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Book SynopsisOffers a comprehensive catalogue of all the saints appearing in the monastic litanies, from Abro to Yvo. The litanies of the monastic orders in England, above all those of the Benedictines, are key witnesses of devotion to the saints of the British Isles, whose relics and shrines were mostly in Benedictine abbeys and cathedral priories. However, although many of the calendars of the Benedictines have been published, litanies are more rare, and the majority of those within this volume are presented as text editions for the first time. The majority of the textsare Benedictine, but the few surviving litanies from the other monastic orders, Carthusians, Cistercians and Cluniacs, are included, and also those of the Order of Fontevrault. This volume, the final in a set of three, contains a complete catalogue of all the saints mentioned in the litanies, providing such information as their miracles, their resting-place, and their origins. It also provides full indices to all three volumes. Nigel Morgan is Honorary Emeritus Professor of the History of Art at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Corpus Christi College.Table of ContentsGeneral Introduction Addenda of Texts to Volumes I and II Commentary on the Litanies of the Individual Religious Houses Catalogue of Significant Saints in English Monastic Litanies Bibliography Corrigenda and Bibliographical Addenda to Volumes I and II Index of Saints in the Litany Texts Index of Liturgical Forms in the Litany Texts Index of Manuscripts General Index

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Book SynopsisEdition, with introduction and notes, of important Irish liturgical texts found in Bavaria. The earliest Irish martyrology was compiled in prose and verse at Tallaght, near Dublin, about the year 830. Little has hitherto been known of its circulation before the period 1150-60, when the surviving copy of the prose versionwas made. Now, through the martyrology of the Regensburg Schottenkloster, we know that a copy of the metrical version had reached Bavaria in the southern part of Germany by the late tenth century, where it was used, firstby the Irish monks of the Regensburg Schottenkloster, then as a source of entries in other local German martyrologies. The martyrology, edited here for the first time, bears witness, therefore, to the circulation in Bavariaof this originally Irish compilation and, together with other documents, shows how the Scottish Benedictine monks, who succeeded the Irish in several monasteries in southern Germany and Austria, adapted to their own use a numberof essentially Irish liturgical documents. Emeritus Professor Pádraig Ó Riain is a member of the Placenames Commission of Ireland and one of the editors of the Locus project.Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction The Text of the Martyrology Appendix 1: Necrology and Diary of the Regensburg Schottenkloster Appendix 2: Irish Saints in CSOW and T on Days Now Lacking in MReg Appendix 3: Daily Excerpts from the Rule of St Benedict (20.1-4.12) and from the Pseudo-Bernard Documenta Pie seu Religiose Vivendi (5-19.12)

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Book SynopsisThis is an accessible two-part introduction to key periods of Christian history. Faith in the Byzantine World For many people the Byzantine world is an intriguing mystery. Here, Mary Cunningham presents readers with an ideal guide to this most fascinating of empires. Covering the period between 330 and 1453, the author begins by providing an outline of the history of the Byzantine Church, and then looks at key aspects of its outward expression, including the solitary ideal; holy places and holy people; service to the community; the nature of belief; and art, architecture and icons. Faith in the Medieval World The medieval period constituted a turbulent stage in religious history. Gillian R. Evans begins her immersive account by providing an overview of the development of Christianity in the West in the Middle Ages, before looking at key aspects of medieval faith: the Bible and belief; popular piety and devotion; the Crusades and the idea of 'holy war'; politics and the Church; rebellion against authority; and the road to Reformation. This analysis is a must for all those keen to understand one of the most enthralling periods of history.

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Book SynopsisAn investigation into the hugely significant works produced by the Worcester foundation at a period of turmoil and change. From the mid-eleventh to the mid-twelfth century Worcester was a monastic community of unparalleled importance. Not only was it home to many of the most famous bishops and monks of the period, including Bishop Wulfstan II: it was also a centre of notable and ambitious scholarly production. Under Wulfstan's guidance, a number of Worcester brethren undertook historical research that resulted in the writing of such renowned texts as Hemming's Cartulary and the Worcester Chronica Chronicarum. Significantly, these historical endeavours spanned the political chasm of the Norman Conquest. The essays collected here aim to shed new light on different aspects of the Worcester "historical workshop", whose literary ouput was, in several respects, pioneering in contemporary European scholarship. Several chapters address the different ways in which the monks organised and updated their archives of documents, both via their sequence of cartularies, with a special focus on the narrative parts of Hemming's Cartulary, and via an interesting (and previously unedited) prose account of the foundation of the see. Others focus on the famous Worcester Chronica Chronicarum, attributed both to Florence and to John, investigating the major model for its composition and structure (the work of Marianus Scotus), the stages in which it was completed, and its connections with Welsh chronicles, as well as the related and fascinating abbreviated version, written mostly in the hand of John himself, and known as the Chronicula. The volume thus elucidates how the Worcester monks navigated the period across the Conquest through the composition of different genres of texts, and how these texts shaped their own institutional memory.Trade ReviewThe collection is a model of careful scholarship that is not afraid to be methodologically innovative... The essays could almost have been written by a single author. The collection contains only the bare minimum of repetition required to allow each essay to stand on its own. The editors have created a model that group studies of other centers of historical production would do well to follow. * SPECULUM *Table of Contents1 Framing the Past: Charters and Chronicles at Worcester, c.1050-c.1150 - Francesca Tinti and D. A. Woodman 2 Identities in Community: Literary Culture and Memory at Worcester - Thomas O'Donnell 3 Preserving Records and Writing History in Worcester's Conquest-Era Archives - Jonathan Herold 4 Constructing Narrative in the Closing Folios of Hemming's Cartulary - Francesca Tinti 5 Worcester's Own History: an Account of the Foundation of the See and a Summary of Benefactions, AD 680-1093 - Susan Kelly 6 Worcester and the English Reception of Marianus Scotus C. Philipp E. Nothaft 7 History Books at Worcester, c.1050-1150, and the Making of the Worcester Chronicle - Laura Cleaver 8 Poetry in the Worcester Chronicula (TCD MS 503) - D. A. Woodman 9 Networks of Chronicle Writing in Western Britain: the Case of Worcester and Wales - Georgia Henley

