This volume contains an edition and facing English translation of Explanation of the Divine Temple and ?On the Sacred Liturgy,? the two commentaries on the pontifical (hierarchal) Byzantine Divine Lit
The late medieval Digby Mary Magdalene play is dominated by its female protagonist. The playwright seems deliberately to have crafted an especially complex version of the popular saint: a multivalent
The ten essays on this important literary text include works by John A. Alford, Linda J. Clifton, Eric C. Dahl, T. P. Dolan, Richard K. Emmerson, Elton D. Higgs, David Lawton, Priscilla Martin, Derek
There are countless under-studied or ignored authors from the Byzantine Empire awaiting scholarly attention. In the area of Byzantine spirituality the twelfth century as a whole has received little co
This book examines the history of sex and gender from a linguistic, artistic, and philosophical perspective, providing a new paradigm with which to analyze this controversial subject. Glenn Olsen's wi
This book investigates scholastic discussions of Christ's wills from Anselm of Canterbury to John Duns Scotus, concentrating on Thomas Aquinas. The work advances understandings of scholastic Christolo
The history of the book in the late Middle Ages is associated especially with Gutenberg's momentous invention of printing with movable type. Printing, however, hardly replaced the manuscript book over
Simon of Tournai was a theological master who flourished in the Paris of the 1160s and enjoyed considerable renown. According to the chronicles of Matthew Paris, Simon was an outstanding teacher gifte
