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Genre/Form: | Church history History |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Lester K Little |
ISBN: | 0801428769 9780801428760 0801481139 9780801481130 |
OCLC Number: | 28257718 |
Awards: | Winner of Cowinner of the 1994 David Pinkney Prize (Society. |
Description: | xx, 296 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Of Tristram Shandy and French Monastic Curses (starting p. 1) -- 1 Formulas (starting p. 17) -- Clamors (starting p. 20) -- Humiliation of Relics (starting p. 26) -- Excommunication and Anathema (starting p. 30) -- Geography of Maledictory Formulas (starting p. 44) -- 2 Sources (starting p. 52) -- Sanction Clauses (starting p. 52) -- The Bible (starting p. 59) -- The Liturgy (starting p. 72) -- Canon Law (starting p. 85) -- 3 Justifications (starting p. 88) -- Occasional Curses (starting p. 89) -- Biblical Curses (starting p. 94) -- Liturgical Curses (starting p. 105) -- Speech Acts (starting p. 113) -- 4 Uses (starting p. 121) -- Ireland and Wales (starting p. 123) -- Francia (starting p. 131) -- Rites of Reintegration (starting p. 143) -- Geography of the Use of Clamors (starting p. 146) -- 5 Experts (starting p. 150) -- Irish Saints (starting p. 154) -- Pilgrims on the Continent (starting p. 173) -- The Irish Sphere of Influence (starting p. 182) -- 6 Contexts (starting p. 186) -- Religion (starting p. 186) -- Justice (starting p. 200) -- Property (starting p. 218) -- Conclusion: New Contexts (starting p. 230) -- Appendixes (starting p. 241) -- A Gathering Clamors (starting p. 243) -- B Elusive Evidence (starting p. 248) -- C A Miscellany of Curse Formulas (starting p. 254) -- D Fulbert of Chartres as Author of In spiritu humilitatis (starting p. 268) -- E Vestiges in the Age of Reformation and Counter-Reformation (starting p. 271) -- F Clamors and Cursing Formulas (starting p. 280) -- Index of Manuscripts (starting p. 287) -- General Index (starting p. 289) |
Responsibility: | by Lester K. Little. |
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"Professor Little has carried out in masterly fashion his stated goal, the re-creation of the whole cutlure of medieval clamor, and in the process he has illuminated many other aspects of medieval religious, social, and legal practices. His book, filled with charming personal asides, will be duly appreciated by scholars, admirers, and nonspecialists." -- Bede K. Lackner, University of Texas, Arlington * Speculum * "'May they be cursed in town and cursed in the fields. May their barns be cursed and may their bones be cursed. May the fruit of their loins be cursed as well as the fruit of their lands.' French monks of the Middle Ages hurled curses like these at their enemies, seeking supernatural assistance when no secular judge could help them. In a long-awaited book written with elegance and erudition, Lester Little undertakes the first full-length study of these maledictions.... The book's focus is the way that religious communities-especially the monks who followed Benedict's Rule and hence were known by his name-used liturgical cursing to safeguard their integrity and their possessions, against both laymen and other ecclesiastics." * Journal of Social History * "Little begins with a custom that may seem quaint; he ends by leading the reader through a series of centrally important historical developments, and in most cases he succeeds in showing their relevance to this extraordinary custom of liturgical cursing." -- Richard Kieckhefer, Northwestern University * American Historical Review * Read more...


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