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      Positively Medieval

      The Surprising, Dynamic, Heroic Church of the Middle Ages

      Positively

      Medieval

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      The Surprising, Dynamic, Heroic Church of the Middle Ages

       Jamie Blosser

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      Scripture quotations are from the Revised Standard Version of the Bible—Second Catholic Edition (Ignatius Edition), copyright © 1965, 1966, 2006 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

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      Copyright © 2016 by Jamie Blosser. Published 2016.

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      ISBN: 978-1-68192-028-3 (Inventory No. T1785)

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      Contents

       Preface

       Introduction

       Map

       Medieval Missionaries

       St. Columba (521–597)

       St. Augustine of Canterbury (d. 604)

       St. Willibrord (658–739)

       St. Boniface (d. 754)

       Sts. Cyril (826–869) and Methodius (815–885)

       Medieval Leaders

       St. Gregory the Great (540–604)

       St. Alcuin of York (735–804)

       Charlemagne (742–814)

       St. Elizabeth of Hungary (1207–1231)

       St. Louis IX (1214–1270)

       Medieval Martyrs

       St. Boethius (480–524)

       St. Wenceslaus (d. 929)

       St. Thomas Becket (1118–1170)

       St. Joan of Arc (1412–1431)

       Medieval Monastics

       St. Benedict of Nursia (480–547)

       St. Odo of Cluny (878–942)

       St. Dominic de Guzman (1170–1221)

       St. Francis of Assisi (1181–1226)

       St. Clare of Assisi (1194–1253)

       Gerard Groote (1340–1384)

       Medieval Mystics

       St. Bernard of Clairvaux (1090–1153)

       St. Hildegard of Bingen (1098–1179)

       Meister Eckhart (1260–1327)

       Blessed Jan van Ruysbruck (1293–1381)

       Julian of Norwich (c. 1342–1423)

       St. Catherine of Siena (1347–1380)

       Medieval Thinkers

       St. Augustine of Hippo (354–430)

       St. Anselm of Canterbury (d. 1109)

       Robert Grosseteste (1175–1253)

       St. Bonaventure (1221–1274)

       St. Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274)

       Medieval Eastern Christians

       Justinian (483–565)

       Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite (late fifth century)

       St. Maximus the Confessor (580–662)

       St. John Damascene (676–749)

       Gregory Palamas (1296–1359)

       Bibliography

       Preface

      When I went off to college at the age of eighteen, I hadn’t put much thought into what medieval Christianity was like, but in the back of my mind were images of dirty, sickly people living in mud huts and worshiping statues of Mary, opulently dressed churchmen hawking relics and indulgences, and sneering Inquisitors burning witches and Protestants. I’m not sure who, exactly, was responsible for putting these images into my head, but I’m pretty sure it was a collective effort.

      I was a Protestant, though not a very good one, and that probably had something to do with


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