Buch, Englisch, Band 6, 324 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm
Reihe: Social Worlds of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
Amsterdam University Press
Buch, Englisch, Band 6, 324 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm
Reihe: Social Worlds of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
ISBN: 978-94-6298-804-0
Verlag: Amsterdam University Press
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Mittelalterliche, neuzeitliche Archäologie (Europa)
- Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein
- Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte Hagiographie
Weitere Infos & Material
Introduction
Part I Death
Chapter One Peering into the Invisible World
Death and the Little Boy
Becoming Gregory I
Conclusion
Chapter Two Maturing Spiritually in a Perilous World
Death and the Aspiring Cleric
Becoming Gregory II
Studium ad ecclesiasticae scriptae
Conclusion
Chapter Three Pastoring from the Pulpit and the Page
Death and the Bishop
Death and the Historian?
Bishop, Author, Pastor
-Writings and Sermons
-Sin, Penance, Grace
-Living Holy People
-Sinners
Conclusion
Part II Afterlife
Chapter Four Discerning the Denizens of Heaven and Hell
The Saved
Visionaries and Heaven
Communicating Salvation: Migrare and Transire
Hellmates
Signs of Condemnation
Communicating Damnation: Interire, Iudicium Dei, Ultio Divina
Lessons and Warnings for Contemporaries
Conclusion
Chapter Five Fathoming the Fates of the Merovingians
Merovingians in Heaven
-King Clovis and Queen Clotild
-King Theudebert
Merovingians in Hell
-King Chlodomer et al.
-A Mixed Bag: Kings Theuderic, Theudebald, Childebert I, Chlothar I and Prince Chramn
Kings Charibert and Sigibert
Kings Chilperic and Guntram
Conclusion
Conclusion
Killer Queen(s)
King Guntram and Gregory's Unfinished Project
Afterword
Bibliography
Index