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"Dieu changea de sexe, pour ainsi dire"

Author : Jacques Dalarun
Publisher : Fayard
ISBN 13 : 2213646244
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (136 download)

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Download or read book "Dieu changea de sexe, pour ainsi dire" written by Jacques Dalarun and published by Fayard. This book was released on 2008-04-30 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Telle qu’elle se structure entre l’Antiquité tardive et le haut Moyen Age, la religion chrétienne ne faisait pas la part belle aux femmes : assimilées à Eve, l’alliée du Serpent, elles étaient exclues du sacerdoce et cantonnées dans une position mineure au sein de l’Eglise. Pourquoi, à la fin du Moyen Age, la religion s’est-elle féminisée, par une adhésion plus forte des femmes à la foi et à la pratique, par une féminisation du discours religieux, par une alliance ambiguë du prêtre et de la dévote communiant dans une religion de la Mère et du Fils ? Pourquoi, selon l’audacieuse expression de Michelet, « Dieu a-t-il changé de sexe, pour ainsi dire » ? Au tournant des XIe et XIIe siècles, au temps de la réforme dite grégorienne, la tradition interdisait aux femmes de pénétrer dans certains sanctuaires ; mais se met en place une triade Marie, Eve et Madeleine où, entre les deux premières images, antinomiques, s’ouvre par la troisième l’interstice d’un accès au salut au prix de la pénitence. C’est l’époque de la fondation du monastère mixte de Fontevraud où les hommes étaient soumis aux femmes. Le vrai retournement survient au xiiie siècle avec François d’Assise qui, célébrant des allégories féminines telle « dame Pauvreté », se présentant lui-même en mère de ses fils spirituels, offre aux femmes une icône à laquelle s’identifier. Claire d’Assise, de son côté, échappe à ces jeux d’inversion pour atteindre à une vision de l’humanité au-delà des genres. Aux xive et xve siècles, une floraison de saintes de très modeste renommée, surtout en Italie, marque ce mouvement de féminisation du religieux. Leur parole se fait entendre, telle celle d’Angèle de Foligno. Elles se mettent à jouer la Passion du Christ par les places et les rues, telle Claire de Rimini. Elles fédèrent la mémoire des cités et accèdent enfin à une écriture autonome où s’exprime leur désir d’explorer les mystères de la foi avec toute la force de leur raison. Ancien membre de l’Ecole française de Rome, ancien directeur de l’Institut de recherche et d’histoire des textes, directeur de recherche au CNRS, Jacques Dalarun, médiéviste de réputation internationale, a dirigé l’édition du Moyen Age en lumière (Fayard 2002), qui a connu un succès retentissant. Il a publié en dernier lieu chez Fayard Vers une résolution de la question franciscaine (2007).

"Et Dieu changea de sexe, pour ainsi dire"

Author : Jacques Dalarun
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1118 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (489 download)

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Download or read book "Et Dieu changea de sexe, pour ainsi dire" written by Jacques Dalarun and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 1118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Francis of Assisi

Author : Andre Vauchez
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300184921
Total Pages : 625 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Francis of Assisi written by Andre Vauchez and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-23 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the saint as both mystic and man: “The single best book about Francis now available in English” (Commonweal). In this towering work, Andre Vauchez draws on the vast body of scholarship on Francis of Assisi, particularly the important research of recent decades, to create a complete and engaging portrait of the saint. He also explores how the memory of Francis was shaped by contemporaries who recollected him in their writings, and completes the book by setting “il Poverello” in the context of his time, bringing to light what was new, surprising, and even astonishing in the life and vision of this man. The first part of the book is a fascinating reconstruction of Francis’s life and work. The second and third parts deal with the texts—hagiographies, chronicles, sermons, personal testimonies, etc.—of writers who recorded aspects of Francis’s life and movement as they remembered them, and used those remembrances to construct a portrait of Francis relevant to their concerns. Finally, Vauchez explores those aspects of Francis’s life, personality, and spiritual vision that were unique to him, including his experience of God, his approach to nature, his understanding and use of Scripture, and his impact on culture as well as culture’s impact on him. “Considered one of the great spiritual leaders of humankind, Francis of Assisi was also a man of many faces and personas: ascetic, the founder of a religious order, a romantic hero, a mystic, a defender of the poor, a promoter of peace. But as Vauchez emphasizes—and this biography constantly reminds us—Francis was also a flesh-and-blood human being . . . A bracing, erudite account of a mystic’s life.” —Booklist

