The second of 4 vols. which trace the history of the later Crusades & papal relations with the Levant from the accession of Innocent III (in 1198) to the reign of Pius V & the battle of Lepanto (1566-71). Contents: Venice & the Latin Failure to Halt the Ottoman Advance in Greece; Martin V & Eugenius IV, Constance & Ferrara-Florence, Opposition to Murad II; The Crusade of Varna & Its Aftermath; The Siege & Fall of Constantinople (1453) & Perils & Problems after the Fall; Calixtus III & the Siege of Belgrade, Mehmed II & Albania; Pius II, the Congress of Mantua & the Turkish Conquest of the Morea; Pius II, the Crusade, & the Venetian War against the Turks; Paul II, Venice, & the Fall of Negroponte; Sixtus IV & the Turkish Occupation of Otranto; Piere d’Aubusson & the First Siege of Rhodes; Sixtus IV & the Recovery of Otranto; Innocent VII, Jem Sultan, & the Crusade; Innocent VIII & Alexander VI, Charles VIII & Ferrante I; Alexander VI & Charles VIII, the French Expedition into Italy; The French in Naples, the League of Venice, & Papal Problems; & The Diplomatic Revolution: France & Spain, the Papacy & Venice.
Papacy and the Levant (1204-1571), Vol. IV
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The fourth of 4 vols. which trace the history of the later Crusades & papal relations with the Levant from the accession of Innocent III (in 1198) to the reign of Pius V & the Battle of Lepanto (1566-71). Contents of this vol.: The Murder of Martinuzzi, the Turks on Land & at Sea, the War of Siena; The Reign of Paul IV to the Outbreak of the War with Spain; Paul IV, the War with Spain & Jean de la Vigne at the Porte; The Election of Pius IV & the Fall of the Carafeschi, Cyprus & the Turkish Success at Jerba; The Third Period & Closure of the Council of Trent; France, Venice, & the Porte -- the Turkish Siege of Malta; Pius V, Spain, & Venice; the Turks in Chios & the Adriatic; the Revolt of the Netherlands; Venice, Cyprus, & the Porte in the Early Years of Selim II; The Failure of the Expedition of 1570 & Pius V’s Attempts to Form the Anti-Turkish League; The Holy League, the Continuing War with the Turks, & the Fall of Famagusta; & the Road to Lepanto, the Battle, & a Glance at the Following Century.
Religion and Industrial Society
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This is a print on demand publication. The Protestant Social Cong. (“Evangelish-Sozialer Kongress”), met each year from 1890 to 1914 to discuss Germany’s sudden transformation into an industrial capitalist society. It served as a forum for Wilhelmine Germany’s educated middle class. Prof. & public leaders such as Friedrich Naumann, Max Weber, Ernst Troeltsch, Gertrud Baumer, Adolf von Harnack, & Hans Delbruck addressed the yearly meetings. A cross-section of the occup. making up the “Bildungsburgertum” listened to them, with church officials, teachers, civil servants, academics, businessmen, & doctors in attendance. The printed protocols of the Cong. allow us to reconstruct how these educated Protestants responded to the political & social forces impinging on their culture.
Luther’s Pastors
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Traditional Ojibwa Religion and Its Historical Changes
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Describes & analyzes traditional Ojibwa religion (TOR) & the changes it has undergone through the last three centuries. Emphasizes the influence of Christian missions (CM) to the Ojibwas in effecting religious changes, & examines the concomitant changes in Ojibwa culture & environment through the historical period. Contents: Review of Sources; Criteria for Determining what was TOR; Ojibwa History; CM to the Ojibwas; Ojibwa Responses to CM; The Ojibwa Person, Living & Dead; The Manitos; Nanabozho & the Creation Myth; Ojibwa Relations with the Manitos; Puberty Fasting & Visions; Disease, Health, & Medicine; Religious Leadership; Midewiwin; Diverse Religious Movements; & The Loss of TOR. Maps & charts.
Nalarayadavadanticarita (Adventures of King Nala and Davadanti)
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The Nalarayadavadanticarita is an Old Gujarati rendition of the Jain parallel to the Nala-Damayanti story of the Mahabharata. As with other parallel Jain, Hindu, & Buddhist stories & motifs, the work has many unique features, since the Jain story-teller employed it for the edifying presentation of the Jain religion. The present edition is based upon four paper manuscripts, designated, for facility of reference, B, H, P, & S. Contents: (I) Introduction: The Source of the Materials; The Story & Its Significance; Meters; (II) Grammar: Phonology; Morphology; Notes on Syntax; (III) Text: (IV) Translation; (V) Glossary; & (VI) References. This is a print on demand edition of an important, hard-to-find publication.
