Monks on Marriage, a Twelfth-century View
Author: Jean Leclercq
Publisher: New York : Seabury Press
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 152
ISBN-13:
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Sexuality in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times
Author: Albrecht Classen
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2008-12-10
Total Pages: 913
ISBN-13: 3110209403
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSexuality is one of the most influential factors in human life. The responses to and reflections upon the manifestations of sexuality provide fascinating insights into fundamental aspects of medieval and early-modern culture. This interdisciplinary volume with articles written by social historians, literary historians, musicologists, art historians, and historians of religion and mental-ity demonstrates how fruitful collaborative efforts can be in the exploration of essential features of human society. Practically every aspect of culture both in the Middle Ages and the early modern age was influenced and determined by sexuality, which hardly ever surfaces simply characterized by prurient interests. The treatment of sexuality in literature, chronicles, music, art, legal documents, and in scientific texts illuminates central concerns, anxieties, tensions, needs, fears, and problems in human society throughout times.
Marriage, Family, and Law in Medieval Europe
Author: Michael M. Sheehan
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 1997-01-01
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9780802081377
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of essays by Michael Sheehan, whose work and interpretation on medieval property, marriage, family, sexuality, and law has insprired scholars for 40 years.
Marriage Disputes in Medieval England
Author: Frederik Pedersen
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2000-01-01
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 1852851988
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMost information about medieval life comes from the records of the church courts of the province of York, which date from the 14th century. This work investigates cases involving a range of disputes, including sex, consent and violence.
Bernard of Clairvaux on the Spirituality of Relationship
Author: John R. Sommerfeldt
Publisher: Paulist Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 201
ISBN-13: 1616437154
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCelibate Marriages in Late Antique and Byzantine Hagiography
Author: Anne P. Alwis
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2011-10-27
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 1441115250
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn exploration of the phenomenon of celibate marriages in Byzantine hagiography.
The Selected Works of Isaac of Stella
Author: Isaac (of Stella)
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9780754653660
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book presents an invaluable selection of sermons and theological treatises of the twelfth century author, Isaac of Stella. The English born abbot of the French Cistercian monastery of Stella on the Isle of Re is one of the most inspiring, yet equally elusive, representatives of the great twelfth-century Cistercian Renaissance more widely associated with the person of Bernard of Clairvaux. The astonishing spiritual and intellectual depth of Isaac's surviving writings makes him a valuable read for anyone aiming to receive a complete picture of the intellectual heritage of the Middle Ages.Of the twenty-five sermons by Isaac presented in this volume, ten are made available here in an English translation for the first time. These are accompanied with two new studies examining Isaac of Stella's work from an historical, literary as well as theological perspective."
Sex, Marriage, and Family in John Calvin's Geneva
Author: Jr. Witte, John
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Published: 2005-10-20
Total Pages: 550
ISBN-13: 9780802848031
DOWNLOAD EBOOKYou would not expect this from his dour reputation, but John Calvin transformed the Western understanding of sex, marriage, and family life. In this fascinating, even sensational, volume John Witte and Robert Kingdon treat comprehensively the new theology and law of domestic life that Calvin and his fellow reformers established in sixteenth-century Geneva. Bringing to light and life hundreds of newly discovered cases and theological texts, Witte and Kingdon trace the subtle historical forms and norms of sex, marriage, and family life that still shape us today.
The Cambridge History of Medieval Monasticism in the Latin West
Author: Alison I. Beach
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-01-09
Total Pages: 1244
ISBN-13: 1108770630
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMonasticism, in all of its variations, was a feature of almost every landscape in the medieval West. So ubiquitous were religious women and men throughout the Middle Ages that all medievalists encounter monasticism in their intellectual worlds. While there is enormous interest in medieval monasticism among Anglophone scholars, language is often a barrier to accessing some of the most important and groundbreaking research emerging from Europe. The Cambridge History of Medieval Monasticism in the Latin West offers a comprehensive treatment of medieval monasticism, from Late Antiquity to the end of the Middle Ages. The essays, specially commissioned for this volume and written by an international team of scholars, with contributors from Australia, Belgium, Canada, England, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, and the United States, cover a range of topics and themes and represent the most up-to-date discoveries on this topic.
From Sacrament to Contract, Second Edition
Author: John Witte Jr.
Publisher: Presbyterian Publishing Corp
Published: 2012-01-31
Total Pages: 409
ISBN-13: 1611641926
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis newly revised and enlarged edition of John Witte's authoritative historical study explores the interplay of law, theology, and marriage in the Western tradition. Witte uncovers the core beliefs that formed the theological genetic code of Western marriage and family law. He explores the systematic models of marriage developed by Catholics, Lutherans, Calvinists, Anglicans, and Enlightenment thinkers, and the transformative influence of each model on Western marriage law. In addition, he traces the millennium-long reduction of marriage from a complex spiritual, social, contractual, and natural institution into a simple private contract with freedom of entrance, exercise, and exit for husband and wife alike. This second edition updates and expands each chapter and the bibliography. It also includes three new chapters on classical, biblical, and patristic sources.
