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Violence and belief in late antiquity
In Violence and Belief in Late Antiquity, Thomas Sizgorich seeks to understand why and how violent expressions of religious devotion became central to the self-understandings of both Christian and Muslim communities between the fourth and ninth centuries. Sizgorich argues that the cultivation of ...
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What's divine about divine law?
How ancient thinkers grappled with competing conceptions of divine lawIn the thousand years before the rise of Islam, two radically diverse conceptions of what it means to say that a law is divine confronted one another with a force that reverberates to the present. What's Divine about Divine Law...
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Why can the dead do such great things?
A sweeping, authoritative, and entertaining history of the Christian cult of the saints from its origin to the ReformationFrom 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...
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Women and monastic reform in the medieval west, c. 1000 – 1500
New approaches to understanding religious women's involvement in monastic reform, demonstrating how women's experiences were more ambiguous and multi-layered than previously assumed.Over the last two decades, scholarship has presented a more nuanced view of women's attitude to and agency in medie...
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Women of the gilte legende
The first modern translation of one of the most influential books to come from the middle ages.The Gilte Legende was widely read as a model for everyday life, including the education of women through examples set by early Christian martyrs. This book divides the lives of female saints into: the "...
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Women, religion, and emotions in modern germany and beyond
Analyzes the role of emotions in the religious lives of women from across Germany and Europe from the nineteenth century to the 1970s.Scholarship on women and religion has focused primarily on the intersection between women's religious engagement and their emancipation. This volume goes beyond th...
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