RLG349H5: Medieval Christianity

Central issues discussed include: the diverse world of monasteries, the Papacy, the Crusades, women, and the roles of the town and countryside.

This sourcebook presents editions and translations of seven 14th- and 15th-century texts that advance our understanding of gender, sexuality, and class in the late medieval German-speaking world.

In this volume, readers experience, in English translation, the colorful and varied textual fabric of the most important literary and creative repertory of the Middle Ages.

The purpose of this book is to introduce the reader to the Rules of life of the major religious orders within the monastic, canonical, and mendicant traditions.

A selection of documents, translated primarily from medieval Latin but occasionally from Old French, shows how religious women and their patrons managed resources to make monastic communities, particularly a variety of Cistercian communities, work.

This reveal the spirituality of the Modern Devout, especially during the early years of the movement from 1380 to 1430.

This offers an overview of the spirituality, religious practices, and ways of life of medieval Italian women who belonged to the Dominican Order as lay members or penitents.

This volume offers translations of numerous texts from the Celtic tradition from the 6th through the 13th centuries, in a cross-section of genres and forms, including saints' lives, monastic texts, poetry, devotional texts, liturgical texts, apocrypha, exegetical texts and theological treatises.