Religion and Devotion in Europe, C.1215- C.1515This is the first one-volume survey in English of religion and devotion in Europe between 1215 and 1515. Intended primarily as a student textbook, it provides essential background for a proper appreciation of medieval Western society. Avoiding the history of institutional structures, the book concentrates on the spirituality that the medieval Church sought to promulgate and control. Its thematic structure provides accessible surveys of major themes, and addresses recent debates about key aspects of medieval Catholicism. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Latin Christendom | 2 |
Defining the church | 6 |
The Faith and its demands | 10 |
Creeds church and Christianity | 15 |
expanding definitions in the thirteenth century | 21 |
instruction for the laity | 25 |
Sacraments | 30 |
Death | 199 |
Prophecy and apocalypse | 203 |
Caritas | 206 |
Charity and social imperatives | 207 |
Rich and poor | 209 |
death and life | 212 |
fraternities | 215 |
Indulgences | 217 |
saints and Purgatory | 35 |
Tensions and authority | 39 |
Access to the Faith | 42 |
Structures of authority and channels of communication | 43 |
Authority and uniformity | 51 |
training | 52 |
manuals for clergy and laity | 59 |
sermons and preaching | 64 |
Modes of acquisition | 71 |
The Bible | 73 |
Books and literacy | 78 |
Drama | 82 |
Icons and iconography | 85 |
Localism | 90 |
Religious life | 92 |
Liturgical experience | 93 |
The mass | 98 |
A structured life | 102 |
The laity and the regular orders | 106 |
Quasiregular lay movements | 108 |
Guilds and fraternities | 116 |
Domestic regularity | 122 |
undows hermits and anchorites | 126 |
Devotion | 136 |
The mass | 137 |
Intercessors | 142 |
Mary | 144 |
Saints and their making | 145 |
Creation of a cult | 153 |
Relics | 158 |
Images | 161 |
Miracles | 162 |
Pilgrimage | 165 |
names and naming | 168 |
Collective cults and guardian angels | 170 |
Man and God | 172 |
Humanism | 175 |
Mysticism | 177 |
Superstition | 182 |
Elite and popular religion | 184 |
Cosmology | 188 |
The pilgrimage of life and death | 191 |
The pilgrimage | 193 |
Pray for me | 225 |
post mortem commemorations | 226 |
The dead and the living | 232 |
Priests people and power | 235 |
The priests and their roles | 236 |
Lay expectations | 241 |
The laity in control? | 244 |
The problem of anticlericalism | 249 |
Who controls piety? | 252 |
Inclusion and exclusion | 257 |
Bring them in | 259 |
Problems of conversion | 260 |
Crusades | 264 |
The enemy within | 267 |
Overenthusiasm | 270 |
Heresy | 272 |
Greeks and other denominations | 275 |
Jews | 278 |
Islam | 285 |
The problem of scapegoats | 289 |
The devil and his disciples | 291 |
Christian society | 293 |
excommunication and interdict | 295 |
Lepers | 298 |
Serfs and slaves | 299 |
Women | 303 |
Men | 306 |
A summing up | 308 |
The reality of religion | 311 |
The nature of religious experience | 312 |
Vitality and change | 314 |
Living faith | 318 |
Deathbed religion | 322 |
Lifetime religion | 327 |
Dubius in fide infidelis est? | 329 |
The nature of doubt | 333 |
Ignorance | 336 |
Ambiguity | 338 |
Things to come | 340 |
Bibliography | 343 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Religion and Devotion in Europe, C.1215- C.1515 Cambridge Medieval Textbooks Religion and Devotion in Europe, C. 1215- C. 1515, Robert Norman Swanson |
| Author | Robert Norman Swanson |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 1995 |
| ISBN | 0521379504, 9780521379502 |
| Length | 377 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / Europe / General History / Europe / Medieval Religion / Christianity / History |
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