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De occulta philosophia, libri tres
Av Cornelius Agrippa, Perrone Compagni
Inbunden, 1992
2363 kr
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Agrippa's penetrating study of 'Occult Philosophy' is widely acknowledged as a significant contribution to the Renaissance philosophical discussion concerning the powers of magic and its relationship with religion. In a discriminating revival Agrippa pursued the 'natural' magic of Ficino and Pico, …
Nicholas of Lyra: The Senses of Scripture
Av Philip D.W. Krey, Lesley Smith
Inbunden, 2000
2182 kr
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The first modern study of Nicholas of Lyra. A Franciscan teacher at the University of Paris, Nicholas (d. 1349) was an immensely important biblical commentator whose works influenced generations of scholars including Luther. Famed for his knowledge of Hebrew learning, as well as of the Latin …
Gesungene Innigkeit: Studien zu einer Musikhandschrift der Devotio moderna (Utrecht, Universiteitsbibliotheek, ms. 16 H 34, olim B 113). Mit einer Edition der Gesaenge
Inbunden, 2002
2527 kr
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This volume deals with the music of the Devotio moderna, an influential religious movement in Northern Europe during the late Middle Ages. As its point of departure it takes a unique source from the second half of the fifteenth century, manuscript 16 H 34 (olim B 113) from the University library of …
Kings, Politics, and the Right Order of the World in German Historiography c. 950-1150
Av Sverre Bagge
Inbunden, 2002
2603 kr
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This volume discusses German historiography from the c. 950 to 1150 through a close examination of six works. In contrast to most earlier scholarship, it focuses on the narrative as an expression of the authors' way of finding meaning in the sequence of events, and as evidence for their …
Hermeneutik der Heilsgeschichte: De septem sigillis und die sieben Siegel im Werk Joachims von Fiore
Inbunden, 2004
2163 kr
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By proclaiming an earthly stage of bliss attributed to the Holy Spirit, Joachim of Fiore (d. 1202) fostered ideas of the Millennium and progression in history. His Trinitarian hermeneutics provided him with new insights to the Scriptures through which he viewed the history of salvation, prefigured …
As in a Mirror. John Calvin and Karl Barth on Knowing God
A Diptych
Inbunden, 2005
2430 kr
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What does it really mean, to know God? What are the grounds for knowing God, what feeds that knowledge, and what is really known? In his search for answers to these questions, in two panels the author paints for us a clear picture of what Calvin and Barth had to say about knowing God: Calvin …
Calixtus II (1119-1124): A Pope Born to Rule
Av Mary Stroll
Inbunden, 2004
2055 kr
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This new interpretation of the reign of Calixtus II (1119-1124) challenges the conventional analysis explaining why this life-long opponent of the emperor, Henry V, agreed to compromise over imperial investitures of bishops in the Concordat of Worms of 1122.
