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Essays on medieval history inspired by, and engaging with, the work
of Jacques Le Goff. The essays in this volume arise from the
proceedings of a conference held in 1994 to celebrate the life and
work of the eminent French medievalist Jacques Le Goff. Set within
thematic sections -popular religion and heresy, the body, royalty
andits mystique, intellectuals in medieval society, and others
-many of the challenges raised by Le Goff are reassessed and
reapproached. There is an explicit historiographical focus in a
section on the reception and influence of Le Goff, with particular
reference to the Annales school of history with which he is
strongly identified; the volume also indicates the problems which
animate current research in medieval studies, especially in certain
areas of social and cultural history. MIRI RUBIN is Professor of
History, Queen Mary, University of London. Contributors: ALEXANDER
MURRAY, PETER BILLER, ANDRE VAUCHEZ, R.I. MOORE, OTTO GERHARD
OEXLE,LESTER K. LITTLE, WALTER SIMONS, ADELINE RUCQUOI, ALAIN
BOUREAU, JEAN DUBABIN, WILLIAM CHESTER JORDAN, PETER LINEHAN, MIRI
RUBIN, GABOR KLANICZAY, AARON GUREVICH, ROBIN BRIGGS, STUART CLARK
Defining spirituality as 'the dynamic unity between the content
of a faith and the way in which it is lived by historically
determined human beings', Vauchez steps outside the clerical world
usually studied to trace the religious mentality of the laity, the
ordinary and often illiterate majority of Christians.
In these lively and incisive essays André Vauchez explores the
religious beliefs and devotional practices of laypeople in medieval
Europe and grapples with some of the most difficult issues in
medieval history: the nature of popular devotion, the role of
religion in civic life, the sociology of religious attitudes and
practices, and the relationship between the intersecting spheres of
lay and clerical culture.
"In The Laity in the Middle Ages Andre Vauchez explores the
contribution of the laity to medieval religious life between 1050
and 1450 Each essay offers a vivid introduction to some aspect of
the lay contribution, from crusading confraternities...Taken
together, these essays of an invaluable approach to the religious
life of medieval Europe". -- John Van Engen, author Devotio Moderna
First published in France, where it was awarded the Prix
Chateaubriand, this masterful new biography of Francis is now
available in English In this towering work, Andre Vauchez draws on
the vast body of scholarship on Francis of Assisi produced over the
past forty years as well on as his own expertise in medieval
hagiography to tell the most comprehensive and authoritative
version of Francis's life and afterlife published in the past half
century. After a detailed and yet engaging reconstruction of
Francis's life and work, Vauchez focuses on the myriad
texts-hagiographies, chronicles, sermons, personal testimonies,
etc.-of writers who recorded aspects of Francis's life and movement
as they remembered them, and used those remembrances to construct a
portrait of Francis relevant to their concerns. We see varying
versions of his life reflected in the work of Machiavelli, Luther,
Voltaire, German and English romantics, pre-Raphaelites, Italian
nationalists, and Mussolini, and discover how peace activists,
ecologists, or interreligious dialogists have used his example to
promote their various causes. Particularly noteworthy is the
attention Vauchez pays to Francis's own writings, which strangely
enough have been largely overlooked by later interpreters. The
product of a lifetime of study, this book reveals a historian at
the height of his powers.
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