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...

Special Space and Spaces IssueBrian Stableford: The Impossibility of Impossible WarBernadette L. Bosky: Finding Space in Peter StraubPatrick McGuire: The Soviet Space Epic Cosmic VoyageChristopher Kovacs: Growing Ecclesiates' RoseDarrell Schweitzer on James Morrow's Madonna and SpaceshipAlec Austen on Greg Rucka's BravoUrsula Pflug on Ruth Ozeki's A Tale for the Time Being

In 1968, at the age of seven, I was struck by an intoxicated driver while playing baseball. This accident left me paralyzed from the waist down and has since forced me to use a wheelchair. Every summer following the accident, I was required to check into a New York City hospital for one week of physical evaluations and tests.At this hospital, I was treated by the same physical therapists, nurses, and doctors; I was also assigned the same room. This room was invariably occupied with...

A powerful collection of twenty-one SF&F short stories by an amazing list of contributors—all of whom were in attendance at Seattle Worldcon 2025!In partnership with Seattle Worldcon, Grim Oak Press is proud to present the third Grimoire for readers who enjoy SF&F stories of the magical and the future. Escape the country through Las Vegas beside Laura Anne Gilman. Regain the time you never know you could with Megan Lindholm. Fight back against a book thief...

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...

Story lines from The Wire challenge public perceptions about the deadly, real-world connections between drugs, crime, and poverty.Did Omar Little die of lead poisoning? Would a decriminalization strategy like the one in Hamsterdam end the War on Drugs? What will it take to save neglected kids like Wallace and Dukie? Tapping into 'The Wire' uses the acclaimed television series as a road map for exploring connections between inner-city poverty and d...

This new edition continues on its journey of being an introduction to the wide variety of conveyor types and application methods available. It discusses conveyor and system design and in its new edition, expands on information about sorters and motorized roller conveyors, new information on robotic interfaces, as well as some of the trade-offs made when conveyor design rules are intentionally broken. Each chapter now also includes questions and problems to help reinforce the material cover...

Story lines from The Wire challenge public perceptions about the deadly, real-world connections between drugs, crime, and poverty.Did Omar Little die of lead poisoning? Would a decriminalization strategy like the one in Hamsterdam end the War on Drugs? What will it take to save neglected kids like Wallace and Dukie? Tapping into 'The Wire' uses the acclaimed television series as a road map for exploring connections between inner-city poverty and d...

À l’occasion du 150e anniversaire de l’Institut universitaire en santé mentale de Montréal (IUSMM), c’est avec une grande fierté que je salue la qualité et la pérennité d’un partenariat universitaire qui demeure plus que jamais d’actualité.