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Language: en
Pages: 342
Authors: Thomas (de Cantimpré)
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008 - Publisher: Brepols Publishers

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Medieval saints' lives have only recently begun to be studied for what they say about the society in which they were written rather than as examples of medieval
Excessive Saints
Language: en
Pages: 318
Authors: Rachel J. D. Smith
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-12-18 - Publisher: Columbia University Press

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For thirteenth-century preacher, exorcist, and hagiographer Thomas of Cantimpré, the Southern Low Countries were a harbinger of the New Jerusalem. The Holy Spi
Holy Feast and Holy Fast
Language: en
Pages: 496
Authors: Caroline Walker Bynum
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1988-01-07 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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In the period between 1200 and 1500 in western Europe, a number of religious women gained widespread veneration and even canonization as saints for their extrao
Albertus Magnus and the Sciences
Language: en
Pages: 680
Authors: James A. Weisheipl
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 1980 - Publisher: PIMS

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Early Dominicans
Language: en
Pages: 532
Authors: Simon Tugwell
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 1982 - Publisher: Paulist Press

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The spirituality of St. Dominic and his early followers was a force in 13th-century Europe. Here is a selection of works that represent the simplicity, ruggedne