Cristobal Rojas y Spinola, Cameralist and Irenicist 1626-1695
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Ideas of Religious Toleration at the Time of Joseph II. A Study of the Enlightenment Among Catholics in Austria
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Making of a Romantic Icon
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In this thought-provoking book, Gossman focuses on Overbeck’s “Italia and Germania” to discuss the importance of religious conversion in Romantic thought. Gossman gives excellent translations from original German sources that are not only accurate but may enable the Anglophone reader to truly grasp the spirit of the sources. This book serves as a thoughtful and elegantly written introduction to the way of thinking of one of the most important of the Nazerene painters. It treats the evolution of the Nazarene artists’ preoccupation with religious issues in an engaging manner and offers a social-historical and theological context to Overbeck’s painting by looking interestingly at a wide range of issues and contacts in his early Nazarene period. Illus.
Papacy and the Levant (1204-1571), Vol. IV
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The fourth of 4 vols. which trace the history of the later Crusades & papal relations with the Levant from the accession of Innocent III (in 1198) to the reign of Pius V & the Battle of Lepanto (1566-71). Contents of this vol.: The Murder of Martinuzzi, the Turks on Land & at Sea, the War of Siena; The Reign of Paul IV to the Outbreak of the War with Spain; Paul IV, the War with Spain & Jean de la Vigne at the Porte; The Election of Pius IV & the Fall of the Carafeschi, Cyprus & the Turkish Success at Jerba; The Third Period & Closure of the Council of Trent; France, Venice, & the Porte -- the Turkish Siege of Malta; Pius V, Spain, & Venice; the Turks in Chios & the Adriatic; the Revolt of the Netherlands; Venice, Cyprus, & the Porte in the Early Years of Selim II; The Failure of the Expedition of 1570 & Pius V’s Attempts to Form the Anti-Turkish League; The Holy League, the Continuing War with the Turks, & the Fall of Famagusta; & the Road to Lepanto, the Battle, & a Glance at the Following Century.
Philip the Fair and the Ecclesiastical Assemblies of 1294-1295
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This vol. provides a new analysis of the sources concerning the clash between Philip the Fair and Boniface VIII. Indeed, any attempt to study the constitutional and political position of the French clergy during the critical years at the turn of the 13th century must include an assessment of the ecclesiastical assemblies at which many clerical decisions were taken and through which the clerical voice was being heard. Although much progress has been made in the sorting and listing of materials relating to French diocesan synods, prior to this publication there had been no comparable sifting of the sources for the provincial councils.
Power, Authority, and the Origins of American Denominational Order
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Master Nicholas of Dresden
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Shaftesbury and the Deist Manifesto
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Franciscans in South Germany, 1400-1530. Reform and Revolution
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From Defense to Resistance
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This is a print on demand publication. The right to defend oneself & one’s property came into conflict with medieval rulers’ attempts to maintain public order. As the French monarchy asserted its claims to sovereignty, the concept of “lese-majeste,” or treason, grew, but so did the belief that the king ruled by popular consent for the good of the kingdom. By the late 16th cent., heresy was being seen as a kind of treason, & religious arguments began to play a vital role in the new context of religious warfare. It was the convergence of these various elements during the 16th-cent. wars of Religion which resulted in the formulation of theories of resistance which asserted the right of the people to defend themselves against “bad” kings. This work explores the legal theories used to justify that development.
Papacy and the Levant (1204-1571), Vol. III
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The third of 4 vols. which trace the history of the later Crusades & papal relations with the Levant from the accession of Innocent III (in 1198) to the reign of Pius V & the battle of Lepanto (1566-1571). Contents: Pius III, Julius II, & the Romagna; Venice, the Soldan of Egypt, & the Turks; The League of Cambrai, the Turks & the Gallican Conciliarists; The Council of Pisa-Milan & the Battle of Ravenna, the Fifth Lateran Council & Selim the Grim; Leo X, the Lateran Council, & the Ottoman Conquest of Egypt; Leo X & Plans for a Crusade against Selim the Grim; Hadrian VI, the Fall of Rhodes, & Renewal of the War in Italy; Pavia & the League of Cognac, Mohacs & the Turks in Hungary, Bourbon’s March on Rome; The Sack of Rome & the Siege of Naples; Before & After the Turkish Siege of Vienna; Clement VII, Francis I, & Hapsburg Opposition to the Turks; Paul III, the Lutherans, Venice & the Turks; Paul III, the Hapsburgs, & Francis I, the Turks & the Council of Trent; & The Election of Julius III, the Council of Trent, the Turks & the War of Parma. Reprinted in paperback on demand.
