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Landscape Detective: Discovering a Countryside by Richard Muir 9780953863020
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $25.94The countryside is a gigantic puzzle which contains within it the keys to its own history. This book takes the reader through the process of landscape detection, by way of a journey through a... -
The Wandering Herd: The Medieval Cattle Economy of South-East England c.450-1450 by Andrew Margetts 9781911188797
Booksplease Price: $81.02The British countryside is on the brink of change. With the withdrawal of EU subsidies, threats of US style factory farming and the promotion of 'rewilding' initiatives, never before has so much... -
An Author and a Gardener: The Gardens and Friendship of Edith Wharton and Lawrence Johnston by Allan R. Ruff 9781909686465
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $58.34In August 1937 a small group of Edith Wharton's intimate friends gathered to pay their last respects at her funeral in France. Among that small group of people was her friend for many years, Lawrence... -
Ancient Trees in the Landscape: Norfolk's arboreal heritage by Gerry Barnes 9781905119394
RRP: $62.90Booksplease Price: $60.69Ancient Trees in the Landscape is the outcome of many years research into the history of trees in Norfolk, and represents the first detailed, published account of the ancient and traditionally... -
Interpreting the English Village: Landscape and Community at Shapwick, Somerset by Mick Aston 9781905119455
RRP: $62.90Booksplease Price: $62.37An original and approachable account of how archaeology can tell the story of the English village. Shapwick lies in the middle of Somerset, next to the important monastic centre of Glastonbury: the... -
The Development of Neolithic House Societies in Orkney by Colin Richards 9781911188872
Booksplease Price: $56.41Considering that Orkney is a group of relatively small islands lying off the northeast coast of the Scottish mainland, its wealth of Neolithic archaeology is truly extraordinary. An assortment of... -
North Downs Landscapes by Doug Kennedy 9781909686588
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $12.87The North Downs are a range of hills that run east-west from the south-east tip of England, at Dover in Kent, to Farnham in Surrey. They skirt the southern edge of London, so for a long time have... -
Beacons in the Landscape: The Hillforts of England, Wales and the Isle of Man by Ian Brown 9781911188759
RRP: $83.90Booksplease Price: $79.55Of all of Britain's great archaeological monuments the prehistoric and later hillforts have arguably had the most profound impact on the landscape, if only because there are so many; yet we know very... -
Fen and Sea: Landscape change in south-east Lincolnshire AD 1000-1700 by I. G. Simmons 9781911188964
Booksplease Price: $81.06Renowned environmental historian I.G. Simmons synthesises detailed research into the landscape history of the coastal area of Lincolnshire between Boston and Skegness and its hinterland of Tofts, Low... -
The Anglo-Saxon Fenland by Susan Oosthuizen 9781911188087
RRP: $69.20Booksplease Price: $67.05Archaeologies and histories of the fens of eastern England, continue to suggest, explicitly or by implication, that the early medieval fenland was dominated by the activities of north-west European... -
Monuments in the Making: Raising the Great Dolmens in Early Neolithic Northern Europe by Vicki Cummings
RRP: $83.90Booksplease Price: $79.55In this book we offer an exciting new perspective on a distinctive form of megalithic monument that is found across most areas of northern Europe. In order to achieve this we have abandoned outmoded... -
Early Christianity in South-West Britain: Wessex, Somerset, Devon, Cornwall and the Channel Islands by Elizabeth Rees 9781911188551
Booksplease Price: $81.69This book offers a new assessment of early Christianity in south-west Britain from the fourth to the tenth centuries, a rich period which includes the transition from Roman to native British to Saxon... -
In and Around Maimonides: Original Essays by Y. Langermann 9781463243302
Booksplease Price: $224.28In and Around Maimonides presents eight highly focused studies on Moses Maimonides and those around him.Book InformationISBN 9781463243302Author Y LangermannFormat HardbackPage Count 246 -
The Two-Edged Sea: Heterotopias of Contemporary Mediterranean Migrant Literature by Nahrain Al-Mousawi 9781463243722
