{"product_id":"order-and-exclusion","title":"Order and Exclusion","description":"\u003cp\u003eOrder and Exclusion is a rare and magnificent book of medieval history with clear relevance to today's headlines. Through the lens of the polemics of Peter the Venerable, abbot of Cluny, Dominique Iogna-Prat examines the process by which christianity transformed itself into Christendom, a powerful spiritual, social, and political system with pretensions to universality. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIogna-Prat's close examination of a set of writings central to the history of Catholicism resolves into a deeply troubling study of the origins of attitudes that continue to shape world events. Iogna-Prat writes that \"versions of fundamentalism nourished by the soil of an often terrible common history\" show that Christianity, Judaism, and Islam have all been capable of intolerance.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePeter the Venerable's writings had a far-reaching impact: the powerful network of Clunaic houses expanded from the founding of the original monastery of Cluny to dominate Christendom by the twelfth century. This Christendom, Iogna-Prat demonstrates, defined itself in part through its increasingly bitter struggles against its perceived enemies both within and without. Peter the Venerable's all-pervasive logic pitted the \"order\" of the monastery and its hierarchical society against all those—heretics, Jews, Muslims, lepers—outside its bounds. In his proclamations against Jews and Muslims, Peter devised a Christian anthropology: in his view, to be non-Christian was to be non-human. The power of the Church came at a great and lasting price.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54242169291096,"sku":"9780801437083","price":81.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780801437083_58084321-ab1e-4748-9edb-8cdf27b7d435.jpg?v=1779510659","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/order-and-exclusion","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}