wyszukanych pozycji: 5
From a Far Country: Camisards and Huguenots in the Atlantic World
ISBN: 9780820338200 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In "From a Far Country" Catharine Randall examines Huguenots and their less-known cousins the Camisards, offering a fresh perspective on the important role these French Protestants played in settling the New World. The Camisard religion was marked by more ecstatic expression than that of the Huguenots, not unlike differences between Pentecostals and Protestants. Both groups were persecuted and emigrated in large numbers, becoming participants in the broad circulation of ideas that characterized the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Atlantic world. Randall vividly portrays this French... In "From a Far Country" Catharine Randall examines Huguenots and their less-known cousins the Camisards, offering a fresh perspective on the import... |
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163,25 zł |
Earthly Treasures: Material Culture and Metaphysics in the Heptameron and Evangelical Narrative
ISBN: 9781557534491 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Earthly Treasures maps the presence, position and use in the narrative of a variety of material objects in Marguerite de Navarre's Heptameron. There is a wide selection of objects, ranging from tapestries with scripture passages woven into the borders, fine arts paintings, chalices incised with proverbs, emblems, table linens, copies of Bibles or manuscripts, clothing, masks, stage props, jewelry, furniture and foodstuffs. Although the presence of such material objects seems paradoxical, given the scriptural mandate to disregard things of this world, and to store up treasure, rather, in...
Earthly Treasures maps the presence, position and use in the narrative of a variety of material objects in Marguerite de Navarre's Heptameron. There i...
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272,48 zł |
Black Robes and Buckskin: A Selection from the Jesuit Relations
ISBN: 9780823232628 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The Jesuit Relations, written by new world jesuit missionaries from 1632 to 1673 back to their Superior in France, have long been a remarkable source of both historical knowledge and spiritual inspiration. They provide rich information about Jesuit piety and missionary initiatives, Ignatian spirituality, the Old World patrons who financed the venture, women's role as collaborators in the Jesuit project, and the early history of contact between Europeans and Native Americans in what was to become the northeastern United States and Canada. The Jesuits approached the task of converting the...
The Jesuit Relations, written by new world jesuit missionaries from 1632 to 1673 back to their Superior in France, have long been a remarkable source ...
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203,07 zł |
Wisdom of Animals: Creatureliness in Early Modern French Spirituality
ISBN: 9780268040352 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Throughout Western civilization, animals have decorated heraldic shields, populated medieval manuscripts, and ornamented baroque pottery. Animals have also been our companions, our correctives, and our ciphers as humanity has represented and addressed issues of authority, cultural strife, and self-awareness as theological, moral, and social beings. In "The Wisdom of Animals: Creatureliness in Early Modern French Spirituality, "Catharine Randall traces two threads of thought that consistently appear in a number of early modern French texts: how animals are used as a means for humans to explore...
Throughout Western civilization, animals have decorated heraldic shields, populated medieval manuscripts, and ornamented baroque pottery. Animals have...
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114,50 zł |
From a Far Country from a Far Country: Camisards and Huguenots in the Atlantic World
ISBN: 9780820333908 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In "From a Far Country" Catharine Randall examines Huguenots and their less-known cousins the Camisards, offering a fresh perspective on the important role these French Protestants played in settling the New World. The Camisard religion was marked by more ecstatic expression than that of the Huguenots, not unlike differences between Pentecostals and Protestants. Both groups were persecuted and emigrated in large numbers, becoming participants in the broad circulation of ideas that characterized the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Atlantic world. Randall vividly portrays this French... In "From a Far Country" Catharine Randall examines Huguenots and their less-known cousins the Camisards, offering a fresh perspective on the import... |
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738,82 zł |