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In this long-awaited book, the result of more than a decade of research, Lester K. Little reconstructs and explores the phenomenon of officially sanctioned religious cursing in medieval Europe. He focuses on a church service, called in Latin either clamor or maledictio, used by monastic communities (primarily in Francia) between approximately 990 and 1250. Threatened by bands of heavily armed knights in a period of incessant civil strife, communities of monks, nuns, and cathedral clerics retaliated by cursing their enemies in a formal religious ceremony. After presenting the formulas the monks used in such cursing, Little explores the social, political, and juridical contexts in which these curses were used and explains how Christian authorities who condemned cursing could also authorize it. He demonstrates that these Benedictine maledictions often played a decisive role in resolving the monks' frequent property disputes with local notables, especially knights. Little's approach to his subject is topical. After determining the clamor's sources, he takes up its kinship with such related liturgy as the humiliation of saints and then shows where and to what end it was used. By the conclusion of his work, he has recreated the whole culture of the medieval clamor, and in the process he has illuminated many other aspects of medieval social and legal culture.
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- Title Benedictine Maledictions
- Author Lester K. Little
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition; F
- Pages 312
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Cornell University Press, Ithaca
- Date 1993-11-18
- Features Bibliography, Index
- ISBN 9780801428760 / 0801428769
- Weight 1.47 lbs (0.67 kg)
- Dimensions 9.39 x 6.38 x 1.18 in (23.85 x 16.21 x 3.00 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Reading level 1540
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- Chronological Period: Medieval (500-1453) Studies
- Religious Orientation: Christian
- Library of Congress subjects Catholic Church - Liturgy - History, France - Church history - 987-1515
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 93025079
- Dewey Decimal Code 271.104
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