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Between Constantinople and Rome

An Illuminated Byzantine Gospel Book (Paris gr. 54) and the Union of Churches

By: Professor Kathleen Maxwell

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Between Constantinople and Rome

An Illuminated Byzantine Gospel Book (Paris gr. 54) and the Union of Churches

By: Professor Kathleen Maxwell

This is a study of the artistic and political context that led to the production of Bibliothèque Nationale de France, codex grec 54, one of the most ambitious and complex manuscripts of the Byzantine era. Kathleen Maxwell’s multi-disciplinary approach includes codicological and paleographical evidence together with New Testament textual criticism, artistic and historical analysis. She concludes that Paris 54 was designed to eclipse its contemporaries and to physically embody a new relationship between Constantinople and the Latin West.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409457443

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9781409457442

First Among Friends : George Fox and the Creation of Quakerism

George Fox and the Creation of Quakerism

By: H. Larry Ingle Professor of History University of Tennessee-Chattanooga

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First Among Friends : George Fox and the Creation of Quakerism

George Fox and the Creation of Quakerism

By: H. Larry Ingle Professor of History University of Tennessee-Chattanooga

In First Among Friends, the first scholarly biography of George Fox (1624-91), H. Larry Ingle examines the fascinating life of the reformation leader and founding organizer of the Religious Society of Friends, more popularly known today as the Quakers. Ingle places Fox within the upheavals of the English Civil Wars, Revolution, and Restoration, showing him and his band of "rude" disciples challenging the status quo, particularly during the Cromwellian Interregnum. Unlike leaders of similar groups, Fox responded to the conservatism of the Stuart restoration by facing down challenges from internal dissidents, and leading his followers to persevere until the 1689 Act of Toleration. It was this same sense of perseverance that helped the Quakers survive--the only religious sect of the era still existing today. Firmly grounded in primary sources and enriched with gripping detail, this well-written and original study reveals hitherto unknown sides of one who was clearly "First Among Friends.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0198024029

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9780198024026

Staging Spectatorship in the Plays of Philip Massinger

By: Professor Joanne Rochester

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Staging Spectatorship in the Plays of Philip Massinger

By: Professor Joanne Rochester

The playwrights composing for the London stage between 1580 and 1642 repeatedly staged plays-within and other metatheatrical inserts. Such works present fictionalized spectators as well as performers, providing images of the audience-stage interaction within the theatre. They are as much enactments of the interpretive work of a spectator as of acting, and as such they are a potential source of information about early modern conceptions of audiences, spectatorship and perception. This study examines on-stage spectatorship in three plays by Philip Massinger, head playwright for the King's Men from 1625 to 1640. Each play presents a different form of metatheatrical inset, from the plays-within of The Roman Actor (1626), to the masques-within of The City Madam (1632) to the titular miniature portrait of The Picture (1629), moving thematically from spectator interpretations of dramatic performance, the visual spectacle of the masque to staged 'readings' of static visual art. All three forms present a dramatization of the process of examination, and allow an analysis of Massinger's assumptions about interpretation, perception and spectator response.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409475824

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9781409475828

Dictionary of African Biography

By: Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong,Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

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Dictionary of African Biography

By: Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong,Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

From the Pharaohs to Fanon, Dictionary of African Biography provides a comprehensive overview of the lives of the men and women who shaped Africa's history. Unprecedented in scale, DAB covers the whole continent from Tunisia to South Africa, from Sierra Leone to Somalia. It also encompasses the full scope of history from Queen Hatsheput of Egypt (1490-1468 BC) and Hannibal, the military commander and strategist of Carthage (243-183 BC), to Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana (1909-1972), Miriam Makeba and Nelson Mandela of South Africa (1918 -).

