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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation

Auteur(s) : Fouracre, Paul Voir les notices liées en tant qu'auteur

Titre(s) : Eternal light and earthly concerns [Texte imprimé] : belief and the shaping of medieval society / Paul Fouracre

Publication : Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2021

Description matérielle : 1 volume (IX-236 pages) : illustrations, cartes. ; 23 cm

Collection : Artes liberales

Lien à la collection : Artes liberales (Manchester)

Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 214-230. Notes bibliogr. Index
In early Christianity it was established that every church should have a light burning on the altar at all times. In this unique study, Eternal light and earthly concerns, looks at the material and social consequences of maintaining these 'eternal' lights. It investigates how the cost of lighting was met across western Europe throughout the whole of the Middle Ages, revealing the social organisation that was built up around maintaining the lights in the belief that burning them reduced the time spent in Purgatory. When that belief collapsed in the Reformation the eternal lights were summarily extinguished. The history of the lights thus offers not only a new account of change in medieval Europe, but also a sustained examination of the relationship between materiality and belief

Sujet(s) : Lumière et ténèbres (religion) -- Europe -- Moyen âge Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet
Église -- Doctrines -- Moyen âge Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet
Histoire religieuse -- Europe -- Moyen âge Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet