The Golden Legend
10 best books like The Golden Legend (Jacobus de Voragine): Medieval Russia's Epics, Chronicles, and Tales, Lancelot of the Lake, Cur Deus Homo, The Gothic Image: Religious Art in France of the Thirteenth Century, Orlando Innamorato (Orlando in Love), The Wandering Scholars of the Middle Ages, The Great Chain of Being: A Study of the History of an Idea, The Evolution of Medieval Thought, Alone of All Her Sex: The Myth and the Cult of the Virgin Mary, The Age of Reform, 1250-1550: An Intellectual and Religious History of Late Medieval and Reformation Europe
Medieval Russia's Epics, Chronicles, and Tales
| Author | Serge A. Zenkovsky |
| ISBN | 0452010861 |
First published in 1963, this unique and pioneering anthology has been continuously used as an invaluable text in Russian studies. Containing over sixty selections from the finest of Russia's medieval authors, much of the material published in this anthology has never before been available in English....
| Author | Anonymous |
| ISBN | 0192837931 |
Written in the early thirteenth century and universally considered a major work of European literature, Lancelot greatly influenced Malory, Tennyson, T.H. White and others. This edition presents, for the first time in English translation, the original, short version, which tells of Lancelot's...
| Author | Anselm of Canterbury |
| ISBN | 1411646436 |
A thought provoking book on the deepest questions which have plagued mankind for time and eternity. Is there a God? Why did he have to die? How are we restored by his death? Anselm tackles these tough questions in his thought provocative book “Cur Deus Homo.” Saint Anselm of Canterbury (1033 - 1109)...
| Author | Émile Mâle |
| ISBN | 0064300323 |
Emile Male's book aids understanding of medieval art and medieval symbolism, and of the vision of the world which presided over the building of the French cathedrals. It looks at French religious art in the Middle Ages, its forms, and especially the Eastern sources of sculptural iconography used in...
| Author | Matteo Maria Boiardo |
| ISBN | 1932559019 |
Like Ariosto's Orlando Furioso and Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered, Boiardo's chivalric stories of lords and ladies first entertained the culturally innovative court of Ferrara in the Italian Renaissance. Inventive, humorous, inexhaustible, the story recounts Orlando's love-stricken pursuit...
| Author | Helen Waddell |
| ISBN | 0486414361 |
This is that strangeness, without which beauty is not made perfect.
This is the wonky cousin of The White Goddess from Robert Graves. Rampant rolls of verse citation seep and suggest all the anxious influence of the ancients, particularly the Irish, who survived the initial pillage from the...
| Author | Arthur O. Lovejoy |
| ISBN | 0674361539 |
From later antiquity down to the close of the eighteenth century, most philosophers and men of science and, indeed, most educated men, accepted without question a traditional view of the plan and structure of the world. In this volume, which embodies the William James lectures for 1933, Arthur O. Lovejoy...
| Author | David Knowles |
| ISBN | 0582494265 |
A famous text with an introduction and commentary by Brooke and Luscombe. It reveals the connection between the thought of the Medieval Schools of philosophy and that of the Greek philosophers. The new edition has been fully revised, updated and corrected.
Preface to First Edition
Preface...
| Author | Marina Warner |
| ISBN | 0394711556 |
You are my light; my life’s illumination: you are my refuge, O mother!
Please don’t forsake me, Virgin Mary, you abode of kindness...
So runs one of the popular film songs from my youth – and it pretty much symbolises what the Virgin means to me.
Kerala, unlike other states...
| Author | Steven E. Ozment |
| ISBN | 0300027605 |
“Ozment’s masterly synthesis of the intellectual and religious history of the period 1250-1550 clarifies the impact of late medieval ideas on early modern society. Its appeal derives from its breadth of scholarship and clarity of style. Ozment reviews the current state of research on late...
| Author | Peter R.L. Brown |
| ISBN | 0226076229 |
Following the fall of the Roman Empire in the West, the cult of the saints was the dominant form of religion in Christian Europe. In this elegantly written work, Peter Brown explores the role of tombs, shrines, relics, and pilgrimages connected with the sacred bodies of the saints. He shows how men and...
| Author | Bernard Knox |
| ISBN | 0393034267 |
Preface
Introduction
Greece
Homer
Hesiod
The archaic lyric & iambus
Archilochus (7th century B.C.)
