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Book SynopsisIn The Making of Christian Moravia Maddalena Betti examines the creation of the Moravian archdiocese, of which St Methodius was the first incumbent, in the context of ninth-century papal policy in central and south-eastern Europe. In the nineteenth and twentieth century religious and nationalistic concerns widely influenced the reconstruction of the history of the archdiocese of Methodius. Offering a new reading of already widely-used sources, both Slavonic and Latin, Maddalena Betti turns attention upon the jurisdictional conflict between Rome, the Bavarian churches and Byzantium, in order to uncover the strategies and the languages adopted by the Apostolic See to gain jurisdiction over the new territories in central and south-eastern Europe.Trade Review"In her book, Maddalena Betti attempts to chart the fate of the Methodian mission in Great Moravia and the establishment of Sancta ecclesia Marabensis in Moravian territory in the second half of the ninth century. While this topic has been treated previously, she has chosen to look at the formation of ecclesiastical hierarchies in Great Moravia from the perspective of papal policies. For this reason, Betti has studied in detail papal correspondence pertinent to matters of the Moravian mission, especially the letters of John VIII, whose correspondence is particularly concerned with the Moravian mission. Her study is an extremely valuable addition to previous research into Great Moravian Christian culture, as it provides a well-rounded and erudite picture of the papal position on the Methodian mission in Great Moravia. Besides, Betti’s study also contributes to other scholarly inquiries connected with the Moravian state, such as its geographical location..." Evina Steinova, Network and Neighbours, Volume 2, Number 1 (2014)Table of ContentsAcknowledgements ... ix Foreword ... xi by Thomas F. X. Noble Introduction ... 1 I. The Archdiocese of Methodius in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Historiography ... 9 1. The Use of the Cyrillic-Methodian Heritage in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: Romantic Slavophilism, the “Reawakening of the Slavs,” and Roman Ecumenism ... 10 2. Great Moravia and the Archdiocese of Methodius in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Czechoslovakia ... 14 3. Revisionist Analyses of the Methodian Archdiocese ... 27 4. The Archdiocese of Methodius in František Dvornik: “La lutte autour de l’Illyricum” ... 34 5. Conclusion ... 39 II. The Origins of the Methodian Diocese during the Pontificates of Nicholas I (858–867) and Hadrian II (867–872). A Comparison of the Roman and Slavonic Sources ... 41 1. The Silence of the Roman Sources: The Possible Censure by Pope Stephen V (885–890) ... 43 2. Nicholas I (858–867): The First Contact ... 54 3. Hadrian II (867–872): The Constitution of a New Church ... 65 4. Introduction to the Slavonic Sources: The “Life of Constantine,” the “Life of Methodius,” and the “Encomium to Constantine and Methodius” ... 72 5. Nicholas I and Hadrian II in the Slavonic Sources: the “Life of Constantine,” the “Life of Methodius,” and the “Encomium to Cyril and Methodius” ... 83 6. Anastasius the Librarian and Constantine the Philosopher ... 90 7. A Roman source: The “Vita Constantini-Cyrilli cum translatione S. Clementis” ... 96 8. Conclusion ... 104 III. The Pannonian-Moravian Diocese in the Letters of Pope John VIII (872–882): Papal Strategies and Languages ... 109 1. Papal Missionary Involvement: Sixth to Ninth Century ... 111 2. John VIII’s Diplomatic Network: Letters and Legates ... 121 3. Geographical Sources for the Methodian Archdiocese ... 138 4. Pannonian Diocese—Moravian Diocese ... 154 5. The Ecclesiastical Career of a Roman Missionary: Methodius, Augustine, and Boniface ... 168 6. Svatopluk’s Role in Shaping the “Sancta Ecclesia Marabensis” ... 7. The Sirmian Issue ... 192 8. Conclusion ... 203 Conclusion: The Question of the Sancta Ecclesia Marabensis Revisited ... 207 Maps ... 217 Bibliography ... 223 Index

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Book SynopsisThis work - the first full-length account of its theme in English - identifies Kant's doctrine of inner sense as a central, and problematic, element within the 'architectonic of pure reason' of the first Critique. Its exegesis exposes two, variant construals of the character and capacities of inner sense: the first, 'positive' construal functions in Kant's account of the nature of knowledge in the Transcendental Analytic, while the second, 'negative' construal functions in Kant's account of the limits of knowledge in the Transcendental Dialectic. Green shows how this variance underlies, and destabilizes, the basic intention of Kant's theoretical philosophy, to give an account of both the nature, and the limits, of cognition. The work complements detailed analysis with an exhaustive review of English, French, and German scholarship on the doctrine. An Appendix on Kant's recently discovered 'Vom inneren Sinne' fragment evinces Kant's continued concern with this doctrine, and a Conclusion intimates the importance of Fichte's and Schelling's identification of the 'aporia of inner sense' to the subsequent development of transcendental idealism.Trade Review"The thesis - very profound, very learned, and detailed -- of Professor Green recommends itself. It is obvious that we are introduced to an authentically speculative temperament, and to an extremely well-trained philosopher and scholar, who manifests exceptional gifts of both reflection and analysis. His work attests to an exhaustive knowledge of Kant (and, elsewhere, of Fichte, and therefore of German idealism). The author does not spare his reader; he is analytical, elaborate, and remains constantly in close proximity to the text, indeed with a remarkable mastery. The analytical attitude chosen by Professor Green ensures the solidity of his exposition." Xavier Tilliette (review of Garth Green's thesis as member examining committee, 2002)

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Book SynopsisFollowing the discovery of a new Greek Father, namely, Cassian the Sabaite, who, by means of Medieval forgery, has been heretofore eclipsed by a figment known as ‘John Cassian of Marseilles’, this book casts new light on the Late Antique interplay between Hellenism and Christianity, sixth century Origenism, and Christian influence upon Neoplatonism.

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Book SynopsisJacob Boehme’s Aurora (Morgen Röte im auffgang, 1612) exercised a vast open or underground influence on popular and mystical religion, poetry, and philosophy from Germany to England to Russia. This beautiful and highly original work containing elements of alchemical, esoteric, and anticlerical thought is a portal to the cultural, scientific, and theological currents on the eve of the Thirty Years' War. Its author heralded the new heliocentrism, opposed intolerance and religious conflict, and entertained an ecstatic vision of order reconciled with freedom. This first modern English translation places the translated text opposite an edition of the German manuscript from the author’s own hand. Also included is the brief, influential Fundamental Report (Gründlicher Bericht, 1620) in a critical edition and translation. An extensive commentary that cites documents of the time offers access to the sources of Boehme’s themes and concepts.Trade Review[This book] will quickly become a must-have book for all those interested in esotericism. There is no better edition of the highly influential Aurora, whose English translation places the translated text opposite to an edition of the German manuscript from the author’s own hand, and the Gründlicher Bericht, offered in a critical edition and translation, is normally hard to come by. Yet they represent the very cornerstone of Böhme’s thought. - Massimo Introvigne, Managing Director of CESNUR.

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Book SynopsisThe Observant Movement was a widespread effort to reform religious life across Europe. It took root around 1400, and for a century and more thereafter it inspired or shaped much that became central to European religion and culture. The Observants produced many of the leading religious figures of the later Middle Ages—Catherine of Siena, Bernardino of Siena and Savonarola in Italy, Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros in Spain, and in Germany Martin Luther himself. This volume provides scholars with a current, synthetic introduction to the Observant Movement. Its essays also seek collectively to expand the horizons of our study of Observant reform, and to open new avenues for future scholarship. Contributors are Michael D. Bailey, Pietro Delcorno, Tamar Herzig, Anne Huijbers, James D. Mixson, Alison More, Carolyn Muessig, Maria Giuseppina Muzzarelli, Bert Roest, Timothy Schmitz, and Gabriella Zarri.Trade Review“The volume should encourage and help scholars of Observant reform in the late Middle Ages to carry out truly comparative research, as it lays a very solid foundation for future study in this field.” Jan Stejskal, Palacký University. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 70, No. 1 (Spring 2017), pp. 338-339.Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments Introduction James Mixson and Bert Roest PART I OBSERVANT REFORM AS INSTITUTIONAL REFORM Ecclesiastical Institutions and Religious Life in the Observant Century Gabriella Zarri Observant Reform’s Conceptual Frameworks between Principle and Practice James D. Mixson Dynamics of Regulation, Innovation, and Invention Alison More “Observance” as Paradigm in Mendicant and Monastic Chronicles Anne Huijbers PART II OBSERVANT REFORM, SOCIETY AND CULTURE “Quomodo discet sine docente?” Observant Efforts towards Education and Pastoral Care Pietro Delcorno Bernardino da Siena and Observant Preaching as a Vehicle for Religious Transformation Carolyn Muessig Pawn Broking between Theory and Practice in Observant Socio-Economic Thought Maria Giuseppina Muzzarelli Reformers on Sorcery and Superstition Michael D. Bailey Female Mysticism, Heterodoxy, and Reform Tamar Herzig PART III OBSERVANT LEGACIES The Observance and the Confrontation with Early Protestantism Bert Roest The Jeronymites and Reform in the Era of the Council of Trent Timothy Schmitz From Reconquista to Mission in the Early Modern World Bert Roest Bibliography Index   List of Illustrations 1/ Statuti del Monte di Pietà di Firenze (secc. XV-XVII). Florence, Collezione Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze 2/ Libro di conti (riscontro di cassa) (1795). Bologna, Archivio della Fondazione del Monte di Bologna e Ravenna 3/ Statuti del Monte di Pietà di Udine (1499). Udine, Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Udine e Pordenone 4/ Gonfalone della Pietà (XV sec.). Modena, Palazzo Comunale 4a/ Gonfalone della Pietà (XV sec.). Modena, Palazzo Comunale, detail 5/ Marco da Montegallo, Tabula della salute (1494). Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale, inv. B.6 18.B

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Book SynopsisLeo the Great was a major figure of the late Roman world whose life and work were profoundly intertwined with the political crisis of his day. As the western empire gradually succumbed to the advancing barbarian kingdoms, Leo understood that the papacy needed to expand its authority in order for the church to survive the demise of the political system. This book argues that his achievement was to transform the church not only in the practical level of administrative organization, but in the more fluid realm of thought and idea. The secular Rome that was crumbling was replaced with a Christian, universal Rome that he fashioned by infusing his theology with humanitarian ideals. Originally published in hardcover.Trade Review"Die Autorin liefert eine anregende Studie über diesen Papst." -Torsten Krannich, Heilbronn, in: Zeitschrift für Kirchengeschichte 121 (2010) "The great virtue of this book is its exceptionally detailed treatment of so many facets of Leo's world and its attempt to link theology and social history....the book will attract specialists in Leo as well as students of the early rise of the papacy... The work witnesses to immense erudition and research, and will be a valuable addition ao any research library." – Michael C. McCarthy, S.J., in: Journal of Early Christian Studies (2009) "Somit gebührt hier besprochene[r] Veröffentlichung [...] das Verdienst, diesen auf den ersten Blick möglicherweise etwas langweiligen und wenig originellen Papst in ein neues LIcht gestellt und seine Christologie in eienem größeren Kontext des spätantiken Christentums beleuchtet zu haben." – Katharina Greschat, in: Theologische Rundschau (Dezember 2010)

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Book SynopsisWinner of the Award of Excellence of the Foundation for Pentecostal Scholarship 2010. The teaching of Kenyon, Hagin and Copeland that Jesus ‘died spiritually’ (JDS) is important because of the influence of these men, not least on Pentecostalism. JDS originated with Kenyon, and has been taught in the Word-faith movement by Hagin and Copeland, despite much criticism. It incorporates three elements: in this death, Jesus was separated from God; partook of a satanic nature; and was Satan’s prey. This theological appraisal takes research far further than previous works, both in method and in scope. It concludes that adoption of JDS by Pentecostalism would be damaging in several respects, and thus draw the latter away from its moorings in traditional Christianity. Pentecostals and others are advised to reject the bulk of this teaching.

