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  • Mount Athos and Byzantine Monasticism

    Papers from the Twenty-Eighth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, University of Birmingham, March 1994

    by Anthony Bryer, Mary Cunningham ...
    Series series Publications of the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies
    The papers in this volume derive from the 28th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, held for the Society for the promotion of Byzantine Studies at the Univesity of Birmingham in March 1994. Virtually from the time of their first foundation, the monastic communities of Mt Athos assumed a central position in the world of Orthodox Christianity. The spiritual, and political and economic influence of ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

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  • Holy Blood, Holy Grail Illustrated Edition

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  • Why Can the Dead Do Such Great Things?

    Saints and Worshippers from the Martyrs to the Reformation

    by Robert Bartlett ...
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  • Unrivalled Influence

    Women and Empire in Byzantium

    by Judith Herrin ...
    Unrivalled Influence explores the exceptional roles that women played in the vibrant cultural and political life of medieval Byzantium. Written by one of the world's foremost historians of the Byzantine millennium, this landmark book evokes the complex and exotic world of Byzantium's women, from empresses and saints to uneducated rural widows. Drawing on a diverse range of sources, Judith Herrin ... Read more

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  • Voltaire

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Nicholas Cronk ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Voltaire (1694-1778), best remembered as the author of Candide, is one of the central actors -- arguably the defining personality -- of the European Enlightenment. In this Very Short Introduction, Nicholas Cronk explores Voltaire's remarkable career and demonstrates how his thinking is pivotal to our notion and understanding of the Enlightenment. In a fresh and modern examination of his writings, ... Read more

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  • The Secret History of Freemasonry

    Its Origins and Connection to the Knights Templar

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  • The Maronites

    The Origins of an Antiochene Church

    by Naaman Paul ...
    Series Book 243 - Cistercian Studies Series
    The Maronite Church is one of twenty-two Eastern Catholic Churches in communion with the Pope of Rome. Her patriarch is in Lebanon. Forty-three bishops and approximately five million faithful make up her presence throughout the world.The story of Maron, a fifth-century hermit-priest, and the community gathered around him, later called the Maronites, tells another fascinating story of the monastic ... Read more

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    by Richard W. Kaeuper ...
    Series series The Middle Ages Series
    The medieval code of chivalry demanded that warrior elites demonstrate fierce courage in battle, display prowess with weaponry, and avenge any strike against their honor. They were also required to be devout Christians. How, then, could knights pledge fealty to the Prince of Peace, who enjoined the faithful to turn the other cheek rather than seek vengeance and who taught that the meek, rather ... Read more

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    Huguenot Refugees in the Dutch Republic, 1680�1700

    by David van der Linden ...
    Series series Politics and Culture in Europe, 1650-1750
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  • Margins and Metropolis

    Authority across the Byzantine Empire

    by Judith Herrin ...
    This volume explores the political, cultural, and ecclesiastical forces that linked the metropolis of Byzantium to the margins of its far-flung empire. Focusing on the provincial region of Hellas and Peloponnesos in central and southern Greece, Judith Herrin shows how the prestige of Constantinople was reflected in the military, civilian, and ecclesiastical officials sent out to govern the ... Read more

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