A Christian Education in the Virtues examines the connection between human nature and
human flourishing. It draws on ancient and medieval sources to explore the formation of the …

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In Cosmos, Liturgy, and the Arts in the Twelfth Century, Margot E. Fassler takes readers into
the rich, complex world of Hildegard of Bingen's Scivias (meaning “Know the ways”) to …

The magnificence with which the Florentine Renaissance is synonymous derived its power
from a virtue elucidated and disseminated by influential preachers as early as the 1420s …

The book explores the philosophical thinking of Petrarch and Boccaccio in contrast to the
writings of contemporary mendicants. Examining both Latin and vernacular works, it …

Why did people talk so much about avarice in late Renaissance France, nearly a century
before Molière's famous comedy, L'Avare? As wars and economic crises ravaged France on …

This cultural history of humility reveals this lost virtue as a secret defense against arrogance
and incivility History demonstrates that when the virtue of humility is cast aside, excessive …

This volume is a study of spatial structures in Bernard of Clairvaux's" Parables," It lays out a
spiritual topography which is linked to the rumination of the Bible. The topography ranges …

This essay presents a critical review of recent literature on evil in medieval philosophy, as
understood by thinkers from Anselm of Canterbury onward." Evil" is taken to include not only …

This volume has a single goal: to argue that Descartes's most fundamental discovery is not
the epistemological subject, but rather the underlying free agent without whom no …