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Luke Clossey

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Paperback978-1-80064-818-0
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Language

  • English

Dimensions

Paperback156 x 56 x 234 mm(6.14" x 2.2" x 9.21")
Hardback156 x 234 mm (6.14" x 9.21")

Weight

Paperback1492g (52.63oz)

Media

Illustrations130
Tables13
Audio6

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  • HBLC1
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  • REL015000
  • REL075000
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Keywords

  • Jesus
  • Medieval
  • Renaissance
  • Religion
  • Social and intellectual history

    Jesus and the Making of the Modern Mind, 1380-1520

    • Luke Clossey (author)
    FORTHCOMING
    For his fifteenth-century followers, Jesus was everywhere – from baptism to bloodcults to bowling. This sweeping and unconventional investigation looks at Jesus across one hundred forty years of social, cultural, and intellectual history. Mystics married him, Renaissance artists painted him in three dimensions, Muslim poets praised his life-giving breath, and Christopher (“Christ-bearing”) Columbus brought the symbol of his cross to the Americas. Beyond the European periphery, this global study follows Jesus across – and sometimes between – religious boundaries, from Greenland to Kongo to China.

    Amidst this diversity, Jesus and the Making of the Modern Mind, 1380-1520 offers readers sympathetic and immersive insight into the religious realities of its subjects. To this end, this book identifies two perspectives: one uncovers hidden meanings and unexpected connections, while the other restricts Jesus to the space and time of human history. Minds that believed in Jesus, and those that opposed him, made use of both perspectives to make sense of their worlds.

    This book includes over one hundred images, tables and audio clips.

    Table of Contents

    Acknowledgements

    Abbreviations


    INTRODUCTION

    1. The Book in a Nutshell

    2. The Two Kens

    3. The Development of the Jesus Cult

    4. The Many Lives of Jesus


    SPACES

    5. Jesus Places

    6. Internal Frontiers between Jews, Christians, Muslims

    7. Expansion of the Jesus Cult


    TANGIBLES

    8. Jesus Objects

    9. The Eucharist in Its Liturgical Context

    10. Making Canon


    IDEAS

    11. Interpreting Canon

    12. Ways of Knowing

    13. Nicholas of Cusa’s Jesus


    SIGHTS

    14. Art and the Deep Ken

    15. Art and the Plain Ken

    16. Extraordinary Jesus Images


    SOUNDS

    17. Language and Power

    18. Elevated Speech and Song


    ORIENTATIONS

    19. Resembling Jesus

    20. Intimacy with Jesus

    21. Ethics, Pacifism, Vegetarianism

    22. Afterword: History between the Kens


    List of Illustrations

    List of Tables

    List of Audio Clips

    Glossary

    Appendix A: Historiographical Context

    Appendix B: Historical Development of the Plain Ken in Christianity

    Appendix C: The Plain and Deep Kens

    Select Bibliography

    List of Manuscripts

    Index


    Contributors

    Luke Clossey

    (author)
    Associate Professor of Global History at Simon Fraser University

    Luke Clossey is an associate professor of global history at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. His first book, Salvation and Globalization in the Early Jesuit Missions (Cambridge UP, 2008), won the Canadian Historical Association's Ferguson Prize for best work of non-Canadian history; a chapter from it won a paper prize from the World History Association. His writings on global religion, the history of ideas, and history methodology have appeared in the Journal of World History, the Journal of Global History, the Journal of Early Modern History, the Sixteenth Century Journal, Global History Review 全球史评 论 , History Compass, the Wiley-Blackwell Companion to World Literature, and The Cambridge World History.