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      The Indiculus luminosus of Paul Alvarus

      Kenneth Baxter Wolf

      Paul Alvarus wrote the Indiculus luminosus in 854 in response to the executions of a number of Cordoban Christians, beginning with the monk Isaac in 851, who had denounced Muhammad…

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      Making History: The Normans and Their Historians in Eleventh-Century Italy

      Kenneth Baxter Wolf

      This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn…

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      The Indiculus luminosus of Paul Alvarus

      Kenneth Baxter Wolf

      Paul Alvarus wrote the Indiculus luminosus in 854 in response to the executions of a number of Cordoban Christians, beginning with the monk Isaac in 851, who had denounced Muhammad…

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      The Eulogius Corpus

      Eulogius (d. 859), a priest living under Islamic rule in Cordoba, is our principal source for the Cordoban martyrs’ movement (850-859), in the course of which forty-eight Christians were decapitated…

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      The Deeds of Count Roger of Calabria and Sicily and of His Brother Duke Robert Guiscard

      Kenneth Baxter Wolf

      Introduction; The Norma in Southern Italy and Sicily; Geoffrey Malaterra and His Audience; Geoffrey Malaterra as a Historian; Maps; The Deeds of Count Roger of Calabria and Sicily and of…

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      Conquerors and Chroniclers of Early Medieval Spain

      From the perspective of the Hispano-Romans, the Visigoths who invaded Spain in the mid-5th century were heretical barbarians. But Leovigild’s military success and Reccared’s conversion to Catholic Christianity led to…

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      Eulogius (d. 859), a priest living under Islamic rule in Cordoba, is our principal source for the Cordoban martyrs’ movement (850-859), in the course of which forty-eight Christians were decapitated…

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      Christian Martyrs in Muslim Spain

      Kenneth Baxter Wolf

      Originally published in 1988, this book offers an important insight into the so-called ‘martyrdom movement’ that occurred in Cordoba in the 850s. It includes a biographical treatment of the ninth-century…

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      The Life and Afterlife of St. Elizabeth of Hungary: Testimony from her Canonization Hearings

      This work is a study and translation of the testimony given by witnesses at the canonization hearings of St. Elizabeth, who died at age twenty-four in 1231. The depositions offer…

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      The Poverty of Riches: St. Francis of Assisi Reconsidered

      Kenneth Baxter Wolf (Professor of History, Professor of History, Pomona College, Claremont CA)

      Takes a look at St Francis of Assisi, and the idea of voluntary poverty as a basis for Christian perfection. The author finds that while Francis’s conception of poverty as…

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