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Authors: Constance H. Berman, Constance Berman
ISBN-13: 9780415316873, ISBN-10: 0415316871
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Routledge
Date Published: March 2005
Edition: New Edition

Author Biography: Constance H. Berman

Book Synopsis

Constance Berman presents an indispensable new collection of the most influential and revisionist work to be done on religion in the middle ages in the last couple of decades.

	Introduction	1
1	Jesus as mother and abbot as other : some themes in twelfth-century Cistercian writing	20
2	Crusading as an act of love	49
3	The orders of society in the eleventh and twelfth centuries	68
4	Canossa and the ungendering of the public man	102
5	The priest's wife : female erasure and the Gregorian reform	123
6	Secular clergy and religious life : Verona in the age of reform	156
7	The cardinals' view of the papacy, 1150-1300	183
8	Were there twelfth-century Cistercian nuns?	217
9	Mary Magdalen and the contemplative life	249
10	Hearing is believing : Clarissan architecture, c.1213-1340	272
11	"Men's duty to provide for women's needs" : Abelard, Heloise, and their negotiation of the cura monialium	290
12	The creation of a Christian armory against Islam	325
13	Bodies in the Jewish-Christian debate	347
14	Desecration of the host : the birth of an accusation	363
15	The two faces of secular violence against Jews	377

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