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Book SynopsisIn the period between the two world wars, Poland's Jewish community was second only in size to that of the United States, and was the laboratory in which the ideological orientations which dominated the Jewish world - Zionism, Bundism, Neo-Orthodoxy, Assimilation - were tested. There has been much disagreement as to the character and strength of anitsemitism in Poland at that time, and the extent to which the experience of the Jews aided the Nazis in carrying out their genocidal plans. This latest volume of Polin includes contributions from Poland, western Europe, Israel, and North America, which together provide a clearer understanding of the issues which have in the past proved so divisive. It also includes a number of personal testimonies from people who experienced the interwar period at first hand. The result is a book that will be essential reading for all those interested in modern Jewish history and in the problems of ethnic minorities in post-Versailles Europe.Trade Review'The volume contains too many riches for a brief review to do them justice ... It is instructive to see how the subject of antisemitism is reflected in the pages of this volume, especially because of the number of contributions by Polish scholars, some of them young, to a field that only a few years ago was virtually taboo in Poland.' Abraham Brumberg, Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsPart 1 Jews in independent Poland, 1918-1939: Jewish historiography on Polish Jewry in the interwar period, Ezra Mendelsohn; Britain, a British Jew, and Jewish relations with the new Poland - the making of the Polish minorities treaty of 1919, Mark Levene; the social consciousness of young Jews in interwar Poland, Alina Cala; Polish-Jewish relations as reflected in memoirs of the interwar period, Szyja Bronsztejn; Shtetl communities - another image, Annamaria Orla-Bukowska; the civil rights of Jews in Poland, 1918-1939, Jerzy Tomaszewski; the Jewish question in Polish religious periodicals in the second republio - the case of the Przeglad Katolicki, Franciszek Adamski; the image of the Jew in the Catholic press during the second republic, Anna Landau-Czajka; the Jewish press in the political life of the second republic, Andrzej Paczowski; Polish political parties and antisemitism, Jerzy Holzer; the Polish Kehillah elections of 1936 - a revolution re-examined, Robert Moses Shapiro; Jewish artisans, Zbigniew Landau; some aspects of the life of the Jewish proletariat in Poland during the interwar period, B. Garncarska-Kadary; the expulsion of Polish Jews from the third Reich in 1938, Karol Jonca; the Jewish boycott campaign against Nazi Germany and its culmination in the Halbersztadt trial, Alfred Wislicki; what shall we tell Miriam? a tale for the peasant, Rafael F. Scharf; Polyn - land of sages and tsadikim, Yehiel Yeshaia Trunk. Part 2 Review essays: why did assimilation fail in the kingdom of Poland between 1864 and 1897?, Stanislaus A. Blejwas; in the shadow of the facts, Dariusz Stola; readings and misreadings - a reply to Dariusz Stola, David Engel.

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Book SynopsisAntony Polonsky provides a comprehensive survey of the history - socio-political, economic, and religious - of the Jewish communities of eastern Europe from 1750, when the Polish - Lithuanian Commonwealth was the dominant political unit, to the present. Until the Second World War, this area was the heartland of the Jewish world: almost all the major movements which have characterized that world in recent times had their origins here, and it was home to the majority of the world's Jews. Nearly three and a half million lived in Poland alone, while nearly three million more lived in the Soviet Union. Although the majority of the Jews of Europe and the United States, and most of the Jews of Israel, originated from these lands, the history of their Jewish communities is not well known. Rather, it is the subject of mythologizing and stereotypes that fail both to bring out the specific features of the Jewish civilization which emerged here and to illustrate what was lost in the passage across the Channel and the Atlantic. Jewish life in these parts, though often poor materially, was marked by a high degree of spiritual and ideological intensity and creativity. Antony Polonsky recreates this lost world - brutally cut down by the Holocaust and less brutally but still seriously damaged by the Soviet attempt to destroy Jewish culture - in a way that avoids both sentimentalism and the simplification of the the east European Jewish experience into a story of persecution and martyrdom. Wherever possible, the unfolding of history is illustrated by contemporary Jewish writings to show how Jews felt and reacted to the complex and difficult situations in which they found themselves. It is an important story whose relevance reaches far beyond the Jewish world or the bounds of east-central Europe. Polonsky establishes the context with a review of Jewish life in Poland and Lithuania down to the mid-eighteenth century, describing the towns and shtetls where the Jews lived, the institutions they developed, and their participation in the economy. He also considers their religious and intellectual life, including the emergence of hasidism, and the growth of opposition to it. He then describes government attempts to integrate and transform the Jews in the period from 1764 to 1881 and the Jewish response to these efforts. He considers the impact of modernization and the beginnings of the Haskalah movement, and looks at developments in each area in turn: the problems of emancipation, acculturation, and assimilation in Prussian and Austrian Poland; the politics of integration in the Kingdom of Poland; and the failure of forced integration in the tsarist empire. The third part of the book considers the deterioration of the position of the Jews in the period from 1881 to 1914 and the new Jewish politics that led to the development of new movements: Zionism, socialism, autonomism, the emergence of modern Hebrew and Yiddish literature, Jewish urbanization, and the rise of Jewish mass culture. Galicia, Prussian Poland, the Kingdom of Poland, and the tsarist empire are all treated individually, as are the main towns. The final part deals with the twentieth century. Starting from the First World War and the establishment of the Soviet Union, it deals in turn with Poland, Lithuania, and the Soviet Union up to the Second World War. It then reviews Polish - Jewish relations during the Second World War and examines the Soviet record and the Holocaust. The final chapters deal with the Jews in the Soviet Union and in Poland since 1945, concluding with an epilogue on the Jews in Poland, Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine, and Russia since the collapse of communism.Trade Review‘An invaluable research resource with maps, tables, endnotes, statistics, glossary, and bibliography. It also delivers a compelling picture and credible picture of how Jews responded to dramatic change . . . does well to focus on women, whom previous histories often ignore.’- Lawrence Joffe, Jewish Chronicle‘Remarkable for its scale and ambition . . . Polonsky manages to combine great themes with fascinating detail . . . [he] has read widely in numerous languages. The erudition is impressive . . . extremely judicious in negotiating a number of notorious historiographical minefields . . . makes important distinctions between different countries in eastern Europe and consequently the different experience of the Jews . . . a magnificent, scholarly work, clearly written, with a magisterial overview of its subject.’- David Herman, Jewish Renaissance'Polonsky's sweeping study offers an illuminating, accessible view of Jewish life in eastern Euope since the end of World War II. In elegant prose, the author engages major historiographical issues while analyzing important cultural, religious, social, and political trends among eastern European Jewry. He carefully frames each section with a chapter-long overview of the relevant historical context for the following chapters . . . Throughout, Polonsky masterfully navigates the different realms of a turbulent eastern European Jewish world, conveying both the richness of its history and the tragedy of its destruction. Highly recommended.'J. Haus, Choice 'Exemplary and formidable . . . Polonsky, as much as anyone else, has created the field of modern Jewish history as a subject to be considered and understood rather than simply a tragic past to be mourned. He is too good a historian to confuse the history of Jewish life with the German policies that brought Jewish death . . . The barely visible commitment in these three wonderful volumes is to rescue a world from polemic, for the sake of history.'Timothy Snyder, Wall Street Journal 'Succeeds admirably. Simply put, these volumes are required reading for anyone with a serious interest in East European history or for anyone looking for a scholarly assessment of a particular feature of Polish or Russian Jewish history. Handsomely produced, with extensive maps and tables, and a glossary . . . will remain a standard work in the field for some time.'Sean Martin, European History QuarterlyTable of ContentsGeneral Introduction I The Polish-Lithuanian Background Introduction 1 Jews and Christians in early modern Poland-Lithuania 2 Jewish Autonomous Institutions 3 Jewish Places: Royal Towns and Noble Towns 4 Jews in Economic Life 5 Religious and Spiritual Life II Governmental Attempts to Transform and Integrate the Jews and the Jewish Response, 1750-1880 Introduction 1 The Last Years of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth 2 The Jews in the Prussian Partition of Poland 3 The Jews in Austrian Poland (Galicia) down to the mid-1870s 4 The Jews in the Kingdom of Poland, 1815-1881 5 The Jews in the Tsarist Empire, 1772-1825 6 Nicholas I and the Jews of Russia, 1825-1855 7 The Reign of Alexander II, 1855-1881 III The Deterioration of the Position of the Jews and the New Jewish Politics, 1881-1914 Introduction 1 The Deterioration of the Position of the Jews in the Tsarist Empire after 1881 2 The Revolution of 1905-7 in the Tsarist Empire and its Consequences 3 The Kingdom of Poland, 1881-1914 4 Galicia in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century 5 Prussian Poland from 1869 to 1914 6 The Emergence of Modern Jewish Literature in the Tsarist Empire and Galicia 7 Jewish Religious Life in the Nineteenth Century 8 Jewish Spaces: Shetlakh and Towns in the Nineteenth Century 9 Women in Jewish Eastern Europe 10 The Rise of Jewish Mass Culture: Literature, Press, Theatre IV War, Revolution, and Totalitarianism, 1914-1939 Introduction 1 The Impact of the First World War on Jewish Life in Eastern Europe 2 The Jews in Polish Political and Social Life 3 Jewish Life in the Towns and Shtetlakh of Interwar Poland 4 Jewish Cultural and Intellectual Life in Independent Poland 5 Religious Life in Interwar Poland 6 Jews in Interwar Lithuania 7 Jews in Soviet Russia and the Soviet Union, 1921-1941 8 Jews in Towns and Shtetlakh in the USSR 9 Jewish Culture in the Soviet Union down to 1941 V The Twilight of Jewish Eastern Europe, 1939 to the present day Introduction 1 Jews under Nazi and Soviet Occupation, September 1939 - June 1941 2 The Nazi Holocaust in Eastern Europe 3 Jews in Poland, 1944-1989 4 Jews in the Soviet Union, 1944-1991 5 Jews in Poland since the end of communism 6 Jews in Lithuania, Ukraine and Belarus since 1991

