Magic in the Cloister - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Magic in the Cloister write by Sophie Page. This book was released on 2013-10-21. Magic in the Cloister available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. During the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries a group of monks with occult interests donated what became a remarkable collection of more than thirty magic texts to the library of the Benedictine abbey of St. Augustine’s in Canterbury. The monks collected texts that provided positive justifications for the practice of magic and books in which works of magic were copied side by side with works of more licit genres. In Magic in the Cloister, Sophie Page uses this collection to explore the gradual shift toward more positive attitudes to magical texts and ideas in medieval Europe. She examines what attracted monks to magic texts, in spite of the dangers involved in studying condemned works, and how the monks combined magic with their intellectual interests and monastic life. By showing how it was possible for religious insiders to integrate magical studies with their orthodox worldview, Magic in the Cloister contributes to a broader understanding of the role of magical texts and ideas and their acceptance in the late Middle Ages.
College and Cloister
College and Cloister - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook College and Cloister write by Dennis Bryan Alban Berk. This book was released on 2001. College and Cloister available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Peopling the Cloister
Peopling the Cloister - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Peopling the Cloister write by Caroline Simmons Leigh Hasenyager. This book was released on 2013. Peopling the Cloister available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Warriors of the Cloisters
Warriors of the Cloisters - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Warriors of the Cloisters write by Christopher I. Beckwith. This book was released on 2012-09-16. Warriors of the Cloisters available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "In this provocative book, Christopher I. Beckwith traces how the recursive argument method was first developed by Buddhist scholars and was spread by them throughout ancient Central Asia. He shows how the method was adopted by Islamic Central Asian natural philosphers - most importantly by Avicenna, one of the most brilliant of all medieval thinkers - and transmitted to the West when Avicenna's works were translated into Latin in Spain in the twelfth century by the Jewish philosopher Ibn Dā'ūd and others. -- Book jacket.
The Cloister
The Cloister - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cloister write by James Carroll. This book was released on 2018-03-06. The Cloister available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From National Book Award-winning writer James Carroll comes a novel of the timeless love story of Peter Abelard and Héloïse, and its impact on a modern priest and a Holocaust survivor seeking sanctuary in Manhattan. Father Michael Kavanagh is shocked when he sees a friend from his seminary days at the altar of his humble parish in upper Manhattan—a friend who was forced to leave under scandalous circumstances. Compelled to reconsider the past, Father Kavanagh wanders into the medieval haven of the Cloisters and stumbles into a conversation with a lovely and intriguing docent, Rachel Vedette. Having survived the Holocaust and escaped to America, Rachel remains obsessed with her late father’s greatest scholarly achievement: a study demonstrating the relationship between the famously discredited monk Peter Abelard and Jewish scholars. Feeling an odd connection with Father Kavanagh, Rachel shares with him the work that cost her father his life. At the center of these interrelated stories is the classic romance between the great philosopher Abelard and his intellectual equal, Héloïse. For Rachel, Abelard is the key to understanding her people’s place in history. And for Father Kavanagh, the controversial theologian may be a doorway to understanding the life he himself might have had outside the Church.