Nikolaos Masarites
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Natakalaksanarantnakosa of Sagaranandin
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First I Find the Center Point
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During his explanation of both the painting made by Hugh for the school of Saint Victor & the text that describes it, Conrad Rudolph addresses “The Mystic Ark” in the two senses of the word “Ark.” First, he speaks of the iconographical component of the Ark proper in the image of “The Mystic Ark,” & “The Ark,” a shortened title he sometimes uses when referring to either the image or the text of “The Mystic Ark.” Created between 1125 & 1130, “The Mystic Ark” is a work that was conceived at a moment of previously unrivaled controversy over art & of perceived threat by science to theology. Rudolph recognizes, in his own text, the significance of the painting & text in understanding medieval visual culture & its polemical context. Color & black & white illus.
Right of Spoil of the Popes of Avignon, 1316-1415
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The popes of Avignon, beginning with the election of John XXII in 1316 & ending with the deposition of Benedict XIII in 1415, laid claim to the movable property of some 1,200 ecclesiastical persons, exercising a power that has subsequently been named “jus spolii,” the “right of spoil.” This term to designate the right of the pope to collect the goods of deceased clerics for his own use seems to appear for the first time at the end of the 15th cent. Chapters: Intro. Definitions; The Law of Succession to Clerics’ Property; The Pope as Protector of Clerical Property & the Testamentary License; “Jus spolii” & “plenitudo potestatis”; The Admin. & Documen’n. of Spoils; The Extent & Incidence of the Right of Spoil; & Repertory of Cases of the Papal Right of Spoil.
Toleration and Diplomacy
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Dante and the Book of the Cosmos
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Czechoslovak Heresy and Schism
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Preadamite Theory and the Marriage of Science and Religion
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Among the harmonizing tactics that have been deployed to keep alive the marriage of science and religion, is the preadamite theory -- the idea that human beings existed before the biblical Adam. This overview of the preadamite attempts to reveal how inter-penetrative scientific and religious discourses have been. Contents: (1) Preadamism (PA) and Pagan Chronology; and The Peyrerean Formula; (2) PA, Polygenism, and Race; Reconciling Ethnology and Theology; Alexander Winchell and Monogenetic PA; and PA, Fundamentalism, and Anti-Evolutionism; (3) Evolutionary PA and Conservative Theology: Evolutionary Anthropology and Evangelical Theology; and PA and Modern Catholic Theology. Illus. This is a print on demand publication.
Papacy and the Levant (1204-1571), Vol. I
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The first of 4 vols. which trace the history of the later Crusades & papal relations with the Levant from the accession of Innocent III (in 1198) to the reign of Pius V & the battle of Lepanto (1566-71). From the mid-14th cent. to the conclusion of his work the author has drawn heavily upon unpub. materials, collected in the course of 17 trips to the Archivio Segreto Vaticano & the Archivi di Stato in Venice, Mantua, Modena, Milan, Siena, & Florence, & the Archives of the Order of the Hospitallers at Malta. In addition to a history of the later crusades (to the year 1400), the book deals in passing with various items -- crusading propaganda, the postal service of the 14th cent., ecclesiastical & feudal lawsuits, social conditions in papal Avignon, & even fashions in footwear.
Huguenot Population of France, 1600-1685
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This vol. has been built upon all of the known parish register & census evidence bearing upon the changing size of France’s Huguenot population over the course of the period between the Edict of Nantes & its Revocation -- specifically, upon census figures or annual totals of baptisms for any Protestant church or community for which such evidence spans 40 or more years of the cent. This national investigation is offered in the hope that it can help to stimulate more of the detailed local studies of individual Protestant communities & of the relations between their members & their Catholic neighbors that are needed to illuminate these variations, as well as to highlight those regions where such studies might be particularly fruitful. Charts & tables.
Persecution of Peter Olivi
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Isidore of Seville on the Pagan Gods (Origines VIII. 11)
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Historia Francorum Qui Ceperunt Iherusalem
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This is a print on demand pub. Raymond D’Aguilers, chaplain of Count Raymond IV of Toulouse, wrote an eyewitness account of the crusades entitled “Historia Francorum qui ceperunt Iherusalem.” His 12th-cent. history has influenced later historians in their accounts of the First Crusade and has led to many misinterpretations. This translation offers a clearer understanding of the crusades; it catches the spirit of the chaplain and reveals the suffering and misgivings of the clerics who journeyed to Jerusalem. Explains the author’s use of visions and Biblical material and his resort to ecclesiastical fiction. “Offers a vivid account of the crusaders’ journey to Jerusalem and the capture of the Holy Sepulchre in 1099.” Maps. (reprint ed.)
