Christianization and Commonwealth in Early Medieval Europe

Christianization and Commonwealth in Early Medieval Europe
Author :
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 273
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780198810209
ISBN-13 : 0198810202
Rating : 4/5 (202 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Christianization and Commonwealth in Early Medieval Europe by : Nathan J. Ristuccia

Download or read book Christianization and Commonwealth in Early Medieval Europe written by Nathan J. Ristuccia and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. After 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.


Christianization and Commonwealth in Early Medieval Europe Related Books

Christianization and Commonwealth in Early Medieval Europe
Language: en
Pages: 273
Authors: Nathan J. Ristuccia
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

GET EBOOK

Christianization and Commonwealth in Early Medieval Europe re-examines the alterations in Western European life that followed widespread conversion to Christian
Christianization and Commonwealth in Early Medieval Europe
Language: en
Pages: 381
Authors: Nathan J. Ristuccia
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-03-01 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

GET EBOOK

Christianization and Commonwealth in Early Medieval Europe re-examines the alterations in Western European life that followed widespread conversion to Christian
Rituals in Early Christianity
Language: en
Pages: 375
Authors:
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-10-12 - Publisher: BRILL

GET EBOOK

Based on the paradigmatic shift in both liturgical and ritual studies, this multidisciplinary volume presents a collection of case studies on rituals in the ear
The Crowd in the Early Middle Ages
Language: en
Pages: 336
Authors: Shane Bobrycki
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2024-11-19 - Publisher: Princeton University Press

GET EBOOK

The importance of collective behavior in early medieval Europe By the fifth and sixth centuries, the bread and circuses and triumphal processions of the Roman E
Trafficking with Demons
Language: en
Pages: 409
Authors: Martha Rampton
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-01-15 - Publisher: Cornell University Press

GET EBOOK

Trafficking with Demons explores how magic was perceived, practiced, and prohibited in western Europe during the first millennium CE. Through the overlapping fr