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Religion and the Household
John Doran
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• Author(s): John Doran • Publisher: Boydell and Brewer • Publisher Imprint: Boydell and Brewer • BISAC: ReligionThe fiftieth volume of Studies in Church History explores the theme 'Religion and the Household'. Comprising papers and communication...
View full detailsBhagavad-Gita As It Is
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
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• Author(s): A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada • Publisher: Bhaktivedanta Book Trust • Publisher Imprint: Bhaktivedanta Book Trust • BISAC: ReligionThe Bhagavad-gita is the main source-book on yoga and a concise summary of India's Vedic wisdom...
View full detailsObscurity
Philippe Jaccottet
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• Author(s): Philippe Jaccottet • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • BISAC: FictionThe story of an intense encounter between two men who were once very close and now must grapple with the fractured ideals that separate ...
View full detailsMaking a House a Home: Designing Your Interiors from the Floor Up
Susanna Salk
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• Author(s): Susanna Salk • Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications • Publisher Imprint: Rizzoli International Publications • BISAC: House And HomeSusanna Salk's latest book is a passionate primer on how to transform an empty space, whether...
View full detailsThe Art of Elegance: Classic Interiors
Marshall Watson
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• Author(s): Marshall Watson • Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications • Publisher Imprint: Rizzoli International Publications • BISAC: House And HomeMarshall Watson's first book reveals how to make traditional interiors fresh. Known for h...
View full detailsBeyond the Mother Tongue: The Postmonolingual Condition
Yasemin Yildiz
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• Author(s): Yasemin Yildiz • Publisher: Fordham University Press • Publisher Imprint: Fordham University Press • BISAC: Literary CriticismBeyond the Mother Tongue examines distinct forms of multilingualism, such as writing in one socially unsanc...
View full detailsBanned Books Literature Suppressed On Political Grounds
Nicholas J. Karolides
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• Author(s): Nicholas J. Karolides • Publisher: Infobase Pub. • Publisher Imprint: Facts On FGives plot synopses of 105 works of fiction and nonfiction censored for their political content, and details the censorship history of each. Works covere...
View full detailsSes St Advent Cal Storybk Coll
Lori C. Froeb
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• Author(s): Lori C. Froeb • Publisher: Studio Fun International • Publisher Imprint: Studio Fun International • BISAC: Juvenile FictionCount down to Christmas with Elmo, Cookie Monster, Abby Cadabby and all their friends! With one mini book for ...
View full detailsWorld Literature And Its Times: British and Irish Literature and Its Times
Joyce Moss
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• Author(s): Joyce Moss • Publisher: Gale Cengage • Publisher Imprint: Gale Cengage • BISAC: Literary CriticismWorld Literature and Its Times helps students and researchers make connections between political/social climate during which books were...
View full detailsThe Living House: An Anthropology of Architecture in South-East Asia
Roxana Waterson
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• Author(s): Roxana Waterson • Publisher: Tuttle Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Tuttle Publishing • BISAC: ArchitectureThe Living House is a pioneering work by respected anthropologist Roxana Waterson that has become a classic in its field. It i...
View full detailsIndian Women: An Inner Dialogue
Indira J Parikh, Pulin K Garg
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• Author(s): Indira J Parikh | Pulin K Garg • Publisher: Sage Publications • Publisher Imprint: SAGE India • BISAC: Social ScienceThis book explores the issues surrounding the role and identity of Indian women and is based on the experiences and ...
View full detailsAncient Civilizations: 3000 Bc-Ad 500 (Time-life Student Library)
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• Publisher: Time Life Education • Publisher Imprint: Time Life Education • BISAC: Juvenile NonfictionKeep young readers engaged as they explore the natural world around them. Full of informative drawings and photos, "fast facts" boxes, and glos...
View full detailsWicked Deeds: Murder in America
James M. O'Kane
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• Author(s): James M. O'Kane • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc • Publisher Imprint: Taylor & Francis Inc • BISAC: Social ScienceTo most Americans, homicide appears to be a random act, one committed by a deranged and irrational killer in a...
View full detailsMedical Devices: European Union Policymaking and the Implementation of Health and Patient Safety in France
Russell Fraser
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• Author(s): Russell Fraser • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Literary CriticismIn this new volume, Russell Fraser assembles fourteen twentieth-century writers he judges "worth keeping." All were famous in their time,...
View full detailsTributes: Personal Reflections on a Century of Social Research
Irving Horowitz
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• Author(s): Irving Horowitz • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc • Publisher Imprint: Taylor & Francis Inc • BISAC: Social ScienceIn one of his final works, Stephen Jay Gould spoke of the human race "as a wildly improbable evolutionary even...