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Book SynopsisTitus shoots his arrows bearing petitions for justice to the gods; Claudius asks ‘what form of prayer can serve my turn?’; Lear wishes he could crack the vault of heaven with his prayers. Again and again, Shakespeare dramatises the scenario of the unheard prayer, in which the one who prays does so full well in the knowledge that no one is listening, interested, or even there at all. The scenario is keyed to the anxieties that surrounded the act of praying itself, so full as it was with controversy, the centrepiece of sectarian dispute over what was good and bad religion. This study reads the unheard prayer scenario as itself an appeal for a vision of tolerance, unobtainable perhaps, but nevertheless desired and imagined.Trade Review"Spectators having read Sterrett’s study are now ready to understand the full and complex implications of the visual display of prayers onstage. Ultimately, they are made to realize that Shakespeare actually fashioned a poetics of prayer aimed at distancing himself from sectarian disputes, while reflecting on the meaning of divine sanction and expressing the religious anxieties of his contemporaries." Sophie Chiari, Aix-Marseille Université (LERMA), Moreana 50 (2010) "Acknowledging the mixture of Catholic, Protestant, and classical elements in the plays as well as the ongoing debates about Shakespeare's own confessional commitments, Sterrett argues persuasively that Shakespearean drama yearns to reconcile sectarian differences. In passionate yet judicious prose, Sterrett illuminates the dramaturgy of prayer as both object of controversy and equipment for living in order to tune his project to Shakespeare’s entertainment of pluralist futures." Julia Reinhard Lupton, University of California, Irvine, Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 54:2 "Local readings are often of great interest and value, and parts of this study participate significantly in the present critical attempt to understand Shakespeare’s theological positions." Ian McAdam, University of Lethbridge, Renaissance Quarterly 66:4

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Book SynopsisFrancis of Assisi, whose Gospel performance captured the imagination of his day, fostered a movement of men and women who were fascinated by the transformative power of the embodied Word. Learned or unlettered, theologian or penitent, their shared conviction took form in various gestures, languages, and literary genres. For their part, medieval artisans and craftsmen reflected this Franciscan predilection to preach in architecture, frescoes, and reliquaries. In Franciscans and Preaching, scholars from Europe and North Amercia offer the first extensive English language study of medieval Franciscan preaching. Contributors are C. Colt Anderson, Joshua C. Benson, Michael W. Blastic, Jay M. Hammond, J.A. Wayne Hellmann, Timothy J. Johnson, Beverly M. Kienzle, Francesco Lucchini, Steven J. McMichael, Alison More, Stephen Mossman, Patrick Nold, Darleen Pryds, Amanda Quantz, Bert Roest, Michael Robson, Francisco Javier Rojo Alique, and Nicholas W. Youmans.Table of ContentsEditorial Note …ix Foreword Beverly M. Kienzle …xi Introduction: The Franciscan Fascination with the Word Timothy J. Johnson …1 SECTION ONE: GOSPEL LIFE AND PREACHING Preaching in the Early Franciscan Movement Michael W. Blastic …15 Franciscan Lay Women and the Charism to Preach Darleen Pryds …41 A Theology of Preaching – A Theology of Transformation The Life of St. Francis by Thomas of Celano J. A. Wayne Hellmann …59 SECTION TWO: THE ACADEMY AND PREACHING Franciscan Bodies and Souls: Bonaventure and Bacon on Scripture, Preaching, and the Cura Corporis / Cura Animae Timothy J. Johnson …73 Polemical Preaching at the University of Paris: Bonaventure’s Use of Paul as a Forerunner of Francis C. Colt Anderson …91 Haec Visio Rapit: Mystic Love and the Erotic in Bonaventure’s Sunday Sermons Nicholas W. Youmans …115 Matthew of Aquasparta’s Sermons on Theology Joshua C. Benson… 145 Poverty, History, and Liturgy in a Sermon Work of Bertrand de la Tour Patrick Nold… 175 SECTION THREE: PERCEPTIONS OF HOLINESS IN PREACHING Gracious Women Seeking Glory: Clare of Assisi and Elisabeth of Hungary in Franciscan Sermons Alison More …209 Preaching on St. Francis in Medieval Germany Stephen Mossman …231 Sermons Preached to the Friars Minor in the Thirteenth Century Michael Robson …273 SECTION FOUR: MEDIEVAL SOCIETY AND PREACHING Focus on the Family: Bernardino da Siena on the Common Good and the Nefarious Other Amanda D. Quantz …299 Roberto Caracciolo da Lecce and His Sermons on Muhammad and the Muslims (C. 1480) Steven J. McMichael …327 Fifteenth-Century Franciscan Preachers in Castile: The Example of Valladolid Francisco Javier Rojo-Alique… 353 SECTION FIVE: THE ART AND CRAFT OF PREACHING “Ne Effluat in Multiloquium Et Habeatur Honerosus”: The Art of Preaching in the Franciscan Tradition Bert Roest …383 Preaching by Image: The Counter Façade of the Basilica of St. Francis Jay M. Hammond …413 The Making of a Legend: The Reliquary of the Tongue and the Representation of St. Anthony of Padua as a Preacher Francesco Lucchini …451 Contributors …485 Illustration Section …491 Index of People and Places …519 Index of Texts and Themes …523

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Book SynopsisMary Magdalene, Iconographic Studies from the Middle Ages to the Baroque examines the iconographic inventions in Magdalene imagery and the contextual factors that shaped her representation in visual art from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries. Unique to other saints in the medieval lexicon, images of Mary Magdalene were altered over time to satisfy the changing needs of her patrons as well as her audience. By shedding light on the relationship between the Magdalene and her patrons, both corporate and private, as well as the religious institutions and regions where her imagery is found, this anthology reveals the flexibility of the Magdalene’s character in art and, in essence, the reinvention of her iconography from one generation to the next.Trade Review"Unlike many other anthologies, the themes here are well conceived and, amazingly enough, the individual essays actually consistently address the relevant themes. Moreover, the numerous cross-references between the contributions give the volume a highly cohesive character." Lynn Jacobs, University of Arkansas, Historians of Netherlandish Art Newsletter and Review of Books "This anthology succeeds in revealing the flexibility of the Magdalene's character in visual art; she is a lens through which evolving theories about women's behaviour and education can be viewed, as well as a mirror for observing church teachings, monastic ideals, personal devotion, and politics in various cultural contexts." Marjorie Harrington, Unievrsity of Notre Dame, Sixteenth Century Journal XLV/1 "The sixteen essays in this volume examine the iconographic interventions of Mary Magdalene imagery and the contextual factors that shaped her representation in visual art from the 14th to the 17th century. They give special attention to how the images were altered over time to satisfy the changing needs or her patrons as well as her audience." New Testament Abstracts 57/3Table of ContentsAcknowledgements... List of Contributors... List of Illustrations... Foreword... Susan Haskins Introduction... Michelle Erhardt and Amy Morris PART I ICONOGRAPHIC INVENTION IN THE LIFE OF MARY MAGDALENE 1. The Magdalene as Mirror: Trecento Franciscan Imagery in the Guidalotti-Rinuccini Chapel, Florence. Michelle A. Erhardt 2. Mary Magdalene and Her Dear Sister: Innovation in the Late Medieval Mural Cycle of Santa Maddalena in Rencio (Bolzano). Joanne W. Anderson 3. The German Iconography of the Saint Magdalene Altarpiece: Documenting Its Context. Amy M. Morris PART II MARY MAGDALENE AS THE REFORMED SINNER 4. The Printed Penitent: Magdalene Imagery and Prostitution Reform in Early Modern Italian Chapbooks and Broadsheets. Rachel Geschwind 5. Tintoretto's New Vision of Mary Magdalene and Mary of Egypt at the Scuola Grande di San Rocco, Venice. Elizabeth Carroll Consavari 6. Irony and Realism in Caravaggio's Penitent Magdalene. Patrick Hunt PART III NOLI ME TANGERE: MARY MAGDALENE, THE WITNESS 7. The Gaze in the Garden: Mary Magdalene in the Noli me tangere Barbara Baert 8. Michelangelo's Noli me tangere for Vittoria Colonna, and the Changing Status of Women in Renaissance Italy. Lisa M. Rafanelli 9. Woman, Why Weepest Thou? Rembrandt's 1638 Noli me tangere as a Dutch Calvinist Visual Typology. Bobbi Dykema PART IV PATRONAGE AND PRIVILEGE: THE MAGDALENE AS GUARDIAN AND ADVOCATE 10. The Magdalene and 'Madame': Piety Politics and Personal Agenda in Louise of Savoy's Vie de la Magdalene. Barbara J. Johnston 11. Mary Magdalene Between Public Cult and Personal Devotion in Correggio's Noli me tangere. Margaret Morse 12. Reflections on a Glass Madeleine Penitente Jane Eade PART V FUSION AND FLEXIBILITY: THE MAGDALENE'S ROLE TRANSFORMED 13. Exorcism in the Iconography of Mary Magdalene. Andrea Begel 14. "Woman, Why Weepest Thou?" Mary Magdalene, the Virgin Mary and the Transformative Power of Holy Tears in Late Medieval Devotional Painting Vibeke Olson 15. Mary Magdalene and the Iconography of Domesticity. Annette LeZotte 16. Marketing Mary Magdalene in Early Modern Northern European Prints and Paintings. Michelle Moseley-Christian Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAlthough religious education is a much-debated topic in present-day History of Religions, its study focuses almost exclusively on contemporary phenomena. Furthermore, this field of study still lacks a comprehensive theoretical framework to structure research. The volume presented here explores religious education from a historical perspective, focusing on source material from pre-modern Europe. Scholars from the History of Religions, Theology, Classical Philology, Medieval Studies and Byzantine Studies contribute their expertise to analyse selected aspects of religious education in Antiquity, Byzantium and the Middle Ages, highlighting the diverse concepts of education, educational contents, actors, media, methods, ideals and intentions at play, and anchoring their case studies in the broader panorama of European history. Based on this material, the editors propose a systematic framework to map the research field.Trade ReviewThese essays - the excellent bibliographies included - constitute state-of-the-art scholarship. They are excellently edited, and their contents are well worth pondering by anyone involved in the study of RE (Religious Education ed.) today. - Robert J. Doornenbal in: Journal of Education and Christian Belief 17, no. 2 (2013).Table of ContentsContents Towards a Theoretical Frame for the Study of Religious Education: an Introduction - Ilinca Tanaseanu-Döbler, Marvin Döbler Religious Education in Classical Greece - Christoph Auffarth Etrusca Disciplina: How Was It Possible to Learn about Etruscan Religion in Ancient Rome? - Charles Guittard Before the Teachers of Israel and the Sages of Greece: Luke-Acts as a Precursor of the Conjunction of Biblical Faith and Hellenistic Education - Reinhard Feldmeier Religious Education in Late Antique Paganism - Ilinca Tanaseanu-Döbler From a Way of Reading to a Way of Life: Basil of Caesarea and Gregory of Nazianzus about Poetry in Christian Education - Andreas Schwab Locating Young Students in Byzantine Churches: A Chapter on Primary and Secondary Religious Education in Byzantium - Nikos Kalogeras Formation for Wisdom, Not Education for Knowledge - E. Rozanne Elder Bernard of Clairvaux and Religious Education. An Approach from the Perspective of the History of Religions - Marvin Döbler

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Book Synopsis"And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light." (2 Corinthians 11:14) Paul's warning of false apostles and false righteousness struck a special chord in the period of the European Reformations. At no other time was the need for the discernment of spirits felt as strongly as in this newly confessional age. More than ever, the ability to discern was a mark of holiness and failure the product of demonic temptation. The contributions to this volume chart individual responses to a problem at the heart of religious identity. They show that the problem of discernment was not solely a Catholic concern and was an issue for authors and artists as much as for prophets and visionaries.Trade Review“fascinating analyses […] these essays will be of interest to anyone interested in the history of early modern religion; among other things, they make useful, nuanced contributions to the debate on whether the Reformation fostered the disenchantment of the world.” Jeffrey R. Watt, University of Mississippi. In: The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Vol. 65, No. 1 (January 2014), pp. 184-185.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Editors’ Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Introduction Clare Copeland & Jan Machielsen I Angels, Demons, and Everything in Between: Spiritual Beings in Early Modern Europe Euan Cameron II Dangerous Visions: The Experience of Teresa of Avila and the Teaching of John of the Cross. Colin Thompson III Participating in the Divine: Visions and Ecstasies in a Florentine Convent Clare Copeland IV Heretical Saints and Textual Discernment: The Polemical Origins of the Acta Sanctorum (1643–1940) Jan Machielsen V Discerning the “Call” and Fashioning Dead Disciples: The Many Lives of Augustine Baker Victoria Van Hyning VI A Seventeenth-Century Prophet confronts His Failures: Paul Felgenhauer’s Speculum Poenitentiae, Buß-Spiegel (1625) Leigh T. I. Penman viii CONTENTS VII Visions, Dreams, and the Discernment of Prophetic Passions: Sense and Reason in the Writings of the Cambridge Platonists and John Beale, 1640–60 R. J. Scott VIII Gijsbert Voet and Discretio Spirituum after Descartes Anthony Ossa-Richardson IX “Incorporeal Substances”: Discerning Angels in Later Seventeenth-Century England Laura Sangha Afterword: Angels of Light and Images of Sanctity Stuart Clark

