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" Doubt in an age of faith : "
by Sabina Flanagan.
Document Type
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BL
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Record Number
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858699
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Main Entry
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Flanagan, Sabina,1948-
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Title & Author
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Doubt in an age of faith : : uncertainty in the long twelfth century /\ by Sabina Flanagan.
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Publication Statement
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Turnhout :: Brepols,, 2008.
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Series Statement
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Disputatio ;; v. 17
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Page. NO
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xiii, 212 pages ;; 25 cm
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ISBN
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2503527485
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: 9782503527482
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Notes
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Includes index.
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Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Contents
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Sites and soundings -- Secular doubt -- Spiritual doubt -- Discussions of the nature of doubt -- The benefits of doubt -- Disadvantages of doubt -- A commendation of doubt?
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Abstract
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"Doubt in an Age of Faith presents the first systematic scholarly treatment of doubt and its cultural role in Latin Christendom during the long twelfth century (c. 1060-1220). Flanagan rejects the popular image of the credulous Middle Ages, showing the centrality of doubt to intellectual and religious discourses of the period. However this wide-ranging investigation is not confined to matters of faith or religious scepticism. Examining doubt as both a psychological and social phenomenon, Flanagan explores how medieval people experienced uncertainty, and the different ways in which they sought to resolve it. Both positive and negative aspects of doubt are discussed. Her proposal that the rejection of doubt as a tool of intellectual inquiry, coupled with the quest for ever-greater certainty, contributed to the closing of minds that marked the thirteenth century has obvious implications for our own times."--Jacket.
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Subject
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Belief and doubt.
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Civilization, Medieval-- 12th century.
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Faith.
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Religious thought-- Middle Ages, 600-1500.
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Subject
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Belief and doubt.
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Civilization, Medieval.
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Subject
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Faith.
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Glaubenszweifel
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Politische Krise
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Religious thought-- Middle Ages.
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Subject
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Skeptizismus
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Dewey Classification
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270.4
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LC Classification
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BR253.F53 2008
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NLM classification
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11.52bcl
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BO 4860rvk
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