The Lay Saint

Author : Mary Harvey Doyno
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501740229
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Lay Saint written by Mary Harvey Doyno and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Lay Saint, Mary Harvey Doyno investigates the phenomenon of saintly cults that formed around pious merchants, artisans, midwives, domestic servants, and others in the medieval communes of northern and central Italy. Drawing on a wide array of sources—vitae documenting their saintly lives and legends, miracle books, religious art, and communal records—Doyno uses the rise of and tensions surrounding these civic cults to explore medieval notions of lay religiosity, charismatic power, civic identity, and the church's authority in this period. Although claims about laymen's and laywomen's miraculous abilities challenged the church's expanding political and spiritual dominion, both papal and civic authorities, Doyno finds, vigorously promoted their cults. She shows that this support was neither a simple reflection of the extraordinary lay religious zeal that marked late medieval urban life nor of the Church's recognition of that enthusiasm. Rather, the history of lay saints' cults powerfully illustrates the extent to which lay Christians embraced the vita apostolic—the ideal way of life as modeled by the Apostles—and of the church's efforts to restrain and manage such claims.

A Companion to Hildegard of Bingen

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004260714
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Hildegard of Bingen written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-10-17 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides an introduction to Hildegard and her works, with a focus on the historical, literary, and religious context of the seer’s writings and music. Its essays explore the cultural milieu that informs Hildegard’s life and various compositions, and examine understudied aspects of the magistra’s oeuvre, such as the interconnections among her works. A Companion to Hildegard of Bingen builds on earlier studies and presents to an English-speaking audience various facets of the seer’s historical persona and her cultural significance, so that the reader can grasp and appreciate the scope of the unparalleled life and contributions of Hildegard, who was declared to be a saint and a doctor of the Church in 2012. Contributors include: Michael Embach, Margot E. Fassler, Franz J. Felten, George Ferzoco, William T. Flynn, Felix Heinzer, Beverly Mayne Kienzle, Tova Leigh-Choate, Constant J. Mews, Susanne Ruge, Travis A. Stevens, Debra L. Stoudt, and Justin A. Stover.

The Lettered Knight

Author : Martin Aurell
Publisher : Central European University Press
ISBN 13 : 963386108X
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (338 download)

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Download or read book The Lettered Knight written by Martin Aurell and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-10 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The encounter between knight and science could seem a paradox. It is nonetheless related with the intellectual Renaissance of Twelfth-Century, an essential movement for Western history. The knight is not only fighting in battles, but also moving in sophisticated courts. He is interested on Latin classics and reading, and even on his own poetry. He supports "jongleurs" and minstrels and he likes to have literary conversations with clerics, who try to reform his behaviour, which is often brutal. These lettered warriors, while improving they culture, learn how to repress their own violence and they are initiated to courtesy: selected language, measured gestures, elegance in dress, and manners at table. Their association with women, who are often learned, becomes more gallant. A mental revolution is acting among lay elites, who, in contact with clergy, use their weapons for common welfare. This new conduct is a sign of modernity.

Medieval Sensibilities

Author : Damien Boquet
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1509514694
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Medieval Sensibilities written by Damien Boquet and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-07-26 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do we know of the emotional life of the Middle Ages? Though a long-neglected subject, a multitude of sources – spiritual and secular literature, iconography, chronicles, as well as theological and medical works – provide clues to the central role emotions played in medieval society. In this work, historians Damien Boquet and Piroska Nagy delve into a rich variety of texts and images to reveal the many and nuanced experiences of emotion during the Middle Ages – from the demonstrative shame of a saint to a nobleman's fear of embarrassment, from the enthusiasm of a crusading band to the fear of a town threatened by the approach of war or plague. Boquet and Nagy show how these outbursts of joy and pain, while universal expressions, must be understood within the specific context of medieval society. During the Middle Ages, a Christian model of affectivity was formed in the ‘laboratory’ of the monasteries, one which gradually seeped into wider society, interacting with the sensibilities of courtly culture and other forms of expression. Bouqet and Nagy bring a thousand years of history to life, demonstrating how the study of emotions in medieval society can also allow us to understand better our own social outlooks and customs.

