Ties of Kinship - Genealogy and Dynastic Marriage in Kyivan Rus, Hardback - Christian Raffensperger

Christian Raffensperger tracks the dynastic marriages of the Volodimerovici, the ruling family of Rus. Using a modern scholarly approach and broad ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Christian RaffenspergerAs scholarship continues to expand the idea of medieval Europe beyond "the West, " the Rus' remain t...

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Reducere. In Kinship, Islam, and the Politics of Marriage in Jordan, Geoffrey Hughes sets out to trace the marriage crisis in Jordan and the Middle East. Rap...

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This is the first book to focus on the Tetrarchy as an imperial dynasty.Publisher: Edinburgh University PressAuthor(s): Byron WaldronIllustration(s...

Reducere. Robin Fox's study of systems of kinship and alliance has become an established classic of the social science literature. It has been praised above ...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Stephen FryNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 141 x 198 x 26Cover type: HardbackRedescope...

This engaging history of dynastic power in medieval Europe explores the role of family dynamics and family consciousness in the politics of royal a...

Reducere. What is Orthodoxy?: A Genealogy of Christian Understanding, Paperback

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The latest book in the New York Times, UK No.1 and ebook bestselling BEN DEVLIN series, from acclaimed prize-winning crime author Brian McGilloway,...

Edith Sarra radically rethinks the Tale of Genji by focusing on the figure of the house-both the narrative's images of aristocratic mansions and it...

Kinship foster care involves placing children who cannot live at home in foster care with other members of their family or close network. This book...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Wu HungIllustration(s): 241 color + 63 b/w illus.Number of pages: 352Collection: The A. W. Mellon L...

The radical journey of an Italian surf punk studying Chinese in the late 1980s, fuelling surf adventures in the 1990s through work as a Mandarin in...

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A collaboration between artist and poet exploring archetypes and belonging from South Africa, through London to the Scottish Highlands.Illustration...

During the later sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, it was usual to consolidate power through lines of royal succession and marriage into o...

Living in Love and Faith sets out to inspire people to think more deeply both about what it means to be human, and to live in love and faith with o...

Kinship, Love, and Life Cycle in Contemporary Havana, Cuba is an ethnographic analysis of gender, kinship, and love in contemporary Cuba. The book ...

Reducere. For Such a Time as This is a must-read for anyone disheartened over America's slide into a moral "cesspool of sin." The compelling story of Jim For...

Throughout the course of my 45 years in private practice, I have at times wondered how it is that some couples do so well beyond therapy and on the...

Become the couple God wants you to be, as popular marriage and family columnist Joshua Rogers offers spouses hope with real-life stories from his o...

An ethnographic study of how financial products and services affect inequalities and conflicts in South Africa.

This book on Syrian television drama manifests how gender roles are negotiated in the context of dominant Islamic and secular nationalist discourse...

Most of the women who ever lived left no trace of their existence on the record of history. In this book, Suzannah Lipscomb recovers the lives and ...

War examines the nature of war and presents a genealogy of Western ideas and practices spanning over 2500 years.Publisher: Oxford University PressA...

This book explores Chinese young men's views of manhood and develops a new concept of 'elastic masculinity' which can be stretched and forged diffe...

Marriage is a central trope in popular portrayals of Germany's largest ethnic minority. In exploring Turkish-German matrimony in popular genres inc...

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Pastor and New York Times bestselling author Timothy Keller, along with his wife Kathy, write a new daily devotional drawing on their bestselling T...