Reformations: From High Renaissance to Mannerism in the New West of Religious Contention and Colonial Expansion (Tadgell Christopher)(Paperback)

Reformations: From High Renaissance to Mannerism in the New West of Religious Contention and Colonial Expansion (Tadgell Christopher)(Paperback)

Unprecedented in scope, this fifth volume in the Architecture in Context series traces the rediscovery of Classical ideas and the emergence of the great artists and architects of late 15th- and early 16th-century Italy that led to the cultural peak characterized as the High Renaissance.It begins

The West: From the Advent of Christendom to the Eve of Reformation (Tadgell Christopher)(Paperback)

The European Reformations (Lindberg Carter)(Paperback)

Rediscover the Reformations in Europe with this insightful and comprehensive new edition of a long-time favorite Amongst the authoritative works covering the European Reformation, Carter Lindberg's The European Reformations has stood the test of time. Widely used in classrooms around the world for

LSD and the Mind of the Universe: Diamonds from Heaven (Bache Christopher M.)(Paperback)

A professor of religious studies meticulously documents his insights from 73 high-dose LSD sessions conducted over the course of 20 years - Chronicles, with unprecedented rigor, the author's systematic journey into a unified field of consciousness that underlies all physical existence - Makes a

American Cult: A Graphic History of Religious Cults in America from the Colonial Era to Today (Chapman Robyn)(Paperback)

From its earliest days, America was a home for spiritual seekers. In 1694, the religious tolerance of the Pennsylvania Colony enticed a Transylvanian monk and his forty followers to cross the Atlantic. Almost two hundred years later, a charismatic preacher founded a utopian community in Oneida, New

How to Plan a Crusade - Reason and Religious War in the High Middle Ages (Tyerman Christopher)(Paperback / softback)

Eve's Herbs: A History of Contraception and Abortion in the West (Riddle John M.)(Paperback)

In Contraception and Abortion from the Ancient World to the Renaissance, John M. Riddle showed, through extraordinary scholarly sleuthing, that women from ancient Egyptian times to the fifteenth century had relied on an extensive pharmacopoeia of herbal abortifacients and contraceptives to regulate

Renaissance Woman (Servadio Gaia)(Paperback)

The Renaissance created a new vision of womanhood and indeed a 'New Woman,' proposes Gaia Servadio in this rich feast of a book. She dates the birth of this revolutionary movement to the invention of the printing press in 1456, which made books-and hence education-available to women. Central to her

Son of the Storm (Okungbowa Suyi Davies)(Paperback / softback)

The start of a new blockbuster epic fantasy series, set in a world inspired by pre-Colonial West African empires, Son of the Storm is perfect for fans of Brent Weeks, Evan Winter and James

The Light Garden of the Angel King: Journeys in Afghanistan (Levi Peter)(Paperback)

From time immemorial, merchants, pilgrims, and invaders from East and West have penetrated the high valleys of Afghanistan. In this resonant account, Peter Levi seeks the clues which each migration left, in the company of the young Bruce Chatwin. Since his journey, Afghanistan has suffered forty

Ethnographic Collecting and African Agency in Early Colonial West Africa: A Study of Trans-Imperial Cultural Flows (Kingdon Zachary)(Paperback)

The early collections from Africa in Liverpool's World Museum reflect the city's longstanding shipping and commercial links with Africa's Atlantic coast. A principal component of these collections is an assemblage of several thousand artefacts from western Africa that were transported to

European Weapons and Armour: From the Renaissance to the Industrial Revolution (Oakeshott Ewart)(Paperback)

The story of arms in Western Europe from the Renaissance to the Industrial Revolution. A treasury of information based on solid scholarship, anyone seeking a factual and vivid account of the story of arms from the Renaissance period to the Industrial Revolution will welcome this book. The author

The Birth of Modern Belief: Faith and Judgment from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment (Shagan Ethan H.)(Paperback)