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Book SynopsisDrawing on first person accounts, Asia in the Making of Christianity studies conversion in the lives of Christians throughout Asia, past and present. Fifteen contributors treat perennial questions about conversion: continuity and discontinuity, conversion and communal conflict, and the politics of conversion. Some study individuals (An Chunggŭn of Korea, Liang Fa of China, Nehemiah Goreh of India), while others treat ethnolinguistic groups or large-scale movements. Converts sometimes appear as proto-nationalists, while others are suspected of cultural treason. Some transition effortlessly from leadership in one religious community into Christian ministry, while others re-convert to new forms of Christianity. The accounts collected here underscore the complexity of conversion, balancing individual agency with broader social trends and combining micro- with macrocontextual approaches.Table of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgements Conventions INTRODUCTION - Richard Fox Young and Jonathan A. Seitz PART I: Continuity in Change, Change in Continuity 1. EARLY CHRISTIAN CONVERSION IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY COCHINCHINA - Nola Cooke 2. TRANSLATING SPIRITS: PROTESTANTS, POSSESSIONS, AND THE GRAMMARS OF CONVERSION IN SHANDONG PROVINCE - Richard Burden 3. PREACHING (CHUAN), WORSHIPPING (BAI), AND BELIEVING (XIN):RECASTING THE CONVERSIONARY PROCESS IN SOUTH CHINA - Joseph Tse-Hei Lee 4. CONVERSION TO MISSION CHRISTIANITY AMONG THE KACHIN OF UPPER BURMA, 1877-1972 - La Seng Dingrin 5. HAVE THE MITDES GONE SILENT? CONVERSION, RHETORIC, AND THE CONTINUING IMPORTANCE OF THE LOWER DEITIES IN NORTHEAST INDIA - Erik de Maaker PART II: Conflicted Meanings, Meaningful Conflicts 6. FRAGILITY AND DURABILITY IN EARLY DIASPORIC CHINESE PROTESTANTISM - Jonathan A. Seitz 7. CONVERSION WITHOUT “COMMOTION”: REV. LAL BEHARI DAY’S CHANDRAMUKHIR UPAKHYAN (STORY OF CHANDRAMUKHI) - Sipra Mukherjee 8. LOSS AND/OR GAIN: AN ‘INTELLECTUALIST’ CONVERSION AND ITS SOCIO-COGNITIVE CALCULUS IN THE HINDU-CHRISTIAN LIFE OF NEHEMIAH GOREH, BENARES BRAHMIN - Richard Fox Young 9. THE ENIGMA OF CHRISTIAN CONVERSION IN MODERN JAPAN: THE CASE OF TWO BUDDHIST PRIESTS - Gregory Vanderbilt 10. BECOMING FAITHFUL: CONVERSION, SYNCRETISM, AND THE INTERRELIGIOUS HERMENEUTICAL STRATEGIES OF THE ‘”FAITHFUL OF JESUS” (ISA IMANDARS) - Jonas Adelin Jørgensen PART III: The Politics of Conversion and the Conversion of Politics 11. DOES THE DIVINE PHYSICIAN HAVE AN UNFAIR ADVANTAGE? HEALING AND THE POLITICS OF CONVERSION IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY INDIA - Chad M. Bauman 12. CONVERSION AND MORAL AMBIGUITY: AN CHUNGGŬN, NATIONALISM AND THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN LATE NINETEENTH AND EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY KOREA - Franklin Rausch 13. CONNECTING DISCONNECTIONS: TROUBLING MEANINGS OF CHRISTIAN CONVERSION IN IMPERIAL NORTH INDIA - Rhonda Semple 14. THE ILLUSION OF CONVERSION: SIVA MEETS MARY AT VELANKANNI, SOUTHERN INDIA - Matthias Frenz 15. CONVERSION TO CHRISTIANITY AMONG THE THAI AND SINO-THAI OF MODERN THAILAND: GROWTH, EXPERIMENTATION, AND NETWORKING IN THE CONTEMPORARY CONTEXT - Edwin Zehner Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisIn A Companion to Priesthood and Holy Orders in the Middle Ages, a select group of scholars explain the rise and function of priests and deacons in the Middle Ages. Though priests were sometimes viewed through the lens of function, the medieval priesthood was also defined ontologically–those marked by God who performed the sacraments and confected the Eucharist. While their role grew in importance, medieval priests continued to fulfil the role of preacher, confessor and provider of pastoral care. As the concept of ordination changed theologically the practices and status of bishops, priests and deacons continued to be refined, with many of these medieval discussions continuing to the present day.Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations 1 Introduction Greg Peters 2 Apostolic Successors: Priests and Priesthood, Bishops and Episcopacy in Medieval Western Europe Robert Swanson 3 Ordinatio and the Priesthood in the Early Middle Ages and its Visual Depiction Roger E. Reynolds 4 Priesthood in the Byzantine Empire Augustine Casiday 5 Married Clergy in Eastern and Western Christianity David Hunter 6 The Imago Christi in the Bishop, Priest and Clergy Roger E. Reynolds 7 Priests and the Eucharist in the Middle Ages John F. Romano 8 The Priesthood and the Sacrament of Marriage Charles J. Reid, Jr. 9 Teaching Confession in Thirteenth-Century England: Priests and Laity Andrew Reeves 10 Reforming Priests and the Diverse Rhetorics of Ordination and Office from 1123-1418 C. Colt Anderson 11 The Radical Renewal of Pastoral Care in the Italian Communes, 1150-1250: Prelates, Secular Clergy, and the Mendicant Orders Michael F. Cusato, O.F.M. 12 Priesthood and Holy Orders in the Middle Ages From Function to Ontology: The Shifting Diaconate of the Middle Ages William T. Ditewig Index

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Book SynopsisThe final book of the New Testament, the Apocalypse, has been controversial since its initial appearance during the first century A.D. For centuries after, theologians, exegetes, scholars, and preachers have grappled with the imagery and symbolism behind this fascinating and terrifying book. Their thoughts and ideas regarding the apocalypse—and its trials and tribulations—were received within both elite and popular culture in the medieval and early modern eras. Therefore, one may rightly call the Apocalypse, and its accompanying hopes and fears, a foundational pillar of Western Civilization. The interest in the Apocalypse, and apocalyptic movements, continues apace in modern scholarship and society alike. This present volume, A Companion to the Premodern Apocalypse, collates essays from specialists in the study of premodern apocalyptic subjects. It is designed to orient undergraduate and graduate students, as well as more established scholars, to the state of the field of premodern apocalyptic studies as well as to point them in future directions for their scholarship and/or pedagogy. Contributors are: Roland Betancourt, Robert Boenig, Richard K. Emmerson, Ernst Hintz, László Hubbes, Hiram Kümper, Natalie Latteri, Thomas Long, Katherine Olson, Kevin Poole, Matthias Riedl, Michael A. RyanTrade Review“deeply useful for scholars” Jesse Hoover, Baylor University. In: Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Vol. 68. No. 4 (October 2017), pp. 835-837.Table of ContentsMichael A. Ryan, Introduction: A Companion to the Premodern Apocalypse Part One: The Apocalypse in Premodern Society and Imagery Richard K. Emmerson, Medieval Illuminated Apocalypse Manuscripts Natalie Latteri, Jewish Apocalypticism: An Historiography Kevin Poole, The Western Apocalypse Commentary Tradition of the Early Middle Ages László Hubbes, Apocalyptic as a New Mental Paradigm for the Middle Ages Roland Betancourt, Prolepsis and Anticipation: The Apocalyptic Futurity of the Now, East and West Part Two: The Apocalypse within Premodern Europe Ernst Hintz, Muspilli: Old High German Judgment Day—Judicial Practice and Salvation in the Ninth Century Hiram Kümper, Apocalyptic Thought in Medieval German Historiography: Otto of Freising and Beyond Matthias Riedl, Apocalyptic Violence and Revolutionary Action: Thomas Müntzer’s Sermon to the Princes Robert Boenig, The Apocalypse in Medieval England Katherine Olson, Earth and Sky Will Be Ablaze: The Apocalypse, Hell, and Judgment in Premodern Britain, Ireland, and Brittany Thomas Long, Revising the Revelation: Early Modern Appropriations of Medieval Apocalypticism Index  LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Prolepsis and Anticipation: The Apocalyptic Futurity of the Now, East and West Fig. 1: Last Judgment, Santa Maria Assunta, Torcello, Italy Fig. 2: General View of the Parekklesion, Chora Monastery (Kariye Camii), Istanbul, Turkey [Photograph: Byzantine Institute. Courtesy of © Dumbarton Oaks, Image Collections and Fieldwork Archives, Washington, D.C.] Fig. 3: Virgin Blachernitissa, Exonarthex, Chora Monastery (Kariye Camii), Istanbul, Turkey [Photograph: Byzantine Institute. Courtesy of © Dumbarton Oaks, Image Collections and Fieldwork Archives, Washington, D.C.] Fig. 4: Last Judgment, Parekklesion, Chora Monastery (Kariye Camii), Istanbul, Turkey [Photograph: Byzantine Institute. Courtesy of © Dumbarton Oaks, Image Collections and Fieldwork Archives, Washington, D.C.] Apocalyptic Thought in Medieval German Historiography: Otto of Freising and Beyond Fig. 1: The martyrdom of Christians during the reign of the Antichrist, Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cgm 426, fol. 69v. by Hiram Kümper is licensed under Creative Commons License by 2.0. Fig. 2: The Antichrist’s preaching and downfall, Hartmann Schedel, Buch der Croniken und Geschichten (Nuremberg, 1493), fol. 262v. by Hiram Kümper is licensed under Creative Commons License by 2.0. Revising the Revelation: Early Modern Appropriations of Medieval Apocalypticism Fig. 1: Dispensational Chart from James Purves, Observations on the Visions of the Apostle John Compared with Other Sacred Scriptures (1793). Courtesy of the Earl Gregg Swem Library of the College of William and Mary.

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Book SynopsisAlthough many studies have been devoted to Augustine’s City of God and its most important theme, viz. the antithesis between the civitas Dei and the terrena civitas, until now no consensus has been reached concerning the sources of this doctrine. Was Augustine decisively influenced by Manichaeism, by (Neo)Platonism, the Stoa or Philo, by the Donatist Tyconius? Or should we look in another direction and refer to preceding Christian, Jewish, and especially to archaic Jewish-Christian traditions? This lucidly written books opens with a survey of the research carried out so far on the aim, structure and central theme of the City of God. Chapter 2 analyzes the essentials of Augustine's life, of his City of God, and of his doctrine of the two cities. While making use of one of the recently discovered letters of Augustine, in Chapter 3 the author describes the City of God as an apology and as a catechetical work. Chapter 4 provides an investigation into the possible sources of Augustine's doctrine of the two cities in Manichaeism, in (Neo)Platonism, the Stoa and Philo, and in the works of Tyconius. The idea of two antithetical cities proves to be present most clearly in writings in which, closely related to Jewish thinking, archaic Christian concepts occupy an important place. In a final chapter some pertinent remarks are made on Jewish and Jewish-Christian influences on pre-Augustinian Christianity in Africa.Trade Review‘... enjoyable and well-constructed book’ - Henry Chadwick, in: Journal of Ecclesiastical History 43 (1992) 116 ‘... deserves to be studied by all who are interested in the history of ideas and should assure the author an eminent place among Augustinian scholars’ - William H. C. Frend, in: Vigiliae Christianae 45 (1991) 302 ‘... demonstrates a high standard of erudition, good methodological skill, and a fine understanding of the subject by the author’. - G.H. Allard, in: Speculum. A Journal of Medieval Studies 68 (1993) 900 ‘... careful and complete research ...’ ‘... forcefully argued thesis ...’ - Kenneth B. Steinhauser, in: Theological Studies 51 (1992) 347/9 ‘... excellente introduction au De ciuitate Dei et au grand thème des deux Cités’ - Goulven Madec, in: Revue des Études Augustiniennes 37 (1991) 391 ‘... sehr wertvolle Untersuchung ...’ - Basil Studer, in: Theologische Revue 89 (1993) 215 ‘... hervorragende Dissertation ...’ - Basil Studer, in: Augustiniana 40/41 (1990) 937 ‘...architettura esemplare ... saggio esemplare ...’ - P.T. Stella, in: Salesianum 56 (1994) 147 ‘... hermosa construcción ... solemne tesis ...’ - José Anoz, in: Avgustinvs 37 (1992) 184

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Book SynopsisAt the centre of the Rosicrucian manifestos was a call for ‘general reformation’. In Reformation, Revolution, Renovation, the first book-length study of this topic, Lyke de Vries demonstrates the unique position of the Rosicrucian call for reform in the transformative context of the early seventeenth century. The manifestos, commonly interpreted as either Lutheran or esoteric, are here portrayed as revolutionary mission statements which broke dramatically with Luther’s reform ideals. Their call for reform instead resembles a variety of late medieval and early modern dissenting traditions as well as the heterodox movement of Paracelsianism. Emphasising the universal character of the Rosicrucian proposal for change, this new genealogy of the core idea sheds fresh light on the vexed question of the manifestos’ authorship and helps explain their tumultuous reception by both those who welcomed and those who deplored them.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures Abbreviations Introduction  The Rosicrucian Story  The Historiography  A Fresh Approach Part 1 The Origins 1 Back to the Sources  1.1 The Reformation of Divine and Human Things  1.2 The Revolution of the Ages  1.3 The Renovation of Philosophy  1.4 Concluding Remarks 2 The Paracelsian Impetus  2.1 Visions of a Golden Time  2.2 The Revelation of Secrets  2.3 Alchemy and Medicine  2.4 Philosophical Inspirations  2.5 Primeval Wisdom  2.6 Concluding Remarks Part 2 The Bibliographical Origins 3 The Authors and the Rosicrucian Worldview  3.1 Authorship in Question  3.2 Apocalyptic Expectations  3.3 New Societies and Attempts at Reform  3.4 Paracelsian Motivation  3.5 Concluding Remarks Part 3 The Response 4 Rosicrucianism Praised: The Early Response  4.1 Avoiding Tribulations: The First Response to the Fama  4.2 The Instauration of Original Wisdom  4.3 The Rosicrucian Study of Alchemy and Medicine  4.4 The Reform of Medicine and Sciences  4.5 Rosicrucian Theosophy and the Reform of Divine and Human Things  4.6 Concluding Remarks 5 Rosicrucianism Challenged: Early Debates  5.1 The Rosicrucian Manifestos Debated: Libavius and Fludd  5.2 The Rosicrucian Manifestos Debated: Grick and Mögling  5.3 Concluding Remarks and Further Challenges: Official Investigations Conclusion  Prospects Appendix: Theca Gladii Spiritus (1616), nrs. 175–202 Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn Self-Fashioning and Assumptions of Identity in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia, editor Laura Delbrugge and contributors Jaume Aurell, David Gugel, Michael Harney, Daniel Hartnett, Mark Johnston, Albert Lloret, Montserrat Piera, Zita Rohr, Núria Silleras-Fernández, Caroline Smith, Wendell P. Smith, and Lesley Twomey explore the applicability of Stephen Greenblatt's self-fashioning theory, framed in Elizabethan England, to medieval and early modern Portugal, Aragon, and Castile. Chapters examine self-fashioning efforts by monarchs, religious converts, nobles, commoners, and clergy in the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries to establish the presence of self-identity creation in many new contexts beyond that explored in Greenblatt's Renaissance Self-Fashioning, greatly expanding the understanding of self-fashioning on diverse aspects of identity creation in late medieval and early modern Iberia.Trade Review"...One of the strengths of this volume is its cohesiveness. Several themes tie various chapters together and the reader has the delight of referring back and forth to chapters as he or she is drawn into the various chapters. [...] As a whole the volume is not only an important contribution to the field, but an impressively cohesive examination of a diverse range of topics." Samuel Claussen, California Lutheran University, in AARHMS, Books Reviewed, http://aarhms.wildapricot.org/New_Book_Reviews/5349592 "...These elegantly written essays, solidly grounded in empirical research and skillfully edited by Laura Delbrugge, test the boundaries of the concept of "self-fashioning" and show it to be a remarkably malleable and useful methodology for the study of identity... It opens the field of research to wider questions of race, gender, and class and in so doing, further integrates the Spanish renaissance into a wider European context.... All twelve essays argue a coherent thesis: Self-fashioning is the result of individual agency, conscious or unconscious, and not just the result of social or structural forces..." Therese Earenfight, The Medieval Review, 16.10.11, https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/tmr/article/view/22717/28610Table of ContentsContents List of Figures vii List of Contributors viii Introduction Laura Delbrugge 1 1 Strategies of Royal Self-fashioning: Iberian Kings’ Self-coronations 18 Jaume Aurell 2 Lessons for My Daughter: Self-fashioning Stateswomanship in the Late Medieval Crown of Aragon 46 Zita Rohr 3 Moor or Mallorquín? Anselm Turmeda’s Ambiguous Identity in the Cobles de la Divisió del Regne de Mallorca 79 David Gugel 4 The Marques de Santillana’s Library and Literary Reputation 116 Daniel Hartnett 5 Ludology, Self-fashioning, and Entrepreneurial Masculinity in Iberian Novels of Chivalry 144 Michael Harney 6 In Search of the Author: Self-fashioning and the Gender Debate in Fifteenth-Century Castile 167 Wendell P. Smith 7 A Theology of Self-fashioning: Hernando de Talavera’s Letter of Advice to the Countess of Benavente 202 Mark D. Johnston 8 Inside Perspectives: Catalina and João III of Portugal and a Speculum for a Queen-to-be 226 Núria Silleras-Fernández 9 Forging Renaissance Authorship: Petrarch and Ausiàs March 253 Albert Lloret 10 Conflict or Compromise? Identity and the Cathedral Chapter of Girona in the Fourteenth Century 277 Caroline Smith 11 Mary Magdalene and Martha: Sor Isabel de Villena’s Self-fashioning through Constructing Her Community 298 Lesley Twomey 12 Debunking the “Self” in Self-fashioning: Communal Fashioning in the Cartagena Clan 327 Montserrat Piera Index 367

