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Law and History in the Latin East

By: Peter W. Edbury

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Law and History in the Latin East

By: Peter W. Edbury

This second collection of papers by Peter Edbury focuses primarily on the literature either composed in the Latin East or closely associated with it. The legal treatises from the kingdom of Jerusalem and from Cyprus and Antioch have long been recognized as providing insights into the juridical and social history of these places in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, and some of the papers re-issued here reflect the author's work in re-editing two of the most famous of these treaties, those by John of Ibelin-Jaffa and Philip of Novara. The studies on historical literature are chiefly concerned with vernacular texts, most notably the Old French translation of William of Tyre and its Continuations, again much a result of his current work on a new edition of the Continuations and the associated text known as La Chronique d'Ernoul. Other papers concerned with aspects of the narrative traditions that furnish a significant part of our knowledge of Lusignan Cyprus in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, and with which in one way or another Peter Edbury has been engaged since the early 1970s.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000946983

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9781000946987

Mushrooms

The natural and human world of British fungi

By: Peter Marren

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Mushrooms

The natural and human world of British fungi

By: Peter Marren

Mushrooms, the first of a major new series of books on British natural history, provides a remarkable insight into the natural and human world of fungi. Peter Marren, in his inimitable, relaxed style, guides the reader through the extraordinary riches of this often overlooked group, from the amazing diversity of forms and lifestyles that populate the fungal landscape, to the pursuit of edible fungi for the pot, and the complexities of identification thrown up by our modern understanding of DNA. Throughout the book, the author tells a story rich in detail about how we have come to appreciate and, in some cases, fear the mushrooms and toadstools that are such an integral part of the changing seasons. Marren also provides a refreshingly candid view of our attempts to name species, the role of fungi in ecosystems, and our recent efforts to record and conserve them.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1472958519

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9781472958518

Maurice Blondel, Social Catholicism, and Action Française

The Clash Over the Church's Role in Society During the Modernist Era

By: Peter J. Bernardi

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Maurice Blondel, Social Catholicism, and Action Française

The Clash Over the Church's Role in Society During the Modernist Era

By: Peter J. Bernardi

This work casts light on contemporary arguments over social Catholicism and the believer's role in society by illuminating a similar dispute among French Catholics during the Modernist Crisis (1909-1914)

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CUA Press

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0813215420

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Music and Power at the Court of Louis XIII

Sounding the Liturgy in Early Modern France

By: Peter Bennett

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Music and Power at the Court of Louis XIII

Sounding the Liturgy in Early Modern France

By: Peter Bennett

A study of the strategies by which sacred music and liturgy was used to legitimate Louis XIII's power.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108830633

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The Butterflies of Canada

By: Ross A. Layberry,Peter W. Hall,J. Donald Lafontaine

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The Butterflies of Canada

By: Ross A. Layberry,Peter W. Hall,J. Donald Lafontaine

Beautifully illustrated and clearly presented, The Butterflies of Canada is an indispensable guide to all aspects of butterfly study. Butterfly collecting has long been a popular summer activity, and as the growing popularity of butterfly watching and conservatories in Ontario and British Columbia shows, butterflies are a continuing source of delight and interest to Canadians. The Butterflies of Canada is the first comprehensive guide to all the butterflies found in Canada. Based on the national butterfly collection maintained by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, it contains descriptive individual accounts for the close to three hundred butterfly species recorded in Canada, including descriptions of early stages, subspecies, and key features that help distinguish similar species. Each species of butterfly has an individual distribution map, generated from a database of more than 90,000 location records. More than just a field guide to identifying Canadian butterflies, however, The Butterflies of Canada includes chapters on Canadian geography and butterfly distribution, conservation, gardening, photography, and the history of butterfly study in Canada. It also contains new and unpublished information on the classification of butterflies, their ranges, larval food plants, abundance, flight seasons, and noteworthy habits. Thirty two colour plates provide diagnostic details for each species, and also feature butterflies in their natural habitats. There is an extensive bibliography.

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University of Toronto Press

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0802078818

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A History of the Early Medieval Siege, C. 450-1220

By: Peter Fraser Purton

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A History of the Early Medieval Siege, C. 450-1220

By: Peter Fraser Purton

Byblos, Lebanon: An early twelfth-century crusader castle with donjon. --Book Jacket.

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Boydell & Brewer Ltd

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1843834480

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Bach

A Musical Biography

By: Peter Williams

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Bach

A Musical Biography

By: Peter Williams

J. S. Bach composed some of the best-loved and most moving music in Western culture. Surviving mostly in manuscript collections, his music also exists in special and unique publications that reveal much about his life and thoughts as a composer. In this book, Peter Williams, author of the acclaimed J. S. Bach: A Life in Music, revisits Bach's biography through the lens of his music. Reviewing all of Bach's music chronologically, Williams discusses the music collection by collection to reveal the development of Bach's interests and priorities. While a great deal has been written about the composer's vocal works, Williams gives the keyboard music its proper emphasis, revealing it as crucial to Bach's biography, as a young organist and a mature composer, as a performer in public and teacher in private, and as a profound thinker in the language of music.

