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Book SynopsisPremodern architecture and built environments were fluid spaces whose configurations and meanings were constantly adapting and changing. The production of transitory meaning transpired whenever a body or object moved through these dynamic spaces. Whether spanning the short duration of a procession or the centuries of a building’s longue durée, a body or object in motion created in-the-moment narratives that unfolded through time and space. The authors in this volume forge new approaches to architectural studies by focusing on the interaction between monuments, artworks, and their viewers at different points in space and time. Contributors are Christopher A. Born, Elizabeth Carson Pastan, Nicole Corrigan, Gillian B. Elliott, Barbara Franzé, Anne Heath, Philip Jacks, Divya Kumar-Dumas, Brigitte Kurmann-Schwarz, Ashley J. Laverock, Susan Leibacher Ward, Elodie Leschot, Meghan Mattsson McGinnis, Michael Sizer, Kelly Thor, and Laura J. Whatley.Trade Review'Art, Architecture, and the Moving Viewer, c. 300-1500 CE offers the readers a thoughtfully curated series of fifteen essays that explore holistic approaches to medieval spaces as they may have been experienced by contemporaries of various social classes over time. Through the agency of “the moving viewer,” the chapters yoke symbolic readings of spaces, artwork, and architecture in settings ranging from an intimate side chapel to an immense rock-mound mesa [...] the volume’s editors and chapter authors succeed in bringing provocative discoveries to the global readership of medievalists in art, architectural, and spatial history. It is a collection that supports and extends research into the nuances and details of cultural reception theory and, perhaps further along, into the neurological understanding of medieval environments.' Kim Sexton, in The Medieval Review 23.05.06.Table of ContentsList of Figures Notes on Contributors Unfolding Narratives: An Introduction  Gillian B. Elliott and Anne Heath PART 1: Moving Bodies in Space and Narrative 1 Seeing and Not Seeing the Rose Window of Lausanne Cathedral  Elizabeth Carson Pastan and Brigitte Kurmann-Schwarz 2 Engaging the Beholder through Image and Inscription in the 13th-Century Stained-Glass Window of St. Margaret of Antioch at Ardagger Abbey  Ashley J. Laverock 3 Circulating among Friends: Mary Magdalene, Martha, and Lazarus and the Pilgrimage to the Holy Tear at the Abbey of La Trinité, Vendôme  Anne Heath PART 2: Topography and Politicizing Space 4 Written in Stone: Recovering the Magical Role of the locus sanctus in the Medieval Life of San Millán de la Cogolla  Kelly Thor 5 Reading Architecture in Landscape: Visitor Reflections at a Mirror Wall (Sigiriya, Sri Lanka)  Divya Kumar-Dumas 6 A Holy Hole, Anglo-Saxon Bones, and a Jerusalem Chapel: Redefining Sacred Geography at Winchester Cathedral in the 12th Century  Laura J. Whatley 7 Theatrum Paulli or Balneum Paulli: Interpreting the Markets of Trajan in the Middle Ages and Renaissance  Philip Jacks PART 3: Spatial Alteration and Reception 8 Transformation at the Garden Gate: The Romanesque Parapets of San Pietro al Monte in Civate  Gillian B. Elliott 9 Between Universal and Local Practices: The Unfolding Narrative of the Resurrection of the Christ and Its Public in the Wide-Open Galilee at the Priory of St. Fortunatus, Charlieu  Elodie Leschot 10 From Mosque-Cathedral to Gothic Cathedral: Rewriting and Rebuilding in Medieval Toledo  Nicole Corrigan 11 Change Unchanging: Mediating the Sacred Spaces of Ise Grand Shrines over Time  Christopher A. Born PART 4: Assembly and Space 12 On the Road to the Great Hof: Moving through Space and Time at Old Uppsala  Meghan Mattsson McGinnis 13 Abbot Gauzlin’s Tower Porch in Fleury (c.1015–30): A Social Narrative in Favor of the Capetians  Barbara Franzé 14 The South Portal at the Cathedral of Le Mans as a Processional Objective  Susan Leibacher Ward 15 Storming the Palace: Crowd Incursions into Aristocratic Spaces in Medieval Revolts  Michael Sizer Conclusion Index

