Suicide is often viewed as a final choice - the last option that will solve life's problems. Unknown to many, however, living life for some entails a bewildering and frightening daily dance with death. This groundbreaking book describes an exciting and compelling theory of suicidal behavior - how trauma leads people to suicide. "Many people who have attempted suicide will see themselves in the stories," says Tullis, who himself has gone through the harrowing experience. Some who have mourned the loss of loved ones to suicide will find closure, easing their confusion and self-blame. Meanwhile, therapists baffled by cases that have not responded to treatment will learn a new and promising technique to help their suicidal clients in Secrets of Suicide.

The first-ever modern translation of all three adaptations of the unique hagiography, based on the most famous of all Early Christian monuments, the Abercius Inscription, offering a substantive, comprehensive translation complemented by a critical text and introductory chapters.

On Good Friday, 1626, Franciscus Quaresmius delivered a sermon in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem calling on King Philip IV of Spain to undertake a crusade to 'liberate' the Holy Land. Jerusalem Afflicted: Quaresmius, Spain, and the Idea of a 17th-century Crusade introduces readers to this unique call to arms with the first-ever edition of the work since its publication in 1631. Aside from an annotated English translation of the sermon, this book also includes a series of introductory chapters providing historical context and textual commentary, followed by an anthology of Spanish crusading texts that testify to the persistence of the idea of crusade throughout the 17th century. Quaresmius' impassioned and thoroughly reasoned plea is expressed through the voice of Jerusalem herself, personified as a woman in bondage. The friar draws on many of the same rhetorical traditions and theological assumptions that first launched the crusading movement at Clermont in 1095, while also bending those traditions to meet the unique concerns of 17th-century geopolitics in Europe and the Mediterranean. Quaresmius depicts the rescue of the Holy City from Turkish abuse as a just and necessary cause. Perhaps more unexpectedly, he also presents Jerusalem as sovereign Spanish territory, boldly calling on Philip as King of Jerusalem and Patron of the Holy Places to embrace his royal duty and reclaim what is rightly his on behalf of the universal faithful. Quaresmius' early modern call to crusade ultimately helps us rethink the popular assumption that, like the chivalry imagined by Don Quixote, the crusades somehow died along with the middle ages.

On Good Friday, 1626, Franciscus Quaresmius delivered a sermon in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem calling on King Philip IV of Spain to undertake a crusade to 'liberate' the Holy Land. Jerusalem Afflicted: Quaresmius, Spain, and the Idea of a 17th-century Crusade introduces readers to this unique call to arms with the first-ever edition of the work since its publication in 1631. Aside from an annotated English translation of the sermon, this book also includes a series of introductory chapters providing historical context and textual commentary, followed by an anthology of Spanish crusading texts that testify to the persistence of the idea of crusade throughout the 17th century. Quaresmius' impassioned and thoroughly reasoned plea is expressed through the voice of Jerusalem herself, personified as a woman in bondage. The friar draws on many of the same rhetorical traditions and theological assumptions that first launched the crusading movement at Clermont in 1095, while also bending those traditions to meet the unique concerns of 17th-century geopolitics in Europe and the Mediterranean. Quaresmius depicts the rescue of the Holy City from Turkish abuse as a just and necessary cause. Perhaps more unexpectedly, he also presents Jerusalem as sovereign Spanish territory, boldly calling on Philip as King of Jerusalem and Patron of the Holy Places to embrace his royal duty and reclaim what is rightly his on behalf of the universal faithful. Quaresmius' early modern call to crusade ultimately helps us rethink the popular assumption that, like the chivalry imagined by Don Quixote, the crusades somehow died along with the middle ages.

Suicide is often viewed as a final choice - the last option that will solve life's problems. Unknown to many, however, living life for some entails a bewildering and frightening daily dance with death. This groundbreaking book describes an exciting and compelling theory of suicidal behavior - how trauma leads people to suicide. "Many people who have attempted suicide will see themselves in the stories," says Tullis, who himself has gone through the harrowing experience. Some who have mourned the loss of loved ones to suicide will find closure, easing their confusion and self-blame. Meanwhile, therapists baffled by cases that have not responded to treatment will learn a new and promising technique to help their suicidal clients in Secrets of Suicide.