‎Europe‎

‎Ewa Letkiewicz‎

‎Royal Jewels of Poland and Lithuania. Collections of the Jagiellon and Vasa Dynasts‎

‎, Brepols, 2024 Hardback, 404 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:8 b/w, 96 col., Language: English. ISBN 9782503605777.‎

‎Summary This volume delves into the rich histories of the Jagiellon and Vasa dynasties, shedding light on the profound interplay between jewellery and socio-political forces. Readers are invited into an era where jewellery bore multifaceted significance, from symbolising power and piety to facilitating economic engagements. The royal perception of value extended beyond traditional treasures, with a keen interest in animal-derived artefacts. These unconventional items, such as elk hooves or eagle stones, were highly esteemed, reflecting both luxury's diverse nature and the era's cultural and mystical beliefs. Rather than merely cataloguing these artefacts, this study animates them, intertwining narratives of monarchs, nobles, craftsmen, and the lands from which these treasures emerged. It delves into a world where a gem's glint signifies might, gold hints at empires' expanse, and a narwhal's horn could determine kingdoms' destinies. Jewellery has long held a central position in history, particularly among the elite. These pieces were not simply decorative; they conveyed prestige, societal position, and authority. They symbolised both worldly and spiritual prominence, enriched with a complex symbolism. Beyond showcasing wealth, jewellery played crucial roles in diplomacy and politics. What meanings did these unique gems carry for their initial owners? This book uncovers the tales, magnetism, and mystery surrounding these jewellery collections. It paints a picture where jewellery transcends mere ornamentation, serving as a powerful testament to influence, devotion, and grandeur. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Chapter 1. In the Service of the Ruler and the Dynasty Jewels with Royal Monograms Jewels with Heraldic Representations Medals Gifts of Rulers and Magnates Gifts of Towns Jewels as Hoarded Objects Jewels for God and Saints Chapter 2. The Splendour of Jewels. Ornaments for the Body and Attire Ornaments for Hair and Headgear Earrings Decorations Rings Manele, Armlets Chains, Karkans, Alzbants, Kanaks, Collars Noszenia, Pendants, Clasps, Enseignes Ponta?y, Ferety and other Jewels sewn onto Clothes Buttons, Hooks and Eyes, Pins Belts and their Accessories Rosaries, Chaplets, Decymki Chapter 3. Leges sumptuariae?Laws against Excessive Luxury Chapter 4. Apotropaic and Medicinal Functions attributed to Jewels Chapter 5. Jewels at the Jagiellon Court The Jewels of Sigismund I and Bona Sforza The Jewels of Isabella Jagiellon The Heir of the Jagiellon Fortune. The Jewels of Sigismund Augustus The Jewels of Sigismund Augustus's Wives The Jewels of the Younger Daughters of Sigismund I and Bona The Jewels of Stephen B thory Chapter 6. Jewels at the Court of the Vasa Monarchs Sigismund III and his Family Anna Vasa The Jewels of Sigismund III's Wives W?adys?aw IV and his Family John Casimir The Jewels of Sigismund III's other Children Conclusion Bibliography Index‎

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‎Lucie Mazalov‎

‎Eschatology in the Work of Jan Hus‎

‎, Brepols, 2022 Hardback, 254 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:3 col., Language: English. ISBN 9782503593050.‎

‎Summary This study provides a systematic and comprehensive overview of Hus's ideas on the last things as they are presented in both his work and life. It examines the content and language of his works, particularly his Latin sermons and correspondence, from a literary-historical perspective. It explores general eschatology (Antichrist, purgatory, heaven and hell), as well as its intertwining with the Last Things that Jan Hus experienced personally in his struggle against Antichrist. Thus, the reader will learn not only about Hus's official ideas, but also about his intimate thoughts contained in correspondence written during his exile and even as he was in prison awaiting death. The book also presents Hus's eschatology in the broader context of Church reform. It clarifies how Hus's eschatology developed from its beginnings up to his death, and takes into account the writings of other thinkers whose ideas are connected to Hus's eschatology, such as John Wycliffe, Mil ? of Krom?? ?, Mat?j of Janov, and Nicholas of Dresden. The book also features an introductory prolegomena on Hus's life and work and early reform eschatology, which describes not only relevant Czech influences on Hus's eschatology (e.g. university theology, social-political factors, the Czech preaching tradition), but also European influences (e.g. Peter Lombard, heterodox doctrines). TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Illustrations, Abbreviations, Acknowledgements, Foreword Introduction The Current State of Research on Hus's Eschatology A Note on Methods Chapter 1: Hus's Eschatology: The Circumstances under which it Emerged and Developed Medieval Christian Eschatology The Eschatology of Heterodox Doctrines in Bohemia in the Fourteenth and Early Fifteenth Centuries The Eschatology of the Early Bohemian Reformation The Eschatology of John Wycliffe Prophecies Other Eschatological Ideas Contained in Contemporary Czech Literature The Possible Influence of Crisis Factors in the Fourteenth Century Hus's University Education Milestones in Hus's Life, Hus's Personality, Works, and Career Chapter 2: Antichrist in Hus's Synodal Sermons The Development of Hus's Ideas up to 1405 The Marks of Antichrist in Hus's Synodal Sermons Diliges Dominum Deum (1405) and State Succincti (1407) Evidence of the Coming of Antichrist: Biblical and Non-biblical Authorities and Hus's Own Experience Antichrist Terminology in Hus's Synodal Sermons The Rhetorical Devices of Hus's Synodal Sermons Chapter 3: Antichrist in Hus's Correspondence The Terminology and Rhetorical Devices of the Correspondence The Development of the Antichrist Theme in Hus's Letters Chapter 4: Hus's Notion of Antichrist in the Context of his Systematic Theological Works and the Writings of Other Authors A Comparison with the Notion of Antichrist in Super Quattuor Sententiarum Comparing Hus's Notions of Antichrist with the Ideas of Mil ? of Krom?? ? Comparing Hus's Notion of Antichrist with Mat?j of Janov's Comparing Hus's Ideas with those of Wycliffe A Comparison of Hus's Notion of Antichrist with Jakoubek's Presented in Posicio de Anticristo Chapter 5: Purgatory in the Sermon Dixit Martha ad Iesum What is the Nature of Purgatory? The Power of Prayers for Intercession A Comparison with the Sources of Dixit Martha A Comparison with Works Based on Hus's Dixit Martha A Comparison with the Ideas of Hus's Predecessors and Contemporaries Chapter 6: A Postscript on Hus's Eschatology Threats and the End of the World Death Hus's Eschatology and its Place in Medieval Thought Epilogue Bibliography Primary Sources Secondary Works Index‎

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‎Paul Srodecki, Norbert Kersken (eds)‎

‎Expansion of the Faith. Crusading on the Frontiers of Latin Christendom in the High Middle Ages‎

‎, Brepols, 2022 Hardback, 350 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:28 b/w, Language(s):English, German. ISBN 9782503588803.‎

