Religious Enthusiasm in the Medieval West: Revivals, Crusades, Saints (Collected Studies) [Hardcover]

Gary Dickson (Author)

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Publication Date: December 2000 | ISBN-10: 0860788253 | ISBN-13: 978-0860788256

Collective religious enthusiasm was a many-sided, influential and widespread phenomenon in medieval Europe. Amongst the forms it took were remarkable revivalist movements like the flagellants of 1260; popular crusades like the often mythologized "children's crusade" of 1212 and the "shepherds' crusade" of 1251; as well as popular excitement involving living saints and their veneration (115 cults in Perugia). This book focuses upon particular 13th-century revivals and popular crusades, but does so in order to illuminate the nature of medieval western religious enthusiasm by exploring such topics as crowds, penitential self-laceration, charismatic leaders, prophecy, runaway youths, popular crusading fervour, dreams and sanctity (male and female). The essay which introduces the book initiates a discussion of religious enthusiasm in the medieval West and the second conversion of Europe.

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Hardcover: 328 pages
Publisher: Variorum (December 2000)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0860788253
ISBN-13: 978-0860788256
Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 1 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,912,744 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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