An illuminating history of how religious belief lost its uncontested status in the West This landmark book traces the history of belief in the Christian West from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment, revealing for the first time how a distinctively modern category of belief came into being. Ethan

Sins Against Nature: Sex and Archives in Colonial New Spain (Tortorici Zeb)(Paperback)

In Sins against Nature Zeb Tortorici explores the prosecution of sex acts in colonial New Spain (present-day Mexico, Guatemala, the US Southwest, and the Philippines) to examine the multiple ways bodies and desires come to be textually recorded and archived. Drawing on the records from over three

Pontormo and the Art of Devotion in Renaissance Italy (Maratsos Jessica A. (Pembroke College Cambridge))(Pevná vazba)

Through its examination of the religious paintings by Pontormo, this book offers a new way to understand the fraught relationship between artistic innovation and Christian traditions in the first half of the sixteenth century, a period marked by dramatic change and controversy in both of these

Women's Stories of 9/11: Voices from Afghanistan and the West (Hilton Christopher)(Paperback)

The 9/11 attacks on the United States in 2001 sent shockwaves across the world; they were the deadliest terrorist attacks on American soil in US history, killing nearly 3,000 people and injuring thousands more. For those whose lives it directly impacted, the effects are enduring and deeply

The Art of Confession: The Performance of Self from Robert Lowell to Reality TV (Grobe Christopher)(Paperback)

The story of a new style of art-and a new way of life-in postwar America: confessionalism. What do midcentury 'confessional' poets have in common with today's reality TV stars? They share an inexplicable urge to make their lives an open book, and also a sense that this book can never be finished

The Renaissance in Italy (Ruggiero Guido)(Paperback)

This book offers a rich and exciting new way of thinking about the Italian Renaissance as both a historical period and a historical movement. Guido Ruggiero's work is based on archival research and new insights of social and cultural history and literary criticism, with a special emphasis on

The Colonial Past in History Textbooks - Historical and Social Psychological Perspectives (Nieuwenhuyse Karel Van)(Paperback)

Examines the evolving representations of the colonial past from the mid-19th century up to decolonization in the 1960s and 70s - the so-called era of Modern Imperialism - in post-war history textbooks from across the world. The aim of the book is to examine the evolving outlook of colonial

Deadly Sisterhood - A story of Women, Power and Intrigue in the Italian Renaissance (Frieda Leonie)(Paperback / softback)

The women who wielded the real power behind the throne in Renaissance Italy, from a bestselling

Early Christianity in South-West Britain: Wessex, Somerset, Devon, Cornwall and the Channel Islands (Rees Elizabeth)(Paperback)

This book offers a new assessment of early Christianity in south-west Britain from the fourth to the tenth centuries, a rich period which includes the transition from Roman to native British to Saxon models of church. The book will be based on evidence from archaeological excavations, early texts

In Her Own Footsteps: Flora Ross and Her Struggle for Identity and Independence in the Colonial West (Richardson D. J.)(Paperback)

In the summer of 1859, British and American troops stood at the brink of war over a small island in the Pacific Northwest, each claiming sovereignty over the region in a military standoff that has become known as the 'Pig War' of San Juan Island. In the midst of the dispute sat a Hudson's Bay

History of Religious Ideas, Volume 1: From the Stone Age to the Eleusinian Mysteries (Eliade Mircea)(Paperback)

'No one has done so much as Mr. Eliade to inform literature students in the West about 'primitive' and Oriental religions. . . . Everyone who cares about the human adventure will find new information and new angles of vision.'-Martin E. Marty, New York Times Book

Orishas, Goddesses, and Voodoo Queens: The Divine Feminine in the African Religious Traditions (Dorsey Lilith)(Paperback)

An inspiring exploration of the goddesses of the West African spiritual traditions and their role in shaping Yoruba (Ifa), Santeria, Haitian Vodoun, and New Orleans Voodoo.Throughout Africa and beyond in the diaspora caused by the slave trade, the divine feminine was revered in the forms of