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The Experience of Tragic Judgment
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 125.00Adjudication between conflicting normative universes that do not share the same vocabulary, standards of rationality, and moral commitments cannot be resolved by recourse to traditional principles. Such cases are always in a sense tragic. And what is called for, in our pluralistic and conflictual world is not to be found, as many would suppose, in... more...
Reading the First Century
Mohr Siebeck 2013; US$ 87.07Hauptbeschreibung The writings of Flavius Josephus provide much of what we know about the first century CE - which witnessed the birth of Christianity, the destruction of the Second Temple of Jerusalem, and the concomitant rise of rabbinic Judaism. However, Josephus was an author, not a video camera, and what he wrote often reflects much apart from... more...
Artist's Daughter, The
Baker Publishing Group 2013; US$ 13.99A poignant memoir of a woman's struggle to deal with the wounds left by her absent father and the realization of how that loss ultimately does--or does not--define her. more...
Historical Dictionary of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 135.00The Reformation of the 16th century has always been seen as one of the pivotal events in European history. Lord Acton, the famous 19th-century British historian, compared the importance of Martin Luther's speech at the diet at Worms in 1521 with Napoleon's defeat at the Battle of Waterloo in 1813. Lord Acton's may or may not be an extravagant claim,... more...
The Christian World of the Middle Ages
The History Press 2013; US$ 36.46This powerful reconstruction of the faith and heritage of medieval Christendom reveals its extraordinary impact on both great empires and tiny enclaves. more...
The Ashgate Research Companion to the Counter-Reformation
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2013; US$ 149.95The Ashgate Research Companion to the Counter-Reformation presents a comprehensive examination of recent scholarship on early modern Catholicism in its many guises. It examines how the Tridentine reforms inspired conflict and conversion, and evaluates lives and identities, spirituality, culture and religious change. This wide-ranging and original research... more...
Forbearance and Compulsion
Bloomsbury Publishing 2013; US$ 107.99Most surveys of religious tolerance and intolerance start from the medieval and early modern period, either passing over or making brief mention of discussions of religious moderation and coercion in Greco-Roman antiquity. Here Maijastina Kahlos widens the historical perspective to encompass late antiquity, examining ancient discussions of religious... more...
Luther
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 26.95Luther provides a clear exposition of the state of German politics on the eve of the Reformation. Dr Mullett concentrates particularly on the evolution of Luther's thought and its central preoccupation with re-aligning the church's theology with that of the New Testament. more...
Fifty Key Medieval Thinkers
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 34.95Focussing on individuals whose ideas shaped intellectual life between 400 and 1500, Fifty Key Medieval Thinkers is an accessible introduction to those religious, philosophical and political concepts central to the medieval worldview. Including such diverse figures as Bede and Wyclif, each entry presents a biographical outline, a list of works and... more...