‎Summary This volume offers a comparative approach to the crusade movement on the frontiers of Latin Christendom in the high Middle Ages, bringing a regional focus to research on these peripheral phenomena. It features several key questions: Which military campaigns were propagated as crusades on the peripheries of the Christian West? What efforts were made to gain recognition for them as crusades and what effects did these have? What value did the crusade movement have for societies at the fines christianitatis? What role did the cruciatae have in strengthening pan-Western sense of togetherness and solidarity, and what role did they have for creation of a crusader and frontier identity? The eighteen papers, ranging in scope from the southern and eastern Baltic regions to Iberia, Egypt and the Balkans, provide new insights into the ways in which crusade rhetoric was reflected in the culture and literature of countries involved in crusading beyond the Holy Land. TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Contributors List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations A Note on Names Preface and Acknowledgements Introduction Crusading on the Periphery in the High Middle Ages: Main Debates, New Approaches Paul Srodecki Part I - Adaptation and Rejection Why Did so few Crusaders from East-Central and Eastern Europe Participate in the Crusades to the Holy Land? Zdzis?aw Pentek The Periphery of Europe and the Idea of Crusade: Adaptation and Evolution of Crusader Ideology in Poland under the Piast Dynasty (1100-47) Darius von G ttner-Sporzy?ski Crusades and Crusading in High Medieval Dalmatia and Croatia ? Failed, Abused, Imaginary Neven Budak Part II - Conviction and Violence Burning of Idols ? Mission and Theology around the Baltic Sea Kurt Villads Jensen The Crusade Idea in the Areas of the North-Western Slavs around the Time of the Second Crusade Norbert Kersken A North German Prince on a Pilgrimage in Arms: Political Implications of the Livonian Crusade of Albert I, Duke of Saxony Kristjan Kaljusaar The Role Played by Bishop Bruno of Olomouc in the Prussian Crusades of the Bohemian King Ottokar II Premislas David Sychra Part III - Conquest and Expansion Die schwedischen Kreuzz ge nach Finnland aus der Ostsee-Perspektive Jens E. Olesen Ein folgenloser Kreuzzug? Die Herrschaftsbereiche Graf Adolfs II. von Schauenburg und des Abodritenf rsten Niklot nach dem Wendenkreuzzug von 1147 Martin Sch rrer The Conquest of the Island of Rugia, 1168/1169: A Danish Crusade? Oliver Auge The Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa (1212) in the Context of Ibero- Christian Conquests in al-Andalus: Myths and Models Luis Garc a-Guijarro Part IV - Catholicism and Orthodoxy Tearing Christ's Seamless Tunic? The 'Eastern Schism' and Crusades against the Greeks in the Thirteenth Century Nikolaos G. Chrissis Between Schism and Union: Rus Adversaries and Allies of the Crusaders in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries Anti Selart Part V - Legitimation and Propaganda Legitimising the Conquest of Egypt: The Frankish Campaign of 1163 Revisited Eric B hme Centrality of the Periphery in Crusade Rhetoric: The Afterlife of the Crusade of Andrew II of Hungary Nora Berend The Rhetoric of the Crusades and Anti-Paganism in the Political Propaganda of Ottokar II Premislas of Bohemia Robert Anton n Fighting the 'Eastern Plague': Anti-Mongol Crusade Ventures in the Thirteenth Century Paul Srodecki Index‎

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‎Manuela Studer-Karlen, Ivan Foletti, Adrien Palladino, Ekaterine Gedevanishvili, Irene Giviashvili, Nato Chitishvili, Thomas Kaffenberger, Irma Mamasakhlisi (eds)‎

‎Georgia as a Bridge between Cultures. Dynamics of Artistic Exchanges‎

‎, Brepols, 2021 Paperback, 189 pages, Size:210 x 270 mm, Language: English. ISBN 9788021098886.‎

‎TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction: Manuela Studer-Karlen, Georgia as a Bridge between Cultures: Dynamics of Artistic Exchange (introduction to A. Palladino's translation of H. Belting) - Ivan Foletti, Belting from Belting. From Moscow to Constantinople, and to Georgia (translation of H. Belting's article) Adrien Palladino, The Painter Manuel Eugenikos from Constantinople in Georgia, translated from Hans Belting Articles: Ekaterine Gedevanishvili, The Khakhuli Dome Decoration Irene Giviashvili, Liturgy and Architecture: Constantinopolitan Rite and Changes in the Architectural Planning of Georgian Churches Nato Chitishvili, Altars in Medieval Georgian Churches: Preliminary Notes on their Arrangement, Decoration, and the Rite of Consecration Thomas Kaffenberger, Liminal Spaces of Memory, Devotion, and Feasting? Porch-Chapels in Eleventh-Century Georgia Manuela Studer-Karlen, The Monastery of the Transfiguration in Zarzma: At the Intersection of Biblical Narration and Liturgical Relevance Irma Mamasakhlisi, The Theme of the Last Judgment in Medieval Georgian Art (Tenth-Thirteenth Centuries)‎

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‎Tibor Mart , Roberto Quir s Rosado (eds)‎

‎Eagles Looking East and West. Dynasty, Ritual and Representation in Habsburg Hungary and Spain‎

‎, Brepols, 2021 Paperback, 338 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:55 b/w, Language: English. ISBN 9782503581330.‎

