Monks and Nuns, Saints and Outcasts : : Religion in Medieval Society / / ed. by Barbara H. Rosenwein, Sharon Farmer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Beach, Alison I.,; Bite, Lisa M.,; Brentano, Robert,; Farmer, Sharon,; Geary, Patrick J.,; Head, Thomas,; Pellegrini, Luigi,; Peyroux, Catherine,; Remensnyder, Amy G.,; Rosenwein, Barbara H.,
• HerausgeberIn: Farmer, Sharon,; Rosenwein, Barbara H.,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]; ©2000
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.) :; 2 maps, 1 halftone, 6 tables

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—...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• CONTENTS
• PREFACE
• ABBREVIATIONS
• Introduction
• PART I: NEW PARADIGMS, TRADITIONAL TOOLS
• 1. Monastic Memory and the Mutation of the Year Thousand
• 2. Perennial Prayer at Agaune
• 3. Claustration and Collaboration between the Sexes in the Twelfth-Century Scriptorium
• PART 2: TEXTS AND CONTEXTS
• 4. Sulmona Society and the Miracles of Peter of Morrone
• 5. Female Religious Experience and Society in Thirteenth-Century Italy
• 6. Saints and Angry Neighbors: The Politics of Cursing in Irish Hagiography
• PART 3: RETHINKING BINARIES
• 7. The Beggar's Body: Intersections of Gender and Social Status in High Medieval Paris
• 8. The Leper's Kiss
• 9. The Colonization of Sacred Architecture: The Virgin Mary, Mosques, . and Temples in Medieval Spain and Early Sixteenth-Century Mexico
• 10. Saints, Heretics, and Fire: Finding Meaning through the Ordeal
• CONTRIBUTORS
• INDEX