Europe and the Faith [Didactic Press Paperbacks]

Europe and the Faith [Didactic Press Paperbacks]
Author: Hilaire Belloc
Publisher:
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2017-05-22
Genre:
ISBN: 9781546872665

In this book, pivotal to all his historical insights, Belloc answers the question: What made Europe? He shows it was not the barbarians nor the Protestant Reformation, but the Catholic Faith that made Europe (and the worldwide civilization produced by Europe). Protestantism gravely wounded this our civilization, and only the Catholic Faith can rejuvenate it.

Sacred Plunder

Sacred Plunder
Author: David M. Perry
Publisher: Penn State Press
Total Pages: 341
Release: 2015-06-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 0271066830

In Sacred Plunder, David Perry argues that plundered relics, and narratives about them, played a central role in shaping the memorial legacy of the Fourth Crusade and the development of Venice’s civic identity in the thirteenth century. After the Fourth Crusade ended in 1204, the disputes over the memory and meaning of the conquest began. Many crusaders faced accusations of impiety, sacrilege, violence, and theft. In their own defense, they produced hagiographical narratives about the movement of relics—a medieval genre called translatio—that restated their own versions of events and shaped the memory of the crusade. The recipients of relics commissioned these unique texts in order to exempt both the objects and the people involved with their theft from broader scrutiny or criticism. Perry further demonstrates how these narratives became a focal point for cultural transformation and an argument for the creation of the new Venetian empire as the city moved from an era of mercantile expansion to one of imperial conquest in the thirteenth century.

The Weight of a Mass

The Weight of a Mass
Author: Josephine Nobisso
Publisher:
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2003-01-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780940112100

On the day of a royal wedding in a kingdom where everyone has grown careless in the practice of their Catholic faith, a poor widow helps reveal the true value of the Mass.

East Central Europe in the Middle Ages, 1000-1500

East Central Europe in the Middle Ages, 1000-1500
Author: Jean W. Sedlar
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Total Pages: 573
Release: 2013-03-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 029580064X

Although the Middle Ages saw brilliant achievements in the diverse nations of East Central Europe, this period has been almost totally neglected in Western historical scholarship. East Central Europe in the Middle Ages provides a much-needed overview of the history of the region from the time when the present nationalities established their state structures and adopted Christianity up to the Ottoman conquest. Jean Sedlar’s excellent synthesis clarifies what was going on in Europe between the Elbe and the Ukraine during the Middle Ages, making available for the first time in a single volume information necessary to a fuller understanding of the early history of present-day Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Albania, and the former Yugoslavia. Sedlar writes clearly and fluently, drawing upon publications in numerous languages to craft a masterful study that is accessible and valuable to the general reader and the expert alike. The book is organized thematically; within this framework Sedlar has sought to integrate nationalities and to draw comparisons. Topics covered include early migrations, state formation, monarchies, classes (nobles, landholders, peasants, herders, serfs, and slaves), towns, religion, war, governments, laws and justice, commerce and money, foreign affairs, ethnicity and nationalism, languages and literature, and education and literacy. After the Middle Ages these nations were subsumed by the Ottoman, Habsburg, Russian, and Prussian-German empires. This loss of independence means that their history prior to foreign conquest has acquired exceptional importance in today’s national consciousness, and the medieval period remains a major point of reference and a source of national pride and ethnic identity. This book is a substantial and timely contribution to our knowledge of the history of East Central Europe.

Book News

Book News
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 996
Release: 1897
Genre: American literature
ISBN:

The 'Arabick' Interest of the Natural Philosophers in Seventeenth-Century England

The 'Arabick' Interest of the Natural Philosophers in Seventeenth-Century England
Author: G. A. Russell
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 346
Release: 1994
Genre: History
ISBN: 9789004098886

"The 'Arabick' Interest of the Natural Philosophers in Seventeenth-Century England" deals with the remarkably widespread interest in Arabic in seventeenth-century England among Biblical scholars and theologians, natural philosophers and Fellows of the Royal Society, and others. It led to the institutionalisation of Arabic studies at Oxford and Cambridge Universities where Arabic chairs were set up, and immense manuscript collections were established and utilised. Fourteen historians examine the extent and sources of this Arabic interest in areas ranging from religion, astronomy, mathematics, medicine, philosophy, philology, and alchemy to botany. Arabic is shown to have been a significant component of the rise of Protestant intellectual tradition and the evolution of secular scholarship at universities.

Secularism Soviet Style

Secularism Soviet Style
Author: Sonja Luehrmann
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2011-11-24
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0253005426

A study of the USSR’s effort to build a society without gods or spirits that “greatly enhances our understanding of the post-Soviet revival of religion” (Review of Politics). Combining archival research on atheist propaganda of the 1960s and 1970s with ethnographic fieldwork in the autonomous republic of Marij El in Russia’s Volga region, Sonja Luehrmann examines how secularist culture-building reshaped religious practice and interreligious relations. One of the most palpable legacies of atheist propaganda is a widespread didactic orientation among the population and a faith in standardized programs of personal transformation as solutions to wider social problems. This didactic trend has parallels in globalized forms of Protestantism and Islam but differs from older uses of religious knowledge in rural Russia. At a time when the secularist modernization projects of the twentieth century are widely perceived to have failed, Secularism Soviet Style emphasizes the affinities and shared histories of religious and atheist mobilizations.

Religion and Devotion in Europe, C.1215- C.1515

Religion and Devotion in Europe, C.1215- C.1515
Author: Robert Norman Swanson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 402
Release: 1995-06-29
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521379502

Underlying the discussion are basic questions about the format of medieval religious experience, ranging from the nature of authority to the relationship between priests and laity, and how far it is actually possible to talk of a monolithic catholicism.

Abolitionism and Imperialism in Britain, Africa, and the Atlantic

Abolitionism and Imperialism in Britain, Africa, and the Atlantic
Author: Derek R. Peterson
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2010-01-05
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0821443054

The abolition of the slave trade is normally understood to be the singular achievement of eighteenth-century British liberalism. Abolitionism and Imperialism in Britain, Africa, and the Atlantic expands both the temporal and the geographic framework in which the history of abolitionism is conceived. Abolitionism was a theater in which a variety of actors—slaves, African rulers, Caribbean planters, working-class radicals, British evangelicals, African political entrepreneurs—played a part. The Atlantic was an echo chamber, in which abolitionist symbols, ideas, and evidence were generated from a variety of vantage points. These essays highlight the range of political and moral projects in which the advocates of abolitionism were engaged, and in so doing it joins together geographies that are normally studied in isolation. Where empires are often understood to involve the government of one people over another, Abolitionism and Imperialism shows that British values were formed, debated, and remade in the space of empire. Africans were not simply objects of British liberals’ benevolence. They played an active role in shaping, and extending, the values that Britain now regards as part of its national character. This book is therefore a contribution to the larger scholarship about the nature of modern empires. Contributors: Christopher Leslie Brown, Seymour Drescher, Jonathon Glassman, Boyd Hilton, Robin Law, Phillip D. Morgan, Derek R. Peterson, John K. Thornton

The Shattered Lantern

The Shattered Lantern
Author: Ronald Rolheiser
Publisher: Herder & Herder
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2004
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780824522759

This prequel and companion to The Holy Longing has sold over 40,000 copies in various editions.