Christianity
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The Cosmatesque Mosaics of Westminster Abbey: The Pavements and Royal Tombs: History, Archaeology, Architecture and Conservation [Hardback]
Warwick Rodwell (Author); David S. Neal (Author)
Regular Price: £65.00
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ISBN: 9781789252347
Published by : Oxbow Books
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Westminster Abbey contains the only surviving medieval Cosmatesque mosaics outside Italy. They comprise: the ‘Great Pavement’ in the sanctuary; the pavement around the shrine of Edward the Confessor; the saint’s tomb and shrine; Henry III’s tomb; ... .... Learn More -
Inhabiting the Promised Land: Exploring the Complex Relationship between Archaeology and Ancient Israel as Depicted in the Bible [Paperback]
Margreet L. Steiner (Author)
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ISBN: 9781789253306
Published by : Oxbow Books
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For many people it is clear: the actions and beliefs of Ancient Israel are described in the Bible. The stories about its peoples and kings, struggles and wars, deities and shrines, are supposed to have been told and retold throughout the ages and ... .... Learn More -
The Bir Messaouda Basilica: Pilgrimage and the Transformation of an Urban Landscape in Sixth Century AD Carthage [Hardback]
Richard Miles (Author); Simon Greenslade (Author)
Regular Price: £55.00
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ISBN: 9781785706806
Published by : Oxbow Books
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This volume charts the radical transformation of an inner city neighbourhood in late antique Carthage which was excavated over a five-year period by a team from the University of Cambridge. Bordering the main thoroughfare leading from the Brysa Hi... .... Learn More -
The Medieval Priory and Hospital of St Mary Spital and the Bishopsgate Suburb: Excavations at Spitalfields Market, London E1, 1991-2007 [Hardback]
Chiz Harward (Author); Nick Holder (Author); Christopher Phillpotts (Author); Christopher Thomas (Author)
£32.00ISBN: 9781907586484
Published by : MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology)
Series: MOLA monograph
Volume: 59
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London’s Spitalfields Market was the location of one of the city’s largest archaeological excavations, carried out by MOLA between 1991 and 2007. This book presents the archaeological and documentary evidence for medieval activity here, on the nor... .... Learn More -
Lutheranism and the Nordic Spirit of Social Democracy: A Different Protestant Ethic [Paperback]
Robert H. Nelson (Author)
£24.00ISBN: 9788771842609
Published by : Aarhus University Press
One man’s way of thinking about God has decisively shaped the political and economic rise of Nordic social democracy. 500 years ago, Martin Luther’s writings led to the Reformation in the Nordic countries, and his values and beliefs shaped more th... .... Learn More -
Jerusalem Throne Games: The battle of Bible stories after the death of David [Paperback]
Peter Feinman (Author)
£30.00ISBN: 9781785706165
Published by : Oxbow Books
Jerusalem Throne Games explores the political battle for power to succeed David expressed through selected stories from the beginning of the Book of Genesis. In these confrontations, combatants wielded a new weapon of war that was changing the cou... .... Learn More -
Representations of the Other, and Intercultural Experiences in a Global Perspective (16th-20th Centuries) [Paperback]
Niccolò Guasti (Editor)
£12.00ISBN: 9788869770821
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: History
The cohabitation of different cultures and the rise of new cultural and social clashes in more or less wide contexts (nation-states, macro- areas, civilizations) has pushed human sciences to examine themselves through an interdisciplinary point of... .... Learn More -
JJP Supplement 27 (2016) Journal of Juristic Papyrology: Nubian Voices II New Texts and Studies on Christian Nubian Culture [Hardback]
Grzegorz Ochała (Editor); Łajtar Adam (Editor); van der Vliet Jacques (Editor)
£51.00ISBN: 9788393842575
Published by : Journal of Juristic Papyrology
Series: JJP Supplements
Volume: 27
The continuation of the 2011 volume entitled Nubian Voices: Studies in Christian Nubian Culture brings sixteen new contributions by an international team of specialists in literary culture of the Middle Nile Valley. In these articles, the reader w... .... Learn More -
The Second Crusade: Holy War on the Periphery of Latin Christendom [Paperback]
Jason T Roche (Editor); Janus Moller-Jensen (Editor)
£75.00ISBN: 9782503523279
Published by : Brepols
A seminal article published by Giles Constable in 1953 focused on the genesis and expansion in scope of the Second Crusade with particular attention to what has become known as the Syrian campaign. His central thesis maintained th... .... Learn More -
Aegean Mercenaries in Light of the Bible: Clash of cultures in the story of David and Goliath [Paperback]
Simona Rodan (Author)
£22.00ISBN: 9781784911065
Published by : Archaeopress Archaeology
The story of the duel of David and Goliath, the Philistine champion, is narrated in the Bible in several versions. While its symbolic importance in Judaism and later in Christianity gradually came to represent the battle between good and evil, tru... .... Learn More
