A history of the military guard that has witnessed every major Vatican event for half a millennium covers such topics as the Medici popes and the sack of Rome, the Napoleonic war, and the Nazi occupation of Rome.

This volume, which completes Father Torrell's biography of Aquinas, focuses on a relatively overlooked aspect of the Dominican's theology, his spirituality. This is a highly-specialised and in-depth analysis of that side of Aquinas which not only qualified him to be one of the great intellects of the Middle Ages but also a saint. The narrative is heavily annotated and supported by extracts, in English translation, from Summa theologiae and other works by Aquinas. (view table of contents)

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Traces the life of the influential nineteenth-century evangelist and describes the religious background of the time

Product Description: Book by Nemoianu, Virgil

The papers in this book respond to the public debate over literary canons, in the United States, and elsewhere, by placing the political-ideological aspects of the conflict inside perspectives derived from comparative literature. Canons are seen by most of the contributors as based on democratic and communal intentions or choices inevitable filtered through and colored by historical experiences and social biases.An examination of the canonical process over many centuries reveals both the impressive durability of its elements and the amazing flexibility of its outlines. The careful individual analyses, as well as the thought-provoking general contributions in this volume agree that the democracy of play is one of the strongest bonds uniting the human race. “Canons or canons”, the contributors argue, are based on it and reflect the intimate interdependence of cultural and intellectual matters with the workings of society as a whole. Contributors Charles Altieri, Lilian R. Furst, Michael G. Cooke, Robert Royal, Roger Shattuck, Rosa E.M.D. Penna, Glen M. Johnson, Yves Chevrel, Raymond A. Prier, Peter Walker, Christopher Clausen, Virgil Nemoianu.

The Continuing Crisis is a successor to the widely-used 1984 anthology Crisis and Opportunity. Nearly three-fourths of the essays are new. In addition to analyses from Foreign Affairs, the New Republic, the New York Review of Books, and other prestigious journals, this volume contains the most significant original documents and official statements on the Central American crisis. Each essay is preceded by a brief introduction that points out main themes and relates complementary and opposing authors to one another.