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California Crucible
The Forging of Modern American Liberalism
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2011
In the three decades following World War II, the Golden State was not only the fastest-growing state in the Union but also the site of significant political change. From the late 1940s through the mid-1970s, a generation of liberal activists transformed the political landscape of California, ending...
The Barons' Crusade
A Call to Arms and Its Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
In December 1235, Pope Gregory IX altered the mission of a crusade he had begun to preach the year before. Instead of calling for Christian magnates to go on to fight the infidel in Jerusalem, he now urged them to combat the spread of Christian heresy in Latin Greece and to defend the Latin empire...
Spectacles of Empire
Monsters, Martyrs, and the Book of Revelation
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
The book of Revelation presents a daunting picture of the destruction of the world, complete with clashing gods, a multiheaded beast, armies of heaven, and the final judgment of mankind. The bizarre conclusion to the New Testament is routinely cited as an example of the early Christian renunciation...
by James M. Powell
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
James M. Powell here offers a new interpretation of the Fifth Crusade's historical and social impact, and a richly rewarding view of life in the thirteenth century. Powell addresses such questions as the degree of popular interest in the crusades, the religious climate of the period, the social structure...
Witching Culture
Folklore and Neo-Paganism in America
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
Taking the reader into the heart of one of the fastest-growing religious movements in North America, Sabina Magliocco reveals how the disciplines of anthropology and folklore were fundamental to the early development of Neo-Paganism and the revival of witchcraft. Magliocco examines the roots that...
The Roman Inquisition
A Papal Bureaucracy and Its Laws in the Age of Galileo
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
While the Spanish Inquisition has laid the greatest claim to both scholarly attention and the popular imagination, the Roman Inquisition, established in 1542 and a key instrument of papal authority, was more powerful, important, and long-lived. Founded by Paul III and originally aimed to eradicate...
Saving Shame
Martyrs, Saints, and Other Abject Subjects
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
Virginia Burrus explores one of the strongest and most disturbing aspects of the Christian tradition, its excessive preoccupation with shame. While Christianity has frequently been implicated in the conversion of ancient Mediterranean cultures from shame- to guilt-based and, thus, in the emergence...
by Geoffroi de Charny
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
On the great influence of a valiant lord: "The companions, who see that good warriors are honored by the great lords for their prowess, become more determined to attain this level of prowess."
On the lady who sees her knight honored: "All of this makes the noble lady rejoice greatly within...
Border Lines
The Partition of Judaeo-Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
The historical separation between Judaism and Christianity is often figured as a clearly defined break of a single entity into two separate religions. Following this model, there would have been one religion known as Judaism before the birth of Christ, which then took on a hybrid identity. Even before...
The Mixed Multitude
Jacob Frank and the Frankist Movement, 1755-1816
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2011
In 1756, Jacob Frank, an Ottoman Jew who had returned to the Poland of his birth, was discovered leading a group of fellow travelers in a suspect religious service. At the request of the local rabbis, Polish authorities arrested the participants. Jewish authorities contacted the bishop in whose diocese...
Mary Magdalene and the Drama of Saints
Theater, Gender, and Religion in Late Medieval England
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
A sinner-saint who embraced then renounced sexual and worldly pleasures; a woman who, through her attachment to Jesus, embodied both erotic and sacred power; a symbol of penance and an exemplar of contemplative and passionate devotion: perhaps no figure stood closer to the center of late medieval...
Women's Radical Reconstruction
The Freedmen's Aid Movement
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
In this first critical study of female abolitionists and feminists in the freedmen's aid movement, Carol Faulkner describes these women's radical view of former slaves and the nation's responsibility to them. Moving beyond the image of the Yankee schoolmarm, Women's Radical Reconstruction demonstrates...
Medieval Robots
Mechanism, Magic, Nature, and Art
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2015
A thousand years before Isaac Asimov set down his Three Laws of Robotics, real and imagined automata appeared in European courts, liturgies, and literary texts. Medieval robots took such forms as talking statues, mechanical animals, and silent metal guardians; some served to entertain or instruct...
by Joseph F. O'Callaghan
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
Drawing from both Christian and Islamic sources, Reconquest and Crusade in Medieval Spain demonstrates that the clash of arms between Christians and Muslims in the Iberian peninsula that began in the early eighth century was transformed into a crusade by the papacy during the twelfth and thirteenth...