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Hagia Sophia: Sound, Space, and Spirit in Byzantium (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Examines the aesthetic principles and spiritual operations at work in Hagia Sophia. Drawing on art and architectural history, liturgy, musicology, and acoustics, explores the Byzantine paradigm of animation.
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Blood and Debt: War and the Nation-State in Latin America (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Our understanding of the rise of the nation-state is based heavily on the Western European experience of war. This text challenges the dominance... Læs mere
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The Vienna School of Art History: Empire and the Politics of Scholarship, 1847–1918 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Analyzes the emergence and development of art history as a discipline in Austria-Hungary. Focuses on the ways in which... Læs mere
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Invoking Angels: Theurgic Ideas and Practices, Thirteenth to Sixteenth Centuries (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A collection of essays examining medieval and early modern texts aimed at performing magic or receiving illumination via the mediation of angels. Includes discussion of Jewish, Christian and Muslim texts.
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Forbidden Rites: A Necromancer’s Manual of the Fifteenth Century (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Levering: 6 - 9 hverdage
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The Lehigh Valley: A Natural and Environmental History (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Comprising approximately 730 square miles and more than half a million residents, the Lehigh Valley is the third largest metropolitan area in Pennsylvania. This work is a combination of narrative natural history, identification handbook and travel and hiking guide.
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Ireland and the Problem of Information: Irish Writing, Radio, Late Modernist Communication (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A series of studies examining literary modernism in Ireland. Explores how cultural work assumed new meaning amid the strategic imperatives of the mid-twentieth century, and demonstrates how the late modernist field became today’s information age.
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The Arras Witch Treatises: Johannes Tinctor's Invectives contre la secte de vauderie and the Recollectio casus, status et condicionis Valdensium ydolatrarum by the Anonymous of Arras (1460) (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
English translations of two major treatises, Tinctor’s Invectives and the anonymous Recollectio, that arose from the famous Arras witch hunts and trial in the mid-fifteenth century in France.
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Aliceheimer’s: Alzheimer’s Through the Looking Glass (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A graphic memoir of the author’s experiences of her mother’s battle with dementia. Illustrates the two-way nature of storytelling as a process that heals both the giver and the receiver of story.
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Supernatural Entertainments: Victorian Spiritualism and the Rise of Modern Media Culture (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Explores the proliferation of spiritualist séances in mid-nineteenth-century Europe and the United States, and the connection to the contemporary evolution of the media entertainment industry.
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Without God: Michel Houellebecq and Materialist Horror (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Addresses the religious, metaphysical, and existential dimensions of French novelist Michel Houellebecq’s work. Argues that Houellebecq is the foremost contemporary chronicler of the spiritual anxieties of Western and specifically French modernity.
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Measuring Shadows: Kepler’s Optics of Invisibility (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Focusing on the astronomer Johannes Kepler's 1604 treatise on optics, explores Kepler’s radical break from scientific and epistemological traditions and shows how he posited new ways to view scientific truth and knowledge in the early modern period.
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