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On foot a history of walking / by Amato, Joseph Anthony

Table of Contents: “…Introduction, walking is talking -- In the beginning was the foot : walking from the origins of bipedal man to marching Roman legions -- Along the road : Medieval pilgrims, beggars, mounted warriors, and the early city walkers -- Put your best foot forward : the rise of upper-class promenading and strolling -- Mind over foot : Romantic walking and rambling -- North American walking : exploring the continent on foot -- City walking : the genesis of the urban pedestrian in nineteenth-century London -- A new footing for the nation : taming and cleaning up revolutionary Paris -- Getting in step : disciplining the mob and marching the masses off to war -- Wheels and cars : the eclipse of the American walker by the motorist -- Conclusion, choose your steps : reflections on the transformation of walking from necessity to choice.…”
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Archaeology and memory

Table of Contents: “…: remembering and dismembering dead bodies at Vlasac / Dušan Borić -- Forgetting and remembering the digital experience and digital data / Ruth Tringham -- Layers of meaning : concealment, containment, memory, and secrecy in the British early Bronze Age / Andy Jones -- Constructing the warrior : death, memory, and the art of warfare / Bryan Hanks -- Memory and microhistory of an empire : domestic contexts in Roman Amheida, Egypt / Anna Boozer -- The depiction of time on the Arch of Constantine / Adam Gutteridge -- Archaeology and memory on the Western Front / Paola Filippucci -- Terra incognita : the material world in international criminal courts / Lindsay Weiss -- YugoMuseum : memory, nostalgia, irony / Mrđan Bajić -- Memory, melancholy, and materiality / Victor Buchli.…”
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Violence and civilization : studies of social violence in history and prehistory /

Table of Contents: “…Community -- Introduction to Part II -- Histories of violence : notes from the Roman Empire / Ari Z. Bryen -- On torture in societies against the state / Severin Fowles -- Part III. …”
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Christianity and culture in the city a postcolonial approach /

Table of Contents: “…Use of Roman Catholic material culture, ritual, and devotional practices in Haitian vodou in the greater Newark, New Jersey area: the urban context / Peter Savastano -- Between the runway and empty tomb: bodily transformations and Christian praxis in New York City's House Ball community / Edgar Rivera -- Praying aloud, in Spanish, in the South Bronx / Nicolas Dumit Estevez -- Troubling the waters: intimate violence and the church-breaking the hold of shame and secrecy / Michelle L. …”
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Christianity, Democracy, and the Shadow of Constantine /

Table of Contents: “…Moral argument in the human rights debate of the Russian orthodox church -- Post-communist orthodox countries and secularization : the Lautsi case and the fracture of Europe -- Power to the people : orthodoxy, consociational democracy, and the move beyond phyletism -- Power, protest, and perichoresis : on being church in a troubled world -- Strange fruit : Augustine, liberalism, and the good Samaritan -- An orthodox encounter with liberal democracy -- Democracy and the dynamics of death : orthodox reflections on the origin, purpose, and limits of politics -- "I have overcome the world" : the church, the liberal state, and Christ's two natures in the Russian politics of theosis -- Emperors and bishops of Constantinople -- Stepping out of Constantine's shadow -- "You cannot have a church without an Empire" : political orthodoxy in Byzantium -- Roman catholicism and democracy : the postconciliar era -- How (not) to be a political theologian.…”
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Margaret Fuller transatlantic crossings in a revolutionary age /

Table of Contents: “…Hillard, and the American tradition of travel writing on Italy / John Paul Russo -- Realism, idealism, and passion in Margaret Fuller's 'Italy' / Francesco Guida -- Righteous violence : the Roman Republic and Margaret Fuller's revolutionary example / Larry J. …”
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The road to renewal Victor Joseph Reed & Oklahoma Catholicism, 1905-1971 / by Bonner, Jeremy

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: from Catholic American to American Catholic -- Before the Council, 1905-1957 -- The Roman way : early life, 1905-1934 -- A youthful apostolate : the heyday of Catholic action, 1935-1957 -- The institutional church, 1958-1971 -- On being a bishop : renewing diocesan structures -- Educated Catholics : the school question revisited -- Looking outward : parish life and the postconciliar church -- The prophetic church, 1958-1971 -- Worship and the intellect : the challenge of liturgical renewal -- We are our brothers' keepers : the ecumenical impulse -- A colorblind church : the search for racial equality -- Beyond Oklahoma : the Guatemala mission and the Vietnam War -- The human church, 1958-1971 -- From pastor to professional : the Catholic priesthood in the 1960s -- The cost of discipleship : Catholic sisters and modernity -- Out of the ghetto : the conscience of the Catholic layman -- An enduring sense of separation : Catholic identity in crisis.…”
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Divine love perspectives from the world's religious traditions /

Table of Contents: “…Habito -- God as infinite love : a Roman Catholic perspective / David Tracy -- Divine and human love in Islam / William C. …”
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Thomas Jefferson, the classical world, and early America

Table of Contents: “…Cole -- Aristotle and King Alfred in America / Peter Thompson -- Jefferson's classical silence, 1774-1776 : historical consciousness and Roman history in the revolutionary South / Eran Shalev -- Cicero and the classical republican legacy in America / Paul A. …”
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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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Divine love : perspectives from the world's religious traditions /

Table of Contents: “…Habito -- God as infinite love : a Roman Catholic perspective / David Tracy -- Divine and human love in Islam / William C. …”