‎Summary Symbolised by the 'double-headed eagle' looking East and West, the Habsburg dynasty constituted a universal power structure in the early modern era. The dynasty's Spanish and Austrian branches created a code of shared identity, one which also encompassed their religious piety and their ability to pitch the Austriacum Imperium against multiple enemies worldwide. The present volume investigates the construction of the dynasty's political image in two spheres, the Kingdom of Hungary and the Spanish monarchy, between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. Fifteen Hungarian, Czech and Spanish specialists offer comparative perspectives on the Habsburg era during this convulsive period of European history, addressing topics including diplomatic links, dynastic ritual and representation, and the Order of the Golden Fleece. In covering a wide range of themes, their contributions aim towards a better understanding of the emergence of new political attitudes in the Western world prior to the Enlightenment. Contributors to the volume include Cristina Bravo Lozano, V clav B??ek, N ra G. Et nyi, Alfredo Florist n Im zcoz, Rub n Gonz lez Cuerva, Borb la Guly s, Fanni Hende, J nos Kalm r, Zsolt K k nyesi, Zolt n Korp s, Pavel Marek, Tibor Monostori, and G za P lffy. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Dynastic links between far lands: The kingdom of Hungary and the Spanish monarchy in the early modern age Tibor Mart and Roberto Quiros Rosado PART I A ritualized dynasty: The ceremonies of the Habsburgs Funerals and coronations: Dynastic heraldic representation in Central Europe from the fifteenth to the early seventeenth century G za P lffy Swearing in, crowning and proclaiming the Habsburgs in the kingdoms of Spain: Continuity and innovation, 1516-98 Alfredo Florist n Im zcoz Festivities celebrating the coronations of the Habsburgs Maximilian and Rudolf as king of Hungary in Pozsony/Bratislava, 1563-72 Borb la Guly s The funerals of the emperor Rudolf II in the Spanish monarchy, 1612 V clav B??ek and Pavel Marek Printed political representations of the coronation of Joseph I as king of Hungary, 1687 N ra G. Et nyi Archduke Charles of the House of Habsburg's proclamation of accession to the throne of Spain and his inauguration as king of Aragon, 1703-6 J nos Kalm r Political representation at the coronations of Hungarian kings in the first half of the eighteenth century Fanni Hende PART II One dynasty, two branches: Political interaction and self-representation of the eastern and western Habsburgs Quarrelling brothers: The fraternal relationship of Charles V and Ferdinand I and their attitudes towards Hungary Zolt n Korp s The king of Hungary and the cardinal of Toledo: The creation of a common dynastic image around the two Ferdinands, 1631-35 Rub n Gonz lez Cuerva The kingdom of Hungary in essays and other writings of Diego Saavedra Fajardo in the years 1630-50 Tibor Monostori Hymenaeus in The Hague: Inaugural and dynastic celebrations of Spanish diplomats in the United Provinces, 1649 Cristina Bravo Lozano Hungarian members of the Order of the Golden Fleece: The importance of a Habsburg chivalric order in seventeenth-century Hungary Tibor Mart Moribus antiquis: Dynasty, political strategy and court ceremonial during the genesis of the Austrian Golden Fleece, 1709-13 Roberto Quir s Rosado Court entertainment and relationship networks: Shooting competitions in Charles VI's Viennese court as social opportunities for the noble elite, 1716-33 Zsolt K k nyesi‎

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‎Samuel N.C. Lieu, Glen Thompson (eds)‎

‎Church of the East in Central Asia and China‎

‎, Brepols, 2021 Hardback, 260 pages, Size:210 x 297 mm, Illustrations:25 col., Language: English. ISBN 9782503586649.‎

‎Summary The diffusion of Christianity along the Silk Road from Iraq and Iran to China in the premodern era has attracted scholarly attention in the West since the discovery of the famous Xian (Nestorian) Monument c. 1623. This initial discovery was dismissed as a Jesuit forgery by Voltaire, Edward Gibbon and many other scholars of the Enlightenment. However, its authenticity has been more than vindicated by the discovery of genuine (Nestorian / Jingjiao) Christian texts in Chinese from Dunhuang and in Syriac, Sogdian and Old Turkish from Turfan (Bulayq) at the beginning of the last century. Besides confirming the existence of a Tang era Chinese Christian church (Jingjiao), additional archaeological and literary evidence has accumulated of a Christian presence in China during the later Song and Yuan periods (Yelikewenjiao). These churches were the subject of a conference of international specialists in Hong Kong in 2015. The current volume of eleven articles has grown out of the papers presented there. TABLE OF CONTENTS Foreword (Florian Knothe) List of Contributors Part One: The Church of the East in Central Asia 1. Erica Hunter (SOAS) The Christian Library from Turfan: commemorating the saints in MIK III/45 2. Nicholas Sims-Williams, FBA (SOAS) Sogdian biblical manuscripts from the Turfan oasis 3. Takahashi Hidemi (University of Tokyo) Representation of the Syriac language in Jingjiao documents Part Two: The Church of the East in Tang and Yuan China 4. Huaiyu, Chen (Univsity of Arizona) Shared Issues in a Shared Textual Community: Buddhist, Christian, and Daoist Texts in Tang Chin 5. Max Deeg (Cardiff University) Messiah Rediscovered: Some Philological Notes on the So-called 'Jesus the Messiah Sutra 6. Samuel N.C. Lieu, (Macquarie and Robinson College, Cambridge) From Rome (Daqin ??) To China (Zhongguo ??): The Xi'an ?? (Nestorian) Monument As A Bilingual And Transcultural Document (Keynote Address) 7. Glen L. Thompson (Asia Lutheran Seminary, Hong Kong) Strange Teaching from a Strange Land: Foreignness, Heresy, and Our Understanding of the Jingjiao and Yelikewenjiao 8. David Wilmshurst (formerly Chinese University of Hong Kong) Interfaith Conflict in Yuan China Part Three: The Art and Iconography of the Church of the East 9. Niu Ruji, 'History Is a Mirror:On the Spread of Nestorianism in China from the Newly Discovered Bronze Mirror with Cross-lotus and Syriac Inscriptions 10. Ken Parry (Emeritus Macquarie) Images in the Church of the East: The Textual and Art Historical Evidence in the Light of Contemporary Practice 11. Patrick Taveirne (Chinese University of Hong Kong) The Study of the Ordos "Nestorian Bronze Crosses": Status Quaestionis Addenda to Chapter 3 Index‎

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‎Alberto Melloni, Giovanni Cavagnini, Giulia Grossi (eds)‎

‎Benedict XV: A Pope in the World of the 'Useless Slaughter' (1914-1918)‎

‎, Brepols, 2021 Hardback, 2 vols, 1708 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Language: English. ISBN 9782503582894.‎

