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Sophie Crawford-Brown
Religious Architecture and Roman Expansion

"Religious Architecture and Roman Expansion uses architectural terracottas as a lens for examining the changing landscape of central Italy during the period of Roman military expansion. It investigat…

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Sacred Modernity

Sacred Modernity documents the dramatic shift in ecclesiastical architecture across post-war Europe. Spurred on by the modernizing impulses of the Second Vatican Council in the early 1960s, and in search …

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Emma J. Wells
Heaven on Earth

A glorious illustrated history of sixteen of the world's greatest cathedrals, interwoven with the extraordinary stories of the people who built them. 'An impeccable guide to the golden age of ecclesiastic…

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Sonny Seals,
More Historic Rural Churches of Georgia

This much anticipated follow-up to the best-selling Historic Rural Churches of Georgia (2016) documents even more rural churches and communities founded prior to 1900 throughout the Peach State. With more…

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Antonios Thodis
Beginning Again with the Classical Orders

On the Corinthian Column at the Temple of Apollo Epikourios at Bassae reconsiders well-established understandings of the ancient Greek Corinthian, Doric, and Ionic architectural orders. Antonios Thodis ex…

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Ayla Lepine
Medieval Metropolis

Exploring the stories behind a range of iconic American and British buildings from the turn of the twentieth century, Medieval Metropolis is the first book to reveal how the modern architectural world thr…

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Samuel O'Connor Perks
Off-Modern Catholic Aesthetics

Why did Catholic actors embrace modernist aesthetics? And conversely, why did modernist architects and artists embrace pre-modern ideas to look to the future? Off-Modern Catholicism explores the surprisin…

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Scala
Treasures of Christ Church Cathedral Dublin

This is a generously illustrated and enjoyable guide to Christ Church Cathedral, a place of worship in the centre of Dublin for almost 1,000 years. From Viking boxes to medieval manuscripts, mummified ani…

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Hermogenes and Hellenistic-Roman Temple Building

Recent major excavations at a variety of sites associated with Hermogenes have refreshed, invigorated, and refined our understanding of this important Hellenistic architect. Here, in the first volume dedi…

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Privacy in Early Modern Saxony

Concerns over privacy grow in our society. Understanding the historical roots of the phenomenon becomes more and more necessary to navigate our contemporary struggles with availability and control of pers…

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Stefanie Lenk
Roman Identity and Lived Religion

"Demonstrates, by examining the decoration of Mediterranean baptisteries from the fifth to the seventh century, that Roman popular culture had a strong impact on how common Christians defined what it…

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Nahid Massoumeh Assemi
Piety and Politics in Qajar Iran

The Takkiyya Mu'avin al-Mulk is a building complex in the city of Kermanshah in western Iran, dedicated to the annual commemoration of the martyrdom of Husayn ibn 'Ali at the Battle of Karbala in 680, an …

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Elisabeth Hasselbeck,
God's Masterpiece

"As a pair of children visit an art museum and marvel at masterpieces by well-known painters, they learn that God has lovingly designed them as his very own works of art"--

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Priya Swamy,
Struggles for Hindu Sacred Space in the Netherlands

This book asks us to consider what is absent, rather than what is present, when studying religions. Priya Swamy argues that absent religious spaces are in themselves abstract locations that painfully memo…

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The Medieval Mediterranean Between Islam and Christianity

"This volume offers an exploration of the Christian-Islamic encounter in a pan-Mediterranean context, through an array of new research papers based on micro-historical case studies of the religious a…

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Deborah Bodin Cohen, Kerry Olitzky,
Rembrandt Chooses a Queen

Despite his father's wishes, Samuel is an apprentice to Rembrandt, and will do what he can to prove himself as an artist by helping with a painting of the Purim story.

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Mark Pizzato,
European Churches and Chinese Temples as Neuro-Theatrical Sites

"Integrating research across various cognitive science and humanities disciplines, this book explores how traditional designs and spaces of Chinese temples and European churches - as outer theatrical…

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Cole Swensen,
Ode to a Cemetery

Der 1838 gegründete Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn zählt zu den meistbesuchten Attraktionen von New York und war wegweisend für viele weitere Parkfriedhöfe in den USA. Auf knapp zwei Quadratkilometern be…

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Paris Rosenthal,
Dear Teacher,

The beloved fourth picture book in the #1 New York Times bestselling Dear Girl, series: a celebratory thank-you letter to the special teacher, role model, or hero who inspires you most, now available in a…

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Abby Burnett
Though Silent They Speak

Though Silent They Speak: Arkansas Gravestones and Graveyards is a fascinating and informative guidebook to the most unusual graves and graveyards in Arkansas. Within the pages, readers explore showy marb…

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