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Making of Lay Religion in Southern France, c. 1000-1350

Arnold, John H.
Innbundet / 2024 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9780192871763
Publisert
2024
Utgiver
Oxford University Press
Vekt
1026 gr
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240 mm
Bredde
160 mm
Dybde
30 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
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Product language
Engelsk
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Innbundet
Antall sider
546

Forfatter
Arnold, John H.

Biografisk notat

John H. Arnold trained at the University of York, worked at UEA, and then for many years at Birkbeck, University of London, before becoming chair of medieval history at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of King's College, in 2016. He has published extensively on various aspects of the cultural and social history of medieval European history.

Making of Lay Religion in Southern France, c. 1000-1350

Arnold, John H.
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The attention paid to ordinary people in John H. Arnold's The Making of Lay Religion in Southern France, c. 1000-1350 makes it stand out among histories of medieval religion. Writing a history 'from below' of developments often exclusively viewed as imposed 'from above', Arnold mines the archives ofthe Languedoc to show how lay people and their communities shaped - as well as suffered - a watershed moment in Christian doctrine and practice.

History Today, Books of the Year 2024

In this deeply researched work, Arnold examines how the experience of being Christian changed for ordinary Christians from 1000 to the onset of the Black Death. Focusing on Southern France, he uses a broad range of archival materials, especially monastic cartularies-but including the thin archaeological record-miracula (canonization materials), records of ecclesiastical councils, chronicles, and inquisitorial registers.

J. Harrie, CHOICE

Any summary of this book struggles to convey the richness of its chapters packed with anecdotes and arguments. As a nonspecialist, I found Arnold's critical attention to the sources to be instructive, as was his interrogation of historiographical narratives. Arnold's overarching argument about the expansion and enrichment of lay piety across this period raised a question in the mind of this historian of the early Middle Ages.

Anna Trumbore Jones, American Historical Review

What was Christianity like for ordinary people between the turn of the millennium and the coming of the Black Death? What changed and what continued, in their experiences, habits, feelings, hopes, and fears? How did they know themselves to be Christians, and indeed to be good Christians? This book answers those questions through a focus on one specific region -- southern France -- across a particularly fraught period of history, one beset by the changes wrought by the Gregorian reforms, the spectre of heresy, the violence of crusade, the coming of inquisition, and the pastoral revolution associated with the Fourth Lateran Council (1215). Using an array of different historical documents, John H. Arnold explores the material contexts of Christian worship from the eleventh through to the fourteenth centuries, the shifting episcopal expectations of the ordinary laity, the changes wrought through wider socioeconomic developments, and periods of sharp inflection brought by the Albigensian crusade and its aftermath. Throughout, the book explores the complex spectrum of lay piety, finding enthusiasms and doubts, faith and scepticism, agency and negotiation. It explores not just developments in the content of faith for the laity but the very dynamics of belief as a lived experience. We are shown how across these key centuries Christianity developed in its external practices, but also via inculcating a more interiorized and affective mode of belief; and thus, it is argued, it can be said to have become truly a 'religion' -- a structured, demanding, and rewarding faith -- for the many and not just the few.
Les mer
A rich study of what medieval Christianity meant for ordinary people, and how it changed across the middle ages, arguably as profound as changes in the Reformation period, providing a wider context for medieval Christianity by focusing on southern France in a period mainly known for heresy and for the Church's attack upon heresy.
Les mer
Introduction Part I 1: Christianity and Local Churches, c. 1000-c. 1150 2: Peace, Violence and Saints, c. 1000-c. 1150 3: A Re-formed Landscape, c. 1100-c. 1200 4: Towns and the Holy, c. 1100-c. 1250 5: Papal Interventions, c. 1200-c. 1350 Part II 6: Space and Materiality 7: Instruction and Storytelling 8: The Discipline of Belief 9: Negotiations of the Faith 10: Being Christian Conclusion Appendix: The New Cathar Wars
Les mer
John H. Arnold trained at the University of York, worked at UEA, and then for many years at Birkbeck, University of London, before becoming chair of medieval history at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of King's College, in 2016. He has published extensively on various aspects of the cultural and social history of medieval European history.
Les mer
Provides an Anglophone work on southern France that is not focussed solely on heresy and crusades Sets heresy and crusades/inquisitions within a much wider interpretive context than in most other scholarship Draws on copious original archival documents and manuscripts, particularly using many southern French archives Informed by anthropological insights into religion and its sociocultural dynamics, contributing a theoretically-informed basis for future discussions of medieval Christianity
Les mer

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The attention paid to ordinary people in John H. Arnold's The Making of Lay Religion in Southern France, c. 1000-1350 makes it stand out among histories of medieval religion. Writing a history 'from below' of developments often exclusively viewed as imposed 'from above', Arnold mines the archives ofthe Languedoc to show how lay people and their communities shaped - as well as suffered - a watershed moment in Christian doctrine and practice.

