Church, Faith and Culture in the Medieval West: Church, Faith and Culture in the Medieval West
About the Book Series
The series Church, Faith and Culture in the Medieval West reflects the central concerns necessary for any in-depth study of the medieval Church - greater cultural awareness and interdisciplinarity. Including both monographs and edited collections, this series draws on the most innovative work from established and younger scholars alike, offering a balance of interests, vertically through the period from c.400 to c.1500 or horizontally across Latin Christendom. Topics covered range from cultural history, the monastic life, relations between Church and State to law and ritual, palaeography and textual transmission. All authors, from a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds, share a commitment to innovation, analysis and historical accuracy.
Shaping Church Law Around the Year 1000: The Decretum of Burchard of Worms
1st Edition
By Greta Austin
February 24, 2009
This study of Burchard's 'Decretum', a popular book of Catholic canon law compiled just after the year 1000, sheds new light on the development of law and theology long before the Gregorian Reform, normally considered as a watershed in the history of the Latin Church. Practical episcopal concerns ...
Pope Celestine III (1191–1198): Diplomat and Pastor
1st Edition
Edited
By John Doran, Damian J. Smith
January 28, 2009
Hyacinth Bobone (c. 1105-1198) was one of the great figures of twelfth-century Europe. Active in the Roman Curia from the 1120s, a student in Paris, and associated with both Peter Abelard and Arnold of Brescia, he was made cardinal deacon of Santa Maria in Cosmedin in 1144 and served there during ...
Bishops, Texts and the Use of Canon Law around 1100: Essays in Honour of Martin Brett
1st Edition
Edited
By Kathleen G. Cushing, Bruce C. Brasington
June 05, 2008
The essays in this volume in honour of Martin Brett address issues relating to the compilation and transmission of canon law collections, the role of bishops in their dissemination, as well as the interpretation and use of law in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. The studies are grouped ...
Roma Felix – Formation and Reflections of Medieval Rome
1st Edition
Edited
By Éamonn Ó Carragáin, Carol Neuman de Vegvar
March 14, 2008
After the Roman empire fell, medieval Europe continued to be fascinated by Rome itself, the 'chief of cities'. Once the hub of empire, in the early medieval period Rome became an important centre for western Christianity, first of all as the place where Peter, Paul and many other important early ...
The Martyred Inquisitor: The Life and Cult of Peter of Verona (†1252)
1st Edition
By Donald Prudlo
February 21, 2008
Peter Martyr was one of the central Dominican saints of the thirteenth century, in some cases eclipsing Dominic himself. Born in Verona around 1206 to those with Cathar sympathies, he became a convert to Catholicism. As one of the first generations of Dominicans, he represents aspects of their ...
Art and the Augustinian Order in Early Renaissance Italy
1st Edition
Edited
By Louise Bourdua, Anne Dunlop
September 26, 2007
The rise of the mendicant orders in the later Middle Ages coincided with rapid and dramatic shifts in the visual arts. The mendicants were prolific patrons, relying on artworks to instruct and impress their diverse lay congregations. Churches and chapels were built, and new images and iconographies...
Miracles and Wonders: The Development of the Concept of Miracle, 1150-1350
1st Edition
By Michael E. Goodich
August 28, 2007
Beginning in the late twelfth century, scholastic theologians such as William of Auvergne, Thomas Aquinas and Engelbert of Admont attempted to provide a rational foundation to the Christian belief in miracles, bolstered by the Aristotelian theory of natural law. Similarly in this period a tension ...
The Cult of St Katherine of Alexandria in Early Medieval Europe
1st Edition
By Christine Walsh
August 28, 2007
St Katherine of Alexandria was one of the most popular saints in both the Orthodox and Latin Churches in the later Middle Ages, yet there has been little study of how her cult developed before c. 1200. This book redresses the balance, providing a thorough examination of the way the cult spread from...
The Bishop Reformed: Studies of Episcopal Power and Culture in the Central Middle Ages
1st Edition
Edited
By John S. Ott, Anna Trumbore Jones
July 28, 2007
In the period following the collapse of the Carolingian Empire up to the Fourth Lateran Council (1215), the episcopate everywhere in Europe experienced substantial and important change, brought about by a variety of factors: the pressures of ecclesiastical reform; the devolution and recovery of ...
The Chronicle of Hugh of Flavigny: Reform and the Investiture Contest in the Late Eleventh Century
1st Edition
By Patrick Healy
August 28, 2006
This book is a detailed study of Hugh of Flavigny and his chronicle, which is widely recognised as one of the most important narratives of a crucial period of European history, that is, the Investiture Contest. Hugh's Chronicon is significant in a number of ways: as a unique source-book for some of...
The Sibyl and Her Scribes: Manuscripts and Interpretation of the Latin Sibylla Tiburtina c. 1050–1500
1st Edition
By Anke Holdenried
August 28, 2006
The Sibylla Tiburtina is a Latin prophecy attributed to a prophetess from classical antiquity. It concludes with an account of the End of History, involving the coming of the Antichrist and his battle with a Last World Emperor. Approximately 100 manuscripts, written between the mid-11th and the ...
Plenitude of Power: The Doctrines and Exercise of Authority in the Middle Ages: Essays in Memory of Robert Louis Benson
1st Edition
Edited
By Robert C. Figueira
April 28, 2006
'I study power' - so Robert Louis Benson described his work as a scholar of medieval history. This volume unites papers by a number of his students dealing with matters central to Benson's historical interests - ecclesiastical institutions and administration, emperorship and papacy, canon law, ...