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Book SynopsisSikh Diaspora: Theory, Agency, and Experience is a collection of essays offering new insights into the diverse experiences of Sikhs beyond the Punjab. Moving beyond migration history and global in their scope, the essays in this volume draw from a range of methodological approaches to engage with diaspora theory, agency, space, social relations, and aesthetics. Rich in substantive content, these essays offer critical reflections on the concept of diaspora, and insight into key features of Sikh experience including memory, citizenship, political engagement, architecture, multiculturalism, gender, literature, oral history, kirtan, economics, and marriage.

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Book SynopsisThis volume contains the proceedings of a conference held in Oslo in late 2005, which brought together scholars working in a wide variety of disciplines from Scandinavia, Great Britain and Ireland. The papers here began as those read at the conference, augmented by two written immediately after by attendees, but have been updated in light of the discussions in Oslo and more recent scholarship. They offer historical, archaeological, art-historical, religious-historical and philological views of the interaction and interdependence of Celtic and Norse populations in the Irish Sea region in the period 800 A.D.-1200 A.D. Contributors are Ian Beuermann, Barbara Crawford, Claire Downham, Fiona Edmonds, Colmán Etchingham, Zanette T. Glørstad, John Hines, Alan Lane, Julie Lund, Jan Erik Rekdal and David Wyatt.Trade Review"This volume presents a wide range of approaches and evidence relating to a broad region in the ninth to thirteenth centuries. That this breadth is achieved without straying from the aim to address ‘Celtic-Norse relationships’ is a major strength of the volume. [...] This will be a valuable collection for encouraging interdisciplinary reading amongst students of the Irish Sea, and indeed future students of the Irish Sea Province." Alison Leonard, University of York, in: Northern Scotland, 9 (2018), pp. 73-76.Table of ContentsPreface ... vii List of Illustrations ... xv List of Contributors ... xvii 1. Vikings’ Settlements in Ireland Before 1014 ... 1 Clare Downham 2. Names for the Vikings in Irish Annals ... 23 Colmán Etchingham 3. Saints’ Cults and Gaelic-Scandinavian Influence around the Cumberland Coast and North of the Solway Firth ... 39 Fiona Edmonds 4. The Kingdom of Man and the Earldom of Orkney—Some Comparisons ... 65 Barbara E. Crawford 5. No Soil for Saints: Why was There No Native Royal Martyr in Man and the Isles? ... 81 Ian Beuermann 6. Slavery, Power and Cultural Identity in the Irish Sea Region, 1066–1171 ... 97 David Wyatt 7. Pagan Myth and Christian Doctrine ... 109 Jan Erik Rekdal 8. Ceramic and Cultural Change in the Hebrides AD 500–1300 ... 119 Alan Lane 9. Homeland—Strange Land—New Land. Material and Theoretical Aspects of Defining Norse Identity in the Viking Age ... 151 Zanette Tsigaridas Glorstad 10. Viking Weapons in Irish Wetlands ... 171 Julie Lund 11. From *AnleifR to Havelok: The English and the Irish Sea ... 187 John Hines Index ... 215

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Book SynopsisOne, God, Two Goddesses presents three studies, one of Tamil myths of the god Murugan and two of goddess rituals: Gangamma in Tirupati and Paiditalli in Vizianagaram, both in Andhra Pradesh. All three essays search for lineaments of the cosmos that these deities inhabit and shape. These cosmoi are characterised by the dynamism of their incessant interior movement. Should they become still, they would die. Deities activate and regenerate such a cosmos. The dynamism of Murugan’s cosmos eliminates the chaotic. Through ritual, Gangamma regenerates her cosmos through feminising it. Through ritual, Paiditalli annually re-grows the historic little kingdom of Vizianagaram, regenerating its kingship. All three studies point to the need to rethink cosmology in South India.

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Book SynopsisPublicly performed rituals and ceremonies form an essential part of medieval political practice and court culture. This applies not only to western feudal societies, but also to the linguistically and culturally highly diversified environment of Byzantium and the Mediterranean basin. The continuity of Roman traditions and cross-fertilization between various influences originating from Constantinople, Armenia, the Arab-Muslim World, and western kingdoms and naval powers provide the framework for a distinct sphere of ritual expression and ceremonial performance. This collective volume, placing Byzantium into a comparative perspective between East and West, examines transformative processes from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages, succession procedures in different political contexts, phenomena of cross-cultural appropriation and exchange, and the representation of rituals in art and literature. Contributors are Maria Kantirea, Martin Hinterberger, Walter Pohl, Andrew Marsham, Björn Weiler, Eric J. Hanne, Antonia Giannouli, Jo Van Steenbergen, Stefan Burkhardt, Ioanna Rapti, Jonathan Shepard, Panagiotis Agapitos, Henry Maguire, Christine Angelidi and Margaret Mullett.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ... ix List of Maps and Illustrations ... xi List of Contributors ... xv Comparative Approaches to the Ritual World of the Medieval Mediterranean ... 1 Alexander Beihammer Part One: Rituals and the Transformation of the Roman World 1. Imperial Birthday Rituals in Late Antiquity ... 37 Maria Kantirea 2. Phthonos: A Pagan Relic in Byzantine Imperial Acclamations? ... 51 Martin Hinterberger 3. Ritualized Encounters: Late Roman Diplomacy and the Barbarians, Fifth–Sixth Century ... 67 Walter Pohl 4. The Architecture of Allegiance in Early Islamic Late Antiquity: The Accession of Muʿāwiya in Jerusalem, ca. 661 CE ... 87 Andrew Marsham Part Two: Succession Procedures and their Ritual Articulations 5. Describing Rituals of Succession and the Legitimation of Kingship in the West, ca. 1000–ca. 1150 ... 115 Björn Weiler 6. Ritual and Reality: The Bayʿa Process in Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Islamic Courts ... 141 Eric J. Hanne 7. Comnenian Imperial Succession and the Ritual World of Niketas Choniates’s Chronike Diegesis ... 159 Alexander D. Beihammer 8. Coronation Speeches in the Palaiologan Period ... 203 Antonia Giannouli Part Three: Invention, Appropriation and Transformation between East and West 9. Ritual, Politics, and the City in Mamluk Cairo: The Bayna l-Qaṣrayn as a Mamluk ‘lieu de mémoire’, 1250–1382 ... 227 Jo Van Steenbergen 10. Court Ceremonies and Rituals of Power in the Latin Empire of Constantinople ... 277 Stefan Burkhardt 11. Featuring the King: Rituals of Coronation and Burial in the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia ... 291 Ioanna Rapti 12. Adventus, Arrivistes and Rites of Rulership in Byzantium and France in the Tenth and Eleventh Century ... 337 Jonathan Shepard Part Four: Ritual Performances and their Reflections in Art and Literature 13. V iolence in the Palace: Rituals of Imperial Punishment in Prokopios’s Secret History ... 375 Stavroula Constantinou 14. The “Court of Amorous Dominion” and the “Gate of Love”: Rituals of Empire in a Byzantine Romance of the Thirteenth Century ... 389 Panagiotis A. Agapitos 15. Parodies of Imperial Ceremonial and Their Reflections in Byzantine Art ... 417 Henry Maguire 16. Look like an Angel: The Attire of Eunuchs and Its Significance within the Context of Middle Byzantine Court Ceremonial ... 433 Maria Parani 17. Designing Receptions in the Palace (De Cerimoniis 2.15) ... 465 Christine Angelidi 18. Tented Ceremony: Ephemeral Performances under the Komnenoi ... 487 Margaret Mullett Bibliography ... 515 Index ... 565

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Book SynopsisThis volume brings together articles on the cultural, religious, social and commercial interactions among Jews, Christians and Muslims in the medieval and early modern periods. Written by leading scholars in Jewish studies, Islamic studies, medieval history and social and economic history, the contributions to this volume reflect the profound influence on these fields of the volume’s honoree, Professor Mark R. Cohen.Trade Review'In a period marked by an inflation of proliferating Festschriften, it is a pleasure to read a book of quality articles clearly focused on the research areas of a very worthy scholar. Mark R. Cohen, who taught for forty years at Princeton University, pursued innovative investigations of Jewish-Islamic relations in the realms of both economics and politics in light of findings from the Cairo Geniza, a Jewish repository of hundreds of thousands of medieval literary and documentary texts'. DANIEL J . LASKER, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, in Renaissance Quarterly Vol. 68, No. 2 (Summer 2015), pp. 706-708Table of ContentsContents Notes on contributors Acknowledgements Preface Avrom Udovitch Introduction Arnold E. Franklin, Roxani Eleni Margariti, Marina Rustow and Uriel Simonsohn The Bibliography of Mark R. Cohen I. Community How Mediterranean Was Goitein’s Mediterranean Society? Norman A. Stillman Aṣḥābunā al-tujjār—Our Associates, the Merchants: Non-Jewish Business Partners of the Cairo Geniza’s India Traders Roxani Eleni Margariti Pilgrimage and Charity in the Geniza Society Miriam Frenkel Poor Relief in Ottoman Jewish Communities Yaron Ayalon “What Sort of Sermon is This?”: Leadership, Resistance and Gender in a Communal Conflict Oded Zinger Why Did Medieval Northern French Jewry (Ṣarfat) Disappear? Ivan G. Marcus II. Conversion Are Geonic Responsa a Reliable Source for the Study of Jewish Conversion to Islam? A Comparative Analysis of Legal Sources Uriel Simonsohn What’s in a Name? ʿAbd Allāh b. Isḥāq ibn al-Shanāʿa al-Muslimānī al-Isrāʾīlī and Conversion to Islam in Medieval Cordoba David J. Wasserstein Jews among the Grandees of Ottoman Egypt Jane Hathaway Remembrance and Oblivion of Religious Persecutions: On Sanctifying the Name of God (Qiddush ha-Shem) in Christian and Islamic Countries during the Middle Ages Menahem Ben-Sasson III. Law and Society The Muḥammadan Stipulations: Dhimmī Versions of the Pact of ʿUmar Phillip I. Ackerman-Lieberman Jews in Sharīʿa Courts: A Family Dispute from the Cairo Geniza Jessica M. Marglin Perception of Piracy in Islamic Sharīʿa Hassan S. Khalilieh Jew and Serf in Medieval France Revisited William Chester Jordan Cleanliness and Convivencia: Jewish Bathing Culture in Medieval Spain Olivia Remie Constable † IV. Letter Writing and Diplomatics Friendship and Hierarchy: Rhetorical Stances in Geniza Mercantile Letters Jessica L. Goldberg More than Words on a Page: Letters as Substitutes for an Absent Writer Arnold E. Franklin The Diplomatics of Leadership: Administrative Documents in Hebrew Script from the Geniza Marina Rustow Financial Troubles: A Mamluk Petition Petra M. Sijpesteijn V. Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic Literature “ʾAz milifnei vereishit”: The Suffering Messiah in the Seventh Century Martha Himmelfarb A Panegyric Qaṣīda by Judah Halevi, Its Antecedent by Solomon Ibn Gabirol, and Its Afterlife Raymond P. Scheindlin Hebrew Vestiges in Saʿadya’s Tafsīr Sasson Somekh Epilogue Natalie Zemon Davis Index

