Spiritual Rationality: Papal Embargo as Cultural Practice offers the first book-length study of embargo in a pre-modern period and provides a unique exploration

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Why does the universe exist and what are you supposed to do in it? This question has been addressed by religions since time immemorial, but popular answers ofte