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Luke ClosseyPublished On
2024-05-02ISBN
Paperback978-1-80064-818-0
Hardback978-1-78374-957-7
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Language
- English
Print Length
800 pages (xiv+786)Dimensions
Paperback156 x 56 x 234 mm(6.14" x 2.2" x 9.21")
Hardback156 x 59 x 234 mm(6.14" x 2.32" x 9.21")
Weight
Paperback1492g (52.63oz)
Hardback1684g (59.40oz)
Media
Illustrations131
Tables13
Audio6
OCLC Number
1432557271LCCN
2021388868THEMA
- QRAX
- QRAC
- NHDJ
BIC
- HBLC1
- HBJD
- HBLC
- HRCA
BISAC
- REL015000
- REL075000
- HIS037010
LCC
- BT304.3
Keywords
- Jesus
- Medieval
- Renaissance
- Religion
- Social and intellectual history
Jesus and the Making of the Modern Mind, 1380-1520
- Luke Clossey (author)
Winner of the Honorable mention for the Phyllis Goodhart Gordan Book Prize.
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.
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Contents
1. The Book in a Nutshell
(pp. 3–12)- Luke Clossey
2. The Two Kens
(pp. 13–28)- Luke Clossey
3. The Development of the Jesus Cult
(pp. 29–56)- Luke Clossey
4. The Many Lives of Jesus
(pp. 57–78)- Luke Clossey
5. Jesus Places
(pp. 81–102)- Luke Clossey
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7. Expansion of the Jesus Cult
(pp. 129–161)- Luke Clossey
8. Jesus Objects
(pp. 165–198)- Luke Clossey
9. The Eucharist in its Liturgical Context
(pp. 199–240)- Luke Clossey
10. Making Canon
(pp. 241–264)- Luke Clossey
11. Interpreting Canon
(pp. 267–332)- Luke Clossey
12. Ways of Knowing
(pp. 333–354)- Luke Clossey
13. Nicholas of Cusa’s Jesus
(pp. 355–374)- Luke Clossey
14. Art and the Deep Ken
(pp. 377–410)- Luke Clossey
15. Art and the Plain Ken
(pp. 411–474)- Luke Clossey
16. Extraordinary Jesus Images
(pp. 475–515)- Luke Clossey
17. Language and Power
(pp. 519–548)- Luke Clossey
18. Elevated Speech and Song
(pp. 549–590)- Luke Clossey
19. Resembling Jesus
(pp. 593–614)- Luke Clossey
20. Intimacy with Jesus
(pp. 615–644)- Luke Clossey
21. Ethics, Pacifism, Vegetarianism
(pp. 645–692)- Luke Clossey
22. Afterword: History Between the Kens
(pp. 693–700)- Luke Clossey
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.