The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Christianity
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 29 June 2017
- ISBN 9780198811176
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages608 pages
- Size 244x169x30 mm
- Weight 1040 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 3 black and white figures/illustrations 0
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Short description:
This Handbook brings together the latest scholarship on the beliefs, practices, and institutions of the Christian Church between 400 and 1500 AD.
MoreLong description:
The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Christianity takes as its subject the beliefs, practices, and institutions of the Christian Church between 400 and 1500AD. It addresses topics ranging from early medieval monasticism to late medieval mysticism, from the material wealth of the Church to the spiritual exercises through which certain believers might attempt to improve their souls. Each chapter tells a story, but seeks also to ask how and why 'Christianity' took particular forms at particular moments in history, paying attention to both the spiritual and otherwordly aspects of religion, and the material and political contexts in which they were often embedded.
This Handbook is a landmark academic collection that presents cutting-edge interpretive perspectives on medieval religion for a wide academic audience, drawing together thirty key scholars in the field from the United States, the UK, and Europe. Notably, the Handbook is arranged thematically, and focusses on an analytical, rather than narrative, approach, seeking to demonstrate the variety, change, and complexity of religion throughout this long period, and the numerous different ways in which modern scholarship can approach it. While providing a very wide-ranging view of the subject, it also offers an important agenda for further study in the field.
This is an important contribution to the scholarship on Western European Christianity in the middle ages (c. 400- c.1500), offering a nuanced and variegated depiction of medieval Western Christianity... The volume will be of interest to scholars, at various stages: the chapters indicate the present state of scholarship on crucial facets of medieval Christianity; and several offer suggestions for future lines of research.
Table of Contents:
Abbreviations and conventions
List of Contributors
Introduction
Introduction: A History of Medieval Christianity
Methods
Histories and Historiographies of Medieval Christianity
Religion, Belief, and Society: Anthropological Approaches
Material Culture and Medieval Christianity
Medieval Christianity in a World Historical Perspective
Spaces
The Boundaries of Christendom and Islam: Iberia and the Latin Levant
Christianizing Kingdoms
Monastic Landscapes and Society
Civic Religion
Localized Faith: parochial and domestic spaces
Practices
Continuity and Change in the Institutional Church
Pilgrimage
Using Saints: Intercession, Healing, Sanctity
Missarum sollemnia: Eucharistic Rituals in the Middle Ages
Penitential Varieties
Spiritual Exercises: The Making of Interior Faith
Ideas
Fear, Hope, Death, and Salvation
Reform, Clerical Culture, and Politics
Intellectuals and the Masses: Oxen and she-asses in the medieval Church
'Popular' religious culture(s)
Doubts and the absence of faith
Identities
Medieval Monasticisms
Mysticism and the Body
Christianity and Its Others: Jews, Muslims, and Pagans
Christian experiences of religious non-conformism
Power
The Church as Lord
Christianizing Political Discourses
Religion in the age of Charlemagne
Papal Authority and Its Limitations
Bishops, Education and Discipline
Conclusion
Looking back from the Reformation
Index
