Although scholarship on how Islamic art is studied, collected, and exhibited is on the rise, less attention has been paid to how the field’s various commitments relate to pedagogical and curating practices. Bridging the gap between theory and practic...Loe edasi...
Sari: Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Yale University Press, ISBN-13: 9780300186277)
This volume of the Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization covers the religious, political, economic, and geographic transformations of Jewish life through the early Middle Ages Volume 3 of the Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civiliza...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526198310)
Let the dead speak explores the historical and social dynamics of Spiritualism, the religious movement associated in the popular imagination with nineteenth-century parlour séances and ghost photography. -- ....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781807070410)
Using a micro-historical approach, this book explores how the culture of covenanting shaped lived experiences and communities in seventeenth-century Scotland and offers a more complete understanding of protestant identity in the early modern Atlan...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526199799)
A new translation of an important source for medieval monastic history that provides interesting insights the background to the Norman Conquest of England. -- ....Loe edasi...
This volume consists of 15 articles published between 1991 and 2018. It falls into three sections, reflecting different areas of Liz Jamess interests....Loe edasi...
This book addresses the reception of Islamic visual culture by the northern Iberian kingdoms, by systematically comparing works of art from both sides and fleshing out their historical context....Loe edasi...
Living images have been the object of devotion as well as targets of destruction, and they have been marginalised in both culture and cultural studies for their ambivalence and transgressive nature. This volume aims to recuperate the living image, t...Loe edasi...
Analysing the thirty-four surviving manuscript copies, this book studies the way the text was transcribed, the notes that readers made in the margins, and the contexts in which it was copied....Loe edasi...
This comprehensive and cross-cultural study examines three-dimensional structural replicas of the Santa Casa, or Holy House of the Virgin Mary, and related circulating visual and textual media....Loe edasi...
The Conquest of al-Andalus: A Translation of Fat al-Andalus provides the first English-language in-depth study and complete English translation of the work Fat al-Andalus (The Conquest of al-Andalus)....Loe edasi...
The first book based exclusively on Arabic sources in the study of the early modern religious encounters between Western Europe and the Islamic Mediterran...Loe edasi...
This book offers a nuanced historical analysis of the profound impact of Ibn Battuta’s extensive travels across Asia, Africa, and Europe. As one of the most significant figures of medieval Islamic history, Ibn Battuta’s journey not only d...Loe edasi...
This book offers a novel approach to the study of the Roman imperial cult, disrupting the traditional Eurocentric narrative and tendency to relativise the cults religious dimension in favour of its political implications. Instead, this collection ar...Loe edasi...
This book provides readers with the first biography in English on Leonor of England, bringing to life an understudied figure who has been overshadowed by her famed parents and brothers. Leonor, or Eleanor, was queen consort of Castile (1170-1214), t...Loe edasi...
This book provides readers with the first biography in English on Leonor of England, bringing to life an understudied figure who has been overshadowed by her famed parents and brothers. Leonor, or Eleanor, was queen consort of Castile (1170-1214), t...Loe edasi...
The Early Modern period was not only an age of artistic and cultural flourishing but also one of intense diplomatic encounters across religious and cultural boundaries. Above all, it was a time that witnessed the very making of modern diplomacy. E...Loe edasi...
Continuity and Change in Medieval East Central Europe explores the crucial societal, political, and cultural dynamics that defined medieval East Central Europe during the early and high Middle Ages....Loe edasi...
The Military Orders Volume VIII, organised around five thematic axes - interactions, administration, religion, perceptions, and approaches - offer broad coverage in terms of geographical variety, chronological spread and thematic focus, as well as a...Loe edasi...
This Palgrave Handbook offers the first comprehensive survey of the history and memory of the Holocaust in Australia. Divided into four parts, the handbook covers key historical connections between Australia and the events of the Holocaust, includ...Loe edasi...
This open access book explores the history and historiography of the Heresy of the Free Spirit, the name given to a group of individuals in the late Middle Ages who believed that their spiritual perfection had reached such a state that they were una...Loe edasi...
This book focuses on the development of Baptist views on religious liberty. It explores the arguments for freedom of conscience and full religious toleration that were formulated in the 17th century by the first Baptists, a particularly persecuted re...Loe edasi...
This book offers the first major analysis of William Wilberforce’s clerical networks, demonstrating that while a devoted Anglican, he was deeply intertwined with evangelicals of various ecclesiastical traditions. This book offers th...Loe edasi...
This anthology brings together the unpublished poetry of Jacob Bronowski (1908-74). One of the last great polymaths, Bronowski was prominent in the fields of philosophy, mathematics, history and literary criticism, and is perhaps best remembered tod...Loe edasi...
