Landscapes of pilgrimage in Medieval Britain /
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This work seeks to address the journeying context of pilgrimage within the landscapes of Medieval Britain. Using four case studies, an interdisciplinary methodology developed by the author is applied to four different geographical and cultural areas of Britain (Norfolk, Wiltshire/Hampshire, Flintshire/Denbighshire and Cornwall), to investigate the practicalities of travel along the Medieval road network including the routes themselves, accommodation, the built environments and natural topographies encountered.
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1 online resource : illustrations (black and white). :
Specialized. :
Includes bibliographical references. :
9781784910778 (PDF ebook) :
Écrire, initier et transmette : identité locale et tradition confrérique dans la Ḥāfiẓiyya Halwatiyya, une confrérie soufie de Moyenne-Égypte, XIXe et XXe siécles /
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xii, 366 pages : color illustrations, map ; 24 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-366). :
9782724707823
2724707826 :
Egypt -- Cairo.
Military Service and the Integration of Jews into the Roman Empire /
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"According to Raúl González Salinero, the plurality of religious expressions within Judaism prior to the predominance of the rabbinical current disproves the assumption according to which some Jewish customs and precepts (especially the Sabbath) prevented Jews from joining the Roman army without renouncing their ancestral culture. The military exemption occasionally granted to the Jews by the Roman authorities was compatible with their voluntary enlistment (as it was in the Hellenistic armies) in order to obtain Roman citizenship. As the sources attest, Judaism did not pose any insurmountable obstacle to integration of the Jews into the Roman world. They achieved a noteworthy presence in the Roman army by the fourth century CE, at which time the Church's influence over imperial power led to their exclusion from the militia armata"--
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004507258
9789004506756
Mirrors of salt : proceedings of the First International Congress on the Anthropology of Salt : 20-24 August 2015, 'Al. I. Cuza' University, Iași, Romania /
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'Mirrors of Salt' publishes the proceedings of the First International Congress on the Anthropology of Salt, which took place at the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University in Iași (Romania).
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Also issued in print: 2023. :
1 online resource (478 pages) : illustrations :
Specialized. :
Includes bibliographical references. :
9781784914578 (PDF ebook) :
The wandering mind : what medieval monks tell us about distraction /
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"A revelatory account of how Christian monks identified distraction as a fundamental challenge, and how their efforts to defeat it can inform ours, more than a millennium later"--
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274 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9781631498053
L'acqua nell'antico Egitto : vita, rigenerazione, incantesimo, medicamento : proceedings of the first International conference for young egyptologists : Italy, Chianciano Terme, Oc...
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Proceedings.
English, French or Italian. :
444 pages : black-and-white illustrations, black-and-white plans ; 24 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-442). :
8882653072
9788882653071
Race and slavery in the Middle East : an historical enquiry /
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Revised edition of: Race and color in Islam. 1971. :
vii, 184 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 25 cm :
Includes bibliographical references (pages 103-141) and index. :
0195062833
9780195062830
0195053265
9780195053265