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Royal Books and Holy Bones: Essays in Medieval Christianity

Autor Professor Eamon Duffy
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 13 iun 2018
In these vivid and approachable essays Eamon Duffy engages with some of the central aspects of Western religion in the thousand years between the decline of pagan Rome and the rise of the Protestant Reformation.In the process he opens windows on the vibrant and multifaceted beliefs and practices by which medieval people made sense of their world: the fear of death and the impact of devastating pandemic, holy war against Islam and the invention of the blood libel against the Jews, provision for the afterlife and the continuing power of the dead over the living, the meaning of pilgrimage and the evolution of Christian music. Duffy unpicks the stories of the Golden Legend and Yale University's mysterious Voynich manuscript, discusses the cult of 'St' Henry VI and explores childhood in the Middle Ages.Accompanying the book are a collection of full colour plates which further demonstrate the richness of late medieval religion. In this highly readable collection Eamon Duffy once more challenges existing scholarly narratives and sheds new light on the religion of Britain and Europe before and during the Reformation.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781472953230
ISBN-10: 1472953231
Pagini: 384
Ilustrații: 1 x 8pp colour plate section
Dimensiuni: 153 x 234 x 37 mm
Greutate: 0.68 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Continuum
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Duffy writes regularly for the London Review of Books, TLS and other publications, as well as appearing on radio programmes

Notă biografică

Professor Eamon Duffy is Emeritus Professor of the History of Christianity at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Magdalene College. He is the author of The Stripping of the Altars, Reformation Divided and Royal Books and Holy Bones and appears regularly on radio and television as an authority on religion and the Reformation in England.

Cuprins

List of IllustrationsIntroduction: Royal Books and Holy BonesBOOKS1 Early Christian Impresarios2 Books Held by Kings3 The Golden Legend4 Secret Knowledge - or a Hoax? 5 The Psalms and Lay PietyCRISES AND MOVEMENTS6 Plague and Historical Memory7 The Rise of Sacred Song8 Holy Terror9 The Cradle Will Rock: Histories of ChildhoodSAINTS10 Blood Libel: The Murder of William of Norwich11 Sacred Bones and Blood12 Treasures of Heaven: Saints and Their Relics13 St Erkenwald14 The Cult of 'St' Henry IV15 The Dynamics of Pilgrimage in the Late Middle Ages16 'Lady, Pray Thy Son for Me': Prayer to the Virgin in the Late Middle AgesON THE EVE OF THE REFORMATION17 Provision Against Purgatory: Wingfield College, Suffolk18 Monasticism and the Religion of the People: Crowland Abbey19 The Four Latin Doctors: in the Late Middle Ages20 The Reformation and the Alasbastermen21 Brush for Hire: Lucas Cranach the ElderAcknowledgementsNotesIndexA Note on the AuthorPlate Section

Recenzii

It is 26 years since Eamon Duffy changed the way that readers of history looked at England on the eve of the Reformation, through his The Stripping of the Altars. Many of the essays here also challenge easy assumptions. All of them are written with a clarity and fluency, humour and humanity that make reading them a pleasure.
Erudite but never unapproachable and laced with a dry wit, [Duffy's] essays are essential reading for those with an interest in how people in the past expressed their faith
Tremendous . This is a book for the general reader , spiced throughout with Duffy's profound scholarly understanding of the giant subjects with which each essay grapples
[Duffy's] extraordinary depth of knowledge is, throughout these essays, lit for his reader by his sense not of what medieval Christians thought but of what they believed, felt, feared, and, above all, did ... [his] learning and judgement, and the clarity of his prose, have done a great deal to counter the lazy, but alas, still common assumption that "medieval" is a synonym for "barbarous".