Love, religion, and politics in fifteenth century Spain / / by Ian Macpherson and Angus MacKay.

• VerfasserIn: Macpherson, Ian Richard, 1934-; MacKay, Angus, 1939-
• TeilnehmendeR: MacKay, Angus, 1939-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden : : BRILL,, 1998.
• Year of Publication: 1998
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 286 pages)

"Ian Macpherson and Angus MacKay bring together versions in English of sixteen articles published in journals and festschrift volumes over the past two decades. The articles are revised and selected from those which deal with questions of love religion and politics in the fifteenth-century Kingdom of Spain."--Jacket.

Table of Contents

Hospitals and Poor Relief in Ramon Llull's Majorca / Larry J. Simon -- Elves in the Psalms? The Experience of Evil from a Cosmic Perspective / Karen Louise Jolly -- "Simon Magus, Dogs, and Simon Peter" / Alberto Ferreiro -- Avenging the Blood of Children: Anxiety Over Child Victims and the Origins of the European Witch Trials / Richard Kieckhefer -- Teaching and Preaching Confession in Thirteenth Century Paris / Alan E. Bernstein -- Destruction of the Flesh: Salvation of the Spirit: the Paradoxes of Torture in Medieval Christian Society / Edward Peters -- Prophecy and Order: Mysticism and Medieval Cosmologies in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries / Cheryl A. Riggs -- Medieval Heretics or Forerunners of the Reformation: the Protestant Rewriting of the History of Medieval Heresy / Abraham Friesen -- Cosmic and Sexual Love in Renaissance Thought: Reflections on Marsilio Ficino, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, and Leone Ebreo / Bernard McGinn -- Alfonsinc Tables and the End of the World: Astrology and Apocalyptic Calculation in the Later Middle Ages / Laura Smoller -- Satan: Making a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven / Neil Forsyth -- Holiness and Obedience: Denouncement of Twelfth Century Waldensian Lay Preaching / Beverly Mayne Kienzle -- Lollard Inquisitions: Due and Undue Process / Henry Ansgar Kelly -- "Englysch Laten" and "Franch": Language as Sign of Evil in Medieval English Drama / Richard K. Emmerson -- Heaven and Fallen Angels in Old English / Catherine Brown Tkacz -- Peter the Venerable on the "Diabolical Heresy of the Saracens" / John Tolan -- Nicolas Eymeric and the Condemnation of Orthodoxy / Gary Macy.