The Church and the Book

Christianity encapsulates its claims to authority in a book, the bible. The church's tradition is dependent on literacy: throughout its history the Christian message has been conveyed through books and other forms of writing, to provide continuity through periods of persecution, to challenge rival views, to aid processes of conversion, and asvital witnesses to the history of the Church as both a spiritual and social phenomenon. This collection of twenty-six articles by an international group of scholars offers insights into many aspects of the relationship between the church and the book, from the first appearance of Christian writings through to the twentieth century, not just in Britain and Europe, but in America, China, and India. Contributors: MARGARET ASTON, JAMES BETTLEY, RUTH CHAVASSE, MICHAEL CLANCHY, BRIAN CUMMINGS, JAMES J. DAVIS, CHRISTOPH EGGER, RICHARD EMMS, S.G. HALL, SARAH HAMILTON, ELIZABETH M. INGRAM, W. M. JACOB, G. H. JENKINS, L. LAAMANN, OLIVER M. T. LOGAN, JUDITH D. MALTBY, SCOTT H. MANDELBROTE, SUSAN MARTIN, JEREMY MORRIS, R. McKITTERICK, THOMAS O'LOUGHLIN, M. A. OVERELL, GRAHAM SHAW, ERIK SIDENVALL, NORMAN P. TANNER, SUSAN WABUDA, ALEXANDRA M. WALSHAM
Professor R.N. SWANSON teaches in the Department of Medieval History at the University of Birmingham.

Reviews

A valuable scholarly resource. INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF BIBLICAL STUDIES

Details

First Published: 15 May 2005
13 Digit ISBN: 9780952973386
Pages: 406
Size: 21.6 x 13.8
Binding: Hardback
Imprint: Ecclesiastical History Society
Series: Studies in Church History
Subject: Medieval History
BIC Class: HBLC1

Details updated on 07 Feb 2012

Contents

• 1  In the Beginning was the Codex: the Early Church and its Revolutionary Books
• 2  The Book of the Councils: Nicaea I to Vatican II
• 3  Early Medieval Introductions to the Holy Book: Adjuncts or Hermeneutic?
• 4  St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury, and the 'First Books of the Whole English Church'
• 5  The Carolingian Church and the Book
• 6  The Rituale: the Evolution of a New Liturgical Book
• 7  The Scholar's Suitcase: Books and the Transfer of Knowledge in Twelfth-Century Europe
• 8  Biblical Authority in the Writing of Pope Innocent IV (1243-54)
• 9  Images of Ladies with Prayer Books: What do They Signify?
• 10  Jewels for Gentlewomen: Religious Books as Artefacts in Late Medieval and Early Modern England
• 11  Triple Deckers and Eagle Lecterns: Church Furniture for the Book in Late Medieval and Early Modern England
• 12  Piety, Penance, and Popular Reading in Devotion to the Virgin Mary and her Miracles: Italian Incunabula and Early Printed Collections
• 13  Lap Books and Lectern Books: The Revelatory Book in the Reformation
• 14  The Christian Brethren and the Dissemination of Heretical Books
• 15  Bernardino Ochino's Books and English Religious Opinion: 1547-80
• 16  Dressed in Borrowed Robes: the Making and Marketing of the Louvain Bible (1578)
• 17  Luther and the Book: the Iconography of the Ninety-Five Theses
• 18  'The Good Old Way': Prayer Book Protestantism in 1640s and 1650s
• 19  Provision of Books for Poor Clergy Parochial Libraries in the British Isles and the North American Colonies, 1680-1720
• 20  Writing the History of the English Bible in the Early Eighteenth Century
• 21  Memories of Faith: the 'Christian Sutras' of Eighteenth-Century China
• 22  'I will tell you a word or two about Cardiganshire': Welsh Clerics and Literature in the Eighteenth Century
• 23  Some Architectural Aspects of the Role of Manuals in Changes to Anglican Liturgical Practice in the Nineteenth Century
• 24  Communications between Cultures: Difficulties in the Design and Distribution of Christian Literature in Nineteenth-Century India
• 25  Dealing with Development: the Protestant Reviews of John Henry Newman's An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine, 1845-71845-7
• 26  The Text as Sacrament: Victorian Broad Church Philology
• 27  A Journal. La Civiltà Cattolica from Pius IX to Pius XII (1850-1958)