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  • The Dangers of Ritual

    Between Early Medieval Texts and Social Scientific Theory

    by Philippe Buc ...
    Central to current understandings of medieval history is the concept of political ritual, encompassing events from coronations to funerals, entries into cities, civic games, banquets, hunting, acts of submission or commendation, and more. ''Ritual?'' asks Philippe Buc. In The Dangers of Ritual he boldly argues that the concept shouldn't be so central after all. Modern-day scholars, gently seduced ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Holy War, Martyrdom, and Terror

    Christianity, Violence, and the West

    by Philippe Buc ...
    Series series Haney Foundation Series
    Holy War, Martyrdom, and Terror examines the ways that Christian theology has shaped centuries of conflict from the Jewish-Roman War of late antiquity through the First Crusade, the French Revolution, and up to the Iraq War. By isolating one factor among the many forces that converge in war—the essential tenets of Christian theology—Philippe Buc locates continuities in major episodes of violence ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Holy War, Martyrdom, and Terror

    Christianity, Violence, and the West

    by Philippe Buc ...
    Series series Haney Foundation Series
    Holy War, Martyrdom, and Terror examines the ways that Christian theology has shaped centuries of conflict from the Jewish-Roman War of late antiquity through the First Crusade, the French Revolution, and up to the Iraq War. By isolating one factor among the many forces that converge in war—the essential tenets of Christian theology—Philippe Buc locates continuities in major episodes of violence ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

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  • The Cult of the Saints

    Its Rise and Function in Latin Christianity, Enlarged Edition

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    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

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  • True and False Reform in the Church

    Translated by Paul Philibert OP ...
    by Yves Congar OP ...
    Archbishop Angelo Roncali (later Pope John XXIII) read True and False Reform during his years as papal nuncio in France and asked, A reform of the church 'is such a thing really possible?" A decade later as pope, he opened the Second Vatican Council by describing its goals in terms that reflected Congar's description of authentic reform: reform that penetrates to the heart of doctrine as a message ... Read more

    $27.39 USD

  • Suicide in the Middle Ages, Volume 2

    by Alexander Murray ...
    A group of men dig a tunnel under the threshold of a house. Then they go and fetch a heavy, sagging object from inside the house, pull it out through the tunnel, and put it on a cow-hide to be dragged off and thrown into the offal-pit. Why should the corpse of a suicide – for that is what it is– have earned this unusual treatment? In The Curse on Self-Murder, the second volume of his three-part ... Read more

    $56.69 USD

  • Enlightenment Underground

    Radical Germany, 1680-1720

    by Martin Mulsow ...
    Translated by H. C. Erik Midelfort ...
    Series series Studies in Early Modern German History
    Online supplement,"Mulsow: Additions to Notes drawn from the 2002 edition of Moderne aus dem Untergrund": full versions of nearly 300 notes that were truncated in the print edition. Hosted on H. C. Erik Midelfort's website.Martin Mulsow’s seismic reinterpretation of the origins of the Enlightenment i... ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • The Age of Reform, 1250-1550

    An Intellectual and Religious History of Late Medieval and Reformation Europe

    by Steven Ozment ...
    The seeds of the swift and sweeping religious movement that turned great numbers of Europeans into Protestants in the early 1500s had been sown far back in the late Middle Ages. In this book, Steven Ozment traces the growth and dispersal of dissenting ideologies through three centuries to their explosive burgeoning in the 1500s. He elucidates with great clarity the complex philosophical and ... Read more

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  • Language and Power in the Early Middle Ages

    by Patrick J. Geary ...
    Series series The Menahem Stern Jerusalem Lectures
    The eminent historian Patrick J. Geary has written a provocative book, based on lectures delivered at the Historical Society of Israel about the role of language and ideology in the study and history of the early Middle Ages. He includes a fascinating discussion of the rush by nationalist philologists to rediscover the medieval roots of their respective vernaculars, the rivalry between vernacular ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Msgr. Dominique M. Varlet: Originator of the Old Catholic Episcopal Succession 1678-1742

    by Serge A. Theriault ...
    Dominique M. Varlet (1678-1742) is a great figure in the Independent (Old) Catholic Movement. A composer of commentaries on Scripture, theology, and ecclesiastical abuses he has been a symbol of Christian freedom and church autonomy. He was a parish and missionary priest, bishop, theologian, and church reformer. He is at the origin of the Old Catholic Church and the originator of its episcopate. ... Read more

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  • Women at the Beginning

    Origin Myths from the Amazons to the Virgin Mary

    by Patrick J. Geary ...
    In these four artfully crafted essays, Patrick Geary explores the way ancient and medieval authors wrote about women. Geary describes the often marginal role women played in origin legends from antiquity until the twelfth century.Not confining himself to one religious tradition or region, he probes the tensions between women in biblical, classical, and medieval myths (such as Eve, Mary, Amazons, ... Read more

    $22.39 USD

  • Freedom and the Construction of Europe: Volume 1, Religious Freedom and Civil Liberty

    Edited by Quentin Skinner, Martin van Gelderen ...
    Freedom, today perceived simply as a human right, was a continually contested idea in the early modern period. In Freedom and the Construction of Europe an international group of scholars explore the richness, diversity and complexity of thinking about freedom in the shaping of modernity. Volume 1 examines debates about religious and constitutional liberties, as well as exploring the tensions ... Read more

    $43.49 USD