Rome and the City of God
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Western Hostility to Islam and Prophecies of Turkish Doom
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The tall tales of medieval pilgrims and the incitements of crusading preachers contributed their share to the hatred of Islam nurtured in most Christian hearts during the Middle Ages. Ridiculous legends grew up in the West relating to Mohammed, the stock in trade of preachers, who were always willing to inform their listeners about the origin of the Prophet and the nature of Islam. Pious Christians were usually assured that Mohammed had come to a bad end. Contents of this study: Early legends and prophecies; Christian hopes for the undoing of Islam; Bartholomaeus Georgievicz and the “Red Apple”; and Translations of the Koran and Increasing Tolerance of Islam. Illustrations.
Papacy and the Levant (1204-1571), Vol. II
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The second of 4 vols. which trace the history of the later Crusades & papal relations with the Levant from the accession of Innocent III (in 1198) to the reign of Pius V & the battle of Lepanto (1566-71). Contents: Venice & the Latin Failure to Halt the Ottoman Advance in Greece; Martin V & Eugenius IV, Constance & Ferrara-Florence, Opposition to Murad II; The Crusade of Varna & Its Aftermath; The Siege & Fall of Constantinople (1453) & Perils & Problems after the Fall; Calixtus III & the Siege of Belgrade, Mehmed II & Albania; Pius II, the Congress of Mantua & the Turkish Conquest of the Morea; Pius II, the Crusade, & the Venetian War against the Turks; Paul II, Venice, & the Fall of Negroponte; Sixtus IV & the Turkish Occupation of Otranto; Piere d’Aubusson & the First Siege of Rhodes; Sixtus IV & the Recovery of Otranto; Innocent VII, Jem Sultan, & the Crusade; Innocent VIII & Alexander VI, Charles VIII & Ferrante I; Alexander VI & Charles VIII, the French Expedition into Italy; The French in Naples, the League of Venice, & Papal Problems; & The Diplomatic Revolution: France & Spain, the Papacy & Venice.
Monastic Reform in Lorraine and the Architecture of the Outer Crypt, 950-1100
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Under Heaven's Brow
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For the people of Chuuk and for students of religion and Micronesian culture, this book pulls together and makes available in English the somewhat scattered published accounts (largely in German), along with Goodenough's own (as yet unpublished) information about religious beliefs and ritual practices in pre-Christian Chuuk. The materials are presented in a way that seeks to document and illustrate a particular approach, a functional one, to understanding the kinds of human concerns that give rise to religious behavior. Simply to describe traditional beliefs and rituals without the relevant social background information leaves the reader without any feeling for what were the emotional concerns, engendered by life in Chuukese society, that ritual practices helped people address. Ward Goodenough offers a theoretical introduction, the necessary background information about Chuuk and the ways in which members of Chuukese society experienced themselves and their fellows, the world view and overall set of beliefs providing the intellectual framework within which ritual practices were formulated and understood, and the various bodies of ritual practices. He concludes the book with a summary that pulls together how the rituals described appear to related to the emotional concerns that growing up and living in Chuuk tended to create.
Under Heaven's Brow
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For the people of Chuuk and for students of religion and Micronesian culture, this book pulls together and makes available in English the somewhat scattered published accounts (largely in German), along with Goodenough's own (as yet unpublished) information about religious beliefs and ritual practices in pre-Christian Chuuk. The materials are presented in a way that seeks to document and illustrate a particular approach, a functional one, to understanding the kinds of human concerns that give rise to religious behavior. Simply to describe traditional beliefs and rituals without the relevant social background information leaves the reader without any feeling for what were the emotional concerns, engendered by life in Chuukese society, that ritual practices helped people address. Ward Goodenough offers a theoretical introduction, the necessary background information about Chuuk and the ways in which members of Chuukese society experienced themselves and their fellows, the world view and overall set of beliefs providing the intellectual framework within which ritual practices were formulated and understood, and the various bodies of ritual practices. He concludes the book with a summary that pulls together how the rituals described appear to related to the emotional concerns that growing up and living in Chuuk tended to create.