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Book SynopsisA fact-based treasure hunt through time… The year 1120 A.D.: Hugues de Payns and eight other men of French high nobility gather in Jerusalem. Their pretense: Guarding the pilgrimage routes after the conquest of Jerusalem by the crusaders. Their real mission: Digging and searching beneath the Temple Mount for a mysterious object. When they return to France in 1128, they own the most dangerous artifact in European Christendom. Suddenly, the Order of the Knights Templar — as they now call themselves — becomes incredibly wealthy. Suddenly, huge Gothic cathedrals rise from the soil of Northern France — and with them a secret architectural code left by the Knights Templar that up to the present day marks the way to the hiding-place of the most important archeological relic in human history. Following author Tobias Daniel Wabbel’s research and investigation throughout Europe, this book finally solves the mystery of the legendary treasure of the Knights Templar. Both a travel guide to the secrets of the treasure of the Knights Templar and an enthralling tale, The Templar Treasure will shake commonly held beliefs in this interconnected history and renew interest in it.Trade Review"A fascinating, comprehensive, and absolutely true account of the author's search for the real Templar treasure. In this book, Wabbel chronicles his extraordinary, 11-year journey. . . . An utterly fascinating book, a gripping read that will keep you turning the pages all night as Wabbel pieces together the various clues that, taken together, appear to solve the enduring mystery of the Templar treasure." --Douglas Preston, author

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Book SynopsisContinuing a project begun in 2002, with the publication of volume 1 of Mediaeval Commentaries on the “Sentences” of Peter Lombard, this volume fills some major lacunae in current research on the standard textbook of medieval theology. Twelve chapters study the tradition of the Sentences, from the first glosses of the twelfth century through Martin Luther’s marginal notes. The questions addressed in these chapters throw light on the history of the Sentences literature as a whole, focusing on changes in literary structure and methodology as much as on matters of textual transmission and doctrinal content. The conclusion synthesizes the individual contributions, succinctly presenting the current state of our knowledge of the main structures that characterize the tradition of the Sentences. Contributors: Magdalena Bieniak, John F. Boyle, Stephen F. Brown, Marcia L. Colish, William O. Duba, Michael Dunne, Russell L. Friedman, Olli Hallamaa, Pekka Kärkkäinen, Hans Kraml, Gerhard Leibold, Riccardo Quinto, Philipp W. Rosemann, Chris Schabel, and Hubert Philipp Weber.Table of ContentsCONTENTS Abbreviations ... vii Preface ... ix Philipp W. Rosemann The Pseudo-Peter of Poitiers Gloss ... 1 Marcia L. Colish Stephen Langton … 35 Riccardo Quinto The Glossa in IV libros Sententiarum by Alexander of Hales ... 79 Hubert Philipp Weber The Sentences Commentary of Hugh of St.-Cher ... 111 Magdalena Bieniak Thomas Aquinas and his Lectura romana in primum Sententiarum Petri Lombardi ... 149 John F. Boyle Robert Kilwardby’s Commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard ... 175 Gerhard Leibold William de la Mare ... 227 Hans Kraml Henry of Harclay and Aufredo Gonteri Brito ... 263 William O. Duba, Russell L. Friedman, and Chris Schabel On the Limits of the Genre: Roger Roseth as a Reader of the Sentences … 369 Olli Hallamaa Richard FitzRalph’s Lectura on the Sentences ... 405 Michael Dunne Peter of Candia’s Commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard ... 439 Stephen F. Brown Martin Luther ... 471 Pekka Kärkkäinen Conclusion: Th e Tradition of the Sentences ... 495 Philipp W. Rosemann Bibliography ... 525 Index of Manuscripts ... 537

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Book SynopsisAssembled on the occasion of Gary Dickson's retirement from the University of Edinburgh following a distinguished career as an internationally acclaimed scholar of medieval social and religious history, this volume contains contributions by both established and newer scholars inspired by Dickson’s particular interests in medieval popular religion, including ‘religious enthusiasm’. Together, the essays comprise a comprehensive and rich investigation of the idea of sanctity and its many medieval manifestations across time (fifth through fifteenth centuries) and in different geographical locations (England, Scotland, France, Italy, the Low Countries). By approaching the theme of sanctity from multiple disciplinary perspectives, this highly original collection pushes forward current academic thinking about medieval hagiography, iconography, social history, women's studies, and architectural history.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements ... vii Gary Dickson’s Bibliography, 1984–2007 .. ix Introduction: Religious Enthusiasm and Charismatic Power in the Middle Ages ... xiii André Vauchez Making Saints The Women Behind Their Saints: Dominican Women’s Promotion of the Cults of Their Religious Companions ... 5 Maiju Lehmijoki-Gardner Gender Trouble in Paradise: The Problem of the Liturgical Virgo .. 25 Felice Lifshitz Locating Sanctity Saint Triduana of Restalrig? Locating a Saint and Her Cult in Late Medieval Lothian and Beyond .. 45 Helen Brown The Architectural Framework for the Cults of Saints: Some Scottish Examples ... 71 Richard Fawcett Seeing Sanctity The Holy and the Unholy: Analogies for the Numinous in Later Medieval Art ... 101 Debra Higgs Strickland The Measure of the Virgin’s Foot ... 121 Michael Bury Living Image of Pity: Mimetic Violence, Peace-Making and Salvifi c Spectacle in the Flagellant Processions of the Later Middle Ages .. 135 Mitchell B. Merback Society and the Sacred Perceptions of Relics: Civic Religion in Late Medieval Bruges .. 185 Andrew Brown Constructing Anglo-Saxon Sanctity: Tradition, Innovation and Saint Guthlac ... 207 Alaric Hal l List of Contributors .. 237 Index ... 239

