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Publishing Plates: Stereotyping and Electrotyping in Nineteenth-Century US Print Culture (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Explores stereotyping and electrotyping in U.S. literature and history. Examines how printers, typefounders, authors, and publishers managed the transition as new technologies displaced printing traditions of the early nineteenth century.
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The Kabbalistic Tree / ????? ????? (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Explores the history and meanings of ilanot, diagrammatic representations of the Divine as a Porphyrian tree in Jewish mysticism and kabbalistic manuscripts.
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Jews of Iran: A Photographic Chronicle (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
A photographic exploration of life in the Jewish communities of Iran.
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The Mineral and the Visual: Precious Stones in Medieval Secular Culture (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Examines the social roles, cultural meanings, and active agency of precious stones in jeweled crowns, illustrated lapidaries, and illustrated travel accounts in the European Middle Ages.
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Luxury After the Terror (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Explores the production, circulation, and survival of French luxury after the death of Louis XVI by focusing on makers of decorative art objects who had strong ties to the monarchy and how they navigated the French Revolution.
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Iconography Beyond the Crossroads: Image, Meaning, and Method in Medieval Art (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
A collection of essays by leading medievalists assessing the challenges, and potential, of current approaches to iconography and iconology.
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Aromas of Asia: Exchanges, Histories, Threats (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
A multidisciplinary collection of essays exploring the interconnections and disjunctures in Asian cultural histories of scent. Examines how scent functions as a category of social and moral boundary-marking and boundary-breaching within, between, and beyond Asian societies.
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Speculum Lapidum: A Renaissance Treatise on the Healing Properties of Gemstones (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
A full translation of Camillo Leonardi’s Speculum Lapidum, with an introduction and annotations. Examines the role that medical astrology and astral magic played in the life of an Italian court in the early modern period.
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Saint George Between Empires: Image and Encounter in the Medieval East (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Examines the image networks of St. George in the eastern Mediterranean, revealing how the different portrayals became central to Crusader, East Christian, and Islamic visual cultures.
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Good Girls Go to Hell (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
A coming-of-age graphic memoir set in the West Bank, depicting the reality of growing up in a region split by religious tensions—and sometimes violent conflict.
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From Nomadism to Monarchy?: Revisiting the Early Iron Age Southern Levant (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
A collection of essays reevaluating the archaeology and history of the early Iron Age Southern Levant and how the period may be reflected in the biblical accounts.
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Rawlsian Explorations in Religion and Applied Philosophy (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Explores the political philosophy of John Rawls in relation to public policy issues, including war, mental disability, nonhuman animals, legacy,... Læs mere
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