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Hildegard of Bingen
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Fiona Maddocks |
Best known today as a fine composer, the twelfth-century German abbess Hildegard of Bingen was also a religious leader and visionary, a poet, naturalist and writer of medical treatises. Despite her c… |
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Light in the Dark Ages
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Jon M. Sweeney |
Sweeney, who has written several popular histories of religious movements and figures, presents a dual biography conveying the intense religious spirit of the medieval world while describing a platon… |
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Saint Joan of Arc
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Vita Sackville-West |
Historical research about the life of Saint Joan Of Arc |
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Confessions
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Augustine of Hippo |
Garry Wills’s complete translation of Saint Augustine’s spiritual masterpiece—available now for the first time Garry Wills is an exceptionally gifted translator and one of our best writers on religio… |
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St George
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Giles Morgan |
St. George is a figure that bridges many worlds. At the heart of the myths and legends surrounding this English icon lies the story of an Early Christian Martyr persecuted by the Roman Empire around … |
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The Road to Assisi
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Sabatier, Paul,Jon M. Sweeney |
First published in France in 1894 and out of print for several decades, Paul Sabatier's biography of Francis of Assisi was considered the first modern account of the saint, sifting through layers of … |
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The Hagiography of Kievan Rusʹ
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Paul Hollingsworth |
"Among the finest products of Kievan Rus literature were the Lives of the first Rus saints, including Olga, Volodimer, Boris and Gleb, Feodosij, and Avraamij of Smolensk. Drawing on Byzantine, Church… |
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Mary Magdalene
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Bruce Chilton |
Throughout history, Mary Magdalene has been both revered and reviled, a woman who has taken on many forms-witch, whore, the incarnation of the eternal feminine, the devoted companion (and perhaps eve… |
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Athanasius and Constantius
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Timothy David Barnes |
As the high-ranking Bishop of Alexandria from 328 to 373, Athanasius came into conflict with no fewer than four Roman emperors -- Constantine himself, his son Constantius, Julian the Apostate, and th… |
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Butler's lives of the saints
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Alban Butler |
For more than two centuries, "Butler's" has been one of the best known, most widely consulted hagiographies. In its brief and authoritative entries, readers can find a wealth of knowledge on the live… |
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Salvation
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Valerie Martin |
"Inspired by the fresco cycles that depict the life of St. Francis of Assisi, Valerie Martin tells the life of Francesco di Pietro Bernardone in a series of vividly realized "panels" of moments both … |
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