Download or read book Miracles of Punishment and the Religion of Gregory of Tours and Bede written by Duard Grounds and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2015 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gregory, a 6th-century bishop of Tours, was a great collector of saints' lives. The Gallic saints he described would heal the sick, protect fugitives, and release prisoners. However, these saints were also quick to take offense and to punish - paralyzing, crippling, and even killing those who slighted them or threatened their interests. This book reconciles these two aspects of Gregory's saints, allowing for a better understanding of the place of miracles of punishment (Strafwunder) within the broader theological context of the early medieval Latin West. (Series: Theologie - Vol. 110) [Subject: Religious Studies, Christianity, Medieval Studies]
Download or read book Dreams Visions Imaginations written by Jens Schröter and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-02-08 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributions in this volume are focused on the historical origins, religious provenance, and social function of ancient Jewish and Christian apocalyptic literature, including so-called ‘Gnostic’ writings. Although it is disputed whether there was a genre of ‘apocalyptic literature,’ it is obvious that numerous texts from ancient Judaism, early Christianity, and other religious milieus share a specific view of history and the world to come. Many of these writings are presented in form of a heavenly (divine) revelation, mediated through an otherworldly figure (like an angel) to an elected human being who discloses this revelation to his recipients in written form. In different strands of early Judaism, ancient Christianity as well as in Gnosticism, Manichaeism, and Islam, apocalyptic writings played an important role from early on and were produced also in later centuries. One of the most characteristic features of these texts is their specific interpretation of history, based on the knowledge about the upper, divine realm and the world to come. Against this background the volume deals with a wide range of apocalyptic texts from different periods and various religious backgrounds.
Download or read book Religious Horror and Holy War in Viking Age Francia written by Matthew Bryan Gillis and published by Trivent Publishing. This book was released on 2021-12-31 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religious Horror and Holy War in Viking Age Francia explores how authorities in western Francia used horror rhetoric to cast Christian soldiers, who robbed the poor and the church, as monsters that devoured human flesh and drank human blood. Adapting modern literary horror approaches to medieval sources, this study reveals how such rhetoric served as a form of spiritual weaponry in the clergy's attempts to correct and condemn wayward military men. This investigation, therefore, unearths long-forgotten Carolingian thought about the dreadful spiritual reality of internal enemies during a time of political division and the Northmens depredations. Yet such horror also informed a new understanding of Christian heroism that developed in relation to the wars fought against the invaders. This vision of heroic soldiers, which included military martyrs, culminated in ideas about holy war against the pagans. Thus Carolingian religious horror and holy war together belonged to a body of ideas about the spiritual, unseen side of the church's cosmic conflict against evil that foreshadowed later medieval Crusading thought.
Download or read book The Apocryphal Sunday written by Uta Heil and published by Augsburg Fortress Publishers. This book was released on 2023 with total page 547 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The overriding importance of Sunday as a Christian feast day is emphasized by many apocryphal and pseudepigraphic texts from Late Antiquity, above all the broadly received Letter from Heaven. This volume presents versions of this letter together with other texts, partly based on a new edition, including introduction, translation, and commentary.
Download or read book Miracles and the Venerable Bede written by William David McCready and published by PIMS. This book was released on 1994 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The subject of this book is the concept of miracles in the thought of the Venerable Bede. Its specific focus is Bede's understanding of the miracles of modern saints, miracles of the sort that he himself describes for us in his Ecclesiastical History.
Download or read book Bede written by Saint Bede (the Venerable) and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Venerable Bede composed On the Nature of Things and On Times at the outset of his career in AD 703, shaping a mass of difficult and sometimes dangerous material on the mathematical and physical basis of time into a lucid and well-organized account that laid the framework for much of Carolingian and Scholastic scientific thought. (Barnes and Noble).
Download or read book Christianity and the History of Violence in the Roman Empire A Sourcebook written by Dirk Rohmann and published by utb GmbH. This book was released on 2019-10-07 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together a large number of sources with which to illustrate the problem of religious violence in relation to the history of Christianity in the Roman Empire and post-Roman world. The sources are presented in both the original languages and in new English translation and are accompanied by introductions, comments, and short bibliographies. Thematically, Dirk Rohmann focuses on the ways in which Christians were subjected to violence by their pagan surroundings, on the development and scope of the very Christian ideas of martyrdom and of persecution, on how Christians thought about the nature of God and of holy wars, as well as on the problem of violence within the world of early monasticism and asceticism. Drawing on the amount of texts extant from the first to seventh centuries, this book will be of interest to both students and academics in the areas of ancient and early medieval history, classics, and religious studies.
Download or read book Disability in Medieval Europe written by Irina Metzler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-06-07 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This impressive volume presents a thorough examination of all aspects of physical impairment and disability in medieval Europe. Examining a popular era that is of great interest to many historians and researchers, Irene Metzler presents a theoretical framework of disability and explores key areas such as: medieval theoretical concepts theology and natural philosophy notions of the physical body medical theory and practice. Bringing into play the modern day implications of medieval thought on the issue, this is a fascinating and informative addition to the research studies of medieval history, history of medicine and disability studies scholars the English-speaking world over.
