Search Results: Religion: Catholicism from The Owl at the Bridge

"Second Edition." "The subject part of this Benedictine Bibliography lists all works about Benedictines and their activities throughout the fourteen hundred years of the existence of the Order. ...The subject part is presented in the nature of a classified list... Its scheme can be seen and studied in the table of contents... There is, of course, an alphabetical subject index at the end..." VOLUME TWO ONLY. [xiii], 479 pages; 26 cm. Bound in grey cloth stamped in gold; Very Good with slight shelfwear. Stock#ofc0751.

"...in its continuous history of more than eight centuries, a very considerable literature has grown up around the Order and its wide activities. It is from this literature that the present collection has been formed." 281 items; ix, 61 pages of typescript (printed both sides), stapled in plain heavy paper, front cover lettering & emblem in red; 28 cm. Minor wear & toning; Very Good. Stock#ofc0725.

"By the end of the fifteenth century, Florence was well established as the home of the Renaissance. As generous patrons to the likes of Botticelli and Michelangelo, the ruling Medici embodied the progressive humanist spirit of the age, and in Lorenzo de' Medici (Lorenzo the Magnificent) they possessed a diplomat capable of guarding the militarily weak city in a climate of constantly shifting allegiances between the major Italian powers. However, in the form of Savonarola, an unprepossessing provincial monk, Lorenzo found his nemesis. Filled with Old Testament fury and prophecies of doom, Savonarola's sermons reverberated among a disenfranchised population, who preferred medieval Biblical certainties to the philosophical interrogations and intoxicating surface glitter of the Renaissance. The battle between these two men would be a fight to the death..." 428 pages, plates; 21.5 cm. Very Good in VG color pictorial dust jacket. Stock#ofc0664.

N.Y., Oxford UP, 1986. 'Set in Pescia, a small town near Florence, in the first quarter of the 17th century, the book tells the story of Sister Benedetta Carlini, Abbess of the Theatrine Convent of the Mother of God. At age 23, she began to have visions of both religious and erotic nature.' Hard Cover. viii, 214 pages; 21.5 cm.; pictorial dust jacket; as new. Stock#27955(house).