Overview

The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Christianity takes as its subject the beliefs, practices, and institutions of the Christian Church between 400 and 1500AD. It addresses topics ranging from early medieval monasticism to late medieval mysticism, from the material wealth of the Church to the spiritual exercises through which certain believers might attempt to improve their souls. Each chapter tells a story, but seeks also to ask how and why 'Christianity' took particular forms at particular moments in history, paying attention to both the spiritual and otherwordly aspects of religion, and the material and political contexts in which they were often embedded. This Handbook is a landmark academic collection that presents cutting-edge interpretive perspectives on medieval religion for a wide academic audience, drawing together thirty key scholars in the field from the United States, the UK, and Europe. Notably, the Handbook is arranged thematically, and focusses on an analytical, rather than narrative, approach, seeking to demonstrate the variety, change, and complexity of religion throughout this long period, and the numerous different ways in which modern scholarship can approach it. While providing a very wide-ranging view of the subject, it also offers an important agenda for further study in the field.

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Author:   John H. Arnold (Professor of Medieval History, Professor of Medieval History, Birkbeck, University of London)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.90cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 24.40cm
Weight:   1.040kg
ISBN:  

9780198811176

ISBN 10:   0198811179
Pages:   608
Publication Date:   29 June 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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: Gábor 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

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This is an important contribution to the scholarship on Western European Christianity in the middle ages (c. 400- c.1500), offering a nuanced and variegated depiction of medieval Western Christianity... The volume will be of interest to scholars, at various stages: the chapters indicate the present state of scholarship on crucial facets of medieval Christianity; and several offer suggestions for future lines of research. * Joseph Wawrykow, Religious Studies Review *

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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.

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