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About this book
Collective religious enthusiasm was a surprisingly many-sided, influential and widespread phenomenon in medieval Europe. Amongst the forms it took were remarkable revivalist movements like the flagellants of 1260; popular crusades like the often mythologized 'children's crusade' of 1212 and the 'shepherds' crusade' of 1251; as well as popular excitement involving living saints and their veneration (115 cults in Perugia). This book focuses upon particular thirteenth-century revivals and popular crusades, but does so in order to illuminate the nature of medieval western religious enthusiasm by exploring such topics as crowds, penitential self-laceration, charismatic leaders, prophecy, runaway youths, popular crusading fervour, dreams, and sanctity, male and female. A previously unpublished essay introduces the book, initiating a discussion of religious enthusiasm in the medieval West and the second conversion of Europe.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Series
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Dedication
- I Religious Enthusiasm in the Medieval West and the Second Conversion of Europe
- II Charisma and Revivalism in the Thirteenth Century
- III The Burning of the Amalricians
- IV The Genesis of the Children's Crusade (1212)
- V Stephen of Cloyes, Philip Augustus, and the Children's Crusade of 1212
- VI The Advent of the Pastores (1251)
- VII Clare's Dream
- VIII The Flagellants of 1260 and the Crusades
- IX Master John of Toledo (Tolet) the 'Albus Cardinalis' (d. 1275) in Perugia; St Juliana's Head; and a mid-fourteenth-century Calendar from Santa Giuliana di Perugia in the University of Edinburgh Library (EUL.MS.29)
- X The 115 Cults of the Saints in Later Medieval and Renaissance Perugia: a Demographic Overview of a Civic Pantheon
- Addenda et Corrigenda
- Index