Art and Religion in Medieval Armenia, Paperback - ***

Featuring texts by leading scholars of the history and culture of medieval Armenia, this book offers an in-depth look at its art, trade, and religi...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Kate FranklinNumber of pages: 204Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 155 x 229 x 17Cover type: Pa...

DescriptionInterrogating Secularism is a call to rethink binary categories of "religion" and "secularism" in contemporary Arab American fiction and...

"This book is an attempt at restating the importance of the great metaphysical categories of substance and accident, form and matter, life and deat...

Icons of Sound: Voice, Architecture and Imagination in Medieval Art brings together art history and sound studies to offer new perspectives on medi...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdNumber of pages: 242Publication date: 2016Dimensions: 157 x 233 x 18Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): Amand...

Medieval Art, Architecture and Archaeology in Cambridge explores the archaeology, art, architecture of Cambridge in the Middle Ages, a city marked ...

Focusing on 5 objects found in the main media from the 10th to the 16th century - ceramics, metalware, painting, architecture and textiles - Sheila...

A glittering and gruesome history of the body in the Middle Ages, from saints' relics to lovesick troubadours. Brings together medicine, art, poetr...

Liberty Fund is proud to present, in two volumes, The Collected Works of Armen A. Alchian, bringing together Alchian's most influential essays, art...

Late Medieval Christianity's encounter with miraculous materials viewed in the context of changing conceptions of matter itself.In the period betwe...

In Penned & Painted, Lucy Freeman Sandler, one of one of the world's most respected authorities on medieval art, takes us on a personal but highly ...

Reducere. Blood, guts and mortality: the unique convergence of fleshliness and devotion in medieval artAnatomical oddities abound in medieval artworks: headl...

DescriptionSince 2007, Claudio Gobbi (born 1971) has been systematically documenting Armenian religious architecture from the Middle Ages to the pr...

An essential book for mental health professionals recounting the implementation of the long-term psychiatric outreach program following the 1988 Ar...

Inspired by the work of eminent scholar Richard Kieckhefer, The Sacred and the Sinister explores the ambiguities that made (and make) medieval reli...

Reducere. "In this stimulating and important book Lester Little advances the original thesis that, paradoxically, it was the leading practitioners of volunta...

Addresses the needs of teachers and advanced students who are preparing classes on the Middle Ages or who find themselves confounded in their studi...

Penance and confession were an integral part of medieval religious life; essays explore literary evidence.

Medieval Christian writers distorted the teachings of Islam and caricatured its believers in a variety of ways. What ideological purposes did these...

Publisher: Zone BooksAuthor(s): Caroline Walker BynumNumber of pages: 344Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 152 x 230 x 32Cover type: Paperback / so...

Reducere. The quiet market town of Wilsnack in northeastern Germany is unfamiliar to most English-speakers and even to many modern Germans. Yet in the fiftee...

Reducere. Editie in limbile: romana-germana-englezaTransilvania este renumita pentru cele peste 160 de biserici fortificate a caror istorie incepe din epoca ...

Reducere. He's fond of anyone who throws a party;he's always at a party in his dreams, for party-crashing's blazoned on his heart . . .a prisoner to the path...

Reducere. In the Middle Ages, the region of Tuscany and its surrounding area was, for around 150 years, home to a surprising number of holy women, from the b...

Jewish Women in the Medieval World offers a thematic overview of the lived experiences of Jewish women in both Europe and the Middle East from 500 ...

Heresy and Citizenship examines the anti-heretical campaigns in late-medieval Augsburg, Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Strasbourg, and other cities. It ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Explores the late medieval concepts of absence and void, with a special focus on the materiality of emptiness in later medieval manuscripts.Publish...

The first illustrated, architectural history of the 'Alid shrines, increasingly endangered by the conflict in Syria

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Armen A. AlchianAuthor: William R. AllenEditor: Jerry L. Jordan"No one has ever done price theory better than Alchian--that...

Reducere. Fragmentation and Redemption is first of all about bodies and the relationship of part to whole in the high Middle Ages, a period in which the over...

An investigation into texts specifically addressed to women sheds new light on female literary cultures.Illustrations: No

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Unlike monks and nuns, clergy have hitherto been sidelined in accounts of the Middle Ages, but they played an important role in medieval society, i...

Reducere. In Figuring Racism in Medieval Christianity, M. Lindsay Kaplan expands the study of the history of racism through an analysis of the Christian conc...

The study of altruism and altruistic behavior has caught the attention of social scientists especially in recent years. What motivates individuals ...

Reducere. Many Christians today tend to view the story of medieval faith as a cautionary tale. Too often, they dismiss the Middle Ages as a period of corrupt...

Reducere. DescriptionIn Becoming the People of the Talmud, Talya Fishman examines ways in which circumstances of transmission have shaped the cultural meanin...

Much of what we know about life in the medieval Islamic Middle East comes from texts written to impart religious ideals or to chronicle the movemen...

Al-Ghazali is arguably one of the most influential thinkers in the history of Islam, and his writings have received greater scholarly attention in ...

What should historians do with the words of the dead? This work reformulates the historiography of heresy and the inquisition by focusing on deposi...