KEY BENEFIT The great missionary figures were crucial to their own time and to posterity. They brought Christian belief and culture to the pagan societies of Dark Age Europe. Tribal and nomadic societies were propelled out of the forest and the plain into a 'civilized' world tha…
"The Woman Saint in Spanish Golden Age Drama examines the various ways in which male and female dramatists present the figure of the ascetic woman in seventeenth-century Spanish theater. Playwrights depict her not only as the solitary initiate of a rite of passage struggling to …
"Goscelin, monk of Saint-Bertin, who came to England in the early 1060s, was one of the most prolific hagiographers of Anglo-Saxon saints. Part of his career was spent in wandering exile, and one of the places at which Goscelin stayed briefly was Ely, whose twelfth-century house…
Vincent Crapanzano's excellent study of the Hamadsha, a group of curers in Morocco who have taken the form of a Sufi brotherhood, is particularly significant because it combines and interweaves the psychological, the cultural, and the sociological levels of explanation. It is pe…
Vincent Crapanzano's excellent study of the Hamadsha, a group of curers in Morocco who have taken the form of a Sufi brotherhood, is particularly significant because it combines and interweaves the psychological, the cultural, and the sociological levels of explanation. It is pe…
Glory of the martyrs
by Van Dam, Ray, (Raymond), Gregorius,, Turonensis
fromTranslated Texts for Historians
Glory of the martyrs
by Van Dam, Raymond, Gregorius Turonensis
fromTranslated Texts for Historians
Glory of the martyrs
by Van Dam, Ray, (Raymond), Gregorius,, Turonensis
fromTranslated Texts for Historians