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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784684003321

Autore

Berman Constance H.

Titolo

Medieval religion : new approaches / / onstance Hoffman Berman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2004

ISBN

0-415-37028-0

1-134-37292-2

1-134-37293-0

9786610267491

1-280-26749-6

0-203-32867-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (427 p.)

Collana

Rewriting histories

Classificazione

11.52

Disciplina

270.3

Soggetti

Church history - Middle Ages, 600-1500

Religion - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

BOOK COVER; HALF-TITLE; SERIES TITLE; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; DEDICATIONS; CONTENTS; LIST OF FIGURES; SERIES EDITOR'S PREFACE; LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS; INTRODUCTION; PART I RELIGIOUS SPECULATION AND SOCIAL THOUGHT; 1. JESUS AS MOTHER AND ABBOT AS MOTHER; 2. CRUSADING AS AN ACT OF LOVE; 3. THE ORDERS OF SOCIETY IN THE ELEVENTH AND TWELFTH CENTURIES; PART II REFORM AND GROWTH IN THE CLERICAL HIERARCHY; 4. CANOSSA AND THE UNGENDERING OF THE PUBLIC MAN; 5. THE PRIEST'S WIFE; 6. SECULAR CLERGY ANDRELIGIOUS LIFE; 7. THE CARDINALS' VIEW OF THE PAPACY, 1150-1300

PART III WOMEN AND THE PRACTICE OF ASCETICISM AND CONTEMPLATION8. WERE THERE TWELFTH-CENTURY CISTERCIAN NUNS?; 9. MARY MAGDALEN AND THE CONTEMPLATIVE LIFE; 10. HEARING IS BELIEVING CLARISSAN ARCHITECTURE, C. 1213-1340; 11. "MEN'S DUTY TO PROVIDE FOR WOMEN'S NEEDS"; PART IV INCREASING VIOLENCE AND EXCLUSION; 12. THE CREATION OF A CHRISTIAN ARMORY AGAINST ISLAM; 13. BODIES IN THE JEWISH-CHRISTIAN



DEBATE; 14. DESECRATION OF THE HOST;

Sommario/riassunto

Constance Berman presents an indispensable new collection of the most influential and revisionist work to be done on religion in the middle ages in the last couple of decades.