Medieval Christianity in Practice Miri Rubin, editor

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rubin, Miri

Series:

Princeton readings in religions.

Princeton readings in religions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christian life--Middle Ages.

Christian life--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500.

Christian life.

Christian life--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500--Sources.

Europe.

Europe--Religious life and customs.

Europe--Religious life and customs--Sources.

Genre:

Sources

History

Physical Description:

1 online resource (368 p.) : 5 halftones.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2009

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

"Medieval Christianity in Practice" provides readers with a sweeping look at the religious practices of the European Middle Ages. Comprising forty-two selections from primary source materials - each translated with an introduction and commentary by a specialist in the field - the collection illustrates the religious cycles, rituals, and experiences that gave meaning to medieval Christian individuals and communities. This volume of "Princeton Readings in Religions" assembles sources reflecting different genres, regions, and styles, including prayer books, chronicles, diaries, liturgical books, sermons, hagiography, and handbooks for the laity and clergy. The texts represent the practices through which Christians conducted their individual, family, and community lives, and explores such life-cycle events as birth, confirmation, marriage, sickness, death, and burial. The texts also document religious practices related to themes of work, parish life, and devotions, as well as power and authority. Enriched by expert analysis and suggestions for further reading, "Medieval Christianity in Practice" gives students and general readers alike the necessary background and foundations for an appreciation of the creativity and multiplicity of medieval Christian religious culture.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Princeton Readings in Religions

CONTENTS

Contributors

Introduction

The Life Cycle: Baptism

1. Baptismal Practice in Germany

2. Cathars and Baptism

The Life Cycle: Confirmation and Coming of Age

3. The Early Medieval Barbatoria

The Life Cycle: Instruction

4. Lollard Instruction

The Life Cycle: Marriage and Its Unmaking

5. Florentine Marriage in the Fifteenth Century

6. Annulment of Henry III’s “Marriage” to Joan of Ponthieu Confirmed by Innocent IV on 20 May 1254

The Life Cycle: Death and Burial

7. Agius of Corvey’s Account of the Death of Hathumoda, First Abbess of Gandersheim, in 874

8. A Royal Funeral of 1498

Work and Travel

9. Charms to Ward off Sheep and Pig Murrain

10. Fishermen and Mariners

11. Storms at Sea on a Voyage between Rhodes and Venice, November 1470

12. Rules and Ritual on the Second Crusade Campaign to Lisbon, 1147

Churches, Parishes, and Daily Life: Consecration

13. The Consecration of Church Space

Churches, Parishes, and Daily Life: Pastoral Care

14. Fourteenth-Century Instructions for Bedside Pastoral Care

15. How to Behave in Church and How to Become a Priest

Churches, Parishes, and Daily Life: Preaching

16. A Sermon on the Virtues of the Contemplative Life

17. Preaching and Pastoral Care of a Devout Woman (deo devota) in Fifteenth-Century Basel

Churches, Parishes, and Daily Life: Confession and Penance

18. Doing Penance

19. A Penitential Diet

20. A Layman’s Penance

Churches, Parishes, and Daily Life: Prayer

21. Prayers

22. Two Healing Prayers

Churches, Parishes, and Daily Life: Devotional Behavior

23. Images in the World: Reading the Crucifixion

Healing

24. The Old English Nine Herbs Charm

25. Amulets and Charms

Charity

26. A Deaf-Mute’s Story

27. Bequests for the Poor

The Cult of Saints and Pilgrimage

28. Translation of the Body of St. Junianus

29. Pilgrimage and Spiritual Healing in the Ninth Century

In Pursuit of Perfection: In the World

30. Interrogation of Waldensians

31. The Lives of the Beghards

32. The Renovation of the Chapel in the Beguinage of Lille

33. The Practices of Devotio moderna

In Pursuit of Perfection: Prophecy, Revelation, and Ecstatic States

34. The Possession of Blessed Jordan of Saxony

35. On the Stigmatization of Saint Margaret of Hungary

36. Eschatological Prophecy: “Woe to the World in One Hundred Years”

37. Raymond de Sabanac, Preface to Constance de Rabastens, The Revelations

In Pursuit of Perfection: At the Edge of the World

38. The Life of the Hermit Stephen of Obazine

39. Creating an Anchorhold

40. The Ritual for the Ordination of Nuns

Rituals of Power

41. An Anglo-Saxon Queen’s Consecration

42. Mass at the Election of the Mayor of London, 1406

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781400833771

1400833779

OCLC:

1250086904