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Christianity and culture in the Middle Ages : essays to honor, John Van Engen / edited by David C. Mengel and Lisa Wolverton ; contributors Christine Caldwell Ames [and seventeen others].
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Christianity and culture--Europe--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500.
- Christianity and culture.
- Europe--Church history--600-1500.
- Europe.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (576 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This volume celebrates the remarkable scholarly career of medieval historian John Van Engen with eighteen exceptional essays contributed by Van Engen's colleagues and former doctoral students, a group that includes some of the best established scholars of the Middle Ages as well as leading younger ones. Together, their work reflects the wide-ranging but coherent body of John Van Engen's own scholarship. In a section on Christianization, Ruth Mazo Karras explores medieval marriage, Lisa Wolverton offers a new model of the Christianization of Bohemia, R. I. Moore examines the historiography of the Cathars, and Christine Caldwell Ames links the inquisition with medieval and modern concepts of popular religion. Under the rubric of twelfth-century culture, Maureen C. Miller uses eleventh-century Roman frescoes to rethink reform, Jonathan R. Lyon unpacks Otto of Freising's notions of advocacy and tyranny, Rachel Koopmans traces testimonial letters associated with the cult of Thomas Becket, Dyan Elliot deliberates on the importance of what she calls counterfactual, or alternative, realities in twelfth-century thought and literature, and Giles Constable traces manifestations of the cross in monastic life. Three essays study Jews and Christians in society. Susan Einbinder probes the connections between martyrdom, politics, and poetry in thirteenth-century Castile, William Chester Jordan traces anti-Judaism in the Christina Psalter, and David C. Mengel highlights the significance of urban space for Jews in fourteenth-century Prague and Nuremberg. Lastly, contributors explore topics in late medieval religious life, a special focus of Van Engen's scholarship. Walter Simons edits and analyzes a letter defending beguines in the Low Countries, William J. Courtenay traces the effects on pastoral care of papal provisions to university scholars, and James D. Mixson reinterprets the fifteenth-century treatise Firefly. An essay by Marcela K. Perett looks at vernacular anti-Hussite treatises, Daniel Hobbins employs a fifteenth-century Italian story about Antichrist to consider hearsay, belief and doubt, and Roy Hammerling contemplates Martin Luther's understanding of himself as a beggar.
- Contents:
- ""Contents""; ""Figures and Maps""; ""Preface""; ""Part 1: Christianization""; ""Chapter One: The Christianization of Medieval Marriage""; ""Chapter Two: The Christianization of Bohemia""; ""Chapter Three: The Cathar Middle Ages as an Historiographical Problem""; ""Chapter Four: Authentic, True, and Right: Inquisition and the Study of Medieval Popular Religion""; ""Part II: Twelfth-Century Culture""; ""Chapter Five: Reconsidering Reform""; ""Chapter Six: Otto of Freising's Tyrants""; ""Chapter Seven: Testimonial Letters in the Late Twelfth-Century Collections of Thomas Becket's Miracles""
- ""Chapter Eight: The Counterfactual Twelfth Century""""Chapter Nine: The Cross in Medieval Monastic Life""; ""Gallery""; ""Part III: Jews and Christian Society""; ""Chapter Ten: A Death in Wisdom's Court""; ""Chapter Eleven: Anti-Judaism in the Christina Psalter""; ""Chapter Twelve: Emperor Charles IV, Jews, and Urban Space""; ""Part IV: Late Medieval Religious Life""; ""Chapter Thirteen: In Praise of Faithful Women""; ""Appendix: Count Robert's Petition to Pope John XXII""; ""Chapter Fourteen: The Effect of Papal Provisions to Oxford and Paris Scholars on the Pastorate and Care of Souls""
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Includes index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780268086862
- 0268086869
- OCLC:
- 907997002
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