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  • Rethinking the Carolingian reforms

    The Carolingian period (c. 750-900) has traditionally been described as one of ‘reform’ or ‘renaissance’, where cultural and intellectual changes were imposed from above in a programme of correctio. This view leans heavily on prescriptive texts issued by kings and their entourages, foregrounding royal initiative and the cultural products of a small intellectual elite. However, attention to ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • Conquest and Christianization

    Saxony and the Carolingian World, 772–888

    Series Book 108 - Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series
    Following its violent conquest by Charlemagne (772–804), Saxony became both a Christian and a Carolingian region. This book sets out to re-evaluate the political integration and Christianization of Saxony and to show how the success of this transformation has important implications for how we view governance, the institutional church, and Christian communities in the early Middle Ages. A ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Hildegard of Bingen

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    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
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  • Ethnicity in Medieval Europe, 950-1250

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  • The Hidden History of Women's Ordination

    Female Clergy in the Medieval West

    by Gary Macy ...
    The Roman Catholic leadership still refuses to ordain women officially or even to recognize that women are capable of ordination. But is the widely held assumption that women have always been excluded from such roles historically accurate? In the early centuries of Christianity, ordination was the process and the ceremony by which one moved to any new ministry (ordo) in the community. By this ... Read more

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  • The Beguine, the Angel, and the Inquisitor

    The Trials of Marguerite Porete and Guiard of Cressonessart

    by Sean L. Field ...
    On 31 May 1310, at the Place de Grève in Paris, the Dominican inquisitor William of Paris read out a sentence that declared Marguerite “called Porete,” a beguine from Hainault, to be a relapsed heretic, released her to secular authority for punishment, and ordered that all copies of a book she had written be confiscated. William next consigned Guiard of Cressonessart, an apocalyptic activist in ... Read more

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    Series Book 96 - Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series
    This book charts the influence of Christian ideas about social responsibility on the legal, fiscal and operational policies of the Merovingian government, which consistently depended upon the collaboration of kings and elites to succeed, and it shows how a set of stories transformed the political playing field in early medieval Gaul. Contemporary thinkers encouraged this development by writing ... Read more

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  • A History of Medieval Political Thought

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  • Morality and Masculinity in the Carolingian Empire

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    Series Book 81 - Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series
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    The Devotio Moderna, or Modern Devout, puzzled their contemporaries. Beginning in the 1380s in market towns along the Ijssel River of the east-central Netherlands and in the county of Holland, they formed households organized as communes and forged lives centered on private devotion. They lived on city streets alongside their neighbors, managed properties and rents in common, and worked in the ... Read more

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