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Medieval Religion and its Anxieties

History and Mystery in the Other Middle Ages

Thomas A. Fudgé (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

300 Seiten

2016 | 1st ed. 2016
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
9781137570772 (ISBN)

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This book examines the broad varieties of religious belief, religious practices, and the influence of religion within medieval society. Religion in the Middle Ages was not monolithic. Medieval religion and the Latin Church are not synonymous. While theology and liturgy are important, an examination of animal trials, gargoyles, last judgments, various aspects of the medieval underworld, and the quest for salvation illuminate lesser known dimensions of religion in the Middle Ages. Several themes run throughout the book including visual culture, heresy and heretics, law and legal procedure, along with sexuality and an awareness of mentalities and anxieties. Although an expanse of 800 years has passed, the remains of those other Middle Ages can be seen today, forcing us to reassess our evaluations of this alluring and often overlooked past.

Thomas A. Fudgé is Professor of Medieval History at the University of New England, Australia. Author of thirteen books, he is recognized as an international authority on Jan Hus and Hussite history.

Introduction: The Feast of the Ass: Medieval Faith, Fun, and Fear.- Chapter OneProsecuting Animals as Criminals in Medieval Europe.- Chapter Two: Piety, Perversion and Serial Killing: The Strange Case of Gilles de Rais.- Chapter Three: Gargoyles and Glimpses of Forgotten Worlds.- Chapter Four: To Hell with the Theologians: Doctrines of Damnation in “Last Judgements” in the Medieval Latin West.- Chapter Five: Sensuality, Spirituality and Sexuality in the Religious Experience of Female Mystics.- Chapter Six: Demonizing Dissenters: Patterns of Propaganda and Persecution.- Chapter Seven: The Stripping and the Shaming of Heretics.- Chapter Eight: Surviving the Middle Ages: The Extraordinary Pursuit of Salvation.- Postscript: The Fickle Hand of Fate.

Erscheinungsdatum	28.08.2016
Reihe/Serie	The New Middle Ages
Zusatzinfo	11 Illustrations, color
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften
Schlagworte	Heresy • Medieval Underworlds • Middle Ages • Other • Religion
ISBN-13	9781137570772 / 9781137570772
Zustand	Neuware