Christmas Around The World (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)

Children's Books

Kelley, Emily

Holidays & Celebrations

Turtleback

Offering snapshots of mercantile devotion to saints in different regions, this volume is the first to ask explicitly how merchants invoked saints, and why. Despite medieval and modern stereotypes of merchants as godless and avaricious, medieval traders were highly devout – and rightly so. Overseas trade was dangerous, and merchants’ commercial activities were seen as jeopardizing their souls. Merchants turned to saints for protection and succor, identifying those most likely to preserve their goods, families, reputations, and souls. The essays in this collection, written from diverse angles, range across later medieval western Europe, from Spain to Italy to England and the Hanseatic League. They offer a multi-disciplinary examination of the ways that medieval merchants, from petty traders to influential overseas wholesalers, deployed the cults of saints. Three primary themes are addressed: danger, community, and the unity of spiritual and cultural capital. Each of these themes allows the international panel of contributors to demonstrate the significant role of saints in mercantile life. This book is unique in its exploration of saints and commerce, shedding light on the everyday role religion played in medieval life. As such, it will be of keen interest to scholars of religious history, medieval history, art history, and literature.

Saints as Intercessors between the Wealthy and the Divine: Art and Hagiography among the Medieval Merchant Classes (Sanctity in Global Perspective)

Arts & Photography

Camp, Cynthia Turner

History & Criticism

Routledge

Follows a young rider as she learns the fundamentals of horsemanship including posting, dismounting, and grooming.

Horseback Riding Is for Me (The Sports for Me Books)

Thomas, Art

Sports & Outdoors

Lerner Pub Group

Examines the ways people celebrate Christmas in Mexico, Iran, China, Sweden, Spain, and Norway, and describes Christmas songs, foods, games, and crafts.

La Navidad Alrededor Del Mundo/christmas Around The World (Spanish Edition)

ediciones Lerner

Examines the ways people celebrate Christmas in Mexico, Iran, China, Sweden, Spain, and Norway, and describes Christmas songs, foods, games, and crafts.

La Navidad Alrededor Del Mundo/Christmas Around The World (Spanish Edition)

Literature & Fiction

Christmas Around the World (Carolrhoda on My Own Books)

Describes Christmas traditions in Mexico, Iran, China, Sweden, Iraq, Spain, and Norway.

Christmas Around the World

CarolRhoda Books

Describes the way in which the new year is celebrated throughout the world, often on days other than January 1.

Happy New Year! (Carolrhoda on My Own Books)

Examines the ways people celebrate Christmas in Mexico, Iran, China, Sweden, Spain, and Norway, and describes Christmas songs, foods, games, and crafts

Kiedrowski, Priscilla

Happy New Year

Introduces the holiday and describes how Christians celebrate in Mexico, Ethiopia, China, Germany, Lebanon, Sweden, Australia, and Russia.

Christmas Around the World (On My Own Holidays, 2)

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