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Paperback. In this interdisciplinary study of drama, arts, and spirituality, Gail Gibson provides a reappraisal of 15th-century England through a detailed portrait of the flourishing cultures of Suffolk and Norfolk. Num Pages: 268 pages, 52 halftones. BIC Classification: DSBB; HBJD1; HBLC; HRC; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 376.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
New edition
Number of pages
268
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226291024
ISBN
9780226291024
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 27.29

hardcover. The Theater of Truth is a book for those interested and engaged in the debates around baroque and neobaroque aesthetics, and offers a unified theory for the relation between these terms and a new vocabulary for distinguishing between their ideological values. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 458. Weight in Grams: 417.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804769549
ISBN
9780804769549
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 74.85

Paperback. This book provides a vivid picture of the Drottningholm Court Theatre: the architecture, the many different activities which took place here during the Gustavian era, and the use made of the theatre since its rediscovery to explore the nature of Baroque performance. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: 1DNS; AN; HBJD; HBTB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 251 x 18. Weight in Grams: 832.
Publisher
University of Exeter Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9789187235924
ISBN
9789187235924
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 49.94

Hardcover. An engaging history of portrait photography by one of the world's leading critics. Num Pages: 336 pages, 280 b&w., 70 col. photographs. BIC Classification: 3JJ; AJCP; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 276 x 214 x 39. Weight in Grams: 1778.
Publisher
Phaidon Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
416
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780714843728
ISBN
9780714843728
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 79.12

Paperback. Malcolm Davies provides the first full commentary on the surviving fragments of the four epics that recount the story of the Seven's failed assault against Thebes and the successful assault in the next generation. He sets them in context and examines whether artistic depictions of the relevant myths can help reconstruct the lost epics' contents. Series: Hellenic Studies Series. Num Pages: 225 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; DSBB; HBLA1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 153 x 25. Weight in Grams: 248.
Publisher
Center for Hellenic Studies
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674417243
ISBN
9780674417243
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 22.48

paperback. Goody raises questions about theorists, historians and methodology and proposes a new comparative approach to cross-cultural analysis. Series: Canto Classics. Num Pages: 352 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBG; JHM. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 213 x 141 x 18. Weight in Grams: 486.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Condition
New
SKU
9781107683556
ISBN
9781107683556
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 18.40

Paperback. Num Pages: 198 pages. BIC Classification: HRCV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 219 x 171 x 14. Weight in Grams: 308. Ex-libris with usual markings, and label to spine. Remains good
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Cowley Publications,U.S.
Number of pages
198
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
2nd Edition
SKU
KIN0003344
ISBN
9781561012275
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. This text aims to introduce readers to the practice of reading Scripture theologically. Four or five essays are devoted to each text. Among these are examples of patristic, medieval and Reformation interpretation, as well as contemporary readings. Editor(s): Fowl, Stephen E. Series: Blackwell Readings in Modern Theology. Num Pages: 440 pages, 0. BIC Classification: HRCG; HRCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 24. Weight in Grams: 618.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
440
Condition
New
SKU
V9781557868350
ISBN
9781557868350
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 61.28

Paperback. Exposing the religious roots of our ostensibly godless age, this study reveals that modernity is much less secular than conventional wisdom suggests. Beginning with the collapse of the medieval world, it argues that from the very beginning, moderns sought not to eliminate religion but to support a new view of religion and its place in human life. Num Pages: 368 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPS; HRAB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 22. Weight in Grams: 534.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226293462
ISBN
9780226293462
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 25.66

hardcover. Exposing the religious roots of our ostensibly godless age, this study reveals that modernity is much less secular than conventional wisdom suggests. Beginning with the collapse of the medieval world, it argues that from the very beginning, moderns sought not to eliminate religion but to support a new view of religion and its place in human life. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: HPC; HRCM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 164 x 27. Weight in Grams: 656.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226293455
ISBN
9780226293455
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 94.08
€ 77.33

