A new generation of historians today is borrowing from cultural
anthropology, postmodern 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unpublished -- that combine some of the best of these new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 produced them. Other
contributions focus on social categories, usually expressed as
dichotomies: male/female, insider/outsider, saint/outcast. Monks
and Nuns, Saints and Outcasts is the first book to show the
interaction of seemingly antithetical groups of medieval people and
the ways in which they were defined by, as well as against, each
other. All of the essays, taken together, form a tribute to Lester
K. Little, pioneer in the study of religion in medieval
society.
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