Religion
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Viewing Disability in Medieval Spanish Texts: Disgraced or Graced [Hardback]
Connie L. Scarborough (Author)
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ISBN: 9789089648754
Published by : Amsterdam University Press
Series: Premodern Health, Disease, and Disability
This book is one of the first to examine medieval Spanish canonical works for their portrayals of disability in relationship to theological teachings, legal precepts, and medical knowledge. Connie L. Scarborough shows that physical impairments wer... .... Learn More -
Ruling the Spirit: Women, Liturgy, and Dominican Reform in Late Medieval Germany [Hardback]
Claire Taylor Jones (Author)
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ISBN: 9780812249552
Published by : Pennsylvania University Press
Series: The Middle Ages Series
Histories of the German Dominican order have long presented a grand narrative of its origin, fall, and renewal: a Golden Age at the order's founding in the thirteenth century, a decline of Dominican learning and spirituality in the fourteenth, and... .... Learn More -
Religion, Cults & Rituals in the Medieval Rural Environment: Religion, Kulte und Rituale in der mittelalterlichen bäuerlichen Umgebung | Réligion, cultes et rituels au milieu rural médiéval [Paperback]
Christiane Bis-Worch (Editor); Claudia Theune (Editor)
£60.00ISBN: 9789088904868
Published by : Sidestone Press
Series: Ruralia
Volume: XI
The study of belief, faith and religious practices can provide a deep insight into historical societies, whether Christian, Muslim, Jewish or pagan. They form a constant of human behaviour. Through religion, cult and rituals, multi-layered and com... .... Learn More -
Religion, Cults & Rituals in the Medieval Rural Environment: Religion, Kulte und Rituale in der mittelalterlichen bäuerlichen Umgebung | Réligion, cultes et rituels au milieu rural médiéval [Hardback]
Christiane Bis-Worch (Editor); Claudia Theune (Editor)
£180.00ISBN: 9789088904875
Published by : Sidestone Press
Series: Ruralia
Volume: XI
The study of belief, faith and religious practices can provide a deep insight into historical societies, whether Christian, Muslim, Jewish or pagan. They form a constant of human behaviour. Through religion, cult and rituals, multi-layered and com... .... Learn More -
Monastic Archaeology [Paperback]
Graham Keevill (Editor); Mick Aston (Editor); Teresa Hall (Editor)
£36.00Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781785705670
Published by : Oxbow Books
The study of monasteries has come a long way since late the late 19th century. The emphasis has shifted away from reconstructing the layouts of monastic buildings to a better understanding of the wider monastic environment. The papers in this volu... .... Learn More -
Cross and Culture in Anglo-Norman England: Theology, Imagery, Devotion [Hardback]
John Munns (Author)
£70.00ISBN: 9781783271269
Published by : Boydell & Brewer
The twelfth century has long been recognised as a period of unusual vibrancy and importance, witnessing seminal changes in the inter-related spheres of theology, devotional practice, and iconography, especially with regard to the cross and the cru... .... Learn More -
The Middle English Bible: A Reassessment [Hardback]
Henry Ansgar Kelly (Author)
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ISBN: 9780812248340
Published by : Pennsylvania University Press
In the last quarter of the fourteenth century, the complete Old and New Testaments were translated from Latin into English, first very literally, and then revised into a more fluent, less Latinate style. This outstanding achievement, the Middle En... .... Learn More -
The Scottish Legendary: Towards a poetics of hagiographic narration [Hardback]
Eva Von Contzen (Author)
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ISBN: 9780719095962
Published by : Manchester University Press
This is the first book-length study of the Scottish Legendary of the late fourteenth century. the only extant collection of saints’ lives in the vernacular from medieval Scotland, the work scrutinises the dynamics of hagiographic narration, its im... .... Learn More -
Meister Eckhart: Philosopher of Christianity [Hardback]
Kurt Flasch (Author)
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ISBN: 9780300204865
Published by : Yale University Press
Renowned philosopher Kurt Flasch offers a full-scale reappraisal of the life and legacy of Meister Eckhart, the medieval German theologian, philosopher, and alleged mystic who was active during the Avignon Papacy of the fourteenth century and post... .... Learn More -
The Strange Case of Ermine de Reims: A Medieval Woman Between Demons and Saints [Hardback]
Renata Blumenfeld-Kosinski (Author)
Regular Price: £45.00
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ISBN: 9780812247152
Published by : Pennsylvania University Press
In 1384, a poor and illiterate peasant woman called Ermine moved to the city of Reims with her elderly husband. Her era was troubled by war, plague, and papal schism within the Catholic Church, and Ermine could easily have slipped unobserved throu... .... Learn More
