Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Princeton Readings in Religions v
3. CONTENTS vii
4. Contributors xi
5. Introduction 1
6. The Life Cycle: Baptism
7. 1. Baptismal Practice in Germany 7
8. 2. Cathars and Baptism 14
9. The Life Cycle: Confirmation and Coming of Age
10. 3. The Early Medieval Barbatoria 21
11. The Life Cycle: Instruction
12. 4. Lollard Instruction 27
13. The Life Cycle: Marriage and Its Unmaking
14. 5. Florentine Marriage in the Fifteenth Century 35
15. 6. Annulment of Henry III’s “Marriage” to Joan of Ponthieu Confirmed by Innocent IV on 20 May 1254 42
16. The Life Cycle: Death and Burial
17. 7. Agius of Corvey’s Account of the Death of Hathumoda, First Abbess of Gandersheim, in 874 53
18. 8. A Royal Funeral of 1498 59
19. Work and Travel
20. 9. Charms to Ward off Sheep and Pig Murrain 67
21. 10. Fishermen and Mariners 76
22. 11. Storms at Sea on a Voyage between Rhodes and Venice, November 1470 81
23. 12. Rules and Ritual on the Second Crusade Campaign to Lisbon, 1147 86
24. Churches, Parishes, and Daily Life: Consecration
25. 13. The Consecration of Church Space 95
26. Churches, Parishes, and Daily Life: Pastoral Care
27. 14. Fourteenth-Century Instructions for Bedside Pastoral Care 103
28. 15. How to Behave in Church and How to Become a Priest 109
29. Churches, Parishes, and Daily Life: Preaching
30. 16. A Sermon on the Virtues of the Contemplative Life 117
31. 17. Preaching and Pastoral Care of a Devout Woman (deo devota) in Fifteenth-Century Basel 126
32. Churches, Parishes, and Daily Life: Confession and Penance
33. 18. Doing Penance 135
34. 19. A Penitential Diet 144
35. 20. A Layman’s Penance 151
36. Churches, Parishes, and Daily Life: Prayer
37. 21. Prayers 159
38. 22. Two Healing Prayers 164
39. Churches, Parishes, and Daily Life: Devotional Behavior
40. 23. Images in the World: Reading the Crucifixion 173
41. Healing
42. 24. The Old English Nine Herbs Charm 189
43. 25. Amulets and Charms 194
44. Charity
45. 26. A Deaf-Mute’s Story 203
46. 27. Bequests for the Poor 209
47. The Cult of Saints and Pilgrimage
48. 28. Translation of the Body of St. Junianus 217
49. 29. Pilgrimage and Spiritual Healing in the Ninth Century 222
50. In Pursuit of Perfection: In the World
51. 30. Interrogation of Waldensians 231
52. 31. The Lives of the Beghards 238
53. 32. The Renovation of the Chapel in the Beguinage of Lille 246
54. 33. The Practices of Devotio moderna 256
55. In Pursuit of Perfection: Prophecy, Revelation, and Ecstatic States
56. 34. The Possession of Blessed Jordan of Saxony 265
57. 35. On the Stigmatization of Saint Margaret of Hungary 274
58. 36. Eschatological Prophecy: “Woe to the World in One Hundred Years” 285
59. 37. Raymond de Sabanac, Preface to Constance de Rabastens, The Revelations 290
60. In Pursuit of Perfection: At the Edge of the World
61. 38. The Life of the Hermit Stephen of Obazine 299
62. 39. Creating an Anchorhold 311
63. 40. The Ritual for the Ordination of Nuns 318
64. Rituals of Power
65. 41. An Anglo-Saxon Queen’s Consecration 327
66. 42. Mass at the Election of the Mayor of London, 1406 333
67. Index 339