Christendom and its discontents : exclusion, persecution and rebellion, 1000-1500 / edited by Scott L. Waugh and Peter D. Diehl.
Contributor(s): Waugh, Scott L | Diehl, Peter D
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BookPublisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1996Description: 376 p. ; 24 cm. + hbk.ISBN: 0521471834.Subject(s): Dissenters, Religious -- Europe | Persecution -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500 | Heresies, Christian -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500DDC classification: 273.6
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| General Lending | MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending | 273.6 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00088627 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
From the eleventh century onward, Latin Christendom was torn by discontent and controversy. As the Church and secular rulers defined more clearly than ever before the laws and institutions on which they based their power, they demanded greater uniformity and obedience to their authority. The essays in this book cast new light on the dynamics of repression, highlighting the controversies and discontent that troubled medieval society. Looking especially at the mechanisms underlying the dissemination of heterodoxy and its repression, the religious aspirations of women, the fate of non-Christian minorities in Europe, and changing boundaries between orthodoxy and heterodoxy, the authors provide a new understanding of the Church's response to the diversity of belief and practice by which it was confronted.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I Heterodoxy, Dissemination, and Repression
- 1 Heresy, repression, and social change in the age
- 2 Overcoming reluctance to prosecute heresy in thirteenth-century Italy
- 3 Social stress, social strain, and the inquisitors of medieval Languedoc
- 4 The schools and the Waldensians: a new work by Durand
- 5 The reception of Arnau de Vilanova's religious ideas
- 6 'Springing cockel in our clene corn': Lollard preaching in England about 1400
- Part II Women's Religious Aspirations
- 7 Repression or collaboration? the case of Elisabeth and Ekbert
- 8 Prophetic patronage as repression
- 9 Scandala: controversies concerning clausura and women's religious communities in late medieval Sicily Katherine Gill
- Part III Non-Christian Minorities within Medieval Christendom
- 10 The conversion of Minorcan Jews (417-418): an experiment in the history of historiography
- 11 The deteriorating image of the Jews - twelfth and thirteenth centuries
- 12 Monarchs and minorities in the Christian western Mediterranean about 1300: Lucera and its analogues
- 13 Muslim Spain and Mediterranean slavery: the medieval slave trade as an aspect of Muslim-Christian relations Olivia Remie Constable
- Part IV Christendom and its Discontents: Rethinking the Boundaries
- 14 The tortures of the Body
- 15 The holy and the unholy: sainthood, witchcraft, and magic in late medieval Europe
- 16 Transgressing the limits set by the Fathers: authority and impious exegesis in medieval thought
- Index