Tyrtaeus (7th century B.C.)
Alcman (late 7th century B.C.)
Hipponax (middle 6th century B.C.)
Alcaeus (late 7th century-middle 6th century B.C.)...
| Author | A.N. Wilson |
| ISBN | 0393317609 |
It begins on the road to Damascus, in a moment graven on the consciousness of Western civilization. "Saul, Saul," asks the crucified Jesus of Nazareth, "why persecutest thou me?"
From this experience, and from the response of the Jewish merchant later known as Paul, springs the Christian...
| Author | John P. Meier |
| ISBN | 0385264259 |
This is John Meier's first (of five?) volume, examining the historic Jesus. The real Jesus may be someone different, but Meier does not approach this volume with faith and church tradition as reliable sources. In fact, the inside of the jacket cover describes the historic Jesus as one that could be agreed...
The Plantagenet Chronicles
| Author | Elizabeth Hallam |
| ISBN | 1555840183 |
From the Introduction: The foundations of Plantagenet success were laid by a line of obscure castellans in the Loire Valley who, in the tenth century, rose to become counts of Anjou.
Opening: Part1: ORIGINS OF THE ANGEVIN DYNASTY: The fortunes of the house of Anjou were founded on the prowess...
| Author | Ernst H. Kantorowicz |
| ISBN | 0691017042 |
In 1957 Ernst Kantorowicz published a book that would be the guide for generations of scholars through the arcane mysteries of medieval political theology. In The King's Two Bodies, Kantorowicz traces the historical problem posed by the "King's two bodies" - the body politic and the body natural -...
Arab Historians of the Crusades
| Author | Francesco Gabrieli |
| ISBN | 0520052242 |
The recapture of Jerusalem, the siege of the Acre, the fall of Tripoli, the effect in Baghdad of events in Syria; these and other happening were faithfully recorded by Arab historians during the two centuries of the Crusades. For the first time contemporary accounts of the fighting between Muslim and...
| Author | Jessie Laidlay Weston |
| ISBN | 0486296806 |
Acknowledged by T. S. Eliot as one of the chief sources for his great poem "The Waste Land," Jessie L. Weston's From Ritual to Romance remains a landmark of anthropological and mythological scholarship. In this book she explores the origins of the Grail legend, arguing that it dates back to a primitive...
A History of the Crusades, Vol. III: The Kingdom of Acre and the Later Crusades
| Author | Steven Runciman |
| ISBN | 0521347726 |
Sir Steven Runciman's three volume A History of the Crusades, one of the great classics of English historical writing, is now being reissued. In this final volume, Runciman examines the revival of the Frankish kingdom at the time of the Third Crusade until its collapse a century later. The interwoven...
| Author | Marvin W. Meyer |
| ISBN | 0394744330 |
In December 1945, two Egyptian fellahin, digging for natural fertilizer in the Nile River valley unearthed a sealed storage jar. The jar proved to hold treasure of an unexpected sort: a collection of some fifty-two ancient manuscripts, most of which reflect the teachings of a mystical religious movement...
| Author | Francis of Assisi |
| ISBN | 0809124467 |
As it says in the title, this book contains all of the writings of these two saints; neither wrote that much (and at least some writings have not survived). Both had their own emphasis - Francis obedience and Holy Spirit and nature, Clare very stubbornly defended the poverty part - and said it beautifully....
| Author | Norman F. Cantor |
| ISBN | 0060930985 |
s/t: From the Birth of Sumerian Civilization to the Fall of the Roman Empire
Bestselling author Norman Cantor delivers this compact but magisterial survey of the ancient world -- from the birth of Sumerian civilization around 3500 B.C. in the Tigris-Euphrates valley (present-day Iraq) to the...
| Author | Gregory Palamas |
| ISBN | 0809124475 |
Part 1: Philosophy does not save.
In this first chapter (and by chapter that is the division that Pelikan and Meyendorrf are using, and so I will use) Palamas critiques the Baarlamite notion that we have to know in order to be saved. Or more precisely and better put, we have to have a good grounding...
| Author | Jasper Ridley |
| ISBN | 1559706546 |
For many centuries, since their founding as a guild comprising the master builders of the great castles and cathedrals of the Middle Ages, the freemasons have enjoyed a dual reputation: powerful-often munificent-rulers, politicians, and artists whose works have enhanced our world; and members...
