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New History of Penance
Inbunden, 2008
3248 kr
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Between the third and sixteenth centuries, penance (the acts or gestures performed to atone for transgression, usually with an interest in the salvation of the penitent’s soul) was a crucial mode of participation in both society and the cosmos. Penance was incorporated into political and legal …
Companion to Biblical Humanism and Scholasticism in the Age of Erasmus
Av Erika Rummel
Inbunden, 2008
3248 kr
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Throughout the Middle Ages dialectical disputation was the prevailing method of scholarly inquiry. In the fifteenth century, however, humanists challenged the scholastic method, proposing instead historical and philological approaches. This volume focuses on the polemic over the right approach to …
Companion to Catholicism and Recusancy in Britain and Ireland
From Reformation to Emancipation
Inbunden, 2021
4317 kr
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A Companion to Catholicism and Recusancy in Britain and Ireland is an edited collection of nineteen essays written by a range of experts and some newer scholars in the areas of early modern British and Irish history and religion. In addition to English Catholicism, developments in Ireland, …
Companion to Anabaptism and Spiritualism, 1521-1700
Inbunden, 2006
3091 kr
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This handbook provides a comprehensive survey of current scholarship on Anabaptist and Spiritualist history and theology from 1521 to 1700. Since the last half of the twentieth century, the historiography of the Radical Reformation has been the focus of vigorous and creative debate. The …
Companion to the Great Western Schism (1378-1417)
Inbunden, 2009
3789 kr
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The division of the Church or Schism that took place between 1378 and 1417 had no precedent in Christianity. No conclave since the twelfth century had acted as had those in April and September 1378, electing two concurrent popes. This crisis was neither an issue of the authority claimed by the pope …
Companion to Richard Hooker
Inbunden, 2008
3365 kr
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Richard Hooker was a learned philosophical theologian and engaged polemicist of the later sixteenth century who explained and defended the Elizabethan religious and political settlement, and shaped definitively the self-understanding of the English ecclesiastical establishment for centuries to …
Lutheran Ecclesiastical Culture, 1550-1675
Av Robert Kolb
Inbunden, 2008
3044 kr
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Literature on confessionalization has opened new vistas for considering early-modern Christianity and its place in Western social-political contexts, but the ecclesiastical cultures of the period need further research and analysis to refine our focus on how Christians lived in their own communities …
Medieval Commentaries on Aristotle's Categories
Av Lloyd Newton
Inbunden, 2008
3248 kr
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Medieval commentary writing has often been described as a way of "doing philosophy," and not without reason. The various commentaries on Aristotle's Categories we have from this period did not simply elaborate a dialectical exercise for training students; rather, they provided their authors with an …
Companion to Juan Luis Vives
Inbunden, 2008
3248 kr
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The extraordinarily diverse oeuvre of Juan Luis Vives, marked by great erudition and originality, still remains very little known in the English-speaking world. This collection of essays considers his life and the influence of his writings, and examines some of his chief works. These include his …
Companion to Paul in the Reformation
Inbunden, 2009
4734 kr
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The reception and interpretation of the writings of St Paul in the early modern period forms the subject of this volume, from late medieval Paulinism and the beginnings of humanist biblical scholarship and interpretation, through the ways that theologians of various confessions considered Paul. …
Companion to Peter Martyr Vermigli
Inbunden, 2009
4444 kr
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The great Florentine Protestant reformer Peter Martyr Vermigli (1499-1562) made a unique contribution to the scriptural hermeneutics of the Renaissance and Reformation, where classical theories of interpretation derived from Patristic and Scholastic sources engaged with new methods drawn from …
Companion to Ælfric
Inbunden, 2009
4001 kr
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This collection provides a new, authoritative and challenging study of the life and works of Ælfric of Eynsham, the most important vernacular religious writer in the history of Anglo-Saxon England. The contributors include almost all of the key Ælfric scholars working today and some important newer …
Origin, Development, and Refinement of Medieval Religious Mendicancies
Inbunden, 2011
3300 kr
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The nature of mendicancy as it developed among various religious orders during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries is the subject of considerable debate. In spite of this, little in the way of a comprehensive review of the phenomenon as a whole has been undertaken. What has been done has either …
Companion to Clare of Assisi
Life, Writings, and Spirituality
Av Joan Mueller
Inbunden, 2010
3268 kr
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Clare of Assisi: Life, Writings and Spirituality examines Clare not merely as an obedient footnote to the friars, but as a Franciscan founder in her own right who kept primitive Franciscan ideals alive into the middle of the thirteenth century and transposed them into a woman’s key. Bringing …
Companion to Alexander Literature in the Middle Ages
Inbunden, 2011
3378 kr
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Never before has there appeared in English such a collection of essays concerning Alexander the Great's legacy in world literature. From Greek and Latin works of the Classical Period through Medieval texts in Syriac, Persian, Coptic, Arabic, Ethiopic and Hebrew, as well the European languages, the …
