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  • Penance in Medieval Europe, 600–1200

    by Rob Meens ...
    Penance has traditionally been viewed exclusively as the domain of church history but penance and confession also had important social functions in medieval society. In this book, Rob Meens comprehensively reassesses the evidence from late antiquity to the thirteenth century, employing a broad range of sources, including letters, documentation of saints' lives, visions, liturgical texts, monastic ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Religious Franks

    Religion and power in the Frankish Kingdoms: Studies in honour of Mayke de Jong

    Edited by Rob Meens, Dorine van Espelo, Bram van den Hoven van Genderen, Janneke Raaijmakers, Irene van Renswoude, Carine van Rhijn ...
    This volume in honour of Mayke De Jong offers twenty-five essays focused upon the importance of religion to Frankish politics, a discourse to which De Jong herself has contributed greatly in her academic career. The prominent and internationally renowned contributors offer fresh perspectives on various themes such as the nature of royal authority, the definition of polity, unity and dissent, ideas ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

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  • Why Can the Dead Do Such Great Things?

    Saints and Worshippers from the Martyrs to the Reformation

    by Robert Bartlett ...
    "An indispensable point of departure for anyone interested in the cult of the saints in the Middle Ages." —Eamon Duffy, The New York Review of BooksFrom its earliest centuries, one of the most notable features of Christianity has been the veneration of the saints—the holy dead. This ambitious history tells the fascinating story of the cult of the saints from its origins in the second-century days ... Read more

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  • Furta Sacra

    Thefts of Relics in the Central Middle Ages - Revised Edition

    by Patrick J. Geary ...
    To obtain sacred relics, medieval monks plundered tombs, avaricious merchants raided churches, and relic-mongers scoured the Roman catacombs. In a revised edition of Furta Sacra, Patrick Geary considers the social and cultural context for these acts, asking how the relics were perceived and why the thefts met with the approval of medieval Christians. ... Read more

    $29.59 USD

  • Morality and Masculinity in the Carolingian Empire

    by Rachel Stone ...
    Series Book 81 - Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series
    What did it mean to be a Frankish nobleman in an age of reform? How could Carolingian lay nobles maintain their masculinity and their social position, while adhering to new and stricter moral demands by reformers concerning behaviour in war, sexual conduct and the correct use of power? This book explores the complex interaction between Christian moral ideals and social realities, and between ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • The Cathars

    Dualist Heretics in Languedoc in the High Middle Ages

    by Malcolm Barber ...
    Series series The Medieval World
    In the second half of the twelfth century, the Catholic Church became convinced that dualist heresy was taking root within Christian society and that it was particularly strong in southern France. The nature and extent of this heresy and the reaction of the Church to the perceived threat have been the focus of extensive research since the mid-nineteenth century, research which has become ... Read more

    $63.99 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

  • 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

  • Canon Law and the Letters of Ivo of Chartres

    by Christof Rolker ...
    Series Book 76 - Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series
    Ivo of Chartres was one of the most learned scholars of his time, a powerful bishop and a major figure in the so-called 'Investiture Contest'. Christof Rolker here offers a major new study of Ivo, his works and the role he played in the intellectual, religious and political culture of medieval Europe around 1100 AD. Comparing Ivo's extensive correspondence to the contemporary canon law collections ... Read more

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  • 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

  • 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

  • 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