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1	Western society and the Church in the Middle Ages more books like this by R W Southern The history of the Western church in the Middle Ages is the history of the most elaborate and thoroughly integrated system of religious thought and practice the world has ever known. It is also the history of European society during eight hundred years of sometimes rapid change. This authoritative history shows how the concept of an organized ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.50! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Saving Paradise: How Christianity Traded Love of This World for Crucifixion and Empire more books like this by Rita Nakashima Brock, Rebecca Ann Parker "Saving Paradise" offers a fascinating new lens on the history of Christianity, asking how its early vision of beauty evolved into a vision of torture, and what changes in society and theology marked that evolution. see all copies from $17.00! new only from $18.44! \| SVS
3	A time to keep silence more books like this by Patrick Leigh Fermor Those who know the author as a man of action and a travel writer of distinction will find here a different kind of journey but with the same fine art of description and reflection, for it is a graphic account of his travels to the Benedictine abbey of St Wandrille, the abbey of Solesmes, the Cistercian monastery of La Grande Trappe, and the rock ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.48! \| first editions \| SVS
4	An Ecclesiastical History of the English People more books like this by Bede Written in AD 731, Bede's work opens with a background sketch of Roman Britain's geography and history. It goes on to tell of the kings and bishops, monks and nuns who helped to develop Anglo-Saxon government and religion during the crucial formative years of the English people. Leo Sherley-Price's translation brings us an accurate and readable ... see all copies from $3.48! new only from $7.00! \| first editions \| SVS
5	The early church to the dawn of the Reformation more books like this by Justo L. González The Story of Christianity will serve as a facinating introduction to the panoramic history of Christianity for students and teachers of church history, for pastors, and for general readers. see all copies from $11.00! new only from $28.68!
6	The Rise of Western Christendom: Triumph and Diversity 200-1000 Ad more books like this by Peter Brown This is a history of the people, struggles, defeats and victories, ideas and actions that together comprise the history of the first 1000 years of Christianity. It ranges across much of Asia, North Africa and Europe. It both captures the immediacy of decisive moments and explains how by the end of the period Christianity had become the dominant ... see all copies from $6.43! new only from $34.44! \| first editions \| SVS
7	The Closing of the Western Mind: The Rise of Faith and the Fall of Reason more books like this by Charles Freeman The conversion of the emperor Constantine to Christianity in 368 AD brought a transformation to Christianity and to western civilization, the effects of which we still feel today. Previously, the Roman empire had absorbed and sustained the Greek intellectual tradition which, in the astronomy of Ptolemy, the medicine of Galen and the philosophy of ... see all copies from $3.90! new only from $9.79! \| first editions \| SVS
8	The Hawk and the Dove Trilogy more books like this by Penelope Wilcock Rich with imagery and emotion, this collection of captivating tales of a 13th century community reflect the timeless human drama of people learning to love and to accept God's grace. Though they belonged to another century, their struggles are our own--finding our niche; coping with failure; overcoming pride and anger, pain and insecurity; ... see all copies from $8.95! new only from $12.79! \| SVS
9	Pope Joan more books like this by Lawrence Durrell Durrell's translation and adaptation of Emmanuel Royidis's story of history's only female pope, based on a ninth-century legend about a girl disguised as a monk who became Pope John VIII. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.39! \| first editions \| SVS
10	The Pursuit of the Millennium: Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Ages more books like this by Professor Norman Cohn The Middle Ages inherited from Antiquity a tradition of prophesy which, during those centuries took on fresh and exuberant vitality. This tradition foretold a millennium - in which the world would be inhabited by people at once perfectly good and perfectly happy. Humanity would enjoy a new paradise on earth, free of suffering and sin. Generation ... see all copies from $5.81! new only from $16.22!