Right of Spoil of the Popes of Avignon, 1316-1415
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The popes of Avignon, beginning with the election of John XXII in 1316 & ending with the deposition of Benedict XIII in 1415, laid claim to the movable property of some 1,200 ecclesiastical persons, exercising a power that has subsequently been named “jus spolii,” the “right of spoil.” This term to designate the right of the pope to collect the goods of deceased clerics for his own use seems to appear for the first time at the end of the 15th cent. Chapters: Intro. Definitions; The Law of Succession to Clerics’ Property; The Pope as Protector of Clerical Property & the Testamentary License; “Jus spolii” & “plenitudo potestatis”; The Admin. & Documen’n. of Spoils; The Extent & Incidence of the Right of Spoil; & Repertory of Cases of the Papal Right of Spoil.
Preadamite Theory and the Marriage of Science and Religion
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Among the harmonizing tactics that have been deployed to keep alive the marriage of science and religion, is the preadamite theory -- the idea that human beings existed before the biblical Adam. This overview of the preadamite attempts to reveal how inter-penetrative scientific and religious discourses have been. Contents: (1) Preadamism (PA) and Pagan Chronology; and The Peyrerean Formula; (2) PA, Polygenism, and Race; Reconciling Ethnology and Theology; Alexander Winchell and Monogenetic PA; and PA, Fundamentalism, and Anti-Evolutionism; (3) Evolutionary PA and Conservative Theology: Evolutionary Anthropology and Evangelical Theology; and PA and Modern Catholic Theology. Illus. This is a print on demand publication.
From Defense to Resistance
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This is a print on demand publication. The right to defend oneself & one’s property came into conflict with medieval rulers’ attempts to maintain public order. As the French monarchy asserted its claims to sovereignty, the concept of “lese-majeste,” or treason, grew, but so did the belief that the king ruled by popular consent for the good of the kingdom. By the late 16th cent., heresy was being seen as a kind of treason, & religious arguments began to play a vital role in the new context of religious warfare. It was the convergence of these various elements during the 16th-cent. wars of Religion which resulted in the formulation of theories of resistance which asserted the right of the people to defend themselves against “bad” kings. This work explores the legal theories used to justify that development.
Dante and the Book of the Cosmos
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Eucharistic Presence and Conversion in Late Thirteenth-Century Franciscan Thought
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Concentrates on a single problem in medieval theology: the relationship between Christ’s bodily presence in the Eucharist & the conversion of the Eucharistic elements, bread & wine, into Christ’s body & blood. Traces discussion of this problem in the Franciscan order during the late 13th cent. from St. Bonaventure to John Duns Scotus. Contents: The Thomist-Bonaventuran Thesis; Eucharistic Thought in the 1240s: Albert the Great, Wm. of Militona, & Richard Fishacre; Reception of the Thomist-Bonav. Thesis outside the Franciscan Order; The Franciscan Critique: Wm. de la Mare, Matthew of Aquasparta, John Pecham, Peter Olivi, Roger Marston, & Wm. of Falgar, Richard of Middleton, Vitalis de Furno, & Wm. of Ware, John Duns Scotus; Conclusion. This is a print on demand edition of an important, hard-to-find publication.
Huguenot Population of France, 1600-1685
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This vol. has been built upon all of the known parish register & census evidence bearing upon the changing size of France’s Huguenot population over the course of the period between the Edict of Nantes & its Revocation -- specifically, upon census figures or annual totals of baptisms for any Protestant church or community for which such evidence spans 40 or more years of the cent. This national investigation is offered in the hope that it can help to stimulate more of the detailed local studies of individual Protestant communities & of the relations between their members & their Catholic neighbors that are needed to illuminate these variations, as well as to highlight those regions where such studies might be particularly fruitful. Charts & tables.
Natakalaksanarantnakosa of Sagaranandin
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First I Find the Center Point
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During his explanation of both the painting made by Hugh for the school of Saint Victor & the text that describes it, Conrad Rudolph addresses “The Mystic Ark” in the two senses of the word “Ark.” First, he speaks of the iconographical component of the Ark proper in the image of “The Mystic Ark,” & “The Ark,” a shortened title he sometimes uses when referring to either the image or the text of “The Mystic Ark.” Created between 1125 & 1130, “The Mystic Ark” is a work that was conceived at a moment of previously unrivaled controversy over art & of perceived threat by science to theology. Rudolph recognizes, in his own text, the significance of the painting & text in understanding medieval visual culture & its polemical context. Color & black & white illus.