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Book SynopsisThe expulsion of the Moriscos from Spain (1609-1614) represents an important episode of ethnic, political and religious cleansing which affected about 300,000 persons. The controversial measure was legimitized by an ideology of religious and political unity that served to defend the expulsion of them all, crypto-Muslims and sincere converts to Christianity alike. The first part focuses on the decision to expel the Moriscos, its historical context and the role of such institutions as the Vatican and the religious orders, and nations such as France, Italy, the Dutch Republic, Morocco and the Ottoman Empire. The second part studies the aftermath of the expulsion, the forced migrations, settlement and Diaspora of the Moriscos, comparing their vicissitudes with that of the Jewish conversos. Contributors are Youssef El Alaoui, Rafael Benítez Sánchez Blanco, Luis Fernando Bernabé Pons, Paulo Broggio, Miguel Ángel de Bunes Ibarra, Antonio Feros, Mercedes García-Arenal, Jorge Gil Herrera,Tijana Krstić, Sakina Missoum, Natalia Muchnik, Stefania Pastore, Juan Ignacio Pulido Serrano, James B. Tueller, Olatz Villanueva Zubizarreta, Bernard Vincent, and Gerard Wiegers.Trade Review"By recontextualizing the unhappy events of 1609–14 in an international context and by demonstrating what a diasporic approach might mean for interpreting the expulsion of the Moriscos, The Expulsion of the Moriscos from Spain will surely occupy a prominent place within the expanding scholarly literature in English on Spain’s Morisco minority. It should find a ready readership among the growing number of anglophone students and scholars interested in early modern Iberia and the Muslim world, the encounter between Islam and Christianity, and relations between cultural and religious minorities and majorities." A. Katie Harris (University of California, Davis), in: Renaissance Quarterly LXIX (2016). "The Expulsion of the Moriscos from Spain provides a learned addition to the expanding scholarship on minority-minority and minority-majority relations in Spain...These innovative essays will be of interest to students and scholars of Hispanic, Sephardic and Islamic Studies, as well as to students of Early Modern Europe." Jane S. Gerber (The Graduate Center of the City University of New York), in: Bulletin of Spanish Studes XCIV (2017).Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements List of Abbrevations and Note on Transcription List of frequently used terms List of Contributors Introduction Mercedes García-Arenal and Gerard Wiegers Part I. The Expulsion. Preparations, Debates, and Process 1: The Geography of the Morisco Expulsion: A Quantitative Study Bernard Vincent 2: The Expulsion of the Moriscos in the Context of Philip III’s Mediterranean Policy Miguel Ángel de Bunes Ibarra 3: Rhetorics of the Expulsion Antonio Feros 4: The Religious Debate in Spain Rafael Benítez Sánchez Blanco 5: The Vatican’s Position towards the Expulsion Stefania Pastore 6: The Religious Orders and the Expulsion of the Moriscos: Doctrinal Controversies and Hispano-Papal Relations Paolo Broggio 7: The Unexecuted Plans for the Eeradication of Jewish Heresy in the Hispanic Monarchy and the Example of the Moriscos: The Thwarted Expulsion of the Judeoconversos Juan Ignacio Pulido 8: The Moriscos Who Stayed Behind or Returned: Post-1609 James B. Tueller Part II. The Morisco Diaspora 9: The Moriscos outside Spain: Routes and Financing Luis F. Bernabé Pons and Jorge Gil Herrera 10 The Moriscos in France after the Expulsion: Notes for the History of a Minority Youssef El Alaoui 11: Moriscos in Ottoman Galata, 1609-1620s Tijana Krstić 12: The Moriscos in Morocco: from Granadan Emigration to the hornacheros of Salé” Mercedes García-Arenal 13: Andalusi Immigration and Urban Development in Algiers (Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries) Sakina Missoum 14: The Moriscos in Tunisia Olatz Villanueva Zubizarreta 15: The Expulsion of 1609-1614 and the Polemical Writings of the Moriscos Living in the Diaspora Gerard Wiegers 16: Converted Jews and Moriscos in the Diaspora Natalia Muchnik General Bibliography Index of places Index of names

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Book SynopsisGrief binds the worshipers together in an adagio of sorrow as they encounter the sculptural representation of the Entombment of Christ. Located in funerary chapels, parish churches, cemeteries, and hospitals, these works embody the piety of the later Middle Ages. In this book, Donna Sadler examines the sculptural Entombments from Burgundy and Champagne through a variety of lenses, including performance theory, embodied perception, and the invocation of the absent presence of the Holy Sepulcher. The author demonstrates how the action of Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus entombing Christ in the presence of the Marys and John operates in a commemorative and collective fashion: the worshiper enters the realm of the holy and becomes a participant in the biblical event.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements ix List of Illustrations xi Introduction 1 1 The Origins of the Entombment of Christ 7 2 The Entombment of Christ: Echoes of the Performative Piety of the Sculpture at the Chartreuse de Champmol 25 3 The Entombment of Christ: The Absent Presence of the Resurrected Christ and the Holy Sepulcher 72 4 Hocus Pocus: The Entombment of Christ and Medieval Performance 111 5 Conclusion: The Entombments in the Context of Late Medieval Sculpture 149 Bibliography 199 Index 229

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Book SynopsisThe Handbook of Global Contemporary Christianity: Movements, Institutions & Allegiance traces how the largest religion in the world continues to be expressed in energetic global dynamic forms. In contemporary times Christianity is increasingly exposed to divisions, not only through its traditional channels – Roman Catholic, Protestant and the Orthodoxy – nor conservative and liberal streams, but numerous nuanced articulations. This is reflected in the roles of clergy and lay people, in organisational dynamics, sources of allegiance and articulations of the faith, movements of renewal and revivalism, syncretic modes, and broader relationships with wider cultural trajectories and changing social circumstances. Collectively the contributors to this volume offer a comprehensive exploration of these themes. The volume is a companion to the Handbook of Global Contemporary Christianity.Trade Review'This text will be of great interest to postgraduate and undergraduate students, religious leaders, and others seeking detailed information on the cross-sections of Christianity. Researchers in the fields of theology, sociology, and history will discover how Christianity influences the modern world and will find valuable contributions in this book. The companion volume, Handbook of Global Contemporary Christianity: Trends and Developments in Culture, Politics and Society expands on topics of contemporary Christianity and will be another useful text for research. Highly recommended. - Janis Minshull, American Reference Books Annual (2016) 'The Handbook demonstrates the significance of appreciating the fluidity of Christianity as it translates in ever-changing socio-political landscapes. (...) I do recommend this volume to scholars and students in humanities and social sciences and anyone who wants to understand historical and contemporary trajectories in GCC.' Chammah J. Kaunda, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Mission Studies 35 (2018)

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Book SynopsisAtheists generated widespread anxieties between the Reformation and the Enlightenment. In response to such anxieties a distinct genre of religious apologetics emerged in England between 1580 and 1720. By examining the form and the content of the confutation of atheism, Anti-Atheism in Early Modern England demonstrates the prevalence of patterned assumptions and arguments about who an atheist was and what an atheist was supposed to believe, outlines and analyzes the major arguments against atheists, and traces the important changes and challenges to this apologetic discourse in the early Enlightenment.Trade Review“This enormously valuable addition to the historiography of religious and moral thought is packed with sources and conclusions of significance far beyond England.” Ada Palmer, University of Chicago. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 70, No. 2 (Summer 2017), pp. 780-782. “The volume is elegantly written and immaculately edited … and may serve as an excellent avenue into a new kind of theologically aware historical “thick description” of the complex discursive fields of early modernity”. Philipp Reisner, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf. In: Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol. 48, No 1 (Spring 2017), pp. 192-193.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Anxieties About Atheism 2. “The Atheist Answered and His Error Confuted” 3. Atheist Epicurus 4. Anti-Atheist Plato 5. Atheism and Apostasy 6. Atheism and Society 7. Atheism and Happiness 8. From Confutation to Criticism Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisRaffaele Pettazzoni (1883–1959), Professor of the History of Religions at the University of Rome and one of the leading historians of religions in the twentieth century, maintained a long correspondence with Herbert Jennings Rose (1883–1961), the gifted Canadian scholar who was Professor of Greek at St Andrews and is best known for his work in the field of ancient religion and folklore. These letters, spanning the years 1927 to 1958, bear witness to the close relationship between the two scholars and focus on two of Pettazzoni’s books, both translated by Rose: Essays on the History of Religions (1954) and The All-Knowing God (1956). They also shed light on Pettazzoni’s initiative to the foundation of the journal NVMEN (1954), and reveal Rose’s brilliant personality.Trade Review"(...) a detailed analysis of the material present in the letters, which is reproduced in full and has an impressive apparatus of notes that explain and comment on the smallest of details, leaving nothing unexplained (...) This is a veritable book within a book, in which Domenico Accorinti gives ample proof of his erudition and philological diligence." -Natale Spineto, University of Turin, History of Religions 59, 2020. "Brill's production is sumptuous and enviable, as well as close to impeccable." -Graham Anderson, Universíty of Kent, Canterbury, UK. In: Folklore, Vol 126, issue 2, 2015. "Questo corposo volume, magistralmente curato da Domenico Accorinti, si colloca in una sede prestigiosa ed è caratterizzato da un notevole impianto critico e da un’alta qualità complessiva (...) L’opus magnum di Accorinti ha dunque un valore che va ben al di là della registrazione e edizione di un epistolario – in sé potenzialmente fruibile anche nell’archivio in cui è conservato – e si propone come modello e punto di riferimento di fondamentale rilevanza." -Alessandro Saggioro, Sapienza Università, Studi e Materiali di Storia delle religioni 84, no 2, 2018. "In conclusione, si deve essere grati ad A. per questo splendido volume che costituisce uno strumento, ben curato ed attendibile, di indubbia importanza non solo per la storia degli studi, ma più in generale per la storia culturale della prima metà del Novecento. Non ci si può che augurare che altre opere come questa contribuiscano a gettare nuova luce sulla vicenda umana e professionale dei grandi studiosi del passato." - Renzo Tosi, Università Di Bologna, Eikasmos XXVII, 2016.

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Book SynopsisIn Culture and Society in Medieval Galicia, twenty-three international authors examine Galicia’s changing place in Iberia, Europe, and the Mediterranean and Atlantic worlds from late antiquity through the thirteenth century. With articles on art and architecture; religion and the church; law and society; politics and historiography; language and literature; and learning and textual culture, the authors introduce medieval Galicia and current research on the region to medievalists, Hispanists, and students of regional culture and society. The cult of St. James, Santiago Cathedral, and the pilgrimage to Compostela are highlighted and contextualized to show how Galicia’s remoteness became the basis for a paradoxical centrality in medieval art, culture, and religion. Contributors are Jeffrey A. Bowman, Manuel Castiñeiras, James D'Emilio, Thomas Deswarte, Pablo C. Díaz, Emma Falque, Amélia P. Hutchinson, Amancio Isla, Henrik Karge, Melissa R. Katz, Michael Kulikowski, Fernando López Sánchez, Luis R. Menéndez Bueyes, William D. Paden, Francisco Javier Pérez Rodríguez, Ermelindo Portela, Rocío Sánchez Ameijeiras, Adeline Rucquoi, Ana Suárez González, Purificación Ubric, Ramón Villares, John Williams †, and Roger Wright.Table of ContentsContents Preface ix Acknowledgments xxiv List of Figures, Maps, and Tables XXVI Abbreviations xxxii List of Contributors xxxviii Part 1: The Paradox of Galicia A Cultural Crossroads at the Edge of Europe 1 The Paradox of Galicia A Cultural Crossroads at the Edge of Europe 3 James D’Emilio Part 2: The Suevic Kingdom Between Roman Gallaecia and Modern Myth Introduction to Part 2 126 2 The Suevi in Gallaecia An Introduction 131 Michael Kulikowski 3 Gallaecia in Late Antiquity The Suevic Kingdom and the Rise of Local Powers 146 P. C. Díaz and Luis R. Menéndez-Bueyes 4 The Suevic Kingdom Why Gallaecia? 176 Fernando López Sánchez 5 The Church in the Suevic Kingdom (411–585 ad) 210 Purificación Ubric Part 3: Early Medieval Galicia Tradition and Change Introduction to Part 3 246 6 The Aristocracy and the Monarchy in Northwest Iberia between the Eighth and the Eleventh Century 251 Amancio Isla 7 The Charter of Theodenandus Writing, Ecclesiastical Culture, and Monastic Reform in Tenth- Century Galicia 281 James D’ Emilio 8 From Galicia to the Rhône Legal Practice in Northern Spain around the Year 1000 343 Jeffrey A. Bowman Part 4: Galicia in the Iberian Kingdoms From Center to Periphery? Introduction to Part 4 362 9 The Making of Galicia in Feudal Spain (1065–1157) 367 Ermelindo Portela 10 Galicia and the Galicians in the Latin Chronicles of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 400 Emma Falque 11 The Kingdom of Galicia and the Monarchy of Castile-León in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 429 Francisco Javier Pérez Rodríguez Part 5: Compostela, Galicia, and Europe Galician Culture in the Age of the Pilgrimage Introduction to Part 5 464 12 St. James in Galicia (c. 500–1300) Rivalries in Heaven and on Earth 477 Thomas Deswarte 13 Compostela A Cultural Center from the Tenth to the Twelfth Century 512 Adeline Rucquoi 14 The Tomb of St. James Coming to Terms with History and Tradition 543 John Williams † 15 The European Architecture of Church Reform in Galicia The Romanesque Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela 573 Henrik Karge 16 The Topography of Images in Santiago Cathedral Monks, Pilgrims, Bishops, and the Road to Paradise 631 Manuel Castiñeiras 17 Dreams of Kings and Buildings Visual and Literary Culture in Galicia (1157–1230) 695 Rocío Sánchez Ameijeiras 18 Cistercian Scriptoria in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries A Starting Point 765 Ana Suárez González 19 A Convent for La Sabia Violante of Aragón and the Clarisas of Allariz 812 Melissa R. Katz Part 6: Language and Literary Culture From Latin to Galician-Portuguese Introduction to Part 6 838 20 Galician Before 1250 843 Roger Wright 21 On the Music of Galician-Portuguese Secular Lyric Sources, Genres, Performance 862 William D. Paden 22 Making Poetry, Making Waves The Galician-Portuguese Sea Lyric 894 Amélia P. Hutchinson Part 7: Modern Galicia and the Middle Ages Castros, Castles, and the Camino de Santiago Introduction to Part 7 914 23 Castles vs. Castros The Middle Ages in the Construction of Galician National Identity 917 Ramón Villares Part 8: Epilogue Future Directions Epilogue: Future Directions in the Study of Medieval Galicia 949 James D’Emilio Index 963

