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In a post-9/11 world the Crusades have received renewed attention for the possible ways that these medieval conflicts may have shaped our current geo-political climate. In academic circles, Crusades scholarship has been booming since the early 1980s. When examining the motives o…

Devotion to the Virgin flourished in the centuries following the turn of the millenium. One way in which this is visible is through the numerous Marian miracle narratives composed in the period. Previous scholars have looked at these texts as part of a twelfth-century renaissanc…

Instilling and Revitalizing the Devotion of the Rosary in 21st American Catholics by JAMES RICHARD HICKEY

Though recent scholarship has investigated many aspects of the Virgin's cult in Byzantium, the Visitation has been entirely overlooked with respect to both its theological significance and its popularity in pre-iconoclastic art. My research examines textual sources such as bibli…