Religion in the History of the Medieval West
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Gregory The Great
Infused Habit
Innocent Iii
Jean De Meun
Johannes Andreae
Lateran Council IV
Mappae Clavicula
medieval Christianity
Medieval Churchmen
Medieval Folk
Medieval Religious
Medieval Religious Culture
Medieval Religious Life
medieval religious societal dynamics
monastic reform
Opus Dei
popular piety
religious transformation
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- ISBN 9780860789406
- Weight: 625g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 21 Jun 2004
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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These ten essays by John Van Engen situate religion in the history of medieval Western Europe: as an unavoidable presence in everyday life, as a conceptual framework for social and political life, as a force integral to its historical dynamics. Four of the essays are bibliographical and retrospective in nature, reviewing the field broadly, but also pointing toward a more dialectical approach to understanding the interaction of religion and society in the European middle ages. Other studies deal with large topics usually subsumed under the abstract term 'Christianization'. They grapple with learned sources as well as those associated with 'popular' religion, and show what can be gained from an imaginative use of all that lawyers and theologians said about religion in their society. The essays, finally, look for the quality and dynamic of change, even inventiveness, released by religious action and conviction in medieval European society.
John Van Engen is the Andrew V. Tackes Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame, USA.