History Today, Books of the Year 2024

In this deeply researched work, Arnold examines how the experience of being Christian changed for ordinary Christians from 1000 to the onset of the Black Death. Focusing on Southern France, he uses a broad range of archival materials, especially monastic cartularies-but including the thin archaeological record-miracula (canonization materials), records of ecclesiastical councils, chronicles, and inquisitorial registers.

J. Harrie, CHOICE

Any summary of this book struggles to convey the richness of its chapters packed with anecdotes and arguments. As a nonspecialist, I found Arnold's critical attention to the sources to be instructive, as was his interrogation of historiographical narratives. Arnold's overarching argument about the expansion and enrichment of lay piety across this period raised a question in the mind of this historian of the early Middle Ages.

Anna Trumbore Jones, American Historical Review

What was Christianity like for ordinary people between the turn of the millennium and the coming of the Black Death? What changed and what continued, in their experiences, habits, feelings, hopes, and fears? How did they know themselves to be Christians, and indeed to be good Christians? This book answers those questions through a focus on one specific region -- southern France -- across a particularly fraught period of history, one beset by the changes wrought by the Gregorian reforms, the spectre of heresy, the violence of crusade, the coming of inquisition, and the pastoral revolution associated with the Fourth Lateran Council (1215). Using an array of different historical documents, John H. Arnold explores the material contexts of Christian worship from the eleventh through to the fourteenth centuries, the shifting episcopal expectations of the ordinary laity, the changes wrought through wider socioeconomic developments, and periods of sharp inflection brought by the Albigensian crusade and its aftermath. Throughout, the book explores the complex spectrum of lay piety, finding enthusiasms and doubts, faith and scepticism, agency and negotiation. It explores not just developments in the content of faith for the laity but the very dynamics of belief as a lived experience. We are shown how across these key centuries Christianity developed in its external practices, but also via inculcating a more interiorized and affective mode of belief; and thus, it is argued, it can be said to have become truly a 'religion' -- a structured, demanding, and rewarding faith -- for the many and not just the few.
Les mer
A rich study of what medieval Christianity meant for ordinary people, and how it changed across the middle ages, arguably as profound as changes in the Reformation period, providing a wider context for medieval Christianity by focusing on southern France in a period mainly known for heresy and for the Church's attack upon heresy.
Les mer
Introduction Part I 1: Christianity and Local Churches, c. 1000-c. 1150 2: Peace, Violence and Saints, c. 1000-c. 1150 3: A Re-formed Landscape, c. 1100-c. 1200 4: Towns and the Holy, c. 1100-c. 1250 5: Papal Interventions, c. 1200-c. 1350 Part II 6: Space and Materiality 7: Instruction and Storytelling 8: The Discipline of Belief 9: Negotiations of the Faith 10: Being Christian Conclusion Appendix: The New Cathar Wars
Les mer
John H. Arnold trained at the University of York, worked at UEA, and then for many years at Birkbeck, University of London, before becoming chair of medieval history at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of King's College, in 2016. He has published extensively on various aspects of the cultural and social history of medieval European history.
Les mer
Provides an Anglophone work on southern France that is not focussed solely on heresy and crusades Sets heresy and crusades/inquisitions within a much wider interpretive context than in most other scholarship Draws on copious original archival documents and manuscripts, particularly using many southern French archives Informed by anthropological insights into religion and its sociocultural dynamics, contributing a theoretically-informed basis for future discussions of medieval Christianity
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780192871763
Publisert
2024
Utgiver
Oxford University Press
Vekt
1026 gr
Høyde
240 mm
Bredde
160 mm
Dybde
30 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
546

Forfatter
Arnold, John H.

Biografisk notat

John H. Arnold trained at the University of York, worked at UEA, and then for many years at Birkbeck, University of London, before becoming chair of medieval history at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of King's College, in 2016. He has published extensively on various aspects of the cultural and social history of medieval European history.

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