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Origen and Hellenism: The Interplay between Greek and Christian Ideas in Late Antiquity by Panayiotis Tzamalikos 9781433189173
RRP: £86.40Booksplease Price: £76.70This book elucidates and engages in critical discussion of the Greek philosophical background to the work of Origen, the great third-century scholar and theologian. The author, Professor Panayiotis... -
A Threat to Public Piety: Christians, Platonists, and the Great Persecution by Elizabeth DePalma Digeser
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £39.90In A Threat to Public Piety, Elizabeth DePalma Digeser reexamines the origins of the Great Persecution (AD 303-313), the last eruption of pagan violence against Christians before Constantine enforced... -
Alexander the Great in the Early Christian Tradition: Classical Reception and Patristic Literature by Dr Christian Thrue Djurslev 9781350194465
Booksplease Price: £34.84What has Alexander the Great to do with Jesus Christ? Or the legendary king's conquest of the Persian Empire (335-23 BCE) to do with the prophecies of the Old Testament?In many ways, the early... -
Catching Tadpoles: The Shaping of a Young Rebel by Ronnie Kasrils 9781431429356
RRP: £17.95Booksplease Price: £14.09Ronnie Kasrils's memoir reflects on compelling questions as to what turned a white youngster from a modest background into a life-long revolutionary of note. A tiny minority who abandoned a life of... -
Constantine the Emperor by David Potter 9780199755868
RRP: £31.49Booksplease Price: £26.36This year Christians worldwide will celebrate the 1700th anniversary of Constantine's conversion and victory at the Battle of the Milvian Bridge. No Roman emperor had a greater impact on the modern... -
After the New Testament: 100-300 C.E.: A Reader in Early Christianity by Bart D. Ehrman
Booksplease Price: £105.53The remarkable diversity of Christianity during the formative years before the Council of Nicea has become a plain, even natural, "fact" for most ancient historians. Until After the New Testament,... -
The Gregorian Mission to Kent in Bede's Ecclesiastical History: Methodology and Sources by Richard Shaw
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.80Historians have long relied on Bede's Ecclesiastical History for their narrative of early Christian Anglo-Saxon England, but what material lay behind Bede's own narrative? What were his sources and... -
Inventing Superstition: From the Hippocratics to the Christians by Dale B. Martin 9780674024076
RRP: £26.95Booksplease Price: £23.28The Roman author Pliny the Younger characterizes Christianity as "contagious superstition"; two centuries later the Christian writer Eusebius vigorously denounces Greek and Roman religions as vain... -
Fantasy Pieces: Metrical Dissonance in the Music of Robert Schumann by Harald Krebs 9780195169461
RRP: £145.00Booksplease Price: £110.15Fantasy Pieces examines from several vantage points a vital life-force of Robert Schumann's music, namely metrical conflict. Harald Krebs's imaginative yet rigorous study makes use of Schumann's... -
Christianity in the Later Roman Empire: A Sourcebook by David M. Gwynn 9781441106261
Booksplease Price: £40.79This sourcebook gathers into a single collection the writings that illuminate one of the most fundamental periods in the history of Christian Europe. Beginning from the Great Persecution of... -
The Power of God: Dynamis in Gregory of Nyssa's Trinitarian Theology by Michel Rene Barnes 9780813229140
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48Gregory of Nyssa is widely regarded as the most substantial thinker and theologian among the three Cappadocians and is often used as the representative of Greek trinitarian theology. Through a fresh... -
Perceptions of the Past in the Early Middle Ages by Rosamond McKitterick 9780268035006
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £18.91Historical writing of the early middle ages tends to be regarded as little more than a possible source of facts, but Rosamond McKitterick establishes that early medieval historians conveyed in their... -
Moses the Egyptian in the Illustrated Old English Hexateuch (London, British Library Cotton MS Claudius B.iv) by Herbert R. Broderick 9780268102050
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £47.35In Moses the Egyptian, Herbert Broderick analyzes the iconography of Moses in the famous illuminated eleventh-century manuscript known as the Illustrated Old English Hexateuch. A translation into Old... -
The Garima Gospels: Early Illuminated Gospel Books from Ethiopia by Judith S. McKenzie
Booksplease Price: £76.14The three Garima Gospels are the earliest surviving Ethiopian gospel books. They provide glimpses of lost late antique luxury gospel books and art of the fifth to seventh centuries, from the Aksumite... -
After the New Testament by Bart D. Ehrman 9780195114454
Booksplease Price: £46.59This present collection of primary texts reveals the remarkable diversity of the early Christian movement from the time of the New Testament up to the writings of Eusebius (c.100-300). Including... -
These Are Not Gentle People: A tense and pacy true-crime thriller Andrew Harding 9781529405606
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40"Utterly gripping, timely and shocking" PHILIPPE SANDS"Magnificent and heartbreaking" Washington Post"Compelling and disturbing . . . quietly devastating" DAMON GALGUT"This is a book of profound... -
These Are Not Gentle People: A tense and pacy true-crime thriller Andrew Harding 9781529405583
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.38NOW SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION"Utterly gripping, timely and shocking" PHILIPPE SANDS"Compelling and disturbing . . . quietly devastating" DAMON GALGUT"This is a book of... -
The Resources of the Past in Early Medieval Europe by Mag Clemens Gantner 9781107091719
RRP: £109.00Booksplease Price: £104.79This volume analyses the importance of history, the textual resources of the past and the integration of Christian and imperial Rome into the cultural memory of early medieval Europe within the wider... -
The Resources of the Past in Early Medieval Europe by Mag Clemens Gantner
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £37.44This volume analyses the importance of history, the textual resources of the past and the integration of Christian and imperial Rome into the cultural memory of early medieval Europe within the wider...