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Raised on Christian Milk: Food and the Formation of the Soul in Early Christianity

Raised on Christian Milk: Food and the Formation of the Soul in [...]

$145.95 AUD$116.76 AUD
A fascinating new study of the symbolic power of food and its role in forming kinship bonds and religious identity in early Christianity Scholar of religion John Penniman considers the...
Pilgrims to the Northland: The Archdiocese of St. Paul, 1840-1962

Pilgrims to the Northland: The Archdiocese of St. Paul, 1840-1962

$138.75 AUD$111.00 AUD
This is the first narrative history of the Archdiocese of St. Paul, from 1840 to 1962. Historian Marvin R. O'Connell brings to life the extraordinary labors and accomplishments of the...
Queens of a Fallen World: The Lost Women of Augustine's Confessions

Queens of a Fallen World: The Lost Women of Augustine's Confessions

$45.00 AUD$36.00 AUD
Author: Kate Cooper Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 FINALIST: THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2023 The vibrant and surprising lives of the women in Augustine's Confessions While many know of...
Queens of a Fallen World: The Lost Women of Augustine's Confessions

Queens of a Fallen World: The Lost Women of Augustine's Confessions

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Author: Kate Cooper Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 FINALIST: THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2023 The vibrant and surprising lives of the women in Augustine's Confessions While many know of...
Monastic Women and Religious Orders in Late Medieval Bologna

Monastic Women and Religious Orders in Late Medieval Bologna

$183.95 AUD$147.16 AUD
Sherri Franks Johnson explores the roles of religious women in the changing ecclesiastical and civic structure of late medieval Bologna, demonstrating how convents negotiated a place in their urban context...
Leaving the Fold Apostates and Defectors in Antiquity: Apostates and Defectors in Antiquity

Leaving the Fold Apostates and Defectors in Antiquity: Apostates and Defectors in Antiquity

$44.95 AUD$35.96 AUD
Movement from one community to another can create strife, pain, and social dislocation. In this astute analysis, Stephen Wilson examines the ancient sources for clues to how leaving a religious...
Against the Academics: St. Augustine's Cassiciacum Dialogues, Volume 1

Against the Academics: St. Augustine's Cassiciacum Dialogues, Volume 1

$28.95 AUD$15.00 AUD
A fresh, new translation of Augustine's inaugural work as a Christian convert"Lively, engaging and accurate translations. . . . There is much in this dialogue and Foley's presentation of it...
That Men Would Praise the Lord: The Reformation in Nimes, 1530-1570

That Men Would Praise the Lord: The Reformation in Nimes, 1530-1570

$49.95 AUD$39.96 AUD
In this book, author Alan Tulchin breaks apart the process of mass conversion in the sixteenth century to explain why the Reformation occurred, using Nimes, the most Protestant town in...
Henry Stubbe and the Beginnings of Islam: The Originall & Progress of Mahometanism

Henry Stubbe and the Beginnings of Islam: The Originall & Progress of Mahometanism

$107.95 AUD$86.36 AUD
Henry Stubbe (1632-1676) was an extraordinary English scholar who challenged his contemporaries by writing about Islam as a monotheistic revelation in continuity with Judaism and Christianity. His major work, The...
Excommunication for Debt in Late Medieval France: The Business of Salvation

Excommunication for Debt in Late Medieval France: The Business of Salvation

$174.95 AUD$139.96 AUD
Late medieval church courts frequently excommunicated debtors at the request of their creditors. Tyler Lange analyzes over 11,000 excommunications between 1380 and 1530 in order to explore the forms, rhythms,...
The Legitimacy of Bastards: The Place of Illegitimate Children in Later Medieval England

The Legitimacy of Bastards: The Place of Illegitimate Children in Later Medieval England

$65.99 AUD$52.80 AUD
For the nobility and gentry in later medieval England, land was a source of wealth and status. Their marriages were arranged with this in mind, and it is not surprising...
The Life of Bishoi: The Greek, Arabic, Syriac, and Ethiopic Lives

The Life of Bishoi: The Greek, Arabic, Syriac, and Ethiopic Lives

$114.99 AUD$92.00 AUD
Author: Tim Vivian Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 390 Four translations of major accounts of the life of the fourth-century Egyptian desert father St. Bishoi, in one volume Saint Bishoi...
The Art of Self-Improvement: Ten Timeless Truths

