D.P - 洋書 6

The Apophthegmata (a collection of sayings) is a work long attributed to the Egyptian desert father, St. Macarius the Great, although it is almost certainly composed by one of his monastic disciples……続きを見る

This 5th century work, likely composed by the Armenian saint, Mesrop Mashtots, illustrates the family dynamic and political conflict that surrounds both St. Gregory the Illuminator, and Nerses I the……続きを見る

This volume contains six letters from the late Byzantine bishop, Isidore of Kiev, who was a prominent figure in the later Imperial church, and would become a Cardinal-bishop within the Catholic Chur……続きを見る

This is a collection of nine ecclesial acts, composed by the Cardinal John Bessarion, relating to the fate of some churches under Greek jurisdiction and what their fate will be because of the contem……続きを見る

Don't hold the front page. Hold the guy who wrote it. Sunny Miller's dream job on London's Fleet Street has become a nightmare. His boss at the Bulletin hates him, the sub-editors keep putting comed……続きを見る

During the Latin presence in the Holy Land in 12th and 13th century, contact was made between papal legates and the Armenian Apostolic Church in Cilicia (Armenia Minor). Among the various doctrinal ……続きを見る

During the late Crusader period the Roman Catholic Church and the Armenian Apostolic Church attempted to establish an ecclesiastical union, under the auspices of similar doctrines and as a means of ……続きを見る

The Council of Shahapivan is the first surviving council of the Armenian Church, and has survived in various ecclesiastical sources. Convened in the year 444, after three consecutive councils in the……続きを見る

The Visigothic king, Sisebut, composed this short composition on the life of the Roman martyr, St. Desiderius, who was killed during the Diocletian persecution. What little historical information ab……続きを見る

Sean ha vissuto tutta la vita immerso in un sogno. Figlio unico, privilegiato e coccolato, trascorre le sue giornate fra studio, romantica malinconia nei confronti di un uomo che sta per sposarne un……続きを見る

This sixth ecumenical gathering of the Persian church at the Sassanian capital of Seleucia-Ctesiphon was related directly to the question of the authority of the Catholicos over other bishops in the……続きを見る

Each year, too many law enforcement officers die in the line of duty and too many people are killed by the police. Yet, can any of these deaths be avoided? To answer this we must investigate the nat……続きを見る

Seven rules is an unusually theological work coming out of the Donatist church in North Africa. This is not a list of monastic rules, which would have been common for the period. Nor is it a list of……続きを見る

With the ascension of the Capetian dynasty in 987, certain church reforms took place to address some of the concerns relating to the various ecclesiastical institutions in the kingdom. At the forefr……続きを見る

Upon the ascension of Edgar to the Anglo-Saxon throne, he immediately sought to reform the English church with the assistance of St. Dunstan, the former bishop of London. He held this council to alt……続きを見る

During his tenure of the English church, king Egdar sought sweeping reforms to the bishoprics and royal monasteries under his dominion. What follows here in this work is a collection of documents fr……続きを見る

St. Edmund the Martyr was a Christian martyr and the king of East Anglia in the 9th century. Facts concerning the life of St. Edmund are few and far between, as the kingdom of East Anglia was devast……続きを見る

St. Dunstan was an English saint and perhaps the most famous Archbishop of Canterbury. During the course of his lifetime, he was successively Abbot of Glastonbury Abbey, Bishop of Worcester, Bishop ……続きを見る

Cunigunde of Luxemburg, Holy Roman Empress, Queen of Germany, and Nun, was canonized by Pope Innocent III in Rome on March 29th, 1200, 53 years after the canonization of her husband, the Emperor Hen……続きを見る

St. Onuphrius was one of the Egyptian Desert Fathers who is helped lay the foundation of Eastern spirituality and monasticism in the 4th and 5th centuries, around the time that Christianity was emer……続きを見る

On August 18th, 1289, Pope Nicholas IV signed a Papal Bull named 'Supra montem catholice fidei' (Upon the mountain of Catholic faith). It was addressed to the brothers and sisters of the order found……続きを見る

Prior to becoming Pope Pius II, Aeneas Silvio Bartolomeo Piccolomini, was a Italo-German politician working the Imperial circuit. He career brought him into the service of both papal legates and the……続きを見る

In 1454, Casimir, the king of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania was approached by the Prussian Confederation for aid against the knights of the Teutonic Order. He granted them the proposition of se……続きを見る

This short work by the Italian humanist Poggio Bracciolini deals with the triumph of the Republic of Venice, then its its economic and political zenith. He extols the republic for its industry and f……続きを見る

Red to the elbows with the blood of his people, the Nameless Dwarf's only desire is to save the ones that got away. The dwarves have gone! Thousands have been slaughtered in the blood-drenched stree……続きを見る

Boethius of Dacia, or more accurately Boethius of Dania, was a 13th century Danish philosopher who was inspired by the growing Aristotelian revolution taking place in European universities. For Boet……続きを見る

This work, frequently misattributed to St. Augustine of Hippo, is a biblical exegesis of the problem of pain and civil collapse. This theme is not arising out of a cultural vacuum. Our author, the 5……続きを見る

In this letter Pope Stephen V informs Svatopluk I, the king of the Slavs (Moravians), along with all the nobles and people of the nation, that God chose the institution of the papacy to be be his pr……続きを見る

This is a collection of eleven relatively brief documents, mostly of papal origin, which deal with the establishment of the church in Scandinavia. They deal with the establishment of the mission at ……続きを見る

The Acts of St. Matthew is a text composed sometime between the 4th and century century in either Greek or Classical Syriac. It recounts the apocryphal sojourns of the apostle Matthew in an unspecif……続きを見る