The Renaissance of the Twelfth Century, Paperback - Charles Homer Haskins

DescriptionThe Italian Renaissance was preceded, structured, and, to a significant extent, determined by the Renaissance of the twelfth century whi...

Brings together a selection of Cistercian Order's works. Featuring writings by St Bernard of Clairvaux (c. 1090-1153), this bvolume also includes 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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This volume provides the first comprehensive English translation, with a substantial introduction and notes, of the writings of Caffaro of Genoa, a...

The author, a colorful trial lawyer, was once described by Alexander Woollcott as the "Knight with the rueful countenance." This book is based on l...

The Mystic Ark: Hugh of Saint Victor, Art, and Thought in the Twelfth Century - Dr Conrad Rudolph

With a particular attention to remote places and marginalised territories, this book provides a conceptualisation of the role of internal and inter...

The first comprehensive look at the origins and diffusion across Europe of the etched print during the late 15th and early 16th centuries The etchi...

Profiles 38 of the finest florists working worldwide today, accompanied by hundreds of full-colour photographs of their inspirational arrangements ...

Reducere. ****Included on the Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force's reading list for 2008 and the Royal Air Force's Centre for Air Power Studies 20...

Reducere. Description*Includes pictures *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading "Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it do...

This book, first published in 2003, is a detailed survey of book scripts used in western and central Europe from c.1100 to c.1530. Illustrated with...

This first English translation of the twelfth-century Chronicle of Petershausen offers an intimate and colourful view of traditional monastic life ...

This is the first comprehensive study of occasional writing in Byzantium, focusing on the literary output of Constantine Manasses. It argues that, ...

Reducere. A selection of recent articles about Western paganism and hermeticism, indebted as those articles are to David Myatt's translations of texts from t...

This study investigates justice and mercy in twelfth-century England, using theological texts, sermons, legal treatises and letter collections to e...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: John Oliphant"As Mercury dwelleth near the Sun, so I abide in the heart of my Lord. My feet run upon His errands and by my ...

This is a fresh approach to the familiar story of the rise and fall of the Angevins, providing an insight into personal relationships of the kings ...

This book brings together a bold revision of the traditional view of the Renaissance with a new comparative synthesis of global empires in early mo...

This study investigates justice and mercy in twelfth-century England, using theological texts, sermons, legal treatises and letter collections to e...

What is right? What is wrong? How do we decide? To a remarkable extent, our decision-making is determined by the origins of the ethical ideas that ...

Offers a revisionist angle to the question of sacral kingship, showing the continued importance of liturgical ceremonial in the twelfth century and...

This volume offers 18 studies linked together by a common focus on the circulation and reception of motifs and beliefs in the field of folklore, ma...

The first comprehensive study of an important Italian Renaissance bronze-caster by a leading authority. A nucleus of sculptures cast by Andrea di A...

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This volume offers a comprehensive historical survey of medicine in sixteenth-century Europe and examines both medical theories and practices withi...

DescriptionIn the early 1980s, Duccio Balestracci discovered in a Sienese archive two account books kept from 1450 to 1502 by a Tuscan peasant name...

Reducere. "Sing, goddess, the anger of Peleus' son Achilleus / and its devastation." For sixty years, that's how Homer has begun the Iliad in English, in Ric...

Reducere. *Includes pictures *Includes contemporary accounts describing the manuscript and attempts to decipher it *Includes online resources and a bibliogra...

A Short History of Ethics is a significant contribution written by one of the most important living philosophers. For the second edition Alasdair M...

Reducere. Homer's epic chronicle of the Greek hero Odysseus' journey home from the Trojan War has inspired writers from Virgil to James Joyce. Odysseus survi...

All too plausibly, it seems, popes and scientists are warning us of impending collapse-yet humanity and our fellow creatures could still be looking...

Reducere. DescriptionAlexander Pope was born on May 21st, 1688 in London into a Catholic family. His education was affected by the recent Test Acts, upholdin...

This collection offers bold new readings of the images, composition, reception, and contexts of the beautiful, twelfth-century Markyate Psalter.Pub...

Reducere. *Includes pictures *Includes contemporary accounts describing the manuscript and attempts to decipher it *Includes online resources and a bibliogra...

Reducere. DescriptionTrue health is not simply the absence of disease. It is a state of being in which the miraculous physical and mental forces that make us...

Remembered today as an early cartographer and prolific religious artist, don Bernardo de Miera y Pacheco (1713-1785) engaged during his lifetime in...

This study discusses how depictions of etymology and ancient documents were employed by twelfth-century poets, translators, bureaucrats and histori...

The Price of Peace: Just War in the Twenty-First Century - Charles Reed, David Ryall

Reducere. A rich compendium of masterworks from the golden age of printmakingIn the 1500s, the printed image functioned as a tool for storytelling. In additi...

A vivid biography of John Lee Hooker, from a critically acclaimed journalist

Publisher: Mel Bay Publications, U.S.Author(s): Frank KoonceNumber of pages: 188Publication date: 2008Dimensions: 303 x 235 x 16Cover type: BookRed...

Reducere. With John Lee Hooker's death in June 2001 the world lost one of the last great Mississippi Delta bluesmen. Acclaimed writer Charles Schaar Murray's...