 | Monks and Nuns, Saints and Outcasts: Religion in Medieval Society A new generation of historians today is borrowing from cultural anthropology, post-modern critical theory, and gender studies to understand the social meanings of medieval religious movements, practices, figures, and cults. In this volume Sharon... Sharon Farmer is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of Communities of Saint Martin: Legend and Ritual in Medieval Tours , also from Cornell. Barbara H. Rosenwein is Professor of History, Loyola University, Chicago, and editor of the Cornell series "Conjunctions of Religion and Power in the Medieval Past." Notable among her other books are To Be the Neighbor of Saint Peter: The Social Meaning of Cluny's Property, 909-1049 and Negotiating Space: Power, Restraint, and Privileges of Immunity in Early Medieval Europe , both from Cornell. She is also the editor of the Cornell University Press book Anger's Past: The Social Uses of an Emotion in the Middle Ages . |
