The Making Of Christian Communities in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Williams, Mark F.

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Produktbeschreibung

'The Making of Christian Communities' sheds light on one of the most crucial periods in the development of the Christian faith. It considers the development and spread of Christianity between Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, and includes analysis of the formation and development of Christian communities in a variety of arenas, ranging from Late Roman Cappadocia and Constantinople to the court of Charlemagne and the twelfth-century province of Rheims, France during the twelfth century. The rise and development of Christianity in the Roman and Post-Roman world has been exhaustively studied on many different levels, political, legal, social, literary and religious. However, the basic question of how Christians of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages formed themselves into communities of believers has sometimes been lost from sight. This volume explores the idea that survival of the Christian faith depended upon the making of these communities, of which the Christians of this period were themselves acutely and sometimes acrimoniously aware.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 193
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780857287458
• Artikelnr.: 44361033

Autorenporträt

Mark F. Williams is Professor of Classics at Calvin College, Michigan, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface, Introduction
Chapter 1. The Distuptive Impact of Christianity in Late Roman Cappadocia: 1. New Patterns of Behaviour
2. New Histories
3. Lost Histories
4. Mosoch the Founder
Chapter 2. Constantinople: Christian City, Christian Landscape
Chapter 3. Communities of the Living and the Dead in Late Antiquity and the Early Medieval West
Chapter 4. The Gothic Intellectual Community: The Theology of the Skeireins
Chapter 5. 'Seed-sowers of Peace': The Uses of Love and Friendship at Court and in the Kingdom of Charlemagne
Chapter 6. Scaldic Poetry and Early Christianity
Chapter 7. Heloise and the Abbey of the Paraclete
Chapter 8. Communities of Reform in the Province of Reims: The Benedictine 'Chapter General' of 1131
Background
Present Questions
The Abbots, The Abbeys
Abbots by Rank
The Veteran Abbots
The Middlers
The Freshmen
The Latecomers, The Alumni
Conclusions
Chapter 9. When Jesus Did the Dishes: The Transformation of Late Medieval Spirituality
St Joseph and His Family
Jean Gerson and the Renewal of Theological Discourse
Gerson's Jospehina: A New Spiritual Hero
The Meaning of Gerson's Devotion to St Joseph, Notes