This book provides the first publication of the tract "Tiferet Bahurim (The Glory of Youth)" which was written in the mid-seventeenth century by R. Pinhas Barukh ben Pelatiyah Monselic in Ferrara, Italy. The tract was written as a guide for young men about to marry regarding the…
President Franklin D. Roosevelt put it bluntly, if privately, in 1942-the United States was 'a Protestant country,' he said, 'and the Catholics and Jews are here under sufferance.' In Tri-Faith America, Kevin Schultz explains how the United States left behind this idea that it w…
The monastic erudition of the old religious orders was a pillar of the Catholic Enlightenment within the Holy Roman Empire and many other European countries. Despite the enormous importance the monks had as champions of programmatic Enlightenment ideas, few of their original tex…
Gabriel Glickman investigates Catholic education and family life, scholarship, poetry and spirituality. It offers a contribution to debates surrounding the history of the Jacobite movement, the construction of British national identity, and the origins of the Enlightenment.
"The half-century following the Glorious Revolution has been viewed as a time of retreat and withdrawal for English Catholics: the response to tightening penal laws, periods in exile and the failures of the Jacobite cause. This book argues that the perception has arisen because …
"In this historical study of psychology and Catholicism, Kugelmann aims to provide clarity in an area filled with emotion and opinion. From the beginnings of modern psychology to the mid 1960s, this complicated relationship between science and religion is methodically investigat…
"In this book, Marianne Elliott has succeeded in at last creating a coherent, credible and absorbing history of the Ulster Catholics - from their early medieval origins to the devolution of 1999. In the process many myths are destroyed, but a picture also emerges of a history wh…