Ecclesiastical History Society. Summer Meeting's Books

A wide-ranging and impressive collection which illuminates the enduring relationship between the Church and literary creation.

Provides insight into a key issue of Christian history which still has a huge influence on ecclesiastical practice and politics.

Papers read at the 2008 summer meeting and the 2009 winter meeting of the Ecclesiastical History Society.

On popular piety, sanctity and customs in local and general settings.

The thirty papers which comprise this volume are selected from those delivered at the summer and winter conferences of the Ecclesiastical History Society in 1971 and 1972. The volume opens with three important, wide ranging surveys of the nature and types of religious orthodoxy and dissent in the early Christian centuries. A further group of papers considers the emergence and treatment of earlier medieval heresies, while a number of contributions concerned with Lollardy have their focus in M. J. Wilks' examination of relations between Wyclif and Hus. For developments in more modern times K.T. Ware supplies a wider perspective to a rich and varied series of papers on more familiar matters in British, Continental and American history. In this volume, considerable attention is paid to the relationship of movements of protest and dissent to their social, intellectual, cultural and political backgrounds: in this many of the authors reflect the interest in 'religious sociology' which characterises much contemporary Continental work in the field of ecclesiastical history.

Essays range chronologically from Luke Gardiner's analysis of Socrates Scholasticus's retelling of the events of the reign of Theodosius I in the 440s, to John Wolffe's essay on modern religious history and the contemporary church.

Papers read at the 2008 summer meeting and the 2009 winter meeting of the Ecclesiastical History Society.

Vols. for 1964- are papers read at the 1st- winter and 1st- summer meetings of the Ecclesiastical History Society.

Provides insight into a key issue of Christian history which still has a huge influence on ecclesiastical practice and politics.

The Church and Empire', the theme of Studies in Church History, 54, reflects the reality that from its beginnings, the Christian Church has had close, often symbiotic, relationships with empires and imperial power. Initially the Church engaged with the Roman Empire, subsequently in Europe with the Carolingian, Anglo-Norman, Genoese, Venetian and Holy Roman Empires, and later - through the Church's global expansion with European empires in the Americas, Africa and Asia - the Spanish, Dutch, French and British empires, and the imperial structures it encountered there. Bringing together the work of twenty-four historians, this volume explores the relations of churches and empires, and Christian conceptions of empire, in the ancient, medieval, early modern and modern periods, as well as the role of empire in the global expansion of Christianity.

This volume brings together scholars to explore the challenges of translating Christianity. Christianity has been the impulse behind the creation of more dictionaries and grammars of the world's languages than any other force in history. More people pray and worship in more languages in Christianity than in any other religion. It is a religion without a revealed language; a faith characterized by 'the triumph of its translatability'. Christianity is also a translated religion in a very different sense. Many of its ritual practices have been predicated on the translation of material objects, such as relics. Their movement in time and space reveals shifting lines of power and influence in illuminating ways. Translation can be understood not only linguistically and physically but also in ecclesiastical and metaphorical terms, for instance, in the handing on of authority from one place or person to another, or the appropriation of rituals in different contexts.

Book's by Ecclesiastical History Society. Summer Meeting

The Church and Literature

The Church and Literature

Saints and Sanctity

Saints and Sanctity

God's Bounty?

God's Bounty?

Popular Belief and Practice

Popular Belief and Practice

Schism, Heresy and Religious Protest

Schism, Heresy and Religious Protest

The Church on Its Past

The Church on Its Past

God's Bounty?

God's Bounty?

Studies in Church History

Studies in Church History

Saints and Sanctity

Saints and Sanctity

The Church and Empire

The Church and Empire

Translating Christianity

Translating Christianity

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