Children and Family in Late Antique Egyptian Monasticism. New ed, Paperback - ***

The first book about children in one of the birthplaces of Christian monasticism, Egypt. Uses diverse written and visual sources to demonstrate how...

Explores the gradual transformation of the virtually monolingual edifice of classical culture in late antiquity as the increasingly Christianized e...

The legacies of the Coptic Christian presence in Alexandria and the Egyptian Deserts from the fourth century to the present day The great city of A...

The biblical book of Genesis stands nearly without parallel in the shared history of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The essays in this book stud...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdNumber of pages: 342Publication date: 2017Dimensions: 156 x 234 x 27Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): Danut...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCIllustration(s): 10 bw illusNumber of pages: 240Collection: Ancient EnvironmentsPublication date: 2022Dimension...

Explores power relations in the households, schools, and monasteries of late antiquity in light of social theory, in a way that will be of interest...

This Element provides a new evaluation of burial customs in New Kingdom Egypt, from about 1550 to 1077 BC, with an emphasis on burials of the wider...

The aim of the Element is to provide a comprehensive comparison of the basic organization of power in Mesoamerica and Egypt. How power emerged and ...

A documentation, using latest technologies, of the Late and Ptolemaic Period anthropoid sarcophagi housed in Cairo's Grand Egyptian Museum The indi...

Explores how literary form changes when Christianity and rabbinic Judaism take shape. By reading little-known but hugely influential texts, this bo...

Argues that the largest extant theatrical tradition of the third and second centuries BCE continued to be vital for writers of the first century BC...

This Element explores the papacy's engagement in authorial publishing in late antiquity and the Middle Ages. The opening discussion demonstrates th...

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The first assessment of religious violence throughout the whole of Antiquity, with a particular focus on Late Antiquity where a much more nuanced p...

This book will engage readers interested in Irish fiction dealing with the United States, Asia, the Global South and Europe. A conceptually innovat...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Jean-Luc FournetIllustration(s): 37 b/w illus. 3 tables. 1 map.Number of pages: 224Collection: The ...

A timely examination of the role of progressive Muslim intellectuals in the Pakistan movement. In Hidden Histories of Pakistan, Sarah Waheed offers...

In providing clear practice messages for practitioners, contemporary issues such as problematic online sexual behaviour and adolescent harmful sexu...

Reducere. Spur AwardsFor more than forty years the prairies of South Dakota have been Dan O'Brien's home. Working as a writer and an endangered-species biolo...

Fresh analysis of elite public giving in the Greek cities in all periods of ancient history, highlighting it as a structural feature of polis socie...

Late Egyptian -- the vernacular idiom of the time of the Ramesside pharaohs (14th through 12th century BCE) -- is adistinct episode in the history ...

Uses an interdisciplinary approach combining new archaeological evidence with archival material to reconstruct the lives of rural communities in th...

State and Family in China examines the intersection of politics and intergenerational family relations in China from the Qing period to 1949 throug...

In this new edition of Experiments in Egyptian Archaeology Denys A. Stocks introduces further experimental research on stoneworking in Ancient Egyp...

Elephants are as unique as people. They can be clever and curious or headstrong and impulsive, shy or sociable. Learn to know them as individuals a...

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 ...

"Melodies of a New Monasticism" adopts a musical metaphor of polyphony (the combination of two or more lines of music) to articulate the way that e...

Elephants are as unique as people. They can be clever and curious or headstrong and impulsive, shy or sociable. Learn to know them as individuals a...

DescriptionA nostalgic ode to the joy of homemade cake, beautifully photographed and with easy mix-and-match recipes for a sweet lift any day of th...

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Through the untold stories of the biracial children born from the encounter between Italian women and Black Allied soldiers in the immediate afterm...

Reducere. More than 10 years ago, it was the first book written specifically for Wiccan parents. Now it's the 21st century's best reference for the still gro...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Sandra M. SufianIllustration(s): 5 halftones, 2 line drawings, 1 tablesNumber of pages: 368Pub...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Sandra M. SufianIllustration(s): 5 halftones, 2 line drawings, 1 tablesNumber of pages: 360Pub...

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This book describes the vision of a "Green Revolution" proposed by Peter Maurin, co-founder with Dorothy Day of the Catholic Worker Movement. Peter...

Four "prophets" of art whose luminous work unfolds the mysteries of domestic lifePublisher: Yale University PressAuthor(s): Heather Lemonedes Brown...

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Publisher: Syracuse University PressAuthor(s): Nazan MaksudyanIllustration(s): 16 black and white illustrationsNumber of pages: 264Collection: Gend...

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