Julian
Summary: And I saw full surely that ere God made us He loved us; which love was never slacked nor ever shall be. And in this love He hath done all His works, and in this love He hath made all things profitable to us, and in this love our life is everlasting.' Julian of Norwich saw this love as the answer to the problems of confusion, division, and evil in the world. More than 600 years later, Christians...
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Publisher / Publication Date: christianaudio.com 2009
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Furlong, Monica.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shambhala 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 248.22 FurloSharratt, Mary
Summary: Bishop's Lynn, England, 1413. At the age of forty, Margery Kempe has nearly died giving birth to her fourteenth child. Fearing that another pregnancy might kill her, she makes a vow of celibacy, but she can't trust her husband to keep his end of the bargain. Desperate for counsel, she visits the famous anchoress Dame Julian of Norwich and confesses that she has been haunted by visceral...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHAMatthews, John
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Publisher / Publication Date: Firebird Books 1988
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.14 MatthKoman, 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 KOMGriffith, Nicola.
Summary: "A brilliant, lush, sweeping historical novel about the rise of the most powerful woman of the Middle Ages: Hild Hild is born into a world in transition. In seventh-century Britain, small kingdoms are merging, usually violently. A new religion is comingashore; the old gods' priests are worrying. Edwin of Northumbria plots to become overking of the Angles, ruthlessly using every tool at his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus & Giroux 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRISummary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 WORCall number: DVD 709 WOR
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010Ruiz, Teofilo F.
Summary: A study of mysticism, heresy, apocalyptic movements, and the witch craze in Europe between 1000 and 1700.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2002
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 291.422 RUISancha, Sheila.
Summary: Traces a year in the Lincolnshire village of Gerneham, from ploughing through sowing, harvesting, and threshing, with illustrations of village life inspired by the fourteenth-century Luttrell Psalter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crowell 1982
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 942.037 SANSummary: The development of the arts in Europe from the Middle Ages to the modern era is an astonishing record of cultural achievement, from the breathtaking architecture of Gothic cathedrals to the daring visual experiments of the Cubist painters. We all have our favorite artists, periods, or styles from this immensely rich tradition, but how many of us truly know the full sweep of European art? How...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 HISKreiner, Jamie
Summary: "A revelatory account of how Christian monks identified distraction as a fundamental challenge, and how their efforts to defeat it can inform ours, more than a millennium later"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 206 KREMoorhouse, Geoffrey
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MoorhOzment, Steven E.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 943.471 OZMSummary: This series covers history from 3500 B.C. to the 1780's. This course analyzes civilizations by looking at their geographic and political environments, their technologies, economies, social institutions, and cultural achievements. Students will look at history from new perspectives, come to understand the connections between human beings despite time and distance, and appreciate the lasting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Teaching Company 1995
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Eco, Umberto.
Summary: In 1327, finding his sensitive mission at an Italian abbey further complicated by seven bizarre deaths, Brother William of Baskerville turns detective.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace 1994
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ECOWellesley, Mary
Summary: "The Gilded Page is the story of the written word in the pre-Gutenberg age. Ranging from the earliest intact book in Europe, to the only known literary manuscript to be written in Shakespeare's hand, scholar Mary Wellesley reveals the secret lives of these literary and artistic treasures. Traipsing through the remarkable history, she recounts fires (the only surviving Beowulf manuscript is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word WellesleyWeir, Alison
Summary: "Spanning the years from the Norman conquest in 1066 to the dawn of a new era in 1154, when Henry II succeeded to the throne and Eleanor of Aquitaine, the first Plantagenet queen, was crowned, this ... book brings to ... life five women: Matilda of Flanders, wife of William the Conqueror, the first Norman king; Matilda of Scotland, revered as 'the common mother of all England'; Adeliza of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballentine Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 WEISummary: Founded in 1230, Scotland's Pluscarden Abbey still pulses with the prayers and spiritual pursuits of Benedictine monks. Abbot Hugh Gilbert describes their work in reassuringly human terms, framing the Christian battle against Satanic evil as an inner struggle within one's own psyche. But, as this program shows, the culture which brought Pluscarden into existence was rigidly institutional-and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Freeman, 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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Place a hold to request this item.Fletcher, Richard.
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 FLESummary: Although rooted in religious misogyny and crude anatomical knowledge, the sexual mores of the medieval era were surprisingly complex. This program explores the attitudes and behaviors of a sexual culture that was by turns romantic, transactional, and perverse. Documents and historical accounts include the story of Christina of Markyate, who defied marital conventions and maintained a lifelong...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Jones, 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
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV CRUSummary: Medieval science wasn't nonsense: it could conceive of a spherical Earth, for example. But the medieval scholar discerned both natural and supernatural forces at work in the cosmos, reading an eclipse as a sign from God as well as the result of planetary movement, and populating even the most rigorous maps of the era with sea monsters. This program explores that fascinating conceptual dichotomy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010