Paperback. In the second century, some Gnostic Christians used numerical structures to describe God, interpret the Bible, and frame the universe. The Theology of Arithmetic explores the rich variety of number symbolism used by gnosticizing groups and their orthodox critics, and shows how earlier neo-Pythagorean and Platonist thought influenced this theology. Series: Hellenic Studies Series. Num Pages: 250 pages, 6 line illustrations, 1 halftone. BIC Classification: HRAM3; HRKP; HRQC1; PBC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 155 x 13. Weight in Grams: 346.
Publisher
Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies United States
Number of pages
250
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674073302
ISBN
9780674073302
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 23.54

Paperback. Num Pages: 204 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRLB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 178 x 16. Weight in Grams: 310.
Publisher
Baker Publishing Group
Number of pages
204
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801048487
ISBN
9780801048487
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.07

Paperback. The links between religion and food have been known for centuries, and yet we rarely examine or understand the nature of the relationship between food and spirituality, or food and sin. Drawing on literature, politics, and philosophy as well as theology, this book unlocks the role food has played within religious tradition. Num Pages: 182 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRCM; HRCR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 9. Weight in Grams: 244.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
182
Condition
New
SKU
V9780470674987
ISBN
9780470674987
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.74

Hardback. The Ptolemaic period witnessed an enormous increase in the number of hieroglyphic signs and iconographic elements. This volume examines these techniques from their smallest details to their broadest thematic connections, foregrounding individual techniques to determine the words and phrases singled out for emphasis. 266 b&w illus., 17 tables Series: Wilbour Studies in Egyptology and Assyriology. Num Pages: 573 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAE; HDDG. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 279 x 216 x 41. Weight in Grams: 1746.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Lockwood Press United States
Number of pages
573
Condition
New
SKU
V9781937040512
ISBN
9781937040512
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 146.33

Hardcover. Few Western thinkers have been more influential and less known than Peter Damian (1007-1072). After centuries of neglect and misinterpretation, the man who emerges from Patricia Ranfts exhaustive investigation of his writings will surprise many. Immoderate in rhetoric yet moderate in teachings, Peter Damian is a man for the ages. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: HRCC7. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
The Catholic University of America Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813219974
ISBN
9780813219974
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 80.97

Paperback. In this, his second book about the essence and depth of Samuel Beckett's thinking and literary art, John Calder analyses the dualism of Beckett's theological writing, his debt to the Gnostics, Manichaeism and Geulincx in particular, the presence of ghosts in his work, and why his late writing has received so little attention. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK; HRLB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 11. Weight in Grams: 134.
Publisher
Alma Classics
Number of pages
300
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780714543833
ISBN
9780714543833
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.16

Paperback. Num Pages: figures. BIC Classification: HRCG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 236.
Publisher
InterVarsity Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780830840397
ISBN
9780830840397
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.04

Paperback. This study is unique in its comprehensive account of the theology of Revelation, and is original in its exposition of the Book's message. Series Editor(s): Dunn, James D. G. Series: New Testament Theology. Num Pages: 181 pages. BIC Classification: HRCG9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 214 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 234. Series: New Testament Theology. 181 pages. This study is unique in its comprehensive account of the theology of Revelation, and is original in its exposition of the Book's message. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: HRCG9. Dimension: 214 x 140 x 10. Weight: 270. Series Editor(s) :Dunn, James D. G.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Number of pages
181
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Edition
unknown
Condition
New
SKU
V9780521356916
ISBN
9780521356916
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.00

Paperback. An exploration of the theology of the Gospel of Luke and its implications for contemporary readers. Series: New Testament Theology. Num Pages: 186 pages, 1 graph. BIC Classification: HRCG9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 142 x 216 x 18. Weight in Grams: 240. Series: New Testament Theology. 184 pages, 1 graph. Exploration of the theology of the Gospel of Luke and its implications for contemporary readers. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: HRCG9. Dimension: 214 x 139 x 10. Weight: 274.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Number of pages
182
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Condition
New
SKU
V9780521469326
ISBN
9780521469326
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.90

Paperback. Editor(s): Van Nieuwenhove, Rik; Wawrykow, Joseph P. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: HRCM; HRLB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 674.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
496
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268043643
ISBN
9780268043643
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 46.42

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