Medieval Religion: New Approaches

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Constance H. Berman
Psychology Press, 2005 - 422 páginas
Constance Berman presents an indispensable new collection of the most influential and revisionist work to be done on religion in the middle ages in the last two decades.Bringing together an authoritative list of scholars from around the world, the book provides a valuable service to students of religious history in providing a compilation of the most important new work. Medieval Religion is essential reading for all those who study the middle ages, church history or religion.

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Introduction
1
some themes
20
Crusading as an act of love
49
The orders of society in the eleventh and twelfth centuries 68
68
PART II
95
female erasure and the Gregorian reform
123
Verona in the age of reform
156
The cardinals view of the Papacy 11501300
183
Mary Magdalen and the contemplative life
249
Clarissan architecture c 12131340
272
Abelard Heloise
290
PART IV
317
Bodies in the JewishChristian debate
347
the birth of an accusation
363
The two faces of secular violence against Jews
377
Index
409

PART III
209

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Constance Hoffman Berman is Professor of History at the University of Iowa where she has taught since 1988. She has published widely on medieval religious women, reform religion in the twelfth century and the Cistercian Order. Her books include The Cistercian Evolution.

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