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Life Of Saint Katherine Of Alexandria

by John Capgrave

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 The fifteenth-century scholar and Augustinian friar John Capgrave took as his subject the virgin martyr Katherine of Alexandria, who was an anomalous cultural icon, a scholar, and a sovereign whose story unsettled traditional gender stereotypes yet was widely popular throughout Western Europe. Capgrave’s Life of Saint Katherine of Alexandria (ca. 1445) stands out among the hundreds of surviving vernacular and Latin narrations about the saint by its intricate plotting, its moral complexity, its obtrusive Chaucerian narrator, and its attention to psychology, history, and theology. The Life of Saint Katherine is a bold literary experiment that transforms the genre of the saint’s life by infusing it with conventions and techniques more often associated with chronicles, mystery plays, fabliaux, and romances.In Capgrave’s hands, Katherine emerges as a sensitive and studious young woman torn between social responsibilities and personal desires. Her story unfolds in a vividly realized world of political turmoil and religious repression that, as Capgrave’s readers were bound to suspect, had everything to do with the England they inhabited and its recent past. Katherine’s debate with her lords anticipates arguments for and against female rule that would be made in Tudor England, when the ascensions of Mary I and then Elizabeth I made gynecocracy a political reality, while her debate with the philosophers is a daring exercise in vernacular theology that flouts the censorship then current.Winstead’s translation—the first into idiomatic modern English—brings to life Capgrave’s sharply drawn characters, compelling plot, and complex, unsettling moral. Its promotion of an informed, intellectualized Christianity during a period known for censorship and repression illuminates the struggle over the definition of orthodoxy that was excited by the perceived threat of Lollard heresy during the fifteenth century. This volume also includes an appendix with passages of Capgrave''s original Middle English and literal translations into modern English, providing a valuable tool for teachers and students.
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Blessed Louis, The Most Glorious Of Kings - Texts Relating To The Cult Of Saint Louis Of France

by M. Cecilia Gaposchkin

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 Louis IX, king of France from 1226 to 1270 and twice crusader, was canonized in 1297. He was the last king canonized during the medieval period, and was both one of the most important saints and one of the most important kings of the later Middle Ages. In Blessed Louis, the Most Glorious of Kings: Texts Relating to the Cult of Saint Louis of France, M. Cecilia Gaposchkin presents six previously untranslated texts that informed medieval views of St. Louis IX: two little-known but early and important vitae of Saint Louis; two unedited sermons by the Parisian preacher Jacob of Lausanne (d. 1322); and a liturgical office and proper mass in his honor-the most commonly used liturgical texts composed for Louis' feast day-which were widely copied, read, and disseminated in the Middle Ages. Gaposchkin's aim is to present to a diverse readership the Louis as he was known and experienced in the Middle Ages: a saint celebrated by the faithful for his virtue and his deeds. She offers for the first time to English readers a typical hagiographical view of Saint Louis, one in counterbalance to that set forth in Jean of Joinville's Life of Saint Louis. Although Joinville's Life has dominated our views of Louis, Joinville's famous account was virtually unknown beyond the French royal court in the Middle Ages and was not printed until the sixteenth century. His portrayal of Louis as an individual and deeply charismatic personality is remarkable, but it is fundamentally unrepresentative of the medieval understanding of Louis. The texts that Gaposchkin translates give immediate access to the reasons why medieval Christians took Louis to be a saint; the texts, and the image of Saint Louis presented in them, she argues, must be understood within the context of the developing history of sanctity and sainthood at the end of the Middle Ages.
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Treatise On Divine Predestination

by John Scottus Eriugena

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 This edition is a translation of "Treatise on Divine Predestination", written in the 9th century, and one of the early writings by Johannes Scottus Eriugena. It contributes to the debate on the question of human destiny in the present world and afterlife.
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Treatise On Divine Predestination

by John Scottus Eriugena

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 One of the earliest writings of the author of the great philosophical work, ""Periphyseon"" (On the Division of Nature), Johannes Scottus, known as Eruigena. It contributes to the age-old debate on the question of human destiny in the present world and in the afterlife.
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Treatise On Divine Predestination

by John Scottus Eriugena

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 One of the earliest writings of the author of the great philosophical work, ""Periphyseon"" (On the Division of Nature), Johannes Scottus, known as Eruigena. It contributes to the age-old debate on the question of human destiny in the present world and in the afterlife.
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Mirror Of Simple Souls

by Margaret Porette

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 This edition of ""The Mirror of the Simple Souls"" is a translation of the French original. It relies primarily on the French, yet also takes other medieval translations into account.
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Mirror Of Simple Souls

by Margaret Porette

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 This edition of ""The Mirror of the Simple Souls"" is a translation of the French original. It relies primarily on the French, yet also takes other medieval translations into account.
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A Philosophy Of The Unsayable

by William Franke

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 Argues that the encounter with what exceeds speech has become the crucial philosophical issue of our time. William Franke proposes an original philosophy pivoting on analysis of the limits of language. The book also offers readings of literary texts as poetically performing the philosophical principles it expounds.
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Pastors And The Care Of Souls In Medieval England