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Book SynopsisThis is the first book in English providing a wide range of Byzantine legal sources. In six chapters, this book explains and illustrates Byzantine law through a selection of fundamental Byzantine legal sources, beginning with the sources before the time of Justinian, and extending up to AD 1453. For all sources English translations are provided next to the original Greek (and Latin) text. In some cases, tables or other features are included that help further elucidate the source and illustrate its nature. The volume offers a clear yet detailed primer to Byzantine law, its sources, and its significance.Table of ContentsPreface List of Figures and Maps Abbreviations General Note on the Bibliography 1 The Sources of Law before the Time of Justinian  1 Introduction  2 A Brief Summary of the Sources of Roman Law  3 Teaching Law before the time of Justinian  4 Select Bibliography 2 The Time of Justinian  1 Justinian’s Legislation  2 Teaching Law in the Time of Justinian  3 Contemporary Writings for More Practical Purposes 3 From the End of the Sixth Century up to and including the Iconoclastic Period  1 End of the Sixth Century: the scholastikoi  2 Athanasios of Emessa  3 Theodoros of Hermoupolis  4 ‘The Seventh Century’: ‘The Anonymos Junior’  5 ‘The Seventh Century’: Early Legal Treatises—De actionibus and Rhopai  6 The Ecloga  7 The Farmer’s Law and the Military Law  8 The Rhodian Sea Law  9 Select Bibliography 4 Macedonian Renaissance  1 Introduction  2 The Prochiron and the Eisagoge  3 The Basilica Puzzle  4 The Novels of Leo VI the Wise  5 The Prefect’s Book (Eparchikon biblion)  6 The ‘Old’ Basilica Scholia  7 The Synopsis maior Basilicorum and the Legal Lexica  8 Select Bibliography 5 From the Eleventh Century up To 1453  1 The ‘New’ Basilica Scholia  2 Recognising ‘Old’ and ‘New’ Basilica Scholia  3 The Ponema Nomikon, Tipoukeitos and the Synopsis legum  4 The Peira  5 The Ecloga Basilicorum  6 The Novel of Manuel on Procedure  7 The Decisions and Statements of Chomatenos  8 The Hexabiblos by Harmenopoulos  9 Select Bibliography 6 Canon Law  1 A Brief Outline of Byzantine Canon Law and Some Basic Terms  2 A Scheme of Canon Law: The Sources of Byzantine Canon Law until the Twelfth Century  3 The Canonists of the Twelfth Century  4 Byzantine Civil and Canon Law concerning Interest on Debts  5 Select Bibliography Appendix: A Schematic Approach to the Sources of Byzantine Law and Their Relations to Roman Law Index of Sources Index of Personal Names Index of Place names Index of Terms

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Book Synopsis'The Open Access publishing costs of this volume were covered by the Dutch Research Council (NWO), Veni-project “Leaving a Lasting Impression. The Impact of Incunabula on Late Medieval Spirituality, Religious Practice and Visual Culture in the Low Countries” (grant number 275-30-036).' This volume explores various approaches to study vernacular books and reading practices across Europe in the 15th-16th centuries. Through a shared focus on the material book as an interface between producers and users, the contributors investigate how book producers conceived of their target audiences and how these vernacular books were designed and used. Three sections highlight connections between vernacularity and materiality from distinct perspectives: real and imagined readers, mobility of texts and images, and intermediality. The volume brings contributions on different regions, languages, and book types into dialogue. Contributors include Heather Bamford, Tillmann Taape, Stefan Matter, Suzan Folkerts, Karolina Mroziewicz, Martha W. Driver, Alexa Sand, Elisabeth de Bruijn, Katell Lavéant, Margriet Hoogvliet, and Walter S. Melion.Trade Review“Intersections is an eminently useful […] series that collects recent scholarly essays on topics of interest to nearly every subfield in early modern studies.” Anne Good, Reinhardt University. In: Itinerario, Vol. 35, No. 2 (August 2011), p. 106.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Figures and Tables Notes on the Editors Notes on the Contributors Introduction  Anna Dlabačová and Andrea van Leerdam Part 1: Real and Imagined Readers 1 Reading Magic in Early Modern Iberia  Heather Bamford 2 Vernacular Readers of Medicine: Imagined Audiences and Material Traces of Reading in Hieronymus Brunschwig’s Distillation Books  Tillmann Taape 3 The Hortulus animae – An Archive of Medieval Prayer Book Literature  Stefan Matter 4 Printers’ Strategies and Readers’ Responses: Vernacular Editions of the Deventer Printers Richard Pafraet and Jacob van Breda  Suzan Folkerts 5 Personalizing Universal History: Noblemen’s Responses to the Polish-Language Chronicle of the Whole World by Marcin Bielski  Karolina Mroziewicz Part 2: Mobility of Texts and Images 6 The Schoolroom in Early English Illustration  Martha W. Driver 7 Moving Pictures: The Art and Craft of Dying Well in the Woodcuts of Wynkyn de Worde  Alexa Sand 8 Catering to Different Tastes: Western-European Romance in the Earliest Decades of Printing  Elisabeth de Bruijn Part 3: Intermediality 9 Moveable Types of Merry Monsters: Joyful Literature on Paper and on the Walls  Katell Lavéant 10 Pour ce fault morir en vivant: Medieval Humanist Readings of Text and Images in Pierre Michault’s Danse aux aveugles  Margriet Hoogvliet 11 Meditating the Unbearable in a Fifteenth-Century Netherlandish Manuscript Prayerbook with Printed Images  Walter S. Melion Afterword: Making an End of the Beginnings of Early Printing in Western Europe  John J. Thompson Index Nominum

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Book SynopsisThis historical survey of Quakers in the United States examines their responses to war during World War I, World War II, and the early Cold War, including the Korean and Vietnam conflicts, with particular focus on the social, political, legal, and theological aspects of the Quaker peace testimony. Quakers responded to these conflicts in a variety of ways, ranging from pacifism to support for military action. The boundaries and constraints of Quaker beliefs about violent conflict and the meaning of the peace testimony were determined by debates within the Religious Society of Friends. Isaac Barnes May asserts that Quakers’ reactions to war in the twentieth-century should also be understood as closely related to Quakerism’s relationship to state power. The choice to accommodate or resist government pressure worked alongside internal forces to shape Quakerism in the United States. Ultimately, May argues that there is no single pattern of Quaker response to modern war.

