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Shaping Identities in a Holy Land Crusader Art in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem: Patrons and Viewers

Shaping Identities in a Holy Land Crusader Art in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem: Patrons and Viewers

In the 88 years between its establishment by the victorious armies of the First Crusade and its collapse following the disastrous defeat at Hattin the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem was the site of vibrant artistic and architectural activity. As the crusaders rebuilt some of Christendom's most sacred churches or embellished others with murals and mosaics a unique and highly original art was created. Focusing on the sculptural mosaic and mural cycles adorning some of the most important shrines in the Kingdom (such as the Church of the Holy Sepulchre The Basilica of the Annunciation and the Church of the Nativity) this book offers a broad perspective of Crusader art and architecture. Among the many aspects discussed are competition among pilgrimage sites crusader manipulation of biblical models the image of the Muslim and others. Building on recent developments in the fields of patronage studies and reception theory the book offers a study of the complex ways in which Crusader art addressed its diverse audiences (Franks indigenous eastern Christians pilgrims) while serving the intentions of its patrons. Of particular interest to scholars and students of the Crusades and of Crusader art as well as scholars and students of medieval art in general this book will appeal to all those engaging with intercultural encounters acculturation Christian-Muslim relations pilgrimage the Holy Land medieval devotion and theology Byzantine art reception theory and medieval patronage. | Shaping Identities in a Holy Land Crusader Art in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem: Patrons and Viewers

GBP 150.00
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Jerusalem

Jerusalem

First published in 1981 Jerusalem provides an overview of the history of Jerusalem and its crucial linkage with the peace and stability in the Middle East. Jerusalem is unique amongst all the cities of the world because of its association with three great religions. It is the spiritual and religious heritage to one half of humanity and is holy for millions of Christians Jews and Muslims. All three religion have a vital interest in preserving in addition to their Holy places and sanctuaries the living presence of the adherents to their faith in the Holy City. When the Zionist movement was formed at the end of the last century the idea of a Jewish State was conceived as an answer to anti-semitism and the movement initially considered other countries for settlement because Jerusalem was seen as a spiritual rather than a secular home to the Jewish people. Yet since the creation of the state of Israel in 1948 Zionism has claimed Jerusalem as its own. It is obvious that neither the Palestinians not the Arabs nor Islam and Christianity will acquiesce in Israeli domination. This book argues that the continuation of Zionism in its present form is likely to prove perilous to peace and stability in the region. This book is an important historical read for students and scholars of Middle East studies and Middle East history.

GBP 90.00
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The Medieval Military Orders 1120-1314

The Medieval Military Orders 1120-1314

This new addition to the popular Seminar Studies series looks at the origins development and organisation of the Military Orders during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries showing how they functioned as a form of religious life and concentrating on their role in the Crusades and in the government and defence of the Christian kingdoms in the Holy Land. Dr Nicholas Morton offers coverage of the Templars Hospitalers and Teutonic Knights as well as various smaller orders. Perfect for undergraduate students studying the Crusades and for anyone with an interest in this popular topic this concise and useful history contains numerous primary source materials as well as features to aid understanding. | The Medieval Military Orders 1120-1314

GBP 170.00
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Iranian Immigration to Israel History and Voices in the Shadow of Kings

Iranian Immigration to Israel History and Voices in the Shadow of Kings

Exploring the fascinating history behind Iranian-Jewish immigration to Israel this book offers a rare and untold history of one of Israel’s Middle Eastern Jewish populations. Over the 20th century thousands among Iran’s Jewish community left their ancestral homes and immigrated to the Jewish State while thousands of others remained in Iran even after the birth of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Using firsthand narratives the evolution of Zionist activities and recruitment in Iran over the last century is covered alongside an Iranian-Jewish population that unlike other Middle Eastern Jewish communities did not ultimately arrive in the Holy Land as a majority of their community. For those that did arrive (or make aliyah) the Israeli nation-building process had unique ramifications. The integrative process and current status of the Iranian community in Israel is also examined providing an intimate picture of Iranian life in Israel nearly 75 years after Israel’s establishment. A natural addition to any collection on Jewish or Israeli history and essential reading for a full understanding of Iran–Israel relations enthusiasts of Israeli nation-building and affairs as well as Iranian history demographics and politics will find this book invaluable. | Iranian Immigration to Israel History and Voices in the Shadow of Kings

GBP 130.00
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Devas Demons and Buddhist Cosmology in Sri Lanka Apotheosis and the Spiritual Progression of Hūniyam

Devas Demons and Buddhist Cosmology in Sri Lanka Apotheosis and the Spiritual Progression of Hūniyam

