The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Christianity

This Handbook brings together the latest scholarship on the beliefs, practices, and institutions of the Christian Church between 400 and 1500 AD.

John H. Arnold studied at the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York, and worked first at UEA and then at Birkbeck, University of London. He became Professor of Medieval History at Birkbeck in 2007. He is author of various books and articles on medieval history, and has published also on modern historiography and the history of gender.

Abbreviations and conventions
List of Contributors
Introduction
1: John H. Arnold: Introduction: A History of Medieval Christianity
Methods
2: John H. Arnold: Histories and Historiographies of Medieval Christianity
3: Simon Yarrow: Religion, Belief, and Society: Anthropological Approaches
4: Beth Williamson: Material Culture and Medieval Christianity
5: R. I. Moore: Medieval Christianity in a World Historical Perspective
Spaces
6: Amy Remensnyder: The Boundaries of Christendom and Islam: Iberia and the Latin Levant
7: Sverre Bagge: Christianizing Kingdoms
8: Wendy Davies: Monastic Landscapes and Society
9: Nicholas Terpstra: Civic Religion
10: Katherine L. French: Localized Faith: parochial and domestic spaces
Practices
11: Ian Forrest: Continuity and Change in the Institutional Church
12: Marcus Bull: Pilgrimage
13: Gábor Klaniczay: Using Saints: Intercession, Healing, Sanctity
14: Eric Palazzo: Missarum sollemnia: Eucharistic Rituals in the Middle Ages
15: Rob Meens: Penitential Varieties
16: Robert L. A. Clark: Spiritual Exercises: The Making of Interior Faith
Ideas
17: Arnold Angenendt: Fear, Hope, Death, and Salvation
18: Maureen C. Miller: Reform, Clerical Culture, and Politics
19: Peter Biller: Intellectuals and the Masses: Oxen and she-asses in the medieval Church
20: Laura A. Smoller: 'Popular' religious culture(s)
21: Dorothea Weltecke: Doubts and the absence of faith
Identities
22: Constance H. Berman: Medieval Monasticisms
23: Rosalynn Voaden: Mysticism and the Body
24: Sara Lipton: Christianity and Its Others: Jews, Muslims, and Pagans
25: Grado Giovanni Merlo: Christian experiences of religious non-conformism
Power
26: George Dameron: The Church as Lord
27: Geoffrey Koziol: Christianizing Political Discourses
28: Janet L. Nelson: Religion in the age of Charlemagne
29: Kathleen G. Cushing: Papal Authority and Its Limitations
30: Sarah Hamilton: Bishops, Education and Discipline
Conclusion
31: R. Po-chia Hsia: Looking back from the Reformation
Index