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Kon Acad Wetenschappen Letteren The Medieval Booklists of the Southern Low
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£42.75
Kon Acad Wetenschappen Letteren The Medieval Booklists of the Southern Low
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£71.25
Kon Acad Wetenschappen Letteren De rentmeesters van de graaf van Vlaanderen:
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£71.25
VU University Press Evangelical Theology in Transition
Book SynopsisThis first instalment of the AmSTaR series explores recent developments in Evangelical Christianity in the Netherlands. Dutch Evangelicalism can be understood as rooted in the Reformation, Pietism and other renewal movements. This collection of articles by a number of experts in the field reflects on the boundaries and intersections of the Evangelical tradition in the Netherlands, with a special focus on the themes of transition and fusion. In new cultural and societal circumstances, Dutch Evangelicalism is rapidly changing from a minority group of dissenters to a more established and respected movement within Protestantism and Dutch society. This raises a number of questions about identity, core values, practices and beliefs. The contributors to this volume explore these issues from historical, practical-theological, political, biblical-theological and hermeneutical perspectives in an attempt to understand the role and significance of Evangelical faith in the twenty-first century.
£22.05
Leiden University Press Writing in Context: Insular Manuscript Culture
Book SynopsisThis book comprises six essays by prominent scholars of medieval Insular manuscripts. The main emphasis is on the physical appearance of books, though writing on and in other objects is also discussed. The essays highlight, in different ways, the tight relationship between the palaeographical and codicological features of manuscripts and the culture in which the objects were produced and used. Extending their expertise to a broad audience interested in the medieval book, the contributors discuss various aspects of written culture, including the development of Insular scripts, book culture in Mercia, the layout of Anglo-Saxon charters, and the transition from Anglo-Saxon to Norman-inspired script and book production.Contributions by Michelle Brown, David Dumville, Mary Garrison, Kathryn Lowe, Francis Newton and Teresa Webber.
£33.30
Stichting Promotie Archeologie Medieval Material Culture: Studies in Honour of
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£36.00
Scribbles Battle of the Okinawa
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£9.36
Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. Calcutta under Fire: The World War Two Years
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£10.49
Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. Sayajirao Gaekwad III: The Maharaja of Baroda
Book SynopsisMaharaja Sayajirao Gaekwad III of Baroda state towered over all the other rulers of princely states in British India. The book not only documents how a Maratha farmer''s son became a maharaja by a twist of fate, but also reveals interesting details about how the favourite son'' of the British Empire found himself on the brink of being deposed by the British. Extensively researched and engagingly written, the book unearths secret records from the India Office inondon and discloses the role played by Sayajirao in India''s fight for freedom. Despite failing health and great personal tragedies, Sayajirao governed the state with remarkable zeal and had many firsts to his credit. As early as 1881, he opened several schools for girls and a training college forady teachers. In 1893, he introduced free primary education for children and became the first Indian ruler to do so. He banned child marriage and untouchability and promoted inter-caste marriage and widow remarriage widely. This is a biography of a great ruler whoseegacy does notie just in great institutionsike theaxmi Vilas Palace, Ajwa reservoir, Kala Bhavan, Centralibrary of Baroda, Baroda College (now MS University of Baroda), Baroda Museum and Bank of Baroda, but in the scale, nature and foresight of his endeavours.
£21.84
Aspekt B.V., Uitgeverij Curious Myths of the Middle Ages
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£21.21
Aspekt B.V., Uitgeverij Medieval Europe
Book SynopsisWilliam Stubbs (18251901), is one of the leading historians of his generation, pursued his academic research alongside his work as a clergyman. He was elected Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford in 1866 and ap-pointed a bishop in 1884. Stubbs was a major figure in medieval English historiography, with special interests in legal and constitutional history. This work was first published in 1870. It begins with an outline of English constitutional history, which he urged should be part of the curriculum, and then presents documents from Roman times up to the thirteenth century.
£21.21
Kapon Editions Psifidota tis Thessalonikis: 4th to 14th Century
Book Synopsis358 colour illustrations and 38 b&w drawings. Distributed by University of Exeter Press. This volume fills a major gap: there are no modern publications describing the mosaics of the major Byzantine monuments of Thessaloniki aimed at the contemporary reader, both specialist and layman.Table of ContentsPrologue - Charalambos Bakirtzis Introduction - Chrysanthi Mavropoulou-Tsioumi ROTUNDA - Charalambos Bakirtzis, Eftychia Kourkoutidou-Nikolaidou SAINT DΕΜΕTRIOS - Charalambos Bakirtzis LATOΜOU ΜONASTΕRY - Eftychia Kourkoutidou-Nikolaidou, Chrysanthi Mavropoulou-Tsioumi ACHEIROPOIETOS - Eftychia Kourkoutidou-Nikolaidou HAGIA SOPHIA - Chrysanthi Mavropoulou-Tsioumi HOLY APOSTLΕS - Chrysanthi Mavropoulou-Tsioumi Bibliography
£67.50
The Chinese University Press Politics and Conservatism in Northern Song China:
Book SynopsisTrade Review[On the basis of] a meticulous and comprehensive re-examination and analysis of all the available sources, Dr. Xiao-bin Ji has succeeded in reconstructing, very convincingly to the best of my judgment, the power structure and power relations uniquely characteristic of the Northern Song dynasty... [and his examinations] contribute very significantly to our understanding of the immensely complicated political world, at its various levels, in 11th-century China. Ying-shih Yu, Princeton University
£33.71
Central European University Press The Beginnings of Anti-Jewish Legislation: The
Book SynopsisThe Nazi 1933 Civil Service Law and the 1935 Nuremberg Laws are often considered the first anti-Jewish decrees in interwar Europe. Mária M. Kovács convincingly argues that Hungary’s numerus clausus law of 1920, which introduced a Jewish quota at Hungary’s institutions of higher learning, was, in fact, interwar Europe’s first antisemitic law. By defining—and discriminating against—Jews as a separate “racial” or “national” group, it abrogated the principle of equal rights that had been enshrined into law; as such, it marked an abrupt reversal of Jewish emancipation in Hungary. Moreover, the numerus clausus law set the stage for subsequent “Jewish Laws” (in the late 1930s and early 1940s) that sought to solve Hungary’s “Jewish Question” by means of extraordinary legal measures that targeted Jews alone. This book examines the origins and implementation of the numerus clausus, as well as the attempts to dampen its impact on Hungary’s international reputation, focusing on the debates surrounding it promulgation (1920), its modification (1928) and its eventual application to other areas of Jewish life (1938–45).Table of ContentsForeword to the English Translation Foreword Introduction Chapter 1: The Genesis of the Law Chapter 2: The First Decade of the Numerus Clausus and the Racial Clause Chapter 3: The Amendment of the Numerus Clausus Law and the Restoration of the Explicit Jewish Quota Chronology Appendixes Bibliography Index
£47.70
Gefen Publishing House Days of Ticho
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