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  • Otherworld

    Nine Tales of Wonder and Romance from Medieval Ireland

    by Lisa M. Bitel ...
    Nine tales of early Irish literature beautifully retold in a modern, evocative style A mysterious woman appears nightly at the bedside of a prince and sings to him until he falls sick with love for her. A determined hero tracks his beloved through several incarnations, struggling to win her back. A young warrior seeks a woman who turns into a swan. These are the plots of little-known, anonymous ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Gender and Christianity in Medieval Europe

    New Perspectives

    Edited by Lisa M. Bitel, Felice Lifshitz ...
    Series series The Middle Ages Series
    In Gender and Christianity in Medieval Europe, six historians explore how medieval people professed Christianity, how they performed gender, and how the two coincided. Many of the daily religious decisions people made were influenced by gender roles, the authors contend. Women's pious donations, for instance, were limited by laws of inheritance and marriage customs; male clerics' behavior depended ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Landscape with Two Saints

    How Genovefa of Paris and Brigit of Kildare Built Christianity in Barbarian Europe

    by Lisa M. Bitel ...
    Lisa Bitel uses the history of two unique holy women--Genovefa of Paris (ca. 420-509) and Brigit of Kildare (ca.452-524)--to reveal how ordinary Europeans lived through Christianization at the dawn of the Middle Ages. Most converts did not have a sudden epiphany, Bitel argues. Instead they learned and lived their new religion in continuous conversation with preachers, saints, rulers, and neighbors ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • Gender and Christianity in Medieval Europe

    New Perspectives

    Edited by Lisa M. Bitel, Felice Lifshitz ...
    Series series The Middle Ages Series
    In Gender and Christianity in Medieval Europe, six historians explore how medieval people professed Christianity, how they performed gender, and how the two coincided. Many of the daily religious decisions people made were influenced by gender roles, the authors contend. Women's pious donations, for instance, were limited by laws of inheritance and marriage customs; male clerics' behavior depended ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

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    Otherworld

    Nine Tales of Wonder and Romance from Medieval Ireland

    by Lisa M. Bitel ...
    Narrated by Aoife McMahon ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 28 min

    A mysterious woman appears nightly at the bedside of a prince and sings to him until he falls sick with love for her. A determined hero tracks his beloved through several incarnations, struggling to win her back. A young warrior seeks a woman who turns into a swan. These are the plots of little-known, anonymous tales composed over a thousand years ago in the monastic libraries of Ireland. In ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Metaphor and Embodiment in the Lives of Pious Women, 200-1500

    by Dyan Elliott ...
    Series series The Middle Ages Series
    The early Christian writer Tertullian first applied the epithet "bride of Christ" to the uppity virgins of Carthage as a means of enforcing female obedience. Henceforth, the virgin as Christ's spouse was expected to manifest matronly modesty and due submission, hobbling virginity's ancient capacity to destabilize gender roles. In the early Middle Ages, the focus on virginity and the attendant ... Read more

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  • The Third Soul Omnibus Two

    by Jonathan Moeller ...
    Series series The Third Soul
    Combined in one volume for the first time, THE THIRD SOUL OMNIBUS TWO contains three thrilling stories of THE THIRD SOUL saga – THE OUTLAW ADEPT, THE BLACK PALADIN, and THE TOMB OF BALIGANT.When the sinister Adept Marsile attacks the Conclave and steals forbidden books, both the Knight of the Silver Blade Raelum and the Adept Carandis Marken must unite to defeat the renegade.Otherwise Marsile will ... Read more

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  • The Knights Templar

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    Mystery surrounds virtually every aspect of the Templar story, from their origins in the aftermath of the First Crusade, through their rise to supreme wealth and power - dominating medieval Europe for nearly two centuries - to their abrupt and dramatic suppression. Ferociously punished for alleged heresy and depravity at the beginning of the 14th century, their story is believed to have ended ... Read more

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  • Domination

    The Fall of the Roman Empire and the Rise of Christianity

    by Alice Roberts ...
    This is the story of the fall of an Empire – and the rise of another.Who spread Christianity, how, and why? In her quest to find the answer, Professor Alice Roberts takes us on a gripping investigative journey. From a secluded valley in south Wales to the shores of Brittany; from the heart of the Roman Empire in a time of political turmoil to the ancient city of Corinth in the footsteps of the ... Read more

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  • The Dark Box

    A Secret History of Confession

    by John Cornwell ...
    A bestselling journalist exposes the connection between the Catholic Church’s sexual abuse crisis and the practice of confession. ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Dark Queens

    The Bloody Rivalry That Forged the Medieval World

    by Shelley Puhak ...
    * National Bestseller *“A well-researched and well-told epic history. The Dark Queens brings these courageous, flawed, and ruthless rulers and their distant times back to life.”--Margot Lee Shetterly, New York Times-bestselling author of Hidden FiguresThe remarkable, little-known story of two trailblazing women in the Early Middle Ages who wielded immense power, only to be vilified for daring to ... Read more

    $13.59 USD

  • Ratzinger's Faith

    The Theology of Pope Benedict XVI

    by Tracey Rowland ...
    A general introduction to the theology of Pope Benedict XVI, including his approach to issues in moral and political theology, ecclesiology, liturgy, interpretations of the of the documents of the Second Vatican Council, and the theology of history. Tracey Rowland also addresses the question of Pope Benedict's place in the constellation of contemporary Catholic theologians. It has become a ... Read more

    $18.99 USD