Synopses & Reviews
Review
"The translation is on the whole elegant, capturing Vauchez's own luminous prose with considerable grace . . . The Laity in the Middle Ages is an invaluable witness to the work of the scholar who has done so much to awaken us to complexities of the religious experience of the laity in the Middle Ages." --The Catholic Historical Review
Review
“A fundamental work for historians of Christianity.” —Religious Studies Review
Synopsis
In these lively and incisive essays, Andre Vauchez, a leading French historian of medieval religious life, explores the religious beliefs and devotional practices of lay people in medieval Europe.
Synopsis
In these lively and incisive essays André Vauchez explores the religious beliefs and devotional practices of laypeople in medieval Europe and grapples with some of the most difficult issues in medieval history: the nature of popular devotion, the role of religion in civic life, the sociology of religious attitudes and practices, and the relationship between the intersecting spheres of lay and clerical culture.
About the Author
Andre Vauchez is the former director of the French School in Rome and member of the Academy of Inscriptions and Letters. Daniel E. Bornstein is professor of history and religious studies and Stella K. Darrow Professor of Catholic Studies, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri. Margery J. Schneider is the translator of The End of the Past: Ancient Rome and the Modern West and Women and Religion in Medieval and Renaissance Italy.