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  • Urban Developments in Late Antique and Medieval Rome

    Revising the Narrative of Renewal

    Edited by Gregor Kalas, Ann van Dijk ...
    Series series Social Worlds of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
    A narrative of decline punctuated by periods of renewal has long structured perceptions of Rome’s late antique and medieval history. In their probing contributions to this volume, a multi-disciplinary group of scholars provides alternative approaches to understanding the period. Addressing developments in governance, ceremony, literature, art, music, clerical education and the construction of the ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Time Series Models for Business and Economic Forecasting

    by Philip Hans Franses, Dick van Dijk, Anne Opschoor ...
    With a new author team contributing decades of practical experience, this fully updated and thoroughly classroom-tested second edition textbook prepares students and practitioners to create effective forecasting models and master the techniques of time series analysis. Taking a practical and example-driven approach, this textbook summarises the most critical decisions, techniques and steps ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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    Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD

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    Jesus taught his followers that it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter heaven. Yet by the fall of Rome, the church was becoming rich beyond measure. Through the Eye of a Needle is a sweeping intellectual and social history of the vexing problem of wealth in Christianity in the waning days of the Roman Empire, written by the world's foremost scholar ... Read more

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  • Furta Sacra

    Thefts of Relics in the Central Middle Ages - Revised Edition

    by Patrick J. Geary ...
    To obtain sacred relics, medieval monks plundered tombs, avaricious merchants raided churches, and relic-mongers scoured the Roman catacombs. In a revised edition of Furta Sacra, Patrick Geary considers the social and cultural context for these acts, asking how the relics were perceived and why the thefts met with the approval of medieval Christians. ... Read more

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  • Humanism and the Culture of Renaissance Europe

    by Charles G. Nauert, Jr ...
    Series Book 37 - New Approaches to European History
    In this updated edition of his classic account, Charles Nauert charts the rise of humanism as the distinctive culture of the social, political and intellectual elites in Renaissance Europe. He traces humanism's emergence in the unique social and cultural conditions of fourteenth-century Italy and its gradual diffusion throughout the rest of Europe. He shows how, despite its elitist origins, ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Sleepwalking into a New World

    The Emergence of Italian City Communes in the Twelfth Century

    by Chris Wickham ...
    Series series The Lawrence Stone Lectures
    "A fresh look into how communes in the mid-12th century successfully prepared Italian power structures for the cultural significance they would later have." — Publishers WeeklyAmid the disintegration of the Kingdom of Italy in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, a new form of collective government—the commune—arose in the cities of northern and central Italy. Sleepwalking into a New World takes a ... Read more

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  • True Reform

    Liturgy and Ecclesiology in Sacrosanctum Concilium

    by Massimo Faggioli ...
    For Massimo Faggioli, the debate about the meaning of Vatican II too often misses the profound significance of that council's first and perhaps most consequential document, Sacrosanctum Concilium. The result is a misunderstanding of both the council as a whole and the liturgical reform that followed from it.In True Reform, Faggioli takes Sacrosanctum Concilium as a hermeneutical key to the council ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Forbidden Knowledge

    Medicine, Science, and Censorship in Early Modern Italy

    by Hannah Marcus ...
    "Wonderful . . . offers and provokes meditation on the timeless nature of censorship, its practices, its intentions and . . . its (unintended) outcomes." — Times Higher EducationForbidden Knowledge explores the censorship of medical books from their proliferation in print through the prohibitions placed on them during the Counter-Reformation. How and why did books banned in Italy in the sixteenth ... Read more

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  • Sacred Plunder

    Venice and the Aftermath of the Fourth Crusade

    by David M. Perry ...
    In Sacred Plunder, David Perry argues that plundered relics, and narratives about them, played a central role in shaping the memorial legacy of the Fourth Crusade and the development of Venice’s civic identity in the thirteenth century. After the Fourth Crusade ended in 1204, the disputes over the memory and meaning of the conquest began. Many crusaders faced accusations of impiety, sacrilege, ... Read more

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  • Ostia in Late Antiquity

    by Douglas Boin ...
    Ostia Antica was Rome's ancient harbor. Its houses and apartments, taverns and baths, warehouses, shops and temples have long contributed to a picture of daily life in ancient Rome. Recent investigations have revealed, however, that life in Ostia did not end with a bang but with a whimper. Only on the cusp of the Middle Ages did the town's residents entrench themselves in a smaller settlement ... Read more

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  • The Organic Development of the Liturgy

    by Dom Alcuin Reid ...
    How has the Liturgy of the Roman rite developed and changed in history before and after the Council of Trent? What principles have determined the boundaries of legitimate liturgical reform over the centuries? What was the Liturgical Movement? Did Guéranger, Beauduin, Guardini, Parsch, Casel, Bugnini, Jungmann, Bouyer and the Movement's other leaders know and respect these principles? And what is ... Read more

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  • The Making of Medieval Rome

    A New Profile of the City, 400 – 1420

    by Hendrik Dey ...
    Integrating the written sources with Rome's surviving remains and, most importantly, with the results of the past half-century's worth of medieval archaeology in the city, The Making of Medieval Rome is the first in-depth profile of Rome's transformation over a millennium to appear in any language in over forty years. Though the main focus rests on Rome's urban trajectory in topographical, ... Read more

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