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Book SynopsisWithin the field of Dutch literature the Limburg Sermons constitute a unique collection of sermons from the thirteenth century. In addition to material translated from German it contains a unique series of vernacular sermons on the ‘Song of Songs’, which reveal unsuspected connections with the mystic authors Beatrijs van Nazareth and Hadewijch.Trade Review"This excellent, thorough monograph provides the Anglophone world with a richly-detailed account of one of the earliest collections of Middle Dutch prose, The Limburg Sermons...To say the least, this is an exhaustive treatment of this corpus, and the translator is to be commended for making it available in English." – Steven Rozenski, Jr., Harvard University, in: Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2010, pp 307-9 "Scheepsma's study is a major contribution to sermon research. It can be viewed not only as an exceptionally diligent and learned book on one Middle Dutch sermon collection, but also as a history of religious literature in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries in the interfaces between the Dutch-, French-, and German-speaking areas." – Regina D. Schiewer, Universität Augsburg, in: Medium Ævum 77/2 (2008), pp. 358-60 "This meticulous, encyclopedic and minutely observed study elicits well-earned respect, and gratitude from English-speaking scholars for making this area of literary study accessible. [...] The insights Scheepsma's analysis of these sermons provides [...] will be of interest not only to literary historians but also to church historians, and art historians as well." – Judith Oliver, Colgate University, in: The Medieval Review, 16 July 2009Table of ContentsPreface List of Illustrations I. Introduction 1. The Hague Manuscript 2. The Medieval Sermon 3. The St. Georgen Sermons and the Limburg Sermons 4. A Cistercian Literature in the Vernacular? 5. The Historical Context II. The Textual Corpus 1. The Table of Contents in MS H 2. The Translated St. Georgen Sermons 3. Dets dbuec van den palmboeme (Ls. 31) 4. Seven Passion Sermons (Ls. 32-38) 5. Dbuec van den boegaerde (Ls. 39) 6. Dbuec van den twelf frogten (Ls. 40) 7. Dit leert ons negenrehande minne (Ls. 41) 8. Det sin seven maniren van minnen (Ls. 42) 9. Dbuec van den gesteleken winkelre (Ls. 43) 10. Dets dbuec van heren Selfarts regelen (Ls. 44) 11. Dets van der heilger selen (Ls. 45) 12. Dets wie onse vrouwe een besloten boegaert es (Ls. 45) 13. Laudate dominum in sanctus eius (Ls. 48) 14. The Maastrichtse Passiespel 15. Preliminary Review III. Form and Function 1. An Example: The Spiritual Wine Cellar 2. The Fiction of the Sermon 3. Bible and Allegory 4. Damsels of Jerusalem 5. Memoria and Meditation 6. Rhyme, Prose and Rhyming Prose IV. Backgrounds 1. The Later Transmission 2. The Letters of Hadewijch 3. Minne and Mysticism 4. Old French Religious Literature 5. Connections in the Old French Transmission 6. Mystical Networks Appendices I. Codicological Description of Manuscript H II. The Limburg Sermons According to Manuscript H III. Concordance IV. ‘Brothers’ in Manuscript H V. Two Limburg Sermons in Translation Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis study presents detailed information on the book production per century and on the uses of medieval manuscripts in eleven areas of the Latin West. Based on a sample from an extensive library and on additional information the numbers of manuscripts surviving from the period 500 – 1500 have been assessed statistically. Other data have been used to quantify the loss rates of such books in the Latin West. Combining both sets of data allowed the estimation of the medieval production rates of manuscripts. Book production during the Middle Ages can be seen as a century-average indicator of local economic output. With a number of explanatory variables (monasteries, universities) the medieval book production in the Latin West can be adequately explained.Trade ReviewAstonishing results...[Buringh's] excellent glossary and use of verbal and pictorial illustrations instead of formulae are a model of clarity and transparency for the humanists whose jargon and theory may be impenetrable to counters and comparers like Buringh...This book deserves a wide audience. Steven Epstein, Speculum, vol. 87, no. 1, (2012), pp. 188-190. ...ungeahnten perspektiven...es werden Entwicklungslinien sichtbar, die zwar notwendigerweise mit grobem Strich gezeichnet sind, aber dennoch Erkenntnisse zur Produktion mittelaltlicher Bücher vermitteln, die auf einem soliden statistischen Fundament zu ruhen scheinen. Jurgen Geiss, IFB A monumental achievement...the creation and manipulation of the manuscript database allows Buringh to illustrate and explain a long-term change in one of the factors of the medieval economy that can be measured with some degree of certainty.The inventive and methodologically sound use of sampling and statistical analysis allows for clear patterns of change and development to emerge. It is to be hoped that this database will be built upon and that an expansion and refinement of the information it can produce will provide historians with further insights into this important reflector of cultural and economic development. Steven Biddlecombe, Economic History Review, vol. 65, no. 1, (2012), pp. 377-378.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures and Tables List of Symbols, Acronyms and Abbreviations 1. Introduction 2. Methodological Approach 2.1. Manuscripts 2.2. Database 2.3. Validations of the Database 2.4. Shelf Marks 2.5. Categories of Uses 2.6. Loss Rates 2.7. Extrapolations and Calibrations 2.8. Similarity Quantification 2.9. Inferences 2.10. Historical Data in the Latin West 2.11. Discussion and Conclusions 3. Global Distributions of Manuscripts 3.1. Total Manuscript Numbers 3.2. Distributions of Manuscripts in the Database 3.3. Global Uses 3.4. Shifts in Regional Uses of Manuscripts 3.5. Discussion and Conclusions 4. Losses of Medieval Manuscripts 4.1. Loss Rates 4.2. Loss Rates in England 4.3. Loss Rates in the Rest of the World 4.4. Survival of Manuscripts in the Latin West 4.5. Discussion and Conclusions on Losses of Manuscript 5. Production of Medieval Manuscripts in the Latin West 5.1. Calculation of Production Rates 5.2. Comparison of Estimates 5.3. On Uncertainties in the Production Estimates 5.4. Further Discussions and Conclusions 6. Historical Support for the Production Estimates in the Latin West 6.1. ‘Early-Christian equilibrium’ (Sixth to Seventh Century) 6.2. ‘Early-Medieval Stability’ (Ninth to Tenth Century) 6.3. ‘From Uniformity to Differentiation’ (Twelfth to Thirteenth Century) 6.4. ‘Fragmentation of Uses’ (Fourteenth to Fifteenth Century) 6.5. Further Discussions and Conclusions 7. Medieval Manuscripts as a Yardstick 7.1. Other Medieval Output Indicators 7.2. Variables related to Manuscript Production 7.3. Monastic Output of Manuscripts 7.4. Lay Output of Manuscripts 7.5. Overall Discussion and Conclusions Annexes Glossary Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe great Florentine Protestant reformer Peter Martyr Vermigli (1499-1562) made a unique contribution to the scriptural hermeneutics of the Renaissance and Reformation, where classical theories of interpretation derived from Patristic and Scholastic sources engaged with new methods drawn from Humanism and Hebraism. Vermigli was one of the pioneers of the sixteenth century in acknowledging and harnessing the biblical scholarship of the medieval Rabbis. His eminence in the Catholic Church in Italy (until 1542) was followed by an equally distinguished career as theologian and exegete in Protestant Europe where he was professor successively in Strasbourg, Oxford, and finally in Zurich. The Companion consists of 24 essays divided among five themes addressing Vermigli’s international career, hermeneutical method, biblical commentaries, major theological topics, and his later influence. Contributors include: Scott Amos, Michael Baumann, Jon Balserak, Luca Baschera, Maurice Boutin, Emidio Campi, John Patrick Donnelly SJ, Max Engammare, Gerald Hobbs, Frank James III, Gary Jenkins, Robert Kingdon, Torrance Kirby, William Klempa, Joseph McLelland, Charlotte Methuen, Christian Moser, David Neelands, Peter Opitz, Herman Selderhuis, Daniel Shute, David Wright, and Jason Zuidema.Trade Review“While the size and subject matter might intimidate some readers at first glance, the collection is quite engaging […]. It will be of interest not only to biblical scholars and professors of theology, but also to historians, philosophers, philologists and those interested in the history of higher education. […] This volume certainly reveals for readers the dynamism of Peter Martyr Vermigli’s thought and makes a convincing argument that a better understanding of the hermeneutics of this Italian-born Protestant reformer will lead to a better understanding of the Renaissance and the Reformation and the relationship between the two.” Carrie Euler, Central Michigan University. In: The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Vol. 62, No. 2 (April 2011), pp. 397-398. "Der Companion to Peter Martyr Vermigli lässt sich sowohl als Einleitung zu einzelnen Aspekten als auch als Darstellung des Forschungsstandes nutzen […].Das Buch gibt einen sehr guten Überblick über die wesentlichen Aspekte der Theologie und des Wirkens Vermiglis.“ Christoph Strohm, Heidelberg University. In: Zwingliana, Vol. 37 (2010), pp. 205-209. ‘’Après les colloques de 1977 et de 1999, ce symposium fera date dans les études sur Vermigli, comme ce volume, outil désormais indispensable, par la somme des informations, la qualité des contributions et le soin apporté à sa confection, à quiconque voudrait consacrer ses talents de chercheur à ce Réformateur novateur et prolixe, ou s’initier simplement à l’herméneutique de Vermigli.’’ A. Noblesse-Rocher, Université de Strasbourg. In: Revue D’histoire et de Philosophie, 2011, Tome 91, n° 4, p. 587.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Contributors Acknowledgements Abbreviations and Acronyms Introduction Convocation Oration, Emidio Campi Part I International Career 1. Italy: Religious and Intellectual Ferment, Joseph McLelland 2. Strasbourg: Vermigli and the Senior School, Gerald Hobbs 3. Oxford: Reading Scripture in the University, Charlotte Methuen 4. Zurich: Professor in the Schola Tigurina, Emidio Campi Part II Learning Sacred and Profane 5. Exegesis and Patristic Authority, David Wright (†2008) 6. Aristotle and Scholasticism, Luca Baschera 7. Humanism, Hebraism, and Scriptural Hermeneutics, Max Engammare 8. Exegesis and Theological Method, Scott Amos 9. Ex parte videntium: Hermeneutics of the Eucharist, Maurice Boutin Part III Biblical Commentaries 10. Genesis Commentary: Interpreting Creation, Emidio Campi 11. Judges Commentary: Patristic and Medieval Sources, Gary Jenkins 12. Expounding Psalms: the Preces Sacrae, Herman Selderhuis 13. Lamentations Commentary: Theodicy, Daniel Shute 14. First Corinthians Commentary: Exegetical Tradition, Jon Balserak 15. Romans Commentary: Justification and Sanctification, Frank James III Part IV Theological Loci 16. Classical Christology, William Klempa 17. Predestination and the Thirty-Nine Articles, David Neelands 18. Ecclesiology: Exegesis and Discipline, Robert Kingdon 19. Eucharistic Theology, Peter Opitz 20. Political Theology: the Godly Prince, Torrance Kirby 21. Prayers and Sermons, John Patrick Donnelly 22. Epistolary: Theological Themes, Christian Moser Part V Nachleben 23. Josias Simler’s hagiography, Michael Baumann 24. Vermigli and French Reform, Jason Zuidema 25. History of the Loci Communes, Joseph McLelland Conclusion: Vermigli’s ‘Stromatic’ Theology, Joseph McLelland Bibliography General Index Index of Names

