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Zusatztext Handbooks are not normally thought to be stimulating works of scholarship, but this one surely is ... It should be on the shelf of every historian of medieval Christianity. Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext This Handbook brings together the latest scholarship on the beliefs, practices, and institutions of the Christian Church between 400 and 1500 AD. Zusammenfassung This Handbook brings together the latest scholarship on the beliefs, practices, and institutions of the Christian Church between 400 and 1500 AD. Inhaltsverzeichnis Abbreviations and conventions; List of Contributors; Introduction; 1 John H. Arnold: Introduction: A History of Medieval Christianity; Methods; 2 John H. Arnold: Histories and Historiographies of Medieval Christianity; 3 Simon Yarrow: Religion, Belief, and Society: Anthropological Approaches; 4 Beth Williamson: Material Culture and Medieval Christianity; 5 R. I. Moore: Medieval Christianity in a World Historical Perspective; Spaces; 6 Amy Remensnyder: The Boundaries of Christendom and Islam: Iberia and the Latin Levant; 7 Sverre Bagge: Christianizing Kingdoms; 8 Wendy Davies: Monastic Landscapes and Society; 9 Nicholas Terpstra: Civic Religion; 10 Katherine L. French: Localized Faith: parochial and domestic spaces; Practices; 11 Ian Forrest: Continuity and Change in the Institutional Church; 12 Marcus Bull: Pilgrimage; 13 Gabor Klaniczay: Using Saints: Intercession, Healing, Sanctity; 14 Eric Palazzo: Missarum sollemnia: Eucharistic Rituals in the Middle Ages; 15 Rob Meens: Penitential Varieties; 16 Robert L. A. Clark: Spiritual Exercises: The Making of Interior Faith; Ideas; 17 Arnold Angenendt: Fear, Hope, Death, and Salvation; 18 Maureen C. Miller: Reform, Clerical Culture, and Politics; 19 Peter Biller: Intellectuals and the Masses: Oxen and she-asses in the medieval Church; 20 Laura A. Smoller: 'Popular' religious culture(s); 21 Dorothea Weltecke: Doubts and the absence of faith; Identities; 22 Constance H. Berman: Medieval Monasticisms; 23 Rosalynn Voaden: Mysticism and the Body; 24 Sara Lipton: Christianity and Its Others: Jews, Muslims, and Pagans; 25 Grado Giovanni Merlo: Christian experiences of religious non-conformism; Power; 26 George Dameron: The Church as Lord; 27 Geoffrey Koziol: Christianizing Political Discourses; 28 Janet L. Nelson: Religion in the age of Charlemagne; 29 Kathleen G. Cushing: Papal Authority and Its Limitations; 30 Sarah Hamilton: Bishops, Education and Discipline; Conclusion; 31 R. Po-chia Hsia: Looking back from the Reformation; Index...
