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Miracles and the Miraculous in Medieval Germanic and Latin Literature: Germania Latina V by K. E. Olsen 9789042915237
RRP: £63.00Booksplease Price: £60.59Dedicated to the miraculous side of the Germania Latina nexus, the essays in this collection treat cultural appropriation in saints' lives and other religious texts derived from Latin traditions and... -
Studies on the Liturgies of the Christian East: Selected Papers from the Third International Congress of the Society of Oriental Liturgy, Volos, May 26-30, 2010 by Steven Hawkes-Teeples 9789042927490
RRP: £87.00Booksplease Price: £81.92This is a collection of seventeen selected papers from the Third International Congress of the Society of Oriental Liturgy, held in Volos, Greece, in 2010. The Society is a non-confessional... -
The Homiliae Toletanae and the Theology of Lent and Easter by N. Chase 9789042936959
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £46.91This book takes seriously the need for a two-fold shift in methodology within the field of liturgical studies and serves as a model for future historical work. The first shift... -
Beyond the Symptoms. Jenseits Der Symtome by P. Nijs 9789042909861
Booksplease Price: £32.09This book offers the lectures of the European Symposium Kos 2000, that was held from Monday, September 25th. to Wednesday, September 27th. 2000 in Kos. Beyond the Symptoms, a medicine is formed that... -
Armenian Paradigms: Revised and edited by Michael E. Stone by G.E. Sterling 9789042913820
Booksplease Price: £19.03"Armenian Paradigms" provides a systematic presentation of the morphology of classical Armenian. Developed in the context of a course in Armenian at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, it serves as a... -
Song Divine: Christian Commentaries on the Bhagavad Gita by C. Cornille 9789042917699
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £37.64From T.S. Eliot to Bede Griffiths, many a Christian thinker has found in the Bhagavad Gita a source of genuine spiritual insight and inspiration. As Christians continue to explore the text in a... -
In Control of the City: Local Elites and the Dynamics of Urban Politics, 1800-1960 by Stefan Couperus 9789042919419
RRP: £57.00Booksplease Price: £55.72The central topic in this volume is change in the nature and composition of local elites, in roughly the period from the first half of the nineteenth century until the second half of the twentieth... -
Epigonism and the Dynamic of Culture by S. Berger 9789042920323
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £80.32The articles collected in this volume were originally presented at a summer colloquium in Oxford in 2004. The 'epigone' is generally believed to be an imitator, deprived of an independent, original... -
Ancient Egyptian Demonology: Studies on the Boundaries Between the Demonic and the Divine in Egyptian Magic by Panagiotis Kousoulis 9789042920408
RRP: £93.00Booksplease Price: £87.73In the Egyptian context, what we term magic and demon, drawing on our own cultural heritage, are not seen as negative aspects of cultural practice and conceptualisation. Similarly, the Egyptian... -
Successful Ageing, Spirituality and Meaning: Multidisciplinary Perspectives by J. Bouwer 9789042922686
RRP: £61.00Booksplease Price: £58.38After more than forty years of studying the subject matter of successful ageing, defining it from perspectives like dependence or psychological and physiological vitality, scholars have only at the... -
Commonplace Culture in Western Europe in the Early Modern Period I: Reformation, Counter-reformation and Revolt by David Cowling 9789042924741
RRP: £61.00Booksplease Price: £59.62This is the first of three volumes from the project 'Authority and Persuasion: the Role of Commonplaces in Western Europe (c.1450-c.1800)'. The project was launched by the universities of Copenhagen,... -
Literature and Religion in Late Medieval and Early Modern Scotland: Essays in Honour of Alasdair A. Macdonald by L. A. J. R. Houwen 9789042925823
RRP: £69.00Booksplease Price: £65.54It is a commonplace that religious and devotional literature makes up the bulk of medieval vernacular literature. This is true for Middle English and even though the body of extant... -
Not in the Word Alone: The First Epistle to the Thessalonians by M. D. Hooker 9789042928756
RRP: £59.00Booksplease Price: £56.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789042928756Author M. D. HookerFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Peeters PublishersPublisher... -
