, all addressed to the central topic.

Author : John Raymond Shinners
Publisher : Readings in Medieval Civilizat
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 144260106X

Get Book

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

This new edition is a marvelous teaching tool and true feast for the intellectually curious. - Daniel Bornstein, Texas A&M University

Author : Daniel E. Bornstein
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781451405774

Get Book

Medieval Christianity by Daniel E. Bornstein Pdf