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Medieval religion : new approaches / edited by Constance Hoffman Berman.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Rewriting historiesPublication details: New York ; London : Routledge, 2005.Description: 1 online resource (xxiii, 422 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 0203328671
  • 9780203328675
  • 9780415316866
  • 0415316863
  • 9780415316873
  • 0415316871
  • 9786610267491
  • 6610267499
  • 1134372930
  • 9781134372935
  • 1280267496
  • 9781280267499
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Medieval religion.DDC classification:
  • 270.3 22
LOC classification:
  • BR270 .B47 2004eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Book cover; half-title; series title; title; copyright; dedications; contents; list of figures; series editor's preface; list of contributors; acknowledgments; list of abbreviations; introduction; part i religious speculation and social thought; 1. jesus as mother and abbot as mother; 2. crusading as an act of love; 3. the orders of society in the eleventh and twelfth centuries; part ii reform and growth in the clerical hierarchy; 4. canossa and the ungendering of the public man; 5. the priest's wife; 6. secular clergy andreligious life; 7. the cardinals' view of the papacy, 1150-1300.
Part iii women and the practice of asceticism and contemplation8. were there twelfth-century cistercian nuns?; 9. mary magdalen and the contemplative life; 10. hearing is believing clarissan architecture, c. 1213-1340; 11. "men's duty to provide for women's needs"; part iv increasing violence and exclusion; 12. the creation of a christian armory against islam; 13. bodies in the jewish-christian debate ; 14. desecration of the host; 15. the two faces of secular violence against jews; index.
Summary: Constance Hoffman Berman presents an indispensable collection of the most influential and revisionist work to be done on religion in the Middle Ages in the last two decades. Bringing together an authoritative list of scholars from around the world, this book is a comprehensive compilation of the most important work in this field. Medieval Religion provides a valuable service for all those who study the Middle Ages, church history or religion.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)116212

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Book cover; half-title; series title; title; copyright; dedications; contents; list of figures; series editor's preface; list of contributors; acknowledgments; list of abbreviations; introduction; part i religious speculation and social thought; 1. jesus as mother and abbot as mother; 2. crusading as an act of love; 3. the orders of society in the eleventh and twelfth centuries; part ii reform and growth in the clerical hierarchy; 4. canossa and the ungendering of the public man; 5. the priest's wife; 6. secular clergy andreligious life; 7. the cardinals' view of the papacy, 1150-1300.

Part iii women and the practice of asceticism and contemplation8. were there twelfth-century cistercian nuns?; 9. mary magdalen and the contemplative life; 10. hearing is believing clarissan architecture, c. 1213-1340; 11. "men's duty to provide for women's needs"; part iv increasing violence and exclusion; 12. the creation of a christian armory against islam; 13. bodies in the jewish-christian debate ; 14. desecration of the host; 15. the two faces of secular violence against jews; index.

Constance Hoffman Berman presents an indispensable collection of the most influential and revisionist work to be done on religion in the Middle Ages in the last two decades. Bringing together an authoritative list of scholars from around the world, this book is a comprehensive compilation of the most important work in this field. Medieval Religion provides a valuable service for all those who study the Middle Ages, church history or religion.

English.