Overview :In a short span this book contrives to be a masterly introduction to one of the major figures of early English history, in all aspects of hi... Read More
Overview :In the 7th and 8th centuries missionaries from Rome introduced Christianity to England. Ward discusses the literary and non-literary sources... Read More
Overview :'Give me a word, Father', visitors to early desert monks asked. The responses of these pioneer ascetics were remembered and in the fourth ce... Read More
Overview :It is nine hundred years since the death at Canterbury of the great mediaeval Archbishop and thinker Anselm. This meticulously researched an... Read More
Overview :In the seventh and eighth centuries, missionaries from Rome and Ireland brought Christianity to England. The English piety which developed, ... Read More
Overview :From the greatest living expert on the history of English spirituality comes the most expansive collection ever published of her work "Siste... Read More
Overview :In the closing decades of the twelfth century, the Cistercian Order had become an important ecclesiastical and economic power in Europe. Yet... Read More
Overview :From the rich tradition of the Anglo-Saxon Church of the sixth, seventh, and eighth centuries, Benedicta Ward has selected prayers and passa... Read More
Overview :Beauty consuming itself like incense burnt before God in solitude: these stories of penitent women from the fourth- century egyptian desert ... Read More
Overview :The variety of experience available to medieval scholars and the vitality of medieval thought are both reflected in this collection of origi... Read More