A shared biblical past has long imbued the Holy Land with special authority as well as a mythic character that has made the region not only the spiritual home f

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Franciscan friars were everywhere in the early modern Catholic world, a world that stretched from the Americas, through Western and Central Europe, to the Middl

Rome and the Maronites in the Renaissance and Reformation provides the first in-depth study of contacts between Rome and the Maronites during the fifteenth and