‎Summary On August 1, 1917 - three years after the outbreak of World War 1 - pope Benedict XV signed his famous peace note, urging the governments of the belligerent Powers to seek a diplomatic solution to their disputes and stop the "useless slaughter". In order to commemorate the event and to define the place of this "forgotten pope" in twentieth-century history, on November 3-5, 2016, the Fondazione per le Scienze Religiose Giovanni XXIII (Fscire) hosted an international conference, entitled "Benedict XV in the world of the useless slaughter", in which more than a hundred historians from all over the world participated. The aim of the initiative, supported by the Historical and Scientific Committee for Italy's National Anniversaries, is to shed light on the key issues of this pontificate, from Giacomo Della Chiesa's education in the theological seminary in Genua to his heritage and memory all along the twentieth century. The volume resulting from this conference provides a comprehensive and systematic reference work about a key figure in Church history that has all too often been neglected. TABLE OF CONTENTS Abbreviations Foreword (Cardinal Pietro Parolin) Introduction (Alberto Melloni) Part One: Stages Origins and Formation Genoa: A Capital between Savoyard Annexation and the Risorgimento (Nicla Buonasorte) The Genoese Aristocracy from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Centuries: Traces of the Della Chiesa Family (Federica Meloni) The Migliorati and the Ancestry of Innocent VII (Anna Falcioni) Giacomo Raggi of Genoa, Capuchin Friar, and the Vocation of Giacomo Della Chiesa (Aldo Gorini) Formation and Studies at the Archiepiscopal Seminary of Genoa (Nicla Buonasorte) The Students of the Almo Collegio Capranica at the time of Rector Francesco Vinciguerra (Maurilio Guasco) A Diplomat of Leo XIII From Minutante to Sostituto in the Papal Secretariat of State (Klaus Unterburger) Controversies at the Top: Merry del Val, Della Chiesa, Pius X (1883-1907) (Annibale Zambarbieri) Rampolla, Della Chiesa, Benedict XV (Jean-Marc Ticchi) The Bologna Episcopate Giacomo Della Chiesa's First Pastoral Letter to Bologna (Giovanni Turbanti) Culture and Catholic Associations in Bologna in the Pre-War Period (1908-14) (Marcello Malpensa) Archbishop Giacomo Della Chiesa Facing the Italo-Turkish War (1911-12) (Alessandro Santagata) The Beginning of the Pontificate The Conclave of Benedict XV (1914) (Alberto Melloni) The First Encyclical: Ad beatissimi (Caterina Ciriello) Ideas of War, Ideas of Peace Churches in War, Faith under Fire (Fr d ric Gugelot) Religion in War and the Legitimization of Violence (Lucia Ceci) Italian Military Chaplains and the 'Useless Slaughter' (Andrea Crescenzi) Pope Benedict XV and Pacifism: 'An Invincible Phalanx for Peace'? (Gear id Barry) Interventionism and Neutrality in Italy The Extremist Neutrality of Guido Miglioli (Claudia Baldoli) Italian Foreign Politics at the Dawn of Benedict XV's Pontificate (Michele Marchi) 'In pro della pace': Benedict XV's Diplomatic Steps to Prevent Italy's Intervention in the Great War (Maurizio Cau) Catholic Interventionism (Guido Formigoni) Diplomacy through Aid Benedict XV: Aid to Belgium (Jan De Volder) Benedict XV and the Armenian Question (Georges-Henri Ruyssen) Aid to the Syrians (1916-17): A Failure (Florence Hellot-Bellier) The International Committee of the Red Cross, the Vatican and Prisoners of War (Mara Dissegna) Neutral Switzerland: The Hospitalization of the Wounded and the Credit Owed to Carlo Santucci (Stefano Picciaredda) The Note of 1917 The Papal Peace Note of 1917: Proposals for Armaments, Arbitration, Sanctions and Damages (Alfredo Canavero) Reshaping Borders: Europe and the Colonies in Pope Benedict XV's 1917 Peace Note (Patrick J. Houlihan) The Italian and French Bishops Dealing with the Note of 1917 (Giovanni Cavagnini) The Note of 1 August 1917 and Its Failure (Xavier Boniface) Part Two: Problems The Missions Cardinal Willem Van Rossum, Benedict XV, and the Centralization of the Pontifical Missionary Works in Rome (1918-22) (Vefie Poels & Hans de Valk) The Roncalli-Drehmanns Mission to the French and German Offices for Missionary Work (1921) (Stefano Trinchese) Maximum illud, a Missionary Turning Point? (Claude Prudhomme) The 'Chinese' Missionary Policy of the Holy See before Costantini (Giuseppe Butturini) The Re-Dimensioning of Anti-Modernism 'A Kind of Freemasonry in the Church': The Dissolution of the Sodalitium Pianum (Alejandro Mario Dieguez) Transformations of Integralist Catholicism under Benedict XV: Benigni's Network after the Dissolution of La Sapini re (Nina Valbousquet) Modernism during the Pontificate of Benedict XV: Between Rehabilitation and Condemnation (Giovanni Vian) Benedict XV and Modernism in Germany (Klaus Unterburger) Votes for Women and 'Catholic Feminism' during the Pontificate of Benedict XV (Liviana Gazzetta) The View of the People of Israel Benedict XV: The 'Children of Israel' and the 'Members of Different Religious Confessions' (Raffaella Perin) The Birth of Vatican Policy on Palestine and the Holy Sites (Paolo Zanini) Between Unionism and Ecumenism An Indecisive Inter-Confessional Situation (1914-1922) ( tienne Fouilloux) A Parallel Diplomacy? Vladimir Ghika and Catholic-Orthodox Relations in Romania during World War I (Cl mence de Rouvray) Theological Questions and Devotional Practices Religious Interpretations of War as Reflected in Prayers during World War I (Maria Paiano) Benedict XV and the Nationalization of the Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus in France and Germany (1914-18) (Claudia Schlager) '... and yet does not touch us': A Survey of European Theology during the Pontificate of Benedict XV (Gianmaria Zamagni) Part Three: Relations France 'Trop petit'? Benedict XV in Cardinal Alfred Baudrillart's Journals and Writings (Rodolfo Rossi) A Case of Oriental Wisdom: The second ralliement (Fabrice Bouthillon) The Doulcet-Gasparri Agreement of 1920 and the Restoration of Diplomatic Relations between France and the Holy See (Audrey Virot) The Appointment of Ambassador Jonnart and the Issue of Religious Associations (Jean Vavasseur-Desperriers) Italy The Reform of Catholic Action (Liliana Ferrari) The Dissolution of the Taparellian Concept of Nationality during the Great War (Cinzia Sulas) The Role of Gaspare Colosimo and the King in the Rejection of the Gasparri Draft (Piero Doria) The Agony of the non expedit (Saretta Marotta) Benedict XV and Proto-Fascism (Alberto Guasco) Germany Benedict XV and the German Episcopate (Sascha Hinkel) The German Reception of the Peace Note (Claus Arnold) The Legacy of Boniface: The Bavarian Episcopate and the In hac tanta Encyclical (December 1918-October 1919) (Patrizio Foresta) The In hac tanta Encyclical (1919) and Peace in Europe (Letterio Mauro) Russia and Ukraine The Holy See's Humanitarian Diplomacy towards the Russian World (1914-22) (Laura Pettinaroli) Benedict XV in Search of Peace for Ukraine (Athanasius McVay) Peace in Eastern Europe (Nathalie Renoton-Beine) Benedict XV and the Caucasus (Simona Merlo) The Other European Nations Benedict XV, the Habsburg Empire and the First Republic of Austria (Francesco Ferrari) Benedict XV and the British Empire (1914-22) (John F. Pollard) Benedict XV and Czechoslovakia (?uboslav Hromj k) Benedict XV and Poland (Roberto Morozzo della Rocca) The Irish War of Independence (Alberto Belletti) Benedict XV and Yugoslavia (1914-22) (Igor Salmi?) Finland and the Catholic Church during the Pontificate of Benedict XV (Milla Bergstr m & Suvy Rytty) The Non-European Countries Appeals to Wilson to Avoid the United States' Entry into War (Liliosa Azara) Benedict XV and the Mexican Revolution (Paolo Valvo) The Holy See's Relations with Brazil (1917-19) (Italo Domingos Santirocchi) Japan on the Vatican's Radar (Olivier Sibre) Part Four: Legacy Benedict XV's Men Benedict XV and the Cardinals (Roberto Regoli) Eugenio Pacelli: Benedict XV's Man of Peace (Philippe Chenaux) A Papal Envoy on the International Stage: Edmund Aloysius Walsh, SJ (Marisa Patulli Trythall) Benedict XV, Father Gemelli, and the Foundation of the Universit Cattolica (Maria Bocci) Bonaventura Cerretti and the Impossible Missions (Marialuisa Lucia Sergio) Europe for Peace and the Aftermath of Versailles The Failure to Revise the Treaty of London (July 1918) (Sergio Marchisio) New Diplomatic Relations and New Agreements in Europe (Stefan Samerski) Post Mortem The Death of the Pope in the Twentieth Century, Change and Continuity: The Example of Benedict XV ( douard Coquet) The 1922 Conclave and the Return of Pope Pius (Lorenza Lullini) The Statue of Benedict XV in Istanbul: The East's Gratitude to the Charitable Pope (Rinaldo Marmara) An Image-Building Failure: Biographies in the Era of Pius XI (Giulia Grossi) From Fernand Hayward's Un Pape m connu to the Spoleto Congress (1955-63) (Federico Ruozzi) Benedict XV and the Founding of the Pontifical Oriental Institute (1917): Foresight, Intuition, Hindsight (Edward G. Farrugia) Continuity and Discontinuity: Pius X, Benedict XV, and Pius XI (Annibale Zambarbieri) Conclusions The Benedict XV Moment (Denis Pelletier) Abstracts Name Index‎

