Crown and Veil: Female Monasticism from the Fifth to the Fifteenth Centuries
Jeffrey F. Hamburger, Susan Marti, Dietlinde Hamburger and Caroline Walker Bynum
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Crown and Veil offers a broad introduction to the history and visual culture of female monasticism...
De-Militarizing Masculinities in the Age of Empire
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Feminist scholars have theorized extensively about how the military, war, and especially the combat...
The Seven Archetypal Stones: Their Spiritual Powers and Teachings
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Integrating gemstone lore from around the world with modern mineral science, Nicholas Pearson guides...
A History of Football in North and South Korea C.1910-2002: Development and Diffusion
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For the Koreans, no sport has surpassed football in terms of its popularity and national importance,...
Buses, Coaches, Trams and Trolleybus Recollections 1963
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The aim of this series is to appeal to readers of all ages, perhaps for different reasons...In this...
Diplomatic Material: Affect, Assemblage, and Foreign Policy
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In Diplomatic Material Jason Dittmer offers a counterintuitive reading of foreign policy by tracing...
Dissecting the Criminal Corpse: Staging Post-Execution Punishment in Early Modern England: 2016
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Those convicted of homicide were hanged on the public gallows before being dissected under the...
Due Antiche Diocesi dello Stretto di Messina: Insediamento, Manufatti, Infrastrutture e Produzione Nell'eparchia Delle Saline e nelle Isole Eolie Tra Tardoantico e Alto Medioevo
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This monograph is a comparative study of the Saline area and of the Aeolian Islands dioceses'...
Fanaticism: On the Uses of an Idea
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Fanaticism is usually seen as a deviant or extreme variant of an already irrational set of religious...
Handbook of Japanese Mythology
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Japanese gods, too numerous to count, are known collectively as yaoyorozu-no-kamigami-the eight...