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Francis of Assisi

A New Biography

Augustine Thompson, O.P.

A tour de force of historical research and biographical writing, Francis of Assisi: A New Biography is divided into two complementary parts—a stand alone biographical narrative and a close, annotated examination of the historical sources about Francis.

"This is not a typical biography of Francis of Assisi (1181–1226). Thompson, a Dominican priest and church historian, bases his biography solidly on verifiable material. He seeks the historical Francis, not the Francis of legend, and succeeds admirably in this task. Anyone interested in Francis will like the first part: a well-written, straightforward biography. In the second part, which will appeal to scholars and more serious readers, Thompson discusses in some detail the sources for... cont'd

The Sanctity of Louis IX

Early Lives of Saint Louis by Geoffrey of Beaulieu and William of Chartres

Geoffrey of Beaulieu, William of Chartres

The first English translations of two of the earliest accounts of Louis IX’s life, along with helpful biographical, historical, documentary, and critical materials.

Children of Rus'

Right-Bank Ukraine and the Invention of a Russian Nation

Faith Hillis

Faith Hillis recovers an all but forgotten chapter in the history of the tsarist empire and its southwestern borderlands.

Blood Ties

Religion, Violence and the Politics of Nationhood in Ottoman Macedonia, 1878–1908

Ipek K. Yosmaoglu

Blood Ties explains the origins of the shift from sporadic to systemic and pervasive violence through a social history of the “Macedonian Question.”

Libanius the Sophist

Rhetoric, Reality, and Religion in the Fourth Century

Raffaella Cribiore

Raffaella Cribiore draws on her unique knowledge of the entire body of Libanius’s vast literary output to offer the fullest intellectual portrait yet of this remarkable thinker.

Desperate Magic

The Moral Economy of Witchcraft in Seventeenth-Century Russia

Valerie Kivelson

Kivelson places Russian witchcraft trials of the seventeenth century in the legal, social, and religious context of eraly modern Russi—and in comparison with witch hunts of Western Europe and elsewhere.

Francis of Assisi

The Life

Augustine Thompson, O.P.

An elegant, concise, and accessible biography of one of Catholicism's most beloved saints.

All Good Books Are Catholic Books

Print Culture, Censorship, and Modernity in Twentieth-Century America

Una M. Cadegan

Una M. Cadegan shows how the Catholic Church’s official position on literary culture developed from World War I to Vatican II in 1965.

Psychoanalysis, Monotheism, and Morality

The Sigmund Freud Museum Symposia 2009–2011

In this volume, renowned experts in psychoanalysis reflect on the relationship between psychoanalysis and religion.

A Mountain of Difference

The Lumad in Early Colonial Mindanao

Oona Paredes

This book complicates our understanding of Mindanao's history and ethnography, and outlines the beginning of an autonomous history for the marginalized Lumad peoples.

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