Step into the mysterious world of the New Testament Apocrypha-a rich collection of ancient texts that offer fascinating insights into the spiritual and theological diversity of early Christianity.
Look what the cat dragged in from the Middle Ages - a curious collection of the most wonky, wide-eyed and weirdly drawn cats ever to grace the margins of history.
Abbreviating Middle English: Scribal practices, Visual Texts and Medieval Multimodalities investigates the changing dynamics of scribal abbreviating practices in a corpus of late Middle English manuscripts of Richard Rolle's, John Lydgate's and John Gower's works and reinterprets these practices from new perspectives of visual pragmatics, medieval multimodalities and visual code-switching.
The idea of the past, far from suggesting a nostalgic longing or an antiquarian curiosity for ages and cultures irrevocably lost, is essential to the human perception of the world.
The essays in this second volume from Helmut Gneuss are devoted to the study of books, their readers, and libraries in medieval England, especially in the Anglo-Saxon period.
The second installment of the Album of Dated Latin Inscriptions from Rome and the Neighborhood offers a rich continuation of epigraphical and palaeographical study, covering the period from A.
This book explores the theological significance of horror elements in the works of Hesiod and in the Homeric Hymns for the characters within these poems, the mortal audience consuming them, and the poet responsible for mythopoesis.
The Christian culture of Rus (the medieval precursor of modern Russia, Ukraine and Belarus) is sometimes presented either as a reflection of an indigenous spirituality wrapped in borrowed (Byzantine) forms or, by contrast, as merely a provincial version of its Byzantine original.
In this book, the writer tries to provide adequate objective images of Islamic mysticism without excessive or neglecting a desire to clarify the truth and an invitation to achieve purposeful dialogue and to bring different views and compose the inconsistent hearts.
In this sequel to Joyce Andrew's popular book, Bible Legacy of the Black Race: The Prophecy Fulfilled, three questions are raised:What happened to the history of Ham and his descendants (African Black nation)?
This book offers a comprehensive and nuanced history of the Jews of Egypt, who constituted an important ethnic minority ever since they first appeared in the country.
Courteous Exchanges explores the significant overlap between Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene and Shakespeare's plays, showing how both facilitate the critique of Renaissance aristocratic identity.
This volume presents comprehensive investigations into various facets of observational astronomy during the medieval Islamic period, spanning from the ninth to the seventeenth centuries.
Authoritative edition of Hafizs most important poems, including original Persian and brilliant English translationsRecent translations of Hafiz have been controversial.
Readers of this book receive an overview of the main perspectives and research of recent decades in the fruitful collaboration between Classics and Cognitive studies.
The Routledge Companion to Global Chaucer offers 40 chapters by leading scholars working with contemporary, theoretical, and textual approaches to the poetry and prose of Geoffrey Chaucer (c.
This book is concerned with the transmission and reception of Latin literary culture in the early Middle Ages, and with the production of Latin works in Ireland and in Irish centres on the Continent.
In an era of political upheaval and social unrest, the prophet Habakkuk raises his voice—not only to denounce the injustices of his world but to engage in a profound dialogue with the Divine.