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Book SynopsisThis volume contains fifteen essays in honor of L. Michael White, whose work has been influential in exploring the social histories of ancient Jews and Christians within the Graeco-Roman world. Following an introduction that highlights some of White’s main scholarly contributions, the essays are grouped into three topic areas: Paul and his Legacy, Social Relations, and Material Culture. The essays are united by an interest in reconstructing the social worlds of ancient Jews and Christians through careful analysis of literary sources and material culture in their most precise ancient contexts.Table of ContentsContents List of Figures and Tables Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Introduction  Jaimie Gunderson, Tony Keddie, and Douglas Boin Selected Publications of L. Michael White Part 1: Paul and His Legacy 1 Are Paul’s Moral Teachings Designed for Ordinary Humans?  Stanley Stowers 2 Gods and Non-Gods in Galatians: Reconsidering Paul’s Stoicheia  Emma Wasserman 3 Crisis Management and Boundary Maintenance Gentile Christ-Followers, Multiple Identities, and Sacrificial Practices in Corinth  Richard A. Wright 4 Corinthian PDA Medea Monuments, 2 Corinthians, and the Negotiation of Grief  Jaimie Gunderson 5 The Function of Paul’s Grief in Romans 9:1–2 in Light of Hellenistic Moral Philosophy Transforming Gentiles’ Misunderstanding and Boasting  Jin Young Kim 6 Reading between Two Worlds Philippians and the Formation of Pauline Letter Collections  Angela Standhartinger Part 2: Social Relations 7 Dining in Martial’s World  John T. Fitzgerald 8 The Pliny-Trajan Correspondence about Christians as Epistolary Fiction  Tony Keddie 9 Did Paganism’s First Intellectual Encounter with Christianity Include a Jew? Celsus and Philo  Gregory E. Sterling 10 Social Relations between Jews and Christians in the Mediterranean Diaspora in Late Antiquity  Ross S. Kraemer Part 3: Material Culture 11 Greek Tragedy, Pompeian Amphitheater Art, and Christian Martyrs in Nero’s Gardens 1 Clem. 6.2 and Tacitus, Ann. 15.44  David L. Balch 12 Putting Gods in Their Place Terracotta Figurines Discovered in the Synagogue Complex at Ostia  Mary Jane Cuyler 13 The Production of Late-Antique Lamps with Jewish Symbols in Rome and Ostia  Letizia Ceccarelli 14 The Archaeology of Two Early Gospels P.Oxy. 1 and 2 and the Trash Mounds of Oxyrhynchus  Geoffrey S. Smith 15 The Latinity of the Muratorian Fragment “Life to the Reader, Forgiveness to the Scribe, Salvation to the Possessor”  Clare K. Rothschild Index of Ancient Sources Index of Subjects

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Book SynopsisEstonia is often described as one of the most secularised countries in the world in terms of de-institutionalisation and de-Christianisation. Old Religion, New Spirituality: Implications of Secularisation and Individualisation in Estonia, edited by Riho Altnurme, starts with the question: what are the historical reasons for Estonia to be so secularised? The decisive factor in the diminishment in the importance of Christianity was the overlap between social classes and ethnicities. The national identity of Estonians became disconnected to any religion. Second, what are the consequences? How are the secularity of Estonia and the picture of individualised religiosity in this country linked? This book provides fresh results from surveys, archival work and analysis by a group of Estonian researchers. Contributors include: Riho Altnurme, Lea Altnurme, Priit Rohtmets, Indrek Pekko, Toomas Schvak, Ringo Ringvee, Alar Kilp, and Marko Uibu.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Tables and Maps Notes on Contributors 1 Introduction   Riho Altnurme 2 The History of the Marginalisation of Christianity in Estonia (1857–2017)   Lea Altnurme 3 The Lutheran Church in Estonian Society: The Impact of Secularisation and Religious Change   Priit Rohtmets, Indrek Pekko, and Riho Altnurme 4 The Orthodox Church in Estonia: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives in the Context of the 2011 Population and Housing Census   Toomas Schvak 5 Secular Society, Secular State: Egalitarian Legislation on Religion?   Ringo Ringvee 6 The Influence of the European Union’s Liberal Secularist Policy on Religion upon Religious Authority in Estonia Since 2004   Alar Kilp 7 The Religious Turn in Estonia: Modern Self-understanding in a Flood of Esotericism   Lea Altnurme 8 The Spiritual Milieu in Estonia: Challenges and Opportunities for Studying Contemporary Forms of Religion   Marko Uibu 9 Similarities and Differences between Estonia and the Other ‘Most Secular’ Countries   Riho Altnurme  Conclusion   Riho Altnurme References Index

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Book SynopsisIn an age characterized by religious conflict, Protestant and Catholic Augsburgers remained largely at peace. How did they do this? This book argues that the answer is in the “emotional practices” Augsburgers learned and enacted—in the home, in marketplaces and other sites of civic interaction, in the council house, and in church. Augsburg’s continued peace depended on how Augsburgers felt—as neighbors, as citizens, and believers—and how they negotiated the countervailing demands of these commitments. Drawing on police records, municipal correspondence, private memoranda, internal administrative documents and other records revealing everyday behavior, experience, and thought, Sean Dunwoody shows how Augsburgers negotiated the often-conflicting feelings of being a good believer and being a good citizen and neighbor.