Images of the Divine: The Theology of Icons at the Seventh Ecumenical Council - Revised Edition
Inbunden, 2005
2055 kr
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This book, newly revised and updated, examines the Eastern Church's theology of icons chiefly on the basis of the acta of the Seventh Ecumenical Council of 787.The political circumstances leading to the outbreak of the iconclast controversy in the eighth century are discussed in detail, but the …
Martin Luther as Comforter: Writings on Death
Av Neil Leroux
Inbunden, 2007
2466 kr
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What was Martin Luther’s teaching regarding death, and to what extent did his own fears of and experiences with death manifest themselves in his writings? What influence did the medieval preoccupation with a ‘good death’ have upon him? How did Luther counsel those facing death—to meet it with …
Renaissance Inquisitors: Dominican Inquisitors and Inquisitorial Districts in Northern Italy, 1474-1527
Inbunden, 2007
2466 kr
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During the Renaissance there was no centralized Inquisition in northern Italy until Pope Paul III founded the Roman Inquisition in 1542, but there was a dense network of autonomous papal inquisitors. Based on extensive archival research, this study investigates the life of the Dominican friars from …
Charles V and the Castilian Assembly of the Clergy
Negotiations for the Ecclesiastical Subsidy
Inbunden, 2008
2466 kr
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The Castilian Assembly of the Clergy has been overlooked in the scholarship on church-state relations and representative institutions in the early modern period. This oversight has distorted our understanding of political practice, royal finance, and church-state relations in sixteenth-century …
Negotiating Community and Difference in Medieval Europe
Gender, Power, Patronage and the Authority of Religion in Latin Christendom
Av Scott Wells, Katherine Smith
Inbunden, 2009
2466 kr
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This collection builds on the foundational work of Penelope D. Johnson, John Boswell's most influential student outside queer studies, on integration and segregation in medieval Christianity. It documents the multiple strategies by which medieval people constructed identities and, in the process, …
Poverty’s Proprietors: Ownership and Mortal Sin at the Origins of the Observant Movement
Inbunden, 2009
2485 kr
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Focusing on the theme of property and community, this study offers a new account of the origins of fifteenth-century Observant reform in the monasteries and canonries of the southern Empire. Through close readings of unpublished texts, it traces how ideas about reformed community emerged, both …
Bewegung und Beharrung: Aspekte des reformierten Protestantismus, 1520-1650
Av Peter Opitz, Christian Moser
Inbunden, 2009
2413 kr
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Wer sich der Erforschung des reformierten Protestantismus widmet, setzt sich mit einer komplexen Bewegung auseinander: Religiöse, theologische und kulturelle Traditionen werden kritisch reflektiert, bisweilen verworfen oder aber in neuer Interpretation weitergeführt. Politische und soziale …
Milton and the Reformation Aesthetics of the Passion
Inbunden, 2009
2629 kr
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Scholarship on Milton's view of God the Father and the Son has focused on the author's theological beliefs. For Milton, these are equally artistic questions, and to address them this study considers the precedents in Christian art that provide models for portraying the divine within a reformed …
Alfonso X, the Learned
A Biography
Inbunden, 2010
3237 kr
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Recent publications about King Alfonso X have tended to focus on his role as monarch in the context of the institutions of the realm. This book, however, emphasizes the human dimension of this extraordinary figure. Drawing on King Alfonso’s own works and on extensive archival sources, both …
Inquisitors and Heretics in Thirteenth-Century Languedoc
Edition and Translation of Toulouse Inquisition Depositions, 1273-1282
Av Peter Biller, Caterina Bruschi m. fl.
Inbunden, 2010
3365 kr
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In the study of inquisition and heresy in Languedoc the late thirteenth century is a dark hole. This book redresses this, providing an edition and translation of depositions of heresy suspects interrogated in Toulouse 1273-82, preserved in a copy of 1669. The book’s introduction investigates the …
Book Collections of Clerics in Norway, 1650–1750
Av Gina Dahl
Inbunden, 2010
2393 kr
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This study of clerical book collections in Norway 1650–1750 provides detailed evidence about the circulation of books among one specific layer of the educated classes in a peripheral part of Europe. The wide range of authors and works included in these book collections proves that the Norwegian …
Ascetic Spirituality of Juan de Ávila (1499-1569)
Inbunden, 2010
2445 kr