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‎Kirk Bennett‎

‎The Tiflis Dirhams of M ngke Khan‎

‎, Brepols, 2020 Hardback, vi + 182 pages, Size:152 x 229 mm, Illustrations:219 b/w, 3 tables b/w., Language: English. ISBN 9780897223652.‎

‎Summary The dirhams of M ngke Kh?n represent the first major emission of silver coinage in Georgia following the Mongol conquest roughly a generation previously. Struck in the Georgian capital city of Tiflis (modern Tbilisi) from the middle of AH 652 to perhaps as late as the first month of AH 660 (AD 1254-1261), these coins circulated widely throughout the South Caucasus and adjacent areas. This coin type was the first in Georgia to provide a date formula with both the month and year of the Islamic calendar. The placement of the date formula in the four marginal segments of the reverse of the coin means that parts of it are often struck off the flan or effaced on individual specimens. The problem is compounded by poor Arabic calligraphy on many coins, leading to much confusion in the literature about the extant dates. However, using secondary design features such as the varying central obverse and reverse decorative elements, this book creates a systematic framework for dating these dirhams, identifying previously unpublished dates and varieties in the process. The first in-depth monograph on this popular and historically important coin series, this book will be a valuable resource for both scholars and collectors interested in Georgian, Mongol, and Islamic numismatics. TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. Identification Guide Bibliography‎

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‎Vasilios N. Makrides, Gayle E. Woloschak (eds)‎

‎Orthodox Christianity and Modern Science: Tensions, Ambiguities, Potential‎

‎, Brepols, 2019 Hardback, 277 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Language: English. ISBN 9782503576169.‎

‎Summary The first volume of the new series "Science and the Orthodox Christianity" focuses on the nature of the relationship between modern science and Orthodox Christianity with its centuries-old tradition. Orthodoxy today shares a variety of - sometimes ambiguous - attitudes towards modern science shaped by the texts of the Church Fathers, medieval and modern theologians and scholars, as well as contemporary social realities. On the other hand, modern science, which sprung from the quest by West European scholars for a better knowledge of the world, is faced with crucial and uneasy questions about the meaning of life and the position of humankind within the natural world. The main goal of this volume is to define the patterns of the science-religion relationship in the Orthodox world, especially in the light of the most recent trends in both science and theology. Is this a relationship of dialogue or conflict? Of integration or independence? What is the impact of the revival of patristic studies and new theological currents on the relationship? But also, what is the relevant impact of new scientific discoveries on the image of the human and the universe? Has the modern science-religion dialogue in the West influenced Orthodox Christianity in its effort to create new perspectives and concepts in response to new challenges? These questions are crucial for understanding and mapping the current science-religion dialogue in the Orthodox world, and apart from recording given views and opinions. TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface Notes on Contributors Vasilios N. Makrides, Gayle E. Woloschak, Relating Orthodox Christianity with Modern Science: An Introduction Part I - The Orthodox Christian Tradition and Modern Science: An Uneasy Relationship? Metropolitan Nikolaos of Mesogaia and Lavreotiki, Modern Science and Orthodox Theology: An Uneasy yet Profound Relationship Pantelis Kalaitzidis, The Ambiguous Relationship between Orthodoxy and Science as Part of the Pending Discussion between Orthodoxy and Modernity: From the Polemic against the Enlightenment to the Debate over Homosexuality Vasileios Thermos, Orthodox Tradition and Science: Modernity as a Mediator Part II - The Greek Patristic Heritage: Its Potential for the Orthodoxy Science Dialogue Sergey S. Horujy, The Patristic Idea of Cosmic Liturgy as the Basis of the Relationship between Orthodox Theology and Science Alexei Nesteruk, Philosophical Foundations of Mediation/Dialogue between (Orthodox) Theology and Science William R. Shea, Maximus the Confessor and the Contribution of Orthodoxy to the Dialogue on Science and Religion Stoyan Tanev, Using the Concept of Energy to Encounter Orthodox Theology with Physics: An Analogical Comparative Theological Approach (ACTA) Christopher C. Knight, Science, Theology, and the Mind Athanasios N. Papathanasiou, God, the Great Writer and Great Computer Whizz: Comment on Christopher C. Knight's Paper Part III - Orthodox Christianity and Science: Local Settings and Specific Concerns in the Past and at Present Gayle E. Woloschak, Science-Religion Interface: Agreements and Tensions of Orthodox Christian Pastoral Concern in the Biomedical Sciences Archbishop Makarios of Australia, The Science-Theology Dialogue through the Inter-Orthodox Bioethics Committee Nina Dimitrova, Orthodoxy and Science in Bulgaria (20th-21st Century) Doru Costache, A Theology of the World: Dumitru St?niloae, the Traditional Worldview, and Contemporary Cosmology Dimitry Kiryanov, Evolution and Orthodox Theology in Russia: An Uneasy Way to the Dialogue Kirill Kopeikin, The Orthodox Tradition and a Personal View on the Universe 'from Within': A Russian Orthodox Perspective Aleksandar Petrovi? and Aleksandra P. Stevanovi?, Theology in the Mirror: The Dictionary of Technology in Yugoslavia/Serbia as Revival of Orthodox Culture and Re-ideation of Technology Ekmeleddin ?hsano?lu, Orthodox Christian Physicians and Scholars in the Ottoman Court John Hedley Brooke, Orthodox Christian Physicians and Scholars in the Ottoman Court: A Commentary‎

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‎gnes Fl ra‎

‎Matter of Honour. The Leading Urban Elite in Sixteenth Century Transylvania‎

‎, Brepols, 2019 Hardback, 284 pages, Size:178 x 254 mm, Illustrations:22 b/w, 5 col., 7 tables b/w., Languages: English, Latin. ISBN 9782503555768.‎

