The Intolerant Middle Ages
The Intolerant Middle Ages

Author: Eugene Smelyansky

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2020-09-10

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 1487533349

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In this collection of primary sources, Eugene Smelyansky highlights instances of persecution and violence, as well as those relatively rare but significant episodes of toleration, that impacted a broad spectrum of people who existed at the margins of medieval society: heretics, Jews and Muslims, the poor, the displaced and disabled, women, and those deemed sexually deviant. The volume also presents a more geographically diverse Middle Ages by including sources from Central and Eastern Europe as well as the Mediterranean. Each document is preceded by a brief introduction and followed by questions for discussion, making The Intolerant Middle Ages an excellent entrance into the lives and struggles of medieval minorities.

A Source Book for Mediæval History
A Source Book for Mediæval History

Author: Oliver J. Thatcher

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2019-11-22

Total Pages: 512

ISBN-13:

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A Source Book for Mediæval History is a scholarly piece by Oliver J. Thatcher. It covers all major historical events and leaders from the Germania of Tacitus in the 1st century to the decrees of the Hanseatic League in the 13th century.

The Crusades
The Crusades

Author: S.J. Allen

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2014-04-21

Total Pages: 465

ISBN-13: 1442606258

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Since the publication of the first edition of The Crusades: A Reader, interest in the Crusades has increased dramatically, fueled in part by current global interactions between the Muslim world and Western nations. The second edition features an intriguing new chapter on perceptions of the Crusades in the modern period, from David Hume and William Wordsworth to World War I political cartoons and crusading rhetoric circulating after 9/11. Islamic accounts of the treatment of prisoners have been added, as well as sources detailing the homecoming of those who had ventured to the Holy Land—including a newly translated reading on a woman crusader, Margaret of Beverly. The book contains sixteen images, study questions for each reading, and an index.

The Medieval Church
The Medieval Church

Author: Joseph Lynch

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-07-17

Total Pages: 474

ISBN-13: 1317563328

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The Medieval Church: A Brief History argues for the pervasiveness of the Church in every aspect of life in medieval Europe. It shows how the institution of the Church attempted to control the lives and behaviour of medieval people, for example, through canon law, while at the same time being influenced by popular movements like the friars and heresy. This fully updated and illustrated second edition offers a new introductory chapter on ‘the Basics of Christianity,’ for students who might be unfamiliar with this territory. The book now has new material on some of the key individuals in church history: Benedict of Nursia, Hildegard of Bingen, Bernard of Clairvaux and Francis of Assisi as well as a more comprehensive study throughout of the role of women in the medieval church. Lynch and Adamo seek to explain the history of the Church as an institution, and to explore its all-pervasive role in medieval life. In the course of the thousand years covered in this book, we see the members and leaders of the Western Church struggle with questions that are still relevant today: What is the nature of God? How does a church keep beliefs from becoming diluted in a diverse society? What role should the state play in religion? The book is now accompanied by a website with textual, visual, and musical primary sources making it a fantastic resource for students of medieval history.

The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers: Early church exposition, subsequent deflections, and medieval revival
The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers: Early church exposition, subsequent deflections, and medieval revival

Author: Le Roy Edwin Froom

Publisher:

Published: 1950

Total Pages: 1016

ISBN-13:

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The four volumes comprising this extensive work, which covers the Christian Era, are the result of sixteen years of extensive research in Europe as well as in America. The result of this persistent quest, including some three extensive trips to Europe, has been the assemblage of thousands of source documents now comprising the unique Advent Source Collection. This, in turn, forms the documentary basis for these volumes, which are here presented to the Christian church at large as a contribution to the sound and scientific study of the development of prophetic interpretation--jacket.