Jesus and the Making of the Modern Mind, 1380-1520

by Luke Clossey

For his fifteenth-century followers, Jesus was everywhere - from baptism to bloodcults to bowling. This sweeping and unconventional investigation looks at Jesus across one hundred forty years of social, cultural, and intellectual history. Mystics married him, Renaissance artists painted him in three dimensions, Muslim poets praised his life-giving breath, and Christopher ("Christ-bearing") Columbus brought the symbol of his cross to the Americas...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1783749571
• ISBN13: 9781783749577
• Release Date: May 2024
• Publisher: Open Book Publishers
• Length: 802 Pages
• Weight: 3.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"