11 view cover	The Dark Side of Christian History more books like this by Helen Ellerbe (Preface by) see all copies from $3.19! new only from $8.50! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Cloud of Unknowing more books like this by Ira Progoff This classic of spiritual literature is, fittingly, by an unnamed 14th-century English monk. It focuses on man’s inability to fully grasp the true nature of God, or to behold the sublime splendor of heaven while still limited to the plane of sensory existence. Thus humanity must learn to link up with the divine through the titular cloud, with its ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.29! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Resurrection of the Body more books like this by Professor Caroline Walker Bynum In their study of Christian visions of the afterlife and of apocalypse, religious historians have concentrated almost exclusively on the fate of the soul. But for medieval people, the fate of the body in resurrection posed the most troubling questions: if my body is resurrected, which of the many possible bodies will return - the child, the young ... see all copies from $8.00! new only from $23.50! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	The Medieval Papacy more books like this by Geoffrey Barraclough see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.56! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Sun Dancing: Life in a Medieval Irish Monastery and How Celtic Spirituality Influenced the World more books like this by Geoffrey Moorhouse Travel writer Geoffrey Moorhouse turns his attention to the rigors of Irish monasticism in the medieval period, using a clever and evocative combination of fictional vignettes and more traditional historiography. The resulting work illuminates the evolution of Irish monasticism, from an isolated and austere faith shaped by its island environment ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.32! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	A Most Holy War: The Albigensian Crusade and the Battle for Christendom more books like this by Mark Gregory Pegg In January of 1208, a papal legate was murdered on the banks of the Rhone in southern France. A furious Pope Innocent III accused heretics of the crime and called upon all Christians to exterminate heresy between the Garonne and Rhone rivers--a vast region now known as Languedoc--in a great crusade. This most holy war, the first in which ... see all copies from $7.41! new only from $14.39! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	The Christian Tradition: A History of the Development of Doctrine, Volume 3: The Growth of Medieval Theology (600-1300) more books like this by Jaroslav Jan Pelikan "A magnificent history of doctrine."--"New York Review of Books" "In this volume Jaroslav Pelikan continues the splendid work he has done thus far in his projected five-volume history of the development of Christian doctrine, defined as 'what the Church believes, teaches, and confesses on the basis of the word of God.' The entire work will become ... see all copies from $10.90! new only from $18.40!
18 view cover	The Medieval Church: A Brief History more books like this by Joseph H Lynch The Church was the central institution of the European Middle Ages, and the foundation of medieval life. Professor Lynch's admirable survey (concentrating on the western church, and emphasising ideas and trends over personalities) meets a long-felt need for a single-volume comprehensive history, designed for students and non-specialists. see all copies from $30.00! new only from $43.79! \| first editions
19 view cover	The Barbarian Conversion: From Paganism to Christianity more books like this by Richard A Fletcher A narrative history of Europe and the church from late antiquity to the High Middle Ages. Although Fletcher pays particular attention to England, he examines all the regions of Eastern and Western Europe during this period, and he makes the point that the history of Europe and the history of the church are more or less identical, as the rise of ... see all copies from $5.47! new only from $7.16! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	The Age of Reform, 1250-1550: An Intellectual and Religious History of Late Medieval and Reformation Europe more books like this by Steven E Ozment see all copies from $4.55! new only from $12.50! \| SVS
21 view cover	Wine of Violence more books like this by Priscilla Royal Royal's debut introduces Eleanor of Wynethorpe, the new prioress of the Order of Fontevraud on the east coast of England in 1270. Only one day after her arrival, a monk is found brutally murdered in the cloister gardens. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.25! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Medieval Monasticism: Forms of Religious Life in Western Europe in the Middle Ages more books like this by C H Lawrence For a thousand years the monasteries and religious orders played a major role in the society, economy and culture of the west. This book traces the Western monastic tradition in its social context, from its fourth-century origins in the deserts of Egypt and Syria through to the many and various forms of religious life it assumed during the Middle ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $35.79! \| SVS
23 view cover	Lucifer, the Devil in the Middle Ages more books like this by Jeffrey Burton Russell, Ph.D. see all copies from $5.57! new only from $11.97! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	The Formation of Christendom more books like this by Judith Herrin `This wide-ranging book is an extraordinarily significant contribution to the study of the late antique and early medieval Mediterranean world. The author is in complete control of current scholarship, but she brings a comparative vision to the material that is uniquely her own. For a work of such breadth and boldness, the balance that reigns ... see all copies from $10.95! new only from $19.95! \| first editions
25 view cover	The evolution of medieval thought. more books like this by David Knowles A famous text with an introduction and commentary by Brooke and Luscombe. It reveals the connection between the thought of the Medieval Schools of philosophy and that of the Greek philosophers. The new edition has been fully revised, updated and corrected. see all copies from $1.99! first editions

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