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Book SynopsisDocuments recording the interrogation of sixteen women and the nature of their unusual spiritual practices, now available in a full edition and, for the first time, a full English translation. In September 1332, in the town of Świdnica, an important economic and communication centre of what was then Silesia, a group of sixteen women stood before the Dominican inquisitor, John of Schwenkenfeld, to testify about the local community of beguines, who called themselves the Hooded Sisters or the Daughters of Odelindis. We are fortunate that the original records of this heresy interrogation have survived, preserved as a notarial instrument drawn up shortly afterwards, eventually transferred to the Papal Curia, and now kept in the Vatican Library. The documents provide unique insights into the everyday life and spirituality of this group of lay women, as they attempted to adopt the ideals of vita apostolica. They lived in the strict poverty they thought necessary for spiritual perfection, and took part in austere ascetic practices, including regular flagellation and a strict diet regime, aiming to mortify sinful flesh and help them achieve mystical union with God. Using this evidence, the authors of this book piece together a sense of who these interrogated beguines were and the nature of their spiritual practices. Were they pious illiterates, or self-trained theologians, keenly interested in debates around the doctrine of such intellectuals as Master Eckhart, John Duns Scotus and Thomas Aquinas? The book also addresses the nature of their interrogation and the conduct of Friar John of Schwenkenfeld. And it contains a full edition and, for the first time, a full English translation of the documents themselves.Table of ContentsForeword by Robert E. Lerner Part One: Historical Studies Preface 1. The Rise of the Beguines 2. The Council of Vienne and the Persecution of Beguines 3. John of Schwenkenfeld O.P. and the Interrogations of Świdnica Beguines 4. The Daughters of Odelindis: Identity and Religious Practice 5. A Dominican Inquisitor and Theological Controversies of His Times 6. Conclusions Part Two: Latin Edition and English Translation of the 1332 Protocol Description of the Manuscripts Criticial Study Editorial Principles Examinatio testium in causa Capuciatarum monialium in Swydnicz Examination of Witnesses in the Case of the Hooded Sisters at Świdnica The Swesteren of Odelind of Piritz and Cologne and their European Context Letha Böhringer Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisDemonstrates how, far from being peripheral, the stable communities of conventual religious in mainland Europe acted as important centres of religious and secular activity in the aftermath of the Protestant Reformation. This collection aims to explore new perspectives on the British and Irish conventual, mendicant and monastic movements in mainland Europe and rediscover their roles and wider impact within early modern European Catholicism. Building on recent scholarship, the book addresses a historiographical imbalance, which has led to an over-emphasis being placed on the role of the Society of Jesus in the development of British and Irish Catholicism following the Protestant Reformation. The stable communities of religious in mainland Europe also acted as important centres of religious and secular activity. This volume explores the ways in which British and Irish conventuals and monastics, both men and women, engaged with the seismic religious and philosophical developments of the early modern period, such as the Catholic Reformation and the Enlightenment in mainland Europe, as well as important political developments at 'home', exploring the connections between centres and peripheries. Building on recent movements within the field to 'decentralise' the Catholic Reformation and recognize the international nature of Catholicism, the volume aims to change the perception that the activities of British and Irish religious were 'peripheral', bringing the islands' experience in line with work on their European confreres and the broader global network of the religious orders.Table of ContentsIntroduction Cormac Begadon and James E. Kelly Part 1: Creating and Maintaining Identities 1. Cloistered yet Militant: Commitment to Englishness in Seventeenth-Century Convents in Exile on the Continent Laurence Lux-Sterritt 2. The Regular Clergy and the Episcopate in Ireland, 1600-1650 Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin 3. Recycling an Island's Past for a Global Catholicism: Irish Franciscans in the Seventeenth Century John McCafferty Part 2: The Relationship between Home and Exile 4. Surviving in Exile: Strategies and Supporters of the English Convents in Exile, c.1600-c.1800 Caroline Bowden 5. 'A mixt life'? English Benedictines and European Catholic Reform Movements: Monasticism and Apostolic Mission James E. Kelly 6. Cloistered Politics: English Benedictine Nuns and the Stuarts, 1600-1700 Jaime Goodrich Part 3: Space and Place 7. I am all good and fill all places': Mystical Space and the Affective Atmosphere in a Seventeenth-Century Convent Jessica McCandless 8. The Exiled English Religious Orders and their Continental Gardens from Exile to Emancipation Geoffrey Scott 9. The Irish Regulars in Early-Modern Paris: a re-examination Liam Chambers Part 4: Intellectual Movements 10. A Scottish Enlightenment in Germany Thomas McInally 11. The 'Fifth Vial': Charles Walmesley's Ultramontane Apocalypticism Shaun Blanchard 12. Meandering Towards an Inevitable Death? English Benedictine Monasteries and their Responses to Enlightenment and Revolution Cormac Begadon Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume explores the influences of Catholicism and Protestantism in a trio of Shakespeare's tragedies: Julius Caesar , Macbeth , and Hamlet . Bypassing the discussion of Shakespeare's personal religious beliefs, Batson instead focuses on distinct footprints left by Catholic and Protestant traditions that underlie and inform Shakespeare's artistic genius.Trade Review"These essays, which seek to demonstrate how powerfully Shakespeare's artistry is informed by Christian tradition and culture, are admirably free of narrow doctrinal or exegetical restriction. As we make our way through these essays, here observing Shakespeare's Catholic sensibility and there his Protestant one, we see the playwright's infinite variety in a light both familiar and critically new. - JOSEPH CANDIDO, University of Arkansas This stimulating collection of smart essays demonstrates not only that Shakespeare was theologically informed but also that Christian language and concepts were integral to the design of his major tragedies. The formidable contributors enable us to hear lost echoes of Scripture and sermon, polemic and Prayer Book that reverberate in nearly every scene. - PETER LEITHART, New St. Andrews College"Table of ContentsPreface -- Beatrice Batson 1. Meta-drama in Hamlet and Macbeth -- Peter Milward, SJ 2. Explorers of the Revelation: Spenser and Shakespeare -- David Daniell 3. The Problem of Self-Love in Shakespeare's Tragedies and in Renaissance and Reformation Theology -- Robert Lanier Reid 4. "I Could Not Say âAmen'": Prayer and Providence in Macbeth -- Robert S. Miola 5. Hamlet and Protestant Aural Theater -- Grace Tiffany 6. Providence in Julius Caesar -- John W. Mahon 7. Cobbling Souls in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar -- Maurice Hunt Contributors