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Book SynopsisAccording to legend, the Mandylion was an image of Christ’s face imprinted on a towel, kept in Edessa. This acheiopoieton image (“not made by human hands”) disappeared in the eighteenth century. The first records of another acheiropoieton relic appeared in mid-fourteenth century France: a long linen bearing the image of Jesus’ corpse, known nowadays as the Holy Shroud of Turin. Some believe the Mandylion and the Shroud to be the same object, first kept in Edessa, later translated to Constantinople, France and Italy. Andrea Nicolotti traces back the legend of the Edessean image in history and art, focusing especially on elements that could prove its identity with the Shroud, concluding that the Mandylion and the Shroud are two distinct objects.Trade Review"...Nicolotti has convincingly and methodically shown that throughout the textual and visual accounts, the Shroud and the Mandylion are two distinct objects... this book will be useful for anyone interested in miraculous images, the evolution of the image of Christ, and how legends transform over time." Anna Russakoff (American University of Paris), The Medieval Review, 15/10 (2015) "...The author interacts thoroughly with the primary sources. His argument is easy to follow and the chapters and themes are well organized. The author’s work is also prevalent in the highly detailed footnotes which give considerable amounts of beneficial details especially for scholars who are interested in the development of the Mandylion. In general, the presentation of the material flows well and the author’s points are made clear. Even though the Mandylion is highly discussed and how the Mandylion is not the Shroud of Turin, one is left with questions on the origins and the history of the Shroud of Turin. The second volume of Nicolotti’s work discusses at length the Turinese Shroud. If the first volume is any indication to what to look forward to, there are high hopes for his second volume." Najeeb Haddad (Loyola University Chicago), Annali di storia dell'esegesi, 32/2 (2015)Table of ContentsAcknowledgements ix List of Illustrations xi 1 Introduction 1 2 Origins and Traditions 7 King Abgar and the Origins of the Legend 7 The Apparition of the Image in Edessa 9 The Development of Traditions about the Image 12 The Siege of Edessa 14 A Later Genesis? 17 An Older Genesis? 18 Silence in Syria and Traditions in Armenia 22 The Iconoclastic Era 26 3 Shifting Perspectives? 29 Acts of Thaddaeus 29 The Term tetradiplon and the Reliquary of the Image 34 The Question of the Folds 39 The Letter of the Three Patriarchs and Jesus’ Height 47 4 The Translation of the Image of Edessa 53 Gregory Referendarius and the Translation of the Image 53 The Narratio de Imagine Edessena 66 The Keramion 72 The Edessean Cult of the Image 77 The Synaxarium 80 The Liturgical Odes 84 5 The Mandylion in Constantinople 89 The Name “Mandylion” 89 Persistence of Converging and Diffferent Traditions 91 An Elusive Vision 96 The Preservation of the Mandylion in Byzantium 99 The Revolt of the Palace 106 Robert de Clari 109 Latin Sermon 112 6 An Overview of Iconography 120 The Holy Face of Lucca 120 Orderic Vitalis 126 Iconography of the Mandylion 128 Flowers or Holes? 148 Miniatures of the Mandylion 152 The Georgian Icon of Ancha 159 The Madrid’s Skylitzes 162 A Russian Icon 170 Byzantine Coins 173 Two Copies of the Mandylion of Edessa 182 The End 188 The Sainte-Chapelle in Paris and the Disappearance of the Mandylion 188 Conclusions 202 Index of Names 205

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Book SynopsisThe papers collected in this volume study the function and meaning of narrative texts from a variety of perspectives. The word “text” is used here in the broadest sense of the term: it denotes literary books, but also oral tales, speeches, newspaper articles and comics. One of the purposes of this volume is to discover what these different texts have in common. The texts are approached from four main perspectives: New Philology, Linguistics, Iconography and Reception studies. Contributors come from diverse disciplines, such as Classical Studies, Medieval Studies, English literature, Philosophy, Religious Studies, Cultural Studies, Art History, Linguistics, and Communication and Information Studies, all united in a common purpose to understand the workings of narrative texts.Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations and Tables List of Contributors Introduction André Lardinois, Sophie Levie, Hans Hoeken and Christoph Lüthy Part 1 - New Philology 1 Transmission and Textual Variants: Divergent Fragments of Sappho’s Songs Examined Mark de Kreij 2 In Praise of the Variant Analysis Tool: A Computational Approach to Medieval Literature Karina van Dalen-Oskam 3 Mutatis Mutandis: The Same Call for Peace, but Diffferently Framed Each Time Rob van de Schoor 4 The Salman Rushdie Archive and the Re-Imagining of a Philological E-volution Benjamin Alexander Part 2 - Narrativity 5 Modality in Lolita Helen de Hoop and Sander Lestrade 6 Transported into a Story World: The Role of the Protagonist Anneke de Graaf and Lettica Hustinx 7 Constructing the Landscape of Consciousness in News Stories José Sanders and Hans Hoeken 8 Quoted Discourse in Dutch News Narratives Kirsten Vis , José Sanders and Wilbert Spooren Part 3 - Image and Text 9 Mary Magdalene’s Conversion in Renaissance Painting and Mediaeval Sacred Drama Bram de Klerck 10 The Difffusion of Illustrated Religious Texts and Ideological Restraints Els Stronks 11 Illustrating the Anthropological Text: Drawings and Photographs in Franz Boas’ The Social Organization and the Secret Societies of the Kwakiutl Indians (1897) Camille Joseph 12 The Interaction of Image and Text in Modern Comics Tom Lambeens and Kris Pint Part 4 - Reception and Literary Infrastructure 13 Holy Writ and Lay Readers in Late Medieval Europe: Translation and Participation Sabrina Corbellini and Margriet Hoogvliet 14 Reception and the Textuality of History: Ramus and Kepler on Proclus’ History and Philosophy of Geometry Guy Claessens 15 Occasional Writer, Sensational Writer: Multatuli as a Sentimental Benevolence Writer in the 1860s Laurens Ham Index of Personal Names

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Book SynopsisThe World of St. Francis of Assisi: Essays in Honor of William R. Cook seeks to enrich our collective understanding of the world in which Francis lived and the ways in which Francis, together with his followers, has shaped the world ever since. Composed of thirteen essays by scholars from diverse academic disciplines, The World of St. Francis of Assisi considers Francis’s legacy in art, literature, and spirituality, and many of the contributions to the volume focus on the perennial application of Francis’s insights to the ills of contemporary society. Contributors are Greg Ahlquist, William R. Cook, Alexandra Dodson, John K. Downey, Bradley R. Franco, John Hart, Ronald Herzman, Weston L. Kennison, Mary R. McHugh, Beth A. Mulvaney, Sara Ritchey and Daniel J. Schultz.

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Book SynopsisThis volume is a collection of essays written in honour of Martin G. Abegg from a range of contributors with expertise in Second Temple Jewish literature in reflection upon Prof. Abegg’s work. These essays are arranged according to four topics that deal with various aspects of text, language and interpretation of the Qumran War Scroll, and concepts of war and peace in Second Temple Jewish literature. The contents of the volume are divided into the following four main sections: (1) The War Scroll, (2) War and Peace in the Hebrew Scriptures, (3) War and Peace in the Dead Sea Scrolls, and (4) War and Peace in early Jewish and Christian texts and interpretation.Trade ReviewWhat is particularly impressive about this volume is the depth of analysis and treatment it achieves. First, the collection of essays dealing specifically with the War Scroll comprise a truly unique treatment on the topic, as there are very few volumes in recent years which deal specifically with the War Scroll. Each essay represents a substantive and nuanced presentation on a manuscript which, in my opinion, is ripe for fresh engagement. Second, the volume brings together in one location a wide-ranging collection of essays on violence, war, and peace in the ideological landscape of the late Second Temple period. It is here that this volume is an indispensable work for those interested in how and why these issues take textual and ideological shape within the late Second Temple period, both within Qumran and without. Mike DeVries, Ancient Jew Review, March 2017Table of ContentsDorothy M. Peters, Introduction Emanuel Tov, From Concordance to Concordance: Martin G. Abegg’s Work on Computerizing and Concordancing the Dead Sea Scrolls Jason Kalman, From “The War Scroll” to A Preliminary Edition of the Unpublished Dead Sea Scrolls THE WAR SCROLL George J. Brooke, Text, Timing and Terror: Thematic Thoughts on the War Scroll in Conversation with the Writings of Martin G. Abegg, jr. Robert D. Holmstedt and John Screnock, Writing a Descriptive Grammar of the Syntax and Semantics of the War Scroll: The Noun Phrase as Proof of Concept Anthony R. Meyer, The “Mysteries of God” in the Qumran War Scroll Kipp Davis, “There and Back Again”: Reconstruction and Reconciliation of the War Texts of 4QMilḥamaa (4Q246a–c) Dongshin Dohnson Chang, Priestly Covenants in 1QM and 1QSb Robert Kugler, The War Rule Texts and a New Theory of the People of the Dead Sea Scrolls: A Brief Thought Experiment WAR AND PEACE IN THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS Alex Jassen, Violent Imaginaries and Practical Violence in the War Scroll Brian Schultz, The Naval Battle in the Qumran War Texts John Kampen, Wisdom, Poverty, and Non-Violence in Instruction Dorothy M. Peters and Esther Eshel, Cutting Off Shechem: Levi and His Sword in the Rylands Genizah Fragment of the Aramaic Levi Document James E. Bowley, Prophecy, False Prophecy, and War in the Dead Sea Scrolls Daniel K. Falk, Prayer, Liturgy and War Ian Werrett in collaboration with Stephen Parker, Purity in War: What is it Good for?   WAR AND PEACE IN EARLY JEWISH AND CHRISTIAN TEXT AND INTERPRETATION Torleif Elgvin, Violence, Apologetics, and Resistance: Hasmonaean Ideology and Yaḥad Texts in Dialogue Craig A. Evans, Jesus, Satan and Holy War in Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls Kyung S. Baek, The Sword-in-the-Mouth of Jesus the King: Declarations of War and Peace in the Gospel of Matthew Michael O. Wise, Papyrus Ḥever 30 and the Bar Kokhba Revolt Steve Delamarter, The Cave 11 Psalm Scroll (11Q5) and the Textual History of Ethiopic Psalm 151: Memory and Interpretation of David as Anointed Warrior

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Book SynopsisThe present volume – grown out of an international symposium at the Free University, Berlin in 2002 – is concerned with religious authorities, men and women claiming, projecting and exerting religious authority within a given context. The volume focuses on Middle Eastern Muslim majority societies in the period from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries, and the papers collected therein highlight the scope and variety of religious authorities in present and past Muslim societies.Trade Review"… this is a useful volume that would give readers a fair idea about its subject matter." – Amr Osman, in: SCTIW Review (Journal of the Society for Contemporary Thought and the Islamicate World), March 26, 2015Table of ContentsIntroduction: Religious Authority and Religious Authorities in Muslim Societies. A Critical Overview Gudrun Krämer and Sabine Schmidtke “This day have I perfected your religion for you”: A Ẓāhirī Conception of Religious Authority Camilla Adang The Epistemology of Excellence: Sunni-Shiʿi Dialectics on Legitimate Leadership Asma Afsaruddin The Relationship between Chief Qāḍī and Chief Dāʿī under the Fatimids Paul E. Walker Forms and Functions of ‘Licences To Transmit’ (Ijāzas) in 18th-Century-Iran: ʿAbd Allāh al-Mūsawī al-Jazāʾirī al-Tustarī’s (1112–73/1701–59) Ijāza Kabīra Sabine Schmidtke Asserting Religious Authority in late 19th/early 20th Century Morocco: Muḥammad b. Jaʿfar al-Kattānī (d. 1927) and his Kitāb Salwat al-Anās Bettina Dennerlein Consensus and Religious Authority in Modern Islam: The Discourses of the ʿUlamāʾ Muhammad Qasim Zaman Drawing Boundaries: Yūsuf al-Qarḍāwī on Apostasy Gudrun Krämer A Doctrine in the Making? Velāyat-e faqīh in Post-Revolutionary Iran Katajun Amirpur Religious Authority in Transnational Sufi Networks: Shaykh Nāẓim al-Qubrusī al-Ḥaqqānī al-Naqshbanī Annabelle Böttcher The Modern Dede: Changing Parameters for Religious Authority in Contemporary Turkish Alevism Markus Dressler Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume explores Gregory Of Nyssa's concept of human nature. It argues that the frequent use Gregory makes of phusis-terminology is not only a terminological predilection, but rather the key to the philosophical and theological foundations of his thought. Starting from an overview of the theological landscape in the early 360's the study first demonstrates the meaning and relevance of universal human nature as an analogy for the Trinity in Cappadocian theology. The second part explores Gregory's use of this same notion in his teaching on the divine economy. It is argued that Gregory takes this philosophical theory into the service of his own theology. Ultimately the book provides an example for the mutual interaction of philosophy and Christian theology in the fourth century.Trade Review'...solidly researched and carefully written....Z. explores the philosophical and dogmatic background [...] with commendable ferocity and ingenuity.' A.. Meredith, Theologische Literaturzeitung, 2000. 'From the evidence of this volume, current research on Gregory of Nyssa is in a very healthy stage...insightful study of Gregory's notion...' Morwenna Ludlow, Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 2002.

