[Pt. 1] The life cycle : baptism -- 1. Baptismal practice in Germany / Peter Cramer -- 2. Cathars and baptism / Shulamith Shahar -- [Pt. 2] The life cycle : confirmation and coming of age -- 3. The early medieval barbatoria / Yitzhak Hen -- [Pt. 3] The life cycle : instruction -- 4. Lollard instruction / Rita Copeland -- [Pt. 4] The life cycle : marriage and its unmaking -- 5. Florentine marriage in the fifteenth century / Christiane Klapisch-Zuber -- 6. Annulment of Henry III's "marriage" to Joan of Ponthieu confirmed by Innocent IV on 20 May 1254 / David d'Avray -- [Pt. 5] The life cycle : death and burial -- 7. Agius of Corvey's account of the death of Hathumoda, first abbess of Gandersheim, in 874 / Frederick S. Paxton -- 8. A royal funeral of 1498 / Alain Boureau -- [Pt. 6] Work and travel -- 9. Charms to ward of sheep and pig murrain / William C. Jordan -- 10. Fishermen and mariners / Harold S. Fox -- 11. Storms at sea on a voyage between Rhodes and Venice, November 1470 / Olivia Remie Constable -- 12. Rules and ritual on the Second Crusade campaign to Lisbon, 1147 / Susanna A. Throop -- [Pt. 7] Churches, parishes, and daily life : consecration -- 13. The consecration of church space / Dominique Iogna-Prat -- [Pt. 8] Churches, parishes, and daily life : pastoral care -- 14. Fourteenth-century instructions for bedside pastoral care / Joseph Ziegler -- 15. How to behave in church and how to become a priest / Daniel Bornstein -- [Pt. 9] Churches, parishes, and daily life : preaching -- 16. A sermon on the virtues of the contemplative life / Katherine L. Jansen -- 17. Preaching and pastoral care of a devout woman (deo devota) in fifteenth-century Basel / Hans-Jochen Schiewer -- [Pt. 10] Churches, parishes, and daily life : confession and penance -- 18. Doing penance / Sarah Hamilton -- 19. A penitential diet / Rob Meens -- 20. A layman's penance / Joseph Goering -- [Pt. 11] Churches, parishes, and daily life : prayer -- 21. Prayers / Virginia Reinburg -- 22. Two healing prayers / Eamon Duffy -- [Pt. 12] Churches, parishes, and daily life : devotional behavior -- 23. Images in the world : reading the crucifixion / Sara Lipton -- [Pt. 13] Healing -- 24. The Old English nine herbs charm / Debby Banham -- 25. Amulets and charms / Peter Murray Jones -- [Pt. 14] Charity -- 26. A deaf-mute's story / Sharon Farmer -- 27. Bequests for the poor / Brigitte Resl -- [Pt. 15] The cult of saints and pilgrimage -- 28. Translation of the body of St. Junianus / Thomas Head -- 29. Pilgrimage and spiritual healing in the ninth century / Julia M.H. Smith -- [Pt. 16] In pursuit of perfection : in the world -- 30. Interrogation of Waldensians / Peter Biller -- 31. The lives of the Beghards / Walter Simons -- 32. The renovation of the chapel in the Beguinage of Lille / Penny Galloway -- 33. The practices of Devotio moderna / John Van Engen -- [Pt. 17] In pursuit of perfection : prophecy, revelation, and ecstatic states -- 34. The possession of Blessed Jordan of Saxony / Aviad M. Kleinberg -- 35. On the stigmatization of Saint Margaret of Hungary / Gábor Klaniczay -- 36. Eschatological prophecy : "woe to the world in one hundred years" / Robert E. Lerner -- 37. Raymond de Sabanac, preface to Constance de Rabastens, 'The revelations' / Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski -- [Pt. 18] In pursuit of perfection : at the edge of the world -- 38. The life of the hermit Stephen of Obazine / György Geréby and Piroska Nagy -- 39. Creating an anchorhold / Alexandra Barratt -- 40. The ritual for the ordination of nuns / Nancy Bradley Warren -- [Pt. 19] Rituals of power -- 41. An Anglo-Saxon queen's consecration / Janet L. Nelson -- 42. Mass at the election of the mayor of London, 1406 / Caroline Brown.
Summary:
Comprising forty-two selections from primary source materials, each translated with an introduction and commentary by a specialist in the field, this collection illustrates the religious cycles, rituals, and experiences that gave meaning to medieval Christian individuals and communities. The texts represent the practices through which Christians conducted their individual, family, and community lives and explore such life-cycle events as birth, confirmation, marriage, sickness, death, and burial. The texts also document religious practices related to themes of work, parish life, and devotions, as well as power and authority.--From publisher's description.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.