Product Description: On May 20, 1347, Cola di Rienzo overthrew without violence the turbulent rule of Rome’s barons and the absentee popes. A young visionary and the best political speaker of his time, Cola promised Rome a return to its former greatness...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A two volume set collecting sources readings for the tradition of peacemaking in the Roman Catholic church prefaced by the editor's critical explications. The texts include early church writings, canon law, penitential texts, writings from saints, documentation of popular peace movements, monasti...read more

Product Description: The first volume of a two-volume set comprising a comprehensive collection of source readings for the entire tradition of Catholic peacemaking. The third part of the author's in-depth study, the set will complete his narrative account, The Catholic Peace Tradition (Orbis, 1986) and his study of th...read more

Product Description: First Published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Product Description: Book by Musto

Presents a historical account of the continuous peacemaking efforts of the Roman Catholic Church from gospel times to the present

Product Description: Theoderich’s “Guide to the Holy Land” is one of the best known and most widely used of the medieval pilgrim’s guides to Jerusalem and the Holy Land. Written around 1172 by the German monk Theoderich of Würzburg, it offers a complete guide to the city’s sacred sites and history, as well as to the legends and places of historical interest in the medieval kingdom of Jerusalem only fifteen years before its destruction by Saladin...read more