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Book SynopsisThe recovery of 800 documents in the eleven caves on the northwest shores of the Dead Sea is one of the most sensational archeological discoveries in the Holy Land to date. These three volumes, the very best of critical scholarship, demonstrate in detail how the scrolls have revolutionized our knowledge of the text of the Bible, the character of Second Temple Judaism, and the Jewish beginnings of Christianity.Trade Review"The three-volume edition Bible and the Dead Sea Scrolls will become a milestone for Old and New Testament research. The authors are leading scholars in this field and no other publication has collected so many interesting contributions about the largest finding of biblical and Jewish texts in the last century." -Martin Hengel, University of Tubingen "James H. Charlesworth has assembled a stellar gathering of Dead Sea Scrolls scholars in these rich volumes. They will make a lasting and profoundly significant contribution to the understanding of the greatest archeological find of modern times and the light it throws on the Bible." -Michael E. Stone, Gail Levin de Nur Professor of Comparative Religion, Professor of Armenian Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem "These three volumes containing fresh and updated research on the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Bible, the Qumran community, and early Christianity, written by renown scholars from the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Israel, and edited by one of the world's leading scholars, promise to be a major and definitive contribution to scholarship." -Adolfo Roitman, Curator of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Head of the Shrine of the Book, The Israel Museum, JerusalemTable of Contents Book 1 List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations List of Contributors Preface: The New Perspective on Second Temple Judaism and ""Christian Origins"" James H. Charlesworth Introduction: The Dead Sea Scrolls: Their Discovery and Challenge to Biblical Studies James H. Charlesworth Chapter 1: The Impact of the Judean Desert Scrolls on Issues of Text and Canon of the Hebrew Bible James A. Sanders Chapter 2: Qumran and the Enoch Groups: Revisiting the Enochic-Essene Hypothesis Gabriele Boccaccini Chapter 3: The Biblical Scrolls from Qumran and the Canonical Text Frank Moore Cross Chapter 4: The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Hebrew Scriptural Texts Eugene C. Ulrich Chapter 5: The Formation and Re-Formation of Daniel in the Dead Sea Scrolls Loren T. Stuckenbruck Chapter 6: The Rewritten Bible at Qumran Sidnie White Crawford Chapter 7: Qumran and a New Edition of the Hebrew Bible Ronald S. Hendel Chapter 8: 4QSama (= 4Q51), the Canon, and the Community of Lay Readers Donald W. Parry Chapter 9: Three Sobriquets, Their Meaning and Function: The Wicked Priest, Synagogue of Satan, and the Woman Jezebel H?Ñkan Bengtsson Chapter 10: The Biblical and Qumranic Concept of War Philip R. Davies Chapter 11: Psalms and Psalters in the Dead Sea Scrolls Peter W. Flint Chapter 12: The Importance of Isaiah at Qumran J. J. M. Roberts Chapter 13: Biblical Interpretation at Qumran George J. Brooke Book 2 Chapter 1 Digital Miracles: Revealing Invisible Scripts Keith T. Knox, Roger L. Easton, Jr., Robert H. Johnston Chapter 2 Another Stab at the Wicked Priest David Noel Freedman and Jeffrey C. Geoghegan Chapter 3 What's in a Calendar? Calendar Conformity and Calendar Controversy in Ancient Judaism: The Case of the ""Community of the Renewed Covenant"" Shemaryahu Talmon Chapter 4 The Covenant in Qumran Moshe Weinfeld Chapter 5 What was Distinctive about Messianic Expectation at Qumran? John J. Collins Chapter 6 The Law and Spirit of Purity at Qumran Joseph M. Baumgarten Chapter 7 Excerpted Manuscripts at Qumran: Their Significance for the Textual History of the Hebrew Bible and the Socio-Religious History of the Qumran Community and its Literature Brent A. Strawn Chapter 8 The Two Spirits in Qumran Theology John R. Levison Chapter 9 Dualism in the Essene Communities Elisha Qimron Chapter 10 The Qumran Concept of Time Henry W. Morisada Rietz Chapter 11 Predestination in the Bible and the Dead Sea Scrolls Magen Broshi Chapter 12 Resurrection: The Bible and Qumran ?ëmile Puech Chapter 13 Qumran Community Structure and Terminology as Theological Statement Sarianna Metso Chapter 14 Daily and Festival Prayers at Qumran Dennis T. Olson Chapter 15 The Sociological and Liturgical Dimensions of Psalm Pesher 1 (4QpPsa): Some Prolegomenous Reflections James H. Charlesworth and James D. McSpadden Chapter 16 The Moses at Qumran: The qdch hrwm as the Nursing-Father of the dxy Jacob Cherian Chapter 17 Enoch and the Archangel Michael Ephraim Isaac Chapter 18 Qumran and the Dating of the Parables of Enoch Paolo Sacchi Chapter 19 The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Meal Formula in Joseph and Aseneth: From Qumran Fever to Qumran Light Randall D. Chesnutt Chapter 20 The Bible, the Psalms of Solomon, and Qumran Joseph L. Trafton Chapter 21 Old Testament Pseudepigrapha at Qumran Devorah Dimant Chapter 22 The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha at Qumran James C. VanderKam Book 3 Chapter 1 John the Baptizer and the Dead Sea Scrolls James H. Charlesworth Chapter 2 The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Historical Jesus Richard A. Horsley Chapter 3 The Future of a Religious Past: Qumran and the Palestinian Jesus Movement Donald H. Juel Chapter 4 The Synoptic Gospels and the Dead Sea Scrolls Craig A. Evans Chapter 5 A Study in Shared Symbolism and Language: The Qumran Community and the Johannine Community James H. Charlesworth Chapter 6 The Impact of Selected Qumran Texts on the Understanding of Pauline Theology Heinz-Wolfgang Kuhn Chapter 7 Qumran's Some Works of Torah (4Q394-399 [4QMMT]) and Paul's Galatians James D. G. Dunn and James H. Charlesworth Chapter 8 How the Scrolls Impacted Scholarship on Hebrews Harold W. Attridge Chapter 9 The Dream of a New Jerusalem at Qumran Adela Yarbro Collins Chapter 10 The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Apocalypse of John Loren L. Johns Chapter 11 About the Differing Approach to a Theological Heritage: Comments on the Relationship Between the Gospel of John, the Gospel of Thomas, and Qumran Enno E. Popkes Chapter 12 Economic Justice and Nonretaliation in the Dead Sea Scrolls: Implications for New Testament Interpretation Gordon M. Zerbe Chapter 13 Atonement: Qumran and the New Testament Paul Garnet Chapter 14 ""The Coming of the Righteous One"" in 1 Enoch, Qumran, and the New Testament Gerbern S. Oegema Chapter 15 Qumran and Supersessionism and the Road Not Taken Krister Stendahl Chapter 16 The Impact of the Dead Sea Scrolls on New Testament Interpretation: Proposals, Problems, and Further Perspectives J? rg Frey