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Book SynopsisIt is a misconception that Christianity and Humanism are in any way in conflict with each other. The present book shows that through many centuries, and especially in the Renaissance, the two stood in a relation that was mutually complementary. The contributions in this volume treat aspects and manifestations of this cultural symbiosis, and they throw new light on authors and texts both more and less familiar. The subject-areas discussed include: religion, history, philosophy, literature and education. The age of Renaissance and Reformation is the central focus, but earlier and later periods are also featured. The contributions comprise a Festschrift for Professor Arjo Vanderjagt, whose work deals centrally with both Christianity and Humanism. Contributors are Fokke Akkerman, István P. Bejczy, Alexander Broadie, Chris-toph Burger, Marcia L. Colish, Albrecht Diem, Stephen Gersh, Berndt Hamm, Volker Honemann, Adrie van der Laan, Alasdair A. MacDonald, Peter Mack, Zweder von Martels, Matthieu van der Meer, Hans Mooij, Simone Mooij-Valk, Just Niemeijer, John North, Willemien Otten, Jan Papy, Detlev Pätzold, Rob Pauls, Marc van der Poel, Burcht Pranger, Peter Raedts, Han van Ruler, Rudolf Suntrup, Jan R. Veenstra, and Ronald Witt.Trade Review"A deeply rewarding exploration of Christian humanism that would be difficult, if not impossible, to find elsewhere [...] prodigious in both depth and breadth". Laurel Carrington, St. Olaf College. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 63, No. 1.Table of ContentsIntroduction Notes on Contributors CHRISTIANITY AND HUMANISM Coluccio Salutati in the Footsteps of the Ancients, Ron Witt Christlicher Humanismus und Liturgie: Heinrich Bebel, Johannes Casselius und Leonhard Clemens verfassen Offizien zu den Festen des heiligen Hieronymus und der heiligen Anna, Volker Honemann Rühmende Memoria: der Zusammenhang von Verdiesseitigung und Religiosität in der Gedächtnispflege der Humanisten, Berndt Hamm Religion as exercitatio mentis: a Case for Theology as a Humanist Discipline, Willemien Otten A Classicising Friar at Work: John of Wales’ Breviloquium de virtutibus, Albrecht Diem HUMANISM AND STOICISM Virtue as an End in Itself: the Medieval Unease with a Stoic Idea, István P. Bejczy Florentius Volusenus and Tranquillity of Mind: Some Applications of an Ancient Ideal, Alasdair A. Macdonald The First Christian Defender of Stoic Virtue? Justus Lipsius and Cicero’s Paradoxa stoicorum, Jan Papy Coornhert on Virtue and Nobility, Hans and Simone Mooij-Valk HUMANISM AND PHILOSOPHY The De veritate fidei christianae of Juan Luis Vives, Marcia L. Colish Montaigne and Christian Humanism, Peter Mack Humanism and Religion in the Works of Spinoza, Fokke Akkerman Erasmus of Rotterdam and Late Medieval Theologians on the Doctrine of Grace, Christoph Burger The philosophia Christi, its Echoes and its Repercussions on Virtue and Nobility, Han van Ruler Modern Humanism as Philosophical Autobiography: Pretending and Under-standing Selfhood in Descartes and Fichte, Detlev Pätzold HUMANISM, ARTS AND SCIENCES Types of Inconsistency in the Astrology of Ficino and Others, John North† The Metaphysical Unity of Music, Motion, and Time in Augustine’s De musica, Stephen Gersh World Without End: Nicholas of Cusa’s View of Time and Eternity, Matthieu van der Meer Copernicus’ Praefatio in libros revolutionum: Humanism and Scholarly Debate, Marc van der Poel Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples: Humanism and Hermeticism in the De magia naturali, Jan R. Veenstra HUMANIST WRITING AND EDUCATION Dutch Humanists and the Medieval Past, Peter Raedts “Höhere Bildung” im 17. Jahrhundert. Die Schola Carolina in Osnabrück auf dem Weg vom Humanistischen Gymnasium zur Jesuitenuniversität, Rudolf Suntrup Ubbo Emmius, the Eternal edict and the Academy of Groningen, Zweder von Martels John Mair’s Dialogus de materia theologo tractanda: Introduction, Text and Translation, Alexander Broadie Rudolph Agricola’s Address to Innocent VIII, Adrie van der Laan Solitude and the Inaccessible Light in the Sermons of Isaac of Stella, Just Niemeijer Anselm, Calvin, and the Absent Bible, Burcht Pranger The World as Sin and Grace: The Theology of Melanchthon’s Loci communes of 1521, Rob Pauls Index

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Book SynopsisFamous for his role as Minister General of the Franciscan Order after the flight of Michael of Cesena and company, Gerald Odonis (ca. 1285-1348) has in recent years attracted attention for his scholarly work. At an increasing pace, studies of specific areas of Odonis’ thought reveal another side to the man often portrayed as Pope John XXII’s creature: a philosopher and theologian who held unique, often controversial positions and defended them with zeal and integrity, whose impact extended beyond the religious and chronological confines of medieval Christendom. Building on the recent scholarship of Bonnie Kent, Christian Trottmann, and especially L.M. de Rijk, this volume gathers together studies by other specialists on Odonis, covering his ideas in economics, logic, metaphysics, ethics, natural philosophy, theology, and politics in works written over the entire span of his career. Contributors are Paul J.J.M. Bakker, Sander W. de Boer, Stephen F. Brown, Giovanni Ceccarelli, William Duba, Roberto Lambertini, Sylvain Piron, Camarin Porter, Chris Schabel, and Joke Spruyt.

