The Birth of Modern Belief
Faith and Judgment from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment
An illuminating history of how religious belief lost its uncontested status in the WestThis landmark book traces the history of belief in the Christian West from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment, revealing for the first time how a distinctively modern category of belief came into being. Ethan Shagan focuses not on what people believed, which is the normal concern of Reformation history, but on the more fundamental question of what people took belief to be.Shagan shows how religious belief enjoyed a special prestige in medieval Europe, one that set it apart from judgment, opinion, and the evidence of the senses. But with the outbreak of th…
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- ISBN: 978-0-691-18494-4
- EAN: 9780691184944
- Produktnummer: 27639819
- Verlag: Canongate Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 408 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 4'655 KB
- Abbildungen: 4 b/w illus.
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Ethan H. Shagan
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