The Convert Kings
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Author |
: N. J. Higham |
Publisher |
: Manchester University Press |
Total Pages |
: 308 |
Release |
: 1997-09-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0719048281 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780719048289 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (81 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Convert Kings by : N. J. Higham
The story of the conversion of the English to Christianity traditionally begins with Augustine's arrival in 597. This text offers a critical re-evaluation of the process of conversion which assesses what the act really meant to new converts, who was responsible for it, and why particular figures both accepted conversion for themselves and threw their influence behind the spread of Christianity. The conversion has often been seen as something which missionaries did to the English. The book restores responsibility to the English and, in particular, King Aethelbert, Edwin, Oswald and Oswin, and it is their religious policies that form the focus of this text.
Author |
: N. J. Higham |
Publisher |
: Manchester University Press |
Total Pages |
: 312 |
Release |
: 1997 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0719048273 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780719048272 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (73 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Convert Kings by : N. J. Higham
The story of the conversion of the English to Christianity traditionally begins with Augustine's arrival in 597. This text offers a critical re-evaluation of the process of conversion which assesses what the act really meant to new converts, who was responsible for it, and why particular figures both accepted conversion for themselves and threw their influence behind the spread of Christianity. The conversion has often been seen as something which missionaries did to the English. The book restores responsibility to the English and, in particular, King Aethelbert, Edwin, Oswald and Oswin, and it is their religious policies that form the focus of this text.
Author |
: Stefan Hertmans |
Publisher |
: Pantheon |
Total Pages |
: 304 |
Release |
: 2020-02-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781524747091 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1524747092 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (91 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Convert by : Stefan Hertmans
Finalist for the 2020 National Jewish Book Awards In this dazzling work of historical fiction, the Man Booker International–long-listed author of War and Turpentine reconstructs the tragic story of a medieval noblewoman who leaves her home and family for the love of a Jewish boy. In eleventh-century France, Vigdis Adelaïs, a young woman from a prosperous Christian family, falls in love with David Todros, a rabbi’s son and yeshiva student. To be together, the couple must flee their city, and Vigdis must renounce her life of privilege and comfort. Pursued by her father’s knights and in constant danger of betrayal, the lovers embark on a dangerous journey to the south of France, only to find their brief happiness destroyed by the vicious wave of anti-Semitism sweeping through Europe with the onset of the First Crusade. What begins as a story of forbidden love evolves into a globe-trotting trek spanning continents, as Vigdis undertakes an epic journey to Cairo and back, enduring the unimaginable in hopes of finding her lost children. Based on two fragments from the Cairo Genizah—a repository of more than three hundred thousand manuscripts and documents stored in the upper chamber of a synagogue in Old Cairo—Stefan Hertmans has pieced together a remarkable work of imagination, re-creating the tragic story of two star-crossed lovers whose steps he retraces almost a millennium later. Blending fact and fiction, and with immense imagination and stylistic ingenuity, Hertmans painstakingly depicts Vigdis’s terrible trials, bringing the Middle Ages to life and illuminating a chaotic world of love and hate.
Author |
: Elsie Emilie Egermeier |
Publisher |
: Warner Press |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2008-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1593173369 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781593173364 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (69 Downloads) |
Synopsis Egermeier's Bible Story Book by : Elsie Emilie Egermeier
As a more economical alternative to the standard hardbound edition, this softbound version of Egermeier's Bible Story Book brings you all the same text, artwork and study guides (minus the expanded map section).
Author |
: William Chester Jordan |
Publisher |
: Princeton University Press |
Total Pages |
: 198 |
Release |
: 2019-04-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780691192635 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0691192634 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (35 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Apple of His Eye by : William Chester Jordan
The thirteenth century brought new urgency to Catholic efforts to convert non-Christians, and no Catholic ruler was more dedicated to this undertaking than King Louis IX of France. His military expeditions against Islam are well documented, but there was also a peaceful side to his encounter with the Muslim world, one that has received little attention until now. This splendid book shines new light on the king’s program to induce Muslims—the “apple of his eye”—to voluntarily convert to Christianity and resettle in France. It recovers a forgotten but important episode in the history of the Crusades while providing a rare window into the fraught experiences of the converts themselves. William Chester Jordan transforms our understanding of medieval Christian-Muslim relations by telling the stories of the Muslims who came to France to live as Christians. Under what circumstances did they willingly convert? How successfully did they assimilate into French society? What forms of resistance did they employ? In examining questions like these, Jordan weaves a richly detailed portrait of a dazzling yet violent age whose lessons still resonate today. Until now, scholars have dismissed historical accounts of the king’s peaceful conversion of Muslims as hagiographical and therefore untrustworthy. Jordan takes these narratives seriously—and uncovers archival evidence to back them up. He brings his findings marvelously to life in this succinct and compelling book, setting them in the context of the Seventh Crusade and the universalizing Catholic impulse to convert the world.
