Religion in the history of the medieval West

Contents: Preface Approaches to Medieval Culture and Religion: The Christian Middle Ages as an historiographical problem The future of medieval Church history The 'crisis of cenobitism' reconsidered: Benedictine monasticism in the years 1050-1150 An afterword on medieval studies, or the future of Abelard and Heloise. Christening the Social Order: Christening the Romans Faith as a concept of order in medieval Christendom Theophilus Presbyter and Rupert of Deutz: the manual arts and Benedictine theology in the early 12th century 'God is no respecter of persons': sacred texts and social realities. Re-inventing Religious Life in Medieval Society: Dominic and the brothers: Vitae as life-forming exempla in the Order of Preachers Friar Johannes Nyder on laypeople living as religious in the world Index.