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The Latin New Testament : a Guide To Its Early History, Texts, and Manuscripts
This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the history and development of the Latin New Testament and a user’s guide to the resources available for research and further study. The first five chapters offer a new historical synthesis, bringing together evidence from Christian authors and biblical manuscripts from earliest times to the late Middle Ages. Each witness is considered in its…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780198744733
- Collation
- 400 halaman
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 900 HOU l
The Legacy of Christopher Columbus in the Americas : New Nations and a Transa…
Why is the capital of the United States named in part after Christopher Columbus, a Genoese explorer commissioned by Spain who never set foot on what would become the nation's mainland? Why did Spanish American nationalists in 1819 name a new independent republic "Colombia," after Columbus, the first representative of the empire from which they had recently broken free? These are only two of th…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780826519535
- Collation
- 216 halaman
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 900 BAR l
Domestic Devotions in the Early Modern World
This volume sets out to explore the world of domestic devotions and is premised on the assumption that the home was a central space of religious practice and experience throughout the early modern world. The contributions to this book, which deal with themes dating from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century, tell of the intimate relationship between humans and the sacred within the walls of t…
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- Ed. 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789004375888
- Collation
- 378
- Series Title
- Intersections, 59/2
- Call Number
- 200 DOM d
Africa and the North
An important new discussion of Africa's place in the international system. This volume discusses Africa's place in the international system, examining the way in which the Westphalian system, in light of the impact of globalization and transnational networks, continues to play a major role in the structuring of Africa's international relations. The book provides a solid empirical analysis of ke…
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- Ed. 1
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- 9780415333917; 9780415498869
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- -
- Series Title
- New International Relations
- Call Number
- 327 AFR a
Czech Broadside Ballads as Text, Art, Song in Popular Culture, c.1600–1900
This landmark collection makes a major contribution to the burgeoning field of broadside ballad study by investigating the hitherto unexplored treasure-trove of over 100,000 Central/Eastern European broadside ballads of the Czech Republic, from the 16th to the 19th century. Viewing Czech broadside ballads from an interdisciplinary perspective, we see them as unique and regional cultural phenome…
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- Ed. 1
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- 9789463721554, 9789048553341
- Collation
- 500
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 940 CZE c
Time and the Ancestors: Aztec and Mixtec Ritual Art
Time and the Ancestors: Aztec and Mixtec Ritual Art combines iconographical analysis with archaeological, historical and ethnographic studies and offers new interpretations of enigmatic masterpieces from ancient Mexico, focusing specifically on the symbols and values of the religious heritage of indigenous peoples.; Readership: Scholars and students working on the archaeology, art, history and …
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- Ed. 1
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- 9789004340510, 9789004340527
- Collation
- 648
- Series Title
- The Early Americas: History and Culture, 5
- Call Number
- 973.82 JAN t
Living Martyrs in Late Antiquity and Beyond: Surviving Martyrdom
Antiquity; Living; Martyrdom; Martyrs; Surviving
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- Ed. 1
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- 9781032261065, 9781032263250
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- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 930 FRU l
The Surrendered: Reflections by a Son of Shining Path
The Surrendered is Peruvian public intellectual José Carlos Agüero's reflections on his parents—who were executed by the state for being Shining Path militants—as well as the legacies of the Peruvian internal armed conflict and the possibility for forgiveness and reconciliation in the face of hate.
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- -
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- 9781478021216
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- -
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- -
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Destins de femmes: French Women Writers, 1750-1850
Destins de femmes is the first comprehensive overview of French women writers during the turbulent period of 1750-1850. John Isbell provides an essential collection that illuminates the impact women writers had on French literature and politics during a time marked by three revolutions, the influx of Romantic art, and rapid technological change. Each of the book’s thirty chapters introduces a…
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- Ed. 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781805110323, 9781805110330
- Collation
- 202
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 909 ISB d
Novel Translations: The European Novel and the German Book, 1680–1730
Many early novels were cosmopolitan books, read from London to Leipzig and beyond, available in nearly simultaneous translations into French, English, German, and other European languages. In Novel Translations, Bethany Wiggin charts just one of the paths by which newness—in its avatars as fashion, novelties, and the novel—entered the European world in the decades around 1700. As readers ac…
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- Ed. 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780801460074, 9780801476983
- Collation
- 264
- Series Title
- Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought
- Call Number
- 809 WIG n
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