Search results for 'SETLEMENT AND POLITICS'
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Settlement and Politics in Three Classic Maya Polities [Paperback]
Olivier de Montmollin (Author)
$50.00Out of stock
ISBN: 9781881094135
Published by : Prehistory Press
Original survey research in the Greater Rosario Valley provides the background to this comparative study of three Maya polities (Rosario, Ojo de Agua and Los Encuentros). Comparison of these three adjoining states is made with reference to mult... .... Learn More -
The Politics of Translation in the Middle Ages and Renaissance [Paperback]
Daniel Russell (Author); R. Blumenfeld-Kosinski (Author)
$24.95Out of stock
ISBN: 9788669827527
Published by : Arizona State University
The process of translation transports a text through time and place and, as the editors suggest, `no translation is an innocent, transparent rendering of the original'. These fourteen specially commissioned essays examine the pressures of culture ... .... Learn More -
Piety and Politics: The Dynamics of Royal Authority in Homeric Greece, Biblical Israel, and Old Babylonian Mesopotamia [Hardback]
Dale Launderville (Author)
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ISBN: 9780802839947
Published by : William B. Eerdmans
Ancient kings who did not honor the gods overlooked an indispensable means for ruling effectively in their communities. In many traditional societies royal authority was regarded as a divine gift bestowed according to the quality of the relatio... .... Learn More -
Theology, Rhetoric and Politics in the Eucharist Controversy, 1078-1079 [Hardback]
C M Radding (Author); Francis Newton (Author)
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ISBN: 9780231126847
Published by : Columbia University Press
`In the concluding stages of the eleventh-century Eucharistic Controversy, which turned on whether, and how, the sacramental consecration changed the nature of bread and wine at the altar, Alberic of Monte Cassino composed a small but important tr... .... Learn More -
Theology, Rhetoric and Politics in the Eucharist Controversy, 1078-1079 [Paperback]
C M Radding (Author); Francis Newton (Author)
$26.00Out of stock
ISBN: 9780231126854
Published by : Columbia University Press
`In the concluding stages of the eleventh-century Eucharistic Controversy, which turned on whether, and how, the sacramental consecration changed the nature of bread and wine at the altar, Alberic of Monte Cassino composed a small but important tr... .... Learn More -
War, Politics and Culture in 14th-Century England [Hardback]
James Sherborne (Author)
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ISBN: 9781852850869
Published by : Hambledon and London Ltd
`These essays offer a detailed insight into the planning of English campaigns in France in the late 14th century and into the structure and financing of the English armies and navies. James Sherborne's scholarship went beyond military matters a... .... Learn More -
Archaeology and Politics of Food and Feast [Hardback]
Tamara L Bray (Author)
$115.00Out of stock
ISBN: 9780306477300
Published by : Kluwer Academic Publishers
Food, along with sex, has long been recognised as one of the most important mainstays of, not only the essence of life, but also of politics. These ten essays present comparative case studies from the Old and New Worlds addressing the political co... .... Learn More -
Archaeology and Politics of Food and Feast [Paperback]
Tamara L Bray (Author)
$55.00Out of stock
ISBN: 9780306477713
Published by : Kluwer Academic Publishers
Food, along with sex, has long been recognised as one of the most important mainstays of, not only the essence of life, but also of politics. These ten essays present comparative case studies from the Old and New Worlds addressing the political co... .... Learn More -
Amoral Gower: Language, Sex and Politics [Hardback]
Diane Watt (Author)
$65.95Out of stock
ISBN: 9780816640270
Published by : Univ of Minnesota Press
Gower wrote his vernacular poem Confessio Amantis at the same time as Chaucer embarked on The Canterbury Tales . It is therefore not overly surprising that Gower's poem is far less known today than Chaucer's. This study seeks to reinstate Conf... .... Learn More -
Amoral Gower: Language, Sex and Politics [Paperback]
Diane Watt (Author)
$21.95Out of stock
ISBN: 9780816640287
Published by : Univ of Minnesota Press
Gower wrote his vernacular poem Confessio Amantis at the same time as Chaucer embarked on The Canterbury Tales . It is therefore not overly surprising that Gower's poem is far less known today than Chaucer's. This study seeks to reinstate Conf... .... Learn More