Product Description: This short reader includes selections from Stouck's longer volume, Medieval Saints: A Reader, along with new material. It is designed to briefly introduce students to many of the most famous and representative saints of the age, and can be used to supplement…
Introduction -- Spiritual friendship.
The abbot of the English Cistercian abbey of Rievaulx from 1147-1167 explores the spiritual nature of human friendship, defining it as sacramental and as a vehicle for God to transmit his love to all his creatures.
The abbot of the English Cistercian abbey of Rievaulx from 1147-1167 explores the spiritual nature of human friendship, defining it as sacramental and as a vehicle for God to transmit his love to all his creatures.
'The Early Lives of St Dunstan' contains new editions, with translation and extensive commentary, of the two earliest 'lives' of St Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury (960-88) and one of the principal figures of the tenth-century English church.
"Medieval prognostic texts - a survival from the classical world - are the ancestors of modern almanacs; a means of predicting future events, they offer guidance on matters of everyday life, such as illness, childbirth, weather, agriculture, and the interpretation of dreams ... …
"Medieval prognostic texts - a survival from the classical world - are the ancestors of modern almanacs; a means of predicting future events, they offer guidance on matters of everyday life, such as illness, childbirth, weather, agriculture, and the interpretation of dreams ... …