Medieval Religion and Its Anxieties: History and Mystery in the Other Middle Ages

By Thomas A. Fudge

Book Overview

Preface Introduction: The Feast of the Ass: Medieval Faith, Fun, and FearChapter One: Prosecuting Animals as Criminals in Medieval Europe
Chapter Two: Piety, Perversion and Serial Killing: The Strange Case of Gilles de Rais
Chapter Three: Gargoyles and Glimpses of Forgotten Worlds
Chapter Four: To Hell with the Theologians: Doctrines of Damnation in "Last Judgements" in the Medieval Latin West
Chapter Five: Sensuality, Spirituality and Sexuality in the Religious Experience of Female Mystics
Chapter Six: Demonizing Dissenters: Patterns of Propaganda and Persecution
Chapter Seven: The Stripping and the Shaming of Heretics
Chapter Eight: Surviving the Middle Ages: The Extraordinary Pursuit of Salvation
Postscript: The Fickle Hand of Fate

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349931365
• ISBN13: 9781349931361
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.3"