Exclusionary West
Medieval Minorities and the Making of Modern Europe
ISBN: HB: 9781787383159,
Hurst Publishers,
March 2025
256 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
256 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
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A timely study of the intrinsic connections between Western European nations and their non-Christian minorities in the age of state formation.
Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia are on the rise in twenty-first-century Europe, but...
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Sovereignty and Religious Freedom
A Jewish History
ISBN: HB: 9780300246834,
Yale University Press,
February 2025
312 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 11 black&white illus.
312 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 11 black&white illus.
A comparative legal history of Jewish sovereignty and religious freedom, illuminating the surprising ways that collective and individual rights have evolved over the past two centuries.
It is a common assumption that in Israel, Jews have sovereignt...
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Sea of Ink, Forest of Pens
The Art of the Quran in the Hossein Afshar Collection
ISBN: HB: 9780300278828,
Yale University Press,
February 2025
208 pp., 27,9x22,9 cm, 125 colour illus.
208 pp., 27,9x22,9 cm, 125 colour illus.
A spectacular study of calligraphy, the most esteemed form of visual and textual expression in the Islamic world, through a storied collection of Qur'an manuscripts.
Spanning more than a millennium, from the seventh through the nineteenth century,...
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They Flew
A History of the Impossible
ISBN: PB: 9780300280074,
ISBN: HB: 9780300259803,
Yale University Press,
January 2025
512 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 55 black&white illus.
512 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 55 black&white illus.
An award-winning historian's examination of impossible events at the dawn of modernity and of their enduring significance.
Accounts of seemingly impossible phenomena abounded in the early modern era – tales of levitation, bilocation, and witchcraft...
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Crisis of Colonial Anglicanism
Empire, Slavery and Revolt in the Church of England
ISBN: HB: 9781911723585,
Hurst Publishers,
January 2025
352 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
352 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
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A hard-hitting critique of the Church of England as a social, spiritual and financial driver and beneficiary of the British Empire.
This book offers a fresh, bold and unsettling truth: the British Empire and Great Britain are...
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Buddhism and the Political
Organisation and Participation in the Theravada Moral Universe
ISBN: HB: 9781849048385,
Hurst Publishers,
January 2025
256 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
256 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
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Popular participation is one of the hallmarks of modern politics. So why have democracy and democratic norms generally failed to take root in the Theravada Buddhist countries of South and Southeast Asia? This book explores trad...
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Vatican Spies
From the Second World War to Pope Francis
ISBN: HB: 9781911723400,
Hurst Publishers,
December 2024
384 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
384 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
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A revelatory history of the priests, nuncios and missionaries whose "special operations" have served the Holy See and the 1.3 billion Catholics worldwide.
"Officially" the Vatican has no espionage service; but does that mean t...
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Christianity as a Way of Life
A Systematic Theology
ISBN: HB: 9780300244090,
Yale University Press,
November 2024
328 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
328 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
Focusing on Christianity's core practices, a leading theologian imagines Christianity as a way of life oriented toward wisdom.
In this book, Kevin W. Hector argues that we can understand Christianity as a set of practices designed to transform one'...
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Genesis 1-11
A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary
ISBN: HB: 9780300149739,
Yale University Press,
November 2024
488 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm, 13 black&white illus.
488 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm, 13 black&white illus.
The first volume of a groundbreaking two-part commentary on the book of Genesis by leading biblical scholar Ronald Hendel.
The first eleven chapters of Genesis narrate the origin of the universe; the creation of the first human beings; the beginnin...
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Monastic World
A Thousand Year History
ISBN: HB: 9780300208566,
Yale University Press,
November 2024
512 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 16 black&white illus.
512 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 16 black&white illus.
A major new history of medieval monasticism, from the fourth to the sixteenth century.
From the late Roman Empire onwards, monasteries and convents were a common sight throughout Europe. But who were monasteries for? What kind of people founded and...
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