Persecution of Peter Olivi
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Monguors of the Kansu-Tibetan Border. Part II
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Nikolaos Masarites
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Western Hostility to Islam and Prophecies of Turkish Doom
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The tall tales of medieval pilgrims and the incitements of crusading preachers contributed their share to the hatred of Islam nurtured in most Christian hearts during the Middle Ages. Ridiculous legends grew up in the West relating to Mohammed, the stock in trade of preachers, who were always willing to inform their listeners about the origin of the Prophet and the nature of Islam. Pious Christians were usually assured that Mohammed had come to a bad end. Contents of this study: Early legends and prophecies; Christian hopes for the undoing of Islam; Bartholomaeus Georgievicz and the “Red Apple”; and Translations of the Koran and Increasing Tolerance of Islam. Illustrations.
Historia Francorum Qui Ceperunt Iherusalem
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This is a print on demand pub. Raymond D’Aguilers, chaplain of Count Raymond IV of Toulouse, wrote an eyewitness account of the crusades entitled “Historia Francorum qui ceperunt Iherusalem.” His 12th-cent. history has influenced later historians in their accounts of the First Crusade and has led to many misinterpretations. This translation offers a clearer understanding of the crusades; it catches the spirit of the chaplain and reveals the suffering and misgivings of the clerics who journeyed to Jerusalem. Explains the author’s use of visions and Biblical material and his resort to ecclesiastical fiction. “Offers a vivid account of the crusaders’ journey to Jerusalem and the capture of the Holy Sepulchre in 1099.” Maps. (reprint ed.)
Rome and the City of God
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Master Nicholas of Dresden
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Toleration and Diplomacy
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Religion and Industrial Society
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This is a print on demand publication. The Protestant Social Cong. (“Evangelish-Sozialer Kongress”), met each year from 1890 to 1914 to discuss Germany’s sudden transformation into an industrial capitalist society. It served as a forum for Wilhelmine Germany’s educated middle class. Prof. & public leaders such as Friedrich Naumann, Max Weber, Ernst Troeltsch, Gertrud Baumer, Adolf von Harnack, & Hans Delbruck addressed the yearly meetings. A cross-section of the occup. making up the “Bildungsburgertum” listened to them, with church officials, teachers, civil servants, academics, businessmen, & doctors in attendance. The printed protocols of the Cong. allow us to reconstruct how these educated Protestants responded to the political & social forces impinging on their culture.
Shaftesbury and the Deist Manifesto
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Nalarayadavadanticarita (Adventures of King Nala and Davadanti)
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The Nalarayadavadanticarita is an Old Gujarati rendition of the Jain parallel to the Nala-Damayanti story of the Mahabharata. As with other parallel Jain, Hindu, & Buddhist stories & motifs, the work has many unique features, since the Jain story-teller employed it for the edifying presentation of the Jain religion. The present edition is based upon four paper manuscripts, designated, for facility of reference, B, H, P, & S. Contents: (I) Introduction: The Source of the Materials; The Story & Its Significance; Meters; (II) Grammar: Phonology; Morphology; Notes on Syntax; (III) Text: (IV) Translation; (V) Glossary; & (VI) References. This is a print on demand edition of an important, hard-to-find publication.
Luther’s Pastors
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Philip the Fair and the Ecclesiastical Assemblies of 1294-1295
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This vol. provides a new analysis of the sources concerning the clash between Philip the Fair and Boniface VIII. Indeed, any attempt to study the constitutional and political position of the French clergy during the critical years at the turn of the 13th century must include an assessment of the ecclesiastical assemblies at which many clerical decisions were taken and through which the clerical voice was being heard. Although much progress has been made in the sorting and listing of materials relating to French diocesan synods, prior to this publication there had been no comparable sifting of the sources for the provincial councils.
Cristobal Rojas y Spinola, Cameralist and Irenicist 1626-1695
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Ideas of Religious Toleration at the Time of Joseph II. A Study of the Enlightenment Among Catholics in Austria
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Isidore of Seville on the Pagan Gods (Origines VIII. 11)
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Franciscans in South Germany, 1400-1530. Reform and Revolution
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Monastic Reform in Lorraine and the Architecture of the Outer Crypt, 950-1100
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Power, Authority, and the Origins of American Denominational Order
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Papacy and the Levant (1204-1571), Vol. I
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The first of 4 vols. which trace the history of the later Crusades & papal relations with the Levant from the accession of Innocent III (in 1198) to the reign of Pius V & the battle of Lepanto (1566-71). From the mid-14th cent. to the conclusion of his work the author has drawn heavily upon unpub. materials, collected in the course of 17 trips to the Archivio Segreto Vaticano & the Archivi di Stato in Venice, Mantua, Modena, Milan, Siena, & Florence, & the Archives of the Order of the Hospitallers at Malta. In addition to a history of the later crusades (to the year 1400), the book deals in passing with various items -- crusading propaganda, the postal service of the 14th cent., ecclesiastical & feudal lawsuits, social conditions in papal Avignon, & even fashions in footwear.
