Harvard University Press
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Readers interested in history, and in the development of modern sensibility, will relish this large-scale yet intimately detailed examination of the blossoming of the ordinary and extraodinary people of the Renaissance and the Enlig ... more.

Jonathan Riley-Smith
Yale University Press
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'Everything is here: the crusades to the Holy Land, and against the Albigensians, the Moors, the pagans in Eastern Europe, the Turks, and the enemies of the popes. Riley-Smith writes in a beautiful, lucid pr ... more.

Patrick J. Geary
Calif Princeton Fulfilment
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To obtain sacred relics, medieval monks plundered tombs, avaricious merchants raided churches, and relic-mongers scoured the Roman catacombs. In a revised edition of Furta Sa ... more.

Andrea Sterk
Harvard University Press
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During the fourth to sixth centuries, church officials were increasingly recruited from monastic communities. The monk-bishop soon became the dominant model of leadership in E ... more.

Rudolph W. Heinze
Baker
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As Europe entered the Renaissance, significant political, social, economic, and theological forces transformed the Western church. Heinze's well-researched fourth vol ... more.

Richard Barber
Harvard University Press
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'Presents a comprehensive survey of the search for the Holy Grail from the 12th century to today. It is a rich book and, like the romances it discusses, taps into a seemingly unending well of meaning,'---The T ... more.

Lutz F. Kaelber
Penn State Press
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Sociologist Max Weber argued that medieval religious movements were an important source for the distinctive rationality of Western civilization. He intended to study ... more.

Lutz F. Kaelber
Penn State Press
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Sociologist Max Weber argued that medieval religious movements were an important source for the distinctive rationality of Western civilization. He intended to study ... more.

Timothy Fry
Random House, Inc
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Composed nearly fifteen hundred years ago by the father of Western monasticism, The Rule of St. Benedict has for centuries been the guide of religious communities. St. Benedict's rules of obedience, humility, and contemplation are ... more.

Mary Laven
Viking Adult
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Venice in the late Renaissance was a city of fabulous wealth, reckless creativity, and growing social unrest. It was also a city of walls and secrets, ghettos and cloisters. In this captivating book, Cambridge historian Mary Laven uncovers ... more.

Ross King
Penguin Putnam Inc.
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In 1508, despite strong advice to the contrary, the powerful Pope Julius II commissioned Michelangelo Buonarroti to paint the ceiling of the newly restored Sistine Chapel in Rome. Four years earlier, at the age of twenty-nin ... more.

Paul Cavill
Zondervan
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At the turn of the first millennium, the Vikings swept through Anglo-Saxon England, fierce, unexpected and unstoppable. Plundering not only monasteries and cathedrals, but the very underpinnings of a fragile culture, they ran unche ... more.

John A. Scott
University Notre Dame Press
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No work in English can rival the depth and breadth of this massive treatment, which comments on all of Dante's corpus. Scott is fluent in Italian, familiar with much of the secondary literature in European languages, and extremely kn ... more.

Mark Whittow
University Of California
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This book is an excellent, up-to-date reassessment of the Byzantine empire during a crucial phase in the history of the Near East. Well illustrated with original maps, it covers the last decade of the Roman empire as ... more.

Geoffrey Moorhouse
Harcourt Brace
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The Irish Monks of the Middle Ages have been credited with saving Western civilization. But what is known of their day-to-day lives--the spiritual struggles and triumphs or the unbelievable physical ... more.

Yale University Press
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In a historical introduction to each period, Robert Somerville and Bruce C. Brasington discuss major developments in canon law and the individual prefaces, ... more.

Diana Norman
Yale University Press
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Celebrating the Virgin Mary as both an object of religious devotion and a focus of civic pride, fourteenth century Sienese artists established within their city a vibrant pictoral tra ... more.

Continuum International
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'A collection of scholarly essays on Marguerite Porete and other 14th-century Beguine mystics and the influence of these women on the thought of Meister ... more.

Jonathan Riley-Smith
Ignatius Press
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(PUBIgnatius)Riley-Smith helped launch the modern reinterpretation of the medieval crusades with this trailblazing work. Provocative chapters include questions on what were the crusades, who were the crusa ... more.

Aidan Nichols
Continuum International
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Maximus the Confessor (560-662), giant among early Byzantine theologians, stands at the summit of the Greek patristic tradition. He is spokesman of the Greek-speaking 'East' in something of ... more.

G. Ronald Murphy
Oxford University Press
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This study is an interpretation and appreciation of the art of the Heiland, the 9th-century Saxon epic poem in which the Christian Gospel of the four evanglists is ... more.

Graham Speake
Yale University Press
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'Superb photographs, fascinating. Travelers and pilgrims alike, as well as those who prefer to stay at home, will relish this tour of Athos' history, its relics and treasures, and, in part, its consciousness,'---Lite ... more.

Plume
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First published in 1963, this unique and pioneering anthology has been continuously used as an invaluable text in the field of Russian studies, for it presented over 60 selections from the finest of Russia's med ... more.

J. C. Ryle
Banner Of Truth
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'From the Publisher:' The conviction that martyrs, though dead, can still speak to the church, led J. C. Ryle to pen these pungent biographies of five English Reformers. Along with an analysis of the reasons for their martyrdom, he ... more.

Bernard McGinn
Herder & Herder
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(PUBCrossroad)Now in softcover! 'No one will be able to write on Christian mysticism without taking this extraordinary book into account. McGinn has written the most important synoptic ... more.

John Julius Norwich
Random House, Inc
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For 1123 years, Constantinople remained the capital of the Byzantine Empire- the longest-lived and most continuously inspired Christian empire in the world. In this, the third and final volume of John Julius Nor ... more.

Bernard McGinn
Herder & Herder
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The year 1200 marks a dynamic turning point in the history of Christian mysticism. New forms of religious life provided the impetus for a 'new Mysticism' whose influence contin ... more.

Roger Sherman Loomis
Calif Princeton Fulfilment
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The medieval legend of the Grail, a tale about the search for supreme mystical experience, has never ceased to intrigue writers and scholars by its wildly variegated forms: the settings have ranged ... more.

Amin Maalouf
Random House, Inc
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European and Arab versions of the Crusades have little in common. What the West remembers as an epic effort to reconquer the Holy Land is portrayed here as a brutal, destructive, unprovoked invasion by barbarian hordes ... more.

Karen Armstrong
Random House, Inc
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In 1095, with the tomb of Jesus still in the hands of infidels and the Byzantine empire overrun by Muslim Turks, Pope Urban II summoned Christian warriors to take up the cross and their swords ... more.