History and the supernatural in medieval England / C.S. Watkins.

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Watkins, C. S. (Carl S.)

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Cambridge studies in medieval life and thought ; 4th ser., 66.Publication details: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 271 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780511378706
051137870X
9780511375965
0511375964
9780511496257
0511496257

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: History and the supernatural in medieval England.DDC classification:

274.2/04 22

LOC classification:

BR750 .W36 2007

Other classification:

71.57
NM 9300

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Contents:

Introduction -- Thinking about the supernatural -- Inventing pagans -- Prayers, spells and saints -- Special powers and magical arts -- Imagining the dead -- Thinking with the supernatural -- Conclusion.

Review: "This is a fascinating study of religious culture in England from 1050 to 1250. Drawing on the wealth of material about religious belief and practice that survives in the chronicles, Carl Watkins explores accounts of signs, prophecies, astrology, magic, beliefs about death and the miraculous and demonic. He challenges some of the prevailing assumptions about religious belief, questioning in particular the attachment of many historians to terms such as 'clerical' and 'lay', 'popular' and 'elite', 'Christian' and 'pagan' as explanatory categories. The evidence of the chronicles is also set in its broader context through explorations of miracle collections, penitential manuals, exempla and sermons. The book traces shifts in the way the supernatural was conceptualized by learned writers and the ways in which broader patterns of belief evolved during this period. This original account sheds important new light on belief during a period in which the religious landscape was transformed."--Jacket

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-262) and index.

"This is a fascinating study of religious culture in England from 1050 to 1250. Drawing on the wealth of material about religious belief and practice that survives in the chronicles, Carl Watkins explores accounts of signs, prophecies, astrology, magic, beliefs about death and the miraculous and demonic. He challenges some of the prevailing assumptions about religious belief, questioning in particular the attachment of many historians to terms such as 'clerical' and 'lay', 'popular' and 'elite', 'Christian' and 'pagan' as explanatory categories. The evidence of the chronicles is also set in its broader context through explorations of miracle collections, penitential manuals, exempla and sermons. The book traces shifts in the way the supernatural was conceptualized by learned writers and the ways in which broader patterns of belief evolved during this period. This original account sheds important new light on belief during a period in which the religious landscape was transformed."--Jacket

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