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  • Medieval Holy Women and the Desire for Death

    by Jessica Barr ...
    Medieval Holy Women and the Desire for Death investigates the tension between death as necessary for bringing about union with God and as the end of life on earth.For medieval Christians, only death could offer complete union with God. For medieval women in particular, death was figured as a desirable end to their embodied lives; at least, this is the story told by the clergymen who typically ... Read more

    $58.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Intimate Reading

    Textual Encounters in Medieval Women’s Visions and Vitae

    by Jessica Barr ...
    Intimate Reading: Textual Encounters in Medieval Women’s Visions and Vitae explores the ways that women mystics sought to make their books into vehicles for the reader’s spiritual transformation. Jessica Barr argues that the cognitive work of reading these texts was meant to stimulate intensely personal responses, and that the very materiality of the book can produce an intimate encounter with God ... Read more

    $73.99 CAD

  • New Directions in Medieval Mystical and Devotional Literature

    Essays in Honor of Denise N. Baker

    by Amy N. Vines, Lee Templeton, David Aers, Jessica Barr, Edwin Craun, Grace Hamman, Jessica Hines, Gina Marie Hurley, Lynn Staley0, Jessica D. Ward1, Denys Turner2, Nancy Bradlley Warren3 ...
    In pursuing how fourteenth-century English texts engage with philosophical, intellectual, and theological questions, the work of Denise N. Baker has powerfully shaped the field of medieval studies. This collection honors Baker’s legacy as a scholar and teacher by taking a fresh approach to the most salient literary, mystical, and devotional works written in late medieval England. The contributors ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Texas Women

    Their Histories, Their Lives

    by Juliana Barr, Angela Boswell, Jessica Brannon-Wranosky, Light T. Cummins, Victoria H. Cummins, Mary Ellen Curtin, W. Marvin Dulaney, Gabriela González, Ruth Hosey Karbach, Renee M. Laegreid, Paula Mitchell Marks, Judith N. McArthur, Laura Lyons McLemore, Bianca Mercado, Jennifer Ross-Nazzal, Robin C. Sager, Harold L. Smith, Jean A. Stuntz, Kelli Cardenas Walsh, Eric Walther, Nancy Elizabeth Baker ...
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    Texas Women: Their Histories, Their Lives engages current scholarship on women in Texas, the South, and the United States. It provides insights into Texas’s singular geographic position, bordering on the West and sharing a unique history with Mexico, while analyzing the ways in which Texas stories mirror a larger American narrative. The biographies and essays illustrate an uncommon diversity among ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

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  • Dreams

    (From Volumes 4, 8, 12, and 16 of the Collected Works of C. G. Jung)

    by C. G. Jung ...
    Translated by R. F. C. Hull ...
    Series series Bollingen Series
    Dream analysis is a distinctive and foundational part of analytical psychology, the school of psychology founded by C. G. Jung and his successors. This volume collects Jung's most insightful contributions to the study of dreams and their meaning. The essays in this volume, written by Jung between 1909 and 1945, reveal Jung's most essential views about dreaming--especially regarding the ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

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  • Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Volume 9 (Part 2)

    Aion: Researches into the Phenomenology of the Self

    by C. G. Jung, Gerhard Adler, R. F. C. Hull ...
    Series Book 2 - Bollingen Series
    An investigation of the symbolism of the selfAion, originally published in German in 1951, is one of the major works of Jung’s later years. The central theme of the volume is the symbolic representation of the psychic totality through the concept of the Self, whose traditional historical equivalent is the figure of Christ. Jung demonstrates his thesis by an investigation of the Allegoria Christi, ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • The Book of Memory

    A Study of Memory in Medieval Culture

    by Mary Carruthers ...
    Series Book 70 - Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
    Mary Carruthers's classic study of the training and uses of memory for a variety of purposes in European cultures during the Middle Ages has fundamentally changed the way scholars understand medieval culture. This fully revised and updated second edition considers afresh all the material and conclusions of the first. While responding to new directions in research inspired by the original, this new ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • The Highest Poverty

    Monastic Rules and Form-of-Life

    by Giorgio Agamben ...
    Series series Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
    What is a rule, if it appears to become confused with life? And what is a human life, if, in every one of its gestures, of its words, and of its silences, it cannot be distinguished from the rule?It is to these questions that Agamben's new book turns by means of an impassioned reading of the fascinating and massive phenomenon of Western monasticism from Pachomius to St. Francis. The book ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Volume 12

    Psychology and Alchemy

    by C. G. Jung, Gerhard Adler, R. F. C. Hull ...
    Series series Bollingen Series
    Jung’s landmark account of the connections between alchemy, its symbolism, the collective unconscious, and modern psychologyPsychology and Alchemy is one of Jung’s most influential works. In a prefatory note, he says: “In this present study of alchemy I have taken a particular example of symbol-formation, extending in all over some seventeen centuries, and have subjected it to intensive ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

  • Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Volume 14

    Mysterium Coniunctionis

    by C. G. Jung, Gerhard Adler, R. F. C. Hull ...
    Series series Bollingen Series
    Jung's last major work, completed in his 81st year, on the synthesis of the opposites in alchemy and psychology. ... Read more

    $53.99 CAD

  • The Psychology of the Transference

    by C.G. Jung ...
    An account of Jung's handling of the transference between psychologist and patient in the light of his conception of the archetypes. Based on the symbolic illustrations in a sixteenth century alchemical text. ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Jung on Christianity

    by C. G. Jung ...
    Series series Encountering Jung
    C. G. Jung, son of a Swiss Reformed pastor, used his Christian background throughout his career to illuminate the psychological roots of all religions. Jung believed religion was a profound, psychological response to the unknown--both the inner self and the outer worlds--and he understood Christianity to be a profound meditation on the meaning of the life of Jesus of Nazareth within the context of ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD