Western Society and the Church in the Middle Ages
Western Society and the Church in the Middle Ages

Author: R. W. Southern

Publisher: Penguin Books

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 9780140137552

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The concept of an ordered human society, both religious and secular, as an expression of a divinely ordered universe was central to medieval thought. In the West the political and religious community were inextricably bound together, and because the Church was so intimately involved with the world, any history of it must take into account the development of medieval society. Professor Southern's book covers the period from the eighth to the sixteenth century. After sketching the main features of each medieval age, he deals in greater detail with the Papacy, the relations between Rome and her rival Constantinople, the bishops and archbishops, and the various religious orders, providing in all a superb history of the period.

The Western Church in the Later Middle Ages
The Western Church in the Later Middle Ages

Author: Francis Oakley

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 9780801493478

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Francis Oakley addresses late-medieval church history in its own terms, pointing out not only discontinuities but also continuities with earlier medieval experience. "By doing so," he writes, "I hope to have avoided the distortions and refractions that occur when that history is seen too obsessively through the lens of the Reformation."

Medieval Christianity
Medieval Christianity

Author: Kevin Madigan

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2015-01-01

Total Pages: 512

ISBN-13: 0300158726

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A new narrative history of medieval Christianity, spanning from A.D. 500 to 1500, focuses on the role of women in Christianity; the relationships among Christians, Jews and Muslims; the experience of ordinary parishioners; the adventure of asceticism, devotion and worship; and instruction through drama, architecture and art.

Marriage in the Western Church
Marriage in the Western Church

Author: Philip Lyndon Reynolds

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2015-12-22

Total Pages: 468

ISBN-13: 9004312919

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Marriage in the Western Church examines how marriage acquired a specifically Christian identity in the Western Church from the patristic through Carolingian periods. It shows how theologians came to regard marriage as an ecclesiastical institution and how they developed a Christian theology of marriage. The first part of the book deals with marriage and divorce in Roman and Germanic law. Other parts deal with marriage and divorce in ecclesiastical law, with the Latin Fathers' distinction between the divine and human laws of marriage, and with the customary stages by which persons became married. Several chapters are devoted to Augustine's views on marriage and sexuality. The author shows how the doctrine of indissolubility became the West's chief means of christianizing marriage, and how theologians found here their preferred arguments for affirming the holiness and the 'sacramentality' of marriage. The author argues that the Western regime of indissolubility was the product of a fourth century reform movement. This publication has also been published in paperback, please click here for details.

Religion in the Medieval West
Religion in the Medieval West

Author: Bernard Hamilton

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Published: 2003-08-29

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9780340808399

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Western European civilization in the medieval centuries was a time of significant development as the ascendency of the Roman Catholic Church spread Christianity throughout Europe. This book examines the religious life of this formative period, the history of the institutional Church, and focuses on the interaction between the Church and secular members of society. This new edition has been updated, and includes new visual evidence and a glossary of technical terms.

The Rise of Western Christendom
The Rise of Western Christendom

Author: Peter Brown

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2012-12-18

Total Pages: 741

ISBN-13: 1118338847

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This tenth anniversary revised edition of the authoritative text on Christianity's first thousand years of history features a new preface, additional color images, and an updated bibliography. The essential general survey of medieval European Christendom, Brown's vivid prose charts the compelling and tumultuous rise of an institution that came to wield enormous religious and secular power. Clear and vivid history of Christianity's rise and its pivotal role in the making of Europe Written by the celebrated Princeton scholar who originated of the field of study known as 'late antiquity' Includes a fully updated bibliography and index

A History of the Church in the Middle Ages
A History of the Church in the Middle Ages

Author: F Donald Logan

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-10-02

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 1134786697

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In this fascinating survey, F. Donald Logan introduces the reader to the Christian church, from the conversion of the Celtic and Germanic peoples through to the discovery of the New World.

Popular Religion in the Middle Ages
Popular Religion in the Middle Ages

Author: Rosalind B. Brooke

Publisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 9780500273814

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Here is the first general account of the religious and irreligious ideas entertained by the populace at large in the Middle Ages. Between 1000 and 1300, vital changes took place in thought and art and religious inspiration, and the renewal of urban life in a world still centered on the feudal knight and peasant. How can we enter the minds of the mass of the people during those centuries? How did laymen look upon bishops and popes, the Bible, the saints; how did they regard judgment, heaven and hell? The answers to such questions lie in what remains of the churches in which people worshipped, in the images of stone and glass they valued, in contemporary poems and songs, and in other scattered sources. But the evidence requires careful and imaginative interpretation, and this the authors have provided, bringing each theme to life in text and pictures and expertly supplying the framework of a historical context.--From publisher description.

Religion in the History of the Medieval West
Religion in the History of the Medieval West

Author: John Van Engen

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-05-31

Total Pages: 345

ISBN-13: 1000943321

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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. Four of the essays are bibliographical and retrospective in nature, reviewing the field broadly, but also pointing toward a more dialectical approach to understanding the interaction of religion and society in the European middle ages. Other studies deal with large topics usually subsumed under the abstract term 'Christianization'. They grapple with learned sources as well as those associated with 'popular' religion, and show what can be gained from an imaginative use of all that lawyers and theologians said about religion in their society. The essays, finally, look for the quality and dynamic of change, even inventiveness, released by religious action and conviction in medieval European society.