From its earliest centuries, one of the most notable features of Christianity has been the veneration of the saints -- the holy dead. This ambitious history tells the fascinating story of the cult of the saints from its origins in the second-century days of the Christian martyrs…
From its earliest centuries, one of the most notable features of Christianity has been the veneration of the saints -- the holy dead. This ambitious history tells the fascinating story of the cult of the saints from its origins in the second-century days of the Christian martyrs…
From its earliest centuries, one of the most notable features of Christianity has been the veneration of the saints - the holy dead. This book, written by a medieval historian, tells the fascinating story of the cult of the saints from its origins in the second-century days of t…
In the 1640s -- a decade of epidemic and warfare across colonial North America -- eight Jesuit missionaries met their deaths at the hands of native antagonists. With their collective canonization in 1930, these men, known to the devout as the North American martyrs, would become…
In the 1640s eight Jesuits met a terrifying death at the hands of native antagonists. In 1930 they were canonized as North America's first saints. The Death and Afterlife of the North American Martyrs illuminates these seminal acts of violence and charts their ever-changing, con…
The old English metrical calendar, 'Menologium'
The Old English metrical calendar (Menologium)
The late tenth-century Old English Metrical Calendar (traditionally known as Menologium) summarises, in the characteristic heroic diction and traditional metre of Old English poetry, the major course of the Anglo-Saxon liturgical year. It sets out, in a methodical structure base…
The Old English metrical calendar (Menologium)
The late tenth-century Old English Metrical Calendar (traditionally known as <I>Menologium</I>) summarises, in the characteristic heroic diction and traditional metre of Old English poetry, the majorcourse of the Anglo-Saxon liturgical year. It sets out, in a methodical structur…
The Old English metrical calendar (Menologium)
The Old English metrical calendar (Menologium)
First modern text and English translation of an important Anglo-Saxon poem dealing with the liturgical year.
Persecuted: the global assault on Christians
by Marshall, Paul A., Gilbert, Lela, Shea, Nina
The persecution of Christians is widespread and increasing in many areas. In 2010, the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, the gold standard of contemporary religion statistics, concluded that Christians are the most widely persecuted religious group in the world. In December…
Persecuted: the global assault on Christians
by Marshall, Paul A., Gilbert, Lela, Shea, Nina
The persecution of Christians is widespread and increasing in many areas. In 2010, the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, the gold standard of contemporary religion statistics, concluded that Christians are the most widely persecuted religious group in the world. In December…