wyszukanych pozycji: 58
Gerald of Wales
ISBN: 9780752440316 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Gerald of Wales, Giraldis Cambrensis, Gerald the Welshman, Gerald the Marcher - his many names reflect the long and multi-faceted career of one of the most fascinating figures of the Middle Ages. Descended from Norman Marcher barons and Welsh princes, Gerald was by turns scholar, churchman and reformer, courtier, diplomat and would-be crusader; Marcher propagandist, agent of English kings, champion of the Welsh church, hunted outlaw and cathedral theologian. He was also a naturalist, gossip and indefatigable traveller, but above all, a most prolific writer and a tireless self-publicist. We...
Gerald of Wales, Giraldis Cambrensis, Gerald the Welshman, Gerald the Marcher - his many names reflect the long and multi-faceted career of one of the...
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66,92 zł |
The Middle Ages and the Movies: Eight Key Films
ISBN: 9781789145526 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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103,01 zł |
Blood Royal: Dynastic Politics in Medieval Europe
ISBN: 9781108796163 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 774 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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100,34 zł |
The Way of the Crucible
ISBN: 9780615206820 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Our first book, Real Alchemy, provides a glimpse into the general theory and practices surrounding the Art of Alchemy as handed down in the Western World. This second work delves more deeply into "the why of the how" behind laboratory alchemy and elaborates greater detail on some of the mineral works of Alchemy both ancient and modern. Herein you will find a wealth of information concerning the practical art and science of alchemy that makes this arcane subject accessible to the modern student.
Our first book, Real Alchemy, provides a glimpse into the general theory and practices surrounding the Art of Alchemy as handed down in the Western Wo...
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137,08 zł |
The Book on Antimony: Dancing with the Black Dragon
ISBN: 9781947544420 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 446 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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384,63 zł |
England Under the Norman and Angevin Kings, 1075-1225
ISBN: 9780198227410 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 816 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This lively and far-reaching account of the politics, religion, and culture of England in the century and a half after the Norman Conquest provides a vivid picture of everyday existence, and increases our understanding of all aspects of medieval society. There are colourful details of the everyday life of ordinary men and women, with their views on the past, on sexuality, on animals, on death, the undead, and the occult. The result is a fascinating and comprehensive portrayal of a period which begins with conquest and ends in assimilation.
This lively and far-reaching account of the politics, religion, and culture of England in the century and a half after the Norman Conquest provides a ...
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736,69 zł |
Oběšenec
ISBN: 9788025712511 / Czeski / 2014 / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Esej amerického medievisty Roberta Bartletta je mistrnou sondou do antrologie 13. století. Autor v ní zkoumá vztah středověkých lidí k zázračnu jako součásti soudobých náboženských a společenských představ. Na příkladu Velšana Viléma Cragha, odsouzeného k smrti oběšením a následně zázračně vzkříšeného biskupem Tomášem z Cantilupe, rozkrývá meandry utváření kolektivní paměti několik let po zázračném vzkříšení. Během vyšetřování při snaze o Tomášovu kanonizaci svědci z nejrůznějších sociálních vrstev vzpomínají na okolnosti...
Esej amerického medievisty Roberta Bartletta je mistrnou sondou do antrologie 13. století. Autor v ní zkoumá vztah středověkých lidí k zázra...
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42,20 zł |
Africans in the New Testament and Early Christianity
ISBN: 9781098044695 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 54 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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51,94 zł |
A Time of Darkness: Book One: Scattering the Ashes
ISBN: 9781546232629 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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72,37 zł |
Trial by Fire and Water: The Medieval Judicial Ordeal (Oxford University Press Academic Monograph Reprints)
ISBN: 9781626548893 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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131,21 zł |
The Making of Europe: Conquest, Colonization and Cultural Change 950 - 1350
ISBN: 9780140154092 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) This work illuminates four centuries of medieval history, from the expansion of Latin Christendom, from its base in France, Western Germany and North-Central italy into the European outskirts, at a time of rising population, economic growth and dynamic cultural change. This expansion also saw the English colonization in the Celtic world, German immigration into much of Eastern Europe, the reconquest of Spain and Sicily, as well as the introduction of Christianity to Bohemia, Hungary, Poland and Scandinavia.
This work illuminates four centuries of medieval history, from the expansion of Latin Christendom, from its base in France, Western Germany and North-...