View full detailsTHOMAS HARDY COMPLETE NOVELS
Lankester Tim
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• Author(s): Lankester Tim • Publisher: Running Press • Publisher Imprint: Running Press • BISAC: Literary CollectionsThomas Hardy was one of the great Victorian novelists, as well as one of the great twentieth-century poets. Collected here in th...
View full detailsPoles Apart
Jeanne Willis
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• Author(s): Jeanne Willis • Publisher: Candlewick Press • Publisher Imprint: Candlewick Press • BISAC: Juvenile Fiction"Succeeds on multiple levels. Younger listeners will appreciate the quest-for-home adventure format, while older kids and adul...
View full detailsThe Bible Recap 365-Day Chronological Study Bible: English Standard Version
Tara-Leigh Cobble
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• Author(s): Tara-Leigh Cobble • Publisher: Baker Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Baker Publishing Group • BISAC: BiblesFrom the Back CoverContains the complete text of The Bible Recap and the English Standard Version (ESV) laid out as 365 ...
View full detailsTranslation, Text And Theory: The Paradigm of India
Rukmini Bhaya Nair
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• Author(s): Rukmini Bhaya Nair • Publisher: Sage Publications • Publisher Imprint: SAGE India • BISAC: Language Arts And DisciplinesThis volume re-evaluates the paradigm of translation within the multilingual and cultural context of the Indian s...
View full detailsDemocracy in Muslim Societies: The Asian Experience
Zoya Hasan
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• Author(s): Zoya Hasan • Publisher: Sage Publications • Publisher Imprint: SAGE India • BISAC: Political ScienceDemocracy in Muslim Societies: The Asian Experience explores the character of the political transformation and democratic transition ...
View full detailsTribal Communities and Social Change
Pariyaram M. Chacko
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• Author(s): Pariyaram M. Chacko • Publisher: Sage Publications • Publisher Imprint: SAGE India • BISAC: Social ScienceIn this volume, renowned scholars examine a diverse range of tribal groups including: the Bhils, Gonds, Khasis and Koyas in Ind...
View full detailsWomen Security South Asia: A Clearing in the Thicket
Farah Faizal
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• Author(s): Farah Faizal • Publisher: Sage Publications • Publisher Imprint: SAGE India • BISAC: Social ScienceThis book explores women's perspectives on matters of security and related policy, focusing on women in South Asia who are battling so...
View full detailsRational Belief in God and the Soul
Loren Meierding
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• Author(s): Loren Meierding • Publisher: University Press of America • Publisher Imprint: University Press of America • BISAC: PhilosophyAfter investigating the relevant evidence, what should a rational person believe about the existence of God ...
View full detailsPopular Religion In Southeast Asia
Robert L. Winzeler
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• Author(s): Robert L. Winzeler • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Social ScienceAn innovative and interpretive overview of the nature of popular religion in Southeas...
View full detailsStrategic Planning for Contemporary Urban Regions
Alessandro Balducci
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• Author(s): Alessandro Balducci • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Taylor & Francis Ltd • BISAC: Political ScienceThis book is an account of how the Milan Provincial Administration and a team of researchers from Milan...
View full detailsThe Classic Works Of The BrontÙ Sisters: Jane Eyre Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey
Charlotte Bronte, Anne Bronte, Emily Bronte
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• Author(s): Charlotte Bronte | Anne Bronte | Emily Bronte • Publisher: OctopusPubGroup • Publisher Imprint: Bounty BooksThe Bronte sisters, Charlotte, Emily and Anne, have left us no more than seven novels and a handful of poems but they are, ne...
View full detailsThe Classic Works Of Thomas Hardy: Tess of the D'Urbervilles The Mayor of Casterbridge and Far From the Madding Crowd
Thomas Hardy
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• Author(s): Thomas Hardy • Publisher: OctopusPubGroup • Publisher Imprint: Bounty Books • BISAC: FictionThis collection contains three of Hardy's finest works: Tess of the D'urbervilles, The Master of Casterbridge and Far from the Madding Crowd.
The New Nepolitan Cinema
Alex Marlow-Mann
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• Author(s): Alex Marlow-Mann • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh University Press • BISAC: Performing ArtsVito and the Others (1991), Death of a Neapolitan Mathematician (1992) and Libera (1993), the debuts of ...