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Book SynopsisScholars continue to dispute the foundations of Quakerism. James Nayler, his prophetic Bristol 'sign' of 1656, and George Fox's relation to him have been of especial interest in defining the movement's identity. Conventionally, historians and theologians have taken either a 'traditional' approach, which assesses Nayler by the standards of orthodoxy, or a 'revisionist' one, which absolves him by the standards of early Quaker relativism and Christology. This study by Euan David McArthur mediates between these positions, finding that Nayler and Fox developed an ambiguous theology, but adopted a consistent approach to Quaker performances. The latter dissuaded against performances such as Nayler's 'sign'; Nayler is argued, instead, to have diverged from other Quaker leaders following disputations between 1655 and 1656. The lessons his person and actions hold for us are concluded to be complex, but worthy of study for a wide range of historians and thinkers.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Abbreviations Abstract Keywords  Introduction  1 Theology  2 Performances  3 Shifts in Approach  Conclusion References

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Book SynopsisDuring the early modern period, thousands of Jesuits across Europe wrote individual applications for appointments in the “Indies” directly to the superior general of the Society of Jesus in Rome. Known today as litterae indipetae (from Indias petere, that is, applying for the missions in the Eastern and Western territories), these letters encompassed the most personal desires, hopes, and dreams of young Jesuits who sought to become missionaries. This book is the first English monograph on litterae indipetae and studies their style and structure, the background of their authors and the reasons behind their choices, as well as the network surrounding this practice (natural and spiritual families, procurators, confrères). Its purpose is also to capture the experiences of these individuals since lost to history by studying thousands of indipetae, in this case written mainly by Italian Jesuits at the turn of the eighteenth century. It focuses especially on the petitions aimed at East Asia, and offers in-depth analysis of cases of Jesuits whose missionary zeal for China and Japan was fulfilled—or not.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1 Litterae Indipetae  1.1 Purpose, Structure, and Instructions  1.2 A “Typical” Petitioner?: Health and Age  Conclusions 2 Desires: Push and Pull Factors  Introduction  2.1 Pull Factors: Reading  2.2 Push Factors: Reasons to Leave  Conclusions 3 The Petitioners’ Network  3.1 Strategies to Be Chosen: Not Only Indipetae, but Also Hearings in Rome  3.2 The Generals and Their Replies 4 Case Studies: China and Japan  4.1 The Desire for the Far East  4.2 “Unsuccessful” Candidates  4.3 “Successful” Candidates  Conclusions  Appendix 1: Asian Preference in the indipetae from the Italian Assistancy (1687–1730)  Appendix 2: Indipetae Sent from the Italian Assistancy (1687–1730)  Appendix 3: Origin of the indipetae Written from the Italian Assistancy (1687–1730)  Appendix 4: Indipetae from the Italian Assistancy according to the Jesuit Province (1687–1730) Conclusions Index

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Book SynopsisThis is the first English translation of one of the most important treatises written during the late-Middle Ages in defense of converts from Judaism, favoring religious tolerance in the face of religious and racially motivated prejudice and violence. The book also includes a fresh Latin edition, drawing on all known manuscripts. The text was written in response to the actions of the "Old Christians" of Toledo against the "New Christians," also called conversos, in 1449. A letter of Pope Nicholas V favouring the converts is included.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Juan de Torquemada’s Defense of the Conversos  1 The Revolt in Toledo, 1449  2 The Manuscripts, Editions and Translation  3 Conspectus siglorum Tract against the Midianites and Ishmaelites, Foes and Detractors of the Faithful Who Originated from the Israelite People  [Prologue]  1 In Which It Is Shown from a Description of the Quality of the Aforesaid Trial That It Is of No Force or Moment  2 In Which the Things Cited against Christ’s Faithful Descended from the Israelite People Are Proved to Be Erroneous  3 In Which It Is Shown That the Second Foundation Cited by the Foe in Favor of Their Impiety against Those Newly Converted to Christ’s Faith Descended from the Israelite Nation Is Erroneous and Blasphemous  4 In Which the Aforesaid Error Is Refuted in a Second Way, with Reasons  5 In Which the Aforesaid Error Is Reproved from the Divine Promises Made to the Israelite People  6 In Which the Aforesaid Error Is Reproved from the Deeds Done by Christ among the Jewish People  7 In Which One Authority Cited in Favor and Proof of Their Aforesaid Errors Is Answered  8 In Which the Second Authority Cited on the Part of the Foe Is Answered  9 In Which the Third Authority Cited for the Adverse Part Is Answered  10 In Which the Fourth Authority Cited for the Adverse Part Is Answered  11 In Which the Fifth Passage Cited by the Often-Mentioned Midianites and Ishmaelites in Favor and Support of Their Sacrilegious Presumption Is Answered  12 In Which the Principal Conclusion of the Foe Is Shown from the above to Be False and Erroneous  13 That the Unbelief of Those from Whom They Descend Must Not Be Imputed to Those Converted to Christ’s Faith from the People of the Jews  14 In Which Reasons Are Assigned Why Converts to Christ’s Faith, and Especially Those from the Israelite People, Are Not to Be Despised by the Other Faithful, but Rather Loved and Honored  15 In Which the Error and Malice of Those Who Presume to Posit a Difference between Those Converted from the Israelite People and Other Christians Is Confuted  16 In Which Those Things Which the Aforesaid Adversaries Cite in Favor of Their Rashness Are Answered Appendix: Pope Nicholas V: Humani generis inimicus (Fabriano, 24 September 1449) Bibliography Index of Scripture References Index of Classical and Medieval Authors Index of Scholars Cited

