Between the twelfth and the sixteenth centuries, European Christians used in worship a plethora of objects, not only prayer books, statues, and paintings but also pieces of natural materials, such as stones and earth, considered to carry holiness, dolls representing Jesus and Mary, and even bits of consecrated bread and wine thought to be miraculously preserved flesh and blood....(展开全部)

In the period between 1150 and 1550, an increasing number of Christians in western Europe made pilgrimage to places where material objects — among them paintings, statues, relics, pieces of wood, earth, stones, and Eucharistic wafers — allegedly erupted into life. These objects appeared animated — they wept, bled, and even walked. Such phenomena posed a challenge to Christians....(展开全部)

A spirited and thought-provoking history of the vast changes that transformed Europe during the 1,000-year span of the Middle Ages The millennium between the breakup of the western Roman Empire and the Reformation was a long and hugely transformative period—one not easily chronicled within the scope of a few hundred pages. Yet distinguished historian Chris Wickham has taken up ...(展开全部)

A spirited and thought-provoking history of the vast changes that transformed Europe during the 1,000-year span of the Middle Ages The millennium between the breakup of the western Roman Empire and the Reformation was a long and hugely transformative period—one not easily chronicled within the scope of a few hundred pages. Yet distinguished historian Chris Wickham has taken up ...(展开全部)

A spirited and thought-provoking history of the vast changes that transformed Europe during the 1,000-year span of the Middle Ages The millennium between the breakup of the western Roman Empire and the Reformation was a long and hugely transformative period—one not easily chronicled within the scope of a few hundred pages. Yet distinguished historian Chris Wickham has taken up ...(展开全部)

A spirited and thought-provoking history of the vast changes that transformed Europe during the 1,000-year span of the Middle Ages The millennium between the breakup of the western Roman Empire and the Reformation was a long and hugely transformative period—one not easily chronicled within the scope of a few hundred pages. Yet distinguished historian Chris Wickham has taken up ...(展开全部)

诺曼·多恩 威尔士大学卡迪夫学院教授，剑桥大学法学博士。西方学界研究教会法的权威，英国教会协会的法律顾问，担任《教会法杂志》的主编和“宗教与法律”系列丛书（劳特利奇出版社出版）的主编，自1990年出版博士论文《中世纪晚期英国法中的最高权威》后，已出版多部关于“法律与宗教关系”的著作。 关于本书译者： 杨尚东 四川平昌人，西南政法大学行政法学院讲师，北京大学法学博士。 关于“法律与宗教经典文库”主编： 佀化强 重庆大学特聘研究员，博士生导师。2007年8月至2008年8月公派留学美国福德汉姆大学法学院。 苗文龙 法学博士，重庆大学法学院宪法与行政法研究中心研究员。

达妮埃尔·齐布尔斯基（Danièle Cybulskie）十多年来一直在研究中世纪，并围绕着这一主题进行写作。她曾是一名大学教授，也是中世纪文学和文艺复兴戏剧方面的专家，还是Medievalists.net的特约作家。她曾多次在国际杂志上发表作品，主题从百年战争到罗马长袍不一而足。她的目标就是让历史变得生动有趣和引人入胜。

Marked by C. Warren Hollister's clear historical vision and engaging teaching style, this classic text has been judiciously revised by Judith Bennett; the tenth edition includes greater coverage of Byzantium and Islam, a revised map program, a new essay program on medieval myths, and more. In his preface to the eighth edition, Professor Hollister wrote of his realization, while...(展开全部)