Christianity
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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
Special Price: £41.25
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 -
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 changin... .... 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 -
The Traditio Legis: Anatomy of an Image [Paperback]
Robert Couzin (Author)
£29.00ISBN: 9781784910815
Published by : Archaeopress Archaeology
The bearded and mature figure of Christ stands majestically raising his right hand, open palm facing the viewer. In his left he holds an unfurled scroll. Saints Peter and Paul appear on either side, Peter approaching to catch or protect the d... .... Learn More
Hidden Treasures of Ethiopia [Hardback]
Marie-Jose Friedlander (Editor); Bob Friedlander (Editor)
£25.00ISBN: 9781780768168
Published by : I.B. Tauris
Ethiopia is a land of hidden treasures, and among the greatest are its remote churches, whose richly decorated interiors amaze and astound with their vibrant colours and extraordinary illustration. Yet steeped in ancient legend, a... .... Learn More
Charters of Chertsey Abbey [Hardback]
Susan Kelly (Editor)
£45.00ISBN: 9780197265567
Published by : Oxford University Press
This is the first complete modern edition of the early charters of Chertsey Abbey in Surrey, one of the most important of the English medieval monasteries, and one which appears to have had a nearly continuous existence from its s... .... Learn More
Binsey: Oxford’s Holy Place [Paperback]
Lydia C. Carr (Editor); Russell Dewhurst (Editor); Martin Henig (Editor)
£20.00ISBN: 9781905739844
Published by : Archaeopress Archaeology
"Binsey is a village to the west of Oxford, on the south bank of the main channel of the River Thames, opposite Port Meadow, which has been an open space belonging to the burgesses of Oxford since late Saxon times. Although n... .... Learn More
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