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  • The Sibyl and Her Scribes

    Manuscripts and Interpretation of the Latin Sibylla Tiburtina c. 1050–1500

    by Anke Holdenried ...
    Series series Church, Faith and Culture in the Medieval West
    The Sibylla Tiburtina is a Latin prophecy attributed to a prophetess from classical antiquity. It concludes with an account of the End of History, involving the coming of the Antichrist and his battle with a Last World Emperor. Approximately 100 manuscripts, written between the mid-11th and the 16th centuries, survive which testify to the Tiburtina's immense popularity in the medieval West; as ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

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    A Study in Medieval Political Theology

    by Ernst Kantorowicz, William Chester Jordan ...
    Series series Princeton Classics
    Originally published in 1957, this classic work has guided generations of scholars through the arcane mysteries of medieval political theology. Throughout history, the notion of two bodies has permitted the postmortem continuity of monarch and monarchy, as epitomized by the statement, “The king is dead. Long live the king.” In The King’s Two Bodies, Ernst Kantorowicz traces the historical dilemma ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Hildegard of Bingen

    Edited by Jennifer Bain ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    This specially commissioned collection of thirteen essays explores the life and works of Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179), monastic founder, leader of a community of nuns, composer, active correspondent, and writer of religious visions, theological treatises, sermons, and scientific and medical texts. Aimed at advanced university students and new Hildegard researchers, the essays provide a broad ... Read more

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  • RB 1980: The Rule of St. Benedict

    In Latin and English with Notes

    For fifteen centuries Benedictine monasticism has been governed by a Rule that is at once strong enough to instill order and yet flexible enough to have relevance fifteen hundred years later. This unabridged edition includes the Latin and English translation with commentary. The paperback version has facing page translation. ... Read more

    $41.79 USD

  • Origins of the Franciscan Order

    by Cajetan Esser O.F.M. ...
    A Study of the problems of the early history of the Franciscan ORder by one of the most important scholars of the ORder, this book seeks to contribute to a stronger historical understanding of the work of St. Francis byu looking into the debates and theories surrounding the formation of the Order, and the transformation of the "original ideals of St. Francis." ... Read more

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  • A History of Medieval Political Thought

    300–1450

    by Joseph Canning ...
    First Published in 2005. The book covers four periods, each with a different focus. From 300 to 750 Canning examines Christian ideas of rulership. The often neglected centuries from 750 to 1050, the Carolingian period and its aftermath, are given special attention. From 1050 to 1290 the conflict between temporal and spiritual power and the revived legacy of antiquity comes to the fore. Finally in ... Read more

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  • The Creeds of Christendom: Volume 1 The History of Creeds

    by Philip Schaff ...
    The Creeds of Christendom: Volume 1 The History of Creeds is a massive work by Philip Schaff, and is the first in a three volume set. ... Read more

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  • The Irish Scholarly Presence at St. Gall

    Networks of Knowledge in the Early Middle Ages

    by Sven Meeder ...
    Series series Studies in Early Medieval History
    The Carolingian period represented a Golden Age for the abbey of St Gall, an Alpine monastery in modern-day Switzerland. Its bloom of intellectual activity resulted in an impressive number of scholarly texts being copied into often beautifully written manuscripts, many of which survive in the abbey's library to this day. Among these books are several of Irish origin, while others contain works of ... Read more

    $38.89 USD

  • The Emancipation of Biblical Philology in the Dutch Republic, 1590-1670

    by Dirk van Miert ...
    The Emancipation of Biblical Philology in the Dutch Republic, 1590-1670 argues that the application of tools, developed in the study of ancient Greek and Latin authors, to the Bible was aimed at stabilizing the biblical text but had the unintentional effect that the text grew more and more unstable. Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) capitalized on this tradition in his notorious Theological-political ... Read more

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  • Heinrich Glarean's Books

    The Intellectual World of a Sixteenth-Century Musical Humanist

    Edited by Iain Fenlon, Inga Mai Groote ...
    This collection of essays investigates the work of Heinrich Glarean, one of the most influential humanists and music theorists of the sixteenth century. For the first time, Glarean's musical writings, including his masterwork the Dodekachordon, are considered in the wider context of his work in a variety of disciplines such as musicology, history, theology and geography. Contributors reference ... Read more

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  • The European Book in the Twelfth Century

    Edited by Erik Kwakkel, Rodney Thomson ...
    Series Book 101 - Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
    The 'long twelfth century' (1075–1225) was an era of seminal importance in the development of the book in medieval Europe and marked a high point in its construction and decoration. This comprehensive study takes the cultural changes that occurred during the 'twelfth-century Renaissance' as its point of departure to provide an overview of manuscript culture encompassing the whole of Western Europe ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • Reading the Bible in the Middle Ages

    Edited by Jinty Nelson, Damien Kempf ...
    Series series Studies in Early Medieval History
    For earlier medieval Christians, the Bible was the book of guidance above all others, and the route to religious knowledge, used for all kinds of practical purposes, from divination to models of government in kingdom or household. This book's focus is on how medieval people accessed Scripture by reading, but also by hearing and memorizing sound-bites from the liturgy, chants and hymns, or sermons ... Read more

    $42.89 USD