Boydell Press, 2008. — 212 p. The saint and animal story in medieval saints' Lives has a long tradition - explored in detail here. The volume ranges from the very beginning of the genre in the Late Antique east, through the early medieval western European adaptations, including in Ireland, to the twelfth century, to its conclusion with a new assessment of Saint Francis'...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. — 293 p. Saint Michael the Archangel was one of three angels mentioned by name in the Scripture; a figure in early Christian, Jewish, and Islamic traditions; and is the patron saint of ambulance drivers. This enigmatic ecumenical figure was the subject of hagiographies, liturgical texts, and relics from Italy across Western Europe during the eighth...
Garden City, New York: International Collectors Library American Headquarters, 1900. — 329 p. — Translated by J. G. Pilkington, M. A. Autobiographical work, consisting of 13 books, by St. Augustine of Hippo, written in Latin between AD 397 and 400. Its original title was Confessions in Thirteen Books, and it was composed to be read out loud with each book being a complete unit....
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017. — 210 p. — ISBN10: 1548858129; ISBN13: 978-1548858124. Translated by Edward Bouverie Pusey. Confessions (Latin: Confessiones) is the name of an autobiographical work, consisting of 13 books, by Saint Augustine of Hippo, written in Latin between AD 397 and 400. The work outlines Saint Augustine's sinful youth and his conversion...
London: Cambridge University Press, 1971. — 23 X 15, xi + 320 p., 3 index. Greek and Syriac texts, with English translations, introd. and notes. Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
University of California Press, 1998. — 228 p. — (Transformation of the Classical Heritage). The fifteen hagiographies about holy women of the Syrian Orient collected here include stories of martyrs' passions and saints' lives, pious romances and personal reminiscences. Dating from the fourth to seventh centuries A.D., they are translated from Syriac into accessible and vivid...
10th anniversary rev. ed. — Wiley-Blackwell, 2013. — 712 p. — (The Making of Europe) — ISBN: 978-1-118-30126-5. This tenth anniversary revised edition of the authoritative text on Christianity’s first thousand years of history features a new preface, additional color images, and an updated bibliography. The essential general survey of medieval European Christendom, Brown’s...
Peeters, 2020. — 587 p. The division between the Latin and Greek churches is one of the fields of research that best represents the complexity and richness of the medieval world and opens the way to a deeper understanding of contemporary religious and political issues. This volume planned as a journey from the ninth to the fifteenth century and through three different...
Herder, 2007. — 1000 S. Der vorliegende 4. Band eröffnet die Reihe der dem Mittelalter gewidmeten Teile der "Geschichte des Christentums". Jeder dieser Bände stellt - in seiner Ausrichtung wie im Stil - ein in sich eigenständiges Werk dar. Dennoch sind die Bände so aufeinander abgestimmt, daß sie sich gegenseitig ergänzen. Im vorliegenden Band etwa ist der Geschichte der...
Lexington Books, 2007. — 356 p. Byzantine Rome and the Greek Popes examine the scope and extent to which the East influenced Rome and the Papacy following the Justinian Reconquest of Italy in the middle of the sixth century through the pontificate of Zacharias and the collapse of the exarchate of Ravenna in 752. A combination of factors resulted in the arrival of significant...
Lexington Books, 2007. — 356 p. Byzantine Rome and the Greek Popes examine the scope and extent to which the East influenced Rome and the Papacy following the Justinian Reconquest of Italy in the middle of the sixth century through the pontificate of Zacharias and the collapse of the exarchate of Ravenna in 752. A combination of factors resulted in the arrival of significant...
Lund University, 2005. — 142 p. The scope of this study is to compare John Philoponus and Cosmas Indicopleustes, two Christian individuals of different backgrounds and belonging to different fractions of the Church in the turbulent time for the Church in sixth century Alexandria. Any Christian is likely to feel the need to define how the tenets of his or her faith relate to...
University of Toronto Press, 2018. — 274 p. 'Preaching Apocrypha in Anglo-Saxon England' is the first in-depth study of Christian apocrypha focusing specifically on the use of extra-biblical narratives in Old English sermons. The work contributes to our understanding of both the prevalence and importance of apocrypha in vernacular preaching, by assessing various preaching texts...
Peter Lang, 2016. — 282 p. This volume results from the international research project ‘The Migration of Faith: Clerical Exile in Late Antiquity (325‒c.600)’. The project is a collaboration between the Department of History at the University of Sheffield, the Seminar für Kirchengeschichte at the University of Halle, and the Department of Culture and Society at Aarhus...
Harper-Collins One, 2008. — 329 p. The Lost History of Christianity by Philip Jenkins offers a revolutionary view of the history of the Christian church. Subtitled “The Thousand-Year Golden Age of the Church in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia — and How It Died,” it explores the extinction of the earliest, most influential Christian churches of China, India, and the Middle...
Harper-Collins One, 2008. — 329 p. The Lost History of Christianity by Philip Jenkins offers a revolutionary view of the history of the Christian church. Subtitled “The Thousand-Year Golden Age of the Church in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia — and How It Died,” it explores the extinction of the earliest, most influential Christian churches of China, India, and the Middle...
St. Vladimir's Seminary Press, 1996. - 340 p. Given the great importance of these canons of the ancient ecumenical councils, what precisely do they say and mean? What was the intention of their authors, the fathers of those councils? With the present work, His Eminence Archbishop Peter (L'Huillier) has given the English-speaking world authoritative answers to such questions....
