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  • Early Medieval Architecture as Bearer of Meaning

    by Gunter Bandmann, Hans Böker ...
    Translated by Kendall Wallis ...
    At last available in English, this classic text was originally published in Germany in 1951 and has been continuously in print since then. Gunter Bandmann analyzes the architecture of societies in western Europe up to the twelfth century that aspired to be the heirs to the Roman Empire. He examines the occurrence and recurrence of basic forms not as stylistic evolutions but as meaningful ... Read more

    $76.49 USD

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    by Jürgen Leonhardt ...
    The mother tongue of the Roman Empire and the lingua franca of the West for centuries afterward, Latin survives today primarily in classrooms and texts. Yet this "dead language" is unique in the influence it has exerted across centuries and continents. Juergen Leonhardt offers the story of the first "world language," from antiquity to the present. ... Read more

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  • Charlemagne

    by Johannes Fried ...
    Translated by Peter Lewis ...
    When Charlemagne died in 814 CE, he left behind a dominion and a legacy unlike anything seen in Western Europe since the fall of Rome. Distinguished historian and author of The Middle Ages Johannes Fried presents a new biographical study of the legendary Frankish king and emperor, illuminating the life and reign of a ruler who shaped Europe’s destiny in ways few figures, before or since, have ... Read more

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  • The Thought of Pope Benedict XVI new edition

    An Introduction to the Theology of Joseph Ratzinger

    by Aidan Nichols ...
    Aidan Nichols' timely book is the first full-scale investigation of Joseph Ratzinger's theology, from the 1950s to the present day. It presents a chronological account of the development of Ratzinger's writing that reflects a wide range of historical and theoretical interests. A comprehensive introduction to a figure who is in his own right, quite apart from his significance in the politics of the ... Read more

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  • The Philosopher, the Priest, and the Painter

    A Portrait of Descartes

    by Steven Nadler ...
    How a famous painting opens a window into the life, times, and philosophy of René DescartesIn the Louvre museum hangs a portrait that is considered the iconic image of René Descartes, the great seventeenth-century French philosopher. And the painter of the work? The Dutch master Frans Hals—or so it was long believed, until the work was downgraded to a copy of an original. But where is the ... Read more

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  • The Reformation of the Image

    by Joseph Leo Koerner ...
    In The Reformation of the Image, Joseph Leo Koerner examines the images used in Protestant church services during the period of their definition by Martin Luther. Focusing on Lucas Cranach the Elder's famous altarpiece for the City Church in Wittenberg, and drawing on a mass of other Lutheran images - some of which have never been published before - he elucidates a founding moment in European ... Read more

    $43.09 USD

  • The City Rehearsed

    Object, Architecture, and Print in the Worlds of Hans Vredeman de Vries

    by Christopher Heuer ...
    Series series The Classical Tradition in Architecture
    The City Rehearsed offers an entirely new perspective on printed architecture in early modern Europe through the lens of Hans Vredeman de Vries. It probes the geographical encounters of dozens of engravings with contemporary texts on architecture, theatre, urbanism, art collecting, even ethnography.The Netherlandish polymath Hans Vredeman de Vries (1526-1609) devoted his entire career to the ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Pantheon

    A New History of Roman Religion

    Translated by David M. B. Richardson ...
    by Jörg Rüpke ...
    From one of the world's leading authorities on the subject, an innovative and comprehensive account of religion in the ancient Roman and Mediterranean worldIn this ambitious and authoritative book, Jörg Rüpke provides a comprehensive and strikingly original narrative history of ancient Roman and Mediterranean religion over more than a millennium—from the late Bronze Age through the Roman imperial ... Read more

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  • On Roman Religion

    Lived Religion and the Individual in Ancient Rome

    by Jörg Rüpke ...
    Series Book 67 - Cornell Studies in Classical Philology
    Provocative reading for anyone interested in Roman culture in the late Republic and early Empire.â• Religious Studies ReviewWas religious practice in ancient Rome cultic and hostile to individual expression? Or was there, rather, considerable latitude for individual initiative and creativity? Jörg Rüpke, one of the world’s leading authorities on Roman religion, demonstrates in his new book that it ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • The Byzantine World

    Edited by Paul Stephenson ...
    Series series Routledge Worlds
    The Byzantine World presents the latest insights of the leading scholars in the fields of Byzantine studies, history, art and architectural history, literature, and theology. Those who know little of Byzantine history, culture and civilization between AD 700 and 1453 will find overviews and distillations, while those who know much already will be afforded countless new vistas.Each chapter offers ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • The Roman Calendar from Numa to Constantine

    Time, History, and the Fasti

    by Jörg Rüpke ...
    Translated by David M. B. Richardson ...
    This book provides a definitive account of the history of the Roman calendar, offering new reconstructions of its development that demand serious revisions to previous accounts.Examines the critical stages of the technical, political, and religious history of the Roman calendarProvides a comprehensive historical and social contextualization of ancient calendars and chroniclesHighlights the unique ... Read more

    $158.00 USD

  • A Companion to Roman Religion

    Edited by Jörg Rüpke ...
    Series Book 78 - Wiley Companions to the Ancient World
    A comprehensive treatment of the significant symbols and institutions of Roman religion, this companion places the various religious symbols, discourses, and practices, including Judaism and Christianity, into a larger framework to reveal the sprawling landscape of the Roman religion.An innovative introduction to Roman religionApproaches the field with a focus on the human-figures instead of the ... Read more

    $50.00 USD