Critical Confessions Now
ISBN: 9783031185076 / Angielski / Twarda / 197 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is based on thepostmedievaljournal special issue Critical Confessions Now. These chapters on confessions exhibit great diversity and take up different disciplinary approaches by scholars who stand at various stages of their careers. They address not only different time periods but also various linguistic and cultural contexts. Contributors deploy a wide array of methods, critical approaches, and narrative voices, and contributors assumed the confessional voice with a whole host of affective responses — from enthusiasm to cautious hesitation to outright discomfort. Previously...
This book is based on thepostmedievaljournal special issue Critical Confessions Now. These chapters on confessions exhibit great diversity and take up...
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The Metamorphoses of Power: Violence, Warlords, Aḳıncıs and the Early Ottomans (1300-1450)
ISBN: 9789004526662 / Angielski / Twarda / 348 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Charlemagne and Rome: Alcuin and the Epitaph of Pope Hadrian I
ISBN: 9780199206346 / Angielski / Twarda / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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The Oxford History of Poetry in English
ISBN: 9780198839682 / Angielski / Twarda / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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A Cultural History of Democracy in the Medieval Age
ISBN: 9781350042759 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Offering a broad exploration of the cultural history of democracy in the medieval age, this volume claims that, though not generally associated with the term, the Middle Ages deserve to be included in a general history of democracy. The term was never widely employed during this period, the dominant attitude towards democracy was outright hostility, and none of the medieval polities thought of itself as a democracy. Despite this, this study highlights a wide variety of ideas, practices, procedures, and institutions that, although different from their ancient predecessor (direct democracy) or...
Offering a broad exploration of the cultural history of democracy in the medieval age, this volume claims that, though not generally associated with t...
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389,77 zł |
Libraries in the Manuscript Age
ISBN: 9783110772104 / Angielski / Twarda / 273 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The case studies presented in this volume help illuminate the rationale for the founding of libraries in an age when books were handwritten, thus contributing to the comparative history of libraries. They focus on examples ranging from the seventh to the seventeenth century emanating from the Muslim World, East Asia, Byzantium and Western Europe. Accumulation and preservation are the key motivations for the development of libraries. Rulers, scholars and men of religion were clearly dedicated to collecting books and sought to protect these fragile objects against the various hazards that...
The case studies presented in this volume help illuminate the rationale for the founding of libraries in an age when books were handwritten, thus cont...
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Agincourt: Battle of the Scarred King
ISBN: 9781472855206 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Anglo-Saxon Kings and Warlords AD 400–1070
ISBN: 9781472855350 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Récits des temps mérovingiens: précédés de Considérations sur l'Histoire de France
ISBN: 9782384550630 / Francuski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Cistercians, Heresy and Crusade in Occitania, 1145-1229: Preaching in the Lord\'s Vineyard
ISBN: 9781914049170 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A study of the involvement of the Cistercian Order in the events surrounding the outbreak of heresy - particularly that of the Cathars and the resulting Albigensian Crusade - in southern France. Led by the example of Bernard of Clairvaux, Cistercian monks turned their attention to the world outside the monastery walls in response to the threat posed by heretical Christians, in particular the Cathars. The white monks, withother intellectuals, turned to pen, pulpit and popular preaching to counteract heresy, some accepting posts as bishops and papal legates, helping and even directing the...
A study of the involvement of the Cistercian Order in the events surrounding the outbreak of heresy - particularly that of the Cathars and the resulti...
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Bakers, Brewers and Bricklayers: The History of Everyday German Peasants, Vol. 1, 100 BCE-1450
ISBN: 9781959770480 / Angielski / Miękka / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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A Postcard History of the Passenger Liner
ISBN: 9781493077618 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Alchemy and Exemplary Poetry in Middle English Literature
ISBN: 9783031266058 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores the different functions and metaphorical concepts of alchemy in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Middle English poetry and bridges them together with theexemplatradition in late medieval English literature. Such poetic narratives function as exemplary models which directly address the ambiguity of medieval English alchemical practice. This book examines the foundation of this relationship between alchemical narrative andexemplumin the poetry of Gower and Chaucer in the fourteenth century before exploring its diffusion in lesser-known anonymous poems and recipes in the...
