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Record Nr.

UNINA9910970859303321

Autore

Brodman James

Titolo

Charity & religion in medieval Europe / / James William Brodman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : Catholic University of America Press, c2009

ISBN

0-8132-1887-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (334 p.)

Disciplina

361.7/50940902

Soggetti

Charities - Europe - History - Middle Ages, 600-1500

Church and state - Europe - History - Middle Ages, 600-1500

Europe Church history 600-1500

Europe Religious life and customs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 387-307) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : religious charity -- The pious and the practical : an ideology of charity -- A cascade of hospitals -- To shelter the pilgrim : military orders, hospices, and bridges -- The Hospitaller orders -- Lay piety -- Charity that sanctifies -- The religious dimensions of care -- Conclusion : between two worlds : an elusive paradigm.

Sommario/riassunto

Challenges conventional views of medieval piety by demonstrating how the ideology of charity and its vision of the active life provided an important alternative to the ascetical, contemplative tradition emphasized by most historians.