Making of a Romantic Icon
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In this thought-provoking book, Gossman focuses on Overbeck’s “Italia and Germania” to discuss the importance of religious conversion in Romantic thought. Gossman gives excellent translations from original German sources that are not only accurate but may enable the Anglophone reader to truly grasp the spirit of the sources. This book serves as a thoughtful and elegantly written introduction to the way of thinking of one of the most important of the Nazerene painters. It treats the evolution of the Nazarene artists’ preoccupation with religious issues in an engaging manner and offers a social-historical and theological context to Overbeck’s painting by looking interestingly at a wide range of issues and contacts in his early Nazarene period. Illus.
Papacy and the Levant (1204-1571), Vol. III
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The third of 4 vols. which trace the history of the later Crusades & papal relations with the Levant from the accession of Innocent III (in 1198) to the reign of Pius V & the battle of Lepanto (1566-1571). Contents: Pius III, Julius II, & the Romagna; Venice, the Soldan of Egypt, & the Turks; The League of Cambrai, the Turks & the Gallican Conciliarists; The Council of Pisa-Milan & the Battle of Ravenna, the Fifth Lateran Council & Selim the Grim; Leo X, the Lateran Council, & the Ottoman Conquest of Egypt; Leo X & Plans for a Crusade against Selim the Grim; Hadrian VI, the Fall of Rhodes, & Renewal of the War in Italy; Pavia & the League of Cognac, Mohacs & the Turks in Hungary, Bourbon’s March on Rome; The Sack of Rome & the Siege of Naples; Before & After the Turkish Siege of Vienna; Clement VII, Francis I, & Hapsburg Opposition to the Turks; Paul III, the Lutherans, Venice & the Turks; Paul III, the Hapsburgs, & Francis I, the Turks & the Council of Trent; & The Election of Julius III, the Council of Trent, the Turks & the War of Parma. Reprinted in paperback on demand.
Traditional Ojibwa Religion and Its Historical Changes
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Describes & analyzes traditional Ojibwa religion (TOR) & the changes it has undergone through the last three centuries. Emphasizes the influence of Christian missions (CM) to the Ojibwas in effecting religious changes, & examines the concomitant changes in Ojibwa culture & environment through the historical period. Contents: Review of Sources; Criteria for Determining what was TOR; Ojibwa History; CM to the Ojibwas; Ojibwa Responses to CM; The Ojibwa Person, Living & Dead; The Manitos; Nanabozho & the Creation Myth; Ojibwa Relations with the Manitos; Puberty Fasting & Visions; Disease, Health, & Medicine; Religious Leadership; Midewiwin; Diverse Religious Movements; & The Loss of TOR. Maps & charts.
Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni (1667-1740) and the Vatican Tomb of Pope Alexander VIII
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Examines the commission of the Vatican tomb of Pope Alexander VIII Ottoboni by his great-nephew Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni. Although neglected for centuries, the Ottoboni monument occupies the most strategic liturgical position in the complex of tombs in the Vatican basilica. It is impressive in scale, & offers a commanding presence on the path from the papal entryway to the apse & main altar, with a majestic papal effigy, a visually compelling narrative relief carving, & symbolically important allegories. Using unpublished archival documents in the Vatican & Lateran archives, this study discusses in detail the 30-year campaign for the construction of the tomb & identifies the artists & artisans responsible for the project. The monograph is comprehensive in its stylistic analysis, exploration of iconography, discussion of liturgical practice, & consideration of studio procedures beginning with patron & artist, architect & sculptors, & sculptor & artisans. reveals why the project required three decades to complete. "A well-written, informative, & important monograph. And, in the process, he has expanded our understanding of contemporary workshop practice and art making in the Rome of the later Baroque period. There are sections where the author's meticulous care & insightful reconstruction of events gives the reader a sense of ""being there"" in the day-to-day process of work on the site. These parts make for especially exciting and engaging reading." -- "An absolutely wonderful piece of work."
