Science in the Ancient World: From Antiquity through the Middle Ages 9781440873522, 9781440873539

The Idea of the Labyrinth from Classical Antiquity through the Middle Ages 9781501738463

Ancient and medieval labyrinths embody paradox, according to Penelope Reed Doob. Their structure allows a double perspec

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Judaism in Practice: From the Middle Ages through the Early Modern Period 9780691227986, 0691057869, 0691057877, 2001027839

This collection of original materials provides a sweeping view of medieval and early modern Jewish ritual and religious

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The Science of Mechanics in the Middle Ages

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Medieval Science in the North: Travelling Wisdom, 1000-1500 (Knowledge, Scholarship, and Science in the Middle Ages) (Knowledge, Scholarship, and Science in the Middle Ages, 2) 9782503588049, 2503588042

Medieval science has become an increasingly popular area of academic interest over the past couple of decades, but much

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Poetry, Bible and Theology from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages 9783110687224, 9783110687194

This volume examines for the first time the most important methodological issues concerning Christian poetry – i.e. bibl

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Excommunication in the Middle Ages

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Sculpture: From Antiquity to the Middle Ages : from the Eighth Century BC to the Fifteenth Century 3822870595, 9783822870594

The foundations of Western sculpture were laid by the Greeks, Etruscans and Romans. The sculpture of antiquity still inf

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Sculpture: From Antiquity to the Middle Ages : from the Eighth Century BC to the Fifteenth Century 3822870595, 9783822870594

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Franciscans and the Elixir of Life: Religion and Science in the Later Middle Ages (The Middle Ages Series) 0812249216, 9780812249217

One of the major ambitions of medieval alchemists was to discover the elixir of life, a sovereign remedy capable not onl

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The Picts: The History of the People Who Inhabited Scotland in Antiquity and the Middle Ages

By the 2nd century CE, Londinium was a large Roman city, with tens of thousands of inhabitants using villas, palaces, a

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