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The Book of Margery Kempe (Penguin Classics) by Margery Kempe Publisher Comments The story of the eventful and controversial life of Margery Kempe is the earliest surviving autobiography in English.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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Letters of Abelard and Heloise (Rev 03 Edition) by Betty Radice Publisher Comments The story of Abelard and Heloise remains one of the world’s most dramatic and well-known love affairs. It is told through the letters of French philosopher Peter Abelard and his gifted pupil Heloise. Through their impassioned writings unfolds the... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Pursuit of the Millennium: Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Ages by Norman Cohn About the Author Norman Cohn held the Astor-Wolfson Chair at the University of Sussex until his retirement in 1980. He is the author of Warrant for Genocide, for which he received the Anisfield Wolf Award in Race Relations.... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Saint Thomas Aquinas (56 Edition) by G. K. Chesterton Publisher Comments A trade paperback edition of the classic portrait of Thomas Aquinas, one of the greatest of Christian philosophers, by one of the greatest of modern religious writers.... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Aquinas on Nature and Grace by Thomas Aquinas Publisher Comments This volume in the Library of Christian Classics series offers selections from the Summa Theologica that best represent Thomas Aquinas' views on the moral and spiritual world in which we live. Long recognized for the quality of its translations... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Prefaces to Canon Law Books in Latin Christianity: Selected Translations, 500-1245 by Robert Somerville Publisher Comments This anthology. offers for the first time in any language a selection of key prefaces to ecclesiastical law collections from late antiquity to the mid-thirteenth century. During these centuries the Western church was wrestling with the complexities and... (read more) List Price $44.50 Your price: $15.95 Used - Hardcover
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Penguin History of the Church #02: Western Society and the Church in the Middle Ages by Richard Southern Publisher Comments The concept of an ordered human society, both religious and secular, as an expression of a divinely ordered universe was central to medieval thought. In the West the political and religious community were inextricably bound together, and because the... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Forbidden Fruit: From the Letters of Abelard and Heloise by Abelard Publisher Comments Love can be surprising. Love can be heartbreaking. Love can be an art. But love is the singular emotion that all humans rely on most . . . and crave endlessly, no matter what the cost. United by this theme of love, the nine titles in the Penguin Great... (read more) Your price: $2.95 Used - Mass Market
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Thomas Becket by Frank Barlow Publisher Comments On 29 December 1170, Thomas Archbishop of Canterbury was brutally murdered in his cathedral by four knights from the household of his former friend and patron, King Henry II. The horror that the killing inspired and the miraculous cures performed at... (read more) List Price $33.75 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Medieval Christianity by Daniel Ethan Bornstein Publisher Comments The fourth volume in A People's History of Christianity series accents the astounding range of cultural and religious experience within medieval Christianity and the ways in which religious life structured all aspects of the daily lives of ordinary... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $24.85 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Inquisition: A History by Michael C. Thomsett Publisher Comments The history of the Catholic Church is not a story containing one single, true and universally accepted series of beliefs. Although beliefs incongruous to the church are tolerated today, there was a time when the church tried to enforce its point of view... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $23.12 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Geoffrey of Burton: Life and Miracles of St Modwenna (Oxford Medieval Texts) by Geoffrey Publisher Comments Geoffrey of Burton's Life and Miracles of St Modwenna (BHL 2097) is among the most substantial pieces of twelfth-century English hagiographic writing not previously to have appeared in print. It was produced by the abbot of Burton, where Modwenna's bones... (read more) List Price $178.95 Your price: $70.00 Used - Hardcover
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Letters of a Portuguese Nun: Uncovering the Mystery Behind a Seventeenth-Century Forbidden Love by Myriam Cyr Publisher Comments Provides an eye-opening look at a series of remarkable and passionate letters that chronicle a tumultuous seventeenth-century love affair between a young Portuguese nun and a French officer, written by the nun, Mariana Alcoforado, when her lover was... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Heresy and Authority in Medieval Europe: Documents in Translation (Middle Ages) by Edward Peters Publisher Comments Throughout the Middle Ages and early modern Europe theological uniformity was synonymous with social cohesion in societies that regarded themselves as bound together at their most fundamental levels by a religion. To maintain a belief in opposition to... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Thomas Aquinas: Contemporary Philosophical Perspectives by Brian Davies Publisher Comments The work of Thomas Aquinas has always enjoyed a privileged position as a pillar of Catholic theology, but for centuries his standing among western philosophers was less sure. Today, Aquinas's work is recognized as a cornerstone of the western... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $29.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Letters of Abelard & Heloise by Abelard Publisher Comments The story of Abelard and Heloise remains one of the world's most dramatic and well-known love affairs. It is told through the letters of French philosopher Peter Abelard and his gifted pupil Heloise. Through their impassioned writings unfolds the story... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Medieval Monasticism: Forms of Religious Life in Western Europe in the Middle Ages by C H Lawrence Publisher Comments Hugh Lawrence's book ranges right across Europe and the Middle East as well as reconstructing the internal life, experience and aims of the medieval cloister, he also explores the many-sided relationships between the monasteries and the secular world... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $18.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Medieval Church by Carl A. Volz Publisher Comments This introduction to the history of Christianity during the medieval period brings the student's attention to the historical background of issues and ideas which continue to engage the church's energies today.<P>Employing a basically chronological... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Grand Inquisitor's Manual: A History of Terror in the Name of God by Jonathan Kirsch Publisher Comments "The inquisitorial apparatus that was first invented in the Middle Ages remained in operation for the next six-hundred years, and it has never been wholly dismantled. As we shall see, an unbroken thread links the friar-inquisitors who set up the rack... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Corruption of Angels: The Great Inquisition of 1245-1246 by Mark Gregory Pegg Publisher Comments On two hundred and one days between May 1, 1245, and August 1, 1246, more than five thousand people from the Lauragais were questioned in Toulouse about the heresy of the good men and the good women (more commonly known as Catharism). Nobles and diviners,... (read more) List Price $35.50 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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