Richard Kieckhefer
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 294967 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Richard Kieckhefer |
| PRENOMES | Richard |
| SOBRENOME | Kieckhefer |
| ASSINATURA | KIECKHEFER R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Institute of Religious Studies |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 60 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 121 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 57 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 4 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1976 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Medieval Mystical Women in the West
The question many readers will no doubt expect this book to address is how we can now speak about women’s mysticism—about the role of gender in mystical writing and the relationship between gender and sex. The book does indeed make useful contributions to that discussion. Already in the introductory article the editors themselves along with Lydia Shahan deal with the historiography of women’s mysticism and reflect on how the treatment of gender h…
Trafficking with Demons
Introduction
Caroline Walker Bynum's work illustrates how a historian engages in conversation about matters of interest to historical subjects, matters of interest within the academy, and matters of concern to the general public. The key methodological paradox is how she respects the past for its otherness and strangeness, yet her books are always relevant to the present. Holy Feast and Holy Fast deals with the function of eating and fasting in ways that have…
Inquisition and Knowledge, 1200-1700
Essays considering how information could be used and abused in the service of heresy and inquisition. The collection, curation, and manipulation of knowledge were fundamental to the operation of inquisition. Its coercive power rested on its ability to control information and to produce authoritative discourses from it - a fact not lost on contemporaries, or on later commentators. Understanding that relationship between inquisition and knowledge h…
Angels and Saints
Medieval theologians may not have agonized over how many angels can dance on the head of a pin—though the question does arise in the anonymous mystical dialogue Schwester Katrei—but on other matters angels provoked them to endless speculation. How many are there? Perhaps 34,720,000,000, but that was not the only calculation. Without bodies, how do they speak or sing? Do they have names, or even personal identities? How and why and when did some o…
Witch Trials in Medieval Europe
This chapter shows how various elements provided the raw material for the fantasy of satanic witchcraft that emerged at the end of the Middle Ages and demonstrates that the lethal potential of this fantasy was only partially realised before the 1500s. In comparison with the mass persecution of following centuries, the witch trials of the years 1300–1500 were few and sporadic. No matter how rigorous their moral codes might be, medieval heretics su…
Rethinking how to define magic
What is magic? We know perfectly well what it is if no one asks us, but when someone asks and we try to define it, we are confused. Or perhaps we give definitions adequate to some forms of magic but not others. Or we have definitions that make sense to us but not to others around us, who, when pressed, come to the table with rather different notions. We tell people, “When I speak of magic, what I mean by it is ...”, but then we should not be surp…
Erotic Magic in Medieval Europe
People at various levels of medieval society appear to have had recourse to magic for sex and love. Erotic magic could be used to induce a person to become a sexual partner, to encourage an intimate and lasting amorous relationship, or to enhance the sexual experience of partners who were already willing. Fear of erotic magic led to its condemnation and prohibition by ecclesiastical and secular authorities alike. The simplest and most basic disti…
Late Medieval Heresy: New Perspectives
Fresh investigations into heresy after 1300, demonstrating its continuing importance and influence. From the Gregorian reforms to the Protestant Reformation, heresies and heretics helped shape the religious, political, and institutional structures of medieval Europe. Within this larger history of religious ferment, the late medieval period presents a particularly dynamic array of heterodox movements, dissident modes of thought, and ecclesiastical…
Late Medieval Heresy: New Perspectives
Presence, Place, Period, and Principle
The title of Robert Bartlett's book on saints,Why Can the Dead Do Such Great Things?, comes from Saint Augustine, who thought of heaven as a preeminently social environment. It is thus easy to entertain a fantasy about a conversation among saints in heaven. One saint boasts that his feast day has a higher liturgical ranking than the others'. This provokes a second saint to point out that the first may have a grand feast day, but is not, like hims…
Magic and its Hazards in the Late Medieval West
This article examines the various forms of magic known in medieval Europe, focusing on those features that made it suspect and led to censure, prohibition, and prosecution. It suggests connections or disconnections between the prescriptive texts of the magicians themselves, the proscriptive texts of their opponents, and the descriptive literature (including judicial records) that claims to recount actual instances of magical activity. The article…
The First Wave of Trials for Diabolical Witchcraft
