{"title":"The Early Church","description":"Books on the subject of The Early Church","products":[{"product_id":"saints-miracles-and-social-problems-in-italian-renaissance-art-hardback-9781009300834","title":"Saints, Miracles, and Social Problems in Italian Renaissance Art (Hardback) 9781009300834","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eSaints, Miracles, and Social Problems in Italian Renaissance Art\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eReveals how images of saints' miracles shaped perceptions of social problems related to gender, sexuality, and honor in Renaissance Italy.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDiana Bullen Presciutti (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781009300834, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 4 May 2023\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e350 pages\u003cbr\u003e26.1 x 18.4 x 2 cm, 0.98 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'One of the most engaging and enlightening books about the visual culture of the Renaissance that I've read in a long time. It is learned, readable and innovative. From start to finish the explication of the images is virtuosic.' Mary Laven, Chair of the Faculty of History, Professor of Early Modern History, University of Cambridge\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIn this book, Diana Bullen Presciutti explores how images of miracles performed by mendicant saints-reviving dead children, redeeming the unjustly convicted, mending broken marriages, quelling factional violence, exorcising the demonically possessed-actively shaped Renaissance Italians' perceptions of pressing social problems related to gender, sexuality, and honor. She argues that depictions of these miracles by artists-both famous (Donatello, Titian) and anonymous-played a critical role in defining and conceptualizing threats to family honor and social stability. Drawing from art history, history, religious studies, gender studies, and sociology, Presciutti's interdisciplinary study reveals how miracle scenes-whether painted, sculpted, or printed-operated as active agents of 'lived religion' and social negotiation in the spaces of the Renaissance Italian city.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e1. Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Vita icon reimagined: new (and old) saints, new (and old) miracles\u003cbr\u003e 3. Storytelling with saints: pictorial narrative and viewing experience\u003cbr\u003e 4. Girls in trouble: gendering possession and exorcism\u003cbr\u003e 5. Assault, amputation, absolution: visualizing the power of confession\u003cbr\u003e 6. Thinking with Julian: marital violence and elite masculinity\u003cbr\u003e 7. Bernardino the Peacemaker: visual hagiography and factional violence\u003cbr\u003e 8. Cannibal mothers: picturing madness and maternal infanticide\u003cbr\u003e 9. Making innocence visible (and audible) in the Basilico del Santo.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Sociology: customs \u0026amp; traditions [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Sociology: customs \u0026amp; traditions\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Sociology:%20customs%20\u0026amp;%20traditions%20%5BJHBT%5D%22\"\u003eJHBT\u003c\/a\u003e], Sociology: family \u0026amp; relationships [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Sociology: family \u0026amp; relationships\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Sociology:%20family%20\u0026amp;%20relationships%20%5BJHBK%5D%22\"\u003eJHBK\u003c\/a\u003e], Gender studies, gender groups [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Gender studies, gender groups\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Gender%20studies,%20gender%20groups%20%5BJFSJ%5D%22\"\u003eJFSJ\u003c\/a\u003e], Christian aspects of sexuality, gender \u0026amp; relationships [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Christian aspects of sexuality, gender \u0026amp; relationships\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Christian%20aspects%20of%20sexuality,%20gender%20\u0026amp;%20relationships%20%5BHRCV4%5D%22\"\u003eHRCV4\u003c\/a\u003e], The Early Church [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on The Early Church\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22The%20Early%20Church%20%5BHRCC1%5D%22\"\u003eHRCC1\u003c\/a\u003e], Early modern history: c 1450\/1500 to c 1700 [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Early modern history: c 1450\/1500 to c 1700\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Early%20modern%20history:%20c%201450\/1500%20to%20c%201700%20%5BHBLH%5D%22\"\u003eHBLH\u003c\/a\u003e], European history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on European history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22European%20history%20%5BHBJD%5D%22\"\u003eHBJD\u003c\/a\u003e], Renaissance art [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Renaissance art\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Renaissance%20art%20%5BACND%5D%22\"\u003eACND\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46265419661592,"sku":"9781009300834","price":85.98,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781009300834i_0c452828-f129-487d-82aa-ea2df9446f20.jpg?v=1696791868"},{"product_id":"the-reception-of-paul-and-early-christian-initiation-history-and-hermeneutics-hardback-9781108471312","title":"The Reception of Paul and Early Christian Initiation; History and Hermeneutics (Hardback) 9781108471312","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Reception of Paul and Early Christian Initiation\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eHistory and Hermeneutics\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSituates Pauline analysis within the context of early Christian institutions. 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The engagement of secular and religious authorities with the law and the question of what the law actually comprised (Roman law, canon law, national laws, state and royal edicts) are addressed. Bringing together the work of a wide range of scholars, this volume deepens our understanding of interactions between the churches and the legal systems in which they existed in the past and continue to exist now.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e List of contributors\u003cbr\u003e List of abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e List of illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Introduction Rosamond McKitterick\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Church and the Law in the Early Middle Ages (Presidential Address) Rosamond McKitterick\u003cbr\u003e 2. 'Cherchez la femme!' Heresy and Law in Late Antiquity Caroline Humfress\u003cbr\u003e 3. God's Judgement in Carolingian Law and History Writing (President's Prize) Robert A. H. Evans\u003cbr\u003e 4. 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Restoration of Deprived Clergy during the 1559 Royal Visitation of the Eastern Dioceses Ralph Houlbrooke\u003cbr\u003e 13. Adiaphora, Luther and the Material Culture of Worship Andrew Spicer\u003cbr\u003e 14. A Godly Law? Bulstrode Whitelocke, Puritanism and the Common Law in Seventeenth-Century England Jacqueline Rose\u003cbr\u003e 15. 'Very knaves besides': Catholic Print and the Enforcers of the 1662 Licensing Act in Restoration England Chelsea Reutcke\u003cbr\u003e 16. Protestant Dissent and the Law: Enforcement and Persecution, 1662–72 David L. Wykes\u003cbr\u003e 17. The House of Lords and Religious Toleration in Scotland: James Greenshields's Appeal, 1709–11 Ben Rogers\u003cbr\u003e 18. Toleration and Repression: German States, the Law and the 'Sects' in the long Nineteenth Century Manfred Henke\u003cbr\u003e 19. The Social and Legal Reception of Illegitimate Births in the Gurk Valley, Austria, 1868–1945 Catherine Sumnall\u003cbr\u003e 20. 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