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Book SynopsisThe 12 articles of this volume show the many facets of contact in al-Andalus and Medieval Iberia, reminding us of how contact influenced art and learning in a wide range of fields: politics, science, philosophy, music and religion; offering views of how contact between societies affects both language, stereotype and assimilation; examining how war and conflict (re)define the representation of ideas, places and people; and demonstrating how representations changed over time through contact and conflict. Lessons of the past apply today as al-Andalus captures the modern imagination and cultures continue to come into contact across borders which either allow fluid diffusion of ideas or block passage.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Ivy A. Corfis, “Three Cultures, One World” I. Contact through Art and Learning Bernard R. Goldstein, “Astronomy as a ‘Neutral Zone’: Interreligious Cooperation in Medieval Spain” Maribel Fierro, “Alfonso X ‘The Wise’: The Last Almohad Caliph?” Harvey J. Hames, “It Takes Three to Tango: Ramon Llull, Solomon Ibn Adret and Alfonso of Valladolid Debate the Trinity” Richard C. Taylor, “Ibn Rushd / Averroes and ‘Islamic’ Rationalism” Dwight F. Reynolds, “Music in Medieval Iberia: Contact, Influence and Hybridization” II. Contact through Society Francisco J. Hernandez, “The Origins of Romance Script in Castile and the Jews: A New Paradigm” Ross Brann, “The Moors” María Jesús Fuente, “Christian, Muslim and Jewish Women in Late Medieval Iberia” III. Contact through Conflict Russell Hopley, “The Ransoming of Prisoners in Medieval North Africa and Andalusia: An Analysis of the Legal Framework” Justin Stearns, “Representing and Remembering al-Andalus: Some Historical Considerations Regarding the End of Time and the Making of Nostalgia” Denise K. Filios, “Legends of the Fall: Conde Julián in Medieval Arabic and Hispano-Latin Historiography” Danya Crities, “Churches Made Fit for a King: Alfonso X and Meaning in the Religious Architecture of Post-Conquest Seville”

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Book SynopsisDescriptions of the late 1800s landscape in the Ovambo floodplain in north-central Namibia closely match the area’s late 1900s appearance, suggesting that little change occurred between the pre-colonial baseline and the postcolonial outcome. Yet, paradoxically, colonial conquest, population pressure, biological invasions, new technology, and economic globalization caused both dramatic deforestation and reforestation in less than a century. The paradox stems from the fact that the prevailing global environmental models obscure and homogenize the process of environmental change: different and contradictory interpretations are dismissed as alternative readings or misreadings of the same process. Deforestation and Reforestation, however, argues that the paradox highlights the need to reframe environmental change as plural processes occurring along multiple trajectories that may be dissynchronized and asymmetrical.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments ix Abbreviations xiii Maps xv Photos xvii 1. Approaches to environmental change Models of environmental change The modernization paradigm The declinist paradigm The inclinist paradigm Paradoxes of environmental change 2. Tree castles and population bombs Tree castles and insecurity on the eve of colonial conquest Portuguese violence and population fight into Ovamboland Internal migration in South Africa’s Ovamboland Tree castles and deforestation in the 1920s to 1940s Colonial concerns about overpopulation and deforestation in the 1950s Population growth in Ovamboland Woody vegetation resources by the close of the twentieth century 3. Conquest of Nature: Imperial political ecologies The political ecology of insecurity Indirect environmental rule The colonial conquest of Nature: Direct environmental rule 4. Fierce species: Biological imperialism Invading microbes and virgin soil epizootics Invading microbes and virgin soil epidemics A plague of donkeys: Fierce invading equines Fierce indigenous creatures on the rampage 5. Guns, hoes and steel: Techno-environmental determinism Guns Steel tools Steel plows Guns and steel in north-central Namibia 6.Naturalizing cattle culture: Colonialism as a deglobalizing and decommodifying force The cattle complex and environmental degradation Ovambo cattle as global commodities Cattle, culture and nature Overstocking and biological time bombs Colonial barriers: Conservation and fences Grazing pressure and desertification Livestock and deforestation Commodification, deglobalization and deforestation 7. The Palenque paradox: Beyond Nature-to-Culture Bush cities and the bush ‘Bushmen’ and the bush 8. The Ovambo paradox and environmental pluralism Deforestation in Ovamboland Reforestation in Ovamboland Environmental pluralism: Multiprocessual asynchronous environmental change Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn recent decades, alternatives to the established bubonic-plague theory have been presented as to the microbiologcal identity and mechanism(s) of spread of historical plague epidemics. In this monograph, the six important alternative theories are intensively discussed in the light of the historical sources, the central primary studies and standard works on bubonic plague and the alternative microbiological agents, insofar as they are testable. These seven theories are incompatible and at least six of them must be untenable. In the author’s opinion, the arguments against the bubonic-plague theory and for all alternative theories are untenable. This monograph therefore also has been written also as a standard work on bubonic plague, giving a broad and in-depth presentation of the medical, epidemiological and historical evidence and the methodological tenets for identification of historical diseases by comparison with modern medical knowledge.Trade Review"En líneas generales, Benedictow articula el libro en torno a tres ejes principales. Así, en el primero se encarga de definir las condiciones básicas para el desarrollo de la plaga bubónica en la Europa medieval, en el segundo pormenoriza las características definitorias de la epidemia y por último, una vez perfilado el cuadro de qué es y qué sabemos de la Peste Negra, se lanza a desmontar las teorías alternativas que han ido surgiendo en los últimos años, señalando sus defectos de forma y contenido." - Alberto Reche (IEM), Medievalia, 2012, No. 15, 366-368 pp.Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables xiii Preface xv PART ONE: THE ISSUE 1. The Issue and the Problems 3 Introduction 3 The Human-Flea Theory of Plague Epidemiology 9 The Revisionists 16 PART TWO: HOW S.K. COHN MAKES PHYSICIANS AND HISTORIANS “SQUARE THE CIRCLE” 2. The Ethics of Scholarly Work 25 Introduction 25 How Cohn Makes Medical Scientists “Square the Circle” 26 Hankin 1: Cohn’s Attack on Hankin’s Observation of Inverse Correlation between Mortality and Population Density 34 Hankin 2: A Brief Study of Cohn’s Technique of Argument 38 “The Ugly Americans” 44 Cohn’s Accusations of Racism against J. Ashburton Thompson and L.F. Hirst 46 How Cohn Makes “Historians Square the Circle” 54 The Attack on Schofi eld (and Benedictow and L. Bradley) 62 PART THREE: BASIC CONDITIONS FOR BUBONIC PLAGUE IN MEDIEVAL EUROPE 3. Rats 73 Introduction: How to Study Rats in History 73 The Nature of Rats and the Frame of Reference of the Medieval Mind 78 The Question of the Presence of Rats and the Methodological Fallacy of Inference ex silentio 85 Ars Moriendi Rattorum: Where Have all the Dead Rats Gone? 91 Zoobiological and Zoogeographical Arguments on the Question of Signifi cant Presence of Black Rats in Medieval Europe 98 The Signifi cance of Evolutionary Th eory and Adaptation by Selection 116 Rat Bones: Material Evidence of the Presence of Rats in the Middle Ages 122 Sociology of Rat-Based Plague 142 4. The Spread of Bubonic Plague over Distances 151 Contiguous Spread and Metastatic Spread 151 5. Mortality in India 194 Effects of the Anti-epidemic Eff orts by British Colonial Authorities 194 6. Was Historical Plague a Viral or Bacterial Disease? The Question of Immunity 205 Introduction 205 Re-infection or Immunity? 212 Did Plague Become a Child Disease aft er the Black Death? 218 Plague according to Social Class, Age and Gender 235 A Demographic Case Study: Th e Necrology of the Monastery of San Domenico in Camporegio 245 The Real Problem and its Solution: Marriage Rates and Fertility Rates aft er the Black Death 268 PART FOUR: DEFINING FEATURES Introduction: Concept of Defining Feature 277 7. Defining Feature 1: Latency Periods 279 8. Defining Feature 2: Inverse Correlation between Mortality Rate and Population Density 289 Introduction 289 More Data on the Inverse Correlation in India and Historical Europe 291 Scott and Duncan and the Correlation between Population Density and Mortality 301 Epilogue: Sweating Sickness and the Inverse Correlation 311 9. Defining Feature 3: Buboes as a Normal Clinical Feature in Epidemics 312 General Introduction 312 Contemporary Notions and Observations of Buboes (and Associated Secondary Clinical Manifestations) 322 Scott and Duncan: The Problem of Buboes 334 Cohn: The Problem of Buboes 340 Cohn and Boccaccio: Buboes, Pustules and Spots 359 10. Defining Feature 4: DNA of Yersinia pestis from Plague Graves 381 11. Defining Feature 5: Seasonality of Bubonic Plague 396 Introduction: Bubonic Plague’s Association with Moderately Warm Temperatures and Seasons 396 Seasonality of Historical Bubonic-Plague Epidemics with Emphasis on the Transseasonal Form 398 The Seasonality of Plague and Mortality in England 1340–1666 420 Duration of Vacancies in Parish Benefices during the Black Death 436 Temporal Relationship between the Territorial Spread of the Black Death and Increase in Institutions 463 Summary and Conclusion 482 PART FIVE: THE ALTERNATIVE THEORIES Introduction: The History and Essence of the Alternative Theories 487 12. The Beginning: Th e Alternative Theories of Shrewsbury and Morris 489 Shrewsbury: the Composite, Low-Intensity Theory 489 Morris: The Primary Pneumonic Theory 491 13. Gunnar Karlsson’s Alternative Theory: That Historical Plague was Pure Epidemics of Primary Pneumonic Plague 493 Introduction 493 Karlsson and Benedictow 495 Could Plague Have Come to Iceland from Anywhere? 502 Pure Epidemics of Primary Pneumonic Plague: Fact or Fiction? 511 Primary Pneumonic Plague in Manchuria: A Model for Iceland? 514 The Spontaneous Decline of Epidemics of Primary Pneumonic Plague 518 The Icelandic Climatic Th eory of Primary Pneumonic Plague 528 Mortality Rate of the Purported Plague Epidemics in Iceland 530 Summary: Why There Never Was a Plague Epidemic in Iceland 533 Was the Black Death in Bergen (Norway) 1349 Primary Pneumonic Plague? 536 Summary and Conclusion 550 14. Twigg’s Alternative Theory 553 Introduction 553 Th e Alternative Theory of Anthrax 555 Th e Historical Basis: The Use of Obsolete and Peripheral Studies 560 Th e Telluric-Miasmatic Th eory of Anthrax 562 Th e Pace of Spread of Plague 566 Anthrax and the Name Black Death 571 Anthrax’s Historical Association with Other Epizootics among Domestic Animals and Plague 574 Th e Black Death’s Origin and Spread and the Anthrax Theory 580 Twigg’s Demographic Argument 595 Concluding Remarks 608 15. The Alternative Theory of Scott and Duncan 610 Introduction 610 Disparaging Views of Historians and Physicians: Motive and Objective 611 The Material Scholarly Basis of Scott and Duncan’s Alternative Theory 615 The Demography of Historical Plague 628 The Reed-Frost Theory of Epidemiology 633 The Filoviridal Theory of Historical Plague: A Study in Academic Fiction 636 The Significance of Autopsies 653 Th e African Confinement 661 Summary and Conclusion 662 16. Cohn’s Alternative Theory 664 Epilogue 673 Appendix 1 Black Death Mortality in Siena: The Material Provided by the Necrology of the Monastery of San Domenico in Camporegio and Summarized in Table 5 675 Appendix 2 Th e Accounts of the Icelandic Epidemics of 1402–4 and 1494–5 Given in Icelandic Annals 680 Appendix 3 Th e Extrinsic Incubation Period and the Structure and Composition of the Latency Period 682 Glossary 688 Bibliography 693 Index of Subjects 717 Index of Geographical Names and People 730 Index of Names 740

