D P Curtin

A short genealogical volume on the history of the Irish clan known as Curtin, or MacCurtain, or Macartan, from the earliest known period in the 11th century under its founder Artan, Crown Prince of Ulster, to the various lines of descent in the 18th and 19th century.

In this short volume, St. Albert the Great outlines and explores the meaning of human destiny. His draws upon sources from the classical world and tries to synthesize their perspectives through the process of medieval scholasticism.

This is a collection of the five primary and canonical councils that were held by the Church of the East in Sassanian Mesopotamia in an effort to establish the Christology of the church, as well as its relationship to the Church of the Roman Empire. There are five councils in total, all presides over by the reigning patriarch at the time. These doctrines include the consolidation of power at the capital at Seleucia-Ctesiphon, creating uniformity of the bishops of the church, and establishing the episcopal autonomy of the church from its western counterpart.

Pope Adrian I sought to establish the church under the protection of the Frankish king, Charlemagne. In his effort to draw himself closer to the Frankish court he needed to institute a sense of 'reformatio' which would correct the episcopal abuses of the church, reinforce the claims of the Papal Curia, and distance Rome from the authority of Constantinople. In doing so Pope Adrian created these clauses of church law to emphasis that changes that would take place under his papacy.

Radegund was a Thuringian princess and Frankish queen of the Merovingian dynasty. She is also remembered as an early Frankish saint of the Catholic Church. Among other accomplishments, she founded the major Abbey of the Holy Cross at Poitiers and Jesus College of Cambridge University. Her biography is told her by the Latin poet St. Venantius Fortunatus, then a hymnographer at the court of the Frankish kings.