This book explores the different functions and metaphorical concepts of alchemy in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Middle English poetry and bridges...
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The Medieval Constitution of Liberty: Political Foundations of Liberalism in the West
ISBN: 9780472056019 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why did enduring traditions of economic and political liberty emerge in Western Europe and not elsewhere? Representative democracy, constitutionalism, and the rule of law are crucial for establishing a just and prosperous society, which we usually treat as the fruits of the Renaissance and Enlightenment, as Western European societies put the Dark Ages behind them. In The Medieval Constitution of Liberty, Salter and Young point instead to the constitutional order that characterized the High Middle Ages. They provide a historical account of how this constitutional order evolved following the...
Why did enduring traditions of economic and political liberty emerge in Western Europe and not elsewhere? Representative democracy, constitutionalism,...
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Trauma and Recovery in Early North African Christianity
ISBN: 9781501518904 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Embedded within the texts of (1) The Scilitan martyrs, (2) The account of Montanus, Lucius, and their Companions, (3) The martyrdom of Marian and James, (4) and The martyrdom of Cyprian of Carthage there is a powerful guide for living in the aftermath of trauma. These stories offered pathways to essential elements for recovery to its historical readership. These include beliefs and a number of positive religious coping strategies that revolved around a sense of safety, re-establishing community relationships, an integrated sense of the self, and the use of the body. This book vividly...
Embedded within the texts of (1) The Scilitan martyrs, (2) The account of Montanus, Lucius, and their Companions, (3) The martyrdom of Marian and Jame...
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The Medieval Constitution of Liberty: Political Foundations of Liberalism in the West
ISBN: 9780472076017 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why did enduring traditions of economic and political liberty emerge in Western Europe and not elsewhere? Representative democracy, constitutionalism, and the rule of law are crucial for establishing a just and prosperous society, which we usually treat as the fruits of the Renaissance and Enlightenment, as Western European societies put the Dark Ages behind them. In The Medieval Constitution of Liberty, Salter and Young point instead to the constitutional order that characterized the High Middle Ages. They provide a historical account of how this constitutional order evolved following the...
Why did enduring traditions of economic and political liberty emerge in Western Europe and not elsewhere? Representative democracy, constitutionalism,...
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The New Roman Empire: A History of Byzantium
ISBN: 9780197549322 / Twarda / 1104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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A Cultural History of the Sea in the Global Age
ISBN: 9781474299091 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1972 an image became an icon: 'Blue Marble', a photograph of the Earth as seen from outer space. The picture features prominently the globe's water-covered surface. The ocean connects nature and culture in the modern world. Within the time-span of 100 years, the sea changed its cultural meaning, from a dangerous place to an endangered environment. This volume traces diverse processes of oceanic transformation in the Anthropocene: it follows scientists, seafarers, diplomats and filmmakers from ship-decks to the arenas of political decision making on land. The essays lead...
In 1972 an image became an icon: 'Blue Marble', a photograph of the Earth as seen from outer space. The picture features prominently the globe's wa...
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The Moralized Ovid
ISBN: 9780674290846 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An influential medieval allegorical interpretation of the Metamorphoses that uncovers the hidden moral truths of Ovid’s stories, translated into English for the first time. Written in about 1340 in Avignon by the Benedictine preacher Pierre Bersuire, The Moralized Ovid—commonly referred to by its Latin title, Ovidius moralizatus, to distinguish it from the anonymous French vernacular Ovide moralisé—was arguably the most influential interpretation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses in the High Middle Ages. It circulated widely in manuscript form and was frequently printed during the...
An influential medieval allegorical interpretation of the Metamorphoses that uncovers the hidden moral truths of Ovid’s stories, translated into Eng...
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153,20 zł |