Europe After Wyclif /

Table of Contents: “…A world astir: Europe and religion in the early fifteenth century -- Cosmopolitan artists, Florentine initials, and the Wycliffite Bible -- Constructing the Apocalypse: connections between English and Bohemian apocalyptic thinking -- Wyclif's early reception in Bohemia and his influence on the thought of Jerome of Prague -- Determinism between Oxford and Prague: the late Wyclif's retractions and their defense ascribed to Peter Payne -- Before and after Wyclif: consent to another's sin in medieval Europe -- Interpreting the intention of Christ: Roman responses to Bohemian Utraquism from Constance to Basel -- The waning of the "Wycliffites": giving names to Hussite Heresy -- Orthodoxy and the game of knowledge: Deguileville in fifteenth-century England -- Preparing for Easter: sermons on the Eucharist in English Wycliffite sermons -- "IF yt be a nacion": vernacular Scripture and English nationhood in Columbia University library, Plimpton MS 259 -- Re-forming the life of Christ.…”
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A companion to Terence

Table of Contents: “…Terence and the Traditions of Roman New Comedy George Fredric Franko 3. Terence and Non-Comic Intertexts Alison Sharrock 4. …”
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Anthropological approaches to zooarchaeology complexity, colonialism, and animal transformations /

Table of Contents: “…Senatore -- Zooarchaeology in the Spanish borderlands of the American Southwest : challenges and opportunities / Diane Gifford-Gonzalez -- Animal husbandry at Pimería Alta missions : el ganado en el sudoeste de Norteamérica / Barnet Pavao-Zuckerman -- The adoption and use of domestic animals at Zuni / Carmen Tarcan and Jonathan Driver -- "Romanizing" ancient Carthage : evidence from zooarchaeological remains / Michael MacKinnon -- Animal keeping and Roman colonization in the province of Pannonia Inferior, western Hungary / Kyra Lyublyanovics -- Zooarchaeology and colonialism in Roman Britain : evidence from Icklingham / Pam J. …”
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From the Athenian tetradrachm to the euro studies in European monetary integration /

Table of Contents: “…Karatzas -- Common currency from antiquity : plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose / Ioannis Touratsoglou -- Monetary integration in the Roman Empire / Juan Carlos Martinez Oliva -- 'One money for an empire' : achievements and limitations of Byzantium's currency from Constantine the Great to the fall of Constantinople / Cécile Morrisson -- On the history of German monetary union / Richard H. …”
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Classical constructions papers in memory of Don Fowler, classicist and epicurean /

Table of Contents: “…Laocoon's point of view : walking the Roman way / Don Fowler -- Life as play, life as a play : Montaigne and the epicureans / Phillip Mitsis -- Bicycles, centaurs and man-faced ox-creatures : ontological instability in Lucretius / Gordon Campbell -- Didaxis, rhetoric, and the law in Lucretius / Alessandro Schiesaro -- Making an exemplum of yourself : Cicero and Augustus / Michèle Lowrie -- Natura narratur : Tullius Laureas' elegy for Cicero (Pliny, Nat. 31.8) / Llewelyn Morgan -- Contrasts / Philip Hardie -- Horace's body, Horace's books / Joseph Farrell -- Ovid among the conspiracy theorists / Stephen Hinds -- Haec tum Roma fuit : past, present, and closure in Silius Italicus' Punica / Ben Tipping -- Petrarch's Lucan and the Africa / Matthew Leigh -- Translating antiquity : intertextuality, anachronism, and archaism / Deborah H. …”
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The social sciences and biblical translation

Table of Contents: “…Rohrbaugh -- Grace as benefaction in Galatians 2:9, 1 Corinthians 3:19, and Romans 12:3; 15:15 / Zeba A. Crook -- Contrition and correction or elimination and purification in 1 Corinthians 5 / Richard E. …”
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The poetry of Statius

Table of Contents: “…the tradition of Jocasta's suicide in Greek and Roman drama and in Statius' Thebaid / Johannes J.L. …”
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Gezer VII the middle Bronze and later fortifications in fields II, IV, and VIII / by Seger, Joe D.

Table of Contents: “…[1] General Introduction -- Excavations in Field IV -- The 1973-1974 Investigation of Fortification Elements in Other Fields -- [2] Cultural and Historical Summary -- The Middle Bronze Age -- The Outer Wall and the Later Settlements at Gezer -- Abandonment and Exploitation in the Roman Period -- [3] Stratigraphy -- The Southern Gate -- The Connecting Walls and the Glacis -- The Intramural Complex -- The Outer Wall -- The Stratigraphy in Field II Areas 4 and 14 -- The Stratigraphy of Field VIII -- [4] Pottery -- Pottery Remains in Field IV -- Field II Areas 4 and 14 -- Field VIII Area 1 -- [5] Objects -- Adornments (Beads, Buttons, and Amulets) -- Jewelry (Gold and Silver) -- Scarabs and Scarab Stamps -- Bone and Horn Tools -- Ceramic, Clay, and Faience Objects -- Loom Weights -- Flint Blades -- Stone Vessels and Implements -- Scale Weights -- Bronze Tools -- Signs, Marks, and Letterforms -- [6] Special Studies -- Carbon 14 Assays -- Shell Remains -- Plate and Description Conventions.…”
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'Triumphs of English' : Henry Parker, Lord Morley, translator to the Tudor court : new essays in interpretation /

Table of Contents: “…/ Jeremy Maule -- Morley's translations from Roman philosophers and English courtier literature / David R. …”
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