This book examines the worship of devas and demons in Sri Lanka illustrating how diverse influences interacted to create the Sinhala Buddhist cosmology. The work explains the processes by which apotheosis plays an important role in revitalizing that cosmology. The author offers an examination of holy sites associated with the worship of Hūniyam. These sacred spaces each have a unique background historically and the ritualists associated with these sites have divergent understandings concerning Hūniyam. Building upon the examination of the temples the book delves into the iconography of Hūniyam illustrating his transformation from demon to deity in the manner that he is depicted in imagery associated with his worship. The book moves to a discussion of Aritṭ ạ Kivenḍu Perumāl a South Indian adventurer demonstrating the likelihood that he is the historical figure later apotheosized as Hūniyam. Sri Lankan society felt his impact so strongly that in death he became a demon in the Sinhala Buddhist cosmology. Finally the book demonstrates that the same apotheosis processes are at work today. This book will be of interest to researchers and students engaged in the study of religion anthropology folklore and history specifically in the South Asian context. | Devas Demons and Buddhist Cosmology in Sri Lanka Apotheosis and the Spiritual Progression of Hūniyam

GBP 130.00
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Emotions and Architecture Forging Mediterranean Cities Between the Middle Ages and Early Modern Time

Emotions and Architecture Forging Mediterranean Cities Between the Middle Ages and Early Modern Time

Emotions and Architecture: Forging Mediterranean Cities Between the Middle Ages and Early Modern Time explores architecture as a medium to arouse or conceal emotions to build consensus through shared values or to reconnect the urban community to its alleged ancestry. The chapters in this edited collection outline how architectonic symbols images and structures were codified – and sometimes recast – to match or to arouse emotions awakened by wars political dominance pandemic challenges and religion. As signs of spiritual and political power these elements were embraced and modulated locally providing an endorsement to authorities and rituals for the community. This volume provides an overview of the phenomenon across the Italian region stressing the transnationality of selected symbols and their various declinations in local contexts. It deepens the issue of refitting symbols artworks and structures to arouse emotions by carefully analysing specific cases such as the Septizodium in Rome the Holy House of Loreto in Venice and the reconstruction of L'Aquila. The collection through its variegated contributions offers a comprehensive view of the phenomenon: exploring the issue from political social religious and public health perspectives and seeking to propose a new definition of architecture as a visual emotional language. Together the chapters show how the representation of virtues and emotions through architecture was part of a symbolic practice shared by many across the Italian context. This book will be of interest to researchers and students studying architectural history the history of emotions and the history of art. | Emotions and Architecture Forging Mediterranean Cities Between the Middle Ages and Early Modern Time

GBP 130.00
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Disarmed And Dangerous The Radical Life And Times Of Daniel And Philip Berrigan Brothers In Religious Faith And Civil Disobedience

Disarmed And Dangerous The Radical Life And Times Of Daniel And Philip Berrigan Brothers In Religious Faith And Civil Disobedience

What transformed Daniel and Philip Berrigan from conventional Roman Catholic priests into ?holy outlaws??for a time the two most wanted men of J. Edgar Hoover's FBI? And how did they evolve from their traditionally pious second-generation immigrant beginnings to become the most famous (some would say notorious) religious rebels of their day?Disarmed and Dangerous the first full-length unauthorized biography of the Berrigans answers these questions with an incisive and illuminating account of their rise to prominence as civil rights and antiwar activists. It also traces the brothers' careers as constant thorns in the side of church authority as well as their leadership of the ongoing Plowshares movement?a highly controversial campaign of civil disobedience against the contemporary arms trade and nuclear weapons. Murray Polner and Jim O'Grady plumb the Berrigans' contradictions: among them Philip's secret marriage while he was still a Josephite priest to Elizabeth McAlister then a Catholic nun which led to their dismissals by their respective religious orders and Philip's excommunication from the church; and Daniel's speech faulting Israel's treatment of Palestinians and the resulting criticism loosed upon him from pro-Israeli Americans and many of his allies on the left. Disarmed and Dangerous is a fascinating study of brothers linked by faith and the dreams of peace and social justice in a century bloodied by war mass murders and weapons of immense destructive power. It is above all an original contribution to modern American history that is sure to be widely read and discussed. | Disarmed And Dangerous The Radical Life And Times Of Daniel And Philip Berrigan Brothers In Religious Faith And Civil Disobedience

GBP 130.00
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The Dolmens and Passage Graves of Sweden An Introduction and Guide

