The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Christianity

NOTE EDITORE

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.

SOMMARIO

1 - Introduction: A History of Medieval Christianity2 - Histories and Historiographies of Medieval Christianity3 - Religion, Belief, and Society: Anthropological Approaches4 - Material Culture and Medieval Christianity5 - Medieval Christianity in a World Historical Perspective6 - The Boundaries of Christendom and Islam: Iberia and the Latin Levant7 - Christianizing Kingdoms8 - Monastic Landscapes and Society9 - Civic Religion10 - Localized Faith: parochial and domestic spaces11 - Continuity and Change in the Institutional Church12 - Pilgrimage13 - Using Saints: Intercession, Healing, Sanctity14 - Missarum sollemnia: Eucharistic Rituals in the Middle Ages15 - Penitential Varieties16 - Spiritual Exercises: The Making of Interior Faith17 - Fear, Hope, Death, and Salvation18 - Reform, Clerical Culture, and Politics19 - Intellectuals and the Masses: Oxen and she-asses in the medieval Church20 - 'Popular' religious culture(s)21 - Doubts and the absence of faith22 - Medieval Monasticisms23 - Mysticism and the Body24 - Christianity and Its Others: Jews, Muslims, and Pagans25 - Christian experiences of religious non-conformism26 - The Church as Lord27 - Christianizing Political Discourses28 - Religion in the age of Charlemagne29 - Papal Authority and Its Limitations30 - Bishops, Education and Discipline31 - Looking back from the Reformation

AUTORE

John H. Arnold studied at the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York, and worked first at UEA and then at Birkbeck, University of London. He became Professor of Medieval History at Birkbeck in 2007. He is author of various books and articles on medieval history, and has published also on modern historiography and the history of gender.

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780199582136
• Collana: Oxford Handbooks
• Dimensioni: 253 x 40.6 x 181 mm Ø 1206 gr
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Illustration Notes: 3 black and white figures/illustrations
• Pagine Arabe: 596