Holiness and society in medieval Europe
Author | : Phyllis G. Jestice |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 442 |
Release | : 1991 |
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Author | : Phyllis G. Jestice |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 442 |
Release | : 1991 |
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Author | : Phyllis Gwen Jestice |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 920 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Asceticism |
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Author | : Phyllis Gwen Jestice |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 441 |
Release | : 1989 |
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Author | : Sam Riches |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 215 |
Release | : 2005-07-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1134514891 |
This volume examines gender-specific religious practices and contends that the pursuit of holiness can destabilize binary gender itself. Though saints may be classified as masculine or feminine, holiness may also cut across gender divisions and demand a break from normally gendered behaviour.
Author | : Heiko A. Oberman |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 541 |
Release | : 2022-07-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004477411 |
Author | : Paul Fouracre |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2021-04-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1526114003 |
In early Christianity it was established that every church should have a light burning on the altar at all times. In this unique study, Eternal light and earthly concerns, looks at the material and social consequences of maintaining these ‘eternal’ lights. It investigates how the cost of lighting was met across western Europe throughout the whole of the Middle Ages, revealing the social organisation that was built up around maintaining the lights in the belief that burning them reduced the time spent in Purgatory. When that belief collapsed in the Reformation the eternal lights were summarily extinguished. The history of the lights thus offers not only a new account of change in medieval Europe, but also a sustained examination of the relationship between materiality and belief.
Author | : P. H. Cullum |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2005-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780802048929 |
Studies in gender in medieval culture have tended to focus on femininity, however the study of medieval masculinities has developed greatly over the last few years. Holiness and Masculinity in the Middle Ages is the first volume to concentrate on this specific aspect of medieval gender studies, and looks at the ways in which varieties of medieval masculinity intersected with concepts of holiness. Patricia Cullum and Katherine J. Lewis have collected an exceptional group of essays that explore differing notions of medieval holiness, understood variously as religious, saintly, sacred, pure, morally perfect, and consider topics such as significance of the tonsure, sanctity and martyrdom, eunuch saints, and the writings of Henry Suso. Holiness and Masculinity in the Middle Ages deals with a wide variety of texts and historical contexts, from Byzantium to Anglo-Saxon and late-medieval England.
Author | : Dawn Marie Hayes |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2004-11-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1135860041 |
Body and Sacred Place in Medieval Europe investigates the medieval understanding of sacred place, arguing for the centrality of bodies and bodily metaphors to the establishment, function, use, and power of medieval churches. Questioning the traditional division of sacred and profane jurisdictions, this book identifies the need to consider non-devotional uses of churches in the Middle Ages. Dawn Marie Hayes examines idealized visions of medieval sacred places in contrast with the mundane and profane uses of these buildings. She argues that by the later Middle Ages-as loyalties were torn by emerging political, economic, and social groups-the Church suffered a loss of security that was reflected in the uses of sacred spaces, which became more restricted as identities shifted and Europeans ordered the ambiguity of the medieval world.
Author | : Richard William Southern |
Publisher | : Penguin Group |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : History |
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St. Anselm - Astrology - St. Augustine - St. Thomas A'Becket - St. Benedict - Byzantine Empire - Crusades - Dominicans (origin of) ; St. Francis - Heresy - Thomas Aquinas - Women in Religion - Women and the church__
Author | : Paul Oldfield |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 327 |
Release | : 2014-04-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1139915797 |
Southern Italy's strategic location at the crossroads of the Mediterranean gave it a unique position as a frontier for the major religious faiths of the medieval world, where Latin Christian, Greek Christian and Muslim communities coexisted. In this study, the first to offer a comprehensive analysis of sanctity and pilgrimage in southern Italy between 1000 and 1200, Paul Oldfield presents a fascinating picture of a politically and culturally fragmented land which, as well as hosting its own important relics as important pilgrimage centres, was a transit point for pilgrims and commercial traffic. Drawing on a diverse range of sources from hagiographical material to calendars, martyrologies, charters and pilgrim travel guides, the book examines how sanctity functioned at this key cultural crossroads and, by integrating the analysis of sanctity with that of pilgrimage, offers important new insights into society, cross-cultural interaction and faith in the region and across the medieval world.