Medieval religion and its anxieties : history and mystery in the other middle ages
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Medieval religion and its anxieties : history and mystery in the other middle ages
(The new Middle Ages)
Palgrave Macmillan, c2016
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  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book examines the broad varieties of religious belief, religious practices, and the influence of religion within medieval society. Religion in the Middle Ages was not monolithic. Medieval religion and the Latin Church are not synonymous. While theology and liturgy are important, an examination of animal trials, gargoyles, last judgments, various aspects of the medieval underworld, and the quest for salvation illuminate lesser known dimensions of religion in the Middle Ages. Several themes run throughout the book including visual culture, heresy and heretics, law and legal procedure, along with sexuality and an awareness of mentalities and anxieties. Although an expanse of 800 years has passed, the remains of those other Middle Ages can be seen today, forcing us to reassess our evaluations of this alluring and often overlooked past.
Table of Contents
Preface Introduction: The Feast of the Ass: Medieval Faith, Fun, and FearChapter One: Prosecuting Animals as Criminals in Medieval Europe
Chapter Two: Piety, Perversion and Serial Killing: The Strange Case of Gilles de Rais
Chapter Three: Gargoyles and Glimpses of Forgotten Worlds
Chapter Four: To Hell with the Theologians: Doctrines of Damnation in "Last Judgements" in the Medieval Latin West
Chapter Five: Sensuality, Spirituality and Sexuality in the Religious Experience of Female Mystics
Chapter Six: Demonizing Dissenters: Patterns of Propaganda and Persecution
Chapter Seven: The Stripping and the Shaming of Heretics
Chapter Eight: Surviving the Middle Ages: The Extraordinary Pursuit of Salvation
Postscript: The Fickle Hand of Fate
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