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Monks and Nuns, Saints and Outcasts: Religion in Medieval Society
Sharon Farmer
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Paperback. Editor(s): Farmer, Sharon; Rosenwein, Barbara H. Num Pages: 272 pages, 9. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLC; HRAX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 161 x 17. Weight in Grams: 418.
A new generation of historians today is borrowing from cultural anthropology, post-modern critical theory, and gender studies to understand the social meanings of medieval religious movements, practices, figures, and cults. In this volume Sharon Farmer and Barbara H. Rosenwein bring together essays-all hitherto unpublished-that combine some of the best of these new approaches with rigorous research and traditional scholarship. Some of these essays re-envision the professionals of religion: the monks and nuns who carried out crucial social functions as mediators between living and dead, repositories for social memory, and loci of vicarious piety. In their religious life these people embodied ... Read more
A new generation of historians today is borrowing from cultural anthropology, post-modern critical theory, and gender studies to understand the social meanings of medieval religious movements, practices, figures, and cults. In this volume Sharon Farmer and Barbara H. Rosenwein bring together essays-all hitherto unpublished-that combine some of the best of these new approaches with rigorous research and traditional scholarship. Some of these essays re-envision the professionals of religion: the monks and nuns who carried out crucial social functions as mediators between living and dead, repositories for social memory, and loci of vicarious piety. In their religious life these people embodied ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Condition
New
Weight
417g
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801486562
SKU
V9780801486562
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About Sharon Farmer
Sharon Farmer is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of Communities of Saint Martin: Legend and Ritual in Medieval Tours, also from Cornell. Barbara H. Rosenwein is Professor of History at Loyola University Chicago. She is the author of Negotiating Space: Power, Restraint, and Privileges of Immunity in Early Medieval Europe ... Read more
Reviews for Monks and Nuns, Saints and Outcasts: Religion in Medieval Society
The volume's essays are important, original contributions.
Robert C. Figueira, Lander University
History
Its introduction and ten essays are well written and engage with wide-ranging and serious issues.... Their authors succeed in asking innovative questions and suggesting new approaches with a clear sense of the demands and limitations posed by the documentary remains that sustain ... Read more
Robert C. Figueira, Lander University
History
Its introduction and ten essays are well written and engage with wide-ranging and serious issues.... Their authors succeed in asking innovative questions and suggesting new approaches with a clear sense of the demands and limitations posed by the documentary remains that sustain ... Read more