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Cross and Culture in Anglo-Norman England

Theology, Imagery, Devotion

By: John Munns

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Cross and Culture in Anglo-Norman England

Theology, Imagery, Devotion

By: John Munns

An examination of the passion and crucifixion of Christ as depicted in the visual and religious culture of Anglo-Norman England. The twelfth century has long been recognised as a period of unusual vibrancy and importance, witnessing seminal changes in the inter-related spheres of theology, devotional practice, and iconography, especially with regard to thecross and the crucifixion of Christ. However, the visual arts of the period have been somewhat neglected, scholarly activity tending to concentrate on its textual and intellectual heritage. This book explores this extraordinarily rich and vibrant visual and religious culture, offering new and exciting insights into its significance, and studying the dynamic relationships between ideas and images in England between 1066 and the first decades of the thirteenth century. In addition to providing the first extensive survey of surviving Passion imagery from the period, it explores those images' contexts: intellectual, cultural, religious, and art-historical. It thus not only enhances our understanding of the place of the cross in Anglo-Norman culture; it also demonstrates how new image theories and patterns of agency shaped the life of the later medieval church. John Munns is a Fellow of MagdaleneCollege, Cambridge.

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Boydell & Brewer

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1783271264

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Of Revelation and Revolution, Volume 1

Christianity, Colonialism, and Consciousness in South Africa

By: Jean Comaroff,John L. Comaroff

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Of Revelation and Revolution, Volume 1

Christianity, Colonialism, and Consciousness in South Africa

By: Jean Comaroff,John L. Comaroff

Defining their enterprise as more in the direction of poetics than of prosaics, the Comaroffs free themselves to analyze a vivid series of images and events as objects of analysis. These they mine for clues to the 19th-century contents of the British imagination and of Tswana minds. They are themselves imagining the imagination of others, and they do the job with characteristic aplomb....The first volume creates an appetite for the second."—Sally Falk Moore, American Anthropologist

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435

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University of Chicago Press

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0226114473

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9780226114477

Music and Theatre in France, 1600-1680

By: John S. Powell

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Music and Theatre in France, 1600-1680

By: John S. Powell

During the course of the 17th century, the dramatic arts reached a pinnacle of development in France; but despite the volumes devoted to the literature and theatre of the ancien régime, historians have largely neglected the importance of music and dance. This study defines the musical practices of comedy, tragicomedy, tragedy, and mythological and non-mythological pastoral drama, from the arrival of the first repertory companies in Paris until the establishment of the Comédie-Française.

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622

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Clarendon Press

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0198165994

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9780198165996

The Collected Works of Sir Humphry Davy

Vol. 2

By: John Davy,Humphry Davy

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The Collected Works of Sir Humphry Davy

Vol. 2

By: John Davy,Humphry Davy

Reprint of the original, first published in 1839.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3368751549

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9783368751548

Crusading and Warfare in the Middle Ages

Realities and Representations. Essays in Honour of John France

By: Simon John,Nicholas Morton

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Crusading and Warfare in the Middle Ages

Realities and Representations. Essays in Honour of John France

By: Simon John,Nicholas Morton

This volume has been created by scholars from a range of disciplines who wish to show their appreciation for Professor John France and to celebrate his career and achievements. For many decades, Professor France’s work has been instrumental in many of the advances made in the fields of crusader studies and medieval warfare. He has published widely on these topics including major publications such as: Victory in the East: A Military History of the First Crusade (1994) and Western Warfare in the Age of the Crusades (1999). This present volume mirrors his interests, offering studies upon both areas. The fifteen essays cover a wide variety of topics, spanning chronologically from the Carolingian period through to the early fourteenth century. Some offer new insights upon long-contested issues, such as the question of whether a new form of cavalry was created by Charles Martel and his successors or the implications of the Mongol defeat at Ayn Jalut. Others use innovative methodologies to unlock the potential of various types of source material including: manuscript illuminations depicting warfare, Templar graffiti, German crusading songs, and crusading charters. Several of the articles open up new areas of debate connected to the history of crusading. Malcolm Barber discusses why Christendom did not react decisively to the fall of Acre in 1291. Bernard Hamilton explores how the rising Frankish presence in the Eastern Mediterranean during the central medieval period reshaped Christendom’s knowledge and understanding of the North African cultures they encountered. In this way, this work seeks both to advance debate in core areas whilst opening new vistas for future research.