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66,92 zł |
The Natural and the Supernatural in the Middle Ages
ISBN: 9780521878326 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 182 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. How did people of the medieval period explain physical phenomena, such as eclipses or the distribution of land and water on the globe? What creatures did they think they might encounter: angels, devils, witches, dogheaded people? This fascinating book explores the ways in which medieval people categorized the world, concentrating on the division between the natural and the supernatural and showing how the idea of the supernatural came to be invented in the Middle Ages. Robert Bartlett examines how theologians and others sought to draw lines between the natural, the miraculous, the marvelous...
How did people of the medieval period explain physical phenomena, such as eclipses or the distribution of land and water on the globe? What creatures ...
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377,69 zł |
Solution Mining 2e
ISBN: 9781138996380 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 470 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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240,39 zł |
The Natural and the Supernatural in the Middle Ages
ISBN: 9780521702553 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 182 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. How did people of the medieval period explain physical phenomena, such as eclipses or the distribution of land and water on the globe? What creatures did they think they might encounter: angels, devils, witches, dogheaded people? This fascinating book explores the ways in which medieval people categorized the world, concentrating on the division between the natural and the supernatural and showing how the idea of the supernatural came to be invented in the Middle Ages. Robert Bartlett examines how theologians and others sought to draw lines between the natural, the miraculous, the marvelous...
How did people of the medieval period explain physical phenomena, such as eclipses or the distribution of land and water on the globe? What creatures ...
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105,28 zł |
Gerald of Wales: de Principis Instructione
ISBN: 9780198738626 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 880 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Gerald of Wales was an ecclesiastic, a servant and critic of the Angevin kings, and a prolific and vitriolic writer. Born in Pembrokeshire of mixed Norman and Welsh blood in the middle years of the twelfth century, he was appointed archdeacon of Brecon in 1175, but that was the highest office he attained, despite his indefatigable efforts in the years 1198-1203 to become not merely bishop, but archbishop, of St Davids. His death was reported in 1223. His Instruction for a Ruler (De principis instructione) is of interest for three main reasons: it provides a detailed and...
Gerald of Wales was an ecclesiastic, a servant and critic of the Angevin kings, and a prolific and vitriolic writer. Born in Pembrokeshire of mixed No...
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872,87 zł |
The Miracles of Saint ÆBbe of Coldingham and Saint Margaret of Scotland
ISBN: 9780199259229 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The two texts edited here are previously unpublished accounts of the miracles of St AEbba of Coldingham and St Margaret of Scotland. They tell of the miracles performed at or in the vicinity of their shrines at Coldingham and Dunfermline in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries and illuminate the religious and social life of southern Scotland in a period for which the narrative sources are not very rich.
" The two texts edited here are previously unpublished accounts of the miracles of St AEbba of Coldingham and St Margaret of Scotland. They tell of the ...
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Why Can the Dead Do Such Great Things?: Saints and Worshippers from the Martyrs to the Reformation
ISBN: 9780691169682 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 816 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. From its earliest centuries, one of the most notable features of Christianity has been the veneration of the saints--the holy dead. This ambitious history tells the fascinating story of the cult of the saints from its origins in the second-century days of the Christian martyrs to the Protestant Reformation. Robert Bartlett examines all of the most important aspects of the saints--including miracles, relics, pilgrimages, shrines, and the saints' role in the calendar, literature, and art. The book explores the central role played by the bodies and body parts of saints, and the special... From its earliest centuries, one of the most notable features of Christianity has been the veneration of the saints--the holy dead. This ambitious ... |
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The Making of Europe: Conquest, Colonization, and Cultural Change, 950-1350
ISBN: 9780691037806 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) From our twentieth-century perspective, we tend to think of the Europe of the past as a colonizer, a series of empires that conquered lands beyond their borders and forced European cultural values on other peoples. This provocative book shows that Europe in the Middle Ages was as much a product of a process of conquest and colonization as it was later a colonizer. From our twentieth-century perspective, we tend to think of the Europe of the past as a colonizer, a series of empires that conquered lands beyond ... |
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242,82 zł |
Trial by Fire and Water: The Medieval Judicial Ordeal (Oxford University Press Academic Monograph Reprints)
ISBN: 9781626549142 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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97,13 zł |
The Medieval World Complete
ISBN: 9780500283332 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) The Medieval World Complete re-creates one of the great ages of European civilization through a sequence of spectacular images accompanied by a lively, informed commentary. Organized by topic and thoroughly cross-referenced, this comprehensive volume enables the reader to explore and understand every facet of the Middle Ages, an era of breathtaking artistic achievement and religious faith in a world where life was often coarse and cruel, cut short by war, famine, and disease. Framed by chapters that bracket the beginning and the end of this misunderstood period, The Medieval...
The Medieval World Complete re-creates one of the great ages of European civilization through a sequence of spectacular images accompanied by...
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154,51 zł |