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  • A History of Liturgical Books from the Beginning to the Thirteenth Century

    by Eric Palazzo, Madeleine Beaumont ...
    The history of liturgy and liturgical books is of interest not only for theologians and liturgists but also for historians, art historians, archaeologists, anthropologists, and researchers in religious sciences. This work meets the interdisciplinary need for a history and a typology of liturgical books.A History of Liturgical Books from the Beginning to the Thirteenth Century is an introduction to ... Read more

    $27.39 USD

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  • The Cult of the Saints

    Its Rise and Function in Latin Christianity, Enlarged Edition

    by Peter Brown ...
    A new edition of the "brilliantly original and highly sophisticated" study of saint worship after the fall of the Roman Empire ( Library Journal).In this groundbreaking work, Peter Brown explores how the worship of saints and their corporeal remains became central to religious life in Western Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire. During this period, earthly remnants served as a heavenly ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Through the Eye of a Needle

    Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD

    by Peter Brown ...
    Jesus taught his followers that it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter heaven. Yet by the fall of Rome, the church was becoming rich beyond measure. Through the Eye of a Needle is a sweeping intellectual and social history of the vexing problem of wealth in Christianity in the waning days of the Roman Empire, written by the world's foremost scholar ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • The Ransom of the Soul

    Afterlife and Wealth in Early Western Christianity

    by Peter Brown ...
    A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the YearA Tablet Book of the YearMarking a departure in our understanding of Christian views of the afterlife from 250 to 650 CE, The Ransom of the Soul explores a revolutionary shift in thinking about the fate of the soul that occurred around the time of Rome’s fall. Peter Brown describes how this shift transformed the Church’s institutional relationship to ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • Why Can the Dead Do Such Great Things?

    Saints and Worshippers from the Martyrs to the Reformation

    by Robert Bartlett ...
    "An indispensable point of departure for anyone interested in the cult of the saints in the Middle Ages." —Eamon Duffy, The New York Review of BooksFrom its earliest centuries, one of the most notable features of Christianity has been the veneration of the saints—the holy dead. This ambitious history tells the fascinating story of the cult of the saints from its origins in the second-century days ... Read more

    $23.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Furta Sacra

    Thefts of Relics in the Central Middle Ages - Revised Edition

    by Patrick J. Geary ...
    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 Sacra, Patrick Geary considers the social and cultural context for these acts, asking how the relics were perceived and why the thefts met with the approval of medieval Christians. ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Proving Woman

    Female Spirituality and Inquisitional Culture in the Later Middle Ages

    by Dyan Elliott ...
    Around the year 1215, female mystics and their sacramental devotion were among orthodoxy's most sophisticated weapons in the fight against heresy. Holy women's claims to be in direct communication with God placed them in positions of unprecedented influence. Yet by the end of the Middle Ages female mystics were frequently mistrusted, derided, and in danger of their lives. The witch hunts were just ... Read more

    $41.79 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Hildegard of Bingen

    Edited by Jennifer Bain ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    This specially commissioned collection of thirteen essays explores the life and works of Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179), monastic founder, leader of a community of nuns, composer, active correspondent, and writer of religious visions, theological treatises, sermons, and scientific and medical texts. Aimed at advanced university students and new Hildegard researchers, the essays provide a broad ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Pillars Of Community

    Four Rules of Pre-Benedictine Monastic Life

    by Terrence G. Kardong OSB ...
    Anyone who has explored a great Romanesque church has been impressed, even awed, by the mighty stone foundations supporting the great central tower. As four pillars give a firm base to these soaring structures, so four ancient Rules stand beneath the foundations of Western monasticism, giving a structure on which later spiritual architects, Benedict among them, would build. In this book Terrence ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • True Reform

    Liturgy and Ecclesiology in Sacrosanctum Concilium

    by Massimo Faggioli ...
    For Massimo Faggioli, the debate about the meaning of Vatican II too often misses the profound significance of that council's first and perhaps most consequential document, Sacrosanctum Concilium. The result is a misunderstanding of both the council as a whole and the liturgical reform that followed from it.In True Reform, Faggioli takes Sacrosanctum Concilium as a hermeneutical key to the council ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • 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

    $20.19 USD

  • Moral Choices

    The Moral Theology of St. Alphonsus Liguori

    by Theodule Rey-Mermet, CSSR ...
    Translated by Paul Laverdure ...
    This book chronicles Saint Alphonsus Liguori's contribution to the evolution of moral theology, a contribution that continues to influence contemporary Christian society more than 200 years after his death. Readers will come away with a renewed appreciation for this method of living and acting morally.Paperback ... Read more

    $13.09 USD