Search Results - "reality"

The Mongol Empire between myth and reality : studies in anthropological history / by Aigle, Denise

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On the margins of crusading the military orders, the Papacy and the Christian world /

Table of Contents: “…/ Anne Gilmour-Bryson -- Myths and reality : the crusades and the Latin east as presented during the trial of the templars in the British Isles / Helen J. …”
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Holy bones, holy dust how relics shaped the history of Medieval Europe / by Freeman, Charles, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…Prologue: the making of a martyr -- How the Christian relic emerged -- The incorruptible flesh of the martyrs -- Creating a Christian landscape -- The battle for acceptance -- The view from Byzantium -- Bishops, magic and relics in the post-Roman world -- 'A barbarous, fierce and unbelieving nation' -- The great consolidator -- Hope and desperation in a disordered world -- Cults and the rise of anti-semitism -- Fervent Christian pilgrims -- 'The eyes are fed with gold-bedecked reliquaries' -- Looting the East -- Louis IX and the Sainte-Chapelle -- Sacred flesh between death and resurrection -- 'Christ's recruits ... fight back' -- Protectors of il Popolo -- The Virgin Mary and the penitent whore -- The wondrous blood of Christ -- Rescuers and devils -- 'Of far-off saints, hallowed in sundry lands' -- 'dead images that ... may not ... help any man of any disease' -- Protestantism and the new iconoclasm -- Intimations of reality -- Reasserting the miraculous -- Within the community of the supernatural.…”
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Ideas of power in the late Middle Ages, 1296-1417 by Canning, Joseph, 1944-

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The Greek polis and the invention of democracy a politico-cultural transformation and its interpretations /

Table of Contents: “…Changing a Way of Life : Democracy's Impact on polis-Society -- The Impact of Democracy on Communal Life / Sara Forsdyke -- The Participation of the demos in Decision-Making : Principles and Reality / Claude Mossé -- Democracy and Religion in Classical Greece / Robin Osborne -- Democracy and War / Lawrence A. …”
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Fear and loathing in the North : Jews and Muslims in medieval Scandinavia and the Baltic Region /

Table of Contents: “…Images and stereotypes: Scandinavia -- Christian hatred of the other : theological rhetoric vs. political reality / Yvonne Friedman -- The life of the Prophet Muhammad in East Norse / Jonathan Adams -- Kyn / Fólk / Þjóð / Ætt : proto-Racial thinking and its application to Jews in Old Norse literature / Richard Cole -- IV. …”
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Sons of the Gods, Children of Earth : Ideology and Literary Form in Ancient Greece / by Rose, Peter W. (Peter Wires), 1936-

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Sons of the Gods, Children of Earth : Ideology and Literary Form in Ancient Greece / by Rose, Peter W. (Peter Wires), 1936-

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Morality and masculinity in the Carolingian empire by Stone, Rachel

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Memories of utopia : the revision of histories and landscapes in Late Antiquity /

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