The Cambridge history of Christianity. Volume 3, Early medieval christianities, c. 600--c. 1100 / edited by Thomas F.X. Noble and Julia M.H. Smith ; assistant editor, Roberta A. Baranowski.
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Description
1 online resource (xxii, 846 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
The key focus of this book is the vitality and dynamism of all aspects of Christian experience from late antiquity to the First Crusade. By putting the institutional and doctrinal history firmly in the context of Christianity's many cultural manifestations and lived formations everywhere from Afghanistan to Iceland, this volume of The Cambridge History of Christianity emphasizes the ever-changing, varied expressions of Christianity at both local and world level. The insights of many disciplines, including gender studies, codicology, archaeology and anthropology, are deployed to offer fresh interpretations which challenge the conventional truths concerning this formative period. Addressing eastern, Byzantine and western Christianity, it explores encounters between Christians and others, notably Jews, Muslims, and pagans; the institutional life of the church including law, reform and monasticism; the pastoral and sacramental contexts of worship, belief and morality; and finally its cultural and theological meanings, including heresy, saints' cults and the afterlife.
Notes
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Nov 2015).
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p. 644-802) and index.
Language note
English
Contents
Introduction: Christendom, c. 600 / Peter Brown
Foundations : peoples, places, and traditions
Late Roman christianities / Philip Rousseau
The emergence of Byzantine orthodoxy, 600
1095 / Andrew Louth
Beyond empire I : eastern christianities from the Persian to the Turkish conquest, 604
1071 / Igor Dorfmann-Lazarev
Beyond empire II : christianities of the Celtic peoples, 600
1100 / Thomas M. Charles-Edwards
Germanic christianities, 600
1100 / Lesley Abrams
Slav christianities, 800
1100 / Jonathan Shepard 406
Christianity in confrontation
Christians and Jews, 600
c. 1100 / Bat-Sheva Albert
The Mediterranean frontier : Christianity face to face with Islam / Hugh Kennedy
Christians under Muslim rule / Sidney H. Griffith
Latin and Greek Christians / Tia M. Kolbaba
The northern frontier : christianity face to face with paganism / Ian N. Wood
Christianity in the social and political order
The Christian church as an institution / Thomas F.X. Noble
Ascetism and its institutions / Anne-Marie Helvetius and Michel Kaplan
Law and its applications / Janet L. Nelson
The problems of property / Rosemary Morris
Ideas and applications of reform, c. 600
c. 1100 / Julia Barrow
Churches in the landscape / Dominique Iogna-Prat
Christianity as lived experience
Birth and death / Frederick S. Paxton
Remedies for sins / Rob Meens
Sickness and healing / Peregrine Horden
Gender and the body / Lynda L. Coon
Sacrifice, gifts, and prayers in Latin Christianity / Arnold Angenendt
Performing the liturgy / Eric Palazzo 1408
Christianity : books and ideas
Visions of God / Alain Boureau
Orthodoxy and deviance / E. Ann Matter
Making sense of the Bible, 600
1100 / Guy Lobrichon
The Christian book in Medieval Byzantium / Leslie Brubaker and Mary B. Cunningham
Saints and their cults / Julia M.H. Smith
Last things / Jane Baun
Conclusion: Christendom, c. 1100 / John H. Van Engen.
ISBN
9781139054225 (electronic book)
1-139-05422-8
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