186 23 5MB
English Pages 301 Year 2019
Report DMCA / Copyright
DOWNLOAD EPUB FILE
Inspired by the work of eminent scholar Richard Kieckhefer, The Sacred and the Sinister explores the ambiguities that ma
121 56 11MB Read more
Monastic culture has generally been seen as set apart from the medieval battlefield, as `those who prayed' were set
800 102 2MB Read more
Cathedrals dominated the ecclesiastical (and physical) landscape of the British Isles and Normandy in the middle ages; y
718 156 2MB Read more
Being an integral element of how humans interact with one another, violence, however disruptive, often also manifests it
120 0 3MB Read more
The world of medieval romance is one in which magic and the supernatural are constantly present: in otherwordly encounte
671 114 5MB Read more
This book is a survey summarising the approaches taken to religion and magic by the principal scholars in the preceding
102 19 12MB Read more
In his fascinating new book, based on the Conway Lectures he delivered at Notre Dame in 2016, William Courtenay examines
106 58 10MB Read more
102 51 7MB Read more
This book is an examination of the late medieval English nunnery superior as a power broker. Based primarily upon histor
210 23 2MB Read more
What is the strange fascination of the Mystery-Religions for the ancient world and today, some 2,000 years later, for mo
449 72 9MB Read more