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Provides a traditional examination of the lore, art, and research concerning angels from ancient times to the present.

Undoing the familiar notion of the Middle Ages as a period of religious persecution and intellectual stagnation, Menocal brings us a portrait of a medieval culture where literature, science, and tolerance flourished for 500 years. The story begins as…

A novel in which the hero, Richard Everton, a clergyman in a Cotswold country parish, campaigns against the pernicious influence of the local brewery, and for temperance and reform in the church.

"This is the first book to provide a account of the emergence of monasticism from its roots in late antiquity and its transition to the early medieval West. Beginning with the search for individual perfection in the context of the religious and…