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Thomas More

A Biography

By: Richard Marius

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Over the centuries, biographers of Thomas More have always praised him and made him an example for their own times. He was a man for all seasons. Truly, he was a Renaissance man with the contradictions such praise imposes on a towering figure. In Richard Marius's authoritative and engaging portrait, Sir Thomas More, the martyr and brilliant public figure, is a lesson for our season.

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Harvard University Press

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0674885252

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9780674885257

Rome

Profile of a City, 312-1308

By: Richard Krautheimer

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Rome

Profile of a City, 312-1308

By: Richard Krautheimer

Rome has long held an attraction as one of the world's great cultural, religious, and intellectual centers. In this classic study, surveying the city's life from Christian Antiquity through the Middle Ages, Richard Krautheimer focuses on monuments of art and architecture as they reflect the historical events, the ideological currents, and the meaning Rome held for its contemporaries. Lavishly illustrated, this book tells an intriguing story in which the heritage of antiquity intertwines with the living presence of Christianity. Written by one of the great art historians of our time, it offers a profile of the Eternal City unlike any drawn in the past or likely to be drawn in the future.

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416

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Princeton University Press

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0691049610

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9780691049618

The Crusades, C.1071-c.1291

By: Jean Richard

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The Crusades, C.1071-c.1291

By: Jean Richard

A concise history of the crusades - whose chief goal was the liberation and preservation of the 'holy places' of the middle east - from the first calls to arms in the later twelfth century to the fall of the last crusader strongholds in Syria and Palestine in 1291. This is the ideal introductory textbook for all students of the crusades. Professor Richard considers the consequences of the crusades, such as the establishment of the Latin east, and its organisation into a group of feudal states, as well as crusading contacts with the Muslim world, eastern Christians, Byzantines, and Mongols. Also considered are the organisation of expeditions, the financing of such expeditionary forces, and the organisation of operations and supply. Jean Richard is one of the world's great crusader historians and this work, the distillation of over forty years' research and contemplation, is the only one of its kind in English.

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540

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Cambridge University Press

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0521625661

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9780521625661

Early Christian and Byzantine Art

By: John Beckwith,Richard Krautheimer,Slobodan Ćurčić

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Early Christian and Byzantine Art

By: John Beckwith,Richard Krautheimer,Slobodan Ćurčić

Focusing on mosaics, sculpture, paintings, jewelry, and silk, the author examines this artistic style as an expression of religious thought

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Yale University Press

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0300052960

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9780300052961

Lincoln's Loyalists

Union Soldiers from the Confederacy

By: Richard Nelson Current

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Lincoln's Loyalists

Union Soldiers from the Confederacy

By: Richard Nelson Current

With this path-breaking book, Richard Nelson Current closes a major gap in our understanding of the important role of white southerners who fought for the Union during the Civil War. The ranks of the Union forces swelled by more than 100,000 of these men known to their friends as "loyalists" and to their enemies as "tories". They substantially strengthened the Union, weakened the Confederacy, and affected the outcome of the Civil War. Despite the assertions of southern governors that Lincoln would get no troops from the South to preserve the Union, every Confederate state except South Carolina provided at least a battalion of white troops for the Union Army. The role of black soldiers (including those from the South) continues to receive deserved attention. Curiously, little heed has been paid to the white southern supporters of the Union cause, and nothing has been published about the group as a whole. Relying almost entirely on primary sources, Current here opens the long-overdue investigation of these many Americans who, at great risk to themselves and their families, made a significant contribution to the Union's war effort. Current meticulously explores the history of the loyalists in each Confederate state during the war. Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia provided over 70 percent of the loyalist troops, but 10,000 from Arkansas, 7,000 from Louisiana, and thousands from North Carolina, Texas, and Alabama volunteered as well. The author weaves the separate state stories into an intriguing and detailed tapestry. The loyalists served in a variety of capacities--some performing mundane tasks, some fighting with valor. Whatever his individual role, each southerner joining the Unionconstituted a double loss to the Confederacy: a subtraction from its own ranks and an addition to the Union's. Undoubtedly, this played an important role in the Confederate defeat.