A Philosophy of European Union Law by Jan M. Broekman 9789042907287
Booksplease Price: £44.69Is the European Union a new Walden? Although a contrast in form and format, the Union is surprisingly close to the latter's underlying philosophy. One can read this proximity in the Treaties or the... -
Christian Tradition Today: A Postliberal Vision of Church and World by J. C-K. Goh 9789042909373
Booksplease Price: £37.05This study critically examines the postliberal project, with special reference to George Lindbeck, the "founding father" of postliberalism. In an age of profound cultural change, is it feasible to... -
Stati E Confessioni Religiose in Europa - Church and State in Europe: State Financial Support, Religion and the School by Peeters Publishers 9788814032158
Booksplease Price: £22.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788814032158Author Peeters PublishersFormat PaperbackPage Count 211Imprint PeetersPublisher... -
Early Italian Sigillata: The Chronological Framework and Trade Patterns. Proceedings of the First International ROCT-congress, Leuven, May 7 and 8, 1999 by J. Poblome 9789042914810
Booksplease Price: £105.59The edited volume is the result of the first international ROCT-conference (Roman Crafts and Trade Network) at the Catholic University Leuven on 7 and 8 May, 1999. The collected papers provide an... -
The Response of Discourse Ethics to the Moral Challenge of the Human Situation as Such and Especially Today: Mercier Lectures, Louvain-la-Neuve, March 1999 by Karl-Otto Apel 9789042909786
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £29.86The need for a global ethics has its origin in the human situation as such (i.e. in the fact of hominisation that has dismissed us from the natural security of animal instincts and thrown us into the... -
Dying Death and Bereavement in a British by Shirley Firth 9789068319767
Booksplease Price: £34.65This study is an exploration of the religious beliefs, attitudes, traditions and rituals of a British hindu community, with respect to dying, death and bereavement. The observations of this... -
On the Ecclesiastical Hierarchy: The Thirteenth-century Paris by L. Michael Harrington 9789042924819
RRP: £57.00Booksplease Price: £56.33The medieval fascination with the mysterious language of Dionysius the Areopagite is nowhere more evident than in the thirteenth-century textbook edition of his treatise on liturgical rites... -
Defixiones Olbiae Ponticae: (DefOlb) by A.V. Belousov 9789042942950
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £88.91This book presents a complete corpus of magical inscriptions (defixionum tabellae) of the ancient Greek city of Olbia, located in the northern Black Sea region. The... -
Hildegard of Bingen, Two Hagiographies: "Vita Sancti Rupperti Confessoris" and "Vita Sancti Dysibodi Episcopi" by H. Feiss 9789042923188
RRP: £44.00Booksplease Price: £43.13Today, after centuries of obscurity, Hildegard of Bingen has become one of the most famous women of the Middle Ages. She was a woman of great and varied talent as well as tenacious purpose. Her life... -
The Ornamental Calcite Vessels from the Tomb of Tutankhamun by L. Manniche 9789042937215
RRP: £78.00Booksplease Price: £73.73At the time of the clearing of the tomb of Tutankhamun Howard Carter and his team made meticulous handwritten notes of every single object found. Yet a full scholarly... -
Building Towers: Perspectives on Globalisation by L. Anckaert 9789042912359
Booksplease Price: £41.99This volume contains the papers delivered at a colloquium on globalisation at the UFSIA in 2002. The book takes a multidisciplinary approach in the context of which several perspectives on... -
The Incomprehensibility of God: Augustine as a Negative Theologian by Paul van Geest 9789042924734
RRP: £82.00Booksplease Price: £78.46Augustine'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... -
Western Esotericism and the Science of Religion by Antoine Faivre 9789042906303
Booksplease Price: £40.45This volume is based upon papers read during the innovative section "Western Esotericism and the Science of Religion" organized at the 17th International Congress of the International Association for... -
Bonaventure, On the Eucharist: (Commentary on the 'Sentences', Book IV, dist. 8-13) by J. Johnson 9789042934542
