Religion
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Images of Salvation: The Story of the Bible through Medieval Art (New & Improved Third Edition) [CD]
Dee Dyas (Editor)
$24.95ISBN: 9780955067334
Published by : Christianity and Culture
Images of Salvation is an interactive CD-ROM providing
one hundred and eighty images illustrating biblical themes from Genesis to Revelation, together with background material explaining the doctrinal and art historical context. Each ... .... Learn More -
Karl der Grosse im italienischen Renaissance-Humanismus: Die Vita Caroli Magni des Hilarion aus Verona fuer Francesco Tedeschini-Piccolomini [Paperback]
Wolfgang Strobl (Author)
$46.00ISBN: 9783700165620
Published by : Austrian Academy of Sciences Press
Series: WIENER STUDIEN
Volume: 34
Most probably in the late 1470s or in the early 1480s, the historically keen cardinal and patron Francesco Tedeschini Piccolomini (1437/391503) requested a revision of an older Vita Caroli Magni with regard to content and style of the m... .... Learn More -
Whitby Abbey - Guidebook [Paperback]
Steven Brindle (Author)
$9.00ISBN: 9781848020726
Published by : English Heritage
High on their windswept headland, the imposing ruins of Whitby Abbey dominate the busy harbour town below. Originally founded in the seventh century and ruled by the renowned Abbess Hild, the first monastery here was the setting for one of the ... .... Learn More -
Anchoritic Traditions of Medieval Europe [Hardback]
Elizabeth Herbert McAvoy (Author)
$90.00Out of stock
ISBN: 9781843835202
Published by : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
The practice of anchoritism - religious enclosure which was frequently solitary and voluntarily embraced, very often in a permanent capacity - was widespread in many areas of Europe throughout the middle ages. This volume presents the latest resea... .... Learn More -
Light to the Isles: Mission and Theology in Celtic and Anglo-Saxon Britain [Paperback]
Douglas Dales (Author)
$41.50ISBN: 9780227173411
Published by : James Clarke & Co
In AD 597, St Augustine arrived at Canterbury to preach the gospel to the heathen English, and in 1997 the fourteen hundredth anniversary of his coming was celebrated by millions of English-speaking Christians around the world. The history of the ... .... Learn More -
Heilige - Liturgie - Raum [Paperback]
Dieter R Bauer (Editor); Klaus Herbers (Editor); Hedwig Rockelein (Editor); Felicitas Schmieder (Editor)
$64.00ISBN: 9783515096041
Published by : Franz Steiner Verlag
Series: Beiträge zur Hagiographie
Volume: 8
English summary: Religion is essentially determined by Holiness. It manifests itself in the sacred space that is demarcated from the outer world, but occurs also at certain times in specific acts and in the most excellent human appearance. ... .... Learn More -
Gruendungsmythen fränkischer Klöster im Frueh- und Hochmittelalter [Paperback]
Christofer Zwanzig (Author)
$112.00ISBN: 9783515097314
Published by : Franz Steiner Verlag
Series: Beiträge zur Hagiographie
Volume: 9
English summary: Foundational documents could provide monastic communities with answers to the question Who are we? even long after their founding. They are therefore to be understood as a historical reference source on two levels. On the o... .... Learn More -
Platon, Plotin und Marsilio Ficino: Studien zu den Vorläufern und zur Rezeption des Florentiner Neuplatonismus [Paperback]
Maria-Christina Leitgeb (Editor); Stéphane Toussaint (Author); Herbert Bannert (Author)
$49.00ISBN: 9783700166009
Published by : Austrian Academy of Sciences Press
Series: WIENER STUDIEN
Volume: 33
This volume is a collection of aspects of discussions on an astonishing abundance of scientific, medical, astrological and mythological subjects which are to be found in the writings of the Florentine philosopher, theologian and doctor, Marsili... .... Learn More -
Une Controverse sur la magie et la kabbale à la Renaissance [Hardback]
Jerome Rousse-Lacordaire (Author)
$151.00ISBN: 9782600013277
Published by : Librairie Droz S.A.
Series: Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance
Volume: 465
In December 1486, Pico della Mirandola published his Nine Hundred Theses. Alerted to the provocative nature of these theses, Pope Innocent VIII set up a commission of theologians, launched an inquisitorial procedure and condemned all of ... .... Learn More -
"Faire justice" dans le diocèse de Liège au Moyen Age (VIII-XII siècles): Essai de droit judiciaire reconstitué [Paperback]
Julien Maquet (Author)
$130.00ISBN: 9782870192900
Published by : Librairie Droz S.A.
Series: Bibliothèque de la Faculté de Philosophie et Lettres de L'université de Liège
Volume: 290
Based on critical documents, the goal of this book is to try to rebuild the way of the exercise of justice in the diocese of Liège during the Middle Age (8th-12th c.). All kinds of courts are analyzed : "ordinary" courts (episcopal synod, dean ... .... Learn More