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0195382072

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9780195382075

The Spiritual Rococo

Decor and Divinity from the Salons of Paris to the Missions of Patagonia

By: Professor Gauvin Alexander Bailey

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The Spiritual Rococo

Decor and Divinity from the Salons of Paris to the Missions of Patagonia

By: Professor Gauvin Alexander Bailey

Exploring for the very first time the global reach and spiritual dimension of Rococo décor, particularly in France, Central Europe, Portugal, Brazil, and Spanish South America, this study investigates the socio-religious motives for the importation of this style into an ecclesiastical setting and its commonalities with Enlightenment values, overturning the cliché of Rococo as a frivolous style and acknowledging its essential modernity.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409400638

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9781409400639

The Wages of Globalism : Lyndon Johnson and the Limits of American Power

Lyndon Johnson and the Limits of American Power

By: H. W. Brands Professor of History Texas A&M University

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The Wages of Globalism : Lyndon Johnson and the Limits of American Power

Lyndon Johnson and the Limits of American Power

By: H. W. Brands Professor of History Texas A&M University

One episode dominates the memory of Lyndon Johnson's presidency: the Vietnam War. The war has so darkened Johnson's reputation that it is difficult for many to recall his policies in a positive light-- especially his foreign policy. Now historian H.W. Brands offers a fresh look at Johnson's handling of international relations, putting Vietnam in the context of the many crises he confronted and the outdated policies of global containment he was expected to uphold. The result is a fascinating portrait of a master politician at work, maneuvering through a series of successes that made his ultimate failure in Vietnam all the more tragic. In The Wages of Globalism, Brands conducts a witty and insightful tour through LBJ's foreign policy--a tour that begins in Washington, runs through Santa Domingo, Nicosia, and Jakarta, and ends in Saigon. He opens with a thoughtful portrayal of the tense, often fruitful relationship between the domineering Johnson and his advisers--Dean Rusk, Robert McNamara, George Ball, Clark Clifford, Walt Rostow--as he picked up Kennedy's legacy and sought to make it his own. Leaving Vietnam for the end, Brands presents the various crises with all the force the White House felt at the time: the Dominican intervention, India impending famine and war with Pakistan, the coup against Sukarno in Indonesia, France's departure from NATO's unified command, the threat of fighting between Greece and Turkey over Cyprus, the Six Day War, and the worry that Germany might acquire nuclear weapons. In each, Brands captures the uncertainty in Washington and the conflicting advice that Johnson received. The picture that emerges is remarkably positive, revealing the president's ability to pick his way through fierce complexities. He forcefully stopped a war over Cyprus; handled de Gaulle with equanimity and skill; and--over the objections of all his advisers--intentionally delayed shipping grain to famine-threatened India, creating a real momentum for agricultural reform in that country that ultimately led to self-sufficiency. Only in Vietnam did Johnson's sure balance of determination and judgment break down: worried about his domestic program and the need to stand firm against aggression, he let his determination run away with him. "In 1947," H.W. Brands writes, "Truman made a bad bargain with history." By the time Johnson inherited the White House, it had become painfully clear that America was no longer supreme in the world, able to prop up the status quo worldwide. In this fascinating, behind-the- scenes account, Brands shows how skillfully Johnson steered the nation into the new era--until, in Southeast Asia, politics and his own personality led him into the ultimate trap of the Truman Doctrine.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199729271

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9780199729272

Texas Politics Today

By: William Earl Maxwell,Ernest Crain,Edwin S. Davis,Elizabeth N. Flores,Joseph Ignagni,Cynthia Opheim,Professor of Political Science Christopher Wlezien

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Texas Politics Today

By: William Earl Maxwell,Ernest Crain,Edwin S. Davis,Elizabeth N. Flores,Joseph Ignagni,Cynthia Opheim,Professor of Political Science Christopher Wlezien

TEXAS POLITICS TODAY continues to be a best-selling overview of Texas Politics because it offers students a wide range of viewpoints from contributing authors. Current issues and candid analysis of government increase student awareness and encourage political involvement.

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Brooks/Cole

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053458666X

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9780534586669

Book's by Professor Kathleen Maxwell

Between Constantinople and Rome

Between Constantinople and Rome

First Among Friends : George Fox and the Creation of Quakerism

First Among Friends : George Fox and the Creation of Quakerism

Staging Spectatorship in the Plays of Philip Massinger

Staging Spectatorship in the Plays of Philip Massinger

Dictionary of African Biography

Dictionary of African Biography

The Spiritual Rococo

The Spiritual Rococo

The Wages of Globalism : Lyndon Johnson and the Limits of American Power

The Wages of Globalism : Lyndon Johnson and the Limits of American Power

Texas Politics Today

Texas Politics Today

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