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Book SynopsisAfrica in Scotland, Scotland in Africa provides scholarly, interdisciplinary analysis of the historical and contemporary relationships, links and networks between Scotland, Africa and the African diaspora. The book interrogates these links from a variety of perspectives – historical, political, economic, religious, diplomatic, and cultural – and assesses the mutual implications for past, present and future relationships. The socio-historical connection between Scotland and Africa is illuminated by the many who have shaped the history of African nationalism, education, health, and art in respective contexts of Africa, Britain, the Caribbean and the USA. The book contributes to the empirical, theoretical and methodological development of European African Studies, and thus fills a significant gap in information, interpretation and analysis of the specific historical and contemporary relationships between Scotland, Africa and the African diaspora. Contributors are: Afe Adogame, Andrew Lawrence, Esther Breitenbach, John McCracken, Markku Hokkanen, Olutayo Charles Adesina, Marika Sherwood, Caroline Bressey, Janice McLean, Everlyn Nicodemus, Kristian Romare, Oluwakemi Adesina, Elijah Obinna, Damaris Seleina Parsitau, Kweku Michael Okyerefo, Musa Gaiya and Jordan Rengshwat, Vicky Khasandi-Telewa, Kenneth Ross, Magnus Echtler, and Geoff Palmer.Table of ContentsList of Contributors Introduction Afe Adogame and Andrew Lawrence HISTORICAL UNDERPINNINGS Chapter 1: Scottish Encounters with Africa in the nineteenth century: Accounts of Explorers, Travellers, and Missionaries Esther Breitenbach Chapter 2: Missionaries and Nationalists: Scotland and the 1959 State Of Emergency in Malawi John McCracken MEDICINE AND MISSION Chapter 3: Missionaries, Experts and Agents of Empire: Scottish Doctors in Late Nineteenth-Century Southern and East-Central Africa Markku Hokkanen Chapter 4: Between Colonialism and Cultural Authenticity: Isaac Ladipo Oluwole, Oladele Adebayo Ajose, Public Health Services in Nigeria, and the Glasgow Connection Olutayo Charles Adesina ACTIVISTS, VISIONARIES, ARTISTS Chapter 5: Two Pan-African Political Activists emanating from University Of Edinburgh: John Randle and Richard Akinwande Savage Marika Sherwood Chapter 6: Ida B. Wells in Scotland Caroline Bressey Chapter 7: Exploring a Scottish Legacy: Lewis Davidson, Knox College and Jamaica’s Youth Janice McLean Chapter 8: Robert S. Duncanson, an African American Pioneer Artist with links to Scotland Everlyn Nicodemus and Kristian Romare MISSION AND TRANSMISSION: RELIGIOUS LEGACIES Chapter 9: Invoking Gender: Mary Slessor’s Thoughts, Mission and Legacies Oluwakemi Adesina and Elijah Obinna Chapter 10: Pentecostalising the Church of Scotland? Kenyan Presbyterianism in Historical Perspective Damaris Seleina Parsitau Chapter 11: Scottish Missionaries in Ghana: The Forgotten Tribe Kweku Michael Okyerefo Chapter 12: Scottish Missionaries in Central Nigeria Musa Gaiya and Jordan Rengshwat Chapter 13: “She Worships at the Kikuyu”: The Influence of Scottish Missionaries on Language in Worship and Education among African Christians Vicky Khasandi-Telewa CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVES Chapter 14: ‘A Very Definite Radicalism’: The Early Development of the Scotland-Malawi Partnership 2004-08 Kenneth Ross Chapter 15: Scottish Warriors in Kwazulu-Natal. Cultural Hermeneutics of the Scottish Dancers (Isikoshi) In the Nazareth Baptist Church, South Africa Magnus Echtler Postscript The Scottish – Jamaica Historical Connection Geoff Palmer Index

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Book SynopsisIn the Hellenistic and Roman world intimate relations existed between those holding power and the cults of Isis. This book is the first to chart these various appropriations over time within a comparative perspective. Ten carefully selected case studies show that “the Egyptian gods” were no exotic outsiders to the Hellenistic and Roman Mediterranean, but constituted a well institutionalised and frequently used religious option. Ranging from the early Ptolemies and Seleucids to late Antiquity, the case studies illustrate how much symbolic meaning was made with the cults of Isis by kings, emperors, cities and elites. Three articles introduce the theme of Isis and the longue durée theoretically, simultaneously exploring a new approach towards concepts like ruler cult and Religionspolitik.Trade Review'This is a highly useful collection of papers. It will be of obvious use to anyone with an interest in the history and development of Isiac cult in the Hellenistic and Roman worlds, particularly in epigraphic and artistic evidence for the cult. It will be of equal interest to those working with theories and concepts of power, especially as it relates to religion, and it should also be considered by anyone with an interest in religious identity in the ancient world. It is an engaging and thought-provoking volume.' Juliette Harrisson, Newman University, The Classical Review 66.1 (2016). 'The volume’s geographical, chronological and thematic scope is impressive. An array of archaeological, epigraphic, literary, numismatic and papyrological evidence is deployed, illuminating many facets of Isis’ evolving cultural significance.' Nick West, University of Reading, The Journal of Hellenic Studies 136 (2016)

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Book SynopsisBodzia is one of the most fascinating archaeological discoveries of the post-war period in Poland. It is one of the few cemeteries in Poland from the time of the origins of the Polish state. The unique character of this discovery is mainly due to the fact that a small, elite population was buried there. The burials there included people whose origins were connected with the Slavic, Nomadic-Khazarian and Scandinavian milieus. For the first time the evidence from this area is given prominence. This book is designed mainly for readers outside Poland. The reader is offered a collection of chapters, combining analyses and syntheses of the source material, and a discussion of its etno-cultural and political significance. The authors formulate new hypotheses and ideas, which put the discoveries in a broader European context. Contributors are Wiesław Bogdanowicz, Mateusz Bogucki, Andrzej Buko, Magdalena M. Buś, Maria Dekówna, Alicja Drozd-Lipińska, Władysław Duczko, Karin Margarita Frei, Tomasz Goslar, Tomasz Grzybowski, Zdzisław Hensel, Iwona Hildebrandt-Radke, Michał Kara, Joanna Koszałka, Anna B. Kowalska, Tomasz Kozłowski, Marek Krąpiec, Roman Michałowski, Michael Müller-Wille, T. Douglas Price, Tomasz Purowski, Tomasz Sawicki, Iwona Sobkowiak-Tabaka, Stanisław Suchodolski and Kinga Zamelska-Monczak.Trade Review"A cemetery at Bodzia was fully excavated during the years 2004 and 2007–9. This book, produced for international readers by an interdisciplinary team of twenty-five authors, presents the material from most possible perspectives. It is welcome to have so comprehensive a book accessible in English so soon. The book is richly illustrated, consists of twenty-five chapters... To sum up, this cemetery provides important evidence, and the book makes an interesting contribution to international research on burial customs, communication, and politics in northwestern Europe from approximately the mid-tenth to the mid-twelfth century." Sæbjørg Walaker Nordeide, Speculum 92.4 (2017).Table of ContentsList of Illustrations...ix List of Tables...xxvii List of Contributors ...xxix Looking Towards Bodzia: An Introduction...1 Andrzej Buko Part 1: The Area of the Middle and Lower Vistula River Valley between the 10th–11th Centuries: Archaeology and History 1 The Archaeological Context of the Bodzia Cemetery and the Trade Route along the Middle and the Lower Vistula during the Middle and Late Viking Period...9 Mateusz Bogucki 2 The Historical Context of the Discoveries at Bodzia...34 Roman Michałowski Part 2: The Bodzia Cemetery: Site Location, Environmental Data, Graves and their Contents 3 Bodzia: Site Location and History of Research...47 Iwona Sobkowiak-Tabaka 4 The Effect of Depositional and Post-Depositional Processes on the Preservation of Skeletal Remains in the Bodzia Cemetery...54 Iwona Hildebrandt-Radke 5 The Inventory of the Burials and their Contents...63 Iwona Sobkowiak-Tabaka Appendix: Wood and Plant Macro-remains Analysis...139 Joanna Koszałka 6 Analysis of the Skeletal Population from the Cemetery of Bodzia...143 Alicja Drozd-Lipińska and Tomasz Kozłowski Part 3: Grave Goods and their Context 7 Overview of the Finds from the Bodzia Cemetery...163 Andrzej Buko 8 Merchants’ Implements (the Folding Balance)...166 Michał Kara 9 Weapons...177 Michał Kara Appendix: Metallographic Analyses of Selected Finds from a Young Warrior’s Grave (E864/I)...197 Zdzisław Hensel 10 Status and Magic. Ornaments Used by the Bodzia Elites...202 Władysław Duczko 11 Glass Beads...222 Maria Dekówna and Tomasz Purowski 12 Iron Artifacts...262 Tomasz Sawicki 13 Costume Elements of Leather...272 Anna B. Kowalska 14 Ceramic and Wooden Containers...288 Kinga Zamelska-Monczak 15 Objects Made of Antler and Stone...304 Kinga Zamelska-Monczak 16 The Obol of the Dead...313 Stanisław Suchodolski Part 4: Funeral Rites 17 Description of the Cemetery, Organization of the Burial Space, the Burial Rites in the Light of the Cultural and Historical Determinants...343 Michał Kara 18 Tentative Reconstruction of Coffins...412 Tomasz Sawicki 19 Symbolic Aspects of the Remains of Wood from the Cemetery...421 Joanna Koszałka Part 5: Chronology of the Cemetery 20 Chronology of the Cemetery...427 Andrzej Buko and Michał Kara Appendix 1: AMS Radiocarbon Dating of Samples from the Cemetery at Bodzia...438 Tomasz Goslar Appendix 2: Radiometric Radiocarbon Dating of Samples from the Cemetery at Bodzia...442 Marek Krąpiec Part 6: Locals or Aliens? 21 Isotopic Proveniencing of the Bodzia Burials...447 T. Douglas Price and Karin Margarita Frei 22 Genetic Analysis of Selected Graves from the Cemetery...465 Wiesław Bogdanowicz, Tomasz Grzybowski and Magdalena M. Buś Part 7: European Contexts of the Bodzia Cemetery 23 The Cemetery at Bodzia in a Broader European Context...481 Michael Müller-Wille 24 The Cemetery at Bodzia in the Context of the Funerary Practices in the Polish Lands in the Late 10th–11th Century...513 Michał Kara Part 8: The Bodzia Cemetery in Light of the Interdisciplinary Research 25 The Bodzia Cemetery in Light of the Interdisciplinary Research...525 Andrzej Buko Bibliography...557 Index...602

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Book SynopsisIn Liturgy, Books and Franciscan Identity in Medieval Umbria, Anna Welch explores how Franciscan friars engaged with manuscript production networks operating in Umbria in the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries to produce the missals essential to their liturgical lives. A micro-history of Franciscan liturgical activity, this study reassesses methodologies pertinent to manuscript studies and reflects on both the construction of communal identity through ritual activity and historiographic trends regarding this process. Welch focuses on manuscripts decorated by the ateliers of the Maestro di Deruta-Salerno (active c. 1280) and Maestro Venturella di Pietro (active c. 1317), in particular the Codex Sancti Paschalis, a missal now owned by the Australian Province of the Order of Friars Minor.Trade Review"In 2016, our knowledge of Franciscan history was enriched by Brill’s publication of Anna Welch’s Liturgy, Books and Franciscan Identity in Medieval Umbria. Based on an analysis of late thirteenth- and early fourteenth-century missals, this book considers the role that liturgy played in forming and preserving the communal identity of early Franciscans living in Umbria. [...] This illuminating case study is a welcome analysis of a subject that has for years merited far more academic attention, and serves as a long overdue corrective to previous scholarship. Welch’s thorough knowledge of the extensive manuscript evidence and her masterful interaction with the secondary literature are truly impressive. This monograph belongs on the shelves of all scholars interested in Franciscan history, liturgical history, medieval art history, and Umbrian religious and social history." Andrew J. G. Drenas, University of Massachusetts Lowell, in: Renaissance Quarterly 71, no. 1 2018): 347-348.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements ix List of Plates xi Abbreviations xii Introduction 1 The Codex Sancti Paschalis 6 Limitations, Terms and Definitions 16 1 The Silent Parchment? A New Methodology for the Study of Missals 20 1.1 The Historiography of Illuminated Liturgical Manuscripts 20 1.2 Art History and the Codex Sancti Paschalis 23 Maestro di Deruta-Salerno 32 Venturella di Pietro 33 Mss. Linked to the CSP and/or Mss. Listed above, Without Specific Attribution to a Master/School 34 1.3 Selection Rationale for the Missals under Study 35 1.4 Towards a New Model for Manuscript Studies: Liturgical History Meets Ritual and Performance Theory 40 2 Quarrelling Brothers – Liturgy and Identity, 1209–1274 51 2.1 The Narrative of Franciscan Liturgical History 51 2.2 Franciscan Liturgy: The Regula Editions? 54 2.2.1 The Regula Missal 55 2.2.2 The Regula Breviary 66 2.3 Elias of Cortona to Haymo of Faversham: The Concept of a Second Founder 71 2.3.1 Haymo’s Ordinal 76 2.3.2 The Question of Liturgical Unity 78 2.4 John of Parma to Bonaventure: The Difficulties of Achieving Liturgical Unity 79 2.5 The Friars Minor, Liturgy and Identity in the Thirteenth Century 87 3 The Order of Friars Minor and the Book 92 3.1 The Scribes 92 3.2 The Miniaturists 100 3.2.1 Friar-Miniaturists in a Scriptorium in Assisi? 102 3.2.2 Scholarly Conceptualisation of a Simplistic Franciscan Decorative Style and Its Meaning 106 3.3 ‘Pauperistico’? Franciscan Spirituality in Perugian Miniatures 116 3.3.1 Crucifixion Miniatures from the Selected Missals 117 3.4 Conclusions 131 4 Calendars – Comparing the Evidence 133 4.1 The Historiography and Methodology of Studying Sainthood, Liturgical Calendars and the Commemoration of Saints 134 4.2 Short Catalogue Entries for CSP and B–E: Codicology and Provenance 138 4.3 The Calendars Compared 148 Key to Symbols and Abbreviations 149 4.4 Conclusions 174 5 Celebrating Saints – Articulating Communal Identity through Liturgy 175 5.1 Selection of Feasts for Analysis; Methodology 175 5.2 The Feasts in CSP and B–E 178 5.2.1 Feasts of St. Francis 178 5.2.2 Feasts of St. Anthony of Padua 181 5.2.3 Feasts of St. Clare 183 5.2.4 Feast of Elisabeth of Hungary 185 5.2.5 Feast of St. Louis of Toulouse 185 5.2.6 Feast of St. Louis ix, King of France 186 5.2.7 Feasts of St. Herculanus, Bishop of Perugia 188 5.2.8 Feast of Ubaldo, Patron Saint of Gubbio 188 5.2.9 Feast of St. Dominic 189 5.2.10 Feast of St. Peter Martyr (of Verona) 189 5.2.11 Feast of Augustine of Hippo 190 5.2.12 Feast of St. Bernard of Clairvaux 190 5.2.13 Feasts of the Virgin 190 5.3 Categories of Interpretation 194 5.3.1 Rubrication 194 5.3.2 Wording of the Entries 195 5.3.3 Inclusion/Exclusion of Localised Feasts in a) Calendar and b) Proper of the Saints 196 5.3.4 Inclusion/Exclusion of Feasts from Other Orders (i.e. Dominicans and Cistercians) 198 5.3.5 Relationship to Roman Curia’s Calendar 200 5.3.6 Additions and Absences 201 5.3.7 Adherence to Haymo’s Ordinal 202 Conclusions and Directions for Future Research The Codex Sancti Paschalis from the Thirteenth to the Twenty-First Centuries 204 Liturgy’s Role in the Construction of Communal Identity amongst the Medieval Order of Friars Minor 204 Questions for Future Research 214 The Codex Sancti Paschalis as a Site of Communal Memory 216 Appendix 1 Previous Studies of the Codex Sancti Paschalis 219 Appendix 2 Liturgical Contents of the Codex Sancti Paschalis 224 Bibliography 247 1. Primary 247 1.1 Manuscripts Consulted 248 2. Secondary 249 Index of Modern Authors 265 Index of Subjects 267