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Book SynopsisIn the aftermath of the 2016 presidential election, many Americans questioned how to respond to the results and the deep divisions in our country exposed by the campaign. Many people of faith turned to their religious communities for guidance and support. Many looked for ways to take action. In November 2016, biblical scholar Andrea L. Weiss and graphic designer Lisa M. Weinberger teamed up to create an innovative response: a national nonpartisan campaign that used letters and social media to highlight core American values connected to our diverse religious traditions. American Values, Religious Voices: 100 Days, 100 Letters is a collection of letters written by some of America’s most accomplished and thoughtful scholars of religion during the first 100 days of the Trump presidency. While the letters are addressed to the president, vice president, and members of the 115th Congress and Trump administration, they speak to a broad audience of Americans looking for wisdom and encouragement at this tumultuous time in our nation’s history. This unique volume assembles the 100 letters, plus four new supplemental essays and many of the graphic illustrations that enhanced the campaign. Published near the midway point of the Trump presidency, this book showcases a wide range of ancient sacred texts that pertain to our most pressing contemporary issues. At a time of great division in our country, this post-election project models how people of different backgrounds can listen to and learn from one another. The letters offer insight and inspiration, reminding us of the enduring values that make our nation great.

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Book SynopsisFounded in 1856 by Bishop James Roosevelt Bayley of Newark, Seton Hall University has played a large part in New Jersey and American Catholic life for nearly two centuries. From its modest beginnings as a small college and seminary to its present position as a major national university, it has always sought to provide “a home for the mind, the heart, and the spirit.” In this vivid and elegantly written history, Dermot Quinn examines how Seton Hall was able to develop as an institution while keeping faith with its founder’s vision. Looking at the men and women who made Seton Hall what it is today, he paints a compelling picture of a university that has enjoyed its share of triumphs but has also suffered tragedy and loss. He shows how it was established in an age of prejudice and transformed in the aftermath of war, while exploring how it negotiated between a distinctly Roman Catholic identity and a mission to include Americans of all faiths. Seton Hall University not only recounts the history of a great educational institution, it also shares the personal stories of the people who shaped it and were shaped by it: the presidents, the priests, the faculty, the staff, and of course, the students.Trade Review"An insightful piece of cultural history, explaining how Catholics built their own institutions, debated among themselves how these institutions served a greater good, and struggled to grow and adapt their schools to a more secular age. The scholarship is profound."— Terry Golway, author of Frank and Al: FDR, Al Smith, and the Unlikely Alliance That Created the Modern Democratic “Quinn deftly tells the story of Seton Hall University, gracefully elucidating the struggle to remain faithful as a Catholic institution while seeking a place among the great universities of the United States. Seton Hall University is a story that mirrors that of the Catholic Church in New Jersey and, indeed, in the nation.”— Augustine J. Curley, OSB, New Jersey Catholic Historical Commission "An insightful piece of cultural history, explaining how Catholics built their own institutions, debated among themselves how these institutions served a greater good, and struggled to grow and adapt their schools to a more secular age. The scholarship is profound."— Terry Golway, author of Frank and Al: FDR, Al Smith, and the Unlikely Alliance That Created the Modern Democratic “Quinn deftly tells the story of Seton Hall University, gracefully elucidating the struggle to remain faithful as a Catholic institution while seeking a place among the great universities of the United States. Seton Hall University is a story that mirrors that of the Catholic Church in New Jersey and, indeed, in the nation.”— Augustine J. Curley, OSB, New Jersey Catholic Historical CommissionTable of ContentsContents Chapter 1: Foundations Chapter 2: A College Begins Chapter 3: The Michael Corrigan Years Chapter 4: Another Corrigan, Another Fire Chapter 5: A New Century Chapter 6: McLaughlin at the Helm Chapter 7: From McLaughlin to Monaghan to Kelley Chapter 8: Resurgence Chapter 9: Seton Hall at War Chapter 10: A New Beginning Chapter 11: A New University Chapter 12: A Law School For the City Chapter 13: A Revolution under Dougherty Chapter 14: Noble Dream: The Seton Hall University School of Medicine and Dentistry Chapter 15: Dangerous Decade: Seton Hall in the 1970s Chapter 16: The Seton Hall Renaissance Chapter 17: Towards the New Millennium Chapter 18: A Law School for the City: Seton Hall Law from 1961 Chapter 19: The Sheeran Years Appendix A: Seton Hall Sport Appendix B: Seton Hall Priests, 1856-2013 Acknowledgements Notes Index

