Medieval Religion and Its Anxieties: History and Mystery in the Other Middle Ages

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
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 10/20/2016
Pages: 300
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.13lbs
Size: 8.71h x 6.11w x 0.89d
ISBN: 9781137570772

About the Author
Thomas A. Fudgé is Professor of Medieval History at the University of New England, Australia. Author of thirteen books, he is recognized as an international authority on Jan Hus and Hussite history.