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Book SynopsisIn the 9th century, a secret sect of the Ismā‘īlīs -- known in the Middle Ages under the name of Fatimids -- arose to play a prominent role in the history of the Near East. Their supreme head today is the Agha Khan. In this mesmerising book, Heinz Halm describes the early history of the Fatimids, from the founding and spread of the secret society to the rise of the caliphal dynasty to power in North Africa and the founding of Cairo, their capital.Trade Review'Grammarians, linguists, Semiticists, Ethiopianists, students, and curious speakers of Amharic will be well and long served by this exemplary work. For advanced students of the language, it will become an indispensable tool.' Grover Hudson, Journal of the American Oriental Society, 1998. Good news: Heinz Halm's excellent outline of the early history of the Fāṭimids is now available in English...The impression that this volume, despite its high scholarly claim, almost appears like a 'best-seller', may be acknowledged with pleasure by everybody expecting from a book in the non-fictional area, in addition to new insights and an increase of knowledge, also a fair deal of literary entertainment. Sebastian Günther, Bibliotheca Orientalis, 1998.

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Book SynopsisThis collection of studies investigates how people of the 10th to early 12th century experienced and represented processes of intentional change in the Church, and what the consequences are of modern scholars’ reliance on ‘reform’ to describe and interpret these processes. In 11 thematic chapters it takes stock of the current state of research and offers suggestions to deepen our understanding of the ideological, institutional, and cultural dynamics at play. Contributors are Julia Barrow, Robert F. Berkhofer III, Gordon Blennemann, Katy Cubitt, Nicolangelo D'Acunto, Anne-Marie Helvétius, Ludger Körntgen, Rutger Kramer, Brigitte Meijns, Diane Reilly, Rachel Stone, and Steven Vanderputten.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Rethinking Reform: an Introduction  Steven Vanderputten PART 1: Deconstructing/Reconstructing Reform 1 The Problem(s) with the Carolingian Reform(s)  Rutger Kramer 2 Deconstructing/Reconstructing Monastic Reform  Steven Vanderputten 3 Deconstructing and Reconstructing Clerical Reform  Brigitte Meijns 4 Deconstructing/Reconstructing Papal Reform  Nicolangelo D’Acunto PART 2: The Societal Dimensions of Reform 5 The Societal Background and Impact of ‘Reform’  Robert F. BerkhoferIII 6 Transformations of Lay and Clerical Masculinities  Rachel Stone 7 Changes in Lay Piety and Devotion  Catherine Cubitt PART 3: Continuities and Transformations in Texts, Artistic Expressions, and Terminologies 8 Reforming Approaches and Continuous Enhancement: Penance and the Penitentials  Ludger Körntgen 9 Continuities and Transformations in Hagiography  Gordon Blennemann and Anne-Marie Helvétius 10 Continuities and Transformations in Art, Manuscript Culture, and Architecture  Diane Reilly 11 Vocabularies and Narratives of Reform  Julia Barrow Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAiming to develop a less studied literary genre, this book provides a well-rounded picture of spiritual and physical diseases and their remedies as they were ingrained in the imagination and practices of Middle Eastern Abrahamic cultures, with a special emphasis of Christian communities (Greeks/Byzantines, Syrians, Armenians, Georgians, Ethiopians). The volume traces traditions dealing with the onset of a disease in the body and soul, the search for remedy, the maintenance of healing, and the engagement of these processes with faith—either through their affirmation in the public sphere or remaining within the personal framework, as in monastic traditions. A recurring presence in religious literature and the history of the intellectual world, the confrontation between disease and healing may well still be current for our modern understanding of the paths to seeking and maintaining the health of one’s body and soul, without excluding the factor of faith as a core principle.Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction  Catalin-Stefan Popa 1 The Contemplative as Spiritual Physician: Medical Theory and Terminology in the Writings of Evagrius Ponticus  Luke Dysinger 2 Illness, Sainthood, and Spiritual Healing in Early Antique Monasticism  Daniel Lemeni 3 Illness of Body and Soul in Greek-Speaking Church Fathers  Martin Meiser 4 Survivals of Phoenician and Aramaic Pharmacobotany during Late Antiquity  Daniel Asade 5 Zoroastrian Medical Rhetoric in Late Antique Iran  Mahnaz Moazami 6 Physician, Spiritual Healer, or Medicine Man? Medical Science according to Bar Bahlūl  Stefanie Rudolf 7 Spiritual Therapy of the Heart: Syriac Fathers on a Pure Heart and How to Keep It Free of Disease  Catalin-Stefan Popa 8 Disease and Healing according to the Armenian Christian Tradition  Jesse Siragan Arlen 9 Soul and Body: Diseases, Remedies and Healing in Georgian Hagiography  Gaga Shurgaia 10 Haunted Bodies: Health, Illness and Inner Life in Byzantium  Raffaele Guerra 11 Non-Codex Gəʿəz Manuscripts as Forms of Healing  Hagos Abrha Abay 12 A Sixteenth Century Hebrew Account of the Epidemic in Naples  Nadia Zeldes 13 Medical and Pharmacological Remedies with Qurʾanic Verses in Nineteenth-Century Manuscripts from Timbuktu  Ali Diakite and Paul Naylor 14 ‘Let Us Bear Illness with Dignity and Righteousness’ Physical and Spiritual Affliction in the Understanding of the Elders of Optina  Eugene Lyutko, Gleb Zapalsky and Vyacheslav Yachmenik Index of Subjects Index of Names Index of Places

