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The Abbot's Tale
In the year 937, the new king of England, a grandson of Alfred the Great, readies himself to go to war in the north. His dream of a united kingdom of all England will stand or fall on one field—on the passage of a single day. At his side is the priest Dunstan of Glastonbury, full of ambition and wit (perhaps enough to damn his soul). His talents will take him from the villages of Wessex to the royal court, to the hills of Rome—from exile to exaltation. Through Dunstan’s vision, by his guiding hand, England will either come together as one great country or fall back into anarchy and misrule . . . From one of our finest historical writers, The Abbott’s Tale is an intimate portrait of a priest and performer, a visionary, a traitor and confessor to kings—the man who can change the fate of England.
The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Victorian Women's Writing
Since the late twentieth century, there has been a strategic campaign to recover the impact of Victorian women writers in the field of English literature. However, with the increased understanding of the importance of interdisciplinarity in the twenty-first century, there is a need to extend this campaign beyond literary studies in order to recognise the role of women writers across the nineteenth century, a time that was intrinsically interdisciplinary in approach to scholarly writing and public intellectual engagement.
National Union Catalog
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
Sisters In Song; Women Hymn Writers
Few people read the credits in their hymnals to learn who wrote the hymns they sing and love. Leslie Clay does. Over one hundred women are featured along with their most loved hymns in Sisters in Song. Learn some of the surprising facts the author has unearthed about the history of many of the most familiar hymn writers. Who knew how important women have been to hymnology?
Voices Found
Voices Found: Leader's Guide presents the music from Voices Found in a spiral bound format, easy for an accompanist to use. There are alternate harmonizations, guitar chords, descants, and expanded arrangements of the basic hymns and songs. The Scriptural and Topical Indices along with the Three-Year Lectionary Index (including the Revised Common Lectionary) provide excellent guidance for service planning. The Leader's Guide is not designed just for musicians and clergy. The Guide presents a great deal of background information about the composers, text writers, and arrangers who contributed to the volume. Many parishioners, as well as church professionals, will want to read about the fascinating women who contributed to the Church's Song for over 13 centuries, from the 8th Century to the present.
Judging Religion: A Dialogue for Our Time
John Holyrod's dissection of religion and what it means today.
Clothing Sacred Scriptures
According to a longstanding interpretation, book religions are agents of textuality and logocentrism. This volume inverts the traditional perspective: its focus is on the strong dependency between scripture and aesthetics, holy books and material artworks, sacred texts and ritual performances. The contributions, written by a group of international specialists in Western, Byzantine, Islamic and Jewish Art, are committed to a comparative and transcultural approach. The authors reflect upon the different strategies of »clothing« sacred texts with precious materials and elaborate forms. They show how the pretypographic cultures of the Middle Ages used book ornaments as media for building a close relation between the divine words and their human audience. By exploring how art shapes the religious practice of books, and how the religious use of books shapes the evolution of artistic practices this book contributes to a new understanding of the deep nexus between sacred scripture and art.
Constructions of Feminine Identity in the Catholic Tradition
Christopher M. Flavin examines the ways in which late classical medieval women’s writings serve as a means of emphasizing both faith and social identity within a distinctly Christian, and later Catholic, tradition, which remains a major part of the understanding of faith and the self. Flavin focuses on key texts from the lives of desert saints and the Passio Perpetua to the autobiographies of Counter-Reformation women like Teresa of Ávila to illustrate the connections between the self and the divine.
