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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Medieval religion"”.
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Not the Simplest Christians: Vernacular Charming and The Limits of Orthodox Practice in Late Medieval England
… Eamon Duffy represent the Church’s message on religion and magic as relatively homogeneous. They find the impulse to employ charms as rooted in the parishioners’ faith in the ceremonies of the Church, part of either ‘the magic of the medieval church’ or as another element of the ‘multifaceted …
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Clergy and Commoners: Interactions between medieval clergy and laity in a regional context
This thesis examines the interactions between medieval clergy and laity, which were complex, and its findings trouble dominant models for understanding the relationships between official and popular religions. In the context of an examination of these interactions in the Humber Region Lowlands …
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Childbirth Beliefs and Practices in England, c. 1400-1580
… and separation from broader aspects of late medieval religion and medicine. Using a rich array of devotional and medical texts, including prayers, saints’ lives, charms and textual amulets, the thesis relocates and contextualises childbirth therapeutics within late medieval devotion and …
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Doubt, Faith, and the World to Come in Peter of Cornwall's Book of Revelations
… transcendence. I argue that experiential medieval religion and belief, as glimpsed in Peter’s collection, requires and is enriched by doubt as well as challenged by it.
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"The alien within": Residual Catholicism and the emerging national identity of post-Reformation England
… unifies disparate conversations about race, religion, and politics in Early Modern Studies. Central to this study is an examination of the work by major canonical writers: specifically Edmund Spenser, Christopher Marlowe, and William Shakespeare.</p>
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An Irish apostle: articulating and actualising apostolicity in the early Irish church
This thesis examines the earliest extant Latin Lives of Brigit and Patrick; Cogitosus’s Vita Brigidae and Muirchú’s Vita Patricii as evidence for a seventh-century debate on Irish apostolicity. While often dismissed as mere propaganda, this thesis shows they are highly sophisticated demonstrations …
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The Passion of Christ in Episcopal and Archidiaconal Sermons, c.1090-c.1210
… witnessed a profound development in the way that medieval Christians conceptualised Christ’s passion in literature and art, the key features of which were increased meditation upon, and representation of, his human sufferings and death in what has been termed an ‘affective shift’. This period also …
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The poetics of religious conversion in medieval English literature
"While early medieval conversion narratives have been mined by historians for the clues they offer to the Christianization of the West, critics of Old English conversion narratives have tended either to isolate their ""Germanic"" or ""heroic"" elements or to submerge their historical particulars …