Medieval Religion New Approaches

Introduction Part 1: Religious Speculation and Social Thought  1. Jesus as Mother and Abbot as Mother Caroline Walker Bynum  2. Crusading as an Act of Love Jonathan Riley-Smith  3. The Orders of Society Giles Constable  Part 2: Reform and Growth in the Clerical Hierarchy  4. Canossa and the Ungendering of the Public Man Jo Ann McNamara  5. The Priest's Wife Dyan Elliott  6. Secular Clergy and Religious Life in Verona Maureen C. Miller  7. The Cardinals' View of the Papacy Norman Zacour Part 3:Women and the practice of asceticism and contemplation 8. Were there Twelfth-Century Cistercian Nuns? Constance Berman  9. Mary Magdalen and the Contemplative Life Katherine Ludwig Jansen  10. Hearing is Believing: Clarissan architecture in Italy Caroline A. Bruzelius  11. 'Men's Duty to Provide for Women's Needs:' Abelard, Heloise, and their negotiation of the cura monialium Fiona J. Griffiths  Part 4: Increasing Violence and Exclusion  12. Creation of a Christian Armory against Islam Dominique Iogna-Prat  13. Bodies in the Jewish-Christian Debate Anna Sapir Abulafia  14. Desecration of the Host: The birth of an accusation Miri Rubin  15. The Two Faces of Secular Violence against Jews David Nirenberg

Biography

Constance Hoffman Berman is Professor of History at the University of Iowa where she has taught since 1988. She has published widely on medieval religious women, reform religion in the twelfth century and the Cistercian Order. Her books include The Cistercian Evolution.

'This volume of selected recent researched provides a useful tool to students of religious history in medieval Europe'. - Kari Élisabeth BØRRESEN