Mission and Ecstasy
Mission and Ecstasy

Author: Magnus Lundberg

Publisher:

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789150624434

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The author explores the relationship between contemplative and apostolic aspects of religious life in accounts by and about religious women in the Spanish Indies during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Basque Literary History
Basque Literary History

Author: Mari Jose Olaziregi

Publisher: Center for Basque Studies Press

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781935709190

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This book presents the history of Basque literature from its oral origins to present-day fiction, poetry, essay, and children's literature

Rethinking Intellectuals in Latin America
Rethinking Intellectuals in Latin America

Author: Mabel Moraña

Publisher:

Published: 2010-01-01

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 9788484894933

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An interdisciplinary tour de force that examines past and present to consider how new forms of knowledge production, epistemic plurality, and intellectual and political movements are bringing sweeping change today.

Pope Alexander III (1159–81)
Pope Alexander III (1159–81)

Author: Anne J. Duggan

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-04-22

Total Pages: 509

ISBN-13: 1317078365

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Alexander III was one of the most important popes of the Middle Ages and his papacy (1159-81) marked a significant watershed in the history of the Western Church and society. This book provides a long overdue reassessment of his papacy and his achievements, bringing together thirteen essays which review existing scholarship and present the latest research and new perspectives. Individual chapters cover topics such as Alexander's many contributions to the law of the Church, which had a major impact upon Western society, notably on marriage, his relations with Byzantium, and the extension of papal authority at the peripheries of the West, in Spain, Northern Europe and the Holy Land. But dominant are the major clashes between secular and spiritual authority: the confrontation between Henry II of England and Thomas Becket after which Alexander eventually secured the king's co-operation and the pope's eighteen-year conflict with the German emperor, Frederick I. Both the papacy and the Western Church emerged as stronger institutions from this struggle, largely owing to Alexander's leadership and resilience: he truly mastered the art of survival.