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Revelations of Divine Love

Revelations of Divine Love

by Julian of Norwich

One of the first woman authors, Julian of Norwich produced in Revelations of Divine Love a remarkable work of revelatory insight, that stands alongside The...

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Revelations of Divine Love

Revelations of Divine Love

by Mother Julian of Norwich

And all shall be well and all manner of things shall be well...And all shall be well and all manner of things shall be well...In 1373, when she was thirty...

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The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature

The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature

C.S. Lewis' The Discarded Image paints a lucid picture of the medieval world view, as historical and cultural background to the literature of the Middle Ages...

tags: historical, writing, philosophy, essays, classics, religion, medieval, nonfiction, literature, history, criticism, literary criticism

The Allegory of Love: A Study in Medieval Tradition

The Allegory of Love: A Study in Medieval Tradition

Love is the commonest these of serious imaginative literature and is still generally regarded as anble and ennbling passion. Love has not always taken such...

tags: historical, poetry, christian, philosophy, classics, medieval, nonfiction, literature, history, criticism, literary criticism

A Summa of the Summa

A Summa of the Summa

by Peter Kreeft

Combines selected philosophical passages from Thomas' Summa Theologica with detailed footnotes and explanations for modern readers.

tags: theology, historical, catholic, spirituality, philosophy, christianity, classics, religion, medieval, nonfiction, christian

On Being and Essence

On Being and Essence

by Thomas Aquinas

A small error at the outset can lead to great errors in the final conclusions, as the Philosopher says in I De Caelo et Mundo cap. 5 (271b8-13), and thus,...

tags: philosophy, religion, read for college, christianity, theology, christian, medieval, metaphysics, classics, academic, nonfiction, historical

Summa Contra Gentiles: Book One: God

Summa Contra Gentiles: Book One: God

by Thomas Aquinas

The Summa Contra GentilesSumma Contra Gentiles is not merely the only complete summary of Christian doctrine that St. Thomas has written, but also a creative...

tags: philosophy, religion, spirituality, christianity, theology, christian, medieval, classics, historical, nonfiction, catholic

Selected Writings

Selected Writings

by Thomas Aquinas

In his reflections on Christianity, Saint Thomas Aquinas forged a unique synthesis of ancient philosophy and medieval theology. Preoccupied with the...

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Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature

Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature

This entertaining and learned volume contains book reviews, lectures, and hard to find articles from the late C. S. Lewis, whose constant aim was to show the...

tags: historical, reference, writing, literary fiction, essays, medieval, books about books, nonfiction, literature, history, criticism, literary criticism

Life of St. Columba

Life of St. Columba

by Adamnan of Iona

Founding father of the famous monastery on the island of Iona, a site of pilgrimage ever since his death in 597, St Columba was born into one of the ruling...

tags: historical, academic, christian, school, christianity, classics, religion, biography, scotland, medieval, nonfiction, history, cultural

The Return of Don Quixote

The Return of Don Quixote

by G.K. Chesterton

Michael Herne is a librarian at Seawood Abbey, an estate owned by Lord Seawood. When Lord Seawood's daughter and some of her friends want to put on a play...

tags: historical, philosophy, christianity, classics, novels, religion, medieval, fiction, literature

Aquinas's Shorter Summa: Saint Thomas's Own Concise Version of His Summa Theologica

Aquinas's Shorter Summa: Saint Thomas's Own Concise Version of His Summa Theologica

by Thomas Aquinas

Two years before he died, St. Thomas Aquinas probably the greatest teacher the Church has ever known was asked by his assistant, Brother Reginald, to write a...

tags: philosophy, religion, history, christianity, theology, christian, medieval, classics, historical, nonfiction, catholic

Francis and Clare: The Complete Works (Revised)

Francis and Clare: The Complete Works (Revised)

by Francis of Assisi

Francis (c. 1182-1226) and Clare (c. 1193-1254) together shaped the spirituality of early 13th-century Europe. Here for the first time in English are their...

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Selected Philosophical Writings

Selected Philosophical Writings

by Thomas Aquinas

St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) saw religion as part of the natural human propensity to worship. His ability to recognize the naturalness of this phenomenon and...

tags: philosophy, religion, academic, history, christianity, theology, christian, medieval, classics, catholic, nonfiction, historical

Hereward, the Last of the English

Hereward, the Last of the English

by Charles Kingsley

Work by Charles Kingsley, a prolific English novelist and author whose main power lay in his descriptive faculties. Kingsley's interest in history spilled over...

tags: historical, academic, school, historical fiction, classics, medieval, fiction, literature

Against the Academicians / The Teacher

Against the Academicians / The Teacher

These new translations of two treatises dealing with the possibility and nature of knowledge in the face of skeptical challenges are the first to be rendered...

tags: theology, historical, academic, school, philosophy, christianity, education, classics, religion, medieval, nonfiction, christian

Geoffrey Chaucer (Chesterton's Biographies)

Geoffrey Chaucer (Chesterton's Biographies)

by G.K. Chesterton

The medieval poet as seen by a 20th century voice of art.The medieval poet as seen by a 20th century voice of art.

tags: historical, biography, medieval, nonfiction, literature, history, criticism

The Writings of Julian of Norwich: A Vision Showed to a Devout Woman and a Revelation of Love

The Writings of Julian of Norwich: A Vision Showed to a Devout Woman and a Revelation of Love

by Julian of Norwich

Julian of Norwich (ca. 1343-ca. 1416), a contemporary of Geoffrey Chaucer, William Langland, and John Wyclif, is the earliest woman writer of English we know...

tags: occult, historical, catholic, theology, philosophy, christianity, classics, religion, medieval, nonfiction, mysticism

Summa Theologiae: A Concise Translation

Summa Theologiae: A Concise Translation

by Thomas Aquinas

'Summa Theologiae' ranks among the greatest documents of the Christian Church, and is a landmark of medieval western thought."

tags: philosophy, religion, history, christianity, theology, christian, medieval, classics, nonfiction, historical

Canticle of the Sun (Calligrapher's Notebooks)

Canticle of the Sun (Calligrapher's Notebooks)

by Francis of Assisi

Between 1225 and 1226, in the last year of his life, Francis of Assisi composed his celebrated "Canticle of the Sun" (also known as the "Canticle of the...

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