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  • Religion in the History of the Medieval West

    by John Van Engen ...
    Series series Variorum Collected Studies
    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 ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Sisters and Brothers of the Common Life

    The Devotio Moderna and the World of the Later Middle Ages

    by John Van Engen ...
    Series series The Middle Ages Series
    The Devotio Moderna, or Modern Devout, puzzled their contemporaries. Beginning in the 1380s in market towns along the Ijssel River of the east-central Netherlands and in the county of Holland, they formed households organized as communes and forged lives centered on private devotion. They lived on city streets alongside their neighbors, managed properties and rents in common, and worked in the ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Sisters and Brothers of the Common Life

    The Devotio Moderna and the World of the Later Middle Ages

    by John Van Engen ...
    Series series The Middle Ages Series
    The Devotio Moderna, or Modern Devout, puzzled their contemporaries. Beginning in the 1380s in market towns along the Ijssel River of the east-central Netherlands and in the county of Holland, they formed households organized as communes and forged lives centered on private devotion. They lived on city streets alongside their neighbors, managed properties and rents in common, and worked in the ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

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  • Proving Woman

    Female Spirituality and Inquisitional Culture in the Later Middle Ages

    by Dyan Elliott ...
    Around the year 1215, female mystics and their sacramental devotion were among orthodoxy's most sophisticated weapons in the fight against heresy. Holy women's claims to be in direct communication with God placed them in positions of unprecedented influence. Yet by the end of the Middle Ages female mystics were frequently mistrusted, derided, and in danger of their lives. The witch hunts were just ... Read more

    $41.79 USD

  • The Social Life of Hagiography in the Merovingian Kingdom

    by Jamie Kreiner ...
    Series Book 96 - Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series
    This book charts the influence of Christian ideas about social responsibility on the legal, fiscal and operational policies of the Merovingian government, which consistently depended upon the collaboration of kings and elites to succeed, and it shows how a set of stories transformed the political playing field in early medieval Gaul. Contemporary thinkers encouraged this development by writing ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • A History of Medieval Political Thought

    300–1450

    by Joseph Canning ...
    First Published in 2005. The book covers four periods, each with a different focus. From 300 to 750 Canning examines Christian ideas of rulership. The often neglected centuries from 750 to 1050, the Carolingian period and its aftermath, are given special attention. From 1050 to 1290 the conflict between temporal and spiritual power and the revived legacy of antiquity comes to the fore. Finally in ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Dangers of Ritual

    Between Early Medieval Texts and Social Scientific Theory

    by Philippe Buc ...
    Central to current understandings of medieval history is the concept of political ritual, encompassing events from coronations to funerals, entries into cities, civic games, banquets, hunting, acts of submission or commendation, and more. ''Ritual?'' asks Philippe Buc. In The Dangers of Ritual he boldly argues that the concept shouldn't be so central after all. Modern-day scholars, gently seduced ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Women in Frankish Society

    Marriage and the Cloister, 5 to 9

    by Suzanne Fonay Wemple ...
    Series series The Middle Ages Series
    Women in Frankish Society is a careful and thorough study of women and their roles in the Merovingian and Carolingian periods of the Middle Ages. During the 5th through 9th centuries, Frankish society transformed from a relatively primitive tribal structure to a more complex hierarchical organization. Suzanne Fonay Wemple sets out to understand the forces at work in expanding and limiting women's ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • History, Frankish Identity and the Framing of Western Ethnicity, 550–850

    by Helmut Reimitz ...
    Series Book 101 - Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series
    This pioneering study explores early medieval Frankish identity as a window into the formation of a distinct Western conception of ethnicity. Focusing on the turbulent and varied history of Frankish identity in Merovingian and Carolingian historiography, it offers a new basis for comparing the history of collective and ethnic identity in the Christian West with other contexts, especially the ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • Unceasing Strife, Unending Fear

    Jacques de Thérines and the Freedom of the Church in the Age of the Last Capetians

    by William Chester Jordan ...
    This absorbing book explores the tensions within the Roman Catholic church and between the church and royal authority in France in the crucial period 1290-1321. During this time the crown tried to force churchmen to accept policies many considered inconsistent with ecclesiastical freedom and traditions--such as paying war taxes and expelling the Jews from the kingdom. William Jordan considers ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • Cistercian Stories for Nuns and Monks

    The Sacramental Imagination of Engelhard of Langheim

    by Martha G. Newman ...
    Series series The Middle Ages Series
    Around the year 1200, the Cistercian Engelhard of Langheim dedicated a collection of monastic stories to a community of religious women. Martha G. Newman explores how this largely unedited collection of tales about Cistercian monks illuminates the religiosity of Cistercian nuns. As did other Cistercian storytellers, Engelhard recorded the miracles and visions of the order's illustrious figures, ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • The Sleep of Behemoth

    Disputing Peace and Violence in Medieval Europe, 1000–1200

    by Jehangir Malegam ...
    In The Sleep of Behemoth, Jehangir Yezdi Malegam explores the emergence of conflicting concepts of peace in western Europe during the High Middle Ages. Ever since the early Church, Christian thinkers had conceived of their peace separate from the peace of the world, guarded by the sacraments and shared only grudgingly with powers and principalities. To kingdoms and communities they had allowed ... Read more

    $43.19 USD