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John
Van Engen.
Religion in the History of the Medieval West.
Aldershot: Ashgate, June 2004.
Series: Variorum Collected Studies.
c.340pp.
Hardback.
ISBN 0860789403.
Publisher's
recommended price $105.95/£57.50
These ten essays by John
Van Engen situate religion in the history of medieval Western Europe:
as an unavoidable presence in everyday life, as a conceptual framework
for social and political life, as a force integral to its historical
dynamics. Four of the essays are bibliographical and retrospective in
nature, reviewing the field broadly, but also pointing toward a more
dialectical approach to understanding the interaction of religion and
society in the European middle ages. Other studies deal with large
topics usually subsumed under the abstract term 'Christianization'.
They grapple with learned sources as well as those associated with
'popular' religion, and show what can be gained from an imaginative use
of all that lawyers and theologians said about religion in their
society. The essays, finally, look for the quality and dynamic of
change, even inventiveness, released by religious action and conviction
in medieval European society.
Contents:
Preface; Approaches to Medieval Culture and Religion: The Christian
Middle Ages as an historiographical problem; The future of medieval
Church history; The 'crisis of cenobatism' reconsidered: Benedictine
monasticism in the years 1050-1150; An afterword on medieval studies,
or the future of Abelard and Heloise; Christening the Social Order:
Christening the Romans; Faith as a concept of order in medieval
Christendom; Theophilus Presbyter and Rupert of Deutz: the manual arts
and Benedictine theology in the early 12th century; 'God is no
respecter of persons': sacred texts and social realities; Re-inventing
Religious Life in Medieval Society: Dominic and the brothers: Vitae as
life-forming exempla in the Order of Preachers; Friar Johannes Nyder on
laypeople living as religious in the world; Index.
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