The concept of an ordered human society, both religious and secular, as an expression of a divinely ordered universe was central to medieval thought. In the Wes

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Francis Oakley addresses late-medieval church history in its own terms, pointing out not only discontinuities but also continuities with earlier medieval experi

A new narrative history of medieval Christianity, spanning from A.D. 500 to 1500, focuses on the role of women in Christianity; the relationships among Christia