The Church In The Early Middle Ages

Author : José C. Sánchez-Pardo,Michael G. Shapland
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Archaeology, Medieval
ISBN : 2503545556

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Churches and Social Power in Early Medieval Europe by José C. Sánchez-Pardo,Michael G. Shapland Pdf

Local churches were an established part of many towns and villages across early medieval Western Europe, and their continued presence make them an invaluable marker for comparing different societies. Up to now, however, the dynamics of power behind church building and the importance of their presence within the landscape have largely been neglected. This book takes a comparative and interdisciplinary approach to the study of early medieval churches, drawing together archaeology, history, architecture, and landscape studies in order to explore the relationship between church foundation, social power, and political organization across Europe. Key subjects addressed here include the role played by local elites and the importance of the church in buttressing authority, as well as the connections between archaeology and ideology, and the importance of individual church buildings in their broader landscape contexts. Bringing together case-studies from diverse regions across Western Europe (Italy, Spain, Portugal, Germany, France, the British Isles, Denmark, and Iceland), the seventeen contributions to this volume offer new insights into the relationships between church foundations, social power, and political organization. In doing so, they provide a means to better understand social power in the landscape of early medieval Europe.

Author : G.R. Evans
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2007-03-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780857711373

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The Church in the Early Middle Ages by G.R. Evans Pdf

The creation of a new history of the Church at the beginning of the third millennium is an ambitious but necessary project. Perhaps nowhere is it needed more than in re-describing the Church's development - its life and its thinking - in the period that followed the end of the 'early Church' in antiquity. The cultural, social and political dominance of Christendom in what we now call 'the West', from about 600-1300, made the Christian Church a shaper of the modern world in respects which go far beyond its religious influence. Writing with her customary authority, and with a magisterial grasp of the original sources, G. R. Evans brings this formative era vividly to life both for the student of religious history and general reader. She concentrates as much on the colourful human episodes of the time as on broader institutional and intellectual developments. The result is a compelling and thoroughly modern introduction to devotional and theological thought in the early Middle Ages as well as to ecclesiastical and pastoral life at large.

Author : Julio Escalona,Andrew J. Reynolds
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Archaeology, Medieval
ISBN : 250353239X

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Scale and Scale Change in the Early Middle Ages by Julio Escalona,Andrew J. Reynolds Pdf

Kings, aristocrats, peasants, and the Church are among the shared features of most early medieval societies. However, these also varied dramatically in time and space. Can petty regional kings, for instance, be compared to those in charge of a whole empire? Scale is a crucial factor in modelling, explaining, and conceptualizing the past. Furthermore, many issues that historians and archaeologists treat independently can be theorized together as processes of scale decrease or increase: the appearance of complex societies, the rise and collapse of empires, changing world-systems, and globalization. While a subject of much discussion in fields such as ecology, geography, and sociology, scale is rarely theorized by archaeologists and historians. This book highlights the potential of the concepts of scale and scale change for comparing and explaining medieval socio-spatial processes. It integrates regional and temporal variations in the fragmentation of the Roman world and the emergence of medieval polities, which are often handled separately by late antique and early medieval specialists. The result of a three-year research project, the nine case studies in this volume offer fresh insights into early medieval rural society while combining their individual subjects to generate a wider explanatory framework.

Author : Warren Brown,Marios Costambeys,Matthew Innes,Adam Kosto
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107025295

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Documentary Culture and the Laity in the Early Middle Ages by Warren Brown,Marios Costambeys,Matthew Innes,Adam Kosto Pdf

This revealing study explores how people at all social levels, whether laity or clergy, needed, used and kept documents.

Author : Thomas F. X. Noble,John J. Contreni
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X001533483

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

Author : José C. Sánchez-Pardo,Michael G. Shapland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Church history
ISBN : 2503547400

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Churches and Social Power in Early Medieval Europe by José C. Sánchez-Pardo,Michael G. Shapland Pdf

Author : Yitzhak Hen,Matthew Innes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2000-06-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0521639980

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The Uses of the Past in the Early Middle Ages by Yitzhak Hen,Matthew Innes Pdf

This is the first book to investigate how people in the early middle ages used the past: to legitimate the present, to understand current events, and as a source of identity. Each essay examines the mechanisms by which ideas about the past were - sometimes - subtly reshaped for present purposes.

Author : Francis Oakley
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Europe
ISBN : 0801493471

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The Western Church in the Later Middle Ages by Francis Oakley Pdf

Francis Oakley addresses late-medieval church history in its own terms, pointing out not only discontinuities but also continuities with earlier medieval experience. "By doing so," he writes, "I hope to have avoided the distortions and refractions that occur when that history is seen too obsessively through the lens of the Reformation."

Author : SISTERS OF NOTRE. DAME
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 103310888X

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LEADING EVENTS IN THE HISTORY OF THE CHURCH, by SISTERS OF NOTRE. DAME Pdf

Author : Justin Clegg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Christian art and symbolism
ISBN : NWU:35556035681782

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The Medieval Church by Justin Clegg Pdf

The influence of the Church on medieval life was all-pervasive. Through the wealth of medieval imagery contained in illuminated manuscripts, Justin Clegg provides an overview of the structure and workings of the Church.

Author : F Donald Logan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134786695

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A History of the Church in the Middle Ages by F Donald Logan Pdf

In this fascinating survey, F. Donald Logan introduces the reader to the Christian church, from the conversion of the Celtic and Germanic peoples through to the discovery of the New World.

Author : Bernard Guillemain
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Church history
ISBN : UCSC:32106000166535

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The Early Middle Ages by Bernard Guillemain Pdf

The story of the emergence of the Church and the Western world from the chaos and barbarism that followed the destruction of the Roman Empire and the triumph of the enemies of classical civilization. In this sweeping narrative the author shows the unifying power of the Church as it helped to mold a European Christendom after the rupture in 1054 of the Eastern and Western Churches. This is also the story of the great crusades against the virile Islamic powers of that time--the holy wars that lasted for hundreds of years. This was the period that brought forth some of the greatest philosophers that Christianity had created up to that time: Boethius, Anselm, Cassiodorus. Here were the intellectual foundations of what would the Occidental worldview for hundreds of years. This period saw the rise of papal authority in the world, as the Pope became in reality the double heir of St. Peter and the Roman Emperors. The whole medieval world of feudal structure was taking shape. The centre of culture was moving from the towns to the estates.

Author : Robert E. McNally
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2005-07-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781597522830

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The Bible in the Early Middle Ages by Robert E. McNally Pdf

In the first part of this intriguing study, McNally treats the complex social, intellectual, and theological factors that affected biblical interpretation in the early medieval period. In the second part he provides a classified bibliography of commentaries from the period.

Author : Steffen Patzold,Carine van van Rhijn
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 45,5 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 : Kirsi Salonen,Sari Katajala-Peltomaa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Church history
ISBN : 9089647767

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Church and Belief in the Middle Ages by Kirsi Salonen,Sari Katajala-Peltomaa Pdf

The roles of popes, saints, and crusaders were inextricably intertwined in the Middle Ages: papal administration was fundamental in the making and promulgating of new saints and in financing crusades, while crusaders used saints as propaganda to back up the authority of popes, and even occasionally ended up being sanctified themselves. Yet, current scholarship rarely treats these three components of medieval faith together. This book remedies that by bringing together scholars to consider the links among the three and the ways that understanding them can help us build a more complete picture of the working of the church and Christianity in the Middle Ages.