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In Search of Sacred Time
How The Golden Legend shaped the medieval imagination It is impossible to understand the Middle Ages without grasping the importance of The Golden Legend, the most popular medieval collection of saints' lives. Assembled in the thirteenth century by Genoese archbishop Jacobus de Voragine, the book became the medieval equivalent of a bestseller. In Search of Sacred Time is the first comprehensive history and interpretation of this crucial book. Jacques Le Goff, who was one of the world's most renowned medievalists, provides a lucid and compelling account that shows how The Golden Legend Christianized time itself, reconciling human and divine temporality. Authoritative, eloquent, and original, In Search of Sacred Time is a major reinterpretation of a book that is central to comprehending the medieval imagination.
Suffering as Identity
Reaching from biblical times to the present day, Esther Benbassa’s prize-winning exploration of Jewish identity is both epic and comprehensive. She shows how in the Jewish world, the representation and ritualization of suffering have shaped the history of both the people and the religion. Benbassa argues that the nineteenth century gave rise to a Jewish ‘lachrymose’ historiography, and that Jewish history was increasingly seen to be a ‘vale of tears’—a development that has become even more pronounced since the Holocaust. The treatment of the Holocaust in the State of Israel now has the form of a civil religion. In principle within reach of everyone, the ‘duty of memory’ and the uniqueness of the genocide have mitigated for many Jews the loss of other traditions. The Israeli government invokes the memory of the Holocaust to neutralize threats to its interests—ensuring that suffering continues to be a central part of Jewish identity and positioning the State of Israeli as a redemptive force.
Gender and Medieval Mysticism from India to Europe
This book opens up a dialogue between pre-modern women identified as mystics in diverse locations from South Asia to Europe. It considers how women from the disparate religious traditions of Hinduism, Islam, and Christianity expressed devotion in parallel ways. The argument is that women’s mysticism demands to be compared not because of any essential "female" experience of the divine but because the parallel positions of marginalization that pre-modern women experienced led them to deploy intimate encounters with the divine to speak publicly and claim authority. The topics covered range from the Sufi devotional tradition of Sidis (Indians of African ancestry) to the Bhakti poet Mīrābaī ...
Emotional monasticism
Medievalists have long taught that highly emotional Christian devotion, often called ‘affective piety’, appeared in Europe after the twelfth century and was primarily practiced by communities of mendicants, lay people and women. Emotional monasticism challenges this view. The first study of affective piety in an eleventh-century monastic context, it traces the early history of affective devotion through the life and works of the earliest known writer of emotional prayers, John of Fécamp, abbot of the Norman monastery of Fécamp from 1028–78. Exposing the early medieval monastic roots of later medieval affective piety, the book casts a new light on the devotional life of monks in Europe before the twelfth century and redefines how medievalists should teach the history of Christianity.
D' Or et de cendres
A la fin du Moyen Age, les princes souvent proches parents du roi, adoptent les rites de la souveraineté, dont celui des funérailles qui sont l'une des grandes cérémonies mettant en scène le pouvoir souverain. Cette étude suit le parcours du prince depuis son décès jusqu'à sa dernière demeure à travers des cérémonies religieuses et politiques complexes offrant des similitudes avec le rituel royal.
Klosterleben im Spiegel des Zeichenhaften
Ausgehend von der komplexen, biblisch angeleiteten Vorstellungswelt eines Klosters als Imaginaire analysiert die vorliegende Studie die zeichenhafte Verkörperung solcher Leitmotivik im gestischen Tun benediktinisch geprägter Mönche. Unter vergleichender Perspektive wird dabei ein umfangreiches Aktionsspektrum monastischen Lebens aufgearbeitet und auf seine rituelle Tragkraft nach innen wie nach außen hin untersucht. Die Beschreibung des Klosters als symbolische Ordnung, einschließlich seiner Rollen- und Heiligkeitsmodelle, geht einen fachübergreifenden Weg zur Ergründung des mönchischen Selbstverständnisses im hohen Mittelalter.
The Book of Experience
Emmanuel Falque, one of the foremost philosophers working in the continental philosophy of religion today, takes us by the hand into the very heart of 12th-century monastic spirituality. Translated into English for the first time, The Book of Experience weaves together contemporary phenomenological questions with medieval theology, revealing undiscovered dialogues already underway between Hugh of St. Victor and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, between Richard of St. Victor and Emmanuel Levinas, between Aelred of Rievaulx and Michel Henry, and not least between Bernard of Clairvaux and the trio of Descartes, Heidegger, and Jean-Luc Marion, consummating in a masterful phenomenological reading of Bernard...
Negociar en la Edad Media
El estudio de las reglas que modelaban en la Edad Media la práctica de la negociación permite conocer ciertos rasgos de los sistemas sociales y políticos medievales que se revelan a través de esas restricciones. Entrar en negociaciones no era, en la Edad Media, un acto neutro o anodino, era un gesto comprometedor, e incluso un gesto arriesgado, puesto que el que negociaba ponía en juego su honor y su derecho. Se recogen en este libro una serie de contribuciones presentadas al Coloquio sobre la negociación en la Edad Media que se celebró en Barcelona en octubre de 2004. Esas contribuciones, que se sistematizan en tres partes (“negociar con los suyos”, “prácticas de la negociación diplomática”, y “las negociaciones políticas y comerciales”), proporcionan un material de primer orden para el conocimiento del arte de la negociación en la Edad Media.
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