[PDF] The Secular Chronicle eBook

Author : Philip Wood
Publisher : Oxford University Press (UK)
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 19,64 MB
Release : 2013-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 0199670676

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This book examines the cultural and political history of the Church of the East, the main Christian church in Iraq and Iran. Philip Wood uses medieval Arabic sources to examine history-writing by Christians in the fifth to ninth centuries AD.

Author : Nina Rowe
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 28,15 MB
Release : 2020-11-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300247044

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A look into an enchanting, underexplored genre of illustrated manuscripts that reveals new insights into urban life in the Middle Ages In this innovative study, Nina Rowe examines a curious genre of illustrated book that gained popularity among the newly emergent middle class of late medieval cities. These illuminated World Chronicles, produced in the Bavarian and Austrian regions from around 1330 to 1430, were the popular histories of their day, telling tales from the Bible, ancient mythology, and the lives of emperors in animated, vernacular verse, enhanced by dynamic images. Rowe’s appraisal of these understudied books presents a rich world of storytelling modes, offering unprecedented insight into the non-noble social strata in a transformative epoch. Through a multidisciplinary approach, Rowe also shows how illuminated World Chronicles challenge the commonly held view of the Middle Ages as socially stagnant and homogeneously pious. Beautifully illustrated and backed by abundant and accessible analyses of social, economic, and political conditions, this book highlights the engaging character of secular literature during the late medieval era and the relationship of illustrated books to a socially diverse and vibrant urban sphere.

Author : Isaac Kramnick
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,82 MB
Release : 2018-08-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0393254976

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“Illuminating.” —Phil Zuckerman, author of Living the Secular Life If the First Amendment protects the separation of church and state, why have atheists had to fight for their rights? In this valuable work, R. Laurence Moore and Isaac Kramnick reveal the fascinating history of atheism in America and the legal challenges to federal and state laws that made atheists second-class citizens.

Author : Isaac Kramnick
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 38,89 MB
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393315240

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The Godless Constitution is a ringing rebuke to the religious right's attempts, fueled by misguided and inaccurate interpretations of American history, to dismantle the wall between church and state erected by the country's founders. The authors, both distinguished scholars, revisit the historical roots of American religious freedom, paying particular attention to such figures as John Locke, Roger Williams, and especially Thomas Jefferson, and examine the controversies, up to the present day, over the proper place of religion in our political life. With a new chapter that explores the role of religion in the public life of George W. Bush's America, The Godless Constitution offers a bracing return to the first principles of American governance.

Author : C. John Sommerville
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 22,50 MB
Release : 2006-06-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780195306958

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