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Book SynopsisRecent publications about King Alfonso X have tended to focus on his role as monarch in the context of the institutions of the realm. This book, however, emphasizes the human dimension of this extraordinary figure. Drawing on King Alfonso’s own works and on extensive archival sources, both well-known and neglected, Salvador Martínez brings to life a king who valued the possession of knowledge above all earthly riches. The "Learned King" left a vast legacy of work, which would influence developments in both Spain and Europe, most significantly in the transfer of knowledge from the Arabs to the Christian West. With his intellectual curiosity and his pursuit of wisdom, Alfonso X is a towering figure at the origins of modernity.Table of ContentsAbbreviations List of Illustrations Colour Plates Introduction: The "Alfonsine Era" 1. The Apprenticeship of a Great King 2. A Prince's Education 3. Alfonso King 4. The Quest for the Imperial Crown 5. Alfonso, King of the Romans 6. Gregory X and the End of Imperial Ambitions 7. Illness and Intellectual Pursuits 8. The Black Decade (1269-1279) 9. The Nobles' Rebellion 10. Desnaturación 11. The Problems of Succession 12. Don Sancho is Declared Successor 13. Deposition and Civil War 14. Don Sancho Seeks the Consolidation of Power: The Curse 15. The Last Wills of Alfonso X Conclusion: In Praise of Knowledge Bibliography Index of Names

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Book SynopsisClare of Assisi: Life, Writings and Spirituality examines Clare not merely as an obedient footnote to the friars, but as a Franciscan founder in her own right who kept primitive Franciscan ideals alive into the middle of the thirteenth century and transposed them into a woman’s key. Bringing together the best of international research, the text examines Clare’s importance within the early Franciscan milieu and her contribution to the thirteenth-century women's movement. It studies the radicalism of Clare's Franciscan choice, her life within the Monastery of San Damiano, her politicking with Agnes of Prague for the "privilege of poverty," and her uniqueness among other women in Gregory IX's Damianite ordo. Following this historical study are critical translations and literary analyses of Clare's four letters to Agnes of Prague as well as a new translation and commentary on Clare’s Forma Vitae.Trade Review"A Companion to Clare of Assisi is thus recommended to university and seminary libraries as an irnportant reference book, as well as for inclusion in courses which study the lives of medieval religious women." Bruce Paolozzi, Claremont Graduate University. In: Anglican and Episcopal History (2012), pp. 462-463. "This book is well produced and edited, containing eight beautiful and useful illustrations at the back. [...] Overall this is an engaging and serendipitous book. Collecting the results of the industry of Franciscan research, especially as it relates to Clare, is a monumental task and Mueller has pulled it off well. The wealth of contemporary studies incorporated in this book make it extremely useful to scholars and students alike." Donald S. Prudlo, Francia-Recensio 2012. "Bringing together the best of international research, the text examines Clare's importance within the early Franciscan milieu and her contribution to the thirteenth-century women's movement." Studies in Spirituality Vol. 21 (2011), pp. 374-375. ‘’Questo di J.M. e’uno dei migliori lavori realizzati in lingua inglese su Chiara di Assisi negli ultimi anni. L’A. si inserisce definitivamente nel gruppo degli specialisti di Santa Chiara, con un lavoro che ha il pregio non soltanto di tenere conto di tutta la migliore bibliografia in tante lingue diverse […] ma anche di fornire nuove piste di riflessione e approfondimento.’’ Marco Bartoli, Universita’ di Roma LUMSA. In: Revue D’Histoire Ecclésiastique.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Abbreviations Introduction PART I CLARE: FRANCISCAN WOMEN Chapter One The Franciscan Choice Chapter Two The Monastery of S Damiano Chapter Three The Politics of “Infant’s Milk”: Clare of Assisi and the Privilege of Poverty Chapter Four The Ordo that Gregory IX Founded: Clare among other Ugolinian Sisters PART II CLARE: HER WRITINGS Chapter Five Reading Clare’s Letters in Context Chapter Six The Agnes Legend in Clare’s Letters Appendix: The Legend of S Agnes of Rome Chapter Seven Clare’s Forma Vitae: Unique Contributions PART III CLARE: HER WRITINGS IN TRANSLATION Clare’s First Letter to Agnes Clare’s Second Letter to Agnes Clare’s Third Letter to Agnes Clare’s Fourth Letter to Agnes Clare’s Forma Vitae 275Bibliography Index Illustrations

