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Zusatztext 'The pieces reprinted here [...] are filled with good judgement! display a breadth of learning! and will manage to fascinate their readers through the many intriguing human details and anecdotes they contain.' The Medieval Review 'One of the benefits of reviewing a volume in the Variorum Collected Studies Series is that it can provide the opportunity to reread stimulating and formative work which had such an impact when originally produced that the ideas have since become almost taken for granted among academics... a significant collection of stimulating scholarship! which it is certainly worthwhile and rewarding to have brought together and republished in this way.' Heythrop Journal Informationen zum Autor John Van Engen is the Andrew V. Tackes Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame! USA. Zusammenfassung These ten essays by John Van Engen situate religion in the history of medieval Western Europe: as an unavoidable presence in everyday life, as a conceptual framework for social and political life, as a force integral to its historical dynamics. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents: Preface; Approaches to Medieval Culture and Religion: The Christian Middle Ages as an historiographical problem; The future of medieval Church history; The 'crisis of cenobitism' reconsidered: Benedictine monasticism in the years 1050-1150; An afterword on medieval studies! or the future of Abelard and Heloise. Christening the Social Order: Christening the Romans; Faith as a concept of order in medieval Christendom; Theophilus Presbyter and Rupert of Deutz: the manual arts and Benedictine theology in the early 12th century; 'God is no respecter of persons': sacred texts and social realities. Re-inventing Religious Life in Medieval Society: Dominic and the brothers: Vitae as life-forming exempla in the Order of Preachers; Friar Johannes Nyder on laypeople living as religious in the world; Index.
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These ten essays by John Van Engen situate religion in the history of medieval Western Europe: as an unavoidable presence in everyday life, as a conceptual framework for social and political life, as a force integral to its historical dynamics.
