Religion in the History of the Medieval West

by Engen,John Van

• ISBN13: 9780860789406
• ISBN10: 0860789403
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-06-28
• Publisher: Variorum

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Approaches to Medieval Culture and Religion
The Christian Middle Ages as an Historiographical Problem: The American Historical Review 91. Washington, DC, 1986	p. 519
The Future of Medieval Church History: Church History 71. Durham, NC, 2002	p. 492
The "Crisis of Cenobitism" Reconsidered: Benedictine Monasticism in the Years 1050-1150: Speculum 61. Cambridge, MA, 1986	p. 269
An Afterword on Medieval Studies, Or the Future of Abelard and Heloise: The Past and Future of Medieval Studies, ed. John Van Engen. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1994	p. 401
Christening the Social Order
Christening the Romans: Traditio 52. New York, 1997	p. 1
Faith as a Concept of Order in Medieval Christendom: Belief in History: Innovative Approaches to European and American Religion, ed. Thomas Kselman. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1991	p. 19
Theophilus Presbyter and Rupert of Deutz: The Manual Arts and Benedictine Theology in the Early Twelfth Century: Viator 11. Berkeley, LA, 1980	p. 147
'God is no Respecter of Persons': Sacred Texts and Social Realities: Intellectual Life in the Middle Ages: Studies for Margaret Gibson, ed. Leslie Smith and Benedicta Ward. London: The Hambledon Press, 1992	p. 243
Re-Inventing Religious Life in Medieval Society
Dominic and the Brothers: Vitae as Life-forming exempla in the Order of Preachers: Christ Among the Medieval Dominicans, ed. Kent Emery, Jr. and Joseph Wawrykow. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1998	p. 7
Friar Johannes Nyder on Laypeople Living as Religious in the World: Vita Religiosa im Mittelalter: Festschrift fur Kaspar Elm zum 70. Geburtstag, ed. Franz J. Felten and Nikolas Jaspert. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 1999	p. 583
Index	p. 1
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