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Barbara Thompson (1944-2022)

Everlasting Flame

Brett Kaufman

Phoenicia, Carthage, and Popular Government in the Pre-Classical Mediterranean

From Aristotle to John Adams, great minds of government have revered Carthaginian democracy as the purest expression of a people's will. Yet today, while Phoenician influence on the Graeco-Roman worlds ha…

Olivia Church

Pagan Portals - Osiris

Dip below the Nile's surface to the realm of ancient Egypt's green-faced God of life, death, and rebirth. Known to the Greeks as Osiris, Wesir is one of ancient Egypt's most enduring deities, worshipped f…

Unruly Books

This volume explores the idea of the unruly book, from books now known by their titles alone to books that subverted structures of power and gender. The contributors show how these books functioned as &qu…

Sarah Bowden

Writing Sin in the German Lands, 1050-1215

This book is about the relationship between dealing with sin and writing poetry in the Middle Ages; focusing particularly on twelfth-century Germany, it discusses how people performed penance and thought …

The Renaissance Papacy's Projects of Religious Reform between Ancient Christianity and "Catholic Orientalism"

Within the framework of a research project aimed at a systematic reconstruction of the ideology of Papacy in the years 1431-1549 (PRIN 2022 2022BXT33X) this volume takes the Renaissance Church as an insti…

Michael J Lichens

Weird Catholic Handbook

Dive into the fascinating and overlooked aspects of the Catholic faith with Weird Catholic Handbook by Michael Lichens. This book takes you on a Chestertonian romp through the peculiar and intriguing elem…

Carl P E Springer,

The Latin Verse of Martin Luther

Martin Luther wrote a number of Latin poems, mostly using traditional classical metres, over the course of his career. He used them to praise friends, insult adversaries and express his faith in times of …

Robert Morkot

A Short History of New Kingdom Egypt

Expertly taking readers through one of the most transformative periods in Ancient Egypt, Robert Morkot demonstrates how, under the pharaohs of the New Kingdom (c. 1550-1070 BCE), Egypt rose to be the larg…

Ryan Denson,

A Zoobiography of the Ancient Sea Monster

A comprehensive study of the ketos - the most prominent sea monster of Greco-Roman culture.

Peter Brown

Journeys of the Mind

A beautifully written personal account of the discovery of late antiquity by one of the world's most influential and distinguished historiansThe end of the ancient world was long regarded by historians as…

Jim Ghedi

A Hymn For Ancient Land

2015 veröffentlichte Jim Ghedi beim Label Cambrian sein Debüt »Home Is Where I Exist, Now To Live And Die«. Dieses enthielt acht flotte, melodiöse und rhythmische Folksongs zwischen Tradition und Moderne,…

Catherine Nixey

Heretic

From a celebrated classicist and author of The Darkening Age ("[a] ballista-bolt of a book"-New York Times Book Review ), a group biography of the many, diverse Jesuses who thrived in early Chri…

Ancient Near Eastern Iconography and the Bible

Examines the dilemma of whether ancient Near Eastern images - while providing unique aspects of the world-views of the cultures from which the Bible arose - can be interpreted in a way that traceably rela…

Annette Giesecke,

Classical Mythology of the Constellations

A retelling of the classic myths and timeless tales by bestselling author Annette Giesecke that underlie the 88 named constellations in the night sky--from Andromeda to Orion to Ursa Major.Classical Mytho…

Hachumak, David L Carroll

Journeying Through the Invisible

Journey into the world of Ayahuasca and healing.A mysterious and powerful plant medicine with curative powers that is drunk as a tea during a sacred ceremony, Ayahuasca has been known to change people's l…

Attar, Sholeh Wolpe

The Invisible Sun

The first comprehensive English collection from one of the world's most influential mystics---Attar---the twelfth-century poet Rumi called his master.Twelfth-century Persian poet Attar (1145--1221) was re…

Catherine Nixey

Heretic

"A brilliant book...illuminates a forgotten world." ---The Times, Best of the Year"Heretic tells a moreish intellectual story and shakes up your understanding of Western history. At the sam…

Sarah Nooter,

Über die Vielfalt der Liebe

Die Idee der sexuellen Vielfalt mag neu erscheinen, aber sie ist mindestens so alt wie die antiken Griechen, die mit bemerkenswerter Offenheit, Witz und Einsicht über queere Erfahrungen schrieben. Diese A…