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This unique study is the first systematic examination to be undertaken of the high priesthood in ancient Israel, from the earliest local chief priests in the pre-monarchic period down to the Hasmonaean priest-kings in the first century BCE. Dr Rooke argues that,...

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Télécharger le livre :  Flaubert: Writing the Masculine
Flaubert: Writing the Masculine offers a new approach to Flaubert's major writing and to gender studies as a whole. Through a combination of close reading with a knowledge of current gender studies and particular attention to the sociohistorical and legal contexts of...

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Télécharger le livre :  Johann Heinrich Alsted 1588-1638
Johann Heinrich Alsted, professor of philosophy and theology at the Calvinist academy of Heborn, was a man of many parts. A deputy to the famous Synod of Dort and greatest encyclopaedist of his age, he was also a pioneer of Calvinist millenarianism and a devoted student...

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Télécharger le livre :  Madness and Society in Eighteenth-Century Scotland
How did people view mental health problems in the eighteenth century, and what do the attitudes of ordinary people towards those afflicted tell us about the values of society at that time? Professor Houston draws upon a wide range of contemporary sources, notably...

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Parution : 2000-02-03
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Télécharger le livre :  The Architectural Setting of the Cult of Saints in the Early Christian West c.300-c.1200
This book explores the way in which church architecture from the earliest centuries of Christianity has been shaped by holy bones - the physical remains or 'relics' of those whom the Church venerated as saints. The Church's holy dead continued to exercise an...

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Parution : 2000-01-13
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Télécharger le livre :  Tradition and Imagination
Tradition and revelation are often seen as opposites: tradition is viewed as being secondary and reactionary to revelation which is a one-off gift from God. Drawing on examples from Christian history, Judaism, Islam, and the classical world, this book challenges these...

Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 1999-11-25
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Télécharger le livre :  The I.R.A. and its Enemies
What is it like to be in the I.R.A. - or at their mercy? This fascinating study explores the lives and deaths of the enemies and victims of the County Cork I.R.A. between 1916 and 1923 - the most powerful and deadly branch of the I.R.A. during one of the most turbulent...

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Parution : 1999-11-18
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Télécharger le livre :  The Rights of War and Peace
The Rights of War and Peace is the first fully historical account of the formative period of modern theories of international law. It sets the scene with an extensive history of the theory of international relations from antiquity down to the seventeenth century....

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Parution : 1999-11-11
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Télécharger le livre :  Sociability and Power in Late Stuart England
This highly original study looks at rituals of sociability in new and creative ways. Based upon thousands of personal letters, it reconstructs the changing country and London worlds of an English gentry family, and reveals intimate details about the social and cultural...

Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 1999-11-04
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Télécharger le livre :  Village Life in Ancient Egypt
Deir el-Medina, the village of the workmen who built the royal tombs in the Valley of the Kings, is a uniquely rich source of information about life in Egypt between 1539 and 1075 BC. The abundant archaeological remains are complemented by tens of thousands of texts...

Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 1999-10-15
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Télécharger le livre :  The Carmen de Hastingae Proelio of Guy, Bishop of Amiens
The Carmen de Hastingae Proelio is one of the most discussed sources for the Norman Conquest of England. Its authorship and date cannot be established entirely beyond dispute, but the weight of scholarly opinion supports a date of composition of 1068 or earlier, by Guy,...

Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 1999-10-07
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Télécharger le livre :  State and Society in Early Modern Scotland
This is the first full scholarly study of state formation and the exercise of state power in Scotland. It sets the Scottish state in a British and European context, revealing that Scotland -- like larger and better-known states -- developed a more integrated...

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Parution : 1999-09-23
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Télécharger le livre :  Eusebius' Life of Constantine
Eusebius' Life of Constantine is the most important single record of Constantine, the emperor who turned the Roman Empire from prosecuting the Church to supporting it, with huge and lasting consequences for Europe and Christianity. The only English version previously...

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Parution : 1999-09-10
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Télécharger le livre :  Economics Beyond the Millennium
Economics: Beyond the Millennium contains articles by leading authorities in various fields of economic theory and econometrics, each of whom gives an account of the current state of the art in their own field and indicate the direction that they think it will take in...

Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 1999-09-09
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Télécharger le livre :  The Rise of the Fiscal State in Europe c.1200-1815
In this volume an international team of scholars builds up a comprehensive analysis of the fiscal history of Europe over six centuries. It forms a fundamental starting-point for an understanding of the distinctiveness of the emerging European states, and highlights the...

Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 1999-09-02
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Télécharger le livre :  Baudelaire and the Art of Memory
This study is an examination of Baudelaire's art criticism and its relationship with his creative writing. It is the first book in English to treat in one volume the diverse aspects of the subject: the principal aesthetic ideas, the importance of Delacroix, Boudin,...

Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 1999-07-29
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Télécharger le livre :  Religious Life for Women c.1100-c.1350
This is the first detailed scholarly study of the Order of Fontevraud's English monastic houses. During the twelfth and thirteenth centuries the Order was notably prestigious and autonomous, renowned both for the prayerfulness of its members and for their independent...

Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 1999-07-22
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Télécharger le livre :  The Diocesan Revival in the Church of England c.1800-1870
This book provides the first account of an important but neglected aspect of the history of the nineteenth-century Church of England: the reform of its diocesan structures. It illustrates how one of the most important institutions of Victorian England responded at a...

Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 1999-07-15
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Télécharger le livre :  The Bourgeois Citizen in Nineteenth-Century France
The Bourgeois Citizen in Nineteenth-Century France analyses the process by which class society developed in post-revolutionary France. Focusing on bourgeois men and on their voluntary associations, Carol E. Harrison addresses the construction of class and gender...

Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 1999-07-01
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Télécharger le livre :  The Evolution of British General Practice, 1850-1948
This book focuses on a formative period in the development of modern general practice. The foundations of present-day health care in Britain were created in the century before the National Health Service of 1948, when medicine was transformed in its structure,...

Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 1999-06-24
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