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HISTORY - CHRISTIAN TOPICS
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-- Papacy
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Papal Primacy: From Its Origins to the Present, by Klaus Schatz, SJ; Translated by John Otto and Linda M. Maloney
In this, the first complete history of the papal primacy, Schatz traces the development of the idea of a papacy as center of teaching and jurisdiction from its earliest Roman beginnings to the triumph of papal authority at Vatican I and beyond that to Vatican II. 208pp Paper
Price: $25.00
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HISTORY - CHRISTIAN TOPICS
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-- Penance
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The Practice of Penance, c. 900-1050, by Sarah Hamilton
Penitential practice examined through records in church law, the liturgy and other sources. 290pp
Price: $30.00
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HISTORY - CHRISTIAN TOPICS
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-- Pilgrimage
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Christian Parthenon (The): Classicism and Pilgrimage in Byzantine Athens, by Anthony Kaldellis
Presenting a wealth of new evidence, Professor Kaldellis examines the history of Byzantine Athens. He focuses specifically on the Parthenon, which became a Christian church and a major site of pilgrimage and was part of a broader attempt to fuse pagan and Christian culture in the city. 268pp Hardcover
Price: $107.00
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Encountering the Sacred: The Debate on Christian Pilgrimage in Late Antiquity, by Brouria Bitton-Ashkelony
This innovative study sheds new light on one of the most spectacular changes to occur in late antiquity - the rise of pilgrimage all over the Christian world - by setting the phenomenon against the wide background of the political and theological debates of the time. 265pp Cloth
Price: $50.00
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Memory of the Eyes: Pilgrims to Living Saints in Christian Late Antiquity, by Georgia Frank
Pilgrims in the deserts of Egypt and the holy land during the fourth and fifth centuries A.D. often reported visiting holy people as part of their tours of holy places. This is the first comprehensive study of pilgrimage to these famous ascetics of late antique Christianity. 232pp Hardcover
Price: $50.00
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Wandering Monks, Virgins and Pilgrims: Ascetic Travel in the Mediterranean World, 200-800, by Maribel Doietz
Wandering Monks, Virgins, and Pilgrims is essential reading for those who study the history of monasticism, for it was in a monastic context that religious travel first claimed an essential place within Christianity. 270pp Cloth
Price: $60.00
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HISTORY - CHRISTIAN TOPICS
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-- Relics
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Bodies Like Bright Stars: Saints and Relics in Orthodox Russia, by Robert H. Greene
Bodies Like Bright Stars makes use of archival documents from a number of sources to demonstrate how Orthodox men and women cultivated direct and literally hands-on relationships with their heavenly intercessors by visiting saintly shrines, touching and kissing miracle-working relics, and making pledges to repay the saints for miracles rendered. 292pp Cloth
Price: $42.00
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Holy Bones, Holy Dust: How Relics Shaped the History of Medieval Europe, by Charles Freeman
In Holy Bones, Holy Dust, Freeman illustrates that the pervasiveness and variety of relics answered very specific needs of ordinary people across a darkened Europe under threat of political upheavals, disease, and hellfire. 306pp Hardcover
Price: $35.00
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