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Landscape into Eco Art: Articulations of Nature Since the ’60s (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Explores the practices of ecological art, a genre addressing the widespread public concern with rapid climate change and related... Læs mere
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The Holy Teaching of Vimalakirti: A Mahayana Scripture (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Levering: 6 - 9 hverdage
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Picatrix: A Medieval Treatise on Astral Magic (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
An English translation, with accompanying introduction, commentary, and notes, of the medieval treatise on astrological magic known as Picatrix, a guide for... Læs mere
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First Isaiah and the Disappearance of the Gods (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Examines the rhetorical strategies behind the monotheizing rhetoric of First Isaiah in the Hebrew Bible.
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Afro-Catholic Festivals in the Americas: Performance, Representation, and the Making of Black Atlantic Tradition (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Explores how, in the Americas, people of African birth or descent found spiritual and social empowerment in the orbit of the Church. Draws connections between Afro-Catholic festivals and their precedents in the early modern Christian kingdom of Kongo.
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Robert Burton’s Rhetoric: An Anatomy of Early Modern Knowledge (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Illustrates how Oxford scholar Robert Burton used the resources available to a seventeenth century academic: genres and languages, as well... Læs mere
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Songs of the Lisu Hills: Practicing Christianity in Southwest China (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Explores the history and practice of Lisu Christianity in southwest China, describing how the Lisu maintained their Christian faith through China’s tumultuous twentieth century and into the present.
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Electromagnetism and the Metonymic Imagination (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Illustrates how the discovery of electromagnetism in 1820 not only led to technological inventions, such as the dynamo and the telegraph, but also... Læs mere
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Women Artists, Their Patrons, and Their Publics in Early Modern Bologna (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Examines sixty-eight women artists in early modern Bologna, revealing how they obtained public commissions and expanded beyond the portrait subjects to which women were traditionally confined. Uses new methodological models for considering gender and art in early modern Italy.
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Philip II of Spain and the Architecture of Empire (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Explores the architectural and artistic projects of Philip II of Spain, placing them in the wider context of the peninsular, European, and transoceanic Iberian dominions.
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The Absent Image: Lacunae in Medieval Books (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Explores the late medieval concepts of absence and void, with a special focus on the materiality of emptiness in later medieval manuscripts.
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Ivan Illich: An Intellectual Journey (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Examines the life and writings of Roman Catholic Church reformer Ivan Illich (1926-2002) in the context of the wider field of cultural criticism that took shape in the 1960s and beyond.
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