This volume provides a collection of 'imagined lives' - individuals who, no matter their position on the social hierarchy, were crucial to the development of medieval Europe and the modern period that followed.
Johann Stigel (1515–1562), der bei Philipp Melanchthon an der Wittenberger Universität studierte und dort 1542 die Terenzprofessur erhielt, war ein zu seiner Zeit gefeierter neulateinischer Dichter, den Kaiser Karl V.
Winner of the AAR's 2016 Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion: Textual StudiesHow Repentance Became Biblical tells the story of repentance as a concept.
While some scholars have focused on various aspects of the denominational origins of the education system, and others have revealed the influence of religion on the electoral results of the pre-1864 period, the complete story has never been told.
Harvey Mitchell's book argues that a reassessment of Voltaire's treatment of traditional Judaism will sharpen discussion of the origins of, and responses to, the Enlightenment.
A unique, wide-ranging volume exploring the historical, religious, cultural, political, and social aspects of Christian martyrdom Although a well-studied and researched topic in early Christianity, martyrdom had become a relatively neglected subject of scholarship by the latter half of the 20th century.
By the early fourteenth century, the city of Florence had emerged as an economic power in Tuscany, surpassing even Siena, which had previously been the banking center of the region.
This volume brings together Professor Cranz's published studies on Nicholas of Cusa with a set of seven papers left unpublished at the time of his death.
Continuing the tradition of5 Minutes with Christ and 5 Minutes with the Saints, this uplifting book of meditationsby members of the Alliance for Catholic Education (ACE) at the University of Notre Dame draws on inspirationfrom the Psalms, Proverbs, and the books of Wisdom in the Bible.
The first book to consider the subject, Wholesale Couture: London and Beyond, 1930-70 seeks to revise the notion that wholesale couturiers were simply copyists and demonstrate the complexities of their design processes and business strategies.
Set Your Heart Free by Francis de Sales offers readers the same spiritual wisdom, encouragement, and spellbinding insights that once drew people from all over Europe to this saints door.
The twenty-one studies assembled in this volume focus on the apparatus and practitioners of religions in the western Roman empire, the enclaves, temples, altars and monuments that served the cults of a wide range of divinities through the medium of priests and worshippers.
Kornegay's brilliant and insightful use of James Baldwin's literary genius offers a way forward that promises to overcome the divide between religion and sexuality that is of crucial importance not only for black church and theology but for socio-political-religious and theological discourse generally.
This volume, the second in the series of Marie-Therese d'Alverny's selected articles to be published by Variorum, gathers the majority of her studies on the understanding of Islam in the West from the early Middle Ages until the mid-13th century; some related works will be included in a further selection.
Als Johannes Pfefferkorn im Jahr 1507 seinen sogenannten "Judenspiegel" veröffentlichte, forderte dessen antijüdische Polemik den Widerspruch Johannes Reuchlins heraus und führte schließlich zu einer heftigen Kontroverse zwischen Dominikanern und Juden, an der die Kölner Dominikaner auf Seiten Pfefferkorns regen Anteil hatten.
A sweeping intellectual history of the role of wealth in the church in the last days of the Roman EmpireJesus 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.
The restless heart and searching mind of this influential early church father can offer spiritual and intellectual companionship for your spiritual journey.
This book provides a reassessment of the relationship between Reformed theology and early modern literature, with analysis of key writers and thinkers.
Echoes of Enlightenment explores the issues of gender and sainthood raised by the recently discovered "e;liberation story"e; of the fourteenth-century Tibetan female Buddhist practitioner Snam Peldren.