View full detailsImproving Passions: Sentimental Aesthetics and American Film
Charles Burnetts
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• Author(s): Charles Burnetts • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh University Press • BISAC: Performing ArtsWhen did the sentimental start to mean 'awful'? Why are so many popular mainstream films dismissed for t...
View full detailsSpanish Queer Cinema
Chris Perriam
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• Author(s): Chris Perriam • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh University Press • BISAC: Social ScienceThere is a lot more to Spanish Queer Cinema than Pedro Almodóvar or the gay comedies of the 1990s. A wealth ...
View full detailsRomantic Literature And Postcolonial Studies
Elizabeth A. Bohls
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• Author(s): Elizabeth A. Bohls • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh University Press • BISAC: Literary CriticismDemonstrates the importance of postcolonial approaches to understanding the literature of the perio...
View full detailsLiterature Of The 1940s War Postwar And Peace: War, Postwar and 'Peace'
Gill Plain
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• Author(s): Gill Plain • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh University Press • BISAC: Literary CriticismA groundbreaking re-reading of the literary response to a decade of trauma and transformationThis new study...
View full detailsJane Austen for Every Day of the Year: A Charming Collection of Wit & Wisdom
Tara Richardson
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• Author(s): Tara Richardson • Publisher: Octopus Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Octopus Publishing Group • BISAC: Literary CriticismMarking the 250th anniversary of Janes Austen's birth - a collection of quotes, quips and most-loved passa...
View full detailsHeritage Film Audiences
Claire Monk
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• Author(s): Claire Monk • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh University Press • BISAC: Performing ArtsThe concept of 'heritage cinema' is now firmly established as an influential - as well as much-debated and co...
View full detailsPoetic Language
Tom Jones
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• Author(s): Tom Jones • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh University Press • BISAC: Literary CriticismThe first study of poetic language from a historical and philosophical perspectiveIn a series of 12 chapters...
View full detailsThe Backett Critical Reader: Archives, Theories and Translations
S. E. Gontarski
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• Author(s): S. E. Gontarski • Publisher: Edinburgh UP • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh • BISAC: Literary CriticismProvides Beckett scholars with a range of first-class essays in a single volumeThe Reader makes readily available for the first time ...
View full detailsJane Austen : Pride And Prejudice Mansfield Park And Persuasion
Jane Austen
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• Author(s): Jane Austen • Publisher: OctopusPubGroup • Publisher Imprint: Bounty BooksJane Austen is undoubtedly one of the finest English novelists: she paints on a small canvas, but with the most exquisitely detailed touch. Her novels sparkle ...
View full detailsSpanish Horror Film
Antonio Lázaro-Reboll
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• Author(s): Antonio Lázaro-Reboll • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh University Press • BISAC: Performing ArtsSpanish Horror Film is the first in-depth exploration of the genre in Spain from the 'horror boom' ...
View full detailsKorean Horror Cinema
Alison Peirse
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• Author(s): Alison Peirse • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh University Press • BISAC: Performing ArtsAs the first detailed English-language book on the subject, Korean Horror Cinema introduces the cultural sp...
View full detailsComedy And Cultural Critique In American Film
Ryan Bishop
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• Author(s): Ryan Bishop • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh University Press • BISAC: Performing ArtsThis book uses large scale social and cultural trends and major world events to analyse the American comedy f...
View full detailsMedieval Literature 1300-1500
Pamela King
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• Author(s): Pamela King • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh University Press • BISAC: Literary CriticismMedieval literature can be daunting. This critical guide is designed to help readers to relax in the compa...
View full detailsJane Morris
Wendy Parkins
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• Author(s): Wendy Parkins • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh University Press • BISAC: Biography And AutobiographyA scholarly monograph devoted to Jane Morris, an icon of Victorian art whose face continues to ...
View full detailsMonastic Wales
Janet Burton
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• Author(s): Janet Burton • Publisher: University of Wales Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Wales Press • BISAC: ReligionMonastic Wales brings together an interdisciplinary team of scholars, working in the areas of history, archaeology, l...
View full detailsMedia Persian
Dominic Parviz Brookshaw
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• Author(s): Dominic Parviz Brookshaw • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh University Press • BISAC: Language StudyEssential Middle Eastern VocabulariesSeries Editor Elisabeth KendallEssential Middle Eastern Voca...
View full detailsGilles Deleuze's
James Williams
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• Author(s): James Williams • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh University Press • BISAC: PhilosophyThis book offers the first critical study of The Logic of Sense, Gilles Deleuze's most important work on langua...
