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  • The Saint and the Chopped-Up Baby

    The Cult of Vincent Ferrer in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

    by Laura Ackerman Smoller ...
    Vincent Ferrer (1350–1419), a celebrated Dominican preacher from Valencia, was revered as a living saint during his lifetime, receiving papal canonization within fifty years of his death. In The Saint and the Chopped-Up Baby, Laura Ackerman Smoller recounts the fascinating story of how Vincent became the subject of widespread devotion, ranging from the saint's tomb in Brittany to cult centers in ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • 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

    $159.99 CAD

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  • The Life of St Teresa of Avila by Herself

    by Teresa of Avila ...
    Translated by J. Cohen ...
    One of the most influential - and best loved - spiritual autobiographies'I beg anyone who reads this account to bear in mind, for the love of the Lord, how wicked my life has been'Born in the Castilian town of Ávila in 1515, Teresa entered the Carmelite convent of the Incarnation when she was twenty-one. Tormented by illness, doubts and self-recrimination, she gradually came to recognize the power ... Read more

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  • After Elizabeth

    The Death of Elizabeth and the Coming of King James (Text Only)

    by Leanda de Lisle ...
    Family trees are best viewed on a tablet.A brilliant history of the succession of James I of England, and the shifting power and lethal politics that brought him to the throne.In the dawn of the 17th-century when Mary Queen of Scots was dead and Elizabeth I grown old, the eyes of the English turned to Mary’s son, James VI of Scotland. Leanda de Lisle's book focuses on the intense period of raised ... Read more

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  • Daily Reflections on Divine Mercy: 365 Days with Saint Faustina

    by John Paul Thomas ...
    "Daily Reflections on Divine Mercy" was written to provide an awakening to the abundant Mercy of God. It offers daily reflections and prayers to help deepen the day-to-day faith life of every Catholic so that you can understand the abundance of Mercy poured forth from the Heart of our Savior as it is revealed in the writings of Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska."Divine Mercy in My Soul: Diary of Saint ... Read more

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    by David Paul ...
    In September 1665, plague was inadvertently transported from London to Eyam in Derbyshire on a consignment of cloth. This small country village subsequently became famous for its decision to instate a ‘cordon sanitaire’, isolating itself to prevent the disease from spreading. Much of Eyam’s population perished during that torrid period. Eyam: Plague Village follows the local rector, the Revd ... Read more

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  • Klaeber's Beowulf, Fourth Edition

    Edited by R.D. Fulk, Robert E. Bjork, John D Niles ...
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    Frederick Klaeber's Beowulf has long been the standard edition for study by students and advanced scholars alike. Its wide-ranging coverage of scholarship, its comprehensive philological aids, and its exceptionally thorough notes and glossary have ensured its continued use in spite of the fact that the book has remained largely unaltered since 1936. The fourth edition has been prepared with the ... Read more

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  • Looking Into Providences

    Designs and Trials in Paradise Lost

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  • The Arma Christi in Medieval and Early Modern Material Culture

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    The Arma Christi, the cluster of objects associated with Christ’s Passion, was one of the most familiar iconographic devices of European medieval and early modern culture. From the weapons used to torment and sacrifice the body of Christ sprang a reliquary tradition that produced active and contemplative devotional practices, complex literary narratives, intense lyric poems, striking visual images ... Read more

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