Medieval Christianity in Practice / / ed. by Miri Rubin.

• MitwirkendeR: Banham, Debby,; Barratt, Alexandra,; Barron, Caroline,; Biller, Peter,; Blumenfeld-Kosinski, Renate,; Bornstein, Daniel,; Boureau, Alain,; Constable, Olivia Remie,; Copeland, Rita,; Cramer, Peter,; Duffy, Eamon,; Farmer, Sharon,; Fox, Harold S.,; Galloway, Penny,; Geréby, György,; Goering, Joseph,; Hamilton, Sarah,; Head, Thomas,; Hen, Yitzhak,; Iogna-Prat, Dominique,; Jansen, Katherine L.,; Jones, Peter Murray,; Jordan, William C.,; Klaniczay, Gábor,; Klapisch-Zuber, Christiane,; Kleinberg, Aviad M.,; Lerner, Robert E.,; Lipton, Sara,; Meens, Rob,; Nagy, Piroska,; Nelson, Janet L.,; Paxton, Frederick S.,; Reinburg, Virginia,; Resl, Brigitte,; Rubin, Miri,; Schiewer, Hans-Jochen,; Shahar, Shulamith,; Simons, Walter,; Smith, Julia M. H.,; Throop, Susanna A.,; Van Engen, John,; Warren, Nancy Bradley,; Ziegler, Joseph,; d'Avray, David,
• HerausgeberIn: Rubin, Miri,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]; ©2009
• Julkaisuvuosi: 2021
• Kieli: English
• Sarja: Princeton Readings in Religions ; 36
• Ulkoasu: 1 online resource (368 p.) :; 5 halftones.

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.

Table of 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