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Book Synopsis This book explores the religious teachings of best-selling Victorian author and former Member of Parliament, Laurence Oliphant (1829–1888). While several biographies have been written on his captivating life, the stage of his life when Oliphant first established ‘The Household' commune has, until now, been largely unexplored. This book focuses on this later stage of his life, exploring Oliphant’s religious teachings. Additionally, this study incorporates a newly discovered archive, which reveals many behind-the-scenes details of The Household's teachings. Jeffrey D. Lavoie shows that Oliphant provided a unique interpretation of sexuality from a mystical Christian perspective, which opposed the restrictive contemporaneous “Victorian morality." Table of Contents Table of ContentsPreface Chapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: Biography and Background Chapter 3: The SympneumataChapter 4: Charles Carleton Massey (1838 – 1905)Chapter 5: Rosamond Dale Owen (1846 – 1937)Chapter 6: James Murray Templeton (1860 – 1892)Chapter 7: Jennie TuttleChapter 8: Hannah Whitall Smith (1832 – 1911)Chapter 9: Laurence Carrington GrubbeChapter 10: A Scandal from Within Chapter 11: Conclusion Addendum A: Laurence Carrington Grubbe and the Sympneumata Addendum B: Maria Julia Grubbe and the Sympneumata Addendum C: William Stainton Moses and the Sympneumata Addendum D: 1886-1892 L.C. Grubbe’s Journal and His Interaction with Laurence Oliphant

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Book Synopsis'At a historic moment, when religion shows all its social and political strength in various post-modern societies around our globe, this fascinating collection of studies from the Middle Ages to twentieth-century Europe demonstrates all the richness and innovative force of investigating individual and shared experiences when questioning the cultural, political and social place of religion in society. It also makes known in English the work of a series of Finnish historians elaborating together a pioneering vision of the notion of experience in the discipline of history.'- Piroska Nagy, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada This open access book offers a theoretical introduction to the history of experience on three conceptual levels: everyday experience, experience as process, and experience as structure. Chapters apply 'experience' to empirical case studies, exploring how people have made and shared their religion through experience in history. This book understands experience as a simultaneously socially constructed and intimately personal process that connects individuals to communities and past to future, thereby forming structures that create and direct societies. It represents the crossroads of a new field of the history of experience, and an established tradition of the history of lived religion. Chapters offer a longue durée view from the fourteenth-century heretics, via experiences of miracle, madness, sickness, suffering, prayer, conversion and death, to the religious artisanship of soldiers in the Second World War frontlines. It concentrates on Northern Europe, but includes materials from Italy, France and United Kingdom.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Religion as historical experience, by Sari Katajala-Peltomaa and Raisa Maria Toivo2. From lived reality to a cultural script: Punishment miracles as an experience- Sari Katajala-Peltomaa3. A taste of dissent. Experiences of heretical blessed bread as a dimension of lived religion in 13th- and early 14th-century Languedoc- Saku Pihko4. The religious experience of ill health in late 16th-century Italy- Jenni Kuuliala5. Prayer and the body in lay religious experience in early modern Finland- Raisa Maria Toivo6. Extended families as communities of religious experience in late 17th-century eastern Finland- Miia Kuha7. Constructing “mad” religious experiences in early modern Sweden- Riikka Miettinen8. The trials of Sarah Wheeler (1807-1867) – experiencing submission- Mervi Kaarninen9. Working-class women living religion in Finland at the turn of the 20th century- Pirjo Markkola10. To the undiscovered country: Facing death in early twentieth-century Finnish poorhouses- Johanna Annola11. Artisans of religion at the moral frontiers: Finnish soldiers’ religious practices, beliefs, and attitudes in World War II- Ville Kivimäki

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Book SynopsisThis latest comprehensive work on Simon Magus lends new impetus to the investigation of Early Christianity and questions surrounding the origin and nature of Gnosticism. Major contributions of this study include: (1), a departure from the traditional exegesis of Acts 8, 5-24 (the first narrative source of Simon), and the later following reports of ancient Christian writers; (2), an overview of the literature of Graeco-Roman antiquity to determine the contribution of "magic" and "the Magoi" in the development of perceptions and descriptions of Simon; and (3), the inclusion of social science explanation models and modern estimations of "identity", in a creative approach to questions surrounding the phenomenon of Simon.Trade Review"Haars sorgfaltige Analysen der einschlagigen Texte und die Diskussion moderner Forschungsbegriffe machen das Buch zu einem wertvollen Beitrag [...]."Jurgen Zangenberg in: Theologische Literaturzeitung 12/2005

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Book SynopsisDiese neu vorgelegte Textedition des Nag-Hammadi-Codex II,4 beruht auf einer Autopsie des Codex im Koptischen Museum zu Alt-Kairo und berücksichtigt darüber hinaus im kritischen Apparat auch die Ergebnisse aller früheren Editionen. Der sprachlichen Erschließung des Textes dient das umfassende grammatische Register, das in der bewährten Tradition des Berliner Arbeitskreises für koptisch-gnostische Schriften Berlin steht. Die Kommentierung des Textes konzentriert sich auf den Text in seiner vorliegenden Form. Mögliche Vorformen und Traditionen werden dabei (insbesondere im Blick auf UW NHC II,5) diskutiert, von literarkritischen Scheidungen wird jedoch abgesehen. Über die Forschungsgeschichte informiert neben Angaben zu Ort, Zeit, Verfasser, Empfängern, Sprache, literarischer Gestalt und religionsgeschichtlicher Einordnung die Einleitung. Ausgezeichnet mit demAlexander-Böhlig-Preis 2007

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Book SynopsisHannah M Cotton’s collected papers focus on questions which have fascinated her for over four decades: the concrete relationships between law, language, administration and everyday life in Judaea and Nabataea in particular, and in the Roman world as a whole. Many of the papers, especially those devoted to the Judean Desert documents of the 2nd century CE have been widely cited. Others, having appeared in less accessible publications, may not have received the attention they deserve.　 On the whole, rather than addressing the grand narratives of world or national history, they look at the texture of life, seeking to provide tentative answers to historical questions and interpretations by paying fine attention to the details of literary and, especially, documentary evidence. Taken together they illuminate fundamental, often legal, questions concerning daily life and the exercise of Roman rule and administration in the early imperial period, and especially, their impact on life as it was lived in the province and the period where Roman and Jewish history fatefully intersected. The volume includes a complete bibliography of her publications. 　 　

