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Monks And Nuns, Saints And Outcasts: Religion In Medieval Society
by Barbara H. Rosenwein, Sharon A. Farmer (Author),
Cornell University Press (Publisher)
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Book Description
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 all hitherto
unpublished that combine some of the best of these new approaches with rigorous
research and traditional scholarship. Some of these essays re-envision the
professionals of religion: the monks and nuns who carried out crucial social
functions as mediators between living and dead, repositories for social memory,
and loci of vicarious piety. In their religious life these people embodied an
image of the society that
Book Specifications
ISBN-13 9780801486562
Language English
Binding Paper Back
Publisher Cornell University Press
Publishing Date 2000-09-05
Total Pages 249