Trustworthy Men : : How Inequality and Faith Made the Medieval Church /

Trustworthy Men : : How Inequality and Faith Made the Medieval Church / / Ian Forrest.

The medieval church was founded on and governed by concepts of faith and trust--but not in the way that is popularly assumed. Offering a radical new interpretation of the institutional church and its social consequences in England, Ian Forrest argues that between 1200 and 1500 the ability of bishops...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
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Forrest, Ian,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018]
©2018
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (520 p.) :; 12 b/w illus., 4 tables, 1 maps
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations and Tables
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • PART I. LATE MEDIEVAL CULTURES OF TRUST
  • CHAPTER 1. Theology: Belief in God
  • CHAPTER 2. Law and Agreements: A World Made from Promises
  • CHAPTER 3. Identity and Emotion: Faith in the Heart
  • PART II. IDENTIFYING THE TRUSTWORTHY MEN
  • CHAPTER 4. The Emergence of the Trustworthy Men
  • CHAPTER 5. Bishops Describe Trustworthiness
  • CHAPTER 6. Very Local Elites
  • PART III. TRUSTWORTHINESS AND INEQUALITY IN THE PARISH
  • CHAPTER 7. Representing the Community?
  • CHAPTER 8. Time, Place, and the Limits of Trustworthy Status
  • CHAPTER 9. Face-to-Face with the Trustworthy Men
  • PART IV. BISHOPS AND A CHURCH BUILT ON INEQUALITY AND FAITH, 1250- 1500
  • CHAPTER 10. Practical epistemology
  • CHAPTER 11. Other People's Money
  • CHAPTER 12. The Material Church
  • CHAPTER 14. Subtle Judgements
  • The Church Built on Trust
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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