Author: Publisher: Editions Bréal
ISBN: 2749521343
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
Author: Publisher: Editions Bréal
ISBN: 2749521343
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
The Age of Reform, 1250-1550
Author: Steven OzmentPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300256183
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
Celebrating the fortieth anniversary of this seminal book, this new edition includes an illuminating foreword by Carlos Eire and Ronald K. Rittges The seeds of the swift and sweeping religious movement that reshaped European thought in the 1500s were sown in the late Middle Ages. In this book, Steven Ozment traces the growth and dissemination of dissenting intellectual trends through three centuries to their explosive burgeoning in the Reformations—both Protestant and Catholic—of the sixteenth century. He elucidates with great clarity the complex philosophical and theological issues that inspired antagonistic schools, traditions, and movements from Aquinas to Calvin. This masterly synthesis of the intellectual and religious history of the period illuminates the impact of late medieval ideas on early modern society. With a new foreword by Carlos Eire and Ronald K. Rittgers, this modern classic is ripe for rediscovery by a new generation of students and scholars.
The Pursuit of Holiness in Late Medieval and Renaissance Religion
Author: Heiko A. ObermanPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004477411
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 541
Book Description
L'Église et la vie religieuse en Occident à la fin du Moyen âge
Author: Francis RappPublisher: FeniXX
ISBN: 2705955488
Category : Religion
Languages : fr
Pages : 395
Book Description
Après 1300, l'Église - comme l'Occident tout entier - entra dans l'âge des déséquilibres et des contradictions. À la centralisation romaine, répondaient les théories conciliaires ; la sécheresse de la scolastique contrastait avec la ferveur de la mystique... Le Schisme déchira la "tunique sans couture" en deux, puis en trois morceaux. Le brasier hussite fut plus redoutable que jadis la contestation cathare. Ces défis furent relevés, et de nombreuses réformes mises en chantier : il fallait redresser les institutions, réduire les abus, instruire les fidèles. Les efforts accomplis à cette fin permirent de multiplier les expériences et d'accumuler les matériaux. Dans ce laboratoire et ce conservatoire, le catholicisme tridentin et le protestantisme trouvèrent beaucoup d'éléments dont ils surent faire des ensembles neufs et solides. L'automne de l'époque médiévale avait préparé le renouveau chrétien des temps modernes.
Jean Gerson and the Last Medieval Reformation
Author: Brian Patrick McGuirePublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 9780271046808
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
In this biography of the noted French philosopher and theologian Jean Gerson, the first since 1929, Brian Patrick McGuire presents a compelling portrait of Gerson as a voice of reason and Christian humanism during a time of great intellectual and social tumult in the late Middle Ages. Born to a peasant father and mother in the county of Champagne, Gerson (1363-1429) was the first of twelve children. He overcame his modest beginnings to become a scholastic and vernacular theologian, a university intellectual, and a church reformer. McGuire shows us the turning points in Gerson's life, including his crisis of faith after becoming chancellor of the University of Paris in 1395. Through these key moments, we see the deeper undercurrents of his mystical writings. With their rich display of spiritual and emotional life, these writings were to earn Gerson the appellation "doctor christianissimus." In turn, they would influence many later thinkers, including Nicholas of Cusa, Ignatius of Loyola, Francis de Sales, and even Martin Luther. Gerson is a man perhaps easier to admire than to love: conscientious to a fault, at once a pragmatist and an idealist in church politics, a university intellectual who both fostered and distrusted the religious aspirations of the laity, a powerful prelate who moved among the great yet never forgot his peasant origins, a self-revealing yet intensely private man who yearned for intimacy almost as much as he feared it. McGuire ably situates Gerson in the context of his age, an age replete with doctrinal controversies and the politics of papal schism on the eve of the Protestant Reformation. Gerson emerges as a proponent of dialogue and discussion, committed to reforming the church from within. His courageous effort to renew the unity of a unique civilization bears examination in our own time.
The European Reformation
Author: Euan CameronPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199547858
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 637
Book Description
A fully revised and updated version of this authoritative account of the birth of the Protestant traditions in sixteenth-century Europe, providing a clear and comprehensive narrative of these complex and many-stranded events.
From Sacred Body to Angelic Soul
Author: Donna Spivey EllingtonPublisher: CUA Press
ISBN: 9780813210148
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Through an insightful examination of popular sermons by some of the most famous preachers of the day, Donna Spivey Ellington discusses the importance of Marian devotion to the religious understanding of European Christians in the late medieval and early modern periods. She charts a dramatic shift of emphasis in the public portrayal of the Virgin Mary from the 15th through 17th centuries. As Europe experienced the impact of printing and increased literacy, the Protestant Reformation, the growing development of individualism and a private sense of self, and changing attitudes to women, Marian devotion was also transformed. The Church's portrait of the Virgin gradually became focused less on her body and more on her soul.
Protestant Resistance in Counterreformation Austria
Author: Peter ThalerPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000767426
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Protestant Resistance in Counterreformation Austria examines Austrian Protestants who actively resisted the Habsburg Counterreformation in the early seventeenth century. While a determined few decided early on that only military means could combat the growing pressure to conform, many more did not reach that conclusion until they had been forced into exile. Since the climax of their activism coincided with the Swedish intervention in the Thirty Years' War, the study also analyzes contemporary Swedish policy and the resulting Austro-Swedish interrelationship. Thus, a history of state and religion in the early modern Habsburg Monarchy evolves into a prime example of histoire croisée, of historical experiences and traditions that transcend political borders. The book does not only explore the historical conflict itself, however, but also uses it as a case study on societal recollection. Austrian nation-building, which tenuously commenced in the interwar era but was fully implemented after the restoration of Austrian statehood in 1945, was anchored in a conservative ideological tradition with strong sympathies for the Habsburg legacy. This ideological perspective also influenced the assessment of the confessional period. The modern representation of early modern conflicts reveals the selectivity of historical memory.
The Church in Late Medieval Norwich, 1370-1532
Author: Norman P. TannerPublisher: PIMS
ISBN: 9780888440662
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Routledge Revivals: Chaucer, Langland, and the Creative Imagination (1980)
Author: David AersPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351373595
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
First published in 1980, this study of two renowned later fourteenth century English poets, Chaucer and Langland, concentrates on some major and representative aspects of their work. Aers shows that, in contrast to the mass conventional writing of the period, which was happy to accept and propagate traditional ideologies, Chaucer and Langland were preoccupied with actual conflicts, strains, and developments in received ideologies and social practices. He demonstrates that they were genuinely exploratory, and created work which actively questioned dominant ideologies, even those which they themselves revered and hoped to affirm. For Chaucer and Langland the imagination was indeed creative, involved in the active construction of meanings, and in their poetry they grasped and explored social commitments, religious developments and many perplexing contradictions which were subverting inherited paradigms.