The Dolmens and Passage Graves of Sweden An Introduction and Guide

This book is the first comprehensive introduction and guide to Sweden‘s most spectacular Stone Age monuments: the dolmens and passage graves which began to be constructed over 5000 years ago. The introduction provides a detailed social interpretation of these monuments outlining how and why they were built and the ways in which they related to economy and landscape politics ceremony symbolism and belief. This is followed by a systematic regional guide to all the major monuments in Sk Halland V ergotland and and Bohusl illustrated by numerous photographs plans and maps. | The Dolmens and Passage Graves of Sweden An Introduction and Guide

GBP 175.00
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The People of the Book Drama Fellowship and Religion

The People of the Book Drama Fellowship and Religion

Judaism has long derived its identity from its sacred books. The book or scroll - rather than the image or idol - has been emblematic of Jewish faith and tradition. The People of the Book presents a study of a group of Orthodox Jews all of whom live in the modern world engaged in the time-honored practice of lernen the repeated review and ritualized study of the sacred texts. In preserving one of the activities of Jewish life Samuel C. Heilman argues these are the genuine People of the Book. For two years Heilman participated in and observed five study circles in New York and Jerusalem engaged in the avocation of lernen the Talmud the great corpus of Jewish law lore and tradition. These groups made up of men who felt the ritualized study of sacred texts to be not only a religious obligation but also an appealing way to spend their evenings weekends and holidays assembled together under the guidance of a teacher to review the holy books of their people. Having become part of this world the author is able to provide first-hand observation of the workings of the study circle. Heilman's study moves beyond the merely descriptive into an analysis of the nature and meaning of activity he observed. To explain the character and appeal of the study groups he employs three concepts: drama fellowship and religion. Inherent to the life of the study circle are various sorts of drama: social dramas playing out social relationships cultural performances reenacting the Jewish world view and interactional dramas and word plays involving the intricacies of the recitation and translation process. This book will be of interest to anthropologists and those interested in the academic study of religion. | The People of the Book Drama Fellowship and Religion

GBP 130.00
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Wilderness Wanderings Probing Twentieth-century Theology And Philosophy

Wilderness Wanderings Probing Twentieth-century Theology And Philosophy

Wilderness Wanderings slashes through the tangled undergrowth that Christianity in America has become to clear a space for those for whom theology still matters. Writing to a generation of Christians that finds itself at once comfortably ?at home? yet oddly fettered and irrelevant in America Stanley Hauerwas challenges contemporary Christians to reimagine what it might mean to ?break back into Christianity? in a world that is at best semi-Christian. While the myth that America is a Christian nation has long been debunked a more urgent constructive task remains; namely discerning what it may mean for Christians approaching the threshold of the twenty-first century to be courageous in their convictions. Ironically reclaiming the church's identity and mission may require relinquishing its purported ?gains??which often amount to little more than a sense of comfort the seduction of feeling ?at ease in Zion?? to take up again the risk and adventure of life ?on the way. ? Accordingly this book gives no comfort to the religious right or left which continues to think Christianity can be made compatible with the sentimentalities of democratic liberalism. Such a re-visioned church will not establish itself through conquest or in a reconstituted Christendom but rather must develop within its own life the patient attentive skills of a wayfaring people. At least a church seasoned by a peripatetic life stands a better chance of noticing the changing directions of God's leading. The wilderness therefore ought not to appear to contemporary Christians in America as a foreboding and frightening possibility but as an opportunity to rediscover the excitement and spirit but also the rigorous discipline of faithful itinerancy. At such a crucial time as this Hauerwas challenges Christians to eschew the insidious dangers that attend too permanent a habitation in a place called America and to assume instead the holy risks and hazards characteristic of people called out set apart | Wilderness Wanderings Probing Twentieth-century Theology And Philosophy

GBP 130.00
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Mahasthan Record Revisited Querying the Empire from a Regional Perspective

Mahasthan Record Revisited Querying the Empire from a Regional Perspective

A small record consisting of six to seven lines that has been published by eminent epigraphists several times would require a fresh interpretation was almost beyond imagination. It was by chance that the Indian Museum displayed the Mahasthan stone plaque and after seeing this record several questions arose which demanded a fresh interpretation and this enquiry finally culminated into this slim monograph. The book attempts a re-reading of this inscription and also provides a fresh interpretation. It tries to situate this record in a broader canvas by interrogating the record along with several other evidences. This finally leads us to look at the Mauryan Empire from a regional perspective. | Mahasthan Record Revisited Querying the Empire from a Regional Perspective

GBP 130.00
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A History of Islamic Spain

