Byzantium in the Iconoclast Era, c. 680-850: A History
Leslie Brubaker and John Haldon
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Iconoclasm, the debate about the legitimacy of religious art that began in Byzantium around 720 and...
Chinese Ivory Carvings: The Sir Victor Sassoon Collection
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Sir Victor Sassoon (1881-1961) lived an extraordinary and colourful life and left a remarkable...
The Sacred and the Feminine: Imagination and Sexual Difference
Griselda Pollock and Victoria Turvey-Sauron
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The notion of a special intimacy between 'the feminine and the sacred' has received significant...
Titian: A Fresh Look at Nature
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Titian (c. 1485-1576) is best known for his portraits and mythological and religious works. Yet his...
The Arabic Print Revolution: Cultural Production and Mass Readership
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In a brief historic moment, printing presses, publishing ventures, a periodical press, circulation...
The Economics of Ottoman Justice: Settlement and Trial in the Sharia Courts
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During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the Ottoman Empire endured long periods of warfare,...
The Neoliberal Landscape and the Rise of Islamist Capital in Turkey
Nesecan Balkan, Erol M. Balkan and Ahmet F. Oncu
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Islamist capital accumulation has split the Turkish bourgeoisie and polarized Turkish society into...
Moral Development: A Psychological Study of Moral Growth from Childhood to Adolescence
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Although the work of Piaget dealt with the intellectual development of children, and that of Goldman...
Schooling for All: Can We Neglect the Demand?
Santhakumar Velappan Nair, Namita Gupta and Rama Murthy Sripada
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Does substantial expansion of educational facilities by itself create the required demand for...
Everyman and Mankind
Eric Rasmussen and Douglas Bruster
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Everyman and Mankind are morality plays which mark the turn of the medieval period to the early...