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Die editio princeps des bislang lediglich in unvollständiger koptischer Übertragung zugänglichen Traktats Vom Mysterium der Buchstaben (Mitte 6. Jh.) erschließt ein einzigartiges Dokument frühbyzantinischen monastischen Schrifttums. Aufbauend auf und gleichzeitig in Abgrenzung von jüdischen Traditionen zur geheimen Bedeutung der hebräischen Buchstaben, entwickelt der Autor des Werkes – angeblich Sabas von Jerusalem, vermutlich jedoch eher ein kalligraphisch interessierter Anhänger dieses Heiligen – eine christliche Interpretation des griechischen Alphabets, vom Alpha bis zum Omega. Um das Werk kulturgeschichtlich zu verorten, werden in der Einführung neben einer inhaltlichen Analyse des Textes verschiedene Spielarten der symbolischen Ausdeutung von Buchstaben in jüdischem und christlichem Kontext dargestellt. Dem kritischen Text ist eine deutsche Übersetzung beigegeben, inhaltliche und philologische Anmerkungen zu einzelnen Textstellen vertiefen das Verständnis des Werkes.

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Book SynopsisZwei der bedeutendsten um im Folgenden besonders einflussreichen Hörer des Religionsphilosophen und Theologen Ernst Troeltsch aus der Heidelberger Zeit, die Dichterin Gertrud von le Fort (1876–1971) und der Theologe Friedrich Gogarten (1887–1967), die sich 1911/12 begegnet waren, traten nach drei Jahren in einen zunehmend vertrauensvollen Briefwechsel und eine familiäre Beziehung zueinander. Ihre Korrespondenz reicht über die Kriegszeit, krisenhafte Kirchenzustände und die Verhältnisse im untergehenden Kaiserreich mit allen Facetten der Not und Orientierungslosigkeit hin zu den Anstrengungen theoretischer und religiöser Neugestaltung.Während le Fort bis zu Troeltschs Tod und darüber hinaus in geistig enger Beziehung zu dem prägenden Lehrer blieb, versuchte Gogarten im Umgang mit Schweizer Freunden die neuen Wege der sog. ‚dialektischen‘ Theologie mitzubestimmen, auch mit Buber und Guardini in Beziehung zu kommen. Die Dichterin trat mit rasch von der katholischen Öffentlichkeit rezipierten ‚Hymnen an die Kirche‘ (1924) hervor und arbeitete gleichzeitig nachdrücklich an der Edition von Troeltschs ‚Glaubenslehre‘ (1925). Als sie 1926 konvertierte, schien der Briefverkehr zu erlöschen. In ihm, wie in den beigegebenen Texten bildet sich subtil und eindrücklich ein dramatisches und erregendes Zeitgeschehen im überschaubaren Feld reflexiver Subjektivität ab.

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For over 2500 years, Buddhism was implicated in processes of cultural interaction that in turn shaped Buddhist doctrines, practices and institutions. While the cultural plurality of Buddhism has often been remarked upon, the transcultural processes that constitute this plurality, and their long-term effects, have scarcely been studied as a topic in their own right. The contributions to this volume present detailed case studies ranging across different time periods, regions and disciplines, and they address methodological challenges as well as theoretical problems. In addition to casting a spotlight on topics as diverse as the role of trade contacts in the early spread of Buddhism, the hybrid nature of religious practices in Japan or Indo-Tibetan relations in Tibetan polemical literature, the individual papers jointly raise the question as to whether there might be something distinct about how Buddhism steers and influences forms of cultural exchange, and is in turn shaped by modalities of cultural interaction throughout Asian, as well as global, history. The volume is intended to demonstrate the need for investigating transcultural dynamics more closely in the study of Buddhism, and to suggest new avenues for Buddhist Studies.

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Book SynopsisThe late Platonist philosopher Damascius both reassumed and rejuvenated the rich and long-established Greek thinking about time. In distinguishing between different perceptions of time, by Plato, Aristotle and his Neoplatonist predecessors, Damascius offered novel perspectives, which can be seen as anticipating modern and contemporary theories of time, such as McTaggart’s series and presentism. The greatest merit of his philosophy of time, however, is his deep reflection on what it is for a living being to have its being in becoming – as it happens with us human beings – and how this relates to stillness, temporality and temporalization. Time is interpreted by Damascius not merely as a concomitant of the celestial motions, nor as an abstract entity existing in the human soul, but as a power of ordering, which is active at different levels. Damascius’ time comprises the biological and the historical time but is also the time that pertains to the essence and the activity of heaven, in which there is neither past nor future. The present book explores the richness of Damascius’ thought by going into the fundamental concepts of his philosophy of time: the indivisible now and the present time, the flowing now and the non-flowing now, the flowing time and the whole of time, in which past, present and future coincide. Damascius fully developed his thoughts about time in his treatise On Time, which is lost. The preserved fragments of this treatise are translated and annotated in an Appendix.

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Book SynopsisDer erste Band einer ‚Geschichte professioneller Kontrolle’ untersucht, wie es im Mittelalter, einer Zeit, in der er noch keinen Staat per se gab, gelang, die vom orthodoxen Glauben abweichenden Ketzer systematisch auszurotten, um damit ein Leitbild für alle künftigen Kontroll-Institutionen – von der frühneuzeitlichen Hexenverfolgung über die Geschichte der Psychiatrie bis hin zur gegenwärtigen Drogenpolitik – zu schaffen. Am Beispiel der Inquisition der Katharer im französischen Languedoc während des 12. und 13. Jahrhunderts wird deren machtpolitischer, religiös-mentaler und kultureller Hintergrund beschrieben. Dabei gewinnt der 200-jährige Kontakt mit einer fortgeschritteneren und toleranteren islamischen Kultur während der spanischen Reconquista und der Kreuzzüge ins Heilige Land eine besondere aktuelle Bedeutung.Table of ContentsOrte und Zeiten. Ein Reisebericht.- Der polit-ökonomische Rahmen.- Die religiös kirchliche Dimension.- Der kulturelle ‚Überbau’.- Die Inquisition.- Fazit: Die Erfindung eines Kontrollapparates.