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Juan de Ávila (1499-1569) was one of the most significant exponents of Spanish Golden Age spirituality. His work throughout Andalusia gave rise to the school of Avilista spirituality, a spirituality adopted by both lay men and women as well as secular and regular members of the clergy who were …
Jesuit Mission to New France
A New Interpretation in the Light of the Earlier Jesuit Experience in Japan
Av Takao Abé
Inbunden, 2010
2374 kr
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A new interpretation of the Jesuit mission to New France is here proposed by using, for comparison and contrast, the earlier Jesuit experience in Japan. In order to present revisionist perspectives of the Jesuit missions based on a broader international framework beyond North America, the existing …
Responding to Secularization
The Deaconess Movement in Nineteenth-Century Sweden
Inbunden, 2011
2445 kr
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The causal link between modernization and secularization constitutes the core of secularization theories, but what these theories often overlook are the ways in which modernity can benefit religion. Focusing on the female diaconate’s contributions to education, health care, and poor relief in …
Luis de Molina's De Iustitia et Iure
Justice as Virtue in an Economic Context
Inbunden, 2011
2445 kr
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Luis de Molina (1535-1600) was the first scholastic doctor to legitimize the practice of money lending as a career. His De Iustitia et Iure offers a thorough description of trade practices of the vibrant economies of Portugal and Spain in the Sixteenth Century. This detailed analysis allows him to …
Andrew Melville and Humanism in Renaissance Scotland 1545-1622
Inbunden, 2011
2374 kr
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The intellectual legacy of Andrew Melville (1545-1622) as a leader of the Renaissance and a promoter of humanism in Scotland has been obscured by "the Melville legend." In an effort to dispense with 'the Melville of popular imagination' and recover 'the Melville of history,' this work situates his …
Tudor Protestant Political Thought 1547-1603
Inbunden, 2011
2445 kr
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The Reformation of the sixteenth-century is commonly seen as the transitional period between the medieval and the modern worlds. This study examines the political thought of England during its period of religious reform from the reign of Edward VI to the death of Elizabeth I. The political thought …
"Pouring Jewish Water into Fascist Wine"
Untold Stories of (Catholic) Jews from the Archive of Mussolini’s Jesuit Pietro Tacchi Venturi
Inbunden, 2011
2296 kr
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The aim of this book is to offer the reader a critical edition of the petitions in their original Italian language that (Catholic) Jews residing in Italy submitted to the Fascist General Administration for Demography and Race (Demorazza) in order either to be “discriminated,” i.e., not subjected to …
Real Presence
Religious and Social Dynamics of the Eucharistic Conflicts in Early Modern Augsburg 1520-1530
Inbunden, 2011
2439 kr
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This book explores conflicts in Augsburg, Germany during the first decade of the Protestant Reformation over the meaning and celebration of the Eucharist. Seeking to account for the strong appeal among the population of a symbolic interpretation of the Eucharist, it situates the theological debate …
Popes and Antipopes: The Politics of Eleventh Century Church Reform
Av Mary Stroll
Inbunden, 2011
2296 kr
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A revolution shook the Christian world in the second half of the eleventh century. Many eminent historians point to Hildebrand, later Gregory VII (1073-1085), as the prime mover of this movement that aspired to free the Church from secular entanglements, and to return it to its state of …
Das Geistbuch
Ein Traktat zur Vollkommenheit aus dem Umkreis Meister Eckharts
Inbunden, 2011
2247 kr
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The Geistbuch is an anonymous vernacular theological treatise from the first half of the 14th century that circulated in Middle High German and Middle Dutch. Based on the biblical injunction of Jesus to Peter, Sequere me (“Follow me”, John 21:19), the text describes the Christian path of …
Franciscan Virtue
Spiritual Growth and the Virtues in Franciscan Literature and Instruction of the Thirteenth Century
Inbunden, 2012
2387 kr
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This book provides an in-depth analysis of the virtues of evangelical life according to three major Franciscan authors: Francis of Assisi, Bonaventure of Bagnoregio, and David of Augsburg. It is the first to offer a historical and source-based treatment of early Franciscan virtue discourse, by …
Legacy of Jonathan Edwards in the Theology of Andrew Fuller
Av Chris Chun
Inbunden, 2012
2439 kr
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This book focuses on the legacy of Jonathan Edwards on the Particular Baptists by way of apprehending theories held by their congregations during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In particular, special attention is directed to the Edwardsean legacy as manifested in the theology of Andrew …