Download or read book The History of Medieval Europe written by Lynn Thorndike and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-11-08 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eBook collection has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Content: The Roman Empire The Barbarian World Outside the Empire The Decline of the Roman Empire The Barbarian Invasions: 378-511 A.D. "The City of God" German Kingdoms in the West Justinian and the Byzantine Empire Gregory the Great and Western Christendom The Rise and Spread of Mohammedanism The Frankish State and Charlemagne The Northmen and Other New Invaders The Feudal Land System and Feudal Society Feudal States of Europe The Growth of the Medieval Church The Expansion of Christendom and the Crusades The Rise of Towns and Gilds The Italian Cities French, Flemish, English, and German Towns The Medieval Revival of Learning Medieval Literature The Medieval Cathedrals The Church Under Innocent III Innocent III and the States of Europe The Growth of National Institutions in England The Growth of Royal Power in France The Hundred Years War Germany in the Later Middle Ages Eastern Europe in the Later Middle Ages The Papacy and Its Opponents in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries The Italian Renaissance: Politics and Humanism The Italian Renaissance: Fine Arts and Voyages of Discovery The Rise of Absolutism and of the Middle Class
Download or read book The History of Medieval Europe From the Decline of the Roman Empire to the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century written by Lynn Thorndike and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2019-06-03 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eBook collection has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Content: The Roman Empire The Barbarian World Outside the Empire The Decline of the Roman Empire The Barbarian Invasions: 378-511 A.D. "The City of God" German Kingdoms in the West Justinian and the Byzantine Empire Gregory the Great and Western Christendom The Rise and Spread of Mohammedanism The Frankish State and Charlemagne The Northmen and Other New Invaders The Feudal Land System and Feudal Society Feudal States of Europe The Growth of the Medieval Church The Expansion of Christendom and the Crusades The Rise of Towns and Gilds The Italian Cities French, Flemish, English, and German Towns The Medieval Revival of Learning Medieval Literature The Medieval Cathedrals The Church Under Innocent III Innocent III and the States of Europe The Growth of National Institutions in England The Growth of Royal Power in France The Hundred Years War Germany in the Later Middle Ages Eastern Europe in the Later Middle Ages The Papacy and Its Opponents in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries The Italian Renaissance: Politics and Humanism The Italian Renaissance: Fine Arts and Voyages of Discovery The Rise of Absolutism and of the Middle Class
Download or read book Religion Culture and Society in the Early Middle Ages written by Thomas F. X. Noble and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pilgrimage written by Jonathan Sumption and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 1975 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Saints Collection 2 428 Saints written by Catholic Way Publishing and published by Catholic Way Publishing. This book was released on 2015-04-30 with total page 9893 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE SAINTS COLLECTION [2,428 SAINTS] CATHOLIC WAY PUBLISHING — 2,428 Hagiographies of the Saints! — 400 Original Illustrations of the Saints — 18 Volumes in One — Over 3.13 Million Words — Includes Over 5,300 Active Linked Endnotes — Includes an Active Index, 42 Table of Contents and Layered NCX Navigation — Includes Illustrations by Gustave Dore PUBLISHER: LARGE E-BOOK. INCLUDED BOOKS ON SAINTS: THE LIVES OF THE SAINTS: COMPLETE EDITION By Reverend Alban Butler — 1,458 Saint Biographies THE GOLDEN LEGEND By Jacobus de Voragine — 170 Lives of the Saints PICTORIAL LIVES OF THE SAINTS: WITH REFLECTIONS FOR EVERY DAY IN THE YEAR By John Gilmary Shea — 400 Original Illustrations of the Saints THE LIVES OF THE SAINTS: WITH REFLECTIONS FOR EVERY DAY IN THE YEAR By Reverend Alban Butler — 400 Lives of the Saints PUBLISHER: CATHOLIC WAY PUBLISHING
Download or read book The SAGE Encyclopedia of Theory in Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics written by James Mattingly and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2022-09-21 with total page 1057 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The SAGE Encyclopedia of Theory is a landmark work that examines theory in general and the broad split between the "hard" and "soft" sciences, a split that is being re-examined as approaches to scientific questions become increasingly multidisciplinary.
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Download or read book Life of St Martin written by Sulpitius Severus and published by . This book was released on 2023-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saint Martin of Tours was the third bishop of Tours. He has become one of the most familiar and recognizable Christian saints in Western tradition. A native of Pannonia, he converted to Christianity at a young age. He served in the Roman cavalry in Gaul, but left military service at some point prior to 361, when he embraced Trinitarianism and became a disciple of Hilary of Poitiers, establishing the monastery at Ligugé. He was consecrated as Bishop of Caesarodunum (Tours) in 371. As bishop, he was active in the suppression of the remnants of Gallo-Roman religion, but he opposed the violent persecution of the Priscillianist sect of ascetics.