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Church and Belief in the Middle Ages: Popes, Saints, and Crusaders (Crossing Boundaries: Turku Medieval and Early Modern Studies)
Kirsi Salonen (Ed.)
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Description for Church and Belief in the Middle Ages: Popes, Saints, and Crusaders (Crossing Boundaries: Turku Medieval and Early Modern Studies)
Hardcover. This book brings together scholars to consider the links among the roles of popes, saints, and crusaders and the ways that understanding them can help us build a more complete picture of the working of the church and Christianity in the Middle Ages. Editor(s): Salonen, Kirsi; Katajala-Peltomaa, Sari. Series: Crossing Boundaries: Turku Medieval and Early Modern Studies. Num Pages: 276 pages, 6 5 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3H; HBLC1; HRCC2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 164 x 241 x 20. Weight in Grams: 584.
The roles of popes, saints, and crusaders were inextricably intertwined in the Middle Ages: papal administration was fundamental in the making and promulgating of new saints and in financing crusades, while crusaders used saints as propaganda to back up the authority of popes, and even occasionally ended up being sanctified themselves. Yet, current scholarship rarely treats these three components of medieval faith together. This book remedies that by bringing together scholars to consider the links among the three and the ways that understanding them can help us build a more complete picture of the working of the church and Christianity ... Read more
The roles of popes, saints, and crusaders were inextricably intertwined in the Middle Ages: papal administration was fundamental in the making and promulgating of new saints and in financing crusades, while crusaders used saints as propaganda to back up the authority of popes, and even occasionally ended up being sanctified themselves. Yet, current scholarship rarely treats these three components of medieval faith together. This book remedies that by bringing together scholars to consider the links among the three and the ways that understanding them can help us build a more complete picture of the working of the church and Christianity ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Amsterdam University Press
Condition
New
Series
Crossing Boundaries: Turku Medieval and Early Modern Studies
Number of Pages
276
Place of Publication
Amsterdam, Netherlands
ISBN
9789089647764
SKU
V9789089647764
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About Kirsi Salonen (Ed.)
Kirsi Salonen is professor of European and World History at the University of Turku, Finland. She is specialist of medieval ecclesiastical history and history of law. Her most recent monograph in English is Papal Justice in the Late Middle Ages (Routledge, 2016). Sari Katajala-Peltomaa is a research fellow at the School of Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of ... Read more
Reviews for Church and Belief in the Middle Ages: Popes, Saints, and Crusaders (Crossing Boundaries: Turku Medieval and Early Modern Studies)
"It is the merit of this volume [...] to assess and highlight the flexible and adaptable nature of the medieval Latin Church, its intricate administrative practices and mechanisms, its labyrinthine record keeping and intertwined interests that blend together saints and scholars, bureaucrats and miracle witnesses, popes and pagans. The successful combination of various methodologies, from case studies to reflective surveys, ... Read more