This article discusses the first wave of trials for diabolical witchcraft. It suggests that when we examine the trials in a particular region, and when we read late medieval writings about witchcraft, we find that ideas were brought together in discernible but fragile coalescence, then sometimes diffused over broader areas, and in the process fused with ideas taken from different sources; and when we look back at the cluster which was once formed…
Encyclopedia of Witchcraft
Reviewed by: Encyclopedia of Witchcraft: The Western Tradition Richard Kieckhefer Encyclopedia of Witchcraft: The Western Tradition. Edited by Richard M. Golden. Four volumes. (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO. 2006. Pp. xxxvi, 1238; index 35. $485.00. ISBN 978-1-576-07243-6.) Publication of this ambitious reference work represents a significant contribution to the study of European witchcraft. There are, to be sure,precedents: reference works by Rossell …
The Presence of God
Mythologies of Witchcraft in the Fifteenth Century
Between Saint James and Erasmus. Studies in Late-Medieval Religious Life
High Way to Heaven
The First Factor
The kinetic dynamism of a classic sacramental church, with its longitudinal space for processions, is exemplified by the design and the use of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome. The tendency of longitudinal space to become partitioned with screens and other barriers is discussed with reference to Saint Albans Cathedral, in England. The possibility of reconceiving and revitalizing classic sacramental space is demonstrated by the case of Saint Gregory o…
The Second Factor
In the classic sacramental tradition, the main focus is the altar, conceived as the place of eucharistic sacrifice. The history of the altar is discussed, with reference to the pagan temples and the early Christian house of worship at Dura Europos, in Syria, where the altar seems to have been a moveable table. The proliferation of altars in medieval churches is illustrated by Saint-Jacques in Perpignan, in France. The centrality of the pulpit in …
Rudolf Schwarz
Rudolf Schwarz: modern churches in a modern culture. In the twentieth century, religious communities often employed architects who were not grounded in the traditions for which they were building. Rudolf Schwarz, however, was a prominent Roman Catholic architect who had studied theology and was closely involved in the movement of liturgical reform. He was a friend and associate of the theologian Romano Guardini and of the architect Ludwig Mies va…
Chicago
Chicago: traditional churches in a modern culture. The churches built in Chicago between the great fire of 1871 and the First World War were almost all built in revival styles: the Gothic revival was accepted as the norm in many denominations, while Roman Catholics also built in Romanesque, Renaissance, and other revival styles. Within Roman Catholicism, these styles served as markers of ethnic distinction, but then American Colonial style could …
The Fourth Factor
A church that is rich in symbolic associations conveys a strong sense of sacrality—the presence of the holy within the sacred. Different forms of symbolic association in the classic sacramental tradition are discussed in connection with Santa Maria Novella at Florence. Orientation (planning a church with the altar at the east end), legends of foundation, and ceremonies of consecration are all seen as ways of cultivating symbolic resonance. The “C…
Late Medieval Beverley
Late medieval Beverley: traditional churches in a traditional culture. The medieval churches of Beverley (in Yorkshire, England) are examined as representative of traditional church design. Attention focuses mainly on Beverley Minster (an important center of pilgrimage and the focus of a particularly well developed custom of sanctuary for criminals) and Saint Mary’s (a parish church, originally a chapel dependent on the Minster). Other churches a…
Issues in Church Architecture
Beginning in the years after World War II, church building in much of the Christian world experienced a reaction against various perceived abuses: extravagance, use of revival styles, use of distinctively ecclesiastical forms, a spirit of withdrawal from the world, ornamentalism, and monumentalism. But toward the end of the twentieth century a traditionalist countermovement arose, insisting that traditional forms were important in design of churc…
The Specific Rationality of Medieval Magic
IN HER IMPORTANT RECENT STUDY OF EARLY MEDIEVAL MAGIC, Valerie Flint argues the sheer nonrationality of magic, kept within bounds, gave it positive value: There are forces better recognized as belonging to human society than repressed or left to waste away or growl about upon its fringes . . . Many of our forebears knew this. She applauds early medieval churchmen for encouraging an unreason deeper than ... reason. To be sure, when magic outlived …
Theology in Stone
Four questions can be asked appropriately about any church. First, what are its spatial dynamics and how do they promote the dynamism of worship? Second, what (if anything) is the centering focus that clarifies what is most important to worship? Third, what aesthetic impact is the building meant to promote? Fourth, in what way does the building convey a sense of symbolic resonance, linking the immediate experience of the worshiper with the broade…
Unquiet Souls
European Witch Trials
Preface 1. Introduction 2. Chronological Survey 3. Distinction of Popular and Learned Traditions 4. The Content of Popular Tradition 5. The Imposition of Learned Notions 6. The Social Context of Witch Trials 7. Conclusion. Calendar of Witch Trials. List of Abbreviated Titles. Notes. Addenda. Index
Mythologies of Witchcraft in the Fifteenth Century
Forbidden Rites