View full detailsKatherine Mansfield And The (Post) Colonial: 5 (Katherine Mansfield Studies)
Janet Wilson
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• Author(s): Janet Wilson • Publisher: Edinburgh UP • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh • BISAC: Literary CriticismExplores Mansfield's identity as a (post)colonial writer in relation to her foremost reputation as a European modernistIn seeking new po...
View full detailsHaptic Modernism
Abbie Garrington
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• Author(s): Abbie Garrington • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh University Press • BISAC: Literary CriticismThis book contends that the haptic sense - combining touch, kinaesthesis and proprioception - was fir...
View full detailsIvanhoe
Walter Scott
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• Author(s): Walter Scott • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh University Press • BISAC: FictionThe first of Scott's Waverley novels burst upon an astonished world in 1814. Its publication marked the emergence of...
View full detailsStalinist Cinema And The Production Of History
Evgeny Dobrenko
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• Author(s): Evgeny Dobrenko • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh University Press • BISAC: Performing ArtsThis book explores how Soviet film worked with time, the past, and memory. It looks at Stalinist cinema a...
View full detailsThe Heritage Machine: Fetishism and Domination in Maragateria Spain (Anthropology Culture and Society)
Pablo Alonso Gonzalez
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• Author(s): Pablo Alonso Gonzalez • Publisher: Pluto Press • Publisher Imprint: Pluto Press • BISAC: Social ScienceHeritage research is often based on the assumption that heritage is something "given" to us in what is being handed down from the ...
View full detailsOld School
Tobias Wolff
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• Author(s): Tobias Wolff • Publisher: Bloomsbury • Publisher Imprint: BloomsburyDescribes about the process by which character is formed, and illuminates the irresistible strength, even the violence, of the self-creative urge.
The Correspondence Between Hugh Macdiarmid And Solery Maclean
Susan R. Wilson
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• Author(s): Susan R. Wilson • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh University Press • BISAC: ArtThis is both the first complete annotated edition of the letters exchanged by these major twentieth-century Scottish ...
View full detailsCzech And Slovak Cinema
Peter Hames
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• Author(s): Peter Hames • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh University Press • BISAC: HistoryThis book is the first study in English to examine some of the key themes and traditions of Czech and Slovak cinema, ...
View full detailsFigurations Of Exile
Barbara Straumann
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• Author(s): Barbara Straumann • Publisher: Edinburgh UP • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh • BISAC: Performing ArtsThis comparative study of Alfred Hitchcock and Vladimir Nabokov makes an important contribution to cultural analysis by opening up the...
View full detailsPerforming Indigeneity: Spectacles of Culture and Identity in Coloniality
Morgan Ndlovu
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• Author(s): Morgan Ndlovu • Publisher: Pluto Press • Publisher Imprint: Pluto Press • BISAC: Social ScienceColonised subjects can play roles that sustain the power structure of coloniality. In this book, Morgan Ndlovu asks why people help suppor...
View full detailsMining Encounters: Extractive Industries in an Overheated World
Thomas Hylland Eriksen
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• Author(s): Thomas Hylland Eriksen • Publisher: Pluto Press • Publisher Imprint: Pluto Press • BISAC: Social ScienceWe live in a fast-changing world, where the extraction of natural resources is both the key to development and at the same times ...
View full detailsThe Mountain Bard
James Hogg
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• Author(s): James Hogg • Publisher: Edinburgh UP • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh • BISAC: Literary CriticismHogg grew up in rural Ettrick Forest in a notable family of tradition-bearers, and in his first major poetry collection The Mountain Bard ...
View full detailsCommunity Cosmopolitanism and the Problem of Human Commonality
Vered Amit
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• Author(s): Vered Amit • Publisher: Pluto Press (UK) • Publisher Imprint: Pluto Press (UK) • BISAC: Social ScienceIn this follow up to their widely read earlier volume, The Trouble with Community, Vered Amit and Nigel Rapport ask: 'Do notions of...
View full detailsQueer Lovers and Hateful Others
Jin Haritaworn
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• Author(s): Jin Haritaworn • Publisher: Pluto Press • Publisher Imprint: Pluto Press • BISAC: Social ScienceBerlin is once more capital of queer arts and tourism. Queerness is more visible today than it has been for decades, but at what cost? In...
View full detailsAnchoritism In The Middle Ages Texts And Traditions
Naoe Kukita Yoshikawa
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• Author(s): Naoe Kukita Yoshikawa • Publisher: University of Wales Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Wales Press • BISAC: HistoryAnchoritism in the Middle Ages approaches medieval anchoritism from a variety of critical angles. Individuall...
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