Excellent4.8 out of 5On Trustpilot
  1. The Church/
  2. Church History

Reimagining Christendom: Writing Iceland's Bishops Into the Roman Church, 1200-1350

  • Hardback
  • Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
  • 15.2 x 22.9 x 2.1 cm

£27.21

Save 40% | Free UK Delivery

Available - Usually dispatched within 4 days

Buying for a school or church? Upgrade to a FREE Eden Advance Account

With its expanding legal system and its burgeoning throngs of lawyers, legates, and documents, the papacy of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries has often been credited with spearheading a governmental revolution that molded the high medieval church into an increasingly disciplined, uniform, and machine-like institution. Reimagining Christendom offers a fresh appraisal of these developments from a surprising and distinctive vantage point. Tracing the web of textual ties that connected the northern fringes of Europe to the Roman see, Joel D. Anderson explores the ways in which Norse writers recruited, refashioned, and repurposed the legal principles and official documents of the Roman church for their own ends.

Drawing on little-known vernacular sagas, Reimagining Christendom is populated with tales of married bishops, fictitious and forged papal bulls, and imagined canon law proceedings. These narratives, Anderson argues, demonstrate how Norse writers adapted and reconfigured the institutional power of the church in order to legitimize some of the thoroughly abnormal practices of their native bishops. In the process, Icelandic clerics constructed their own visions of ecclesiastical order--visions that underscore the thoroughly malleable character of the Roman church's text-based government and that articulate diverse ways of belonging to the far-flung imagined community of high medieval Christendom.

Reimagining Christendom: Writing Iceland's Bishops Into the Roman Church, 1200-1350 and Decline of African American Theology
Decline of African American TheologyReimagining Christendom: Writing Iceland's Bishops Into the Roman Church, 1200-1350
  • Author

    Joel D. Anderson

  • Book Format

    Hardcover

  • Publisher

    University of Pennsylvania Press

  • Published

    January 2023

  • Weight

    545g

  • Dimensions

    15.2 x 22.9 x 2.1 cm

  • ISBN

    9781512822823

  • ISBN-10

    1512822825

  • Eden Code

    5679060

Over 14,000 churches and schools have upgraded to an Advance Account and we‘d love to welcome you into this free program. We know that church volunteers and school teachers often use their own money, then have claim it back on on an expense form. We can take all of that hassle away by invoicing your church or school directly and delivering your order straight away.

Opening an account is quick and easy, with most accounts being approved and setup within a few hours of filling in the form below (on weekdays, not weekends). As soon as we‘ve approved the application we‘ll send you an email to let you know that its done.

Upgrade to a FREE Eden Advance Account