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Poets, Saints, and Visionaries of the Great Schism, 1378-1417
Language: en
Pages: 272
Authors: Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-11-01 - Publisher: Penn State Press

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In Poets, Saints, and Visionaries of the Great Schism, Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski looks beyond the political and ecclesiastical storm and finds an outpouring of
The Clement Bible at the Medieval Courts of Naples and Avignon
Language: en
Pages: 352
Authors: CathleenA. Fleck
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-07-05 - Publisher: Routledge

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As a 'biography' of the fourteenth-century illustrated Bible of Clement VII, an opposition pope in Avignon from 1378-94, this social history traces the Bible's
The Making of the West, Combined Volume
Language: en
Pages: 1175
Authors: Lynn Hunt
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-01-04 - Publisher: Macmillan

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Students of Western civilization need more than facts. They need to understand the cross-cultural, global exchanges that shaped Western history; to be able to d
The Permeable Self
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Authors: Barbara Newman
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-09-17 - Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

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The Permeable Self offers medievalists new insight into the appeal and dangers of the erotics of pedagogy; the remarkable influence of courtly romance conventio
The Bride of Christ Goes to Hell
Language: en
Pages: 477
Authors: Dyan Elliott
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-11-16 - Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

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The early Christian writer Tertullian first applied the epithet "bride of Christ" to the uppity virgins of Carthage as a means of enforcing female obedience. He