Approaching “Lived Religion” from Late Antiquity to the Central Middle Ages
Fragments of Experience
Approaching “Lived Religion” from Late Antiquity to the Central Middle Ages
Fragments of Experience
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Description
This edited volume brings together renowned specialists from History, Medieval Studies, Religious Studies, Archaeology and Art History to critically examine the topic of religious experience and so-called “lived religion” from Late Antiquity to the Central Middle Ages. With papers on Judaism, Christianity and Islam in this period, the volume is the first of its kind to consider this question in the early medieval era from a comparative perspective, drawing from a wide variety of theoretical literatures and multiple approaches, including performance theory, history of emotions, eco-criticism, queer phenomenology, history of experience and new materialism culture, to name just a few.
Recovering a historical community's religious experiences is a delicate, oftentimes difficult task. This is particularly true of religious experiences from Late Antiquity to the Central Middle Ages (c. 300–1100 C.E.), where the number and quality of sources for religious communities increase (compared to classical antiquity) yet have not reached the fevered pitch of the so-called High Middle Ages.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction, Lauren Mancia and Brian Sowers (Brooklyn College-CUNY, USA)
2. Animating Attachments: An Affective Archaeology of Late Antique Monastic Refectories, Camille Leon Angelo (Yale University, USA)
3. The Gardens of Hermits, Virginia Burrus (Syracuse University, USA)
4. Worship through the Senses: Jewish Devotional Experiences and Daily Life in Late Antiquity, Karen Stern (Brooklyn College-CUNY, USA)
5. Hunting Infidels: Jihad, Crusade and Sovereignty in Two Ivory Caskets from Medieval Iberia, Abigail Balbale (New York University, USA)
6. Twenty-Three Linen Tablecloths: Textile use in Churches in Egypt, Jennifer Ball (Brooklyn College-CUNY, USA)
7. “Abba has begun to make money from the beer business”: Beer, Lived Religion, and Changing Rabbinic Law for Financial Benefit, Jordan Rosenblum (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
8. Ritual and Religious Experience in Fakhr al-Din al-Razi, Bilal Ibrahim (Providence College, USA)
9. Lived Religion as Material Religion, David Morgan (Duke University, USA)
10. The Consolation of Einhard, Andrew Romig (New York University, USA)
11. Fragmented Magic and Counter-Magic or Lived Devotion to Saints Justina and Cyprian, Brian P. Sowers (Brooklyn College-CUNY, USA)
12. The Habits of Prayer of Medieval Religious Women in the Leominster Prayerbook, Katie Ann-Marie Bugyis (University of Notre Dame, USA)
13. You Had to Be There: A Proposed Methodology for the History of Medieval Monastic Religious Experience, Lauren Mancia (Brooklyn College-CUNY, USA)
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Product details
| Published | Oct 01 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 256 |
| ISBN | 9781350569829 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 25 bw illus |
| Dimensions | 9 x 6 inches |
| Series | sera tela: Studies in Late Antique Literature and Its Reception |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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