Eternal light and earthly concerns (EPUB) von Paul Fouracre
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Belief and the shaping of medieval society
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ISBN-13:
9781526114006
Veröffentl:
2021
Einband:
EPUB
Seiten:
248
Autor:
Paul Fouracre
eBook Format:
EPUB
eBook-Typ:
Reflowable EPUB
Kopierschutz:
Adobe DRM [Hard-DRM]
Sprache:
Englisch
Kurzbeschreibung
This book investigates how the practice of keeping a light burning in churches was established in the early Middle Ages. It asks what the material consequences of implementing the practice were and why it ceased at the end of the Middle Ages.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction 1 Beginnings 2 Consolidation of provision: elite practice 3 Light and power: the Carolingian moment 4 Lighting, lords and peasants in post-Carolingian Europe 5 Lights and social formation in the central Middle Ages 6 Lights in the later Middle Ages: from devotion to destruction Conclusions Index
Beschreibung
In early Christianity it was established that every church should have a light burning on the altar at all times. In this unique study,Eternal light and earthly concerns, looks at the material and social consequences of maintaining these eternal lights. It investigates how the cost of lighting was met across western Europe throughout the whole of the Middle Ages, revealing the social organisation that was built up around maintaining the lights in the belief that burning them reduced the time spent in Purgatory. When that belief collapsed in the Reformation the eternal lights were summarily extinguished. The history of the lights thus offers not only a new account of change in medieval Europe, but also a sustained examination of the relationship between materiality and belief.
Autor
Paul Fouracre is Professor Emeritus of Medieval History at the University of Manchester
Schlagwörter zu:
Eternal light and earthly concerns von Paul Fouracre - mit der ISBN: 9781526114006
HISTORY / Europe / General; HISTORY / Social History; RELIGION / History; Charlemagne; Olive oil; Reformation; commemoration; guilds; peasants; purgatory; towns; tribute-payers; wax, Online-Buchhandlung
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