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Book SynopsisSephardim are the descendants of the Jews expelled from the lands of the Iberian Peninsula in the years 1492-1498, who settled down in the Mediterranean basin. The identifying sign of the Sephardim has been, until the middle of the twentieth century, the language known as Jewish-Spanish. The history, identity and memory of the Sephardim in their Mediterranean dispersal are analysed by the author with a special reference to the Sephardi community of Jerusalem and to the cultural and social changes that characterized the late nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century. However, because of the crucial changes related to modernization and the political circumstances that came into being at the turn of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century, the Sephardim lost their unique identity.Table of ContentsContents List of Figures Introduction Jerusalem Once upon a Time Who is a Sephardi? The Language of the Sephardim Conclusion 1. From Expulsion to Revival The Expulsion from Spain To Where did the Exiled Turn to Go? Portugal Navarre North Africa: Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya Italy The Ottoman Empire Leaders of the Sephardi Communities in the Ottoman Empire in the Sixteenth Century Jerusalem Safed Tiberias Hebron The Ottoman Empire Sixteenth to Twentieth Centuries The Turkish Republic Conclusion 2. The Meʿam Loʿez: The Masterpiece of Ladino Literature (Eighteenth–Nineteenth Centuries) The Anthology Meʿam Loʿez Everydaylife of the Sephardim in their Mediterranean Dispersal According to the Meʿam Loʿez 3. Immigrants in the Land of Their Birth: The Sephardi Community in Jerusalem. The Test Case of the Meyuḥas Family Modernization Processes in the Ottoman Empire The Alliance Israelite Universelle A Jerusalemite Sephardi Family in the Change of Time: The Test Case of The Meyuḥas Family The History of the Meyuḥas family in the Balkans and in Istanbul (Kushta) The Meyuḥas Family in Jerusalem: The Meguilat Yoḥasin of the Rishon Le-Zion Rabbi Refael Meyuḥas and the Purim de los Meyuḥasim The Descendants of Rabbi Refael Meyuḥas Shadarim of the Meyuḥas Family The Meyuḥas Family in Kefar Ha-Shiloʾaḥ Conclusion 4. Beautiful Damsels and Men of Valor: Ladino Literature Giving Us a Peek into the Spiritual World of Sephardi Women in Jerusalem (Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries) Ladino Books Kept by Nona Flor Nona Flor the Storyteller Old Readers and New Readers Conclusion 5.The Spanish Senator Dr. Ángel Pulido Fernández and the “Spaniards without a Homeland,” Speakers of Jewish Spanish 248 Dr. Angel Pulido Fernandez and the Sephardim How Did the Sephardim React to Pulido’s Ideas? Conclusion 6.The Lost Identity of the Sephardim in The Land of Israel and the State of Israel The Weekly Hed Ha-Mizraḥ and its Readers The Second World War in Greece: The Extermination of the Jews The Sephardim of the Land of Israel Facing the Holocaust Epilogue: History in the Eyes of the Beholder Bibliography Hebrew Bibliography Other Languages Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisHow different was the practice of magic in the Latin West from that of the eastern Mediterranean basin? Was it just derivative from Greek practice, or did it have its own originality? The recent discovery of important new curse-tablets in Mainz and in the Fountain of Anna Perenna at Rome has made the question newly topical. This volume contains the first commented editions in English of most of these new texts as well as major surveys of new prayers for justice. Other sections are devoted to the discourse of magic in the West, to the linguistics and aims of cursing, and to the major field of protective and eudaemonic magic up to and including the Visigothic slates and the Celtic loricae. The essays are by well-known scholars in the field as well as by established and younger Spanish scholars.Table of ContentsContributors include: Henk Versnel, Chris Faraone, Matthew Dickie, James Rives, Roger Tomlin, Jürgen Blänsdorf, Marina Piranomonte, Maria Victoria Escribano, and Francisco Javier Fernández Nieto.

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Book SynopsisDestruction of temples and their transformation into churches are central symbols of late antique change in religious environment, socio-political system, and public perception. Contemporaries were aware of these events’ far-reaching symbolic significance and of their immediate impact as demonstrations of political power and religious conviction. Joined in any “temple-destruction” are the meaning of the monument, actions taken, and subsequent literary discourse. Paradigms of perception, specific interests, and forms of expression of quite various protagonists clashed. Archaeologists, historians, and historians of religion illuminate “temple-destruction” from different perspectives, analysing local configurations within larger contexts, both regional and imperial, in order to find an appropriate larger perspective on this phenomenon within the late antique movement “from temple to church”.

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Book SynopsisThis volume contains a series of provocative essays that explore expressions of magic and ritual power in the ancient world. The strength of the present volume lies in the breadth of scholarly approaches represented. The book begins with several papyrological studies presenting important new texts in Greek and Coptic, continuing with essays focussing on taxonomy and definition. The concluding essays apply contemporary theories to analyses of specific test cases in a broad variety of ancient Mediterranean cultures. Paul Mirecki, Th.D. (1986) in Religious Studies, Harvard Divinity School, is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Kansas. Marvin Meyer, Ph.D. (1979) in Religion, Claremont Graduate School, is Professor of Religion at Chapman University, Orange, California, and Director of the Coptic Magical Texts Project of the Institute for Antiquity and Christianity.Trade Review"…an excellent overview with enough depth to satisfy specialists interested in magic or any of the academic contexts within which the topics are found." – Jennifer Wees, in: Laval Theologique et Philosophique, 2004

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Book SynopsisTwice Neokoros is a case study of the Cult of the Sebastoi that was established in the city of Ephesus by the province of Asia during the late first century C.E. Epigraphic and numismatic data indicate that the Cult of the Sebastoi was dedicated in 89/90 to the Flavian imperial family. The architecture, sculpture, municipal titles, and urban setting of the cult all reflect Asian religious traditions. The image of Ephesus was significantly altered by the use of these traditions in the institutions related to the Cult of the Sebastoi. Within the context of the history of provincial cults in the Roman Empire, the Cult of the Sebastoi became a turning point in the rhetoric of social order. Thus, the Cult of the Sebastoi served as a prototypical manifestation of socio-religious developments during the late first and early second century in the Eastern Mediterranean.Trade Review'...a very valuable contribution to…' Guy MacLean Rogers, Journal for Rom. Studies, 1994. '...a very informative, carefully argued and well written book that makes significant advances in our understanding of the function of the early imperial cult in Asia Minor.' P. W. van der Horst, Mnemosyne, 1995. '...this important study is the first monograph-length treatment of the provincial cult of the emperors in Ephesus. Highly recommended.' John T. Fitzgerald, Religious Studies Review, 1995. '...Friesens's book has much to offer as a provocative exploration of the distinctive features of the imperial cult in Ephesus.' R.A. Kearsley, The Classical Review, 1995. '...Friesen's work makes an important contribution to our understanding of the imperial cult in first-century Ephesus.' Philip A. Harland, Toronto Journal of Theology, 1997.

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Book SynopsisThis volume explores the religious transformation of each nation in modern Asia. When the Asian people, who were not only diverse in culture and history, but also active in performing local traditions and religions, experienced a socio-political change under the wave of Western colonialism, the religious climate was also altered from a transnational perspective. Part One explores the nationals of China (Taiwan), Hong Kong, Korea, and Japan, focusing on the manifestations of Japanese religion, Chinese foreign policy, the British educational system in Hong Kong in relation to Tibetan Buddhism, the Korean women of Catholicism, and the Scottish impact in late nineteenth century Korea. Part Two approaches South Asia through the topics of astrology, the works of a Gujarātī saint, and Himalayan Buddhism. The third part is focused on the conflicts between ‘indigenous religions and colonialism,’ ‘Buddhism and Christianity,’ ‘Islam and imperialism,’ and ‘Hinduism and Christianity’ in Southeast Asia.Trade ReviewBy directing attention to the study of religions in Asia, David Kim’s Religious Transformation in Modern Asia goes some distance towards redressing the imbalance in Religious Studies, which, even in the study of the major religions of Asia, has favoured approaches that reflect topics of primary concern to students of religion in the West. This collection of essays written by experts in Northeast, South and Southeast Asia offers a rare insight into themes and issues that confront both practitioners as insiders as well as academics and informed outsiders. As such, it promises to contribute to the understanding of the study of religions in Asia, both historically and in contemporary settings, while at the same time offering important theoretical advances in the academic study of religions generally. - James L.Cox, Emeritus Professor of Religious Studies, University of Edinburgh.

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Book SynopsisWhile comparative studies on purity and impurity presented in the last decades have mostly concentrated on the ancient world or on modern developments, this volume focusses the hitherto comparatively neglected period between ca. 300 and 1600 c. E. The collection is innovative because it not only combines papers on both European and Asian cultures but also considers a wide variety of religions and confessions. The articles are written by leading experts in the field and are presented in six systematic sections. This analytical categorization facilitates understanding the functional spectrum that the binomial purity and impurity could cover in past societies. The volume thus presents an in-depth comparative analysis of a category of paramount importance for interfaith relations and processes of transfer.

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Book SynopsisThis is a thoroughly revised and expanded version of the first edition of the Arabic version of Dimitrie Cantemir’s The Divan or the Sage’s Dispute with the World (Ṣalāḥ al-ḥakīm wa-fasād al-ʿālam al-ḏamīm) (Iaşi, 1698), his first printed book, the earliest ethical treatise in Romanian literature and a testimony to his wide knowledge, reading, and proficiency in foreign languages. Completed in 1705 by Athanasius III Dabbās, Patriarch of the Antiochian Church (1684-1694, 1720-1724), the Arabic text is accompanied by the first translation into a modern language, English. Book III contains Cantemir’s version of the Latin work Stimuli virtutum, fraena peccatorum (Amsterdam, 1682) by the Unitarian Andzrej Wiszowaty (Andreas Wissovatius) of Raków (Poland), a chief representative of the Polish Brethren. Thus, in the space of twenty-three years Central-European Protestant ideas reached the Arab Christians of Ottoman Syria, by way of Greek and Arabic.Table of ContentsContents Preface 1 Introduction Historical Background Structure and Contents of the Divan The Divan – A Philosophical and Ethical Writing The Divan in Romanian and European Culture Circulation of the Divan References 2 Editor’s Note 1 The Arabic Version: Source and Conception 1.1 Athanasius Dabbās – The Hierarch, the Scholar 1.2 The Source 1.3 The Arabic Title 1.4 Authorship 1.5 Distinctions in Content 1.6 Novelty of the Present Work 2 The Arabic Text 2.1 Language Variety 2.2 Editorial Principles 2.3 Arabic Language Features 3 The English Translation 3.1 Translation Principles 3.2 Biblical Quotations 3.3 Additional Features 3 General Survey of the Manuscripts Source-Manuscripts of this Edition Other Manuscripts Arabic Edition and English Translation Introduction – المقدمة Book One – الجزء الاوّل Book Two – الجزء الثاني Book Three – الجزء الثالث Appendix Sources Index of Biblical Quotations Index of Classical Authors and Works Index of Names Figures

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Book SynopsisEn réconciliant séparés et pénitents, l’Église ancienne pensait que recevoir l’Esprit ne dépendait pas d’un rite – comme on l’envisagera au Moyen- ge – mais de la seule initiative divine. Cette étude donne des clés pour un renouveau théologique, pastoral et œcuménique. When reconciling penitents or those who had left her, the early Church believed that Spirit’s reception did not depended on a rite but solely on the divine initiative. This study provides keys for a renewal of pneumatology, pastoral practice, ecumenism.Trade Review"Extensa monografía que viene a dar respuesta a importantes cuestiones referidas a la teología y ritualidad cristiana con el Espíritu Santo como centro de atención: ¿Cómo insufla Dios el Espíritu en sus fieles? ¿Pueden estos perderlo? y en este último caso ¿existe algún modo de recuperarlo?" Israel M. Gallarte and Dámaris Romero, in: Filología Neotestamentaria, Vols. 28-29 (2014-2015).

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