The Art of Self-Improvement: Ten Timeless Truths

$41.95 AUD$20.98 AUD
A brilliant distillation of the key ideas behind successful self-improvement practices throughout history, showing us how they remain relevant today Self-help today is a multi-billion-dollar global industry, one often seen...
Christ's Associations: Connecting and Belonging in the Ancient City

Christ's Associations: Connecting and Belonging in the Ancient City

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A groundbreaking investigation of early Christ groups in the ancient Mediterranean As an urban movement, the early groups of Christ followers came into contact with the many small groups in...
The New Testament I and II: 15/16: Part I - Books

The New Testament I and II: 15/16: Part I - Books

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New Testament I and II represents Vol. I/15 and I/16 in the Works of Saint Augustine: A Translation for the 21st Century. The present volume contains the translations of four...
Pluralism and Democracy in India: Debating the Hindu Right

Pluralism and Democracy in India: Debating the Hindu Right

$83.95 AUD$40.00 AUD
Author: Wendy Doniger (Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions, Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions, University of Chicago)Format: Paperback, 155mm x 234mm,...
Women of God and Arms: Female Spirituality and Political Conflict, 138-16

Women of God and Arms: Female Spirituality and Political Conflict, 138-16

$138.75 AUD$70.00 AUD
Author: Nancy Bradley WarrenFormat: Hardback, 152mm x 229mm, 272 pagesPublished: University of Pennsylvania Press, United States, 2005The religious and political spheres of the later medieval and early modern periods were...
Messianic Beliefs and Imperial Politics in Medieval Islam: The 'Abbasid Caliphate in the Early Ninth Century

Messianic Beliefs and Imperial Politics in Medieval Islam: The 'Abbasid Caliphate in the Early Ninth Century

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Author: Hayrettin YucesoyFormat: Hardback, 216 pagesPublished: University of South Carolina Press, United States, 2009This book presents an analysis of the dynamic relationship between apocalyptic prophesies and medieval Muslim politics. ""Messianic...
Hermann Poetzlinger's Music Book: The St Emmeram Codex and its Contexts

Hermann Poetzlinger's Music Book: The St Emmeram Codex and its Contexts

$229.99 AUD$50.00 AUD
Author: Ian RumboldFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 976g, 374 pagesPublished: Boydell & Brewer Ltd, United Kingdom, 2009A study of one of the most significant medieval manuscripts containing music, and its...
Heterodoxy in Late Imperial China

Heterodoxy in Late Imperial China

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Author: Kwang-Ching Liu Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 544 Ten international academics explore heterodoxy dissent challenging the beliefs and meanings of the established norm in late Imperial China. In this...
The Church in the Early Modern Age

The Church in the Early Modern Age

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Author: C. Scott DixonFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 565g, 272 pagesPublished: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom, 2016The years 1450-1650 were a momentous period for the development of Christianity. They witnessed...
Women of God and Arms: Female Spirituality and Political Conflict, 138-16

Women of God and Arms: Female Spirituality and Political Conflict, 138-16

$138.75 AUD$111.00 AUD
Author: Nancy Bradley WarrenFormat: Hardback, 152mm x 229mm, 272 pagesPublished: University of Pennsylvania Press, United States, 2005The religious and political spheres of the later medieval and early modern periods were...
Civilisations: How Do We Look / The Eye of Faith

Civilisations: How Do We Look / The Eye of Faith

$34.99 AUD$27.99 AUD
Author: Mary BeardFormat: Hardback, 148mm x 218mm, 670g, 240 pagesPublished: Profile Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2018Focusing on the arrival of the human figure as a subject of art, Mary Beard...
The English Soul: The Faith of a Nation

The English Soul: The Faith of a Nation

$39.99 AUD$33.99 AUD
Author: Peter Ackroyd Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 The English Soul portrays the spirit and nature of English Christianity as it has developed over the last 1,400 years. As...
Rembrandt Is in the Wind: Learning to Love Art through the Eyes of Faith

Rembrandt Is in the Wind: Learning to Love Art through the Eyes of Faith

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Author: Russ Ramsey Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 How do art and faith intersect How does art help us see our own lives more clearly What can we understand...
Evensong: Reflections on the Church in England

Evensong: Reflections on the Church in England

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Author: Richard Morris Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Parish churches have been at the heart of communities for more than a thousand years. But now, fewer than two in...