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Cambridge University Press

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1316531384

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9781316531389

Judicial Uses of Images

Vision in Decision

By: Peter Goodrich

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Judicial Uses of Images

Vision in Decision

By: Peter Goodrich

A judge springs out of his car on the way to court in downtown Chicago and takes photographs of an inflatable rat. A while later he inserts these photographs into a decision involving another insufflated rodent used in a union protest. The increasing use of images in case law and precedent in the common law world provides a novel visual atlas of how lawyers see. Using a corpus of many images drawn from decisions in different common law jurisdictions across the globe, Judicial Uses of Images catalogues, analyzes, and reviews the normative significance and affective force of this new medium of legal expression and judgement. The remediation of law is critically dissected in the terms of the emergent optical criteria and protocols of retinal justice. .

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Oxford University Press

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0192848771

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Flora of Turkey, Volume 9

By: Davis Peter Davis

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Flora of Turkey, Volume 9

By: Davis Peter Davis

Flora of Turkey, Volume 9

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Edinburgh University Press

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1474466141

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The Aristocracy in England and Tuscany, 1000-1250

By: Peter R. Coss

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The Aristocracy in England and Tuscany, 1000-1250

By: Peter R. Coss

This volume examines the aristocracy in Tuscany and in England in the years 1000-1250, offering a new way of studying English aristocracy in this period by tracing Italian aristocratic history, and then employing the same historiographic tools within English history.

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0198846967

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Flora of Turkey, Volume 2

By: Peter Davis

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Flora of Turkey, Volume 2

By: Peter Davis

Flora of Turkey, Volume 2

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Edinburgh University Press

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1474466079

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A Companion to Giles of Rome

By: Charles Briggs,Peter Eardley

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A Companion to Giles of Rome

By: Charles Briggs,Peter Eardley

In A Companion to Giles of Rome, Charles Briggs, Peter Eardley, and seven other leading specialists provide the first synoptic treatment of the thought, works, life, and legacy of Giles of Rome (c. 1243/7–1316), one of medieval Europe’s most important and influential scholastic philosophers and theologians. The Giles that emerges from this volume was a subtle and independent thinker, who more than refining and modifying the positions of his teacher Aquinas, also made strikingly original contributions to theology, physics, metaphysics, psychology, ethics, logic, rhetoric, and political thought. He was also the founding intellectual of the Augustinian friars and a key participant in controversies at the University of Paris, and between Church and State. Contributors are: Charles F. Briggs, Richard Cross, Silvia Donati, Peter S. Eardley, Roberto Lambertini, Costantino Marmo, Martin Pickavé, Giorgio Pini, and Cecilia Trifogli.

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BRILL

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900431539X

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9789004315396

Forged in the Shadow of Mars

Chivalry and Violence in Late Medieval Florence

By: Peter W. Sposato

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Forged in the Shadow of Mars

Chivalry and Violence in Late Medieval Florence

By: Peter W. Sposato

In Forged in the Shadow of Mars, Peter W. Sposato traces chivalry's powerful influence on the mentalitè and behavior of a sizeable segment of the elite in late medieval Florence. He finds that the strenuous knights and men-at-arms of the Florentine chivalric elite—a cultural community comprised of men from both traditional and newly emerged elite lineages—embraced a chivalric ideology that was fundamentally martial and violent. Chivalry helped to shape a common identity among these men based on the profession of arms and the ready use of violence against both their peers and those they perceived to be their social inferiors. This violence, often transgressive in nature, was not only crucial to asserting and defending personal, familial, and corporate honor, but was also inherently praiseworthy. In this way, Sposato highlights the sharp differences between chivalry and the more familiar civic ideology of the popolo grasso, the Florentine mercantile and banking elite who came to dominate Florence politically and economically during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. As a result, in Forged in the Shadow of Mars, Sposato challenges the traditional scholarly view of chivalry as foreign to the social and cultural landscape of Florence and contests its reputation as a civilizing force. By reexamining the connection between chivalric literature and actual practice and identity formation among historical knights and men-at-arms, he likewise provides an important corrective to assumptions about the nature of elite violence and identity in medieval Italian cities.

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Cornell University Press

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1501761919

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German Immigrant Artists in America

A Biographical Dictionary

By: Peter C. Merrill

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German Immigrant Artists in America

A Biographical Dictionary

By: Peter C. Merrill

In addition to American sources, draws from German sources not generally consulted by historians of American art. Presents biographical sketches of German and German-speaking painters, graphic artists, engravers, lithographers, sculptors, and some stained glass designers who arrived in North America from the colonial period to the 20th century. The bibliographic references are article specific. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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Scarecrow Press

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0810832666

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Before the Baton

Musical Direction and Conducting in Stuart and Georgian Britain

By: Peter Holman

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Before the Baton

Musical Direction and Conducting in Stuart and Georgian Britain

By: Peter Holman

How was large-scale music directed or conducted in Britain before baton conducting took hold in the 1830s?