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Book SynopsisThis book analyzes the relationships that exist between esotericism and music from Antiquity to the 20th century, investigating ways in which magic, astrology, alchemy, divination, and cabbala interact with music. Ce livre offre un panorama des relations entre l’ésotérisme et la musique de l’Antiquité au 20ème siècle et montre comment la magie, l’astrologie, l’alchimie, la divination et la cabale interagissent avec l’art et la science des sons.Trade ReviewHaving read the book with much pleasure, I would like to applaud the authors for their expedition into this intriguing field of relations between music, science and ‘esotericism’. I hope that the essays will be read not only by scholars interested in the individual philosophers and musicians analysed, but also by those concerned with general patterns within the European history of religion and the theoretical considerations arising from a study of this researchfield. - Isabel Laack, Universität Heidelberg in: Religion, Volume 42 (2012), Issue 1.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Laurence Wuidar PART ONE EARLY MODERN OCCULT KNOWLEDGE AND MUSIC Music and Magnetism, from Abu Ma‘shar to Kircher Charles Burnett Le medecin et les sons : Musique et magie dans Le Livre des eschez amoureux moralisés d’Evrart de Conty Amandine Mussou Prophecy, Harmony, and the Alchemical Transformation of the Soul: The Key to Lasso’s Chromatic Sibyls Marjorie A. Roth Dwelling in Darkness: Dowland’s Dark Songs as Hermetic Pessimist Gnosis, and Could this be ‘Evidence’ of the Esoteric ‘School of Night’? Anthony Rooley Orpheus “Recured”: The Healing Art of Thomas Campion Barbara Kennedy Giovambattista della Porta e l’efficacia terapeutica della musica Concetta Pennuto Tommaso Campanella (1568–1639) e la musica Marta Moiso Representation esoterique et pensee scientifique. Le cas de la vibration par sympathie chez les savants et theoriciens de la premiere moitie du 17e siecle Brigitte Van Wymeersch Musical Theory and Astrological Foundations in Kepler: The Making of the New Aspects David Juste PHILOSOPHICAL INTERMEZZO Apercu sur le role de l’harmonie musicale dans l’oeuvre de Proclus Maël Mathieu and Daniel Cohen Quelques philosophes du XIXe siecle et la musique comme esoterisme moderne Jacques Amblard PART TWO NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURY MUSICAL ESOTERICISM The Mysteries of Sound in H. P. Blavatsky’s ‘Esoteric Instructions’ Tim Rudbøg Evoking the Mystical: The Esoteric Legacy of Ferruccio Busoni Judith Crispin Musica pietrificata, sculture sonore: Aleksandr Skrjabin tra estasi e teosofia Barbara Aniello The Unspeakable and the Law: Esotericism in Anton Webern and the Second Viennese School Wouter J. Hanegraaff Music, Magic and Postmodern Historical Metafiction: Helmuth Krausser’s Melodien (1993) György E. Szönyi Index

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Book SynopsisThe lore of the supposed magic and medical virtue of stones goes back to the Babylonians and peaks out in the lapidary literature of the Middle Ages. The famous work of Marbode of Rennes, which made lapidaries a very popular type of medieval scientific literature, was translated into numerous vernacular languages. The Jewish tradition, missing a particular lapidary literature of its own, absorbed non-Jewish works like that of Marbode. Several Anglo-Norman Marbode translations could be identified as the main source of the present edited Hebrew lapidary Ko’aḥ ha-Avanim, written by Berakhyah Ben Natronai ha-Nakdan around 1300. The edition is accompanied by an English translation, a source study, and a linguistic analysis of the Romance, mostly Anglo-Norman, terms featuring within the text in Hebrew spelling.Table of ContentsContents Introduction The Author Literary Activity Sefer Ko"a.h ha-Avanim (On the Virtue of the Stones) The Source(s) of Sefer Ko"a.h ha-Avanim (On the Virtue of the Stones) The Critical Edition of Sefer Ko"a.h ha-Avanim Supplements Text and Translation Supplement A: Comparative Table Supplement B:The Ko’a.h ha-Avanim in Its French Context: Romance and Latin Terms and Sources Introduction Lexicological Commentary on the Romance and Latin Terms Berakhyah’s Sources Tables of the Sources Alphabetical Glossaries Hebrew—French/Latin/Greek Glossary French/Latin—Hebrew Glossary Greek—Hebrew Glossary

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Book SynopsisUsing a variety of sources and disciplinary angles, this book shows the many and varied ways in which pastoral care came to play such an important role in the day to day lives of medieval people. 1 volume, 335-page, 17-chapter, English-language survey of study of medieval pastors (priests, bishops, abbots, abbesses, popes, etc.) and their relationship to their respective congregations (1215-1536).Trade Review"This volume has much to offer. [...] the individual essays in this collection will surely enrich our understanding of medieval pastoral care, the transmission of religious knowledge, and the nature of lay-clerical interactions." Adam Davis, Denison University. In: The Medieval Review, 11.03.20. "des analyses pointues de dossiers d’archives (notamment pour les conflits opposant les fidèles à leur curé), de textes extrêmement variés, de traités théologiques les plus savants aux recueils d’exempla en vernaculaire, permettent de repérer des manières locales et évolutives de s’approprier les pastoralia, de les enseigner, les recevoir et mettre en pratique leurs conseils touchant autant aux dogmes et croyances qu’aux pratiques et gestes de piété." Marie-Anne Polo de Beaulieu, in Revue d'Histoire Eccléstastique 2012, pp. 466-468.Table of ContentsGeneral Introduction – Ronald J. Stansbury 1. Historiography and the work of Lenoard Boyle – Joseph Goering PASTORAL CARE AND THE LAITY 2. Teaching the Creed and Articles of Faith in England: 1215-1281 – Andrew Reeves 3. Preaching and Pastoral Care in the Thirteenth Century – Ronald J. Stansbury 4. The Sheep as Shepherds: Lay Leadership in Pastoral Care – William Dohar 5. The Role of Ritual Purity in the 13th Century Attempt to Reform Pastoral Care – C. Colt Anderson 6. Implicit Anti-Semitism in Explicit Pastoral Care: The Role of the Eucharist in Spreading Common Stereotypes – Timothy M. Kovalcik 7. Conflict in the Parish: Antagonistic Relations Between Clerics and Parishioners – Michelle Armstrong-Partida 8. Guido of Monte Rochen’s Manipulus Curatorum and Sermonic Intention – Anne Thayer 9. Three’s a Crowd: Women, Men, and Priests in the Late Medieval Confessional – Beth Allison Barr 10. Grazing in Many Fields and Drinking Bitter Waters: Robert Grosseteste’s Theology of the Pastoral Care – James R. Ginther PASTORAL CARE IN MALE AND FEMALE RELIGIOUS LIFE 11. “‘Pure religion and undefiled… is this’: Religious Orders and Pastoral Care in the Late Middle Ages – Greg Peters 12. Spiritual Role Models: How Monks Thought Nuns Should Interpret the Old Testament – Laura Michele Diener 13. Crux a cruciatu dicitur: Preaching Self-Torture as Pastoral Care in Twelfth-Century Religious Houses.” – C. Matthew Phillips 14. An Illiterate Pope and his Book: Pope Celestine V and Pastoral Care – George Ferzoco 15. The Informiringheboeck (1510): Spiritual Guidelines for Religious Women – Sabrina Corbellini 16. Practical Pastoral Care: Vowesses in Northern England in the Later Middle Ages – Susan M. B. Steuer 17. ‘Persevere! … God Will Help You!’: Thomas a Kempis’s Sermons for the Novices – Mathilde van Dijk Bibliography of all Works Cited (Primary and Secondary Sources) Index