‎Summary This monograph entails a comparative study of two early modern urban centers in Transylvania: Cluj (Kolozsv r, Klausenburg) and Sibiu (Nagyszeben, Hermannstadt). It develops a new perspective on urban history in Transylvania, by filling the recent historiographical lacuna on early modern urban elites. This book attempts to combine traditional and modern research methods, by analyzing and comparing a large volume of unpublished data along three research lines. First, the historical background within which of the town elites in Cluj and Sibiu monopolized power are analyzed, including the development of town autonomy and governmental systems, the legal background of urban leadership, its continuity and the conditions under which the political urban elite acted in each town. Secondly, a thorough archontological and prosopographical research, with a special focus on marriage strategies and professional competence leads to a socio-political characterization of the elites of Cluj and Sibiu. Finally, an attempt is made to provide insight into the representation and self-fashioning of these elites. TABLE OF CONTENTS The manuscript has three main chapters, an introductory chapter, conclusions, bibliography and index of names. The introductory chapter starts with the definitions of terms used in the text along with a short review of the elite theories with references to Max Weber, Norbert Elias, Gaetano Mosca or Vilfredo Pareto. This part is followed by the presentation of the aims and of the methodology pursued during the research. The presentation of the sources was split into two categories: unpublished primary sources and edited documents. Subsequently, the historiographical traditions on the topic - both in Hungary/Romania and international - are discussed. The first main chapter is titled 'Respublica - res publica' and it is structured on three subchapters and thirteen sub-sub chapters. The first section (1.1.) is dedicated to the legal and institutional framework within which the urban elites of Cluj and Sibiu operated. The main objective of this section is to acquaint the readers with the beginnings of urban government and autonomy in the two towns in order to discuss the whole process of elite formation from the medieval period until the early modern. I have tried here to cutback some erroneously interpreted historical facts that has been reproduced time and again in scholarly works without any constructive criticism. A second section explores the structures of the town governments in the sixteenth century (1.2.), the history of the main urban offices and their legal context. A third section ends this chapter by having a closer look on the forces that might have interfered with the process of elite formation or disturbed it. Following Karen Lambrecht's theory, elite formation is studied in relation to the court, the Church, the Reformation movements, university and multi-ethnicity. This part gives a deeper insight on the political, religious and ethnic realities of the region in the sixteenth century. The second main chapter ('Magistri rei publicae') focuses on the archontological and propographical research on the urban elites. First, the legal, moral and material criteria of eligibility in public offices are discussed. Presenting several case studies, the second part makes a statistical and analytical presentation of the career building and power concentration in a comparative way. The following two subchapters investigate the 'cursus honorum' (the advancement of public office-holders within the ranks of the town council) and the networking strategies of the local elites (2.4.). This section leads to some intriguing aspects of power concentration within the local elites, family-networks and business relations are revealed. This main chapter concludes in an analytical subchapter dealing with the question whether the governing elites in Cluj and Sibiu can be categorized as a patrician communities or not (2.5). The third part of this book ('Shaping self- and communal identity') is dedicated to the self-fashioning, and by that, to the communal individuation through the representation of the elites. Two main aspects are discussed here: the rituals and the ceremonies of the council election, constituted by a strong interaction between town and elites, and the erudite self-representation of the leaders through art and architecture. The book is provided with a concluding chapter, a vast bibliography and an index of names.‎

Bookseller reference : 65985

‎Pavl na Rychterov (ed)‎

‎Pursuing a New Order II. Late Medieval Vernacularization and the Bohemian Reformation‎

‎, Brepols, 2019 Paperback, 321 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:5 tables b/w., Language: English. ISBN 9782503581828.‎

‎Summary In the first two decades of the fifteenth century, the Hussite religious reform movement emerged in Bohemia; it used one of the realm's vernacular languages, Czech, both to disseminate its reform ideas, and to establish strong foundations for the reform. The vernacular became a significant strategy for identification, capable of binding together disconnected religious, ethnic, political and regional identities and generating a very potent aggregate of identifications. This volume considers material from the second half of the fourteenth century to the first half of the sixteenth, beginning with the so-called Hussite 'forerunners' and ending with the early German reformation. Individual essays discuss the various functions of the vernaculars in different text types, social situations and religious and political contexts. Together, they correct former assumptions about the topic and provide a basis for further study of Hussite vernacular theology and contribute to the transformation of scholarly narratives about the Hussite movement by including works of vernacular religious education among the most important source material. It offers a basis for the comparative research on the role of the vernaculars in late medieval European religious reform movements. TABLE OF CONTENTS Notes About the Contributors Introduction David C. MENGEL (College of Arts and Sciences, Xavier University of Cincinnati): Plures lingwas in Praga nescimus: Conrad Waldhauser on Czech and German in Fourteenth-Century Prague Martin DEKARLI (Institute for History, University of Hradec Kr lov ): Translating Political Theology into Vernacular: R criture Of John Wyclif's Oeuvre in Late- Medieval Bohemia Pavel SOUKUP (Centre for Medieval Studies, Czech Academy of Sciences): The Puncta of Jan Hus: The Latin Transmission of Vernacular Preaching Petra MUTLOV (Institute of Classical Studies, Masaryk University Brno): Religious Cross-Currents at the End of the Middle Ages: Remarks on the Textual Transmission of Nicholas of Dresden's Tabule veteris et novi coloris Jan ODSTR?IL K (Institute for Medieval Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences): Translation and Transformation of Jan Hus's Czech Sunday Postil Pawe? KRAS (Department of History, Catholic University Lublin): The Vernacular Eulogy of John Wyclif by Master Andrzej of Dobczyn: Textual Transmission of Dissident Ideas in Fifteenth-Century Poland Jakub SICH LEK (Institute for Czech Literature, Charles University Prague): Vernacular Vitaspatrum in the Religious Polemic between Catholics and Utraquists in Bohemia around the year 1500 Ji? ?ERN (Institute for German Studies, University Olomouc): The Nikolsburg Anabaptists and their German-Language Apologias Bibliography Index of Authors and Anonymous Texts‎

Bookseller reference : 66033

‎Marie-Madeleine de Cevins‎

‎Confraternity, Mendicant Orders, and Salvation in the Middle Ages. The Contribution of the Hungarian Sources (c.1270-c.1530)‎

‎, Brepols, 2019 Hardback, xvii + 365 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:22 b/w, 2 tables b/w., 2 Maps, 14 Graphs, Language: English. ISBN 9782503578712.‎

