The boom-and-bust cycle turning more slowly in those days, the years between 1300 and 1460 were an economic crisis; many merchants who had loaned their otherwise idle capital to princes found that the
This book is about people. It is an attempt to make sense of the position of the plebs in the Church and cities of Roman Africa in Late Antiquity. By looking at the terminology of plebs and populus in
The present plight and future possibility of the general and comparative study of religion as a field of inquiry in the human sciences concerns Jensen (U. of Odense and U. of Aarhus, Denmark). For his
Religious-Zionism developed in Israel as an attempt to combine halakhic commitment with the values of modernity, two networks of meaning not easily reconciled. This book presents a study of the discou
The Second Vatican Council was the most important event in the Roman Catholic Church in the twentieth century. In line with Pope John XXIII's desire for aggiornamento it searched for ways to enable th
Linguists examine how different kinds of clauses combine in a number of Semitic languages, emphasizing how circumstantial clauses are coded in individual Semitic languages. They cover circumstantial c
