Religion
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Authorship and Publicity Before Print [Paperback]
Daniel Hobbins (Author)
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ISBN: 9780812222746
Published by : Pennsylvania University Press
Widely recognized by contemporaries as the most powerful theologian of his generation, Jean Gerson (1363-1429) dominated the stage of western Europe during a time of plague, fratricidal war, and religious schism. Daniel Hobbins argues for a new... .... Learn More -
From Knowledge to Beatitude: St. Victor, Twelfth-Century Scholars, and Beyond [Hardback]
E. Ann Matter (Editor); Lesley Smith (Editor)
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ISBN: 9780268035280
Published by : University of Notre Dame Press
From Knowledge to Beatitude is a collection of original essays on the intersection between Christian theology and spiritual life primarily in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, especially in the Parisian School of St. Victor, which honors the i... .... Learn More -
Absolute Monarchs [Hardback]
John Julius Norwich (Author)
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ISBN: 9781400067152
Published by : Random House
An entertaining one-volume history of the papacy. Rather than aim at comprehensiveness Norwich chooses to focus his attention on a selection of the most interesting and momentous papal reigns, demonstrating periods of papal power and weakness, pol... .... Learn More -
Francis of Assisi [Paperback]
Augustine Thompson (Author)
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ISBN: 9780801479069
Published by : Cornell University Press
Francis of Assisi: The Life is an elegant and accessible biography of one of Catholicism's most beloved saints. Originally published as Part 1 of Francis of Assisi: A New Biography by Augustine Thompson, O.P., it stands alone as a richly informed ... .... Learn More -
Religion in Medieval London [Paperback]
Bruno Barber (Author); Christopher Thomas (Author); Bruce Watson (Author)
£10.00ISBN: 9781907586071
Published by : MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology)
Religious belief was central to the lives - and deaths - of all medieval Londoners. Religion was fully integrated into the social and political order, providing the population with an understanding of their place in the world and inspiring arti... .... Learn More -
Religious Men and Masculine Identity in the Middle Ages [Hardback]
P. H. Cullum (Editor); Katherine J. Lewis (Editor)
£70.00ISBN: 9781843838630
Published by : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
The complex relationship between masculinity and religion, as experienced in both the secular and ecclesiastical worlds, forms the focus for this volume, whose range encompasses the rabbis of the Babylonian and Palestinian Talmud, and moves via Ca... .... Learn More -
The Fabric of Marian Devotion in Isabel de Villena's Vita Christi [Hardback]
Lesley K. Twomey (Author)
£65.00ISBN: 9781855662483
Published by : Boydell & Brewer
Isabel de Villena (1430-1490) is one of the most fascinating women of the Spanish middle ages. Related to the royal family, she became abbess of the Poor Clare convent, the Santa Trinitat, in Valencia in 1462, a position she held for almost thirty... .... Learn More -
Negotiating the Landscape [Hardback]
Ellen F. Arnold (Author)
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ISBN: 9780812244632
Published by : Pennsylvania University Press
Negotiating the Landscape explores the question of how medieval religious identities were shaped and modified by interaction with the natural environment. Focusing on the Benedictine monastic community of Stavelot-Malmedy in the Ardennes, Ellen F.... .... Learn More -
Blessed Louis, the Most Glorious of Kings [Paperback]
M. Cecilia Gaposchkin (Translator)
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ISBN: 9780268029845
Published by : University of Notre Dame Press
With the aim of showing Saint Louis as he was commemorated in the literature of the Middle Ages, this book presents six previously untranslated texts: two little-known but early and important vitae of Saint Louis; two unedited sermons by the Paris... .... Learn More -
Mortgage of the Past: Reshaping the Ancient Political Inheritance (1050-1300) [Hardback]
Francis Oakley (Author)
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ISBN: 9780300176339
Published by : Yale University Press
Francis Oakley continues his magisterial three-part history of the emergence of Western political thought during the Middle Ages with this second volume in the series. Here, Oakley explores kingship from the tenth century to the beginning of the f... .... Learn More
