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| Genre/Form: | History |
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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Courtenay, William J., author. Rituals for the Dead Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, [2018] (DLC) 2018044730 (OCoLC)1052901717 |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
William J Courtenay |
| ISBN: | 9780268104948 0268104948 9780268104931 026810493X 9780268104955 0268104956 |
| OCLC Number: | 1031910823 |
| Description: | xi, 201 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction: the University of Paris and its communities -- Death in Paris -- The University's dead -- By whom the bells toll -- Allocating spiritual rewards: the power of the mass for the souls of the dead -- Virtus missae and its development -- The money economy and the afterlife -- Candles for Our Lady: the arts faculty nations as confraternities -- Candles in the ceremonies of the nations -- The churches of the nations -- Nations as confraternities -- Gaudy night: colleges and prayers for the dead -- Halls and colleges -- Medieval colleges and memorials for the dead -- Medieval colleges and Islamic Madrasas -- A hidden presence: women and the University of Paris -- Women and higher education in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries -- University wives -- Women in trades connected to the university -- Women as founders of colleges -- The growth of Marian devotion -- Dedications to the Virgin before 1200 -- The image of the Virgin on individual seals -- Marian devotion as evidenced in college statutes -- Marian iconography on magisterial seals -- Balancing inequality. |
| Series Title: | Conway lectures in medieval studies. |
| Other Titles: | Religion and community in the Medieval University of Paris |
| Responsibility: | William J. Courtenay. |
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"William Courtenay has long been the finest American scholar of medieval universities. With this book he opens up a whole new vista on the communal and religious lives of students and masters as integrally interwoven with their academic tasks, especially for instance in remembering their dead. Along the way he delves into theology, seals, statutes, processions, and much more, and explores too for the first time the presence of women among these all-male establishments and the growing place of the Virgin Mary in representing their collective identity. It is a grand achievement, providing rich new texture to our standard ways of talking about medieval universities." -- <i>John Van Engen, Andrew V. Tackes Professor Emeritus of Medieval History, University of Notre Dame</i> "As engagingly written as it is original, William Courtenay's distinguished contribution to the Conway series documents the roles of nations and colleges at the medieval University of Paris as religious no less than as academic communities. Drawing on visual, material, and textual evidence, he documents how these groups prayed for and remembered their dead and how this devotional concern inflected scholastic debates on suffrages for souls in Purgatory and veneration of the Virgin as patron of learning and intercessor for scholars living and dead. Authored by a world-class luminary in the field, Rituals for the Dead thus vivifies an important and hitherto underappreciated dimension of medieval university life." -- <i>Marcia Colish, Yale University</i> "Courtenay makes a convincing case that 'the religious side of university life in Paris has received almost no attention.' In doing so, he also makes a strong case for the value and importance of this current study. It is clear from the beginning, however, that this book will be nearly as much about the institutional forms of the university as it is about the spiritual devotion and prayers directed within it. No one is better prepared to treat both of these subjects than William Courtenay." -- Joel Kaye, author of <i>A History of Balance, 1250-1375</i> Read more...
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- Université de Paris -- History -- To 1500.
- Funeral rites and ceremonies, Medieval.
- Christian life -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.
- Death -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History of doctrines -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.
- 15.70 history of Europe.
- Université de Paris.
- Christian life.
- France -- Paris.