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Boydell & Brewer

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1783274565

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Elucidation of Necromancy Lucidarium Artis Nigromantice attributed to Peter of Abano

Including a new translation of his Heptameron or Elements of Magic With text, translation, and commentary by Joseph H. Peterson

By: Joseph Peterson,Peter Of Abano

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Elucidation of Necromancy Lucidarium Artis Nigromantice attributed to Peter of Abano

Including a new translation of his Heptameron or Elements of Magic With text, translation, and commentary by Joseph H. Peterson

By: Joseph Peterson,Peter Of Abano

Since it first appeared over 500 years ago, the Elucidation of Necromancy (Lucidarium artis Nigromantice) and the closely related Heptameron have become essential guides for individuals seeking to call on angels and other supernatural beings for help. Countless amulets and pendants have been made with its designs, and elements have repeatedly been adapted and incorporated into other manuals of ritual magic. In spite of this, neither a critical edition nor a translation has been previously published. In particular three manuscripts of Lucidarium have come to light recently, which provide a clearer and fuller ritual than the printed Heptameron. For example, they add critical instructions for making the seven angel sigils, which have become so widely known. Together they bring to life this important current of esoteric tradition, showing how it has been repeatedly adapted and used by different individuals for centuries.

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Nicolas-Hays, Inc.

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0892546913

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9780892546916

Numerical Solution of Stochastic Differential Equations

By: Peter E. Kloeden,Eckhard Platen

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Numerical Solution of Stochastic Differential Equations

By: Peter E. Kloeden,Eckhard Platen

The numerical analysis of stochastic differential equations (SDEs) differs significantly from that of ordinary differential equations. This book provides an easily accessible introduction to SDEs, their applications and the numerical methods to solve such equations. From the reviews: "The authors draw upon their own research and experiences in obviously many disciplines... considerable time has obviously been spent writing this in the simplest language possible." --ZAMP

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3662126168

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Royal Bastards

Illegitimate Children of the British Royal Family

By: Peter Beauclerk-Dewar,Roger Powell

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Royal Bastards

Illegitimate Children of the British Royal Family

By: Peter Beauclerk-Dewar,Roger Powell

Since 1066 when William the Conqueror (alias William the Bastard) took the throne, English and Scottish kings have sired at least 150 children out of wedlock. Many were acknowledged at court and founded dynasties of their own - several of today's dukedoms are descended from them. Others were only acknowledged grudgingly or not at all. In the twentieth century this trend for royals to father illegitimate children continued, but the parentage, while highly probable, has not been officially recognised. This book - split into four sections: Tudor, Stuart, Hanoverian and, perhaps most fascinating, Royal Loose Ends - is a genuinely fresh approach to British kings and queens, examining their lives and times through the unfamiliar perspective of their illegitimate children.

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The History Press

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0752473166

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9780752473161

England in the Middle Ages

The Normans 1066-1154

By: Peter Simpson

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England in the Middle Ages

The Normans 1066-1154

By: Peter Simpson

Experience the fascination and excitement of this formative period in English history. The Normans combine an authoritative account of the main events with the human stories of how people lived, learned, played, prayed, loved, and were governed. The format has been designed to enable the reader to absorb the essence of the period. With over one hundred illustrations, maps, and time lines, the emphasis was on writing a serious history book with easy readability. Peter Simpson’s encyclopedic knowledge of the English Middle Ages has enabled him to delve into fascinating details of the time and the links with England today to be found in language, institutions, and places. A lifetime of business, study, and research has enabled him to understand and relate the evolving architecture, trade, economics, and science and technology of this formative period in English history. England in the Middle Ages: The Normans 1066–1154 is ideal for scholars, students, visitors to England and Normandy, and for the general history reader.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1796045438

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The Index of Middle English Prose

Manuscripts in the Additional Collection 10001-14000, British Library, London

By: Peter Brown,Elton D. Higgs

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The Index of Middle English Prose

Manuscripts in the Additional Collection 10001-14000, British Library, London

By: Peter Brown,Elton D. Higgs

Index of manuscripts in Middle English prose contained in the Additional Collection 10001-14000, British Library, London The great scholar and palaeographer Sir Frederic Madden (1801-73) was Keeper of Manuscripts at the British Museum (as it then was) when most of the items in this Handlist were acquired. The manuscripts here represented, from the still expanding Additional Collection, provide examples of almost every kind of Middle English prose composition. Many of the items in this Handlist are well known, but some have been previously overlooked and a surprising number remain unedited.

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Boydell & Brewer Ltd

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1843841452

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Pade Approximants

Encyclopedia of Mathematics and It's Applications, Vol. 59 George A. Baker, Jr., Peter Graves-Morris

By: George Allen Baker,Peter Graves-Morris

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Pade Approximants

Encyclopedia of Mathematics and It's Applications, Vol. 59 George A. Baker, Jr., Peter Graves-Morris

By: George Allen Baker,Peter Graves-Morris

The first edition of this book was reviewed in 1982 as "the most extensive treatment of Pade approximants actually available." This second edition has been thoroughly updated, with a substantial new chapter on multiseries approximants. Applications to statistical mechanics and critical phenomena are extensively covered, and there are newly extended sections devoted to circuit design, matrix Pade approximation, and computational methods. This succinct and straightforward treatment will appeal to scientists, engineers, and mathematicians alike.

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