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A study of women who left their nunneries: their motives and actions, and the consequences for them.
Humans have been uttering profane words and incurring the consequences for millennia. This volume examines the profound difficulties blasphemy raises for modern societies.
Exploring how Renaissance Venice, a city renowned for its political freedom, also became a centre of religious dissent, this study offers a... Læs mere
The first full-length examination of the influential cultural and religious exchanges which took place between England and... Læs mere
Traces the dual strains of 'iconophilia' and iconoclasm, the privileging and prohibition of religious images, over a span of two-and-a-half... Læs mere
In the 11th-century Eucharistic Controversy, Alberic of Monte composed a small but important treatise. His treatise was said to... Læs mere
James B. Given analyzes the inquisition in one French region in order to develop a sociology of medieval politics. Established in the early thirteenth century to combat widespread popular heresy, inquisitorial tribunals identified, prosecuted, and...
Provides an intimate, in-depth ethnography of religious disenchantment among ex-Mormons in Utah. Showing that former church... Læs mere
Monter notes the ways in which Protestants resisted the French judicial system even before the religious wars, and sets their story within the context of heresy prosecutions elsewhere in Reformation Europe, and within the long-term history of French criminal justice.
The various aspects of the way the Jews regarded themselves is analysed -- .
This is the first critical edition of the most important political text by William of Ockham, a significant and influential fourteenth century British philosopher.
The book documents thirty cases in which university-trained scholars were condemned for disseminating allegedly erroneous opinions in their teaching or writing.