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  • Mount Athos and Byzantine Monasticism

    Papers from the Twenty-Eighth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, University of Birmingham, March 1994

    par Anthony Bryer, Mary Cunningham ...
    Collections series Publications of the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies
    The papers in this volume derive from the 28th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, held for the Society for the promotion of Byzantine Studies at the Univesity of Birmingham in March 1994. Virtually from the time of their first foundation, the monastic communities of Mt Athos assumed a central position in the world of Orthodox Christianity. The spiritual, and political and economic influence of ... En savoir plus

    $89.31 CAD

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  • Through the Eye of a Needle

    Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD

    par Peter Brown ...
    Jesus taught his followers that it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter heaven. Yet by the fall of Rome, the church was becoming rich beyond measure. Through the Eye of a Needle is a sweeping intellectual and social history of the vexing problem of wealth in Christianity in the waning days of the Roman Empire, written by the world's foremost scholar ... En savoir plus

    $38.49 CAD

  • The Essential Nostradamus

    par Richard Smoley ...
    A handsome, compact new edition of the singularly reliable translation of the writings of history's most famous seer-now published with a new afterword on Nostradamus and 2012.The prophecies of Nostradamus have ignited intense fascination throughout the West since they were first published in the sixteenth century. These enigmatic quatrains have gained special meaning for many during our current ... En savoir plus

    $16.99 CAD

  • Why Can the Dead Do Such Great Things?

    Saints and Worshippers from the Martyrs to the Reformation

    par Robert Bartlett ...
    "An indispensable point of departure for anyone interested in the cult of the saints in the Middle Ages." —Eamon Duffy, The New York Review of BooksFrom its earliest centuries, one of the most notable features of Christianity has been the veneration of the saints—the holy dead. This ambitious history tells the fascinating story of the cult of the saints from its origins in the second-century days ... En savoir plus

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  • Unrivalled Influence

    Women and Empire in Byzantium

    par Judith Herrin ...
    Unrivalled Influence explores the exceptional roles that women played in the vibrant cultural and political life of medieval Byzantium. Written by one of the world's foremost historians of the Byzantine millennium, this landmark book evokes the complex and exotic world of Byzantium's women, from empresses and saints to uneducated rural widows. Drawing on a diverse range of sources, Judith Herrin ... En savoir plus

    $72.59 CAD

  • Voltaire

    A Very Short Introduction

    par Nicholas Cronk ...
    Collections series Very Short Introductions
    Voltaire (1694-1778), best remembered as the author of Candide, is one of the central actors -- arguably the defining personality -- of the European Enlightenment. In this Very Short Introduction, Nicholas Cronk explores Voltaire's remarkable career and demonstrates how his thinking is pivotal to our notion and understanding of the Enlightenment. In a fresh and modern examination of his writings, ... En savoir plus

    $7.99 CAD

  • The Secret History of Freemasonry

    Its Origins and Connection to the Knights Templar

    par Paul Naudon ...
    Explores the hidden history of Freemasonry from ancient Rome, through the Middle Ages, to the present• Shows the close connection between medieval masons and the Knights Templar• Illustrates the sacred nature of Roman and medieval trade associations• Reveals the missing link that connects the lodges of modern Freemasonry to the medieval brotherhoods of buildersHistorians often make a sharp ... En savoir plus

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Maronites

    The Origins of an Antiochene Church

    par Naaman Paul ...
    Collections Livre 243 - Cistercian Studies Series
    The Maronite Church is one of twenty-two Eastern Catholic Churches in communion with the Pope of Rome. Her patriarch is in Lebanon. Forty-three bishops and approximately five million faithful make up her presence throughout the world.The story of Maron, a fifth-century hermit-priest, and the community gathered around him, later called the Maronites, tells another fascinating story of the monastic ... En savoir plus

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  • Holy Warriors

    The Religious Ideology of Chivalry

    par Richard W. Kaeuper ...
    Collections series The Middle Ages Series
    The medieval code of chivalry demanded that warrior elites demonstrate fierce courage in battle, display prowess with weaponry, and avenge any strike against their honor. They were also required to be devout Christians. How, then, could knights pledge fealty to the Prince of Peace, who enjoined the faithful to turn the other cheek rather than seek vengeance and who taught that the meek, rather ... En savoir plus

    $36.99 CAD

  • Experiencing Exile

    Huguenot Refugees in the Dutch Republic, 1680�1700

    par David van der Linden ...
    Collections series Politics and Culture in Europe, 1650-1750
    The persecution of the Huguenots in France, followed by the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, unleashed one of the largest migration waves of early modern Europe. Focusing on the fate of French Protestants who fled to the Dutch Republic, Experiencing Exile examines how Huguenot refugees dealt with the complex realities of living as strangers abroad, and how they seized upon religion and ... En savoir plus

    $82.99 CAD

  • Margins and Metropolis

    Authority across the Byzantine Empire

    par Judith Herrin ...
    This volume explores the political, cultural, and ecclesiastical forces that linked the metropolis of Byzantium to the margins of its far-flung empire. Focusing on the provincial region of Hellas and Peloponnesos in central and southern Greece, Judith Herrin shows how the prestige of Constantinople was reflected in the military, civilian, and ecclesiastical officials sent out to govern the ... En savoir plus

    $93.49 CAD

  • The Cathars

    Dualist Heretics in Languedoc in the High Middle Ages

    par Malcolm Barber ...
    Collections series The Medieval World
    In the second half of the twelfth century, the Catholic Church became convinced that dualist heresy was taking root within Christian society and that it was particularly strong in southern France. The nature and extent of this heresy and the reaction of the Church to the perceived threat have been the focus of extensive research since the mid-nineteenth century, research which has become ... En savoir plus

    $92.99 CAD