Strategies of sanity and survival
| Titel: | Strategies of sanity and survival : religious responses to natural disasters in the Middle Ages / Jussi Hanska |
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| Veröffentlicht: | Helsinki : Finnish Literature Society, 2002 |
| Umfang: | 220 S. |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Schriftenreihe/ mehrbändiges Werk: |
Studia Fennica. Historica ; 2 |
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| ISBN: | 951746357X |
| Hinweise zum Inhalt: |
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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- Acknowledgements
- p. 7
- Introduction
- p. 9
- 1
- The Background
- p. 15
- Disastrous Times
- p. 15
- In the Shadow of the Black Death
- p. 18
- Sources and Problems
- p. 24
- The Predecessors
- p. 29
- 2
- Seeking Divine Protection
- p. 32
- Religion vs. Magic
- p. 33
- Heavenly Helpers
- p. 42
- Medieval Rationalism
- p. 45
- 3
- At the Moment of Peril
- p. 48
- Collective reactions
- p. 48
- Processions
- p. 49
- Sermons
- p. 64
- Actual Catastrophe sermons
- p. 65
- Rogation Day Sermons
- p. 68
- The Setting of Catastrophe Sermons
- p. 78
- Votive Masses and Collective Prayers
- p. 81
- Individual Reactions
- p. 87
- 4
- The Aftermath--Explaining and Surviving Natural Disasters
- p. 101
- Scapegoats and Political Explanations
- p. 102
- Scientific Explanations
- p. 105
- Apocalyptic Explanations
- p. 112
- Divine Intervention
- p. 116
- God's Punishment
- p. 116
- Demons on the Loose
- p. 126
- Causality of Punishment
- p. 128
- Purgatory in this World
- p. 132
- Pastoral Care and Spiritual Healing
- p. 143
- 5
- Epilogue: the Extended Middle Ages
- p. 150
- Post-Tridentine Catholicism
- p. 153
- Protestant Revolution?
- p. 160
- Popular resistance
- p. 161
- Moderate Reformers
- p. 163
- The Waning of the Traditional Religion
- p. 164
- Conclusions
- p. 169
- Appendix 1
- p. 179
- Appendix 2
- p. 189
- Bibliography
- p. 202
- Index Nominum Et Locorum
- p. 211
- Index Rerum
- p. 217
