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Author
Publisher
Unbridled Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
236 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Afterlives of the Saints is a woven gathering of groundbreaking essays that move through Renaissance anatomy and the Sistine Chapel, Borges' "Library of Babel, " the history of spontaneous human combustion, the dangers of masturbation, the pleasures of castration, "and so forth" - each essay focusing on the story of a particular (and particularly strange) saint"--
Author
Publisher
Genealogical Pub. Co
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
ix, 447 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
For anyone interested in his or her own genealogical links to medieval Europe and early Christianity, Alan Koman's new book offers an extraordinary opportunity. For the first time, the lives of 275 early European saints are retold and accompanied by lineages connected those saints to twenty-four of the great men and women of medieval Europe. Today, those twenty-four men and women have hundreds of millions of living descendants. The historical period...
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