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Book SynopsisFor centuries, the relation between lay piety and academic theology has determined the faith of lay people as well as developments in theology, and influenced daily life as well as scholarly discussions. In this book an international and multidisciplinary panel of specialists, covering the fields of church history, history of literature, music history, book history, and art history reflects on a broad range of research topics, providing a fascinating and refreshing view on what this relation has been throughout the centuries. Christoph Burger has given a major impulse to the research into the history of theology, notably the issue of adapting academic theology for lay people. The contributions to this Festschrift reflect this broad spectrum of correlations between learned theology and lay piety from the Early Church period until modern times. The book contains contributions to the research on lay piety as well as academic theology in the Middle Ages, Reformation, and the modern period, as well as their representations in such media as printed books and woodcuts. The result is a truly epoch-transcending and interdisciplinary volume.Trade Review"L'ensemble des articles réunis en hommage à Christoph Burger impressionne par son ampleur et son haut niveau d'analyse. Il faut saluer la cohérence des cas d'études exposés et leur mise en perspective historique et théologique. Témoignant de la diversité des sources et des documents textuels et iconographiques, ce livre est un bel encouragement à la recherche sur la piété des laïcs et la théologie protestante en Europe occidentale." Martine Clouzot, Sehepunkte Ausgabe 14 (2014), Nr. 1.Table of ContentsContributors Preface Ulrike Hascher-Burger, August A. den Hollander, Wim Janse Introduction Ulrike Hascher-Burger Middle Ages Der erste Jubilaumsablass-eine kirchengeschichtliche Erinnerung Martin Ohst "Memorare novissima tua". Ein Blick in die Vorgeschichte des Eschatologiebegriffs Sigurd Hjelde The Commemoration of the Translation of the Relics of Saint Augustine Martijn Schrama The Middle Dutch Mystical Whitsun Sermons from 1492 mediating Johannes Gerson Thom Mertens "O qualis quantaque leticia": Das Bild des Himmels in einem Liederbuch der Bruder vom Gemeinsamen Leben Ulrike Hascher-Burger "Myne lieben doechtern". Auf der Suche nach der idealen Madchenlekture im Mittelalter Barbara Fleith Reformation Luthers Vaterunserauslegung von 1519. Die Transformation spatmittelalterlicher Frommigkeit zu reformatorischer Volker Leppin Marie dans les Tischreden de Martin Luther Matthieu Arnold "Ein Laie der Rede". Die Frage nach der rhetorischen Kompetenz in der Debatte zwischen Luther und Erasmus uber den freien Willen. Johan S. Vos "A l'instar des prophetes ...". La rhetorique au service de la prophetie dans le Tzephaniah epitomographus de Martin Bucer (1528) Annie Noblesse-Rocher "Quomodo legere oporteat sacras scripturas ...". Anmerkungen zur Bibelhermeneutik des Zurcher Reformators Theodor Bibliander (1505-1564) Hans-Martin Kirn Piety in tumultuous times. Farel the flamboyant herald of reformed belief Frans P. van Stam Post-Reformation and Modern Times Georg Mayer of Leeder: "So geysted der H. Geist wo er will" Peter G. Bietenholz United by the Augustana? Acceptance of the Augsburg Confession in the Netherlands around 1566 Klaas Zwanepol Lay and Theological Reception of Clement of Alexandria in the Reformation. From Gentien Hervet to Fenelon Irena Backus Groninger Pfarrer an der Schwelle zur liberalen Zeit. Ein Bericht uber den religios-kirchlichen Zustand der Groninger protestantischen Gemeinden (1851); seine Hintergrunde und Wirkungen. Jasper Vree Piety and Media Beyond the printed book. The media in Reformation historiography Willem Heijting Apostolate and Printing. The Collatiebroeders of Gouda and their Press Koen Goudriaan Der Weg zum Himmel und die nahe Gnade. Neue Formen der spatmittelalterlichen Frommigkeit am Beispiel Ulms und des Mediums Einblattdruck Berndt Hamm "Magnificat anima mea Dominum ..." in figuris. Representation de la fin de la Visitation (Luc 1, 46-55) dans les Figures de la Bible au seizieme siecle Max Engammare Christian Hebraism and early printed Dutch Bibles August A. den Hollander Publications Christoph Burger Index of names Index of places

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Book SynopsisModernity has historically defined itself by relation to classical antiquity on the one hand, and the medieval on the other. While early modernity’s relation to Antiquity has been amply documented, its relation to the medieval has been less studied. This volume seeks to address this omission by presenting some preliminary explorations of this field. In seventeen essays ranging from the Italian Renaissance to Enlightenment France, it focuses on three main themes: continuities and discontinuities between the medieval and early modern, early modern re-uses of medieval matter, and conceptualizations of the medieval. Collectively, the essays illustrate how early modern medievalisms differ in important respects from post-Romantic views of the medieval, ultimately calling for a re-definition of the concept of medievalism itself. Contributors include: Mette Bruun, Peter Damian-Grint, Anne-Marie De Gendt, Daphne Hoogenboezem, Tiphaine Karsenti, Joost Keizer, Waldemar Kowalski, Elena Lombardi, Coen Maas, Pieter Mannaerts, Christoph Pieper, Jacomien Prins, Adam Shear, Paul Smith, Martin Spies, Andrea Worm, and Aurélie Zygel-Basso.Trade Review"The editors of Early Modern Medievalisms deserve high praise for assembling excellent individual contributions representative of a wide range of topics and methodological approaches. Moreover, they should be congratulated on producing a meticulously edited volume." – Richard Utz, Georgia Institute of Technology, in: Spenser Review 43.2.38 (Fall 2013)Table of ContentsCONTENTS Acknowledgements Notes on the Editors Notes on the Contributors List of Illustrations Introduction: Questioning Early Modern Medievalisms ALICIA C. MONTOYA, SOPHIE VAN ROMBURGH, WIM VAN ANROOIJ Continuities and Discontinuities between the Medieval and the Early Modern ‘I Desire Therefore I Am’: Petrarch’s Canzoniere between the Medieval and the Modern Notion of Desire ELENA F. LOMBARDI Medievalisms in Latin Love Poetry of the Early Italian Quattrocento CHRISTOPH PIEPER On Pleasure: Conceptions in Badius’s Stultiferae Naves (1501) ANNE-MARIE DE GENDT From Historical Invention to Literary Myth: Ambivalences and Contradictions in the Early Modern Reception of the Franco-Trojan Genealogy TIPHAINE KARSENTI Early Modern Angelic Song in Francesco Patrizi’s L’Amorosa Filosofia (1577) JACOMIEN PRINS Invoking the Medieval: Between Scholarship and Artistic Production Rabelaisian Medievalisms: Pantagruel and Amadis PAUL J. SMITH The Portrait of Lady Katherine Grey and her Son: Iconographic Medievalism as a Legitimation Strategy MARTIN SPIES Medieval Tradition Presented in Early Modern Paintings and Inscriptions in Little Poland WALDEMAR KOWALSKI ‘O Fundatrix Begginarum’: St. Begga and her Office in Early Modern Beguine Scholarship and Musical Sources PIETER MANNAERTS Medievalism and Magic: Illustrating Classical French Fairy Tales DAPHNE HOOGENBOEZEM A Fairy Troubadour? Medieval Matter and the ‘Bon Vieux Temps’ in Women’s Fairy Tales (1730-1750) AURÉLIE ZYGEL-BASSO Old French in the Eighteenth Century: Aucassin et Nicolette PETER DAMIAN-GRINT Conceptualizing the Medieval ‘Covered in the Thickest Darkness of Forgetfulness’: Humanist Commonplaces and the Defence of Medievalism in Janus Dousa’s Metrical History (1599) COEN MAAS Reproducing the Middle Ages: Abbé Jean-Joseph Rive (1730-1791) and the Study of Manuscript Illumination at the Turn of the Early Modern Period ANDREA WORM Michelangelo out of Focus: Medievalism as Absent Life in Italian Renaissance Art JOOST KEIZER Jean Mabillon’s Middle Ages: On Medievalism, Textual Criticism, and Monastic Ideals METTE B. BRUUN The Early Modern Construction of Medieval Jewish Thought ADAM SHEAR Index Nominum

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