Booksplease Price: $214.91The boat journey is central to the narrative of Mediterranean migration of the undocumented. The boat itself is flimsy, fragile, unstable, and easily breakable. It is trifling and insubstantial. But... -
Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam by Patricia Crone 9781463241728
Booksplease Price: $141.39Patricia Crone reassesses one of the most widely accepted dogmas in contemporary accounts of the beginnings of Islam: the supposition that Mecca was a trading center. In addition, she seeks to... -
Jacob of Sarug's Homily on Edessa and Jerusalem by Jonathan Loopstra 9781463243357
Booksplease Price: $85.60Recognized as a saint by both Chalcedonian and non-Chalcedonian Christians alike, Jacob of Sarug (d. 521) produced many narrative poems that have rarely been translated into English. Of his reported... -
Journal of Language Relationship 19/1-2 by Vladimir Dybo 9781463243982
Booksplease Price: $214.91The Journal of Language Relationship is an international periodical publication devoted to the issues of comparative linguistics and the history of the human language. The Journal contains articles... -
On This Day (June): The Armenian Church Synaxarion (Yaysmawurkʿ) by Edward Mathews Jr. 9781463241377
Booksplease Price: $197.17The Armenian Church Synaxarion is a collection of saints' lives according to the day of the year on which each saint is celebrated. Part of the great and varied Armenian liturgical tradition from the... -
Maimonides: A Radical Religious Philosopher by Shalom Sadik 9781463243913
Booksplease Price: $181.94Shalom Sadik interrogates the nature of Maimonides' religious philosophy through examination of secrets in the philosopher's Guide for the Perplexed, the role of dialectic in his philosophy, the... -
Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary by Sarah Knight 9781463243555
Booksplease Price: $94.90Different parts of the Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary are known from the second century onwards. Translations and adaptations into Syriac and other languages also became available from very early... -
The Tree Experts: A History of Professional Arboriculture in Britain by Mark Johnston
RRP: $115.50Booksplease Price: $107.94Trees are now in the public eye as never before. The threat of tree diseases, the felling of street trees and the challenge of climate change are just some of the issues that have put trees in the... -
The Many Faces of Iranian Modernity: Sufism and Subjectivity in the Safavid and Qajar Periods by Robert Ames 9781463242374
Booksplease Price: $183.23This study into both reformism and mysticism demonstrates both that mystical rhetoric appeared regularly in supposedly anti-mystical modernist writing and that nineteenth- and twentieth-century Sufis... -
Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam by Patricia Crone 9781593331023
RRP: $268.80Booksplease Price: $176.88Patricia Crone reassesses one of the most widely accepted dogmas in contemporary accounts of the beginnings of Islam: the supposition that Mecca was a trading center. In addition, she seeks to... -
Jacob of Sarug's Homilies on the Six Days of Creation: The Seventh Day by Edward G Mathews 9781463243449
Booksplease Price: $48.41Recognized as a saint by both Chalcedonian and non-Chalcedonian Christians alike, Jacob of Sarug (d. 521) produced many narrative poems that have rarely been translated into English. Of his reported... -
On This Day (July): The Armenian Church Synaxarion (Yaysmawurk') by Edward Mathews Jr. 9781463242879
Booksplease Price: $164.64The Armenian Church Synaxarion is a collection of saints' lives according to the day of the year on which each saint is celebrated. Part of the great and varied Armenian liturgical tradition from the... -
Journal of Language Relationship 18/3-4 by Vladimir Dybo 9781463243630
Booksplease Price: $132.09The Journal of Language Relationship is an international periodical publication devoted to the issues of comparative linguistics and the history of the human language. The Journal contains articles... -
Jacob of Sarug's Homily on Samson by Dana Miller 9781463242909
Booksplease Price: $66.99Recognized as a saint by both Chalcedonian and non-Chalcedonian Christians alike, Jacob of Sarug (d. 521) produced many narrative poems that have rarely been translated into English. Of his reported... -
