Peter Raedts
Biographic Data
| ID | 10611530 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Raedts |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Raedts |
| SIGNATURE | RAEDTS P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Afdeling Geschiedenis, Faculteit der Letteren, 6500 HD Nijmegen, The Netherlands |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Episcopacy, Authority, and Gender
What is the base of religious leadership and how has it changed over the centuries? This volume presents a range of actors, both men and women, who, in a variety of historical contexts, claimed to be the living voices or intermediaries of God. The essays analyse the foundation of their authoritative claims and ask how and how far they succeeded in securing obedience from the Christians to whom they addressed their message. Religious authority is …
Representations of the Middle Ages in Enlightenment Historiography
In the eighteenth century the image of the medieval past of Europe changed from an utterly negative representation to a more positive one. First, the increasing knowledge of non-European cultures and the difference in their development from savage to commercial led to a reconstruction of history as a progressive process of civilisation. So, the Middle Ages could no longer be dismissed as a barbaric interval between Rome and the Renaissance. Histo…
Scribes and Scholars at Salisbury Cathedral, c. 1075-1125. Teresa Webber
Richard Rufus of Cornwall and the Tradition of Oxford Theology
Bridges the gap in our knowledge of theological developments in the 13th century between Robert Grosseteste, founding father of the Oxford Schools, and Duns Scotus, their most famous pupil.
The children's crusade of 1212
The touching story of innocent children setting out to recover the Holy Sepulchre but suffering a tragic fate was becoming a popular legend within half a century of the actual expedition. Linguistic and social analysis, however, suggests that the crusaders of 1212 were not children, but rather were poor persons on the margins of rural society who were thoroughly imbued with the ideals of the cult of apostolic poverty. They believed that after the…
The children's crusade of 1212
The touching story of innocent children setting out to recover the Holy Sepulchre but suffering a tragic fate was becoming a popular legend within half a century of the actual expedition. Linguistic and social analysis, however, suggests that the crusaders of 1212 were not children, but rather were poor persons on the margins of rural society who were thoroughly imbued with the ideals of the cult of apostolic poverty. They believed that after the…
Representations of the Middle Ages in Enlightenment Historiography
In the eighteenth century the image of the medieval past of Europe changed from an utterly negative representation to a more positive one. First, the increasing knowledge of non-European cultures and the difference in their development from savage to commercial led to a reconstruction of history as a progressive process of civilisation. So, the Middle Ages could no longer be dismissed as a barbaric interval between Rome and the Renaissance. Histo…
The children's crusade of 1212
The touching story of innocent children setting out to recover the Holy Sepulchre but suffering a tragic fate was becoming a popular legend within half a century of the actual expedition. Linguistic and social analysis, however, suggests that the crusaders of 1212 were not children, but rather were poor persons on the margins of rural society who were thoroughly imbued with the ideals of the cult of apostolic poverty. They believed that after the…
Richard Rufus of Cornwall and the Tradition of Oxford Theology
Bridges the gap in our knowledge of theological developments in the 13th century between Robert Grosseteste, founding father of the Oxford Schools, and Duns Scotus, their most famous pupil.
Scribes and Scholars at Salisbury Cathedral, c. 1075-1125. Teresa Webber
Representations of the Middle Ages in Enlightenment Historiography
In the eighteenth century the image of the medieval past of Europe changed from an utterly negative representation to a more positive one. First, the increasing knowledge of non-European cultures and the difference in their development from savage to commercial led to a reconstruction of history as a progressive process of civilisation. So, the Middle Ages could no longer be dismissed as a barbaric interval between Rome and the Renaissance. Histo…
Episcopacy, Authority, and Gender
What is the base of religious leadership and how has it changed over the centuries? This volume presents a range of actors, both men and women, who, in a variety of historical contexts, claimed to be the living voices or intermediaries of God. The essays analyse the foundation of their authoritative claims and ask how and how far they succeeded in securing obedience from the Christians to whom they addressed their message. Religious authority is …
History (4 works) · Ancient history (3 works) · Classics (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Medieval Literature and History (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Art (2 works) · History (2 works)