Pagan Survivals, Superstitions and Popular Cultures in Early Medieval Pastoral Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pagan Survivals, Superstitions and Popular Cultures in Early Medieval Pastoral Literature write by Bernadette Filotas. This book was released on 2005. Pagan Survivals, Superstitions and Popular Cultures in Early Medieval Pastoral Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "This comprehensive study examines early medieval popular culture as it appears in ecclesiastical and secular law, sermons, penitentials and other pastoral works - a selective, skewed, but still illuminating record of the beliefs and practices of ordinary Christians. Concentrating on the five centuries from c. 500 to c. 1000, Pagan Survivals, Superstitions and Popular Cultures in Early Medieval Pastoral Literature presents the evidence for folk religious beliefs and piety, attitudes to nature and death, festivals, magic, drinking and alimentary customs. As such it provides a precious glimpse of the mutual adaptation of Christianity and traditional cultures at an important period of cultural and religious transition."--BOOK JACKET
Pagan Survivals, Superstition and Popular Cultures in Early Medieval Pastoral Literature, 500-1000
Pagan Survivals, Superstition and Popular Cultures in Early Medieval Pastoral Literature, 500-1000 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pagan Survivals, Superstition and Popular Cultures in Early Medieval Pastoral Literature, 500-1000 write by . This book was released on 2001. Pagan Survivals, Superstition and Popular Cultures in Early Medieval Pastoral Literature, 500-1000 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Pagan Survivals, Superstition and Popular Cultures in Early Medieval Pastoral Literature, 500-1000 [microform]
Pagan Survivals, Superstition and Popular Cultures in Early Medieval Pastoral Literature, 500-1000 [microform] - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pagan Survivals, Superstition and Popular Cultures in Early Medieval Pastoral Literature, 500-1000 [microform] write by Bernadette Filotas. This book was released on 2000. Pagan Survivals, Superstition and Popular Cultures in Early Medieval Pastoral Literature, 500-1000 [microform] available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Leading the Way to Heaven
Leading the Way to Heaven - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Leading the Way to Heaven write by Carine van Rhijn. This book was released on 2022-03-31. Leading the Way to Heaven available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Starting from manuscripts compiled for local priests in the Carolingian period, this book investigates the way in which pastoral care took shape at the local levels of society. They show what illiterate lay people learned about their religion, but also what priests themselves knew. The Carolingian royal dynasty, which ruled over much of Europe in the eighth and ninth century, is well-known for its success in war, patronage of learning and its ambitious style of rulership. A central theme in their plans for the future of their kingdom was to ensure God's everlasting support, and to make sure that all inhabitants – down to the last illiterate farmer – reached eternal life in heaven. This book shows how the ideal of leading everybody to salvation was a central element of Carolingian culture. The grass-roots approach shows how early medieval religion was anything but uniform, how it encompassed all spheres of daily life and how well-educated local priests did not only know how to baptise and preach, but could also advise on matters concerning health, legal procedure and even the future. This volume is of great use to upper-level undergraduates, postgraduates and scholars interested in the ecclesiastical history of Europe in the Carolingian period.
Liturgy and Society in Early Medieval Rome
Liturgy and Society in Early Medieval Rome - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Liturgy and Society in Early Medieval Rome write by John F. Romano. This book was released on 2016-05-06. Liturgy and Society in Early Medieval Rome available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The liturgy, the public worship of the Catholic Church, was a crucial factor in forging the society of early medieval Rome. As the Roman Empire dissolved, a new world emerged as Christian bishops stepped into the power vacuum left by the dismantling of the Empire. Among these potentates, none was more important than the bishop of Rome, the pope. The documents, archaeology, and architecture that issued forth from papal Rome in the seventh and eighth centuries preserve a precious glimpse into novel societal patterns. The underexploited liturgical sources in particular enrich and complicate our historical understanding of this period. They show how liturgy was the ’social glue’ that held together the Christian society of early medieval Rome - and excluded those who did not belong to it. This study places the liturgy center stage, filling a gap in research on early medieval Rome and demonstrating the utility of investigating how the liturgy functioned in medieval Europe. It includes a detailed analysis of the papal Mass, the central act of liturgy and the most obvious example of the close interaction of liturgy, social relations and power. The first extant Mass liturgy, the First Roman Ordo, is also given a new presentation in Latin here with an English translation and commentary. Other grand liturgical events such as penitential processions are also examined, as well as more mundane acts of worship. Far from a pious business with limited influence, the liturgy established an exchange between humans and the divine that oriented Roman society to God and fostered the dominance of the clergy.
