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  • The Eucharist in Medieval Canon Law

    by Thomas M. Izbicki ...
    Thomas Izbicki presents a new examination of the relationship between the adoration of the sacrament and canon law from the twelfth to fifteenth centuries. The medieval Church believed Christ's glorified body was present in the Eucharist, the most central of the seven sacraments, and the Real Presence became explained as transubstantiation by university-trained theologians. Expressions of this ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Reform, Ecclesiology, and the Christian Life in the Late Middle Ages

    by Thomas M. Izbicki ...
    Series series Variorum Collected Studies
    Philosophy was not an idle venture in the Renaissance. There were no clear-cut boundaries between theory and the practice. Theologians, jurists and humanists gave opinions on practical matters from within some larger intellectual context, and many held high office. Among the writers represented here are Pope Pius II (1458-1464), Nicholas of Cusa (d. 1464) and Juan de Torquemada OP (d. 1468). All ... Read more

    $69.99 CAD

  • Nicholas of Cusa and the Renaissance

    by F. Edward Cranz, Thomas M. Izbicki ...
    Series series Variorum Collected Studies
    This volume brings together Professor Cranz’s published studies on Nicholas of Cusa with a set of seven papers left unpublished at the time of his death. Their subjects are the speculative thought of Cusanus and his relationship with the broader themes of the Renaissance. Particular attention is given to patterns of development in Cusanus’ thought as he wrestled with problems of divine ... Read more

    $109.99 CAD

  • Concord and Reform

    Nicholas of Cusa and Legal and Political Thought in the Fifteenth Century

    by Morimichi Watanabe, Thomas M. Izbicki ...
    Series series Variorum Collected Studies
    Nicholas of Cusa is known as one of the most original philosophers of the 15th century, but by training he was a canon lawyer who received his degree from the University of Padua in 1423. The essays in this book analyse his legal and political ideas against the background of medieval religious, legal and political thought and its development in the Renaissance. The first two pieces deal with the ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • Introducing Nicholas of Cusa

    A Guide to a Renaissance Man

    Edited by Bellitto, Christopher M., Izbicki, Thomas M., Christianson, Gerald ...
    A primer on the the vocabulary, ideas, and works of this leading Renaissance thinker of the fifteenth century who wrote on everything from papal politics to astronomy to interreligious dialogue. ... Read more

    $33.78 CAD

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  • Proving Woman

    Female Spirituality and Inquisitional Culture in the Later Middle Ages

    by Dyan Elliott ...
    Around the year 1215, female mystics and their sacramental devotion were among orthodoxy's most sophisticated weapons in the fight against heresy. Holy women's claims to be in direct communication with God placed them in positions of unprecedented influence. Yet by the end of the Middle Ages female mystics were frequently mistrusted, derided, and in danger of their lives. The witch hunts were just ... Read more

    $68.99 CAD

  • 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

    $58.99 CAD

  • Mechthild of Magdeburg and Her Book

    Gender and the Making of Textual Authority

    by Sara S. Poor ...
    Series series The Middle Ages Series
    Sometime around 1230, a young woman left her family and traveled to the German city of Magdeburg to devote herself to worship and religious contemplation. Rather than living in a community of holy women, she chose isolation, claiming that this life would bring her closer to God. Even in her lifetime, Mechthild of Magdeburg gained some renown for her extraordinary book of mystical revelations, The ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • Confessionalization in Europe, 1555–1700

    Essays in Honor and Memory of Bodo Nischan

    by John M. Headley, Hans J. Hillerbrand ...
    Confessionalization in Europe, 1555-1700 brings together a closely-focused set of essays by leading scholars from the USA, UK, and Europe, in memory of Bodo Nischan. They address what historians of the Early Modern period have recently come to define as the pre-eminent issue in the history of the Reformation, as they turn their emphases from the earlier part of the 16th century to the relatively ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Religious Franks

    Religion and power in the Frankish Kingdoms: Studies in honour of Mayke de Jong

    Edited by Rob Meens, Dorine van Espelo, Bram van den Hoven van Genderen, Janneke Raaijmakers, Irene van Renswoude, Carine van Rhijn ...
    This volume in honour of Mayke De Jong offers twenty-five essays focused upon the importance of religion to Frankish politics, a discourse to which De Jong herself has contributed greatly in her academic career. The prominent and internationally renowned contributors offer fresh perspectives on various themes such as the nature of royal authority, the definition of polity, unity and dissent, ideas ... Read more

    $55.99 CAD

  • The Bishop Reformed

    Studies of Episcopal Power and Culture in the Central Middle Ages

    by Anna Trumbore Jones ...
    Series series Church, Faith and Culture in the Medieval West
    In the period following the collapse of the Carolingian Empire up to the Fourth Lateran Council (1215), the episcopate everywhere in Europe experienced substantial and important change, brought about by a variety of factors: the pressures of ecclesiastical reform; the devolution and recovery of royal authority; the growth of papal involvement in regional matters and in diocesan administration; the ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • 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

    $33.99 CAD