Beyond the Feminization Thesis

Author : Patrick Pasture
Publisher : Leuven University Press
ISBN 13 : 9058679128
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (586 download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Feminization Thesis written by Patrick Pasture and published by Leuven University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Case studies upon the use of concepts like feminization and masculinization in relation to christianity. Since the 1970s the feminization thesis has become a powerful trope in the rewriting of the social history of Christendom. However, this 'thesis' has triggered some vehement debates, given that men have continued to dominate the churches, and the churches themselves have reacted to the association of religion and femininity, often formulated by their critics, by explicitly focusing their appeal to men. In this book the authors critically reflect upon the use of concepts like feminization and masculinization in relation to Christianity.

Nuns' Priests' Tales

Author : Fiona J. Griffiths
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812249755
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Nuns' Priests' Tales written by Fiona J. Griffiths and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2018-03-20 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: List of Abbreviations -- Prologue -- The puzzle of the nuns' priest --Biblical models : women and men in the apostolic life -- Jerome and the noble women of Rome -- Brothers, sons, and uncles : nuns' priests and family ties -- Speaking to the bridegroom : women and the power of prayer -- Conclusion -- Appendix : Beati pauperes.

To Govern Is to Serve

Author : Jacques Dalarun
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501767860
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book To Govern Is to Serve written by Jacques Dalarun and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2023-02-15 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To Govern Is to Serve explores the practices of collective governance in medieval religious orders that turned the precepts of the Gospels—most notably that "the first will be last, the last will be first"—into practices of communal deliberation and the election of superiors. Jacques Dalarun argues that these democratic forms have profoundly influenced modern experiences of democracy, in particular the idea of government not as domination but as service. Dalarun undertakes meticulous textual analysis and historical research into twelfth and thirteenth-century religious movements—from Fontevraud and the Paraclete of Abelard and Heloise through St. Dominic and St. Francis—that sought their superiors from among the less exalted members of their communities to chart how these experiments prefigured certain aspects of modern democracies, those allowing individuals to find their way forward as part of a collective. Wide ranging and deeply original,To Govern Is to Serve highlights the history of the reciprocal bonds of service and humility that underpin increasingly fragile democracies in the twenty-first century.

Virtuosos of Faith

Author : Gert Melville
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 364391363X
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (439 download)

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Download or read book Virtuosos of Faith written by Gert Melville and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over a thousand years, monks, nuns, canons, friars, and others under religious vows stood at the pinnacle of Western European society. For their ascetic sacrifices, their learning, piety, and expertise, they were accorded positions of power and influence, and a wide range of legal, financial and social privileges. As such they present an important opportunity to consider the nature and dynamics of an "elite" in medieval culture. Using medieval religious life as their interpretive lens, the essays of this volume seek to uncover the essential markers of elite status. They explore how those under vows claimed and manifested elite status in complex spiritual, temporal, and social combinations. They explore the workings of elite status from day to day, across region and locale - who earned recognition and how, whether through specific achievements or the deployment of specific capacities; who recognized, conferred, or helped maintain elite status, how and why; how elite status could be redefined, contested or rejected. The essays also seek to understand how medieval European religious elites compared to those found in other cultures and settings, from Syria and South Asia to the early modern transatlantic world.

Michelet and His Ideas on Social Reform

Author : Anne Reese Pugh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Michelet and His Ideas on Social Reform written by Anne Reese Pugh and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a study of the life and personality of Michelet and of the fundamental ideas upon which he based his social homilies in his Ideas of Social Reform.

A History of Masculinity

Author : Ivan Jablonka
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141993715
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book A History of Masculinity written by Ivan Jablonka and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2022-02-03 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Exhilarating . . . a work of scholarship, but also inspiration. . . Go and read Jablonka and change the world' Christina Patterson, Sunday Times 'An unexpected bestseller in France. . . it has sparked conversations' Challenges A highly acclaimed, bestselling work from one of France's preeminent historians What does it mean to be a good man? To be a good father, or a good partner? A good brother, or a good friend? In this insightful analysis, social historian Ivan Jablonka offers a re-examination of the patriarchy and its impact on men. Ranging widely across cultures, from Mesopotamia to Confucianism to Christianity to the revolutions of the eighteenth century, Jablonka uncovers the origins of our patriarchal societies. He then offers an updated model of masculinity based on a theory of gender justice which aims for a redistribution of gender, just as social justice demands the redistribution of wealth. Arguing that it is high time for men to be as involved in gender justice as women, Jablonka shows that in order to build a more equal and respectful society, we must gain a deeper understanding of the structure of patriarchy - and reframe the conversation so that men define themselves by the rights of women. Widely acclaimed in France, this is an important work from a major thinker.

