In this intimate portrait of one of the Middle Ages' most consequential men, Brian Patrick McGuire delves into the life of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux to offer a refreshing interpretation that finds within this grand historical figure a deeply spiritual human being who longed for the reflective quietude of the monastery even as he helped shape the destiny of a church and a continent. Heresy and crusade, politics and papacies, theology and disputation shaped this astonishing...

In these articles Professor McGuire explores the riches of the Cistercian exemplum tradition. These texts are made up of brief stories, often with a miraculous content, which provided moral support for novices and monks in Cistercian abbeys all over Europe in the High Middle Ages. The Cistercians have been seen mainly in terms of their great writers like Bernard of Clairvaux and the impressive buildings they left behind. But Cistercian literature also provides us with more humble insights ...

Middelalderen var en broget tid, som strakte sig fra folkevandringstidens slutning omkring år 500 til den gryende renæssance ca. 1000 år senere. Den danskboende forfatter beretter historien om en tid med en kirke splittet mellem vest og øst, med korstog og blodige krige, men også med lærdom og munkevæsen, med høvisk kærlighed, litteratur og kunst. Og ikke mindst med en begyndende europæisk identitet, der rækker frem mod i dag. Illustreret."En smuk og nyttig bog om middelalderen ......

"Den verden, jeg her beskriver, eksisterede for mere end et halvt hundrede år siden, og mange af de mennesker, som beboede den, lever ikke længere. I de mellemliggende år har jeg lært at værdsætte livets gave og har gennem venskaber og kærlighedsforhold fået øjnene op for min amerikansk-katolske barndoms velsignelser og begrænsninger. I 1976 opgav jeg mit amerikanske statsborgerskab og omfavnede med stor iver ikke bare dansk indfødsret, men også dansk identitet. Den dag i dag bliver jeg il...

From the editor of the award-winning anthology Unfettered comes the newest installment in the science fiction and fantasy series, Unfettered III.Lacking health insurance when he was diagnosed with cancer, Shawn Speakman asked friends in the science fiction and fantasy writing community to donate short stories he could use to counter mounting medical debt. The result was Unfettered, an anthology offering tales from some of the best authors...

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Here are sixteen chilling, never-before-published tales that explore every aspect of our darkest holiday, Halloween, coedited by Ellen Datlow, one of the most successful and respected genre editors, and Lisa Morton, a leading authority on Halloween.In addition to stories about scheming jack-o’-lanterns, vengeful ghosts, otherworldly changelings, disturbingly realistic haunted attractions, masks that cover terrifying faces, murderous urban legends, parties gone bad, cult Halloween m...

Here are selected seminal writings of Jean Gerson (1363-1429), chancellor of the University of Paris, academic, humanist, Christian teacher and reformer, and one of the greatest theologians and mystical writers of the middle ages.

Shortly after entering the monastic life in December 1941, a relatively unknown Trappist monk called Frater Louis-who would later be known to the world by his given name, Thomas Merton-began to pen biographical sketches of early Cistercian blessed and saints. These were initially collected, printed, and bound inexpensively, with no mention of the author, by the Abbey of Gethsemani. They are now published here for a wide audience for the first time.This work of the very young Merton...