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Language: en
Pages: 249
Authors: Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-06-05 - Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

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In 1384, a poor and illiterate peasant woman named Ermine moved to the city of Reims with her elderly husband. Her era was troubled by war, plague, and schism w
The Strange Case of Ermine de Reims
Language: en
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Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-05-28 - Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

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This book examines Ermine de Reim's life in fourteenth-century France, her relationship with her confessor, her ascetic and devotional practices, and her report
Visions of Deliverance
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Authors: Mayte Green-Mercado
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-01-15 - Publisher: Cornell University Press

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In Visions of Deliverance, Mayte Green-Mercado traces the circulation of Muslim and crypto-Muslim apocalyptic texts known as joferes through formal and informal
The Sacred and the Sinister
Language: en
Pages: 301
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-05-17 - Publisher: Penn State Press

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Inspired by the work of eminent scholar Richard Kieckhefer, The Sacred and the Sinister explores the ambiguities that made (and make) medieval religion and magi
Tempting the Tempter
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Categories: Religion
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Tempting the Tempter considers how far fifteenth-century Italian mystics would go to imitate Christ, even in his encounters with the Devil in the desert. Elena