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Lost Beliefs of Northern Europe
Routledge 1993; US$ 47.95The author illustrates how pagan beliefs have been represented and misinterpreted by the Christian tradition, and throws light on the nature of pre-Christian beliefs and how they have been preserved. more...
Strengthening Religious Tolerance for a Secure Civil Society in Albania and the Southern Balkans
IOS Press 2007; US$ 150.00It has long been a common place of Balkan Studies and historical writing about the Balkans to state that religion is often a major factor in conflicts. This publication illuminates the background to this complex religious culture in Albania and also touches upon subjects of importance in relevant neighboring nations (Greece and Montenegro). more...
Locations of Knowledge in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
BRILL 2010; US$ 141.00Addressing discourses of perfect knowledge in Western culture between 1200 and 1800, this book integrates the study of Western esotericism in a larger analytical framework of European history of religion. more...
Civic Ceremony and Religion in Medieval Bruges c.13001520
Cambridge University Press 2010; US$ 82.00A new insight into the interplay between ceremonial ritual and power, drawing on the rich archives of medieval Bruges. more...
Religious Quest and National Identity in the Balkans
Palgrave Macmillan 2001; US$ 145.00This book offers rare insights into the cultural traditions that have shaped the Balkan region - from pagan times, through folk culture, the medieval Christian churches, the encounter between Christianity and Islam, up to the religious and national mythologies that have proved so destructive in the present day. With the Balkans a central focus of European... more...
The Night Battles (RLE Witchcraft)
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 115.00Based on research in the Inquisitorial archives, the book recounts the story of a peasant fertility cult centred on the benandanti. These men and women regarded themselves as professional anti-witches, who (in dream-like states) apparently fought ritual battles against witches and wizards, to protect their villages and harvests. If they won, the harvest... more...
Pluralism in the Middle Ages
Taylor & Francis 2011; US$ 125.00The challenges of cultural and religious diversity that face European and American societies today are not a new phenomenon. People in the Middle Ages lived in pluralistic societies, and they found highly interesting ways of dealing with religious and cultural diversity. While religious and political authorities commanded people to stick to their kind,... more...
Glastonbury, the Templars and the Sovran Cloth
The History Press 2012; US$ 18.94This exciting book sheds new light on the Grail stories and the arrival of Christianity to Somerset. It illustrates important links between Glastonbury and the Celtic settlement of Old Lammana in Cornwall; and examines old tales of an object of great importance - known as 'the Sovran cloth' - secretly hidden in both places. The author reveals that... more...
Signals of Belief in Early England
Oxbow Books 2010; US$ 30.00This volume will throw new light on the intellect of the earliest English - the way they thought, the way they viewed the world, and the way they viewed worlds other than this. Previous understanding of the topic, well rooted in the ideas of its time, regarded the English as adherents of two consecutive religions: Paganism governed the settlers of... more...
Religion in Late Roman Britain
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 49.95Religion in Late Roman Britain explores the changes in religion over the fourth century; the historical background for these changes and the forces which contributed to them. Dorothy Watts examines the reasons for the decline of Christianity and the continuation of the pagan, Celtic cults in Britain. The author establishes a chronology for the rise... more...