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Book SynopsisCredit is the oxygen of every society. In many cases we wonder why the rabbis prohibit certain business credit transactions considering them usury. The writer uses literary and epigraphic sources to decipher the rabbinic approach. This book shows how rabbinic legislation innovatively expand the Torah prohibition of usury in loans to all fields of credit. It is a pioneering inquiry regarding rabbinic literature compiled under Roman and Sasanid rule, helping to fill the void in research concerning credit. It also distinguishes various kinds of credit differentiating credit of money for money, or products, exposing the ramifications of the rabbinic legislation.Table of ContentsContents Preface Abbreviations 1 Introduction  1.1 Aims and Structure  1.2 Credit: A Definition  1.3 Sources and Methods  1.4 Previous Research, Manuscripts, and Editions  1.5 The Structure of the Book 2 Credit in Rome and Persia  2.1 Credit in the Roman World  2.2 Credit in the Parthian and Sasanian Empires 3 Credit and Usury in Jewish Society in Palestine and Babylon  3.1 Socio-Historical Background  3.2 Lenders and Borrowers in Jewish Roman Palestine  3.3 The Economy of the Jewish Community of Babylon  3.4 Types of Credit in Palestine and Babylon  3.5 The Rabbis’ Considerations: Social Justice  3.6 Credit in Jewish Society: The Problem of Interest  3.7 Expanding the Scope of Usury  3.8 Jews and Non-Jews 4 “Money for Money”  4.1 Introduction  4.2 Lending “Money for Money”  4.3 Usury in Loans of “Money for Money”  4.4 Business Partnership (Iska) 5 “Money for Fruit”  5.1 Introduction  5.2 “Money for Fruit”: Future Sales (Pesika)  5.3 Linking a Loan to the Price of a Commodity  5.4 Down Payments  5.5 Future Sales That Are Not Pesika  5.6 Loans against Deduction of Future Tithes from the Field  5.7 Summary 6 “Fruit for Money”  6.1 Introduction  6.2 Sale on Credit  6.3 Delayed Payment  6.4 A Cash Loan Presented as a Two-Sided Sale Transaction  6.5 Tarsha: A Talmudic Version of Delayed Payment  6.6 “Fruit for Money” in a Partnership  6.7 “Iron Flocks”: An Agreement to Ensure the Investor’s Capital  6.8 Transport of Merchandise Guaranteeing the “High Price”  6.9 Conclusion 7 “Fruit for Fruit”  7.1 Introduction: In the Roman World  7.2 “Fruit for Fruit” in Rabbinic Literature  7.3 “Fruit for Fruit” for the Purchase of Seeds  7.4 Additional Cases of Usury in Sharecropping  7.5 Paying Back a Prohibited Loan of “Fruit for Fruit”  7.6 Exchange of Services  7.7 Loan of “Denars for Denars”  7.8 Conclusion 8 The Sages’ Attitude toward Those Involved in Usury  8.1 Introduction  8.2 Expanding the Prohibition  8.3 Combating Usury  8.4 Repentance from Usury  8.5 Permission to Lend for Interest in Special Cases 9 Conclusion  9.1 Contributions to Scholarship  9.2 Epilogue Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis is Volume One of a two-volume collection that brings together contributions from cultural and military history to offer an examination of religious rites employed in connection with warfare as well as their transformative and power- and identity-building potential across political communities of medieval Northern, Central, and Eastern Europe. Covering the period ca. 900 and 1500, the work takes theoretical, textual and practical approaches to the research on religious warfare, and investigates the connections between, and significance and function of crucial war rituals such as pre-, intra- and postbellum rites, as well as various activities surrounding the military life of individuals, polities, and corporates. Contributors are Robert Antonín, Robert Bubczyk, Dariusz Dąbrowski, Jesse Harrington, Carsten Selch Jensen, Sini Kangas, Radosław Kotecki, Gregory Leighton, Kyle C. Lincoln, Jacek Maciejewski, Yulia Mikhailova, Max Naderer, László Veszprémy, and Dušan Zupka.

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Book SynopsisThis is Volume Two of a two-volume collection that brings together contributions from cultural and military history to offer an examination of religious rites employed in connection with warfare as well as their transformative and power- and identity-building potential across political communities of medieval Northern, Central, and Eastern Europe. Covering the period ca. 900 and 1500, the work takes theoretical, textual and practical approaches to the research on religious warfare, and investigates the connections between, and significance and function of crucial war rituals such as pre-, intra- and postbellum rites, as well as various activities surrounding the military life of individuals, polities, and corporates. Contributors are Robert Antonín, Robert Bubczyk, Dariusz Dąbrowski, Jesse Harrington, Carsten Selch Jensen, Sini Kangas, Radosław Kotecki, Gregory Leighton, Kyle C. Lincoln, Jacek Maciejewski, Yulia Mikhailova, Max Naderer, László Veszprémy, and Dušan Zupka.

