Idolatry and the Colonial Idea of India: Visions of Horror, Allegories of Enlightenment
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This book explores literary and scholarly representations of India from the 18th to the early 20th...
Gods and Worshippers in the Viking and Germanic World
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What was paganism really like? Who were the gods and how were they worshipped? These are the...
Designing Identity: The Power of Textiles in Late Antiquity
Thelma K. Thomas, Jennifer L. Ball, Edward Bleiberg and Kathrin Colburn
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Ideals of character and beauty, and conceptions of self and society, were in flux during Late...
Insanity and Sanctity in Byzantium: The Ambiguity of Religious Experience
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In the Roman and Byzantine Near East, the holy fool emerged in Christianity as a way of describing...