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| 21. |  | Title: Symeon the holy fool: Leontius's Life and the late antique city  Author: Krueger, Derek Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Religion | Literature | Christianity | Classics | Classical Religions Publisher's Description: This first English translation of Leontius of Neapolis's Life of Symeon the Fool brings to life one of the most colorful of early Christian saints. In this study of a major hagiographer at work, Krueger fleshes out a broad picture of the religious, intellectual, and social environment in which the L . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 22. |  | Title: Territories of grace: cultural change in the seventeenth-century Diocese of Grenoble Author: Luria, Keith P Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | European History | Christianity | French Studies Publisher's Description: Territories of Grace offers a sophisticated model of cultural change in early modern rural society, by examining the religion of villagers in the French diocese of Grenoble during the Counter-Reformation. Keith P. Luria describes the encounter of village and official forms of piety, arguing that his . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 23. |  | Title: Visionaries: the Spanish Republic and the reign of Christ Author: Christian, William A 1944- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Religion | Christianity | Popular Culture | Anthropology Publisher's Description: In June 1931, on a hillside in the Spanish Basque country, two children reported seeing the Virgin Mary. Within weeks, hundreds of seers were attracting tens of thousands of onlookers, and the nightly spectacle gave rise to others in dozens of towns across Spain. Visionaries explores the experience . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 24. |  | Title: Wondrous in his saints: counter-Reformation propaganda in Bavaria Author: Soergel, Philip M Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | European History | Christianity | Medieval History Publisher's Description: At the close of the sixteenth century, despite Protestant attempts to discourage popular devotion to saints and shrines, the Roman Church in Bavaria initiated a propagandistic campaign through the publishing of pilgrimage books and pamphlets. Philip Soergel's cogent exploration of this little-known . . . [more] Similar Items |