Popular Belief and Practice Cuming Baker Paperback Cambridge University Press

Popular Belief and PracticePapers Read at the Ninth Summer Meeting and the Tenth Winter Meeting of the Ecclesiastical History Society\nAuthor(s): G. J. Cuming, Derek Baker\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521100007, 978-0521100007\nSynopsis\nThis eighth volume of Studies in Church History contains twenty-six papers read at two recent meetings of the Ecclesiastical History Society. Popular religion, in theory and practice, within established religious forms and outside them, against a background of acceptance or of controversy, is examined in studies ranging from Professor Momigliano's analysis of the attitude of the later Roman historians to Professor Latreille's discussion of popular piety in modern France. A number of papers focus on the attitudes to sanctity and relics in the central Middle Ages. There is also a significant and wide-ranging discussion centred on the theme of the Presidentia.