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    Its Rise and Function in Latin Christianity, Enlarged Edition

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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

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    Afterlife and Wealth in Early Western Christianity

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  • Why Can the Dead Do Such Great Things?

    Saints and Worshippers from the Martyrs to the Reformation

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    Thefts of Relics in the Central Middle Ages - Revised Edition

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Hildegard of Bingen

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    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
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