Medieval
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Repentant Abelard: Family, Gender, and Ethics in Peter Abelard's Carmen Ad Astralabium and Planctus [Hardback]
Juanita Feros Ruys (Author)
£58.00ISBN: 9780312240028
Published by : Palgrave
The great medieval thinker Peter Abelard is renowned for his uncompromising and radical approach to ethics and theology, a towering public figure in twelfth-century schools and monasticism. The Repentant Abelard argues, however, t... .... Learn More -
Inventions, Discoveries and Machines [Paperback]
Pierluigi Bassignana (Editor)
£28.00ISBN: 9788897644255
Published by : CB Edizioni
This book covers a crucial period of Italian history, that of the “Risorgimento” (the Resurgence period of Italian Independence) and the years following the unification, seen from an unusual perspective by Pierluigi Ba... .... Learn More -
Maimonides [Hardback]
Moshe Halbertal (Author)
£39.95ISBN: 9780691158518
Published by : Princeton University Press
Maimonides was the greatest Jewish philosopher and legal scholar of the medieval period, a towering figure who has had a profound and lasting influence on Jewish law, philosophy, and religious consciousness. This book provides a c... .... Learn More -
Authorship and Publicity Before Print [Paperback]
Daniel Hobbins (Author)
£22.99ISBN: 9780812222746
Published by : Pennsylvania University Press
Widely recognized by contemporaries as the most powerful theologian of his generation, Jean Gerson (1363-1429) dominated the stage of western Europe during a time of plague, fratricidal war, and religious schism. Daniel Hobbins argues for a new... .... Learn More -
The Image and Its Prohibition in Jewish Antiquity [Paperback]
Sarah Pearce (Editor)
£55.00ISBN: 9780957522800
Published by : Journal of Jewish Studies
Volume: 2
Against the commonly held opinion that ancient Judaism was an artless culture, this sumptuously illustrated book offers new ways of looking at art in Jewish antiquity. Leading experts, under the editorship of Sarah Pearce, skilful... .... Learn More -
The Observing Eye: The French artist Jean Houel in Malta [Hardback]
Thomas Freller (Author)
£34.00ISBN: 9789993274179
Published by : Midsea Books
The French artist Jean Pierre Louis Laurent Hoüel is rightly described as master of the ‘vedutismo itinerante’. Art historians have acknowledged his important contributions to the development of 18th-century lands... .... Learn More -
Michelangelo and Painting [Paperback]
Francesca Pellegrino (Author)
£14.95ISBN: 9788897644095
Published by : CB Edizioni
For each one of us, scholars and art lovers, dealing with Michelangelo should be an honour. Indeed, because one must place itself with an honest heart beyond the sterile confusion of the academic studies that dissect the genius. M... .... Learn More -
Chichester [Hardback]
John Elliott (Author); Sue Finniss (Author)
£18.95ISBN: 9781904965398
Published by : Spire Books
"Chichester is a major cathedral city which has also managed to retain a very rich architectural heritage with an important cathedral building,architecturally important buildings in the Close and equally important structures in the city.Learn More -
Caravaggio: Art, Knighthood and Malta [Paperback]
David Stone (Author); Keith Sciberras (Author)
£18.00ISBN: 9789993270713
Published by : Midsea Books
Caravaggio's sojourn on the island of Malta in 1607-08 is one of the most fascinating episodes in Baroque art. The painter had committed a murder in Rome in May 1606 and subsequently fled to Naples, where he soon became well-known for his gritt... .... Learn More -
Mortgage of the Past: Reshaping the Ancient Political Inheritance (1050-1300) [Hardback]
Francis Oakley (Author)
Regular Price: £52.00
Special Price: £14.95
ISBN: 9780300176339
Published by : Yale University Press
Francis Oakley continues his magisterial three-part history of the emergence of Western political thought during the Middle Ages with this second volume in the series. Here, Oakley explores kingship from the tenth century to the b... .... Learn More
