Albrecht Dürer: Artist in the Midst of Two Storms by: Stacey Bieler (Author) Publisher: Cascade Books Publication Date: 2017/12/15 Language: English Print Length: 328 pages ISBN-10: 1532619650 ISBN-13: 9781532619656 Book Description The artist and entrepreneur Albrecht Durer lived in Germany in the early 1500s, when two storms were threatening the Holy Roman Empire. First, Suleiman the Magnificent and his army of Ottoman Turks were expanding from Constantinople to Vienna, the doorstep of Europe....
The Latin Continuation of William of Tyre (Crusade Texts in Translation) by: Keagan J. Brewer (Editor),James H. Kane (Editor) Publisher: Edition: 1st Publication Date: 2024/9/27 Language: English Print Length: 362 pages ISBN-10: 0367489651 ISBN-13: 9780367489656 Book Description William of Tyre’s monumental twelfth-century history of the First Crusade and the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem inspired a rich series of interrelated Old French continuations that proved very popular in the later Middle Ag...
Exvangelical and Beyond: How American Christianity Went Radical and the Movement That’s Fighting Back by: Blake Chastain (Author) Publisher: TarcherPerigee Publication Date: 2024/9/24 Language: English Print Length: 288 pages ISBN-10: 0593717074 ISBN-13: 9780593717073 Book Description A pioneer of the “exvangelical” movement examines how toxic right-wing beliefs took over American Christianity—and why people are leaving the church and speaking out against itWith the rise of Trumpism, the A...
Cult Following: The Extreme Sects That Capture Our Imaginations―and Take Over Our Lives by: J. W. Ocker (Author) Publisher: Quirk Books Publication Date: 2024/9/10 Language: English Print Length: 272 pages ISBN-10: 1683694120 ISBN-13: 9781683694120 Book Description “A must-read for those with a taste for cult narratives.”—Publishers WeeklyFrom the author of Cursed Objects and The United States of Cryptids, an eye-popping compendium of the 30 most infamous, audacious, and dangerous cults in histo...
Exhortation to the Monks by Hyperechios: Reflections on the Spiritual Jouey by: Tim Vivian (Translator, Introduction),John Chryssavgis(Foreword) Publisher: The American University in Cairo Press Publication Date: 2024/7/23 Language: English Print Length: 228 pages ISBN-10: 1649033672 ISBN-13: 9781649033673 Book Description Hyperechios’s Exhortation to the Monks for the first time in English translation Hyperechios is a little-known monk of the fourth to fifth centuries, who is thought to h...
Shmuel Hugo Bergmann: A Life between Prague and Jerusalem (Europäisch-jüdische Studien – Beiträge, 63) by: Olaf Glöckner (Editor),Boaz Huss (Editor),Marcela Menachem Zoufalá (Editor)&0more Publisher: De Gruyter Oldenbourg Publication Date: 2024/7/22 Language: English Print Length: 259 pages ISBN-10: 3111045137 ISBN-13: 9783111045139 Book Description In recent years, the interest on life and work of the Jewish writer, philosopher, mystic and politician Shmuel Hugo Bergmann (1883–1975) has per...
Seers, Shrines and Sirens: The Greek Religious Revolution in the Sixth Century B.C. (Routledge Library Editions: The Ancient World) by: John Pollard (Author) Publisher: Edition: 1st Publication Date: 2024/8/28 Language: English Print Length: 162 pages ISBN-10: 1032758767 ISBN-13: 9781032758763 Book Description Seers, Shrines and Sirens (1965) surveys the history of Greek religion during the great formative and revolutionary era of the sixth century BC. It treats, among other subjects, the rise t...
Twice a minority: Kosovo Circassians in the Russian Federation (Societies and States in Transformation / Gesellschaften und Staaten im Epochenwandel, 25) by: Schneider (Author) Publisher: Peter Lang Publication Date: 2021/4/28 Language: English Print Length: 338 pages ISBN-10: 3631852460 ISBN-13: 9783631852460 Book Description This book tells thestory of 64 Circassian families who during the Kosovo conflictin 1989/99 migrated from the Field of Blackbirds to the Republic ofAdygheya in the Russian...
Hercules Performed: The Hero on Stage from the Enlightenment to the Early Twenty-First Century (Metaforms) by: Emma Stafford (Contributor) Publisher: Brill Publication Date: 2024/8/22 Language: English Print Length: 416 pages ISBN-10: 9004695753 ISBN-13: 9789004695757 Book Description Hercules Performed explores the reception of the ancient Greek hero Herakles – the Roman Hercules – on the weste stage from the sixteenth century to the present day, focusing on live theatre, including ...
Weste Civilizations (Volume 1) by: Joshua Cole (Author),Carol Symes(Author) Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Edition: Sixth Brief Publication Date: 2023/7/1 Language: English Print Length: 704 pages ISBN-10: 1324042907 ISBN-13: 9781324042907 Book Description The bestselling Weste Civ text helps students read and think critically. In this timely revision of their beloved #1 Weste Civ text, authors Joshua Cole and Carol Symes help students see the relevance of history to their own lives and c...
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