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258

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Routledge

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1317156765

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9781317156765

Tell Me No Lies

Investigative Journalism and its Triumphs

By: John Pilger

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Tell Me No Lies

Investigative Journalism and its Triumphs

By: John Pilger

Tell Me No Lies is a celebration of the very best investigative journalism, and includes writing by some of the greatest practitioners of the craft: Seymour Hersh on the My Lai massacre; Paul Foot on the Lockerbie cover-up; Wilfred Burchett, the first Westerner to enter Hiroshima following the atomic bombing; Israeli journalist Amira Hass, reporting from the Gaza Strip in the 1990s; Gunter Wallraff, the great German undercover reporter; Jessica Mitford on 'The American Way of Death'; Martha Gelhorn on the liberation of the death camp at Dachau. The book - a selection of articles, broadcasts and books extracts that revealed important and disturbing truths - ranges from across many of the critical events, scandals and struggles of the past fifty years. Along the way it bears witness to epic injustices committed against the peoples of Vietnam, Cambodia, East Timor and Palestine. John Pilger sets each piece of reporting in its context and introduces the collection with a passionate essay arguing that the kind of journalism he celebrates here is being subverted by the very forces that ought to be its enemy. Taken as a whole, the book tells an extraordinary 'secret history' of the modern era. It is also a call to arms to journalists everywhere - before it is too late.

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Random House

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1407085700

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9781407085708

Memoirs of the Life of Sir Humphry Davy

By: John Davy

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Memoirs of the Life of Sir Humphry Davy

By: John Davy

This 1836 memoir of Humphry Davy (1778-1829) by his brother makes extensive use of Davy's personal and professional papers.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108038506

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Godfrey of Bouillon

Duke of Lower Lotharingia, Ruler of Latin Jerusalem, c.1060-1100

By: Simon John

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Godfrey of Bouillon

Duke of Lower Lotharingia, Ruler of Latin Jerusalem, c.1060-1100

By: Simon John

This book offers a new appraisal of the ancestry and career of Godfrey of Bouillon (c.1060-1100), a leading participant in the First Crusade (1096-99), and the first ruler of Latin Jerusalem (1099-1100), the polity established by the crusaders after they captured the Holy City. While previous studies of Godfrey’s life have tended to focus on his career from the point at which he joined the crusade, this book adopts a more holistic approach, situating his involvement in the expedition in the light of the careers of his ancestors and his own activities in Lotharingia, the westernmost part of the kingdom of Germany. The findings of this enquiry shed new light on the repercussions of a range of critical developments in Latin Christendom in the eleventh and early twelfth centuries, including the impact of the ‘Investiture Conflict’ in Lotharingia, the response to the call for the First Crusade in Germany, Godfrey’s influence upon the course of the crusade, his role in its leadership, and his activities during the initial phases of Latin settlement in the Holy Land in its aftermath.

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Routledge

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1317126300

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Book's by John Purkis

Cross and Culture in Anglo-Norman England

Cross and Culture in Anglo-Norman England

Of Revelation and Revolution, Volume 1

Of Revelation and Revolution, Volume 1

Music and Theatre in France, 1600-1680

Music and Theatre in France, 1600-1680

The Collected Works of Sir Humphry Davy

The Collected Works of Sir Humphry Davy

Crusading and Warfare in the Middle Ages

Crusading and Warfare in the Middle Ages

Tell Me No Lies

Tell Me No Lies

Memoirs of the Life of Sir Humphry Davy

Memoirs of the Life of Sir Humphry Davy

Godfrey of Bouillon

Godfrey of Bouillon

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