| Description |
xv, 577 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
The Cambridge history of Christianity ; v. 4
|
|
Cambridge history of Christianity ; v. 4.
|
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 494-556) and index. |
| Contents |
pt. I. Institutions and change, 1100-1200 -- 1. Clerical purity and the re-ordered world / Henrietta Leyser -- 2. The bishops of Rome, 1100-1300 / Anthony Perron -- 3. Religious poverty and the search for perfection / Beverly Mayne Kienzle -- 4. Monastic and religious orders, c. 1100-c. 1350 / Brian Patrick McGuire -- pt. II. Forging a Christian world, 1200-1300 -- 5. The theological framework / Lesley Smith -- 6. The legal underpinnings / Anders Winroth -- 7. Material support I : parishes / Brigitte Resl -- 8. Material support II : religious orders / Janet Burton -- 9. The Word and its diffusion / KIatherine Jansen -- pt. III. The erection of boundaries -- 10. Christians and Jews / Ora Limor -- 11. Christendom and Islam / David Nirenberg -- 12. Christians and heretics / Peter Biller -- 13. Women and men / Megan McLaughlin -- 14. Heaven, hell and purgatory, 1100-1500 / Alan E. Bernstein -- pt. IV. Shapes of a Christian world -- 15. Sacramental life / Miri Rubin -- 16. Religious soundscapes : liturgy and music / Susan Boynton -- 17. Images and their uses / Sara Lipton -- 18. Mary / Rachel Fulton -- 19. Mysticism and transcendence / Amy Hollywood -- pt. V. Christian life in movement -- 20. On the margins of religious life : hermits and recluses, penitents and tertiaries, beguines and beghards / Walter Simons -- 21. Saints and pilgrimages : new and old / André Vauchez -- 22. Crusade and conquest / Marcus Bull -- pt. VI. The challenges to a Christian society -- 23. Repression and power / John H. Arnold -- 24. Faith and the intellectuals I / Joseph Ziegler -- 25. Faith and the intellectuals II / Michael Stolz -- pt. VII. Reform and renewal -- 26. Empowerment through reading, writing and example : the Devotio moderna / Koen Goudriaan -- 27. Demons and the Christian community / Alain Boureau -- 28. Wycliffism and Lollardy / Kantik Ghosh -- 29. Observant reform in religious orders / Bert Roest -- 30. Public purity and discipline : states and religious renewal / Roberto Rusconi -- 31. The Bible in the fifteenth century / Christopher Ocker. |
| Subject |
Church history -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.
|
| Added Author |
Rubin, Miri, 1956-
|
|
Simons, Walter, 1956-
|
| ISBN |
9780521811064 hardback |
|
0521811066 hardback |
|