A History of Islamic Spain

The period of Muslim occupation in Spain represents the only significant contact Islam and Europe was ever to have on European soil. In this important as well as fascinating study Watt traces Islam's influence upon Spain and European civilization - from the collapse of the Visigoths in the eighth century to the fall of Granada in the fifteenth and considers Spain's importance as a part of the Islamic empire. Particular attention is given to the golden period of economic and political stability achieved under the Umayyads. Without losing themselves in detail and without sacrificing complexity the authors discuss the political social and economic continuity in Islamic Spain or al-Andalus in light of its cultural and intellectual effects upon the rest of Europe. Medieval Christianity Watt points out found models of scholarship in the Islamic philosophers and adapted the idea of holy war to its own purposes while the final reunification of Spain under the aegis of the Reconquista played a significant role in bringing Europe out of the Middle Ages. A survey essential to anyone seeking a more complete knowledge of European or Islamic history the volume also includes sections on literature and philology by Pierre Cachia. This series of Islamic surveys is designed to give the educated reader something more than can be found in the usual popular books. Each work undertakes to survey a special part of the field and to show the present stage of scholarship here. Where there is a clear picture this will be given; but where there are gaps obscurities and differences of opinion these will also be indicated. Full and annotated bibliographies will afford guidance to those who want to pursue their studies further. There will also be some account of the nature and extent of the source material. The series is addressed in the first place to the educated reader with little or no previous knowledge of the subject; its character is such that it should be of value also to university students and others whose interest is of a more professional kind. | A History of Islamic Spain

GBP 130.00
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Ancient Britain

Ancient Britain

This book is for anyone starting out to understand the prehistoric life of Britain from the first human occupation 450 000 years ago until the Roman conquest in AD 43. James Dyer here succeeds in bringing to life a thriving picture of the people and customs of the Stone Bronze and Iron Ages based on the sometimes sparse clues presented by prehistoric archaeological sites across Britain. For many readers Ancient Britain will provide the first chance to get to grips with the present state of our knowledge of prehistoric agriculture settlement trade and ritual. The rise of power with the development of a class system at the hands of the first metal users is charted through to the growth of wealth and the emergence of a warlike and advanced Iron Age society - a society that was nonetheless unable to withstand the might of Rome. With over 130 illustrations and photographs including a number of specially drawn reconstructions this highly visual book is an ideal primer for all students of prehistory and all those who are simply interested in the subject.

GBP 130.00
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Dream of the Red Chamber Literary and Translation Perspectives

Dream of the Red Chamber Literary and Translation Perspectives

This edited volume contains an excellent collection of contributions and presents various informative topics under the central theme: literary and translation approaches to China’s greatest classical novel Hongloumeng. Acclaimed as one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature Hongloumeng (known in English as The Dream of the Red Chamber or The Story of the Stone) epitomizes 18th century Chinese social and cultural life. Owing to its kaleidoscopic description of Chinese life and culture the novel has also exerted a significant impact on world literature. Its various translations either full-length or abridged have been widely read by an international audience. The contributors to this volume provide a renewed perspective into Hongloumeng studies by bringing together scholarship in the fields of literary and translation studies. Specifically the use of corpora in the framework of digital humanities in a number of chapters helps re-address many issues of the novel and its translations from an innovative angle. The book is an insightful resource for both scholars of Chinese literature and for linguists with a focus on translation studies. | Dream of the Red Chamber Literary and Translation Perspectives

GBP 125.00
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The Eastern Land and the Western Heaven Qing Cosmopolitanism and its Translation in Tibet in the Eighteenth Century

The Eastern Land and the Western Heaven Qing Cosmopolitanism and its Translation in Tibet in the Eighteenth Century

This book sheds light on the structure of “a unity with diversity” developed in the Qing imperial formation (1636–1912) by a case study of the Qing-Tibetan encounters in the eighteenth century. By analyzing historical and ethnographical materials the book investigates the translation of Chinese histories and stone inscriptions into Tibetan the transformation of the landscapes at Mount Wutai and Lhasa and the transplantation of Chinese deities and medical practices to Tibet. It demonstrates the processes in which the cosmopolitan interlocutors reified imperial integrity while expressing their diverse longings and belongings. It concludes that the Qing’s rule over its cultural others was neither simply Sinicizing nor colonizing but a translational process in which multivocalic actors shared narratives landscapes and practices while the emperor and tantric masters performed cosmic power over humans and metahumans. This book cuts across the fields of anthropology history Chinese Studies and Tibetan Studies. It reflects on the concepts of sovereignty and ethnicity and it also extends the methodological horizon of historical anthropology. | The Eastern Land and the Western Heaven Qing Cosmopolitanism and its Translation in Tibet in the Eighteenth Century

GBP 130.00
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The ADD Hyperactivity Handbook For Schools