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Book SynopsisThe Religious World of Quintus Aurelius Symmachus examines the religious life of one of the last pagan senators of Rome, dates c. 340-402, who lived in a tumultuous time during the Late Antique period of the Roman Empire, dying just a few years before the Western Empire began to break up. Symmachus could not have imagined the political reality developing so soon after his death, so he is important as a late example of the old Roman Western aristocracy, as well as one of the last pagans of Rome. He was regarded as the foremost orator of his time and was a prolific letter-writer who had correspondents in high places and throughout the Empire. He also filled the posts of Urban Prefect of Rome and Consul - and was the opponent of Bishop Ambrose of Milan during the so-called 384 CE "Altar of Victory Dispute," which was one episode of many leading to the " triumph" of Christianity over traditional Roman polytheism. Symmachus' cache of 900 private letters and his official despatches while Urban Prefect have provided the raw material for this book.Trade ReviewQuintus Aurelius Symmachus was a Roman statesman and man of letters who lived in the later period of the 4th century AD. This was a time of great change in Rome with the gradual adoption of Christianity amongst the aristocracy meant that the traditional pagan religions were under threat. Symmachus sought to preserve the old ways, sometimes to his personal detriment. In her work, Jillian Mitchell has made a careful study of his collected letters and Relationes (official dispatches) to provide a well-rounded picture of this period in Late Antiquity. We are given a glimpse into the life of a man who lived through this time of change. This eminently readable work provides an in-depth study of the man and his time."" - Susan Sorek, Dept. Continuing Education, University of OxfordTable of Contents Foreword CHAPTER 1. Quintus Aurelius Symmachus and His World CHAPTER 2. Literary Pursuits, Amicitia and Aristocratic Life CHAPTER 3. Symmachus' Religious Landscape CHAPTER 4. Symmachus' Religious Language CHAPTER 5. Symmachus' Religious Ritual CHAPTER 6. Symmachus and the Religious Crisis of 384 CHAPTER 7. Symmachus and the Twilight of the Gods Appendices Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume presents a timely contribution to the growing body of scholarship on the apocryphal writings and their reception in the Middle Ages, especially in connection with visual representation. It aims to bridge what often remains disconnected, the visual art and the written text, the early Christian roots and medieval reception, the East and the West, as well as methodologies of various disciplines. The studies in this volume firstly investigate issues related to the Virgin Mary, and through them, also the status, function, and identity of women. Mary and the female element thus represent significant models and/or background figures in fields pertaining to theology, religious studies, textual studies, manuscript studies, and art history in a trans-disciplinary perspective. Secondly, the studies focus on the apostles and the Last Judgment, their visual representations and the use of apocryphal sources. The volume is divided in two parts according to two major topics: Part I dealing with Mary in the Apocrypha, and Part II focusing on the Apostles and the Last Judgment.Table of Contents Notes on Contributors Introduction CHAPTER 1. Responsible Midwifery or Reckless Disbelief? Revisiting Salome's Examination of Mary in The Protevangelium Jacobi, by Mark M. Mattison CHAPTER 2. Introduction to Mary as High Priest in Early Christian Narratives and Iconography, by Ally Kateusz CHAPTER 3. Visual Cherubikon: Mary as Priest at Lagoudera in Cyprus, by Matthew J. Milliner CHAPTER 4. Apocryphal Iconography in the Byzantine Churches of Cappadocia: Meaning and Visibility in Scenes of the Story of Mary and the Infancy of Christ, by Manuela Studer-Karlen CHAPTER 5. The Impact of Apocryphal Sources on the Annunciation in Medieval Art, by Marilyn Gasparini CHAPTER 6. Pseudepigrapha and Last Judgment Iconography: Examples from the Church of the Ascension in Luzhany, by Daria Co?codan CHAPTER 7. Apocryphal Sources and Their Importance in the Italian Iconography of Saint James the Greater, by Andrea D'Apruzzo CHAPTER 8. Apostolorum Gloriosissimus Princeps. Saint Peter Healing the Sick with His Shadow in Late Medieval Painting between the Acts and the Golden Legend, by Gerd Mathias Micheluzzi

