Results for "Gray, Madeleine"

“Madeleine Gray takes a scalpel to millennial malaise, office romance, and infidelity, and the result is a brainy, gutsy, nervy—and hilarious—wonder of a novel.”—Meg Howrey, author of They're Going to Love YouAn irresistible and messy love story about the terrible allure of wanting something that pr... Read More about Green Dot: A Novel

An irresistible and messy love story about the terrible allure of wanting something that promises nothing from debut author Madeleine GrayAt twenty-four, Hera is a clump of unmet potential. To her, the future is nothing but an exhausting thought exercise, one depressing hypothetical after another. S... Read More about Green Dot: A Novel

Ranging from Ireland to India and from the first to the third millennium, this collection brings together essays written from the perspective of gender, politics and national and cultural identities as well as the sociology of religion. Saints are more than distant figures from legends and wall pai... Read More about Rewriting Holiness: Reconfiguring Vitae, Re-Signifying Cults (Kings College London Medieval Studies (Kclms) #25)

A survey of Welsh Christianity from its origins in Roman Britain to the present. Christianity has played an enormous role in the history of Wales and in the defining and shaping of Welsh identity over the past two thousand years. Biblical place names, an urban and rural landscape littered with churc... Read More about A History of Christianity in Wales

An interesting and unusual work on a little-explored field of study. By means of the iconographic evidence, the author aims to provide a counterbalance to the traditional studies of medieval welsh piety with their heavy emphasis on poetic material. There are interesting and suggestive divergences be... Read More about Images of Piety: The iconography of traditional religion in late medieval Wales (BAR British #316)

The Protestant Reformation has been the subject of much recent debate among theologians and church historians. Controversy still rages over the state of the late medieval church, the extent to which the Reformation was driven by theological or political concerns, and the impact it had on the lives a... Read More about The Protestant Reformation: Beliefs and Practices