French Poetry: From Medieval to Modern Times, Hardcover

This volume comprises a varied collection of seventeen papers presented at the biennial conference of the Association for the Study of Travel in Eg...

Publisher: Wake Forest University PressNumber of pages: 968Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 169 x 246 x 62Cover type: HardbackEditor(s): Samuel K....

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A full colour map, based on a digitised map of the city of Oxford in 1876, with its medieval past overlain and important buildings picked out. The ...

"A shrub is exactly what the people who invented the phrase 'slake your thirst' had in mind. A shrub is full of character and variety. The ingredie...

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They Lived the Faith is a truly unique work, combining the biographies of numerous Catholic lay leaders in the 19th and 20th century to illustrate ...

An extensive examination of the history of gnosticism and how its philosophy has influenced the Western esoteric tradition - Explains how the Gnost...

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A full colour map, based on a digitised map of the city of Canterbury in 1907, with its Roman, Anglo-Saxon and medieval past overlain and important...

Packed with insights into Jewish life, The Jewish Contribution to English Law tells why Jews were drawn to the law. Charting history to and since 1...

Publisher: Peter Owen PublishersAuthor(s): Richard CorsonNumber of pages: 644Publication date: 2010Dimensions: 255 x 200 x 41Cover type: Paperback ...

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Definitive, comprehensive overview of costume jewellery that follows the evolution of costume jewellery from bourgeois France to the present day. c...

Indian Mathematics gives a unique insight into the history of mathematics within a historical global context.Publisher: World Scientific Europe Ltd...

Diplomacy in the West from Richelieu to Kissinger: the great diplomats of history and what their achievements tell us about the most important issu...

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THIS IS NOT A CHILDREN'S BOOK. Its accounts of fairy experiences, mostly from the twentieth century, have come from business men and women, housewi...

An authoritative collection of studies of Irish charms, and the first to cover both the medieval and the modern evidence.

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Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): James T. LapsleyNumber of pages: 336Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 152 x 228 x 24Cover type:...

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Publisher: Stanford University PressAuthor(s): Heghnar Zeitlian WatenpaughNumber of pages: 436Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 154 x 226 x 25Cover...

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Follow the fascinating threads of human history in this monumental volume, amply illustrated with maps, archival imagery, and revealing photographs...