Christianity in Western Europe c. 1100-c. 1500
By: edited by Miri Rubin and Walter Simons.
Contributors: Rubin, Miri, 1956-; Simons, Walter.
Series: The Cambridge history of Christianity -- v. 4; Cambridge history of Christianity -- v. 4.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 577
ISBN-13: 9780521811064
Subjects: Church history -- Middle Ages, 600-1500
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 494-556) and index.
Table of contents: title: Pt. I. Institutions and change, 1100-1200; title: 1. Clerical purity and the re-ordered world / Henrietta Leyser; title: 2. The bishops of Rome, 1100-1300 / Anthony Perron; title: 3. Religious poverty and the search for perfection / Beverly Mayne Kienzle; title: 4. Monastic and religious orders, c. 1100-c. 1350 / Brian Patrick McGuire; title: Pt. II. Forging a Christian world, 1200-1300; title: 5. The theological framework / Lesley Smith; title: 6. The legal underpinnings / Anders Winroth; title: 7. Material support I : parishes / Brigitte Resl; title: 8. Material support II : religious orders / Janet Burton; title: 9. The Word and its diffusion / KIatherine Jansen; title: Pt. III. The erection of boundaries; title: 10. Christians and Jews / Ora Limor; title: 11. Christendom and Islam / David Nirenberg; title: 12. Christians and heretics / Peter Biller; title: 13. Women and men / Megan McLaughlin; title: 14. Heaven, hell and purgatory, 1100-1500 / Alan E. Bernstein; title: Pt. IV. Shapes of a Christian world; title: 15. Sacramental life / Miri Rubin; title: 16. Religious soundscapes : liturgy and music / Susan Boynton; title: 17. Images and their uses / Sara Lipton; title: 18. Mary / Rachel Fulton; title: 19. Mysticism and transcendence / Amy Hollywood; title: Pt. V. Christian life in movement; title: 20. On the margins of religious life : hermits and recluses, penitents and tertiaries, beguines and beghards / Walter Simons; title: 21. Saints and pilgrimages : new and old / André Vauchez; title: 22. Crusade and conquest / Marcus Bull; title: Pt. VI. The challenges to a Christian society; title: 23. Repression and power / John H. Arnold; title: 24. Faith and the intellectuals I / Joseph Ziegler; title: 25. Faith and the intellectuals II / Michael Stolz; title: Pt. VII. Reform and renewal; title: 26. Empowerment through reading, writing and example : the Devotio moderna / Koen Goudriaan; title: 27. Demons and the Christian community / Alain Boureau; title: 28. Wycliffism and Lollardy / Kantik Ghosh; title: 29. Observant reform in religious orders / Bert Roest; title: 30. Public purity and discipline : states and religious renewal / Roberto Rusconi; title: 31. The Bible in the fifteenth century / Christopher Ocker.