Author : Francis Oakley
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 11,50 MB
Release : 1985
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801493478
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."
Author : R. W. Southern
Publisher : Penguin Books
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 30,77 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780140137552
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.
Author : Kevin Madigan
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 49,63 MB
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300158726
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.
Author : Philip Lyndon Reynolds
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 10,25 MB
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004312919
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.
Author : F Donald Logan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 14,83 MB
Release : 2012-10-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1134786697
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.
Author : Peter Brown
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 741 pages
File Size : 12,85 MB
Release : 2012-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 1118338847
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
Author : Gerd Tellenbach
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 39,13 MB
Release : 1993-03-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521437110
This comprehensive survey of the history of the Church in Western Europe, as institution and spiritual body.
Author : Bernard Hamilton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 29,8 MB
Release : 2003-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780340808399
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.
Author : Rosalind B. Brooke
Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 37,52 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Christianity
ISBN : 9780500273814
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.
Author : Adriaan Bredero
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 40,73 MB
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 9780802849922
This is a print on demand book and is therefore non- returnable. Though buffeted on all sides by rapid and at times cataclysmic social, political, and economic change, the medieval church was able to make adjustments that kept it from becoming simply a fossil from the past rather than an enduring institution of salvation. The dynamic interaction between the medieval church and society gives form to this compelling and well-informed study by Adriaan Bredero. By considering medieval Christianity in full relation to its historical context, Bredero elucidates complex medieval realities -- many of which run counter to common modern notions about the Middle Ages. Bredero moves beyond the usual treatment of history by framing his overall discussion in terms of a fascinating and relevant question: To what extent is Christianity today still molded by medieval society? The book begins with an overview of religion and the church in medieval society, from the early Christianization of Western Europe through the fifteenth century. Bredero counters earlier romanticized assessments of the Middle Ages as a thoroughly Christian period by arriving at a definition of Christendom, not in its original sense as the empire of Charlemagne, but rather as "the countries, people, and matters which stood under the influence of Christ."
