Surveys the influence of the Psalms on the education, daily life, and spiritual development of Western medieval clerics and monks, and on lay culture as well, giving a unique window into the intellect
Examines some neglected Latin texts produced during the thousand years after the end of most classicists' field-of-view in the fifth century, looking at what ideological values are explicitly encoded
Descriptions of the often sexual in nature violence against female saints are not for the squeamish, but medieval readers understood what pagan torturers did not: that these women were among the selec
