Negotiating Secular and Sacred in Medieval Art. Christian, Islamic, and Buddhist, Paperback - ***

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

This book offers a fresh perspective on religious culture in the medieval Middle East. It investigates the ways Muslims thought about and practiced...

Suitable for the teaching of medieval philosophy, this title features judicious selections and translations based on critical editions.Publisher: H...

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The term "secular" inspires thinking about disenchantment, periodization, modernity, and subjectivity. The essays in Sacred and Secular Transaction...

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The Mass and songs by Guillaume de Machaut are probably the earliest consistent body of work attributable to a single composer in the Western canon...

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...

A collection that brings together a host of writings from across different regions and cultures of the Middle Ages, from the ninth to the fifteenth...

Churches often realize they need to change. But if they're not careful, the way they change can hurt more than help.In this culmination of his well...

Illuminates the role of icons and relics in Buddhist writing and practice

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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...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Talal AsadOpening with the provocative query "what might an anthropology of the secular look like?" this book explores the ...

Did you know that blue eyes, baldness, bad breath and boils were all considered bodily 'blights' by Medieval Arabs, as were cross eyes, lameness an...

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Over the course of six sections, this rich reference book explores the various areas of Qur'anic studies: its language, the history of its document...

A comprehensive, rigorous analysis of all the significant medieval Islamic and Jewish proofs for the eternity of the world, the creation of the wor...

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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Dr David NicolleIllustration(s): Colour artwork plates; black & white photographs and illustrations....

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An up-to-date survey of medieval Islamic medicine offering new insights to the role of medicine and physicians in medieval Islamic culture.

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Richard Sudworth's unique study takes as its cue the question of political theology and brings this burgeoning area of debate into dialogue with Ch...

Reducere. The sacred-secular divide permeates our churches, our seminaries, and our lives. By perpetuating the false belief that there are some areas of life...

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