In The Americanization of the Apocalypse: Creating Americas Own Bible Donald Harman Akenson examines the creation and spread of Dispensationalism, a belief system that produced The Scofield Reference Bible, the ur-text of American apocalypt...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 18-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: William Collins, ISBN-13: 9780008743246)
From awe-inspiring Norman castles, to the homes we live in, Simon Thurley explores how the architecture of this small island influenced the world....Loe edasi...
The studies of this book deal with religious groups and notions in late antique Arabia (ca. 150–750 CE), drawing especially on inscriptions and other contemporary sources. They explore the religious and societal dynamics of Arabia during this pivo...Loe edasi...
Nicholas of Cusa (Nicolaus Cusanus), the 15th-century church lawyer, bishop, and cardinal, fascinates up to this day as an independent mind. His original scholarly work emerges from a critical distance to the scholastic universities of his age. At t...Loe edasi...
Is Christianity really a white mans religion? Is it any good for Black people? Can a faith once used to enslave also empower Black lives?In The Gospel and My Black Skin, Dr. JP Foster boldly tackles the complex, o...Loe edasi...
Although scholarship on how Islamic art is studied, collected, and exhibited is on the rise, less attention has been paid to how the field’s various commitments relate to pedagogical and curating practices. Bridging the gap between theory and practic...Loe edasi...
How successful were missions to the Jews between 1900 and 1950?Walk through the history of evangelism efforts to the Jewish people in Continental Europe by Protestant missionaries during the early twentieth century and discover the...Loe edasi...
Sari: Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Yale University Press, ISBN-13: 9780300186277)
This volume of the Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization covers the religious, political, economic, and geographic transformations of Jewish life through the early Middle Ages Volume 3 of the Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civiliza...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526198310)
Let the dead speak explores the historical and social dynamics of Spiritualism, the religious movement associated in the popular imagination with nineteenth-century parlour séances and ghost photography. -- ....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781807070410)
Using a micro-historical approach, this book explores how the culture of covenanting shaped lived experiences and communities in seventeenth-century Scotland and offers a more complete understanding of protestant identity in the early modern Atlan...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526199799)
A new translation of an important source for medieval monastic history that provides interesting insights the background to the Norman Conquest of England. -- ....Loe edasi...
This volume consists of 15 articles published between 1991 and 2018. It falls into three sections, reflecting different areas of Liz Jamess interests....Loe edasi...
This book addresses the reception of Islamic visual culture by the northern Iberian kingdoms, by systematically comparing works of art from both sides and fleshing out their historical context....Loe edasi...
Living images have been the object of devotion as well as targets of destruction, and they have been marginalised in both culture and cultural studies for their ambivalence and transgressive nature. This volume aims to recuperate the living image, t...Loe edasi...
Analysing the thirty-four surviving manuscript copies, this book studies the way the text was transcribed, the notes that readers made in the margins, and the contexts in which it was copied....Loe edasi...
This comprehensive and cross-cultural study examines three-dimensional structural replicas of the Santa Casa, or Holy House of the Virgin Mary, and related circulating visual and textual media....Loe edasi...
The Conquest of al-Andalus: A Translation of Fat al-Andalus provides the first English-language in-depth study and complete English translation of the work Fat al-Andalus (The Conquest of al-Andalus)....Loe edasi...
The first book based exclusively on Arabic sources in the study of the early modern religious encounters between Western Europe and the Islamic Mediterran...Loe edasi...
This book offers a nuanced historical analysis of the profound impact of Ibn Battuta’s extensive travels across Asia, Africa, and Europe. As one of the most significant figures of medieval Islamic history, Ibn Battuta’s journey not only d...Loe edasi...
This book offers a novel approach to the study of the Roman imperial cult, disrupting the traditional Eurocentric narrative and tendency to relativise the cults religious dimension in favour of its political implications. Instead, this collection ar...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 22-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Picador USA, ISBN-13: 9781250437938)
Circa 1980, tradition and authority are in the ascendant, both in Catholicism (via Pope John Paul II) and in American civic life (through the Moral Majority and the so-called televangelists). But the public is deeply divided on issues of body and so...Loe edasi...
This book provides readers with the first biography in English on Leonor of England, bringing to life an understudied figure who has been overshadowed by her famed parents and brothers. Leonor, or Eleanor, was queen consort of Castile (1170-1214), t...Loe edasi...
This book provides readers with the first biography in English on Leonor of England, bringing to life an understudied figure who has been overshadowed by her famed parents and brothers. Leonor, or Eleanor, was queen consort of Castile (1170-1214), t...Loe edasi...
