Biographies

This fascinating dictionary gives concise accounts of every officially recognized pope in history, as well as all of their irregularly elected rivals, the so-called antipopes.

Offers more than 1,700 entries covering the lives, cults, and artistic associations of saints from around the world.

Provides more than 300 articles that cover notable people and places of the Bible.

Reconstructs the medieval perspective and considers sacred biography in relation to the community for which it was written.

Sainted Women of the Dark Ages makes available the lives of 18 Frankish women of the sixth and seventh centuries, all of whom became saints.