From the Cloister to the State

Author : Annalena Müller
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000436292
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book From the Cloister to the State written by Annalena Müller and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Cloister to the State examines the French order of Fontevraud, one of the largest monastic networks under female leadership in medieval and early modern Europe. Founded in 1100 and comprised of both monks and nuns, the order had grown to consist of at least seventy-eight priories by the late Middle Ages. Endowed with vast territorial possessions throughout western France, Fontevraud became one of the most powerful religious institutions in the country. However, unaware of its institutional might and economic wealth, scholars have tended to focus on Fontevraud’s seemingly unusual gender hierarchy, while bypassing inquiries on practices of abbatial authority in Fontevraud and beyond. This book reveals medieval Fontevraud as an aristocratic cloister where noble women governed. It also discusses the value of Fontevraud’s extensive network for the geopolitical ambitions of the dukes of Brittany, the counts of Bourbon-Vendôme, and, during the Wars of Religion, the kings of France. In addition to Fontevraud’s political role during the Wars of Religion, the book also examines the order’s reforms implemented by Marie de Bretagne and her successors Renée and Louise de Bourbon-Vendôme. These Bourbon abbesses centralized the order’s administration, cut the ties between priories and local aristocratic families, and successfully established the Bourbon-Vendômes as the only patrons of the vast and wealthy network. This book is essential reading for scholars and students of medieval and early modern history, as well as those interested in political history and the history of religion.

The Bedroom

Author : Michelle Perrot
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300169531
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Bedroom written by Michelle Perrot and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-21 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An erudite and highly enjoyable exploration of the most intriguing of personal spaces, from Greek and Roman antiquity through today The winner of France’s prestigious Prix Femina Essai (2009), this imaginative and captivating book explores the many dimensions of the room in which we spend so much of our lives—the bedroom. Eminent cultural historian Michelle Perrot traces the evolution of the bedroom from the time of the ancient Greeks and Romans to today, examining its myriad forms and functions, from royal king’s chamber to child’s sleeping quarters to lovers’ trysting place to monk’s cell. The history of women, so eager for a room of their own, and that of prisons, where the principal cause of suffering is the lack of privacy, is interwoven with a reflection on secrecy, walls, the night and its mysteries. Drawing from a wide range of sources, including architectural and design treatises, private journals, novels, memoirs, and correspondences, Perrot’s engaging book follows the many roads that lead to the bedroom—birth, sex, illness, death—in its endeavor to expose the most intimate, nocturnal side of human history.

Religious Life for Women c.1100-c.1350

Author : Berenice M. Kerr
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 0191542865
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Religious Life for Women c.1100-c.1350 written by Berenice M. Kerr and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1999-07-22 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first detailed scholarly study of the Order of Fontevraud's English monastic houses. During the twelfth and thirteenth centuries the Order was notably prestigious and autonomous, renowned both for the prayerfulness of its members and for their independent management of their affairs. The huge following of Robert Arbrissel (d. 1116) included many women - not at first the aristocrats who later dominated the Order of Fontevraud, but prostitutes, beggars, and other representatives of the dregs of society. Urged by Church authorities to stabilize his women followers, Robert gave them a Rule which was, in essentials, that of St Benedict, but he introduced men as chaplains, clerks, and lay-brothers for the nuns. Uniquely, however, for contemporary houses for women, the men were placed firmly under the direction of the nuns and remained there throughout the Order's history. Sister Berenice Kerr's study of Fontevraud's English establishments: Amesbury, Nuneaton, and Westwood (Grovebury, the Order's fourth foundation, was never more than administrative centre) opens up a wide range of insights and information about monasticism and religious life for women in the middle ages. Dr Kerr examines the endowment of each house, and its subsequent acquisition of property and its administration; monastic observance; domestic economy, including expenditure on food and drink; the scale and layout of conventual buildings, and the exploitation of new assets, such as salt-pans, markets, and appropriated churches.

Beyond Catholicism

Author : Fabrizio De Donno
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 113734203X
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book Beyond Catholicism written by Fabrizio De Donno and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-12-18 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays within Beyond Catholicism trace the interconnections of belief, heresy, and mysticism in Italian culture from the Middle Ages to today. In particular, they explore how religious discourse has unfolded within Italian culture in the context of shifting paradigms of rationality, authority, time, good and evil, and human collectivities.