Eamon Duffy

Royal Books and Holy Bones (eBook, PDF)

Essays in Medieval Christianity

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781472953216
• Artikelnr.: 55001458

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Introduction: Royal Books and Holy Bones
BOOKS
1 Early Christian Impresarios
2 Books Held by Kings
3 The Golden Legend
4 Secret Knowledge - or a Hoax?
5 The Psalms and Lay Piety
CRISES AND MOVEMENTS
6 Plague and Historical Memory
7 The Rise of Sacred Song
8 Holy Terror
9 The Cradle Will Rock: Histories of Childhood
SAINTS
10 Blood Libel: The Murder of William of Norwich
11 Sacred Bones and Blood
12 Treasures of Heaven: Saints and Their Relics
13 St Erkenwald
14 The Cult of 'St' Henry IV
15 The Dynamics of Pilgrimage in the Late Middle Ages
16 'Lady, Pray Thy Son for Me': Prayer to the Virgin in the Late Middle
Ages
ON THE EVE OF THE REFORMATION
17 Provision Against Purgatory: Wingfield College, Suffolk
18 Monasticism and the Religion of the People: Crowland Abbey
19 The Four Latin Doctors: in the Late Middle Ages
20 The Reformation and the Alasbastermen
21 Brush for Hire: Lucas Cranach the Elder
Acknowledgements
Notes
Index
A Note on the Author
Plate Section