Lyon, Presses universitaires de Lyon, 2012. — 362 p. — ISBN: 978-2-7297-0852-8. Brillant et novateur, cet essai de Robert Markus connaît enfin sa première traduction française, après avoir fait l'objet de nombreuses rééditions depuis sa parution à Cambridge en 1990. Parallèlement à l'œuvre de son collègue et ami Peter Brown, à qui l'ouvrage est dédié, Markus renouvelle notre...
Cambridge University Press, 2021. — 368 p. Augustine of Hippo's The City of God is generally considered to be one of the key works of Late Antiquity. Written in response to allegations that Christianity had brought about the decline of Rome, Augustine here explores themes in history, political science, and Christian theology, and argues for the truth of Christianity over...
Brill, 2015. — 687 p. — (Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition 63). Gregory, bishop of Tours (573-594), was among the most prolific writers of his age and uniquely managed to cover the genres of history, hagiography, and ecclesiastical instruction. He not only wrote about "events" (of the secular, spiritual, and even natural variety) but about himself as an actor and...
Translat. with an Introduction and Notes by Philip R. Amidon. — Atlanta: Society of Biblical literature, 2007. Philostorgius (born 368 C.E.) was a member of the Eunomian sect of Christianity, a nonconformist faction deeply opposed to the form of Christianity adopted by the Roman government as the official religion of its empire. He wrote his twelve-book Church History, the...
Gorgias Press, 2021. — 284 p. Since the time of Eduard Schwartz, scholars have tended to treat ecclesiastical policy under the influence of Justinian as inconsistent and even capricious. To this day Justinian is depicted as a pragmatist, ready to support different and even contradictory confessions to see the unity of his Empire. Given his fast-changing position on the...
Tokyo: Toho Bunkwa Gakuin: Academy of Oriental Culture, Tokyo Institute, 1951. - 656 / 758 p. The Assyrian Church of the East refused to drop support for Nestorius and denounce him as a heretic, and it has continued to be called “Nestorian” in the West, to distinguish it from other ancient Eastern churches. However, the Church of the East does not regard its doctrine as truly...
Brill, 2011. - 241 p. - (Brill's Series on the Early Middle Ages). The papers collected in this volume explore the strategies through which Christian authorities throughout the early medieval world both established and expressed their social position, while at the same time drawing attention to the moments when those same processes were resisted and challenged. Where previous...
New York: T. Whittaker,1891 — 166 p. My friend, Mr. Thomas Whittaker, proposes to pnb- lish a series of Simdies in Christian Biography devoted to the leaders of Christian thought and Christian life, in ancient, mediaeval, and modern times. He requested me to open the series with biographical sketches of St. Chrysostom, the greatest of the Greek, and St. Augustin, the greatest...
Cambridge: University Press, 1913 — 284 p. The present handbook is intended to set before beginners in the study of the early liturgy the main factors in the history of its developement. It makes no pretension to completeness, nor has it been found possible, within the limits of space available, to treat in detail many of the perplexing problems which meet the student in this...
Editors: J. Koder and J. Paramelle. — Paris: Les Éditions du Cerf, 1973. — 402 p. — (Sources Chrétiennes, 196). — ISBN: 2204073725. Edition of Symeon's the New Theologian "Hymnes" no. 41-58 (AD 980 - 1022). Greek text with facing French translation.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003. — 254 p. — ISBN: 0-8122-3738-2. In a richly textured investigation of the transformation of Cappadocia during the fourth century, Becoming Christian: The Conversion of Roman Cappadocia examines the local impact of Christianity on traditional Greek and Roman society. The Cappadocians Basil of Caesarea, Gregory of Nyssa,...
Cornell University Press, 2018. — 330 p. In Dark Age Nunneries, Steven Vanderputten dismantles the common view of women religious between 800 and 1050 as disempowered or even disinterested witnesses to their own lives. It is based on a study of primary sources from forty female monastic communities in Lotharingia — a politically and culturally diverse region that boasted an...
Ams Pr Inc, 1978. — 277 p. — ISBN: 10: 040416188X / ISBN: 13: 9780404161880 The Nestorian Churches: A Concise History of Nestorian Christianity in Asia from the Persian Schism to the Modern Assyrians provides a detailed overview of the history of the Assyrian Church of the East from the 5th Century through 1936.
Grand Rapids, MI: Christian Classics Ethereal Library, 2000. (In file 1750 p.). A Dictionary of Christian Biography and Literature to the End of the Sixth Century A.D., with an Account of the Principal Sects and Heresies by Henry Wace is a valuable resource for anyone interested in early Christian history. His dictionary is a comprehensive compilation of over 800 important...
Grand Rapids, MI: Christian Classics Ethereal Library. — Hendrickson Publishers, Inc. edition 1999. — 2266 p. ISBN: 1-56563-460-8 reprinted from the edition originally titled A Dictionary of Christian Biography and Literature, published by John Murray, London, 1911 This reference book is a valuable resource for teachers, students, and anyone interested in early Christian...
Cambridge University Press, 1982. — 232 p. This book is a comprehensive survey of the history and, more particularly, of the thought of Antioch from the second to the eighth centuries of the Christian era. Dr Wallace-Hadrill traces the religious background of Antiochene Christianity and examines in detail aspects of its intellectual life: the exegesis of scripture, the...
Θεσσαλονίκη: Το Βυζάντιον, 1997. — 542 σ. — (Έλληνες Πατέρες της Εκκλησίας (ΕΠΕ)). Explanation of sacred words and questions to Amphilochius, His Eminence Metropolitan of Cyzicus, who, during temptation, asked for resolution of various questions, numbering up to three hundred. For the first time, the reader is offered the work of Saint Photius, Patriarch of Constantinople in...
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