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Benedictine maledictions : liturgical cursing in Romanesque France /
In this long-awaited book, the result of more than a decade of research, Lester K. Little reconstructs and explores the phenomenon of officially sanctioned religious cursing in medieval Europe. He focuses on a church service, called in Latin either clamor or maledictio, used by monastic communities...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
1993.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Benedictine Maledictions; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction: Of Tristram Shandy and French Monastic Curses; Part One Curses in Texts; 1 Formulas; Clamors; Humiliation of Relics; Excommunication and Anathema; Geography of Maledictory Formulas; 2 Sources; Sanction Clauses; The Bible; The Liturgy; Canon Law; 3 Justifications; Occasional Curses; Biblical Curses; Liturgical Curses; Speech Acts; Part Two Curses in Action; 4 Uses; Ireland and Wales; Francia; Rites of Reintegration; Geography of the Use of Clamors; 5 Experts; Irish Saints.
- Pilgrims on the ContinentThe Irish Sphere of Influence; 6 Contexts; Religion; Justice; Property; Conclusion: New Contexts; Appendixes; A. Gathering Clamors; B. Elusive Evidence; C.A Miscellany of Curse Formulas; D. Fulbert of Chartres as Author of In spiritu humilitatis; E. Vestiges in the Age of Reformation and Counter-Reformation; F. Clamors and Cursing Formulas; Index of Manuscripts; General Index.