Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 622
Book Description
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 622
Book Description
La sainte Église d'Aix et d'Arles. L'Immaculée-Conception de la très sainte Vierge Marie honorée dans la ville d'Aix-en-Provence, étude d'histoire religieuse locale
Author: Abbé Paul-Marie DavinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 103
Book Description
L'Immaculée-Conception de la très-Sainte Vierge Marie honorée dans la ville d'Aix-en-Provence
Author: Abbé Paul-Marie DavinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 103
Book Description
L'Immaculée Conception de la Très-Sainte Vierge honoré dans la ville d'Aix-en-Provence
Author: Paul-Marie DavinThe Old English Lives of St. Margaret
Author: Mary ClaytonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521433822
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
An edition of two Old English versions of the colourful legend of St Margaret of Antioch.
CRITICAL HISTORY OF THE OLD TESTAMENT
Author: RICHARD. SIMONPublisher:
ISBN: 9781033286210
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Furta Sacra
Author: Patrick J. GearyPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400820200
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
To obtain sacred relics, medieval monks plundered tombs, avaricious merchants raided churches, and relic-mongers scoured the Roman catacombs. In a revised edition of Furta Sacra, Patrick Geary considers the social and cultural context for these acts, asking how the relics were perceived and why the thefts met with the approval of medieval Christians.
Clare of Assisi and the Thirteenth-Century Church
Author: Catherine M. MooneyPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812248171
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
In a work based on a meticulous analysis of sources, many of them previously unexplored, Catherine M. Mooney upends the received account of Clare of Assisi's founding of the Order of San Damiano, or Poor Clares. Mooney offers instead a stark counternarrative: Clare, her sisters of San Damiano, and their allies struggled against a papal program bent on regimenting, enriching, and enclosing religious women in the thirteenth century, a program that proved largely successful. Mooney demonstrates that Clare (1194-1253) established a single community that was soon cajoled, perhaps even coerced, into joining an order previously founded by the papacy. Artfully renaming it after Clare's San Damiano with Clare as its putative mother, Pope Gregory IX enhanced his order's cachet by associating it also with Clare's famous friend, Francis of Assisi. Mooney traces how Clare and her allies in other houses attempted to follow Francis's directives rather than the pope's, divested themselves of property against the pope's orders, and organized in an attempt to change papal rule; and she shows how, after Francis's death, the women's relationships with the Franciscans themselves grew similarly fraught. Clare's pursuit of her vision proved relentless: at the time of her death, she newly identified her community as the Order of Poor Sisters and allied it unambiguously with Francis and his friars. Overturning another myth, Mooney reveals how only in the late nineteenth century did Clare come to be known as the sole author of a rule she had written collaboratively with others. Throughout, the story of Clare and her sisters emerges as a chapter in the long history of women who tried to define their religious identities within a Church more committed to unity and conformity than to diversity and difference.
The Lady as Saint
Author: Brigitte CazellesPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9780812213805
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Among the thirteenth-century saints exalted are female martyrs and hermits of early Christianity. In The Lady as Saint, Brigitte Cazelles offers the first English translation of these lives and provides extensive commentary on the portrayal of female spirituality.
Rewriting Saints and Ancestors
Author: Constance Brittain BouchardPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812290089
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 379
Book Description
Thinkers in medieval France constantly reconceptualized what had come before, interpreting past events to give validity to the present and help control the future. The long-dead saints who presided over churches and the ancestors of established dynasties were an especially crucial part of creative memory, Constance Brittain Bouchard contends. In Rewriting Saints and Ancestors she examines how such ex post facto accounts are less an impediment to the writing of accurate history than a crucial tool for understanding the Middle Ages. Working backward through time, Bouchard discusses twelfth-century scribes contemplating the ninth-century documents they copied into cartularies or reworked into narratives of disaster and triumph, ninth-century churchmen deliberately forging supposedly late antique documents as weapons against both kings and other churchmen, and sixth- and seventh-century Gallic writers coming to terms with an early Christianity that had neither the saints nor the monasteries that would become fundamental to religious practice. As they met with political change and social upheaval, each generation decided which events of the past were worth remembering and which were to be reinterpreted or quietly forgotten. By considering memory as an analytic tool, Bouchard not only reveals the ways early medieval writers constructed a useful past but also provides new insights into the nature of record keeping, the changing ways dynasties were conceptualized, the relationships of the Merovingian and Carolingian kings to the church, and the discovery (or invention) of Gaul's earliest martyrs.