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  • Foundational Texts of Mormonism

    Edited by Mark Ashurst-McGee, Robin Jensen, Sharalyn D. Howcroft ...
    Joseph Smith, founding prophet and martyr of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, personally wrote, dictated, or commissioned thousands of documents. Among these are several highly significant sources that scholars have used over and over again in their attempts to reconstruct the founding era of Mormonism, usually by focusing solely on content, without a deep appreciation for how and ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Early Christian Art

    Edited by Robin M. Jensen, Mark D. Ellison ...
    The Routledge Handbook of Early Christian Art surveys a broad spectrum of Christian art produced from the late second to the sixth centuries. The first part of the book opens with a general survey of the subject and then presents fifteen essays that discuss specific media of visual art—catacomb paintings, sculpture, mosaics, gold glass, gems, reliquaries, ceramics, icons, ivories, textiles, silver ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

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    Space, Time, Mystery, and Meaning in an Ordinary Church

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    A "delightful" tour of Rome's St. Agnes Outside the Walls, examining the stories, rituals, and architecture of this seventeen-hundred-year-old building ( The Christian Science Monitor).In The Geometry of Love, acclaimed author Margaret Visser, the preeminent "anthropologist of everyday life," takes on the living history of the ancient church of St. Agnes. Examining every facet of the building, ... Read more

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  • The Cross

    History, Art, and Controversy

    by Robin M. Jensen ...
    " This erudite history illuminates the social, cultural, as well as theological developments of the cross" through 2000 years of its symbolic evolution ( Library Journal).Jesus's death on the cross posed a dilemma for Saint Paul and the early Church fathers. Crucifixion was a humiliating form of execution reserved for slaves and criminals. How could their messiah and savior have been subjected to ... Read more

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  • Jan van Eyck

    The Play of Realism, Second Revised and Expanded Edition

    by Craig Harbison ...
    Jan van Eyck (1395-41) was the foremost artist of the Early Netherlandish School. Although Court painter to Duke Philip the Good of Burgundy, van Eyck’s surviving work was not executed for the Duke, but for rising Court bureaucrats, Italian merchants and members of the secular clergy, for whom he created a series of painstakingly detailed oil paintings of astonishing verisimilitude. Most ... Read more

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  • What Did Jesus Look Like?

    by Professor Joan E. Taylor ...
    Jesus Christ is arguably the most famous man who ever lived. His image adorns countless churches, icons, and paintings. He is the subject of millions of statues, sculptures, devotional objects and works of art. Everyone can conjure an image of Jesus: usually as a handsome, white man with flowing locks and pristine linen robes.But what did Jesus really look like? Is our popular image of Jesus ... Read more

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  • Pantheon

    A New History of Roman Religion

    Translated by David M. B. Richardson ...
    by Jörg Rüpke ...
    From one of the world's leading authorities on the subject, an innovative and comprehensive account of religion in the ancient Roman and Mediterranean worldIn this ambitious and authoritative book, Jörg Rüpke provides a comprehensive and strikingly original narrative history of ancient Roman and Mediterranean religion over more than a millennium—from the late Bronze Age through the Roman imperial ... Read more

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  • Christian Art

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Beth Williamson ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Christian images have a long history within the Western art tradition from the narrative and devotional works of the Medieval and Renaissance periods, to the radical new interpretations of the twenty-first century. This fascinating new book explores the changing nature of the representation of key themes and subjects found in Christian art, covering the Eucharist, the crucifixion, the Virgin Mary, ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Medieval Art

    by Marilyn Stokstad ...
    This book teaches the reader how to look at medieval art–which aspects of architecture, sculpture, or painting are important and for what reasons. It includes the art and building of what is now Western Europe from the second to the fifteenth centuries. ... Read more

    $126.99 USD

  • Art & Visual Culture 1100-1600: Medieval to Renaissance

    Edited by Kim W. Woods ...
    An innovatory exploration of art and visual culture. Through carefully chosen themes and topics rather than through a general survey, the volumes approach the process of looking at works of art in terms of their audiences, functions and cross-cultural contexts. While focused on painting, sculpture and architecture, it also explores a wide range of visual culture in a variety of media and methods. ... Read more

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  • The Byzantine World

    Edited by Paul Stephenson ...
    Series series Routledge Worlds
    The Byzantine World presents the latest insights of the leading scholars in the fields of Byzantine studies, history, art and architectural history, literature, and theology. Those who know little of Byzantine history, culture and civilization between AD 700 and 1453 will find overviews and distillations, while those who know much already will be afforded countless new vistas.Each chapter offers ... Read more

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  • Byzantine Art

    by Robin Cormack ...
    Series series Oxford History of Art
    The opulence of Byzantine art, with its extravagant use of gold and silver, is well known. Highly skilled artists created powerful representations reflecting and promoting this society and its values in icons, illuminated manuscripts, and mosaics and wallpaintings placed in domed churches and public buildings. This complete introduction to the whole period and range of Byzantine art combines ... Read more

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