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Book SynopsisAnglican-Episcopal Theology and History covers aspects of the Anglican-Episcopal tradition from the Reformation to the present, in both its historical and theological forms, including historical theology. The volumes in the series comprise monographs, themed collected studies and rigorously revised doctoral dissertations. All proposed works will be peer-reviewed. Publications are in paperback and electronic format.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Introduction Part 1: 1680–1830 1 The Changing Interpretation of English Religion, 1680–1750  1 Introduction: The Shape of the First Two Chapters  2 J. C. D. Clark and the Rethinking of English Politics after 1688  3 Religion in English Society after 1688  4 Religion in the Early Enlightenment  5 Conclusion 2 Theology and the English Enlightenment, 1660–1720  1 The End of the Reformation in Europe, and the Challenge to Christian Orthodoxy  2 Revelation and Scripture in the Early Enlightenment  3 Reason in the Early Enlightenment  4 Thomas Hobbes  5 John Locke and Empiricism  6 The End of the Seventeenth Century in England: Cambridge Platonism and the Latitudinarians  7 Shaftesbury and the Moral Sense School  8 The Challenge of Shaftesbury to Orthodox Christianity 3 Joseph Butler’s Rolls Sermons  1 Butler’s Early Life and Education  2 Butler and Samuel Clarke  3 Butler’s Later Life, 1721–1752  4 Butler’s Refutation of Hobbes  5 Butler on Shaftesbury and Hutcheson  6 Butler’s Critique of Locke: Religious Affections  7 Butler’s Critique of Locke: Personal Identity  8 Butler on ‘Superior Principles’  9 Butler on Benevolence  10 Butler on Self-Love  11 Butler on Conscience  12 Butler on Self-Deceit  13 The Significance of Butler 4 William Law  1 Introduction  2 Law’s Life  3 Law as a Non-Juror  4 Law as Controversialist: Hoadly  5 Law as Controversialist: Mandeville  6 A Serious Call: Vocation  7 A Serious Call: Asceticism  8 A Serious Call: Literary Style  9 A Serious Call: Celibacy and Virginity  10 A Serious Call: An Ecclesial Ethic  11 A Serious Call: The Place of Reason  12 A Serious Call: Sanctification  13 Conclusion 5 Anglican Moral Theology, 1730–1800: Gay, Tucker, Paley and Wesley  1 Introduction  2 The Mid-Eighteenth Century and the Influence of Locke  3 John Gay and Theological Utilitarianism  4 Edmund Law and Richard Watson on Moral Teaching and Conscience  5 William Paley and Later Theological Utilitarianism  6 The Demise of Theological Utilitarianism  7 John Wesley: Context and Life  8 Wesley and Sanctification  9 Wesley and Butler  10 Wesley and Enthusiasm  11 Wesley on Emotion in Moral Judgement  12 Conclusion 6 Coleridge  1 Introduction  2 The Re-evaluation of Coleridge  3 Coleridge’s Life  4 Coleridge on Paley and Jeremy Taylor  5 Coleridge’s Reading of Neoplatonism  6 Coleridge and Kant  7 Coleridge and Aids to Reflection  8 Coleridge’s Legacy  9 Conclusion Conclusion to Part 1 Part 2: 1830–1950 7 John Henry Newman  1 Introduction: The Changing Historiography on Newman  2 The Anglican Newman  3 Newman’s Life  4 The Break with Evangelicalism  5 Newman on Humility  6 The Parochial Sermons  7 The University Sermons  8 Newman on Moral Character  9 Newman on Conscience  10 Newman on Personal Influence and Justice  11 Newman on Personal Responsibility  12 The Influence of Anglican Theologians: The Carolines  13 The Influence of Anglican Theologians: Butler  14 The Influence of Anglican Theologians: Coleridge  15 Conclusion 8 Frederick Denison Maurice  1 Introduction  2 Maurice’s Life  3 Moral Philosophy at Cambridge  4 Coleridge’s Influence on Maurice  5 Maurice’s Theological Anthropology  6 Maurice on Conscience  7 Biblical Theology and Christian Ethics  8 Criticisms of Maurice’s Theology  9 Maurice’s Contribution to Anglican Moral Theology 9 The Lux Mundi School  1 Introduction  2 The Influence of John Stuart Mill and Utilitarianism  3 The Lux Mundi Theologians: Charles Gore, Henry Scott Holland and R. C. Moberly  4 Philosophical Idealism at Oxford  5 Green’s Moral Philosophy  6 Bradley on Self-Realization  7 Donald MacKinnon on the British Idealists  8 Gore on Christ’s Moral Character  9 Gore on Social Morality  10 Holland on Faith and Moral Will  11 Holland on Christian Moral Character  12 Moberly on Self-Realization  13 Inge’s Response to Moberly’s Idealism  14 Moberly on Penitence and Beauty  15 Conclusion 10 William Temple’s Christian Ethics  1 Introduction  2 Temple’s Life  3 Edward Caird and William Temple  4 The Faith and Modern Thought  5 The Nature of Personality  6 Mens Creatrix  7 Christus Veritas  8 Nature, Man and God  9 Reviews of Nature, Man and God  10 Temple’s Later Theology in the 1930s  11 Temple’s Aquinas Lecture, 1943  12 Temple’s Significance 11 Kenneth Kirk: History and Casuistry  1 Introduction  2 The Revival of Thomism and the First World War  3 Kirk’s Life  4 Casuistry and Conscience  5 How the Church Can Change Its Mind  6 Lambeth Conference, 1930  7 The Vision of God  8 Contemporary Anglican Moral Theologians on Kirk  9 Conclusion Conclusion: Anglican Moral Theology 1680–1950 Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAt present, there is no scholarly consensus on the ecclesiastical organization in the Roman province of Scythia (4th-7th centuries). This volume proposes a new interpretation of some of the historical evidence concerning the evolution of the see of Tomi: a great metropolis, first with suffragan bishoprics outside Roman Scythia and then inside it, and later an autocephalous archbishopric. Though there are also many unclear aspects regarding the evolution of monastic life in the province, this book reveals that, in contrast with the development of the monastic infrastructure in Roman Scythia, a spiritual decline began in the mid-5th century.

