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Author : Yitzhak Hen
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004103474
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Culture and Religion in Merovingian Gaul written by Yitzhak Hen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1995 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers fascinating new thinking about the christianisation of early medieval Gaul, the liturgy of Gaul as a significant component of Merovingian culture, and the place of paganism and superstitions in the Merovingian world.

Author : Yitzhak Hen
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004614575
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Culture and Religion in Merovingian Gaul, A.D. 481-751 written by Yitzhak Hen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-09-29 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although often depicted as a barbaric and uncivilised society, in the full pejorative meaning of these words, Merovingian Gaul was clearly a Christian society and a direct continuation of the Roman civilisation in terms of social standards, morals and culture. Using insights provided by social history, archaeology, palaeography and anthropology, this book studies the problem of Christianisation in early Medieval Gaul from a cultural point of view. While exploiting a huge range of primary and secondary material, Dr. Hen does not confine himself to a functional analysis of various cultural and religious activities in Merovingian Gaul, but goes on to assess the consequences and implications of such activities for the people themselves, and for the subsequent developments in the Carolingian period.

Author : Veronika Wieser
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110593580
Total Pages : 1181 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cultures of Eschatology written by Veronika Wieser and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-07-20 with total page 1181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In all religions, in the medieval West as in the East, ideas about the past, the present and the future were shaped by expectations related to the End. The volumes Cultures of Eschatology explore the many ways apocalyptic thought and visions of the end intersected with the development of pre-modern religio-political communities, with social changes and with the emergence of new intellectual and literary traditions. The two volumes present a wide variety of case studies from the early Christian communities of Antiquity, through the times of the Islamic invasion and the Crusades and up to modern receptions, from the Latin West to the Byzantine Empire, from South Yemen to the Hidden Lands of Tibetan Buddhism. Examining apocalypticism, messianism and eschatology in medieval Christian, Islamic, Hindu and Buddhist communities, the contributions paint a multi-faceted picture of End-Time scenarios and provide their readers with a broad array of source material from different historical contexts. The first volume, Empires and Scriptural Authorities, examines the formation of literary and visual apocalyptic traditions, and the role they played as vehicles for defining a community’s religious and political enemies. The second volume, Time, Death and Afterlife, focuses on key topics of eschatology: death, judgment, afterlife and the perception of time and its end. It also analyses modern readings and interpretations of eschatological concepts.

Author : Gregory I. Halfond
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501739352
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bishops and the Politics of Patronage in Merovingian Gaul written by Gregory I. Halfond and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-15 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the dissolution of the Western Roman Empire, local Christian leaders were confronted with the problem of how to conceptualize and administer their regional churches. As Gregory Halfond shows, the bishops of post-Roman Gaul oversaw a transformation in the relationship between church and state. He shows that by constituting themselves as a corporate body, the Gallic episcopate was able to wield significant political influence on local, regional, and kingdom-wide scales. Gallo-Frankish bishops were conscious of their corporate membership in an exclusive order, the rights and responsibilities of which were consistently being redefined and subsequently expressed through liturgy, dress, physical space, preaching, and association with cults of sanctity. But as Halfond demonstrates, individual bishops, motivated by the promise of royal patronage to provide various forms of service to the court, often struggled, sometimes unsuccessfully, to balance their competing loyalties. However, even the resulting conflicts between individual bishops did not, he shows, fundamentally undermine the Gallo-Frankish episcopate's corporate identity or integrity. Ultimately, Halfond provides a far more subtle and sophisticated understanding of church-state relations across the early medieval period.

Author : B. Effros
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349625779
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Creating Community with Food and Drink in Merovingian Gaul written by B. Effros and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-07-24 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creating Community with Food and Drink in Merovingian Gaul exposes the manner in which feasting and fasting, in other words, ritualized actions not performed solely for the purpose of nourishment, were central to social interaction in Gaul both prior and subsequent to Christianization of the mixed population of Franks and Gallo-Romans. In exploring these issues using a multidisciplinary methodology, Effros suggests that scholars may assess historical manifestations of the use of food and drink to create and reinforce the social hierarchy. Effros addresses the tensions between monastic and lay communities and focuses on patronage through food and drink as a source of informal power, a subject too often overlooked in favour of institutional structures more familiar to twentieth-century historians.

Author : Jamie Kreiner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 113991703X
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Social Life of Hagiography in the Merovingian Kingdom written by Jamie Kreiner and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-03 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book charts the influence of Christian ideas about social responsibility on the legal, fiscal and operational policies of the Merovingian government, which consistently depended upon the collaboration of kings and elites to succeed, and it shows how a set of stories transformed the political playing field in early medieval Gaul. Contemporary thinkers encouraged this development by writing political arguments in the form of hagiography, more to redefine the rules and resources of elite culture than to promote saints' cults. Jamie Kreiner explores how hagiographers were able to do this effectively, by layering their arguments with different rhetorical and cognitive strategies while keeping the surface narratives entertaining. The result was a subtle and captivating literature that gives us new ways of thinking about how ideas and institutions can change, and how the vibrancy of Merovingian culture inspired subsequent Carolingian developments.

Author : Bonnie Effros
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190234180
Total Pages : 1166 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the Merovingian World written by Bonnie Effros and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020 with total page 1166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines research from a variety of fields, including archaeology, bio-archaeology, architecture, hagiographic literature, manuscripts, liturgy, visionary literature and eschalology, patristics, numismatics, and material culture, Diverse list of contributors, many whose research has never before been available in English, Provides substantial research regarding women's history in the Merovingian period, Expands research beyond Europe to include other cultures that came in contact with the Merovingians Book jacket.

Author : Daniel E. Bornstein
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 1451405774
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medieval Christianity written by Daniel E. Bornstein and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lisa Kaaren Bailey
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472519043
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Religious Worlds of the Laity in Late Antique Gaul written by Lisa Kaaren Bailey and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-04-07 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christianity in the late antique world was not imposed but embraced, and the laity were not passive members of their religion but had a central role in its creation. This volume explores the role of the laity in Gaul, bringing together the fields of history, archaeology and theology. First, this book follows the ways in which clergy and monks tried to shape and manufacture lay religious experience. They had themselves constructed the category of 'the laity', which served as a negative counterpart to their self-definition. Lay religious experience was thus shaped in part by this need to create difference between categories. The book then focuses on how the laity experienced their religion, how they interpreted it and how their decisions shaped the nature of the Church and of their faith. This part of the study pays careful attention to the diversity of the laity in this period, their religious environments, ritual engagement, behaviours, knowledge and beliefs. The first volume to examine laity in this period in Gaul – a key region for thinking about the transition from Roman rule to post-Roman society – The Religious Worlds of the Laity in Late Antique Gaul fills an important gap in current literature.

Author : Yitzhak Hen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521823937
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bobbio Missal written by Yitzhak Hen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-03-11 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bobbio Missal was copied in south-eastern Gaul around the end of the seventh and beginning of the eighth century. It contains a unique combination of a lectionary and a sacramentary, to which a plethora of canonical and non-canonical material was added. The Missal is therefore highly regarded by liturgists; but, additionally, medieval historians welcome the information to be derived from material attached to the codex which provides valuable data about the role and education of priests in Francia at that time, and indeed on their cultural and ideological background. The breadth of specialist knowledge provided by the team of scholars writing for this book enables the manuscript to be viewed as a whole, not as a narrow liturgical study. Collectively, the essays view the manuscript as physical object: they discuss the contents, they examine the language, and they look at the cultural context in which the codex was written.