Background
Thompson, Augustine Craig was born in 1954 in Mineola, New York, United States. Son of Arthur Thomas and Anna Dean Thompson.
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Cities of God: The Religion of the Italian Communes, 1125-1325 Thompson, Augustine ( Author ) { Paperback } 2006
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Cities of God: The Religion of the Italian Communes, 1125-1325
(We know much about the Italian city states—the “communes”...)
We know much about the Italian city states—the “communes”—of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. But historians have focused on their political accomplishments to the exclusion of their religious life, going so far as to call them “purely secular contrivances.” When religion is considered, the subjects are usually saints, heretics, theologians, and religious leaders, thereby ignoring the vast majority of those who lived in the communes. In Cities of God, Augustine Thompson gives a voice to the forgotten majority—orthodox lay people and those who ministered to them. Thompson positions the Italian republics in sacred space and time. He maps their religious geography as it was expressed through political and voluntary associations, ecclesiastical and civil structures, common ritual life, lay saints, and miracle-working shrines. He takes the reader through the rituals and celebrations of the communal year, the people’s corporate and private experience of God, and the “liturgy” of death and remembrance. In the process he challenges a host of stereotypes about “orthodox” medieval religion, the Italian city-states, and the role of new religious movements in the world of Francis of Assisi, Thomas Aquinas, and Dante. Cities of God is bold, revisionist history in the tradition of Eamon Duffy’s Stripping of the Altars. Drawing on a wide repertoire of ecclesiastical and secular sources, from city statutes and chronicles to saints’ lives and architecture, Thompson recaptures the religious origins and texture of the Italian republics and allows their inhabitants a spiritual voice that we have never heard before.
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Cities of God: The Religion of the Italian Communes, 1125-1325
( We know much about the Italian city states—the “commune...)
We know much about the Italian city states—the “communes”—of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. But historians have focused on their political accomplishments to the exclusion of their religious life, going so far as to call them “purely secular contrivances.” When religion is considered, the subjects are usually saints, heretics, theologians, and religious leaders, thereby ignoring the vast majority of those who lived in the communes. In Cities of God, Augustine Thompson gives a voice to the forgotten majority—orthodox lay people and those who ministered to them. Thompson positions the Italian republics in sacred space and time. He maps their religious geography as it was expressed through political and voluntary associations, ecclesiastical and civil structures, common ritual life, lay saints, and miracle-working shrines. He takes the reader through the rituals and celebrations of the communal year, the people’s corporate and private experience of God, and the “liturgy” of death and remembrance. In the process he challenges a host of stereotypes about “orthodox” medieval religion, the Italian city-states, and the role of new religious movements in the world of Francis of Assisi, Thomas Aquinas, and Dante. Cities of God is bold, revisionist history in the tradition of Eamon Duffy’s Stripping of the Altars. Drawing on a wide repertoire of ecclesiastical and secular sources, from city statutes and chronicles to saints’ lives and architecture, Thompson recaptures the religious origins and texture of the Italian republics and allows their inhabitants a spiritual voice that we have never heard before.
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Augustine Craig Thompson
Edit ProfileEducation
Bachelor, Johns Hopkins University, 1976. Master of Arts, Johns Hopkins University, 1976. Master of Divinity, St. Albert's College, 1985.
Doctor of Philosophy, University California, Berkeley, 1988.
Career
Assistant professor, then associate professor religious history University Oregon, Eugene, 1990—1999, chairman department religious studies, 1996—1999. Associate professor religious studies and histiry University Virginia, Charlottesville, 1999—2006, director graduate studies in religion, since 2004, professor religious studies and history, since 2006. Pastor Catholic Center Southern (Oregon) State College, Ashland, 1995—1996.
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- Cities of God: The Religion of the Italian Communes, 1125-1325 Thompson, Augustine ( Author ) { Paperback } 2006
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Cities of God: The Religion of the Italian Communes, 1125-1325
(We know much about the Italian city states—the “communes”...)
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Cities of God: The Religion of the Italian Communes, 1125-1325
( We know much about the Italian city states—the “commune...)
- Cities of God: The Religion of the Italian Communes, 1125-1325
Membership
Provincial councillor We. Dominican Province, Oakland, California, 1996—2001. Member of Medieval Academy American, American Catholic History Association, American History Association.
