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Religious and Laity in Western Europe, 1000-1400: Interaction, Negotiation, and Power
Contributor(s): Jamroziak, Emilia (Editor), Burton, Janet E. (Editor)

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 ISBN: 2503520677     ISBN-13: 9782503520674
Publisher: Brepols Publishers
OUR PRICE: $83.60  

Binding Type: Hardcover
Published: February 2007
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Annotation: This volume examines forms of interaction between monastic or mendicant communities and lay people in the high Middle Ages in Britain, France, the Low Countries, and Scandinavia. The nineteen papers explore these issues in geographically and chronologically diverse settings in a way that no English-language collection has yet attempted. It brings together the latest research from established as well as younger historians. The first section, 'Patrons and Benefactors: power, fashion, and mutual expectations', examines lay involvement in foundations, the rights held by patrons, and how they used these powers as well as networks of relationships with broader groups of benefactors. The authors demonstrate how changing fashions shaped the fortunes of particular orders and houses and explore how power relations between different types of patrons and benefactors - royal figures, kinship, and other social groupings - affected the mutual expectations of the various parties. The second section of the volume, entitled 'Lay and Religious: negotiation, influence, and utility', shows how lay people's ideas of the role of religious houses could impact upon their patronage of, and support for, monastic or mendicant institutions. Conversely, religious communities offered multi-faceted benefits - practical, intellectual, or spiritual - for the secular world. The book concludes by focusing on the rapid growth of confraternities, their relation to their urban mendicant and monastic contexts, and how the role and forms of confraternities evolved in the late medieval period.
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BISAC Categories:
- History | Europe - Medieval
Dewey: 271.009
LCCN: 2007274993
Physical Information: 1.15" H x 6.58" W x 9.71" L (1.96 lbs) 413 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - Medieval (500-1453)
Review Citations: Reference and Research Bk News 05/01/2007 pg. 21
 
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