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| Author | : Diana Lary |
| Publisher | : UBC Press |
| Total Pages | : 229 |
| Release | : 2011-11-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0774841982 |
Throughout its modern history, China has suffered from immense destruction and loss of life from warfare. During its worst period of warfare, the eight years of the Anti-Japanese War (1937-45), millions of civilians lost their lives. For China, the story of modern war-related death and suffering has remained hidden. Hundreds of massacres are still unrecognized by the outside world and even by China itself. The focus of this original hisotry is on the social and psychological, not the economic, costs of war on the country.
| Author | : Jan Bremmer |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 285 |
| Release | : 2002-03-11 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 113488883X |
Use on Women's History courses Good list of contributors
| Author | : Helen Rhee |
| Publisher | : Baker Books |
| Total Pages | : 326 |
| Release | : 2012-11-01 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1441238646 |
The issue of wealth and poverty and its relationship to Christian faith is as ancient as the New Testament and reaches even further back to the Hebrew Scriptures. From the beginnings of the Christian movement, the issue of how to deal with riches and care for the poor formed an important aspect of Christian discipleship. This careful study shows how early Christians adopted, appropriated, and transformed the Jewish and Greco-Roman moral teachings and practices of giving and patronage. As Helen Rhee illuminates the early Christian understanding of wealth and poverty, she shows how it impacted the formation of Christian identity. She also demonstrates the ongoing relevance of early Christian thought and practice for the contemporary church.
| Author | : JD McLarty |
| Publisher | : James Clarke & Company |
| Total Pages | : 354 |
| Release | : 2018-08-30 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0227905768 |
"Second century apocryphal Christian texts are Christian fiction: they draw on the motifs of contemporary pagan stories of romance, travel and adventure to entertain their readers, but also to explore what it means to be Christian. The Thecla episodein the Apocryphal Acts of Paul recounts the conversion of a young pagan woman, her rejection of marriage, her narrow escapes from martyrdom and the end of her story as an independent, ascetic evangelist. In Thecla's Devotion, J.D. McLarty reads the Thecla episode against a paradigm pagan romance, Callirhoe: for both texts the passions are key to the unfolding of the plot - how are unruly emotions to be managed and controlled? The pagan would answer, 'through reason'. This study uses the portrayal of emotion within character and plot to explore the response of the Thecla episode to this key question for Christian identity formation."
| Author | : Peter Brown |
| Publisher | : UPNE |
| Total Pages | : 178 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9781584651468 |
A preeminent classical scholar on the emergence of one of our most familiar social divisions.
| Author | : Roy Hammerling |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 478 |
| Release | : 2008-11-30 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9047424530 |
“Prayer is real religion,” said Auguste Sabatier. If so, the academic study of prayer allows scholars to examine the very heart of religious practices, beliefs, and convictions. Since prayers exist in a wide variety of content, contexts, forms, and practices, a comprehensive approach to the study of prayer is required. Therefore, this volume includes scholars from a wide range of disciplines, in order to discover the breadth of “real religion” from the first to the fifteenth centuries. This volume especially focuses upon the history of Christianity and monasticism, where prayer was the school of hope, faith, and critical thought, awakening the faithful to every aspect of religious and daily life. Contributors are L. Edward Phillips, Karlfried Froehlich, Michael Joseph Brown, David W. Fagerberg, Columba Stewart, Benedicta Ward, Susan Boynton, Corey Barnes, Johannes Heil, Rik Van Nieuwenhove, Roger S. Wieck, Paul W. Robinson and Roy Hammerling.
| Author | : Judith Herrin |
| Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
| Total Pages | : 350 |
| Release | : 2013-03-11 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0691153213 |
Explores the exceptional roles that women played in the vibrant cultural and political life of medieval Byzantium. Drawing on a diverse range of sources, this title focuses on the importance of marriage in imperial statecraft, the tense coexistence of empresses in the imperial court, and the critical relationships of mothers and daughters.
| Author | : Marvin Wiegand |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 378 |
| Release | : 2024-10-31 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9004712704 |
This book offers the first comprehensive analysis of medieval Frisian law, focusing on the influence of Roman and canon law in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. It makes use of recent translations of Old Frisian legal texts to show the evolution of Frisian law and to unveil why the Frisians were motivated to change their traditional laws. The book covers everything from oaths as evidence in Frisian procedures, to whether Frisian widows could be guardians of their children, to the role the Frisians themselves played in the evolution of their legal system.
| Author | : Sandra Cavallo |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 287 |
| Release | : 2014-07-30 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1317882776 |
This new collection of essays brings together brand new research on widowhood in medieval and early modern Europe. The volume opens with an introductory chapter by the Editors which looks generally at the conditions and constructions of widowhood in this period. This is followed by a range of essays which illuminate different dimensions of widowhood across Europe - in England, Italy, France, Germany and Spain. A particular attraction of the volume is the attention given to widowers, and the comparisons made between the male and female experience of widowhood. It is an exciting reinterpretation of the subject which will do much to undo the traditional stereotype of the widow. Contributing to the volume are: Jodi Bilinkoff, Giulia Calvi, Sandra Cavallo, Isabelle Chabot, Julia Crick, Amy Erikson, Dagmar Freist, Elizabeth Foyster, Margaret Pelling, Pamela Sharpe,Tim Stretton, Barbara Todd, and Lyndan Warner.
| Author | : Philadelphia Ricketts |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 516 |
| Release | : 2010-09-24 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9004189475 |
This book provides an evocative insight into the property, power, remarriage, and identity of high-ranking widows in two fundamentally different societies, Iceland and Yorkshire. The legal position of widows in each region is examined in light of evidence from charters, royal records and sagas to establish a detailed picture of practice. Comparison and family reconstruction are important elements, enabling the book to emphasize the placement of widows within the context of society and its institutions, and to consider fully the impact of individual circumstances on the widows’ opportunities for action. The result offers a fresh approach that tests widely accepted generalizations about widows’ independence, highlights differences between regions, and suggests the need to reconsider traditional, rigid definitions of kinship systems.
