Oxford University Press

This is a study of the common social characteristics and circumstances of those among the lay society of twelfth-century England who tended to seek assistance in the form of miracles at the shrines of saints. It aims to make sense of their religious experience and motivation, re-evaluating the religious cliches of devotion found in conventional...

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This book considers how places come to acquire special religious significance, as sites for prayer or other kinds of devotional activity. It examines the ways in which sacred sites function, and the ways in which sites which have no explicitly religious import may come to bear a religious meaning....

An investigation into two basic concepts of ancient pagan and early Christian        thought, activity and participation, through detailed discussion of the writings of        Gregory of Nyssa, Dionysius the Areopagite, Maximus the Confessor, and Gregory        Palamas....

Charles Cushman's Photographic Journey Through a Vanishing AmericaFeaturing over a hundred evocative images, The Day in Its Color sheds new light on the everyday American landscape from the 1930s through the 1960s....