Angels Hastening: The Karbala' Dreams by Christopher Clohessy 9781463242091
Booksplease Price: $164.64When, on an autumn Medina night in 61/680, the night that saw al-Husayn killed, Umm Salama was torn from her sleep by an apparition of a long-dead Muhammad, she slipped effortlessly into a... -
Jacob of Sarug's Homilies on Paul: On the Conversion of the Apostle Paul and a Second Homily on Paul the Apostle by Raju Parakkott 9781463242732
Booksplease Price: $60.48Recognized as a saint by both Chalcedonian and non-Chalcedonian Christians alike, Jacob of Sarug (d. 521) produced many narrative poems that have rarely been translated into English. Of his reported... -
In Search of the True Religion: Monk Jurjī and Muslim Jurists Debating Faith and Practice by Ayman Ibrahim 9781463243944
Booksplease Price: $115.82In the 13th century, a debate transpired over the course of several days between a monk named Jurji and several Muslims jurists in the city of Aleppo. This debate represents a careful and... -
The Life of Simeon of the Olives: An entrepreneurial saint of early Islamic North Mesopotamia by Robert Hoyland 9781463243463
Booksplease Price: $118.15The first ever critical edition and complete translation of the Syriac Life of Saint Simeon of the Olives, who was an abbot of Qartmin Monastery in Tur Abdin and a bishop of the city of Harran in the... -
The Arabs from Alexander the Great until the Islamic Conquests: Orientalist Perceptions and Contemporary Conflicts by Ayad Al-Ani 9781463242855
RRP: $174.30Booksplease Price: $105.48This is not a conventional history book. It is rather a study of the sociology of historical writing about a period that, although quite distant in time (330 B.C. to A.D. 670), still influences... -
Half of my Heart: The Narratives of Zaynab, Daughter of 'Ali by Christopher Clohessy 9781463242367
Booksplease Price: $108.84As Abu 'Abd Allah al-Husayn, son of 'Ali and Fatima and grandson of Muhammad, moved inexorably towards death on the field of Karbala', his sister Zaynab was drawn ever closer to the centre of the... -
Islamic Jurisprudence and the Role of Custom: A Comparative Case Study of Saudi Arabia and Iran Sumeyra Yakar 9781463243517
Booksplease Price: $221.93An analysis of the connection between Islamic law (shari'a) and custom ('urf), identifying the ways in which personal and social issues are treated within contemporary Saudi and Iranian legal... -
Jacob of Sarug's Homily on the Love of God towards Humanity and of the Just towards God by Dominique Sirgy 9781463244323
Booksplease Price: $53.05Jacob of Sarug's homily chronicles the unravelling of God's love in sacred history and the inability of humankind to return God's love and grace.Book InformationISBN 9781463244323Author Dominique... -
Living the Quran with Joy and Purpose: Selections on Tawhid from Said Nursi's Epistles of Light by Yamina Bouguenaya 9781463242695
Booksplease Price: $80.93The current volume is an annotated translation of selections from a noteworthy Muslim theologian Said Nursi (1876-1960) on the Quranic theme of oneness of God (tawhid). Given the scarcity of... -
Power, Identity and Miracles on a Medieval Frontier Catherine Clarke (University of Southampton, UK) 9780367030063
RRP: $102.88Booksplease Price: $95.82A thriving port, a frontier base for the lords of Gower and a multi-cultural urban community, the south Wales town of Swansea was an important centre in the Middle Ages, at a nexus of multiple... -
Medieval Bridges of Southern England: 100 Bridges, 1000 Years by Marshall G. Hall 9781914427138
RRP: $104.90Booksplease Price: $98.41Throughout history rivers have been a hub for human settlement and have long been a key part of local livelihoods, history and culture, as well as still playing a present-day role in providing... -
New Perspectives on the Medieval ‘Agricultural Revolution’: Crop, Stock and Furrow by Helena Hamerow
Booksplease Price: $109.58An Open Access edition is available on the LUP and OAPEN websites.Across Europe, the early medieval period saw the advent of new ways of cereal farming which fed the growth of towns, markets and... -
Archaeologists and the Dead: Mortuary Archaeology in Contemporary Society by Howard Williams 9780198753537
Booksplease Price: $231.25This volume addresses the relationship between archaeologists and the dead, through the many dimensions of their relationships: in the field (through practical and legal issues); in the lab (through...