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  • Ernst Kantorowicz

    A Life

    by Robert E. Lerner ...
    The first complete biography of an influential historian whose dramatic life intersected with many great events and thinkers of the twentieth centuryThis is the first complete biography of Ernst Kantorowicz (1895–1963), an influential and controversial German-American intellectual whose colorful and dramatic life intersected with many of the great events and thinkers of his time. A medieval ... Read more

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  • Radiances

    Unpublished Essays on Gods, Kingship, and Images of the State

    by Ernst Kantorowicz ...
    Series series Medieval Societies, Religions, and Cultures
    Radiances gathers previously unpublished essays by one of the greatest historians of the twentieth century. Although best known for The King's Two Bodies (1957), Ernst Kantorowicz's scholarly expertise ranged from classical antiquity to early modernity and from political pageantry to numismatics. These essays traverse the breadth of his expertise, exploring "radiations" of the themes that were ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • Medievalia et Humanistica, No. 36

    Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Culture

    by Anthony Bale, Robert Boenig, John Bugbee, Annemarie Weyl Carr, Romanus Cessario, Albecht Classen, Eva von Contzen, Raymond J. Cormier, Kate Dimitrova, John Garrison, Karen Green, Uwe Klaitter, Nicoletta Marcelli, Richard Marsden, Martin Ossikovski, Christoph Pieper, Wolfgang Polleichtner, José Carlos Redondo-Olmedilla, Michael Renemann, E L. Risden, Jacob Riyeff, Laura Smoller, George G. Weindhardt, Craig M Nakashian, Julius Kirshner, Paul M. Clogan, Z T. Kosztolnyik, Robert E. Lerner ...
    Series Book 36 - Medievalia et Humanistica Series
    Since its founding in 1943, Medievalia et Humanistica has won worldwide recognition as the first scholarly publication in America to devote itself entirely to medieval and Renaissance studies. Since 1970, a new series, sponsored by the Modern Language Association of America and edited by an international board of distinguished scholars and critics, has published interdisciplinary articles. In ... Read more

    $123.99 USD

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    Its Rise and Function in Latin Christianity, Enlarged Edition

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  • The Atheist's Bible

    The Most Dangerous Book That Never Existed

    by Georges Minois ...
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    This intellectual history of a rumored book of heresy reveals a persistent undercurrent of atheism from the Middle Ages into the 18th century.In 1239, Pope Gregory IX accused Frederick II, the Holy Roman Emperor, of heresy. Without disclosing evidence of any kind, Gregory announced that Frederick had written a supremely blasphemous book— De tribus impostoribus, or the Treatise of the Three ... Read more

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  • Holy Blood, Holy Grail

    The Secret History of Christ. The Shocking Legacy of the Grail

    by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, Henry Lincoln ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Is the classic, accepted view of the life of Christ in some way incomplete? The authors of The Messianic Legacy present a provocative and meticulously researched look at Christ and the history of Christianity.“Enough to seriously challenge many traditional beliefs, if not alter them.”—Los Angeles Times Book ReviewExplosive, thought-provoking, fiercely compelling, Holy ... Read more

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  • Why Can the Dead Do Such Great Things?

    Saints and Worshippers from the Martyrs to the Reformation

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  • The Complete Story of Civilization

    Our Oriental Heritage, Life of Greece, Caesar and Christ, Age of Faith, Renaissance, Age of Reason Begins, Age of Louis XIV, Age of Voltaire, Rousseau and Revolution, Age of Napoleon, Reformation

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  • Crusade Against the Grail

    The Struggle between the Cathars, the Templars, and the Church of Rome

    by Otto Rahn ...
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  • Holy Blood, Holy Grail Illustrated Edition

    The Secret History of Jesus, the Shocking Legacy of the Grail

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  • The King's Two Bodies

    A Study in Medieval Political Theology

    by Ernst Kantorowicz, William Chester Jordan ...
    Series series Princeton Classics
    Originally published in 1957, this classic work has guided generations of scholars through the arcane mysteries of medieval political theology. Throughout history, the notion of two bodies has permitted the postmortem continuity of monarch and monarchy, as epitomized by the statement, “The king is dead. Long live the king.” In The King’s Two Bodies, Ernst Kantorowicz traces the historical dilemma ... Read more

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  • History of the Christian Church: Complete 8 Volumes Edition

    Account of the Christianity from the Apostles to the Reformation

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