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  • Balthild of Francia

    Anglo-Saxon Slave, Merovingian Queen, and Abolitionist Saint

    by Isabel Moreira ...
    Series series Women in Antiquity
    This book tells the remarkable life of Balthild of Francia (c. 633-80), a seventh-century Anglo-Saxon slave who became a queen of France. Described in contemporary sources as beautiful and intelligent, she rose to power through her marriage to the short-lived King Clovis II. As regent for her young son, she promoted social and political reforms in Francia that included the rescue and rehousing of ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • Heaven's Purge

    Purgatory in Late Antiquity

    by Isabel Moreira ...
    The doctrine of purgatory - the state after death in which Christians undergo punishment by God for unforgiven sins - raises many questions. What is purgatory like? Who experiences it? Does purgatory purify souls, or punish them, or both? How painful is it? Heaven's Purge explores the first posing of these questions in Christianity's early history, from the first century to the eighth: an era in ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Material Culture and Women's Religious Experience in Antiquity

    An Interdisciplinary Symposium

    by Mark D. Ellison, Krystal V. L. Pierce, Susannah M. Larry, Amanda Colleen Brown, Sarah E.G. Fein, Sarah Madole Lewis, Kerry Hull, Lincoln H. Blumell, Maria Evangelatou, Isabel Moreira0, Carolyn Osiek2, Catherine Gines Taylor4 ...
    How can material artifacts help illuminate the religious lives of women in antiquity? In what ways do archaeological and art historical studies recover women’s religious perspectives and experiences that the literary record misses or underrepresents? The authors of the essays in this volume set out to answer such questions in fascinating, new case studies of women and ancient religions in the Near ... Read more

    $34.89 USD

  • Gerontechnology VII

    Contributions to the Eight International Workshop on Gerontechnology, IWoG 2025, November 28, 2025, Évora, Portugal

    Edited by José Moreira, Isabel Bico, Enrique Moguel, Elisabete Alves, César Fonseca, Rogério Ferreira ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This book presents recent advances in the field of Gerontechnology, with a particular focus on innovation and healthy aging. It explores a wide range of topics, including sensor technologies, machine vision systems, collaborative tools, industrial robotics, digital twins, and virtual and mixed reality. The chapters feature both theoretical research and experimental studies, emphasizing study ... Read more

    $197.09 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of the Merovingian World

    Edited by Bonnie Effros, Isabel Moreira ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Merovingian era is one of the best studied yet least well known periods of European history. From the fifth to the eighth centuries, the inhabitants of Gaul (what now comprises France, southern Belgium, Luxembourg, Rhineland Germany, and part of modern Switzerland), a mix of Gallo-Roman inhabitants and Germanic arrivals under the political control of the Merovingian dynasty, sought to preserve ... Read more

    $197.99 USD

  • Hell and its Afterlife

    Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

    by Margaret Toscano ...
    The notion of an infernal place of punishment for 'undesired' elements in human culture and human nature has a long history both as religious idea and as cultural metaphor. This book brings together a wide array of scholars who examine hell as an idea within the Christian tradition and its 'afterlife' in historical and contemporary imagination. Leading scholars grapple with the construction and ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

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  • The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve

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  • The Huguenots

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  • The Cult of the Saints

    Its Rise and Function in Latin Christianity, Enlarged Edition

    by Peter Brown ...
    A new edition of the "brilliantly original and highly sophisticated" study of saint worship after the fall of the Roman Empire ( Library Journal).In this groundbreaking work, Peter Brown explores how the worship of saints and their corporeal remains became central to religious life in Western Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire. During this period, earthly remnants served as a heavenly ... Read more

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  • Satan: A Biography

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  • Through the Eye of a Needle

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