Inquisition and Power Catharism and the Confessing Subject in Medieval Languedoc John H. Arnold "Intelligent and demanding."--Religious Studies Review "The lasting importance of Arnold's book is that . . . it will provoke scholars to rethink what they thought they knew about heresy, confession, and the inquisition in the Middle Ages."--Speculum "Intelligent and demanding. . . . The persevering reader will be amply rewarded by many insights into the nature of the Inquisition, Catharism, and elitist construction of confession, conformity, and subjectivity."--Religious Studies...
Inquisition and Power Catharism and the Confessing Subject in Medieval Languedoc John H. Arnold "Intelligent and demanding."--Religious Studies Rev...
Margery Kempe's Book provides rare access to the "marginal voice" of a lay medieval woman, and is now the focus of much critical study. This Companion seeks to complement the existing almost exclusively literary scholarship with work that also draws significantly on historical analysis, and is concerned to contextualise Kempe's Book in a number of different ways, using her work as a way in to the culture and society of medieval northern Europe. Topics include images and pilgrimage; women, work and trade in medieval Norfolk; political culture and heresy; the prophetic tradition; female mystics...
Margery Kempe's Book provides rare access to the "marginal voice" of a lay medieval woman, and is now the focus of much critical study. This Companion...
Across history, the ideas and practices of male identity have varied much between time and place: masculinity proves to be a slippery concept, not available to all men, sometimes even applied to women. This book analyses the dynamics of 'masculinity' as both an ideology and lived experience - how men have tried, and failed, to be 'Real Men'.
Across history, the ideas and practices of male identity have varied much between time and place: masculinity proves to be a slippery concept, not ava...
The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Christianity takes as its subject the beliefs, practices, and institutions of the Christian Church between 400 and 1500AD. It addresses topics ranging from early medieval monasticism to late medieval mysticism, from the material wealth of the Church to the spiritual exercises through which certain believers might attempt to improve their souls. Each chapter tells a story, but seeks also to ask how and why "Christianity" took particular forms at particular moments in history, paying attention to both the spiritual and otherwordly aspects of religion,...
The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Christianity takes as its subject the beliefs, practices, and institutions of the Christian Church between 40...
An essay collection taking its cue from one of the twentieth century's greatest historians, Eric Hobsbawm, this book asks what it is to be a twenty-first-century historian, attempts to help society understand 'how we got here', and introduces some of the most exciting new lines of research in subjects from the medieval period to the present.
An essay collection taking its cue from one of the twentieth century's greatest historians, Eric Hobsbawm, this book asks what it is to be a twenty-fi...