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Book SynopsisReligious Horror and Holy War in Viking Age Francia explores how authorities in western Francia used horror rhetoric to cast Christian soldiers, who robbed the poor and the church, as monsters that devoured human flesh and drank human blood. Adapting modern literary horror approaches to medieval sources, this study reveals how such rhetoric served as a form of spiritual weaponry in the clergy's attempts to correct and condemn wayward military men. This investigation, therefore, unearths long-forgotten Carolingian thought about the dreadful spiritual reality of internal enemies during a time of political division and the Northmen's depredations. Yet such horror also informed a new understanding of Christian heroism that developed in relation to the wars fought against the invaders. This vision of heroic soldiers, which included military martyrs, culminated in ideas about holy war against the pagans. Thus Carolingian religious horror and holy war together belonged to a body of ideas about the spiritual, unseen side of the church's cosmic conflict against evil that foreshadowed later medieval Crusading thought.Trade ReviewGillis has written a vital book that takes a moment of crisis in the late ninth century and transforms how we think about not just the Viking attacks but much else. The Franks were enmeshed in violence and Gillis is one of the first to really theorize what that meant, how 'horror' can help us understand not just how they thought about war, politics, and religion, but also how the centuries that followed built upon those foundation stones and further developed an idea of Christian holy war that crescendoed in the twelfth century."" - Matthew Gabriele, Professor of Medieval Studies, Dept. of Religion & Culture, Virginia Tech""Matthew Gillis is one of the most creative historians working today in any field. His application of the theories and literature of horror to Carolingian texts allows him and his readers to find new insights in the material. It will be particularly valuable for showing how the Carolingians and ideas of horror helped shape the early doctrine of holy war."" - Jay Rubenstein, Professor of History and Director of the Center for the Premodern World, University of Southern CaliforniaTable of Contents Preface PART ONE. ""And The Blood of Our Brothers Drips from Our Mouths"" – King Carloman II's Monsters & Carolingian Religious Horror PART TWO. ""Men Devouring One another Drink their Neighbors' Blood"" – Spiritual Protections against Christian Monsters PART THREE. ""Alas, Naked They Underwent the Savage Folk's Sword!"" – Heroism in Abbo of Saint-Germain's Wars of the City of Paris PART FOUR. ""O, Francia, Protect Yourself!"" – Cosmic War in Abbo of Saint Germain's Sermons Acknowledgements Abbreviations Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe sixteenth century, which heralded the end of the Middle Ages and the commencement of the Early Modern Era, was a time of tremendous religious upheaval and social ferment. The nebulous conglomeration of movements often referred to as the "Reformation" led to a wave of bloodshed and persecution which engulfed most of Europe for at least a hundred years. The present volume offers a translation of a particularly graphic literary portrayal of tortures and atrocities committed against Catholics during that time—the Speculum Haereticae Crudelitatis [The Mirror of Heretical Cruelty], by Arnold Havens (1540–1610). Havens was a Carthusian monk, an accomplished historian and scholar, and a prolific author. The Mirror of Cruelty is a remarkable and unique literary achievement, describing in gruesome and chilling detail an extensive catalogue of disturbing, inhuman and often bizarre acts of abuse. Most of these have not been available in any English-language sources until now, or have been presented only in abridged and bowdlerized forms. Havens drew the overall plan of his work from another book which enjoyed a wide, underground circulation at the time—the notorious Theatrum Crudelitatum [Theatre of Cruelties], by Richard Verstegan, a kind of nightmarish picture-book of atrocities committed against Catholics. A selection of illustrations from that book are included in this volume.Table of Contents Translator's Introduction Letter of Approval from the Prior of the Grande Chartreuse monastery, and Moderator and Minister-General of the Carthusian Order, Dom Bruno II de Affringues i. Introduction ii. The slaughter and devastation instigated by Martin Luther in upper Germany iii. The cruel persecutions of Catholics in England iv. King Henry VIII and the Carthusian martyrs v. Some acts of egregious cruelty committed in Ireland vi. The persecutions in France under the Calvinist regimes vii. Some particular examples of atrocities committed by Calvinists in France viii. The Franciscan martyrs at Gorkum (Part I) ix. The Franciscan martyrs at Gorkum (Part II) x. The Franciscan martyrs at Gorkum (Part III) xi. The Franciscan martyrs at Gorkum (Part IV) xii. The cruelty of the Calvinists towards four Augustinian Canons Regular xiii. The martyrdom of two Hieronymite monks at Gouda xiv. The vicious martyrdom of the poet Cornelis Musius xv. The martyrdom of William of Gouda, a Franciscan friar xvi. Further hideous crimes perpetrated against Catholics in Holland and Flanders xvii. The martyrdom of twelve Carthusian monks at Roermond in Holland xviii. The horrendous and inhuman torture and execution of Balthasar Gérard of Burgundy, the man who killed the Prince of Orange xix. Conclusion List of Images Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThis book considers the history of the Prester John legend and its impact on the Crusades, investigating its entangled mythical history between East and West during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The present study thus responds to the still pressing need for a comprehensive historical investigation of the twelfth and thirteenth crusading history of the legend and its impact on the Muslim-Crusader encounters, examining various Latin, Arabic, Syriac, and Coptic accounts. It further reflects on new eastern aspects of the legend, presenting a new Arab scholarly view. This book first charts a pre-history of the legend in the late ancient Christian prophecy of the Last Emperor down to the emergence of the legend in the mid-twelfth century. Second, the work presents a historical discussion of the legend and its association with actual occurrences in the Far East and the Levant, analysing the legend history under the crusading crisis and the imperial papal schism in Europe. Meanwhile, the work considers the vague Prester John Letter addressed to Manuel I Komnenus, Byzantine Emperor, and its elaborate conception of a mythical eastern kingdom, revealing imaginative parallels on the wondrous East and legendary Eastern Christian kings in Arabic Muslim and Christian accounts of the Muslim geographer and cartographer al-Idr?s?, the Coptic ?b? al-Mak?rim and the Syriac Ibn al-?Ibr? (Bar Hebraeus), among others. Moreover, the book examines how the legend impacted war and peace processes between the Ayyubids and the Crusaders during the Fifth Crusade against Egypt (1217-1221), revealing how it was mingled with Arabic and Eastern Christian prophecies at the time. The study concludes by investigating the perception of Prester John by the papal and European envoys to the Mongols in the thirteenth century, revealing how the legend was instrumentalised (and even weaponised) to establish a Latin-Mongol crusade through a parallel exploration of relevant Latin, Arabic and Syriac sources.Table of Contents Preface Acknowledgements Note of Transliteration and Style List of Figures and Maps List of Abbreviations INTRODUCTION Historiography: Prester John between Past and Present Objectives and Methodology CHAPTER 1. Setting a Geographic and Mythico-historical Stage for the Prester John Legend CHAPTER 2. Between Transmission and Reception: The Birth of the Prester John Legend and the Crusader-Muslim Conflict, 1122-1145 CHAPTER 3. The Prester John Letter and its Perception between the Crusading Crisis in the Levant and Imperial-Papal Schism in the West CHAPTER 4. Imaging the Prester John Kingdom in the Three Indias: The Legend's Entanglements with Alexander Romance, Jewish and Arab Muslim-Christian Imagination CHAPTER 5. Waiting for King David, Son of Prester John: The Impact of the Legend on Peace and War during the Fifth Crusade (615-618/1217-1221) CHAPTER 6. The Mongol Figure of Prester John: Remembering the Legend and the Enterprise of Latin-Mongol Crusade(s), 1222-1300 CONCLUSION Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn this book, a Burmese manuscript from the mid-nineteenth century is the catalyst for a study of the multifaceted Buddhist cosmos. The manuscript not only lays out the complex array of realms in the Buddhist universe but also ventures into a number of esoteric and little-understood aspects of the Theravāda cosmological system and its inhabitants. By presenting translations and narration of much of the manuscript’s text and sharing his careful analysis of its vivid illustrations, the author uncovers fascinating details of the Theravāda Buddhist cosmos. Detailed color and black-and-white illustrations, including a complete reduced-scale reproduction of the manuscript, help clarify and explain the complex, segmented Buddhist cosmology.

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