This comprehensive reference work brings together a diverse cross-section of established and emerging historians to explore the broad and deep history of Bible-believing, born-again Protestantism, and its dynamic impact on American life and society....Loe edasi...
Real Lives in the Eighteenth Century presents a global history using four sets of biographies to illustrate corresponding situations in different geographical regions....Loe edasi...
This book explores the many types of medieval murder and many types of medieval murderers, from men killing other men in anger, envy or revenge, to women killing their husbands or their infants, from plotters assassinating their rulers to Christian...Loe edasi...
This collective volume takes up the subject of ethnicity in Prussia between the 13th and 16th centuries and shows several other aspects of this phenomenon in a region on the outskirts of late medieval Europe....Loe edasi...
This book explores how late antique miracle collections depict Christian saints as subversive, theatrical tricksters who blur the boundaries between sacred and profane, human and divine. Suitable for scholars and students of late antique Christianit...Loe edasi...
Secularization, Social Order and World History provides a new perspective on the nature of secularization. This book demonstrates that the concepts of religion and the secular that are assumed in traditional accounts of secularization are not univer...Loe edasi...
This book examines the reality of theological dissent in the Catholic Church in the decades since the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965) and its relation to the problematic search for certainty and doctrinal consistency in addressing the complexitie...Loe edasi...
This volume offers readers a comprehensive and vivid picture of medieval death and burial in England, bringing the fascinating beliefs and rituals surrounding mortality into sharp focus....Loe edasi...
A cohesive collection of studies by Japanese, Russian and Central Asian scholars deploying previously unexplored Russian, Mongolian, and Tibetan sources concerning events and processes in the Central Asian Buddhist world in the late 19th and early 2...Loe edasi...
Focuses on the influence of a widely copied but largely unstudied text, The Twelve Abuses of the Age with a multi-national and multi-disciplinary focus, involving disciplines of literature, history and political thought....Loe edasi...
The varied career of the Medideval Cardinal Adam Easton (c.13301397) led him from Norwich Cathedral Priory to Oxford, Avignon and Rome. This volume presents recent research on Eastons oeuvre, his diplomacy and the books that accompanied him on his...Loe edasi...
This study depicts holy infirmity as an aspect of sanctity that is largely defined within the community, in continual dialogue with devotees, people suffering from doubt, the holy person, and the cultural patterns ascribed to saintly life....Loe edasi...
This book studies a phenomenon which is most interesting in itself, but also helps to understand religious and social life in the period in which they were swiftly changing, it covers the entire field, and not a single method, and deals with the ev...Loe edasi...
Gregory of Tours was a bishop of late antiquity who was famously devoted to promoting the efficacy of saintly powers. This book analyses Gregorys writings about death and the afterlife, thereby illuminating the bishops pastoral imperative to save...Loe edasi...
First published in 1931, The Cross Moves East examines Gandhis concept of Satyagraha (non-violent resistance) and analyses its philosophical parallels with Christian principles. This book will be a valuable read for students and researchers of compa...Loe edasi...
First published in 1967, Faith in a Changing Culture examines the relationship between religious faith and cultural transformation during a period of significant social change. The author recognizes the need for the church to adapt to stay relevant...Loe edasi...
In the Florentine basilica of San Miniato al Monte is a thirteenth-century marble zodiac. Over many years Fred Gettings unravelled the mysteries of its construction. In this book, originally published in 1987, he shows that the church was designed a...Loe edasi...
Addressing fundamental questions about the conversion of the West to Christianity between the 4th and 8th centuries, this book explores how and why new religions spread in societies that were previously foreign to them and examines what happens to o...Loe edasi...
This book offers a comprehensive and systematic rather than historical approach to ancient Greek oracular texts, showing their conceptual and formal unity and patternisation, as well as their meaningful diversity....Loe edasi...