Companion to Angels in Medieval Philosophy
Inbunden, 2012
3509 kr
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Humanist prejudice famously made medieval angelology the paradigm of ludicrous speculation with its caricature of “How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?” The truth is quite the opposite: many of medieval philosophy’s most original and ingenious contributions actually came to light in …
Companion to Meister Eckhart
Inbunden, 2012
4859 kr
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This book meets an obvious need in English language studies on Meister Eckhart. It is the first handbook on Eckhart for graduate and undergraduate students. It is divided into three parts. Part one deals with the life, works, career, and trial; Greek, Jewish, and Arabic philosophical sources, and …
Companion to Marsilius of Padua
Av Gerson Moreno-Riano, Cary Nederman
Inbunden, 2011
3171 kr
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Few authors of the Latin Middle Ages have been the subject of so much attention as Marsilius of Padua (c. 1275-1342/43). Known primarily for his Defensor pacis, Marsilius quickly garnered for himself the reputation of being a heretic as well as a schismatic. At the same time, however, it became …
Companion to Henry of Ghent
Inbunden, 2010
3807 kr
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Henry of Ghent, who taught in the theology faculty in Paris from c. 1275 until his death in 1293, was an original, pivotal, and influential thinker. Henry’s theories on a wide range of theological and philosophical topics led to a transformation of scholastic thought in the years shortly after the …
New Companion to Hispanic Mysticism
Inbunden, 2010
3939 kr
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Winner of the 2011 SCSC Bainton Prize for Reference WorksThe “canon” of Hispanic mysticism is expanding. No longer is our picture of this special brand of early modern devotional practice limited to a handful of venerable saints. Instead, we recognize a wide range of “marginal” figures as …
Companion to the Catholic Enlightenment in Europe
Inbunden, 2010
3939 kr
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This book offers the first comprehensive overview of the Catholic Enlightenment in Europe. It surveys the diversity of views about the structure and nature of the movement, pointing toward the possibilities for further research. The volume presents a series of comprehensive treatments on the …
Companion to Astrology in the Renaissance
Inbunden, 2014
3639 kr
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It has been called “the most singular centaur that religion and science have ever produced” (Franz Boll). Astrology as a cultural form has puzzled and fascinated generations of humankind. It reached its apogee in the European Renaissance, when it flourished in literature, political expression, …
Companion to Pastoral Care in the Late Middle Ages (1200-1500)
Inbunden, 2010
3546 kr
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The study of pastoral care in the middle ages has seen a resurgence in recent years. Scholars are now approaching this subject less from their respective ecclesiastical or parochial biases and more out of an effort to understand the significant role pastors (secular and religious) had in the …
Companion to Boethius in the Middle Ages
Av Noel Harold Kaylor, Philip Edward Phillips
Inbunden, 2012
4887 kr
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The articles in this volume focus upon Boethius's extant works: his De arithmetica and a fragmentary De musica, his translations and commentaries on logic, his five theological texts, and, of course, his Consolation of Philosophy. They examine the effects that Boethian thought has exercised upon …
Companion to Aelred of Rievaulx (1110–1167)
Inbunden, 2017
3461 kr
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Brill's Companion to Aelred of Rievaulx explores the life, works, and thought of Aelred, Cistercian abbot of Rievaulx Abbey from 1147 to 1167. As well as introducing the three genres of his works —sermons, spiritual teaching, and history— scholars survey such central topics as Marian devotion, love …
Companion to the History of the Roman Curia
Inbunden, 2025
3823 kr
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The Roman Curia is the oldest extant body of institutional administration in the world. Indeed, it was the prototype for the development of centralized government in the monarchies of the Middle Ages. Further, it was the administrative backbone of the first worldwide organization in human history. …
Companion to Bernard of Clairvaux
Inbunden, 2011
3807 kr
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Bernard of Clairvaux is perhaps the most controversial figure of Western Europe's vibrant twelfth century. Unlike Abelard, who is seen as a proponent of modern thinking, Bernard is often relegated to the darkest corner of the Middle Ages. Nothing is easy with Bernard, but these fresh evaluations of …
Companion to the Eucharist in the Middle Ages
Inbunden, 2011
4512 kr
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The Eucharist in the European Middle Ages was a multimedia event. First and foremost it was a drama, a pageant, a liturgy. The setting itself was impressive. Stunning artwork adorned massive buildings. Underlying and supporting the liturgy, the art and the architecture was a carefully constructed …
Companion to Joachim of Fiore
Inbunden, 2017
3521 kr
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Joachim of Fiore (c.1135-1202) remains one of the most fascinating and enigmatic figures of medieval Christianity. In his own time, he was an influential advisor to the mighty and powerful, widely respected for his prophetic exegesis and decoding of the apocalypse. In modern times, many thinkers, …
Companion to Marie de France
Av Logan Whalen
Inbunden, 2011
3265 kr
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After nearly eight centuries and much research and writing on Marie de France, the only biographical information we know about her, with any degree of certainty, is that she was from France and wrote for the Anglo-Angevin court of Henry II. Yet Marie de France remains today one of the most …