The ADD Hyperactivity Handbook For Schools

If you've ever wanted to take dynamic and vibrant digital photos of your favorite band in concert but aren't sure how to tackle such obstacles as approaching the stage tricky lighting situations or even what equipment to use then look no further! Concert and Live Music Photographyis a comprehensive guide to shooting live music performances providing you with the right information on equipment camera settings composition and post-processing to get the best out of each performance shot. J. Dennis Thomas whose work has appeared in such magazines as Rolling Stone SPIN and Country Weekly shares tips on lighting common problems etiquette and recommended camera settings for shooting in a variety of different venues including clubs bars outdoor concerts theatres stadiums and arenas. He also explains how to get the right credentials to get you closer to each performance. Jam packed with over160 photos from today's top concerts this book will not only give you the information you need to start taking rockin' photos of your favorite musicians but will spark your creativity when you're anticipating the next shot. For the on-the-go photographer a cool companion website features additional tips venue troubleshooting and an equipment checklist when you need to think on your feet while running to another gig. | The ADD Hyperactivity Handbook For Schools

GBP 175.00
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The Dugum Dani A Papuan Culture in the Highlands of West New Guinea

The Dugum Dani A Papuan Culture in the Highlands of West New Guinea

For many years anthropologists have speculated about primitive warfare its place in a particular culture its form and its consequences on other tribes. This full-scale ethnography of the Dugum Dani centers on the issue of hostility between groups of human beings and the place and function of violence. Warfare like rituals and kinship alliances is part of a total culture and for this reason Professor Heider has approached the Dani from a holistic point of view. Other aspects of Dani life and organization are shown in interrelationship with the institution of warfare such as the social ecological and technological elements in the Dani way of life. Professor Heider examines particularly the role of warfare itself in terms of the particular needs and lack of them. The first section of this book documents the Dani and their warfare and provides one of the most detailed accounts of tribal life available. The second section focuses on the material aspects of Dani culture to explore the interrelationships of the material objects with the other aspects of Dani culture; this analysis is especially interesting since the Dani moved from a stone-age culture to steel tools during the period of study itself. Professor Heider also notes the distinctive aspects of Dani culture; the paucity of color number and other attribute terms the near absence of art; their five-year post-partum sexual abstinence and other traits that seem to suggest that the Dani have little interest in intellectual elaboration or sex and that despite their warfare they are not a particularly aggressive people. Including previously unpublished photographs and descriptions of tribal life and warfare this book provides anthropologists with a full and vivid account of Dani culture and with new insights into the general problems of human aggression. | The Dugum Dani A Papuan Culture in the Highlands of West New Guinea

GBP 145.00
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Early Celtic Art From Its Origins to Its Aftermath

Early Celtic Art From Its Origins to Its Aftermath

For many perhaps most the title Early Celtic Art summons up images of Early Christian stone crosses in Ireland Scotland Wales or Cornwall; of Glendalough lona or Tintagel; of the Ardagh Chalice or the Monymusk Reliquary; of the great illuminated gospels of Durrow or Lindisfame. But as Stuart Piggott notes the consummate works of art produced under the aegis of the early churches in Britain or Ireland in regions Celtic by tradition or language have an ancestry behind them only partly Celtic. One strain in an eclectic style was borrowed from the ornament of the northern Germanic world the classical Mediterranean and even the Eastern churches. Early Celtic art originating in the fifth century b. c. in Central Europe was already seven or eight centuries old when it was last traced in the pagan prehistoric world and the transmission of some of its modes and motifs over a further span of centuries into the Christian Middle Ages was an even later phenomenon. This volume presents the art of the prehistoric Celtic peoples the first great contribution of the barbarians to European arts. It is an art produced in circumstances that the classical world and contemporary societiesunhesitatingly recognize as uncivilized. Its appearance it has been said by N. K. Sandars in Prehistoric Art in Europe: is perhaps one of the oddest and most unlikely things to have come out of a barbarian continent. Its peculiar refinement delicacy and equilibrium are not altogether what one would expect of men who though courageous and not without honor even in the records of their enemies were also savage cruel and often disgusting; for the archaeological refuse as well as the reports of Classical antiquity agree in this verdict. This book comprises the first major exhibition of Early Celtic Art from its origins and beginnings to its aftermath and was assembled by Stuart Piggott who taught later European prehistory to Honors students in Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh where he held the Abercromy Chair. He retired from the Chair in 1977 and in 1983 he received the gold medal of the Society of Antiquaries of London as well as the Grahame Clark medal of the British Academy in 1992. Through his knowledge of the subject he has made accessible an obscure but fascinating period of European culture. | Early Celtic Art From Its Origins to Its Aftermath

GBP 130.00
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