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280

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UPNE

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1555531245

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9781555531249

I'm An Idiot, You're An Idiot

By: Richard Scott

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I'm An Idiot, You're An Idiot

By: Richard Scott

“Cows from Outer Space.” “Why I Ate My Husband.” “Jesus Returns, and the Christians Think He’s Nuts.” These and other pieces of unintentional genius from the demented mind of Richard Scott complete this collection of hilarious short stories and idiotic comedy bits. Scott’s comedy ranges from the highbrow “Toilet Humour” to the historical docu-drama, “I Heard the President Fart.” From the absurd “Toast Hunters of the Amazon,” to the surreal “My Father the Android,” to the farcical “Dances Like Jew,” to the ridiculous “The Adventures of Superman’s Pants,” I’m an Idiot, You’re an Idiot is guaranteed to make readers laugh like the idiots we all are. Read what the critics say! “It’s not the worst thing I’ve read.”—Rachel Scott, mother “Needs more pictures to color.”—George W. Bush “LOL!! :-))))) WHAT ARE YOU WEARING?”—random Internet blogger “Did he spell his name right?”—Arthur Scott, father “Hey, buddy, I don’t take personal checks.”—Mistress Dominix

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AuthorHouse

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1463490275

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9781463490270

The Enlightenment and the Book

Scottish Authors and Their Publishers in Eighteenth-Century Britain, Ireland, and America

By: Richard B. Sher

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The Enlightenment and the Book

Scottish Authors and Their Publishers in Eighteenth-Century Britain, Ireland, and America

By: Richard B. Sher

The late eighteenth century witnessed an explosion of intellectual activity in Scotland by such luminaries as David Hume, Adam Smith, Hugh Blair, William Robertson, Adam Ferguson, James Boswell, and Robert Burns. And the books written by these seminal thinkers made a significant mark during their time in almost every field of polite literature and higher learning throughout Britain, Europe, and the Americas. In this magisterial history, Richard B. Sher breaks new ground for our understanding of the Enlightenment and the forgotten role of publishing during that period. The Enlightenment and the Book seeks to remedy the common misperception that such classics as The Wealth of Nations and The Life of Samuel Johnson were written by authors who eyed their publishers as minor functionaries in their profession. To the contrary, Sher shows how the process of bookmaking during the late eighteenth-century involved a deeply complex partnership between authors and their publishers, one in which writers saw the book industry not only as pivotal in the dissemination of their ideas, but also as crucial to their dreams of fame and monetary gain. Similarly, Sher demonstrates that publishers were involved in the project of bookmaking in order to advance human knowledge as well as to accumulate profits. The Enlightenment and the Book explores this tension between creativity and commerce that still exists in scholarly publishing today. Lavishly illustrated and elegantly conceived, it will be must reading for anyone interested in the history of the book or the production and diffusion of Enlightenment thought.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226752542

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9780226752549

The National Fifth Reader

By: Richard Greene Parker,Madison Watson

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The National Fifth Reader

By: Richard Greene Parker,Madison Watson

Reprint of the original, first published in 1873. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3382817047

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9783382817046

The Encyclicals of John Paul II

An Introduction and Commentary

By: Richard A. Spinello

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The Encyclicals of John Paul II

An Introduction and Commentary

By: Richard A. Spinello

This is the first book to focus in depth on Pope John Paul II's fourteen encyclicals, through which he communicated many of the key themes of his papacy. The first part of the book provides helpful background information on the pope's life and teachings, while the second part of the book comprehensively discusses the encyclicals.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1442219416

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9781442219410

Printing History and Cultural Change

Fashioning the Modern English Text in Eighteenth-Century Britain

By: Richard Wendorf

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Printing History and Cultural Change

