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  • Byzantine Media Subjects

    by Glenn A. Peers ...
    Series series Medieval Societies, Religions, and Cultures
    Byzantine Media Subjects invites readers into a world replete with images—icons, frescoes, and mosaics filling places of worship, politics, and community. Glenn Peers asks readers to think themselves into a world where representation reigned and humans followed, and indeed were formed. Interrogating the fundamental role of representation in the making of the Byzantine human, Peers argues that ... Read more

    $25.59 CAD

  • Byzantine Tree Life

    Christianity and the Arboreal Imagination

    by Thomas Arentzen, Virginia Burrus, Glenn Peers ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book examines the many ways Byzantines lived with their trees. It takes seriously theological and hagiographic tree engagement as expressions of that culture’s deep involvement—and even fascination—with the arboreal. These pages tap into the current attention paid to plants in a wide range of scholarship, an attention that involves the philosophy of plant life as well as scientific ... Read more

    $153.69 CAD

  • Restoring Forests and Trees for Sustainable Development

    Policies, Practices, Impacts, and Ways Forward

    Edited by Pia Katila, Carol J. Pierce Colfer, Wil de Jong, Glenn Galloway, Pablo Pacheco, Georg Winkel ...
    This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Forests and trees are crucial for human wellbeing, sustainable development, and ultimately, life on Earth. The critical ecosystem services that forests provide are widely ... Read more

    $131.99 CAD

  • Sustainable Development Goals: Their Impacts on Forests and People

    Edited by Pia Katila, Carol J. Pierce Colfer, Wil de Jong, Glenn Galloway, Pablo Pacheco, Georg Winkel ...
    Forests provide vital ecosystem services crucial to human well-being and sustainable development, and have an important role to play in achieving the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations 2030 Agenda. Little attention, however, has yet focused on how efforts to achieve the SDGs will impact forests and forest-related livelihoods, and how these impacts may, in turn, ... Read more

    $121.59 CAD

  • 'The Bird Who Sang the Trisagion' of Isaac of Antioch

    Becoming Parrot in a Late Antique Syriac Sermon

    by Robert A. Kitchen, Glenn Peers ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book provides close historical, theological and cultural analyses of an important, but neglected, Late Antique writer, Isaac of Antioch, who was active during the second half of the fifth century. This book is the first English-language monograph on this key figure and also includes the first translation (without the Syriac) of this compelling metrical homily into English, which has at its ... Read more

    $57.69 CAD

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  • The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve

    The Story That Created Us

    by Stephen Greenblatt ...
    **“Endlessly illuminating and a sheer pleasure to read.” —Jack Miles, author of God: A BiographyDaring to take the great biblical account of human origins seriously, but without credulity.**The most influential story in Western cultural history, the biblical account of Adam and Eve is now treated either as the sacred possession of the faithful or as the butt of secular jokes. Here, acclaimed ... Read more

    $18.19 CAD

  • Bibliophobia

    The End and the Beginning of the Book

    by Brian Cummings ...
    Series series Clarendon Lectures in English
    Bibliophobia is a book about material books, how they are cared for, and how they are damaged, throughout the 5000-year history of writing from Sumeria to the smartphone. Its starting point is the contemporary idea of 'the death of the book' implied by the replacement of physical books by digital media, with accompanying twenty first-century experiences of paranoia and literary apocalypse. It ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

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  • Handbook for Classical Research

    by David Schaps ...
    One of the glories of the Greco-Roman classics is the opportunity that they give us to consider a great culture in its entirety; but our ability to do that depends on our ability to work comfortably with very varied fields of scholarship. The Handbook for Classical Research offers guidance to students needing to learn more about the different fields and subfields of classical research, and its ... Read more

    $90.68 CAD

  • From Idols to Icons

    The Emergence of Christian Devotional Images in Late Antiquity

    by Robin M. Jensen ...
    Series Book 12 - Christianity in Late Antiquity
    Even the briefest glance at an art museum’s holdings or an introductory history textbook demonstrates the profound influence of Christian images and art. From Idols to Icons tells the fascinating history of the dramatic shift in Christian attitudes toward sacred images from the third through the early seventh century. From attacks on the cult images of polytheism to the emergence of Christian ... Read more

    $71.49 CAD

  • Performing Orthodox Ritual in Byzantium

    by Andrew Walker White ...
    In this groundbreaking, interdisciplinary study, Andrew Walker White explores the origins of Byzantine ritual - the rites of the early Greek Orthodox Church - and its unique relationship with traditional theatre. Tracing the secularization of pagan theatre, the rise of rhetoric as an alternative to acting, as well as the transmission of ancient methods of musical composition into the Byzantine era ... Read more

    $43.19 CAD

  • A Cultural History of the Emotions in the Medieval Age

    Edited by Juanita Ruys, Dr Clare Monagle ...
    Series series The Cultural Histories Series
    Our period opens at the end of the Roman Empire when intellectual currents are indebted to the Greek philosophical inheritance of Plato and Aristotle, as well as to a Romanized Stoicism. Into this mix entered the new, and from 313CE imperially sanctioned, religion of Christianity. In art, literature, music, and drama, we find an increasing emphasis on the arousal of individual emotions and their ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • A History of Reading

    by Alberto Manguel ...
    In this marvelous book, acclaimed around the world, Alberto Manguel takes us on a fascinating exploration of what it means to be a reader of books. A History of Reading is a brilliant reminder of why we cherish the act of reading—despite distractions throughout the ages, from the Inquisition to the lures of cyberspace. He shows us what happens when we read; who we become; and how reading teaches ... Read more

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