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  • Medieval Monasticism

    Forms of Religious Life in Western Europe in the Middle Ages

    by C.H. Lawrence, Janet Burton ...
    Series series The Medieval World
    Medieval Monasticism traces the Western Monastic tradition from its fourth-century origins in the deserts of Egypt and Syria through the many and varied forms of religious life it assumed during the Middle Ages. It explores the relationship between monasteries and the secular world around them.For a thousand years, the great monastic houses and religious orders were a prominent feature of the ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • The Friars

    The Impact of the Mendicant Orders on Medieval Society

    by C.H. Lawrence ...
    The mendicant friars of the Franciscan and Dominican orders played a unique and important role in medieval society. In the early thirteenth century, the Church was being challenged by a confident new secular culture, associated with the growth of towns, the rise of literature and articulate laity, the development of new sciences and the creation of the first universities. The mendicant orders ... Read more

    $36.49 USD

  • The Poet-historian Qian Qianyi

    by Lawrence C.H Yim ...
    Series series Academia Sinica on East Asia
    This book is the first English language study of Qian Qianyi (1582-1664) - a poet and literary critic during the Ming-Qing dynastic transition. Although Qian’s works constitute some of the greatest achievements in pre-modern Chinese lyric poetry, they have been largely understudied and are poorly understood. Qian was reputed for his own aesthetic that changed the character of late Ming and early ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

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  • Pontifex Maximus

    A Short History of the Popes

    by Christopher Lascelles ...
    “Lascelles has achieved the seemingly impossible: a concise and highly readable history of Catholic Popes that manages to be extremely entertaining and informative at the same time.”Gerald Posner, author of God’s Bankers"A brilliant book on a number of different levels. Lascelles has an engaging prose style and an amazing eye for detail and apposite anecdote. Surely only purblind Catholic zelanti ... Read more

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  • The Reformation: History in an Hour

    by Edward A Gosselin ...
    Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour.The Reformation was a long struggle of ideas between the established Catholic Church and the questioning of faith brought about by the Renaissance in Western Europe. Started by Martin Luther in 1517, religious dissidence spread across Europe throughout the sixteenth century, causing wars, migration and disunity. By 1648 Henry VIII’s desire for ... Read more

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  • The Reformation

    by Diarmaid MacCulloch ...
    The National Book Critics Circle Award–winning history of the Reformation—from the New York Times bestselling author of ChristianityAt a time when men and women were prepared to kill—and be killed—for their faith, the Protestant Reformation tore the Western world apart. Acclaimed as the definitive account of these epochal events, Diarmaid MacCulloch's award-winning history brilliantly re-creates ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Ten Popes Who Shook the World

    by Eamon Duffy ...
    "Simply brilliant" essays on the leaders who have most powerfully shaped not just the Church itself, but the course of human history ( Catholic Library World).The Bishops of Rome have been Christianity's most powerful leaders for nearly two millennia, and their influence has extended far beyond the purely spiritual. The popes have played a central role in the history of Europe and the wider world, ... Read more

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  • The Cathars

    The Most Successful Heresy of the Middle Ages

    by Sean Martin ...
    The gripping, tragic true story of a peaceful sect that was wiped out in Europe's first genocideFlourishing principally in the Languedoc and Italy, the Cathars taught that the world is evil and must be transcended through a simple life of prayer, work, fasting, and non-violence. They believed themselves to be the heirs of the true heritage of Christianity going back to apostolic times, and ... Read more

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  • History of Christianity

    by Paul Johnson ...
    First published in 1976, Paul Johnson’s exceptional study of Christianity has been loved and widely hailed for its intensive research, writing, and magnitude—“a tour de force, one of the most ambitious surveys of the history of Christianity ever attempted and perhaps the most radical” (New York Review of Books).In a highly readable companion to books on faith and history, the scholar and author ... Read more

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  • Why I Am a Catholic

    by Garry Wills ...
    An "intellectually satisfying, and spiritually moving," argument for a questioning, conscience-driven faith, by a New York Times bestselling author ( Booklist).Pulitzer Prize winner Garry Wills has been asked more than once why he remains in the Church, especially in the wake of his bestselling book Papal Sins, which examined the darker side of the religion's history. In Why I Am a Catholic, he ... Read more

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  • The War On Heresy

    Faith and Power in Medieval Europe

    by Professor R. I. Moore ...
    The great war on heresy obsessed medieval Europe in the centuries after the first millennium. R. I. Moore's vivid narrative focuses on the motives and anxieties of those who declared and conducted the war: what were the beliefs and practices they saw as heretical? How might such beliefs have arisen? And why were they such a threat?In western Europe at AD 1000 heresy had barely been heard of. Yet ... Read more

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