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    - Luther's Reform of Late Medieval Piety, 1518-1520
    by Anna Marie Johnson
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    by Susan B. Puett
    £26.99

  • - A True Tale of Madness, Witchcraft, and Property Development Gone Wrong
    by Kirsten C. Uszkalo
    £28.99

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    - An Icon of the Papal Antichrist In Reformation Polemics
    by Lawrence Buck
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    - Puritan Perspectives on Elizabethan Religious Life
    by Timothy Scott McGinnis
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    Archaeological excavation of the ancient city of Bethsaida has retrieved a wealth of information on some of the most intriguing topics from 10th century BCEto 4th century CE. This volume includes reports on archaeological and geological findings from 1997 to 2006 and the cultural and historical contexts of the findings.

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    - Contexts and Contestations
    by John Jeffries Martin, Ronald K. Delph & Michelle M. Fontaine
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    by Jean-Francois Gilmont
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    - Science, Medicine, and Astrology in Early Modern Europe
     
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    by Susan C. Karant-Nunn & Professor Scott H. Hendrix
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    - Art in Context
    by A. Lawrence Jenkens
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    - Rituals of Execution in Renaissance Italy
     
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    In Renaissance Italy a good execution was both public and peaceful-at least in the eyes of authorities. In a feature unique to Italy, the people who prepared a condemned man or woman spiritually and psychologically for execution were not priests or friars, but laymen. This volume includes some of the songs, stories, poems, and images that they used, together with first-person accounts and ballads describing particular executions. Leading scholars expand on these accounts explaining aspects of the theater, psychology, and politics of execution.The main text is a manual, translated in English for the first time, on how to comfort a man in his last hours before beheading or hanging. It became an influential text used across Renaissance Italy. A second lengthy piece gives an eyewitness account of the final hours of two patrician Florentines executed for conspiracy against the Medici in 1512. Shorter pieces include poems written by prisoners on the eve of their execution, songs sung by the condemned and their comforters, and popular broadsheets reporting on particular executions. It is richly illustrated with the small panel paintings that were thrust into prisoners'' faces to distract them as they made the public journey to the gallows.Six interdisciplinary essays explain the contexts and meanings of these writings and of execution rituals generally. They explore the relation of execution rituals to late medieval street theater, the use of art to comfort the condemned, the literature that issued from prisons by the hands of condemned prisoners, the theological issues around public executions in the Renaissance, the psychological dimensions of the comforting process, and some of the social, political, and historical dimensions of executions and comforting in Renaissance Italy.

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    - From Byzantium to the Baroque
     
    £46.99

    Plague was one of the enduring facts of everyday life on the European continent, from earliest antiquity through the first decades of the eighteenth century. It represents one of the most important influences on the development of Europe's society and culture. In order to understand the changing circumstances of the political, economic, ecclesiastical, artistic, and social history of that continent, it is important to understand epidemic disease and society's response to it. To date, the largest portion of scholarship about plague has focused on its political, economic, demographic, and medical aspects. This interdisciplinary volume offers greater coverage of the religious and the psychological dimensions of plague and of European society's response to it through many centuries and over a wide geographical terrain, including Byzantium. This research draws extensively upon a wealth of primary sources, both printed and painted, and includes ample bibliographical reference to the most important secondary sources, providing much new insight into how generations of Europeans responded to this dread disease.

  • - Iconography and Iconology
    by Christine M. Boeckl
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    - Past and Present
     
    £29.49

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