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 In this sourcebook, the editors bring together a varied selection of medieval documents on pastoral care. These materials - from administrative, theological, legal, historical and literary sources - are grouped thematically and offer a summary of the multifaceted lives of the parish clergymen.
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The Writings Of Agnes Of Harcourt - The Life Of Isabelle Of France And The Letter On Louis Ix And Longchamp

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 An abbess in the Franciscan abbey of Longchamp, Agnes of Harcourt wrote a biography of Isabelle of France and a letter detailing Louis IX's involvement with the abbey, both of which provide a window on 13th-century religious life. This translation also contains an introduction to her life and work.
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The Writings Of Agnes Of Harcourt - The Life Of Isabelle Of France And The Letter On Louis Ix And Longchamp

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 An abbess in the Franciscan abbey of Longchamp, Agnes of Harcourt wrote a biography of Isabelle of France and a letter detailing Louis IX's involvement with the abbey, both of which provide a window on 13th-century religious life. This translation also contains an introduction to her life and work.
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Treatise On Divine Predestination

by John Scottus Eriugena

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 One of the earliest writings of the author of the great philosophical work, ""Periphyseon"" (On the Division of Nature), Johannes Scottus, known as Eruigena. It contributes to the age-old debate on the question of human destiny in the present world and in the afterlife.
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The Life Of Saint Katherine Of Alexandria

by John Capgrave

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For God Alone - A Primer On Prayer

by Bonnie Thurston

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Pastors And The Care Of Souls In Medieval England

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 In this sourcebook, the editors bring together a varied selection of medieval documents on pastoral care. These materials - from administrative, theological, legal, historical and literary sources - are grouped thematically and offer a summary of the multifaceted lives of the parish clergymen.
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A Legend Of Holy Women - A Translation Of Osbern Bokenham'S Legends Of Holy Women

by Sheila Delany

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 Sheila Delany's translation of Osbern Bokenham's Legendys of Hooly Wummen makes available in modern English the first all-female hagiography. Closely translated from elaborate, Latinate Middle English verse, it contains the Augustinian friar's version of the stories of 13 women saints from gospel, apocrypha, martyrology, and high-medieval history.
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The Christian Philosophy Of St. Thomas Aquinas

by Étienne Gilson

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 In this final volume of his study of St. Thomas Aquinas, Etienne Gilson presents the sweeping range and organic unity of Thomistic philosophical thought. Gilson carefully reviews how Aquinas grapples with the relation itself of faith and reason and continuing through the existence and nature of God and His creation, the world and its creatures.
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Western Hemisphere Immigration And United States Foreign Policy

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A Dialogogue On Natural Philosophy (Dragmaticon Philosophiae) - Translation Of The New Latin Critical Text

by William Of Conches

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 This English translation of William of Conches's ""Dramatican Philosophiae"" (died ca.1154), makes available a synthesis of western thought concerning the structure of the physical universe, as it was understood in the 12th century.
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A Legend Of Holy Women - A Translation Of Osbern Bokenham'S Legends Of Holy Women

by Sheila Delany

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 A translation of Osbern Bokenham's ""Legendys of Hooly Wummen"" (1443-1447), the first all-female hagiography. Translated from Latinale Middle English, it contains the Augustinian friar's version of the stories of 13 women saints from gospel, apocrypha, martyrology and high-medieval history.
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The World Of Glass

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 Offering a wide-ranging tour of the final decades of the 20th century, this series of related stories touches on the crucial issues and events that came to define and shape this period, including the corrosive impact of the Vietnam War.
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Blessed Louis, The Most Glorious Of Kings - Texts Relating To The Cult Of Saint Louis Of France

by M. Cecilia Gaposchkin

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 With the aim of showing Saint Louis as he was commemorated in the literature of the Middle Ages, this book presents six previously untranslated texts: two little-known but early and important vitae of Saint Louis; two unedited sermons by the Parisian preacher Jacob of Lausanne (d.
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Christianity In The United States - A Historical Survey And Interpretation

by David W. Wills

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 Wills places the history of Christianity in the United States in the larger context of the globalization of the Christian religion with broad interpretation
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The Mirror Of Simple Souls

by Margaret Porette

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 This edition of ""The Mirror of the Simple Souls"" is a translation of the French original. It relies primarily on the French, yet also takes other medieval translations into account.
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