Overview :Hailed in Sacred Scripture as the "beginning of wisdom" (Ps 111:10), the "fear of the Lord" is seldom mentioned and little understood today.... Read More
Overview :Ann W. Astell here affords a radically new understanding of the rhetorical nature of allegorical poetry in the late Middle Ages. She shows t... Read More
Overview :Inspired by Vatican II, which attributed a special apostolate to the laity and affirmed their calling to holiness, this volume of original e... Read More
Overview :Calling into question the common assumption that the Middle Ages produced no secondary epics, Ann W. Astell here revises a key chapter in li... Read More
Overview :A host of modern authors have portrayed Joan of Arc as a heroine. Identifying with the medieval saint and martyr as a figure of the artist, ... Read More
Overview :Through close examination of ancient, medieval, and modern Lives of the saints, Ann W. Astell demonstrates how the historical transformation... Read More
Overview :"The enigmatic link between the natural and artistic beauty that is to be contemplated but not eaten, on the one hand, and the eucharistic b... Read More