‎Summary By the late Middle Ages, mendicant spiritual confraternities had developed a poor reputation. Their spiritual status was ill-identified: somewhere between requests for intercession, necrological commemoration, and pious associations. In the hands of the mendicants, they seemed to resemble what indulgences had supposedly become in the hands of the papacy: bait that was handed out to extort funds from the faithful while offering an apparently immediate access to Paradise. Thus, like indulgences, they seem to have been gradually emptied of their substance and denounced (even before Luther) as glaring evidence of the corruption of the Roman Church. Much recent scholarship has followed this negative portrait of spiritual confraternities ? unless it has conflated them with other non-spiritual confraternities, or indeed ignored them altogether. This volume draws on the abundant number of letters of confraternity available from Hungarian sources in order to provide a more nuanced picture of mendicant spiritual confraternities. It sheds new light on the links between the mendicants and their supports among the laity, and emphasises the broader significance of the confraternity movement in late medieval piety in Central Europe and beyond. TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1. Spiritual Confraternities of the Mendicant Orders - In a Blind Spot of Research An Elusive Object of Study The Link Between Confraternitas and the Monks Do Mendicant Spiritual Confraternities Exist? Established Historical Givens Unresolved Questions Central European Trajectories Chapter 2. The Hungarian Documentary Corpus Sources on The Spiritual Confraternities of the Mendicant Orders in the Middle Ages The Documentation Pertaining to Hungary: Overview 'Hungarian' Letters of Confraternity Chapter 3. The Success of Mendicant Spiritual Confraternities in Hungary until about 1530 The Hungarian Religious Context The Infatuation with Mendicant Spiritual Confraternities Sociography of the Affiliates Chapter 4. The Process of Spiritual Affiliation to the Mendicants A Nebula of Graces The Letter in Spiritual Affiliation From Individual to Confraternitas Chapter 5. Mendicant Uses of Spiritual Confraternity The Involvement of the Mendicants in the Development of Spiritual Confraternities The Interest of Spiritual Association for the Friars The Franciscans and Spiritual Confraternity The Other Mendicants Chapter 6. Confraternity and Salvation: The Affiliates' View The Value of Spiritual Confraternity on the Salvation Market Why Affiliate Oneself with The Mendicants? Three Itineraries of Spiritual Associates Conclusion Bibliography Tables, Maps, Graphs Appendix: Sixteen Letters of Confraternity Figures (Letters Of Confraternity, Seals) Index of Proper Names‎

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‎Etienne Anheim, David Fiala (eds)‎

‎Saintes-Chapelles du XIIIe au XVIIIe si cle‎

‎, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 2024 softcover, Pages: 272 pages, Size:210 x 270 mm, Illustrations:76 b/w, 28 col., Language(s):French, English. ISBN 9782503605364.‎

‎Si la fondation de la Sainte-Chapelle de Paris par Louis IX pour accueillir la couronne d? pines au milieu du XIIIe si cle est bien connue et si l'on sait qu? l?imitation du saint roi, plusieurs princes de France fond rent des chapelles dites saintes entre la fin du Moyen ge et le d but de la Renaissance, l?histoire longue et complexe de ces chapelles est encore mal connue et mal comprise. Il ne s?agit pas de nier la possibilit de construire un id al-type de la Sainte-Chapelle, mais plut t de s?interroger sur l? cart entre ce que les documents du pass appellent Sainte-Chapelle , sans pr juger d?un sens stable et univoque travers le temps, et ce que les p riodes post rieures et la recherche actuelle peuvent d signer sous ce nom. Une Sainte-Chapelle, des Saintes-Chapelles ? Ces contributions cherchent r pondre cette question en s?interrogeant sur la d finition de la notion, sa circulation, ses transformations dans le temps et dans l?espace. En comparant les diff rentes Saintes-Chapelles , ce volume veut d fendre l?id e que les Saintes-Chapelles sont des objets historiques particuli rement r v lateurs parce qu?elles ont t des rouages discrets mais fondamentaux : leur statut hybride, entre cour et glise, de m me que leur histoire longue, de la couronne d? pines la R volution, en font un observatoire id al pour mieux comprendre et expliquer les volutions l??uvre dans l?exercice du pouvoir et la c l bration de Dieu par la monarchie cap tienne entre le Moyen ge et les Lumi res. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction tienne Anheim, David Fiala, la recherche des Saintes-Chapelles Elizabeth A.R. Brown, La Sainte-Chapelle de Paris, ses appelations et son renom aux XIIIe et XIVe si cles Anne Massoni, Les Saintes-Chapelles, des chapitres coll giaux comme les autres ? Murielle Gaude-Ferragu, Les c r monies extraordinaires la Sainte-Chapelle de Paris (XIVe-XVe si cle) Christophe Boucheron, Jean Mortis et le Cartulaire de la Sainte-Chapelle de Paris de 1457 Meredith Cohen, What Saint Louis Saw. The Sainte-Chapelle and the Palais de la Cit in the Thirteenth-Century tienne Hamon, La mont e de la Sainte-Chapelle de Paris : fonctions, symboles et formes tienne Anheim, La ma trise d?enfants de la Sainte-Chapelle de Paris (XIIIe-XVIIIe s.). Institution et discipline entre la cour et l?Eglise Xavier Bisaro, Le vitrail et l?image : la Sainte-Chapelle de Paris dans les sources c r monielles du XVIIe si cle Dany Sandron, Notre-Dame et la Sainte-Chapelle au XIIIe si cle Paul Binski, Perspectives anglaises sur la Sainte-Chapelle Jean-Bernard de Vaivre, Laurent Vissi re, D votions aristocratiques la Sainte-Chapelle de Dijon Jean-Vincent Jourd?heuil, La fondation de la Sainte-Chapelle de Bourges (1392-1405) : une fondation princi re durant le Grand Schisme Yves Pauwels, Le porche de la Sainte-Chapelle de Champigny-sur-Veude : un manifeste de modernit architecturale Julien Noblet, La Sainte-Chapelle de Chamb ry et le projet d?Am d e VIII : nouvelles observations arch ologiques Laura Gaffuri, Paolo Cozzo, De Chamb ry Turin. La Sainte-Chapelle et la Chapelle Royale de la Cour de Savoie (XVe-XVIIIe si cles) Bernard Dompnier, Les calendriers festifs des Saintes-Chapelles aux XVIIe et XVIIIe si cles Conclusion tienne Anheim, David Fiala, Les Saintes-Chapelles, des institutions imaginaires‎

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‎Bartosz Kontny‎

‎West Balt Circle Riders. Spurs and their Role in the Bogaczewo and Sudovian Cultures‎

‎, Brepols, 2025 Hardback, 190 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:23 b/w, 11 col., 2 tables b/w., 7 maps color, Languages:English, Polish. *new ISBN 9782503614939.‎