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Book SynopsisJohn Wesley’s Primitive Physic (1747) achieved twenty-three editions in his lifetime, ensuring its popular – and controversial – status in eighteenth-century medicine. This is the first full-length study to examine the theological, intellectual and cultural background to one of the period’s most successful medical texts. By exploring Wesley’s work in the context of his theology, ‘A Cheap, Safe and Natural Medicine’ extends the on-going reconfiguration of the relationship between religion and medicine.Trade Review"An interesting sidelight into a rarely studied aspect of Wesley’s make up." – in: SciTech Book News, June 2008 "A Cheap, Safe and Natural Medicine does a nice job in capturing the whole of Wesley’s thought—not only the theological but the medicinal…. I am reminded of just how closely Wesley and the early Methodists viewed the relationship between spiritual and physical well being. I am grateful to Deborah Madden’s engaging work for helping me see this connection more clearly." – in: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 63/4 (October 2008) "Deborah Madden’s A Cheap, Safe and Natural Medicine is a valuable addition to The Wellcome Series in the History of Medicine, as it is the first book-length, scholarly study devoted to providing a range of detailed biographical and cultural contexts for comprehending the significance of Wesley’s medical manual. [A] useful study that will be of interest to anyone concerned with the inter-relationship between religion and medicine in the period." – in: Social History of Medicine, June 2009 "In an impressive monograph, notable for the thoroughness with which most of the recent secondary literature has been assimilated, Deborah Madden offers a systematic study of Wesley’s motivation and its grounding in his primitive Christianity… one of the real strengths of Madden’s analysis is her identification of the several levels at which Wesley’s eclectic theology did shape his medical priorities… she is surely correct, in principle, to say that […] Wesley’s eyes were focused on the natural, not the supernatural." – in: Medical History 53/4 (2009), 618-619Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements PART I: THE MEDICAL HOLISM OF PRIMITIVE PHYSIC 1 Introduction: Primitive Physic Explain’d in an Easy and Natural Method 2 John Wesley’s Hermeneutics of Primitive Christianity and Practical Piety 3 Experience and the Common Interest of Mankind: Physic, an Art or Science in Eighteenth-Century England? 4 Preserving Health, or a Few Plain and Easy Rules PART II: PRIMITIVE PHYSIC: ‘A COLLECTION OF RECEIPTS’ 5 Primitive Physic: Cheap, Safe and Natural Medicine for Health and Long Life 6 Conclusion: The Search for Pristine Purity Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisGiordano Bruno (1548-1600) was a philosopher in his own right. However, he was famous through the centuries due to his execution as a heretic. His pronouncements against teachings of the Catholic Church, his defence of the cosmology of Nicholas Copernicus, and his provocative personality, all this made him a paradigmatic figure of modernity. Bruno’s way of philosophizing is not looking for outright solutions but rather for the depth of the problems; he knows his predecessors and their strategies as well as their weaknesses, which he exposes satirically. This introduction helps to identify the original thought of Bruno who proudly said about himself: “Philosophy is my profession!” His major achievements concern the creativity of the human mind studied through the theory of memory, the infinity of the world, and the discovery of atomism for modernity. He never held a permanent office within or without the academic world. Therefore, the way of thinking of this “Knight Errant of Philosophy” will be presented along the stations of his journey through Western Europe.Trade Review"The author is a distinguished historian of philosophy, who contributed to the Bruno Studies with outstanding works … the reader is presented with a well-balanced account of Bruno’s bio-bibliography and a dynamic overview of his ideas in their development … a very useful introduction to Bruno’s philosophy" – in: Metascience, July 2013 "[Giordano Bruno] had the misfortune to live in an era of conflict between Catholics and Protestants. Unwilling to keep silent, and unable to fit his beliefs to the acceptable party line of either side, he stayed mostly in motion. Blum’s book works hard to keep up with him. It will be of most use to students and specialist scholarly readers in the history of philosophy." – in: Reference and Research Book News 27/6 (December 2012)Table of ContentsEditorial Foreword Foreword Acknowledgement Pleasant Campania: Education Before and In the Convent Fleeing into Exile—Northern Italy, Geneva, Toulouse: Astronomy as a Means of Earning a Living Paris: The Power of Memory Off to London: Satire, Metaphysics, and Ethics in Italian God Is Not Idle: Infinite Possibilities and Infinite Reality Religion and Ethics for the People and the Hero Return to Paris: Challenging Mathematics and Aristotelianism “Houses of Wisdom” in Germany: History, Magic, and Atomism Off to Venice: The Trial of the Heretic Afterlife: From Heretic to Hermeticist Chronology Select Bibliography About the Author Index

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