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02862aam a2200325Ii 4500 001 9741B1FCE96D11E8978F920F97128E48 003 SILO 005 20181116010210 008 170810t20182018enk b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 9780198810209 020 $a 0198810202 035 $a (OCoLC)1000115963 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d OCLCO $d TLE $d PTS $d SILO 043 $a e------ 050 4 $a BV105.R7 $b R57 2018 082 04 $a 263/.97094 $2 23 100 1 $a Ristuccia, Nathan J., $e author. 245 10 $a Christianization and commonwealth in early medieval Europe : $b a ritual interpretation / $c Nathan J. Ristuccia. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a Oxford : $b Oxford University Press, $c 2018. 300 $a 260 pages ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages [221]-254) and index. 520 8 $a Christianization and Commonwealth in Early Medieval Europe' re-examines the alterations in Western European life that followed widespread conversion to Christianity-the phenomena traditionally termed "Christianization". It refocuses scholarly paradigms for Christianization around the development of mandatory rituals. One prominent ritual, Rogationtide supplies an ideal case study demonstrating a new paradigm of "Christianization without religion." Christianization in the Middle Ages was not a slow process through which a Christian system of religious beliefs and practices replaced an earlier pagan system. In the Middle Ages, religion did not exist in the sense of a fixed system of belief bounded off from other spheres of life. Rather, Christianization was primarily ritual performance. Being a Christian meant joining a local church community.0After the fall of Rome, mandatory rituals such as Rogationtide arose to separate a Christian commonwealth from the pagans, heretics, and Jews outside it. A Latin West between the polis and the parish had its own institution-the Rogation procession-for organizing local communities. For medieval people, sectarian borders were often flexible and rituals served to demarcate these borders. Rogationtide is an ideal case study of this demarcation, because it was an emotionally powerful feast, which combined pageantry with doctrinal instruction, community formation, social ranking, devotional exercises, and bodily mortification. As a result, rival groups quarrelled over the holiday's meaning and procedure, sometimes violently, in order to reshape the local order and ban people and practices as non-Christian. 650 0 $a Rogation days $z Europe $x History $y To 1500. 650 0 $a Christianity $z Europe $x History $x History $y To 1500. 650 0 $a Conversion $x History $x History $y To 1500. 651 0 $a Europe $x Church history $y 600-1500. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191210021715.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=9741B1FCE96D11E8978F920F97128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search