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Summary:

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:

• The Feast of the Ass: medieval faith, fun, and fear
• Prosecuting animals as criminals in medieval Europe
• Piety, perversion, and serial killing: the strange case of Gilles de Rais
• Gargoyles and glimpses of forgotten worlds
• To hell with the theologians: doctrines of damnation in "last judgements" in the medieval Latin West
• Sensuality, spirituality, and sexuality in the religious experience of female mystics
• Demonizing dissenters: patterns of propaganda and persecution
• The stripping and the shaming of heretics
• Surviving the Middle Ages: the extraordinary pursuit of salvation
• The fickle hand of fate.

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Medieval Religion and Its Anxieties ([Place of publication not identified] : Palgrave Macmillan 2016 — ISBN 9781137570772)

Related Series:

New Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))

Subjects:

Church history — Middle Ages, 600-1500

Religion — History

600-1500

Church history

Religion

Church history — Middle Ages

Genres:

History

General Notes:

Description based on: Print version record.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-285) and index.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

BR252 .F83 2016eb

ISBNs:

9781137566102 (electronic bk.)
1137566108 (electronic bk.)
9781137570772 [Invalid]
1137570776 [Invalid]

Other Standard Numbers:

Digital Object Identifier: 10.1057/978-1-137-56610-2

OCLC Numbers:

961117233

Other Control Numbers:

EBC4722241 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp13230341