Running with the Fairies: Towards a Transpersonal Anthropology of Religion is a unique account of the Irving spirituality and mysticism of fairyfolk in Ireland. Fairyfolk are fairyminded people who ha
D'Arcens (English literatures, U. of Wollongong, Australia) explores the interest in and portrayal of the European Middle Ages in Australian literature. She considers Anglo-Saxonism in the work of Rol
This timely monograph on the relationship between America and the Muslim world explores the development of persistent narratives of opposition from the colonial period to the present. Focusing on inte
Scholars of literature, philosophy, and other humanities take universality as a concept by which to link different parts of reality. Their topics include the concept of intermittency, the ideology of
True to the book's title, this finely produced volume presents detailed descriptions and patterns of medieval garments recovered in the 1921 excavation of the cemetery at Herjolfsnes in Greenland. Thr
Neville (Early Modern Art and Architecture, University of California at Riverside) examines the career of Nicodemus Tessin the Elder, showing how the work of this often overlooked Swedish architect fi
It is indicative of the complexity of Holocaust studies that all of the contributors to this work come from different academic fields. Kluge (behavioral science, Emory University) and Williams (histor
According to Kelso, the Book of Chronicles silences women in specific ways, most radically through their association with maternity. Drawing on the work of two feminist philosophers, Luce Irigaray and
Citing discoveries by archaeological teams over the past three decades in some of the towns of medieval Britain, Schofield, curator of archaeology at the Museum of London, and archaeological consultan
Nedkvitne (medieval history, U. of Oslo) analyzes the impact of literacy on Scandinavian medieval society, considering the use of the written word both for administration and for literature. He begins
Before the advent of writing and before the development of the Indo-European language, Europe enjoyed much greater linguistic diversity with a whole host of other languages (Hispanic, Baltic, Slavic,
Medieval art historians will delight in this new volume by Kauffman (Courtauld Institute, London, UK), which presents arguments and research gathered over many years, first for an exhibition in 1977,
Medievalist and specialists in the history of religion will welcome this translation of the 14th-century Art of preaching by Higden, an English monk. Jennings (St. Joseph's College, Brooklyn) provi
Based on the author's doctoral dissertation, this large volume presents data and interpretation on the archaeology of Punic Malta, c.900BC to c.AD200. Sagona focuses in particular on the developmental
Rabbi Abraham ibn Ezra’s commentary is one of the great biblical exegeses produced by medieval Jewry. His commentary accompanies almost every version of the Rabbinic Bible, and his influence on biblic
Gabbay revises his 2007 doctoral dissertation at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem The Sumero-Akkadian Prayer "Ersema:" a Philological and Religious Analysis. The Ersema is one of the four main g
Jacques Derrida: Key Concepts presents a broad overview and engagement with the full range of Derrida's work - from the early phenomenological thinking to his preoccupations with key themes, such as t
Jacques Derrida: Key Concepts presents a broad overview and engagement with the full range of Derrida's work - from the early phenomenological thinking to his preoccupations with key themes, such as t
Archaeologists present the first findings from the Asyut Project a German-Egyptian cooperative project started in 2003 to reconstruct the regional history of Asyut and to clarify the functions of a
The historicity of Jesus is now widely accepted and hardly questioned by most scholars. But this assumption disarms biblical texts of much of their power by privileging an historical interpretation wh
"Syriac text and English translation of St. John Chrysostom's Exegetical Homilies on the Gospel of John, typically known in Syriac as Chrysostom's Commentary on John, Homilies (Maemrae) 1-43. The text
"Reinventing Religious Studies" offers readers an opportunity to trace the important trends and developments in Religious Studies over the last forty years. Over this time the study of religion has be
"Reinventing Religious Studies" offers readers an opportunity to trace the important trends and developments in Religious Studies over the last forty years. Over this time the study of religion has be
This collection is intended to fulfill a gap in research on memory in Iranian studies, which editors Allison (Kurdish studies, U. of Exeter, England) and Kreyenbroek (Iranian studies, Georg-August U.
"[The book] explores the nature and effects of risk in self-narrative representations of live events. ... The collection focuses on risk-taking as one of women's articulations of authorial agency dis
Marxism as an intellectual movement has been one of the most important and fertile contributions to twentieth-century thought. No social theory or political philosophy today can be taken seriously unl
Marxism as an intellectual movement has been one of the most important and fertile contributions to twentieth-century thought. No social theory or political philosophy today can be taken seriously unl
The historicity of Jesus is now widely accepted and hardly questioned by most scholars. But this assumption disarms biblical texts of much of their power by privileging an historical interpretation wh
Anselm (1033-1109) described the 'Monologion', his first major theological work, as a model meditation on the divine essence; and he enjoined his potential critics to read Augustine's De trinitate dil
Taken from the March 2010 conference of the European Association for American Studies, this multidisciplinary collection of 19 essays is presented under the loose theme of America and Americans as "Fo
Sacred spaces in contemporary Western culture are subject to a dynamic in which the traditional forms of ritual are increasingly marginalised and new forms emerge. In Western Europe churches are growi
This book presents a contextual study of the life and work of the Cambridge Platonist Ralph Cudworth (1617-1688). Focusing on the theological basis of Cudworth's ethical philosophy, this book unlocks
Augustine's way of speaking about God has been frequently deplored. It has been dismissed as too confident regarding the content of its assertions and too narrowly confined. The reception of Augustine
The essays in this book tap the potential of the historical analysis of social contexts in which property rights are embedded, social relations, power and agency, political institutions, culture, to u
Presenting papers from two symposia--the third (2006) and the fifth (2008) titled Rencontres d'architecture europeene, held at Utrecht U.--this ninth volume in the Architectura moderna series is the f
The December 2007 symposium drew 14 scholars from China, Europe, and the US, who have elaborated their presentations into full articles for this anthology. Among their topics are Daoist connections in
When marginality was chosen as the theme of the conference on medieval rural archeology, the organizers deliberately refrained from defining the concept, and as they had hoped, discussions about it we
This is the middle of three chronological volumes containing biographical essays on Arabic literary figures. This volume contains essays on 38 figures who lived between 1350 and 1850. This period has
Bestock (archaeology and Egyptology, Brown University) reports here on excavations made at Abydos in the 2004-2005 season. She uncovered two new funerary enclosures from the reign of First Dynasty kin
A historian, a historian of archaeology, two political scientists, and sociologist explore the things, or affairs, that brought people together into a public from the Roman era through the Middle Ages
