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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
The Crusades The Crusades Thomas Asbridge From a renowned historian who writes with "maximum vividness" (The New Yorker) comes the most authoritative, readable single-volume historyof the brutal struggle for the Holy Land.Nine hundred years … OL14936405W
The Origin, Development, and Refinement of Medieval Religious Mendicancies The Origin, Development, and Refinement of Medieval Religious Mendicancies Donald Prudlo The purpose and intention of this handbook is to offer an analysis of the term mendicancy and to present an up-to-date and comprehensive introduction to the phenomenon of religious mendicancy in the … OL16238001W
Early medieval christianities, c. 600--c. 1100 Early medieval christianities, c. 600--c. 1100 Thomas F. X. Noble,Julia M. H. Smith The key focus of this book is the vitality and dynamism of all aspects of Christian experience from late antiquity to the First Crusade. By putting the institutional and doctrinal history firmly in t… OL16963439W
Tried by fire Tried by fire William J. Bennett In this moving and accessible narrative, Tried by Fire speaks across centuries to offer insight into the people and events that shaped the faith that continues to shape our lives today. OL20031451W
The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Christianity The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Christianity John H. Arnold xiv, 580 pages : 25 cm OL20346973W
The rise of Western Christendom The rise of Western Christendom Peter Robert Lamont Brown "This book offers a history of the first thousand years of Christianity. Ranging across the Christian world from China to Iceland, the narrative illustrates the diversity of Christian beliefs and pra… OL2734367W
Fragmentation and Redemption Fragmentation and Redemption Caroline Walker Bynum *Fragmentation and Redemption* is first of all about bodies and the relationship of part to whole in the high Middle Ages, a period in which the overcoming of partition and putrefaction was the very … OL3481003W
Always Reforming Always Reforming Craig D. Atwood "Always Reforming highlights the fact that in the modern era the notion of heresy has fallen apart. Every church has been declared heretical at some time or other by another church, and it is not the… OL8671800W