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"The Revelations of Julian of Norwich" is the first book written in English by a woman--in this case, by a 14th-century recluse who recounts 16 ... More

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This series considers at artists and their work against the background of the social, political and historical world in which they worked. It covers ... More

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At once a sumptuously illustrated survey of Christian art over time and across the globe as well as a study of what RChristian artS really means, ... More

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Illustrating one of the great art treasures of the world, this 15th century illuminated manuscript contains beautiful illustrated scenes of the Bible ... More

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Developments in medieval science that elevated sight above the other senses found religious expression in the Christian emphasis on miracles, relics, ... More

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Carol Harrison counters the assumption that Augustine of Hippo's (354-430) theology underwent a revolutionary transformation around the time he was ... More

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Illustrations in liturgical books, such as breviaries and missals, as well as books of private devotion, such as psalters and books of hours, reveal ... More

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Byzantine and Russian Orthodox icons are perhaps the most enduring form of religious art ever developed--and one of the most mysterious. This book, ... More

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Drawing together a vast array of treasured objects from collections throughout Europe and the United States, this beautifully illustrated volume ... More

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The word "miracle" is derived from the old Latin "miraculum, "meaning "something wonderful." For the initial witnesses of the magnificent images ... More

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The rich corpus of medieval Greek apocryphal religious literature has been little used by historians. This 2007 book was the first full-length study ... More

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Spanning the backs of choir stalls above the heads of the canons and their officials, large-scale tapestries of saints' lives functioned as both ... More

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The Stammheim Missal is one of the most visually dazzling and theologically ambitious works of German Romanesque art. Containing the text recited by ... More

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This is a sequel to Richard Viladesau's well-received study, The Beauty of the Cross: The Passion of Christ in Theology and the Arts from the ... More

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From the earliest period of its existence, Christianity has been recognized as the "religion of the cross." Some of the great monuments of Western ... More

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What is a lollard? Generations of historians and propagandists, bishops and inquisitors, theologians and polemicists have asked this question about ... More

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"Divine Ventriloquism in Medieval English Literature "studies medieval attitudes towards the human mediation of God's and Christ's voices and thus ... More

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"In this brilliant and textured study, Jeffrey Hamburger enters the debate over theology's role in the formation of medieval art and re-centers the ... More

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Today we often identify artifacts with the period when they were made. In more traditional cultures, however, such objects as pictures, effigies, and ... More

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Though the medieval "saints' lives" are among the oldest literary texts of Western vernacular culture, they are routinely considered as pious fiction ... More

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- This book is the catalogue for an exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art (March 23 to July 4, 2004).

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An invaluable guide to a period that played a crucial role in the developmentof western art.

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One of the finest of all medieval apocalypse manuscripts, the Douce Apocalypse was part of a series of illuminated texts that brought St. John's ... More

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