Gary Dickson
Ashgate Variorum
Hardback
324
2000
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 A previously unpublished essay introduces the book initiating a discussion of religious enthusiasm in the medieval West and the second conversion of Europe.
Ashgate Variorum
Hardback
324
2000
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 A previously unpublished essay introduces the book initiating a discussion of religious enthusiasm in the medieval West and the second conversion of Europe.