Product Description: As founder of the Carthusian order, Saint Bruno of Cologne (Ã¥ 1101) is known as a leading figure in the twelfth-century religious renewal. As recent research has emphasized, he was also one of the first proponents of a new intellectual culture of the French schools as a teacher at Reims before his conversion and retreat to the Italian hermitage of La Torre...read more

Product Description: How does one construct a saint and promote a cult beyond the immediate community in which he or she lived? Italian mendicants had accumulated a good deal of experience in dealing with this politically explosive question. The posthumous description of the life of Francis of Assisi (d...read more

Product Description: 'Killing for the Faith, Dying for the Faith' - the message of the Books of Maccabees is martial and pernicious. The history of influence is the focus of the essays collected in this book, essays, which extend thematically and chronologically from the cult of martyrs in late antiquity to the time of the modern wars of liberation...read more