The 800 years spanning the fifth-century fall of the Roman Empire and the end of the thirteenth century saw the elaboration (CP) Richard Kieckhefer, Forbidden Rites: A. Necromancer's Manual of the Fifteenth Century. (University Park, PA:. Forbidden Rites: A Necromancer's Manual of the Fifteenth Century (1997), Theology in Stone: Church Architecture From Byzantium to Berkeley (2004), There. their value as entertainments, and a sixteenth-century fa…
The Office of Inquisition and Medieval Heresy
In 1979, in a study of the ‘inquisitors of heretical depravity” and their work against heresy in medieval Germany, I urged rethinking of the term ‘the Inquisition” and the concept behind it. There is no clear evidence, I argued, that people in medieval Europe used either inquisitio or officium inquisitionis with reference to an agency or institution. The former term was used for specific trials following inquisitorial procedure, while the latter …
Repression of Heresy in Medieval Germany
Convention and Conversion
Ernst Troeltsch is known to church historians largely for his classic threefold distinction of church, sect, and mysticism. InThe Social Teachings of the Christian Churches, Troeltsch describes the church as an institution enmeshed with society and making accommodations to the world's imperfections; the sects, driven by a quest for purity, refuse to make accommodations or compromises, while the mystics stand aside from this conflict and concern t…
Sainthood
Every major religion exalts certain individuals who occupy a dual role. On the one hand they serve as exemplars of virtue to be imitated, and on the other hand they stand removed from other mortals, privileged and unique. Christianity knows them as saints, and in the study of religion the term has been taken over and applied to similar figures in other traditions. The essays in this volume analyze the role of the saint in Judaism, Christianity, I…
European Witch Trials
Magic and its Hazards in the Late Medieval West
This article examines the various forms of magic known in medieval Europe, focusing on those features that made it suspect and led to censure, prohibition, and prosecution. It suggests connections or disconnections between the prescriptive texts of the magicians themselves, the proscriptive texts of their opponents, and the descriptive literature (including judicial records) that claims to recount actual instances of magical activity. The article…
The Royal Saints of Anglo-Saxon England
Quellen zur böhmischen Inquisition im 14. Jahrhundert . Alexander Patschovsky
European Witch Trials
Preface 1. Introduction 2. Chronological Survey 3. Distinction of Popular and Learned Traditions 4. The Content of Popular Tradition 5. The Imposition of Learned Notions 6. The Social Context of Witch Trials 7. Conclusion. Calendar of Witch Trials. List of Abbreviated Titles. Notes. Addenda. Index
European Witch Trials
European Witch Trials, Their Foundations in Popular and Learned Culture 1300-1500
Meister Eckhart's Conception of Union with God
Although Meister Eckhart himself might have been puzzled by the term, he is traditionally known as a mystic. The designation surely does apply, in the sense that Eckhart sought and recommended a kind of union between the soul and God. But as soon as one proceeds to analyze the precise nature of that union, difficulties abound. In recent literature it has become clear that the Christian mystical tradition has employed various distinct concepts of …
Meister Eckhart on Divine Knowledge . C. F. Kelley
Repression of Heresy in Medieval Germany
The Magician, the Witch and the Law . Edward Peters
Quellen zur böhmischen Inquisition im 14. Jahrhundert . Alexander Patschovsky
Unquiet Souls
L'homme et le miracle dans la France médiévale (XIe--XIIe siècle) . Pierre-André Sigal
Imitators of Christ
Sainthood
Every major religion exalts certain individuals who occupy a dual role. On the one hand they serve as exemplars of virtue to be imitated, and on the other hand they stand removed from other mortals, privileged and unique. Christianity knows them as saints, and in the study of religion the term has been taken over and applied to similar figures in other traditions. The essays in this volume analyze the role of the saint in Judaism, Christianity, I…
Meister Eckhart
"Wilhelm Jordaens's "Avellana
Saints and Their Cults
Sainthood
Every major religion exalts certain individuals who occupy a dual role. On the one hand they serve as exemplars of virtue to be imitated, and on the other hand they stand removed from other mortals, privileged and unique. Christianity knows them as saints, and in the study of religion the term has been taken over and applied to similar figures in other traditions. The essays in this volume analyze the role of the saint in Judaism, Christianity, I…
Inquisition. Edward Peters
The Royal Saints of Anglo-Saxon England
The Land of Lost Discontent
Magic in the Middle Ages
E mageia sto mesaio na
Corpus Christi
The Specific Rationality of Medieval Magic
IN HER IMPORTANT RECENT STUDY OF EARLY MEDIEVAL MAGIC, Valerie Flint argues the sheer nonrationality of magic, kept within bounds, gave it positive value: There are forces better recognized as belonging to human society than repressed or left to waste away or growl about upon its fringes . . . Many of our forebears knew this. She applauds early medieval churchmen for encouraging an unreason deeper than ... reason. To be sure, when magic outlived …
Medieval Irish saints' lives
(1994). Medieval Irish saints' lives: an introduction to vitae sanctorum hiberniae. History of European Ideas: Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 296-298
A Church Reformed Though Not Deformed? The Stripping of the Altars
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