Although this book is a relatively small work, that is, with few pages, it is about a subject of great weight and importance. We go through a transition that many of us refer to as the midlife crisis and approach it as a disease to be cured. Some of us enter this transition phase in our early forties and some of us in our late fifties. But in any case, many of us feel it. There have been some biological changes, the effectiveness of some reproductive hormones has changed in men and women. But the real changes have been in our mental world, our sense of self-worth, our self-confidence, our self-perception, our integration with our environment, and the quality of our social relationships. We now have privileges, which can provide a very important leap for us, that we did not have before. Many of the duties or responsibilities that limited us before are now no longer an obstacle. Now we can change tracks or move on the same track at high speeds , from walking to running, perhaps to flying. The necessary conditions for this have now been created. A window of opportunity has opened before us. But we don't see it and we don't evaluate it. We are busy with our own internal accounting, reworking the past many times, and we pass by the new gateway that opens before us . This study is an attempt to fill an important gap in its field, trying to illuminate and make visible the gateway, the window of opportunity, that opened before us in this special period of our lives. It is a beacon that illuminates your own path, which you can read in one breath and enrich with your own experience. We should not forget that the lantern does not determine our way, the direction we will go, the lantern illuminates our way in whichever direction we go. I wish you a second period in which you set your own new path and walk that path satisfactorily. What is a path without walking? The road is the walking itself. Come on …!

Serious Study Comes to Life The visually engaging NLT Student Life Application Study Bible brings learning to life for those who want to get serious about their study of Scripture. It invites readers into an ever-deeper knowledge of God and his work in the world. This Bible uses the clear and accurate New Living Translation to help you connect what the Bible says to the way we live today. This study Bible is equipped with the Filament Bible app, enabling you to go further in your study. Scan any page number with your mobile phone or tablet to connect to a vast library of related content.

Married Life in the Middle Ages, 900-1300 contains an analysis of the experience of married life by men and women in Christian medieval Europe, c. 900-1300. The study focusses on the social and emotional life of the married couple rather than on the institutional history of marriage, breaking it into three parts: Getting Married - the process of getting married and wedding celebrations; Married Life - the married life of lay couples and clergy, their sexuality, and any remarriage; and Alternative Living - which explores concubinage and polygyny, as well as the single life in contrast to monogamous sexual unions. In this volume, van Houts deals with four central themes. First, the tension between patriarchal family strategies and the individual family member's freedom of choice to marry and, if so, to what partner; second, the role played by the married priesthood in their quest to have individual agency and self-determination accepted in their own lives in the face of the growing imposition of clerical celibacy; third, the role played by women in helping society accept some degree of gender equality and self-determination to marry and in shaping the norms for married life incorporating these principles; fourth, the role played by emotion in the establishment of marriage and in married life at a time when sexual and spiritual love feature prominently in medieval literature.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1859. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.