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1	Name of the Rose more books like this by Umberto Eco add to wishlist Set in Italy in the Middle Ages, this is not only a narrative of a murder investigation in a monastery in 1327, but also a chronicle of the 14th century religious wars, a history of monastic orders, and a compendium of heretical movements. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| 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 add to wishlist "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 $13.00! new only from $13.00! \| SVS
3	Western society and the Church in the Middle Ages more books like this by Sir Richard W Southern add to wishlist 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 $6.58! \| first editions \| SVS
4	A time to keep silence more books like this by Patrick Leigh Fermor add to wishlist 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 $4.30! new only from $6.82! \| first editions \| SVS
5	The Rise of Western Christendom: Triumph and Diversity 200-1000 Ad more books like this by Peter Brown add to wishlist A look at how Christianity took hold in the higher Roman societies, as well as in the provinces. see all copies from $27.00! new only from $35.65!
6	An Ecclesiastical History of the English People more books like this by Bede add to wishlist 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 $3.98! new only from $7.50! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Faith of the Early Fathers more books like this by William A Jurgens (Selected by) add to wishlist Taken together, these three volumes represent a basic English-language reference book of patristic works. Volume 1 ends circa 382; Volume 2 concludes with Julian of Eclanum (d. 454); Volume 3 ends with St. John of Damascene (d. 749). see all copies from $8.40! new only from $13.00! \| first editions \| SVS
8	The Closing of the Western Mind: The Rise of Faith and the Fall of Reason more books like this by Charles Freeman add to wishlist The rise of Christianity in medieval Europe is also the story of the ending of a tradition of rationality and inquiry often identified with the ancient Greeks, according to Charles Freeman, who sees the ancient world as an age of reason, and of the search for truth and virtue. Freeman views the gradual spread of Christianity in the fourth and ... see all copies from $4.73! new only from $10.16! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Cloud of Unknowing more books like this by Ira Progoff add to wishlist 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 $9.00! \| signed copies \| SVS
10	Sun Dancing: Life in a Medieval Irish Monastery and How Celtic Spirituality Influenced the World more books like this by Geoffrey Moorhouse add to wishlist 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 $3.98! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	The Medieval Church: A Brief History more books like this by Joseph H Lynch add to wishlist 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 $13.94! new only from $42.22! \| SVS
12 view cover	Medieval Monasticism: Forms of Religious Life in Western Europe in the Middle Ages more books like this by C H Lawrence add to wishlist 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 $2.32! new only from $39.93! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Crisis Church State 1050-1300 more books like this by Brian Tierney add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $15.89! \| SVS
14 view cover	The Cloud of Unknowing: With the Book of Privy Counsel more books like this by Carmen Acevedo Butcher (Translator) add to wishlist This anonymous fourteenth-century text is the glory of English mysticism, and one of the most practical and useful guides to finding union with God ever written. Carmen Acevedo Butcher's new translation is the first to bring the text into a modern English idiom - while remaining strictly faithful to the meaning of the original Middle English. "The ... see all copies from $10.13! new only from $10.13! \| SVS
15 view cover	Catherine of Genoa: Purgation & Purgatory more books like this by Catherine add to wishlist see all copies from $5.75! new only from $14.52!
16 view cover	The Barbarian Conversion: From Paganism to Christianity more books like this by Richard A Fletcher add to wishlist 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 $2.65! new only from $16.44! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	The Medieval Papacy more books like this by Geoffrey Barraclough add to wishlist see all copies from $2.49! new only from $22.14! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Christianity in the West 1400-1700 more books like this by Professor John Bossy add to wishlist A study not of the institution of the Church but of Christianity itself, this book explores the Christian people, their beliefs, and their way of life, providing a new understanding of Western Christianity at the time of the Reformation. Bossy begins with a systematic exposition of traditional or pre-Reformation Christianity, exploring the forces ... see all copies from $19.78! new only from $30.85! \| SVS
19 view cover	Medieval Women's Visionary Literature more books like this by Elizabeth Alvilda Petroff add to wishlist Ranging from late antiquity to the fifteenth century, these writings include examples of lyric poetry, drama, epics, saints' lives, and letters, as well as some newly invented genres. A new portrait of the female writer in the Middle Ages emerges. see all copies from $8.00! new only from $32.11! \| SVS
20 view cover	Absolution by Murder: A Sister Fidelma Mystery more books like this by Peter Tremayne add to wishlist As the leading churchmen and women gather at the Synod of Whitby in 664AD to debate the rival merits of the Celtic and Roman Churches, tempers begin to fray. Conspirators plot an assassination, while mysterious, violent death stalks the shadowy cloisters of the Abbey of St Hilda. When the Abbess Etain, a leading speaker for the Celtic Church, is ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.41! \| signed copies \| first editions
21 view cover	The Hawk and the Dove Trilogy more books like this by Penelope Wilcock add to wishlist 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 $6.08! new only from $9.50! \| SVS
22 view cover	Otherworld Journeys: Accounts of Near-Death Experience in Medieval and Modern Times more books like this by Carol G Zaleski add to wishlist This book represents the first objective, comprehensive survey of the evidence for life after death provided by 'near-death' experiences. Carol Zalewski demonstrates that the eyewitness account of life after death is a common motif in the folklore and religious literature of the world, and shows that medieval Christian visionary narratives in ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $15.45! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Bonaventure more books like this by Christopher M Cullen add to wishlist This is a brief and accessible introduction to the thought of the great Franciscan theologian St. Bonaventure (c. 1217-74). Cullen focuses on the long-debated relation between philosophy and theology in the work of this important but neglected thinker, revealing Bonaventure as a great synthesizer. Cullen's exposition also shows in a new and more ... see all copies from $19.10! new only from $20.24! \| SVS
24 view cover	Massacre at Montsegur: A History of the Albigensian Crusade more books like this by Zoe Oldenbourg add to wishlist In 1208 Pope Innocent III called for a Crusade against a country of fellow-Christians. The new enemy was Raymond VI, Count of Toulouse, one of the greatest princes in Western Christendom, premier baron of all the territories in southern France where the langue d'oc was spoken. So began the Albigensian Crusade (named after the French town of Albi), ... see all copies from $4.99! new only from $17.35! \| first editions
25	The Way of Paradox: Spiritual Life as Taught by Meister Eckhart more books like this by Cyprian Smith add to wishlist see all copies from $2.53! new only from $11.10! \| first editions

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