Medieval Religion and its Anxieties History and Mystery in the Other
This book examines the broad varieties of religious belief, religious practices, and the influence of religion within medieval society. Religion in the Middle Ages was not monolithic. Medieval religion and the Latin Church are not synonymous. Wh
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Medieval Religion and its Anxieties HISTORY and MYSTERY in the OTHER MIDDLE AGES
Thomas A. Fudgé
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The New Middle Ages
Series Editor Bonnie Wheeler English & Medieval Studies Southern Methodist University Dallas, Texas, USA
The New Middle Ages is a series dedicated to pluridisciplinary studies of medieval cultures, with particular emphasis on recuperating women’s history and on feminist and gender analyses. This peer-reviewed series includes both scholarly monographs and essay collections.
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Exhibitionist monk. © The British Library Board. Gorleston Psalter, London, BL, MS Add. 49622, fol. 61r (detail), 1310–1324.
Thomas A. Fudgé
Medieval Religion and its Anxieties History and Mystery in the Other Middle Ages
Thomas A. Fudgé School of Humanities University of New England Armidale, New South Wales, Australia
The New Middle Ages ISBN 978-1-137-57077-2 ISBN 978-1-137-56610-2 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-56610-2
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PREFACE
This book reflects my idiosyncratic approach to university teaching, in which I have tried to follow the observation of the British medievalist R.W. Southern who noted, we “learn after all by being puzzled and excited, not by being told”.1 I did my first PhD at Cambridge with Bob Scribner. He prompted me to look carefully at the margins of the medieval world. His own work on visual images is well known.2 I accepted a number of Bob’s methodologies including the preoccupation with religious mentalities, the need
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