Christian History Magazine—Issue 49: Everyday Faith in the Middle Ages
Overview
The Middle Ages—commonly remembered for King Arthur tales, violent crusades, widespread illiteracy and the bubonic plague. Yet so much more is worthy of remembrance. Towering gothic cathedrals faced the east as beacons of hope in this seemingly “dark” era. Stunning artistic masterpieces and eloquent itinerant preachers taught Biblical truths to an illiterate laity. And faithful men and women of every social order sought out divine experiences with untamable intensity. Christian History & Biography offers this issue as an enlightening look at everyday faith in the Middle Ages.
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Top Highlights
“The most powerful form of prayer was the Mass, and saying masses for the dead was a central feature of popular faith.” (source)
“One central yearning had great force in later medieval life: an intense desire for religious experience.” (source)
“The disease, bubonic plague, was so lethal some went to bed well and died before morning; some doctors caught the illness at the patient’s bedside and died before the patient.” (source)
“Pilgrimage arose out of the intersection of two theological ideas: the need to do penance for sins and the cult of relics.” (source)
“A third of the world died.’ That would have meant about 20 million deaths.” (source)
- Title: Christian History Magazine—Issue 49: Everyday Faith in the Middle Ages
- Author: Christian History Institute
- Series: Christian History Magazine
- Publisher: Christianity Today
- Print Publication Date: 1996
- Logos Release Date: 2009
- Era: era:Contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Church history › Middle Ages, 600-1500
- Resource ID: LLS:12.30.49
- Resource Type: Magazine
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-10-05T16:39:32Z