Fashioning the Modern English Text in Eighteenth-Century Britain

By: Richard Wendorf

This study provides one of the most detailed and comprehensive examinations ever devoted to a critical transformation in the material substance of the printed page; it carries out this exploration in the history of the book, moreover, by embedding these typographical changes in the context of other cultural phenomena in eighteenth-century Britain. The gradual abandonment of pervasive capitalization, italics, and caps and small caps in books printed in London, Dublin, and the American colonies between 1740 and 1780 is mapped in five-year increments which reveal that the appearance of the modern page in English began to emerge around 1765. This descriptive and analytical account focuses on poetry, classical texts, Shakespeare, contemporary plays, the novel, the Bible, the Book of Common Prayer, sermons and religious writings, newspapers, magazines, anthologies, government publications, and private correspondence; it also examines the reading public, canon formation, editorial theory and practice, and the role of typography in textual interpretation. These changes in printing conventions are then compared to other aspects of cultural change: the adoption of the Gregorian calendar in 1752, the publication of Johnson's Dictionary in 1755, the transformation of shop signs and the imposition of house numbers in London beginning in 1762, and the evolution of the English language and of English prose style. This study concludes that this fundamental shift in printing conventions was closely tied to a pervasive interest in refinement, regularity, and standardization in the second half of the century—and that it was therefore an important component in the self-conscious process of modernizing British culture.

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Oxford University Press

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0192653121

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9780192653123

Faith of the Ages

The Hebraic Roots of the Christian Faith

By: Richard N. Rhoades

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Faith of the Ages

The Hebraic Roots of the Christian Faith

By: Richard N. Rhoades

For centuries, most Christians have believed that Jesus was a fair-skinned, blue-eyed Gentile, and that because the New Testament was written in Greek the study of its Greek roots should take priority over the study of the Hebrew Scriptures. In recent decades, those conceptions have begun to change. Jewish and Christian scholars have engaged together in examining the Jewishness of Jesus, the Hebrew origins of Christianity, and the Hebraic origins of Scripture with renewed interest. In Faith of the Ages, author Richard Rhoades explores the Jewishness of Jesus, the first century community of believers and when, where, how, and why early Christian leaders rejected those Hebraic origins. Faith of the Ages investigates the origins of the Christian Church and looks at the anti-Semitism of the Greek and Latin Church fathers, the Roman Emperor Constantine, Roman Catholic Church authorities, and leaders of the Reformation, who all played a major role in moving Christianity away from its Hebraic roots. Rhoades also examines passages of Scripture that Catholic and Protestant translators have changed by adding to and subtracting from certain words found in the ancient Greek manuscripts. Simply stated, Faith of the Ages answers questions about the Jewishness of Jesus, the first century community of believers, the Hebraic roots of the Christian faith and its rich Hebrew heritage, and provides a compelling historical and biblical impetus for believers to reexamine their Christian faith.

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iUniverse

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1475930054

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9781475930054

The Long Road to Antietam: How the Civil War Became a Revolution

By: Richard Slotkin

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The Long Road to Antietam: How the Civil War Became a Revolution

By: Richard Slotkin

A masterful account of the Civil War's turning point in the tradition of McPherson's "Crossroads of Freedom" with 10 illustrations and eight maps.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0871404117

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9780871404114

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Thomas More

Thomas More

Rome

Rome

The Crusades, C.1071-c.1291

The Crusades, C.1071-c.1291

Early Christian and Byzantine Art

Early Christian and Byzantine Art

Lincoln's Loyalists

Lincoln's Loyalists

I'm An Idiot, You're An Idiot

I'm An Idiot, You're An Idiot

The Enlightenment and the Book

The Enlightenment and the Book

The National Fifth Reader

The National Fifth Reader

The Encyclicals of John Paul II

The Encyclicals of John Paul II

Printing History and Cultural Change

Printing History and Cultural Change

Faith of the Ages

Faith of the Ages

The Long Road to Antietam: How the Civil War Became a Revolution

The Long Road to Antietam: How the Civil War Became a Revolution

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