RRP: £87.00Booksplease Price: £82.06Since Bonaventure never wrote a treatise dedicated to the Eucharist, his extensive treatment in the fourth book of his commentary on Peter Lombard's Sentences, which covers... -
'the Little Commonwealth of Man': the Trinitarian Origins of the Ethical and Political Philosophy of Ralph Cudworth by Benjamin Carter 9789042922143
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £52.54This 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... -
Alexandria and the Moon: An Investigation into the Lunar Macedonian Calendar of Ptolemaic Egypt by C. Bennett 9789042925052
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £79.98This book is the first comprehensive study of the lunar Macedonian calendar in two decades. The mechanics of the calendar are examined in detail, and a new approach for reconstructing the sequence... -
"I am myn owene woman, wel at ese": In Memory of Margaret Jennings by M. Jennings 9789042934948
Booksplease Price: £20.91This booklet is devoted to the memory of Margaret Jennings (1942-2016), a distinguished medievalist who devoted much of her scholarly work to the fourteenth-century... -
The Flood: The Akkadian Sources: A New Edition, Commentary, and a Literary Discussion by N. Wasserman 9789042941731
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £84.45The story of the primeval cataclysmic flood which wiped out all life on earth, save for one family, is found in different ancient Mesopotamian texts whence it reached the... -
Hebrew at the Crossroads of Cultures: from Outgoing Antiquity to the Middle Ages by H. B. Rosen 9789068316858
RRP: £29.00Booksplease Price: £28.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789068316858Author H. B. RosenFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint Peeters PublishersPublisher... -
Qasr Ibrim, Between Egypt and Africa: Studies in Cultural Exchange (Nino Symposium, Leiden, 11-12 December 2009) by J.van der Vliet 9789042930308
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £48.70The natural citadel of Qasr Ibrim in Northern Nubia occupied for thousands of years a strategic position between Egypt and the Middle Nile region, the present-day Sudan. The rich archaeological and... -
The Libyan Period in Egypt: Historical and Cultural Studies into the 21st - 24th Dynasties: Proceedings of a Conference at Leiden University, 25-27 October 2007 by G. P. F. Broekman 9789042922389
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £93.39This volume contains the Proceedings of a conference held in October 2007 at Leiden University on the Libyan Period in Egypt. The study of the Third Intermediate Period, and most notably its... -
Problems in Decipherment by J. Bennet 9789068311778
Booksplease Price: £23.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789068311778Author Y. DuhouxFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Peeters PublishersPublisher Peeters... -
Encyclopedic Trends in Byzantium?: Proceedings of the International Conference Held in Leuven, 6-8 May 2009 by P. Van Deun 9789042925571
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £96.22In May 2009 the Leuven Institute of Early Christian and Byzantine Studies organized an international congress, with the title: Encyclopedic Trends in Byzantium? Some 40 scholars discussed the concept... -
Ethics and the Life of Faith: A Christian Moral Perspective by G. Moller 9789042906990
RRP: £43.00Booksplease Price: £41.64How can someone, committed to a Christian view of life, reason concerning ethical issues ? That is the main question of this book, which seeks to contribute to an understanding of morality as a human... -
Matter of Breath: Foundations for Professional Ethics by G. De Stexhe 9789042909069
Booksplease Price: £32.61This book submits for discussion the first results of an undertaking that is still going on. It aims to stimulate a broad reflection on the general question of the meaning of ethics and ethics... -
The Foundation and Application of Moral Philosophy: Ricoeur's Ethical Order by Hendrik J. Opdebeeck 9789042908529
Booksplease Price: £19.11Paul Ricoeur (1913), prominent French philosopher, is one of the most versatile thinkers of our time. Moreover, he is known to be an extremely gifted lecturer, who is able to set forth ethical... -
Engineering and Construction in Egypt's Early Dynastic Period by A.S. La Loggia 9789042931817
RRP: £107.00Booksplease Price: £99.64Throughout history people have marvelled at the pyramids, from the elemental beauty of the Step Pyramid of Djoser to the monumental scale and engineering achievement of the...