Brooke, Rosalind B,

Popular religion in the Middle Ages : Western Europe, 1000-1300 / [print] Rosalind and Christopher Brooke. - New York : Barnes and Noble Books, (c)1996. - 176 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Relics and pilgrims. Relics of St. Bartholomew ; St. Alban and St. Benedict ; The treatise of Guibert de Nogent ; The relics of Peterborough ; The pilgrim guide to St. James and Compostela ; Conques and Sainte-Foy -- The saints. The blessed Virgin and church dedications ; St. Nicholas ; St. Michael ; The example of Winchester: St. Peter and St. Swithun ; Canterbury and St. Thomas Becket ; Westminster Abbey and St. Edward the confessor -- What is popular religion? -- Popular and unpopular religion. The example of Vezelay ; Heretics: Waldensians and Cathars -- The laity and the church. Baptism and confirmation ; Burial ; Marriage ; The eucharist ; Confession ; Amiens ; Lambert le Begue ; Montaillou ; St. Francis ; The Beguines -- The Bible. Saint-Savin and the Old Testament ; Zillis and the life of Jesus ; The Passion, and the Dream of the road ; St. Ailred and Jesus at the age of twelve ; Christina of Markyate and the compassion of Jesus -- Judgement. Heaven, hell and purgatory ; The day of Judgment ; The heaven and hell of Gislebertus ; Epilogue: the heaven and hell of Aucassin.



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Church history--Middle Ages, 600-1500.

BR738 BR738.B872.P678 1996