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Library of the Middle AgesKoman, Alan J.
Summary: For anyone interested in his or her own genealogical links to medieval Europe and early Christianity, Alan Koman's new book offers an extraordinary opportunity. For the first time, the lives of 275 early European saints are retold and accompanied by lineages connected those saints to twenty-four of the great men and women of medieval Europe. Today, those twenty-four men and women have...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Pub. Co. 2010
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.3 KOMFreeman, Charles
Summary: A radical reappraisal of the impact of Constantine's adoption of Christianity in 368 AD on the later Roman world, and on Western civilization. Adopting those aspects of the religion that suited his purposes, Constantine turned Rome on a course from the relatively open, tolerant and pluralistic civilization of the Hellenistic world, towards a culture that was based on the rule of fixed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 2003
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Summary: "An investigation of the process by which large parts of Europe accepted the Christian faith between the fourth and the fourteenth centuries and of some of the cultural consequences that flowed therefrom. In a work of splendid scholarship that reflects both a firm mastery of difficult sources and a keen intuition, one of Britain's foremost medievalists tells the story of the Christianization of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: H. Holt and Co. 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 274.02 FLEWalter, Philippe
Contents: Introduction -- Carnival, the enigma of a name -- November 1, Samhain -- Christmas and the twelve days -- February 1, Imbolc -- The transitional period of Easter -- May 1, Beltane -- Saint John's Day -- August 1, Lughnasa -- Saint Michael on Mount Gargan -- Conclusion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Inner Traditions 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 263.9 WALEdgington, Susan B
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rosen Central 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.18 EDGJones, Dan
Summary: "For more than one thousand years, Christians and Muslims lived side by side, sometimes at peace and sometimes at war. When Christian armies seized Jerusalem in 1099, they began the most notorious period of conflict between the two religions. Depending on who you ask, the fall of the holy city was either an inspiring legend or the greatest of horrors. In Crusaders, Dan Jones interrogates the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Bonus material for the documentary 'The Crusades: crescent & the cross.' Includes a behind-the-scenes featurette, bonus documentary, and timeline.
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Publisher / Publication Date: A&E Home Video 2005