Author |
: D. P. Kirby |
Publisher |
: Psychology Press |
Total Pages |
: 275 |
Release |
: 2000 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780415242110 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0415242118 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (10 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Earliest English Kings by : D. P. Kirby
First published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author |
: Rosaria Champagne Butterfield |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 191 |
Release |
: 2014 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1884527825 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781884527821 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (25 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert by : Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
"Rosaria, by the standards of many, was living a very good life. She had a tenured position at a large university in a field for which she cared deeply. She owned two homes with her partner, in which they provided hospitality to students and activists that were looking to make a difference in the world. In the community, Rosaria was involved in volunteer work. At the university, she was a respected advisor of students and her department's curriculum. And then, in her late 30s, Rosaria encountered something that turned her world upside down -- the idea that Christianity, a religion that she had regarded as problematic and sometimes downright damaging, might be right about who God was. That idea seemed to fly in the face of the people and causes that she most loved. What follows is a story of what she describes as a train wreck at the hand of the supernatural. These are her secret thoughts about those events, written as only a reflective English professor could."--Back cover.
Author |
: Sarah Miles |
Publisher |
: Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd |
Total Pages |
: 321 |
Release |
: 2012 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781848252141 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1848252145 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (41 Downloads) |
Synopsis Take This Bread by : Sarah Miles
The story of an unexpected and terribly inconvenient Christian conversion, told by a very unlikely convert, Take This Bread is not only a spiritual memoir but a call to action. Raised as an atheist, Sara Miles lived an enthusiastically secular life as a restaurant cook and writer. Then one morning, for no earthly reason, she wandered into a church. She ate a piece of bread, took a sip of wine, and found herself radically transformed, embracing a faith she’d scorned and which would lead to feeding others in a way that she’d never imagined. Sara started a food pantry giving away literally tons of food from around the same altar where she’d first received the body of Christ, and providing hundreds of hungry families with free groceries each week. Take This Bread is rich with real-life Dickensian characters–church ladies, millionaires, schizophrenics, bishops, and gangsters – all blown into Miles’ life by the relentless force of her new-found calling. Here, in this beautiful, passionate book, is Christ’s living communion.
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: |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 1222 |
Release |
: 1907 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105062314070 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (70 Downloads) |
Synopsis The English Reports: King's Bench (1378-1865) by :
Author |
: Cord J. Whitaker |
Publisher |
: University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages |
: 256 |
Release |
: 2019-10-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780812251586 |
ISBN-13 |
: 081225158X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (86 Downloads) |
Synopsis Black Metaphors by : Cord J. Whitaker
In the late Middle Ages, Christian conversion could wash a black person's skin white—or at least that is what happens when a black sultan converts to Christianity in the English romance King of Tars. In Black Metaphors, Cord J. Whitaker examines the rhetorical and theological moves through which blackness and whiteness became metaphors for sin and purity in the English and European Middle Ages—metaphors that guided the development of notions of race in the centuries that followed. From a modern perspective, moments like the sultan's transformation present blackness and whiteness as opposites in which each condition is forever marked as a negative or positive attribute; medieval readers were instead encouraged to remember that things that are ostensibly and strikingly different are not so separate after all, but mutually construct one another. Indeed, Whitaker observes, for medieval scholars and writers, blackness and whiteness, and the sin and salvation they represent, were held in tension, forming a unified whole. Whitaker asks not so much whether race mattered to the Middle Ages as how the Middle Ages matters to the study of race in our fraught times. Looking to the treatment of color and difference in works of rhetoric such as John of Garland's Synonyma, as well as in a range of vernacular theological and imaginative texts, including Robert Manning's Handlyng Synne, and such lesser known romances as The Turke and Sir Gawain, he illuminates the process by which one interpretation among many became established as the truth, and demonstrates how modern movements—from Black Lives Matter to the alt-right—are animated by the medieval origins of the black-white divide.