Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “thomas w smith”
Skip side bar filters

  • Remembering the Crusades in Medieval Texts and Songs

    Edited by Thomas W. Smith, Andrew D. Buck ...
    Exploring Latin texts, as well as Old French, Castilian and Occitan songs and lyrics, Remembering the Crusades in Medieval Texts and Songs takes inspiration from the new ways scholars are looking to trace the dissemination and influence of the memories and narratives surrounding the crusading past in medieval Europe. It contributes to these new directions in crusade studies by offering a more ... Read more

    $30.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Communicating Papal Authority in the Middle Ages

    Edited by Minoru Ozawa, Thomas W. Smith, Georg Strack ...
    Series series Studies in Medieval History and Culture
    This book bridges Japanese and European scholarly approaches to ecclesiastical history to provide new insights into how the papacy conceptualised its authority and attempted to realise and communicate that authority in ecclesiastical and secular spheres across Christendom. Adopting a broad, yet cohesive, temporal and geographical approach that spans the Early to the Late Middle Ages, from Europe ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Thirteenth Century England XVII

    Proceedings of the Cambridge Conference, 2017

    by Andrew Spencer, Philippa Mesiano, Thomas W. Smith, Rebecca Springer, Ian Stone, Carl S. Watkins, Lars Kjaer, Antonia Shacklock, Amicie Pélissié du Rausas0, Rodolphe Billaud1, Anaïs Waag2 ...
    The theme running through this volume is that of "England in Europe", with contributions tackling aspects of political, religious, cultural and urban history, placing England in a European context, exploring connections between the insular world and continental Europe, and using England as a case study of broader patterns of change in the long thirteenth century. A number of authors consider the ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Concepts of Nature

    Ancient and Modern

    by Barry Cooper, Melissa Moschella, Jeremy Seth Geddert, Jesse Covington, James R. Stoner Jr., Christopher O. Tollefsen, Susan Meld Shell, Geoffrey M. Vaughan, Charles T. Rubin, Amy Gilbert Richards, Anna Bonta Moreland, Randall S. Rosenberg, Gregory R. Beabout, Thomas W. Smith, Glenn Hughes, Stephen M. Fields ...
    If natural law arguments struggle to gain traction in contemporary moral and political discourse, could it be because we moderns do not share the understanding of nature on which that language was developed? Building on the work of important thinkers of the last half-century, including Leo Strauss, Eric Voegelin, John Finnis, and Bernard Lonergan, the essays in Concepts of Nature compare and ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Human Rights and War Through Civilian Eyes

    by Thomas W. Smith ...
    Series series Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
    International lawyers and ethicists have long judged wars from the perspective of the state and its actions, developing international humanitarian law by asking such questions as "Are the belligerents justified in entering the conflict?" and "How should they conduct themselves during the war's execution?" and "When civilian noncombatants are harmed, who is responsible for their suffering?" Human ... Read more

    $50.99 USD

  • Human Rights and War Through Civilian Eyes

    by Thomas W. Smith ...
    Series series Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
    International lawyers and ethicists have long judged wars from the perspective of the state and its actions, developing international humanitarian law by asking such questions as "Are the belligerents justified in entering the conflict?" and "How should they conduct themselves during the war's execution?" and "When civilian noncombatants are harmed, who is responsible for their suffering?" Human ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • History and International Relations

    by Thomas W. Smith ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics
    This book is a major contribution to the debate about philosophy and method in history and international relations. The author analyses IR scholarship from classical realism to quantitative and postmodern work. ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Augustine and Politics

    by Todd Breyfogle, Phillip Cary, Robert Dodaro O.S.A, Louis I. Hamilton, Michael Hanby, Robert P. Kennedy, Thomas F. Martin O.S.A, Eugene McCarraher, David C. Schindler, Thomas W. Smith, Paul Wright ...
    Series series Augustine in Conversation: Tradition and Innovation
    The study of Augustine's political teachings has suffered from a history of misreadings, both ancient and modern. It is only in recent years that the traditional lines of "Augustinian pessimism" have been opened to question. Scholars have begun to explore the broader lines of Augustine's political thought in his letters and sermons, and thus have been able to place his classic text, The City of ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

People who read these also enjoyed

  • Why Can the Dead Do Such Great Things?

    Saints and Worshippers from the Martyrs to the Reformation

    by Robert Bartlett ...
    "An indispensable point of departure for anyone interested in the cult of the saints in the Middle Ages." —Eamon Duffy, The New York Review of BooksFrom its earliest centuries, one of the most notable features of Christianity has been the veneration of the saints—the holy dead. This ambitious history tells the fascinating story of the cult of the saints from its origins in the second-century days ... Read more

    $23.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Money and the Church in Medieval Europe, 1000-1200

    Practice, Morality and Thought

    by Giles E. M. Gasper, Svein H. Gullbekk ...
    Series series Religion and Money in the Middle Ages
    Bringing together essays from experts in a variety of disciplines, this collection explores two of the most important facets of life within the medieval Europe: money and the church. By focusing on the interactions between these subjects, the volume addresses four key themes. Firstly it offers new perspectives on the role of churchmen in providing conceptual frameworks, from outright condemnation, ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Vandals, Romans and Berbers

    New Perspectives on Late Antique North Africa

    Edited by Andrew Merrills ...
    The birth, growth and decline of the Vandal and Berber Kingdoms in North Africa have often been forgotten in studies of the late Roman and post-Roman West. Although recent archaeological activity has alleviated this situation, the vast and disparate body of written evidence from the region remains comparatively neglected. The present volume attempts to redress this imbalance through an examination ... Read more

    $78.99 USD

  • Publication and the Papacy in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages

    by Samu Niskanen ...
    Series series Elements in Publishing and Book Culture
    This Element explores the papacy's engagement in authorial publishing in late antiquity and the Middle Ages. The opening discussion demonstrates that throughout the medieval period, papal involvement in the publication of new works was a phenomenon, which surged in the eleventh century. The efforts by four authors to use their papal connexions in the interests of publicity are examined as case ... Read more

    $15.59 USD