Theology and Poetry in Early Byzantium. The Kontakia of Romanos the Melodist, Hardback - ***

Romanos' lively and dramatic hymns are a highlight of Byzantine literary invention. This book examines the rhetorical embodiment of theological the...

Romanos' lively and dramatic hymns are a highlight of Byzantine literary invention. This book examines the rhetorical embodiment of theological the...

Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & CollectionAuthor(s): Jake RansohoffNumber of pages: 400Collection: ExtravagantesPublication date: 2022...

A portrait of history's first complex Christian society as seen through the lens of Christian philanthropy and gift giving As the Roman Empire brok...

Orthodox Theology in the 20th century and early 21st century

Reducere. In Making the Miscellany Megan Heffernan examines the poetic design of early modern printed books and explores how volumes of compiled poems, which...

Critical introductions to a range of literary topics and genres.

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

DescriptionThis study analyses concepts and representations of the soul in the poetry of William Shakespeare and John Donne. During the early moder...

Brings innovations in modern life-writing studies to Roman poetry and its reception. While its core fields are Latin poetry and reception studies, ...

Explores the poetic imagination as a way of knowing; a way of seeing reality more clearly. Presenting a series of critical appreciations of English...

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Publisher: Cambridge University PressAuthor(s): Mary B. (University of Nottingham) CunninghamIllustration(s): Worked examples or ExercisesNumber of...

Reducere. Following the 1979 revolution, the Iranian government set out to Islamize society. Muslim piety had to be visible, in personal appearance and in ac...

This timely book explores what it is like to live in an aged care home: the expectations that new residents and their families enter with, their re...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Jonathan (The George Washington University, USA) SheaNumber of pages: 272Collection: New Directions ...

Reducere. This magisterial volume is a comprehensive survey of the doctrine and practice of baptism in the first five centuries of Christian history, arrange...

Reducere. If you want to discover captivating stories of people and events of ancient Rome then keep reading...Three captivating manuscripts in one book: The...

Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & CollectionAuthor(s): Anthony KaldellisIllustration(s): 1 tableNumber of pages: 324Collection: Suppleme...

Reducere. DescriptionIf you want to discover captivating stories of people and events of ancient Rome then keep reading... Three captivating manuscripts in o...

This book explores the relationship between religion and identity in the lives of Welsh women today. Manon Ceridwen James looks at the recent histo...

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

Dimitris Stamatopoulos undertakes the first systematic comparison of the dominant ethnic historiographic models and divergences elaborated by Greek...

DescriptionThis book tells the extraordinary story of Theodore II Laskaris, an emperor who ruled over the Byzantine state of Nicaea established in ...

An ecclesiastical and theological history of beards, 3, 000 BC to the present.

Augustus and the Destruction of History explores how Romans of the late Republic and early imperial period reconfigured their understanding of hist...

Reducere. Bengt Hoffman elevates Christian spirituality and spiritual formation as proper subjects for serious theological study. This book reveals Luther's ...

Christologicalterminology in its Biblical and Early Church contextsPublisher: James Clarke & Co LtdNumber of pages: 416Publication date: 2022Dimens...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Athanasios MarkopoulosNumber of pages: 372Collection: Variorum Collected StudiesPublication date: 2018Dim...

Sharing the Past examines the ways in which Canadian poets collaboratively nurtured the rise of social history as a discipline of historical study.

Publisher: Inter-Varsity PressNumber of pages: 996Collection: IVP ReferencePublication date: 2008Dimensions: 187 x 256 x 62Cover type: HardbackEdit...

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Proceedings of an international conference held at Tel Aviv University's Institute of Archaeology in 2014, covering Hellenistic history, the archae...

Offers a systematic study of the effects of the comprehensive reform of traditional Chinese theatre conducted in the 1950s and '60s, and is based o...

Byzantium linked the ancient and modern worlds, shaping traditions and handing down to both Eastern and Western civilization a vibrant legacy. 'The...

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The benefits of the digital age are huge. Our lives have been transformed, both in the developed and the undeveloped world. However, this transform...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Dr Taylor (University of Glasgow, UK) DriggersNumber of pages: 248Collection: Perspectives on Fantas...