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Contesting Christendom: Readings in Medieval Religion and Culture by Thomas A. Fudge, Eamon Duffy, Georges Duby, James L. Halverson, Constance Brittain Bouchard, Keith Thomas, Caroline Walker Bynum, Ian N. Wood, Rob Means, Peter R.L. Brown, Bernd Moeller, Katherine L. French, Jane Tibbets Schulenburg, Richard Fletcher, Karen Louise Jolly, Marcus Bull, Rudolf Bell, Joan Ferrante, Herbert Grundmann, Lester K. Little, Andrew P. Roach, Mark R. Cohen

elzbethmrgn's review

3.0

Collated specifically for new students of Medieval Christianity, this book puts together chapters from already published works that cover some of the wavy edges around the definition of Christianity in Medieval society and how it affected not only men and women, but people of other religions (Jews and pagans) as well. None of the works contain referencing, except to the original article/book, for the purpose of making students search out the authors if they want to learn more, which makes it interesting light bed-time reading rather than serious and weighty research reading.