The feast of Corpus Christi, one of the most solemn feasts of the Latin Church, can be traced to the Fourth Lateran Council in 1215 and its resolution of disput

Analysis of how a religious festival dramatized the subaltern status of indigenous converts and how these converts used this to construct positive colonial iden

Introduces young readers to Catholic beliefs as expressed in the Catechism of the Catholic Church.

A paperback edition of Miri Rubin's highly successful study of the meaning of the eucharist, c. 1150-1500.

On the day of a royal wedding in a kingdom where everyone has grown careless in the practice of their Catholic faith, a poor widow helps reveal the true value o