Medieval Religion and Its Anxieties: History and Mystery in the Other Middle Ages (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781137570772)

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

Author: Thomas A. Fudgé
ISBN-10: 1137570776
ISBN-13: 9781137570772
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 10/20/2016
Pages: 300
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.13lbs
Size: 8.71h x 6.11w x 0.89d