 | Religious Movements in the Middle Ages Subjects: Europe -- Church history -- 600–1500; Heresies Christian -- History -- Middle Ages 600–1500; Friars -- History; Monasticism and religious orders for women -- Europe -- History; Mysticism -- Germany -- History -- Middle Ages 600–1500; Medievalists, historians, and women's studies specialists will welcome this translation of Herbert Grundmann's classic study of religious movements in the Middle Ages because it provides a much-needed history of medieval religious life--one that lies between the extremes of doctrinal classification and materialistic analysis--and because it represents the first major effort to underline the importance of women in the development of the language and practice of religion in the Middle Ages. The late Herbert Grundmann was President of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica in Munich, Germany. Steven Rowan is Professor of History at the University of Missouri, St. Louis. |