Sacred Officials of the Eleusinian Mysteries
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This is a print on demand publication. This study developed in the course of preparing a collection of all the epigraphical evidence relating to the sanctuary of Demeter and Kore at Eleusis. The author soon realized that many problems connected with the priesthoods could be treated more conveniently in a separate study than in the commentaries on individual inscriptions. The proper scope of the separate study naturally appeared to be all Eleusinian priesthoods and sacred offices. The scheme he has adopted is a prosopographical account, in chronological order, of all the known incumbents of each priesthood, with an emphasis on certain aspects: qualifications for a priesthood, manner of selection, length of incumbency, official functions and duties, rank or importance relative to other priesthoods in the cult, social position, participation in civil life and in other festivals or cults, and religious dress. The evidence not connected with specific priests or priestesses has been interspersed chronologically among them; but there are occasional departures from this procedure where it was more useful to discuss in one place all the evidence on a given topic (e.g., religious dress). Illus.
Kronos, Shiva, and Asklepios
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Iconographies and texts that appear in some series of magical gems are presented in this fascinating study. Magical gems are still a scarcely explored area of antiquity in which new features of religion can be discovered. This volume presents an intriguing religious complex that concerns the Egyptian Kronos, his relations with Syrian culture, and Platonism. A totally new aspect of this book considers the reflection of Brahmanic thought on the iconography of magical gems. Contents: Introduction: Magical Gems as a Documentary Source for Ancient Religon; Theology on Magical Gems; Metamorphoses of Kronos on a Gem in Bologna; New Reading of the Osiris Myth in Near-Eastern Magic; Helios-Shiva: Porphyry, Ardhanarisvara, and a Magical Gem in Naples; Asklepios Leontouchos and Divine Triads on Syrian Gems; Empousa, Also Called Onoskelis. Illus.
Kronos, Shiva, and Asklepios
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Iconographies and texts that appear in some series of magical gems are presented in this fascinating study. Magical gems are still a scarcely explored area of antiquity in which new features of religion can be discovered. This volume presents an intriguing religious complex that concerns the Egyptian Kronos, his relations with Syrian culture, and Platonism. A totally new aspect of this book considers the reflection of Brahmanic thought on the iconography of magical gems. Contents: Introduction: Magical Gems as a Documentary Source for Ancient Religon; Theology on Magical Gems; Metamorphoses of Kronos on a Gem in Bologna; New Reading of the Osiris Myth in Near-Eastern Magic; Helios-Shiva: Porphyry, Ardhanarisvara, and a Magical Gem in Naples; Asklepios Leontouchos and Divine Triads on Syrian Gems; Empousa, Also Called Onoskelis. Illus.
Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni (1667-1740) and the Vatican Tomb of Pope Alexander VIII
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Examines the commission of the Vatican tomb of Pope Alexander VIII Ottoboni by his great-nephew Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni. Although neglected for centuries, the Ottoboni monument occupies the most strategic liturgical position in the complex of tombs in the Vatican basilica. It is impressive in scale, & offers a commanding presence on the path from the papal entryway to the apse & main altar, with a majestic papal effigy, a visually compelling narrative relief carving, & symbolically important allegories. Using unpublished archival documents in the Vatican & Lateran archives, this study discusses in detail the 30-year campaign for the construction of the tomb & identifies the artists & artisans responsible for the project. The monograph is comprehensive in its stylistic analysis, exploration of iconography, discussion of liturgical practice, & consideration of studio procedures beginning with patron & artist, architect & sculptors, & sculptor & artisans. reveals why the project required three decades to complete. "A well-written, informative, & important monograph. And, in the process, he has expanded our understanding of contemporary workshop practice and art making in the Rome of the later Baroque period. There are sections where the author's meticulous care & insightful reconstruction of events gives the reader a sense of ""being there"" in the day-to-day process of work on the site. These parts make for especially exciting and engaging reading." -- "An absolutely wonderful piece of work."
Sacred Officials of the Eleusinian Mysteries
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This is a print on demand publication. This study developed in the course of preparing a collection of all the epigraphical evidence relating to the sanctuary of Demeter and Kore at Eleusis. The author soon realized that many problems connected with the priesthoods could be treated more conveniently in a separate study than in the commentaries on individual inscriptions. The proper scope of the separate study naturally appeared to be all Eleusinian priesthoods and sacred offices. The scheme he has adopted is a prosopographical account, in chronological order, of all the known incumbents of each priesthood, with an emphasis on certain aspects: qualifications for a priesthood, manner of selection, length of incumbency, official functions and duties, rank or importance relative to other priesthoods in the cult, social position, participation in civil life and in other festivals or cults, and religious dress. The evidence not connected with specific priests or priestesses has been interspersed chronologically among them; but there are occasional departures from this procedure where it was more useful to discuss in one place all the evidence on a given topic (e.g., religious dress). Illus.