‎Summary The spurs of horse riders have long been acknowledged as an important item of grave furniture in the Late Roman and Migration period burials of Poland, a reflection of the high social position held by the deceased. Yet while spurs have been studied at a general level, and typo-chronological studies have been conducted on spurs found in southern and central Poland, no such research has so far been conducted on finds from the West Balt Circle, in north-eastern Poland. This volume is an attempt to rectify the situation by offering a thorough examination of finds attributed to the Bogaczewo and Sudovian Cultures. The author here offers a comprehensive assessment of surviving materials from the period, many of which are scattered through museums across Europe, together with an in-depth analysis of archival sources (included among them the private inventories of archaeologists working in the pre-war period) in order to reconstruct our understanding of the furnishings and data relating to spurs. This detailed research, carefully contextualized against our wider understanding of Barbarian Europe, offers an important new reference for our understanding both of the West Balt Circle and its inter-cultural relations with surrounding regions, as well as of the symbolic meaning of spurs and their significance in burial rites. TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Illustrations Chapter 1: State of Research Sources Chapter 2: Spurs Classification Material Chapter 3: Anthropological Data Bogaczewo Culture Sudovian Culture Chapter 4: Richness of Graves with Spurs Co-occurrence with Weapons Chapter 5: Number of Spurs in Graves Chapter 6: Location of Graves with Spurs within Cemeteries Chapter 7: Ways of Mounting Spurs Chapter 8: Development of Spurs in the Bogaczewo and Sudovian Cultures Chapter 9: Roman Inspirations Final Remarks Chapter 10: Catalogue Bogaczewo Culture Sudovian Culture List of Current Polish and Former German-Language Names of Archaeological Sites Included in the Catalogue Works Cited Index‎

Bookseller reference : 66489

‎Bozena Czwojdrak (ed)‎

‎Courtiers and Court Life in Poland, 1386-1795‎

‎, Brepols, 2025 Hardback, 304 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:6 maps b/w, Language: English. *new ISBN 9782503610733.‎

‎Summary This collection of studies explores the complexities of the royal courts of Poland from the late medieval period to the cusp of modernity. Drawing on pioneering research and primary sources, the volume authors dissect the multifaceted roles and dynamics of courtiers, positioning them within the broader socio-political and cultural paradigms of their time. From the distinct cultural imprints of the Jagiellon dynasty to the challenges faced by monarchs elected during the eighteenth century, each study within this collection provides a rigorous examination of courtly structures, influences, and transformations. The volume examines the symbiotic relationships between courtiers and monarchs, the changing ideals of courtly service, and the impact of both domestic traditions and foreign influences on the Polish courts. It offers invaluable insights for scholars of court culture, bringing to the world stage evidence from the archives of Poland and seeking to understand the evolution of court life and its implications for the broader historical narratives of Poland throughout the entire existence of this composite monarchy. TABLE OF CONTENTS The Polish Courtier: A Background to the Profile DARIUS VON G TTNER SPORZY?SKI AND BO?ENA CZWOJDRAK Chapter 1. Court Culture in Poland during the Reign of the First Jagiellon Monarchs PIOTR W?COWSKI Chapter 2. The Structure and Development of Rulers' Courts in Late Medieval Poland BO?ENA CZWOJDRAK Chapter 3. A Courtier in the Service of Sigismund I the Elder MAREK FERENC Chapter 4. King's Courtiers in the Queen's Service. The Ideal Courtier at the Royal Courts of the Wives of King Sigismund II Augustus (1543-1566) AGNIESZKA JANUSZEK-SIERADZKA Chapter 5. The Gentlemen at Arms (aulici) of King Stephen B thory DOMINIK KADZIK Chapter 6. A 'Polish' Courtier in the Service of the House of Vasa (1587-1668) ALEKSANDRA BARWICKA-MAKULA Chapter 7. Men in the Service of the King: At the Court of Michael Korybut-Wi?niowiecki (1669-1673) and John III Sobieski (1674-1696) ALEKSANDRA SKRZYPIETZ Chapter 8. A 'Polish' Courtier in the Service of the House of Wettin (1697-1763) KATARZYNA KURAS Chapter 9. The Courtier and Social Changes in the Age of Enlightenment (1764-1795) ANGELA SO?TYS Glossary Index‎

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‎Kim Christiaens, Jan De Volder, Sam Kuijken, Dries Vanysacker (eds)‎

‎Pius XII and the Low Countries‎

‎, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 2025 paperback, Pages: 384 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:6 b/w, 1 tables b/w., Language:English, *new. ISBN 9782503617282.‎

‎The opening of the different Vatican Archives for the pontificate of Pius XII (1939-1958) in March 2020 sparked the interest of scholars across different disciplines worldwide. It invigorated tendencies to revisit the history of the 1940s and 1950s beyond the established narratives and sources, and nourished hopes to address both longstanding and emerging questions, and to discover innovative themes and approaches. Three years after the opening of these archives, a multidisciplinary group of scholars from Belgium and the Netherlands convened at a scientific conference in Rome, organized by the editors of this volume, to study the impact of the archival access on diverse research domains. This publication presents new research based on documentation unearthed in the Vatican archives, spanning both the Second World War and the postwar period and challenges existing scholarship not only on the history of the Catholic Church, but also on broader themes in the Low Countries. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Kim Christiaens, Jan De Volder, Sam Kuijken & Dries Vanysacker Part I - Historiography The State of the Art of Research on Pius XII Philippe Chenaux Different Archives on Pius XII. A Comparative Approach and Historiographic Considerations Matteo Luigi Napolitano Pope Pius XII and the Shoah. Methodological Approaches Jean-Dominique Durand Part II - The Second World War The Terrible Secret. Reflection on Holocaust Awareness in the Vatican, June 1941-December 1942 Monika Stolarczyk-Bilardie Pragmatic prudence or principled protest? The Catholic Church in Belgium and the Netherlands and the persecution of the Jews (1940-1945) according to the Vatican Archives Jan De Volder A ?diplomat Pope? in the face of war (1939-1945). As seen by Harold Tittmann Vincent Dujardin Pius XII and the Netherlands during the Second World War. Solace or silence between Utrecht and the Vatican Jan Th. M. Bank The Silences of the Popes in War. Benedict XV and Belgium, Pius XII and Poland Gabriele Rigano Part III - Intra-ecclesiastical developments Secret Visits to the Brussels Nunciature. Archbishop Clemente Micara, Father Donatus Wynant and the observant crisis in the Belgian Capuchin province Anton Milh Pius XII and Women Religious. The Belgian Perspective Kristien Suenens Wartime Canon Law. Another History of the Church during the second world conflict lisabeth Bruy re Mgr. Paolo Giobbe?s Internunciature in the Netherlands (1935-1958). Documents in the Vatican Archives Marco Figliola Part IV - Global and cultural developments The Vatican and the burden of Postwar Divine Interventions Peter Jan Margry Pius XII and the Olympic Games of Melbourne 1956 within his broader vision on sport and in the light of his successors? contacts with the International Olympic Committee Dries Vanysacker Pius XII, Teilhard de Chardin and the Belgian Jesuits Dominique Lambert Between Fears and Hopes. Belgian Perspectives on the Catholic Turn Towards Latin America (1945-1958) Kim Christiaens and Sam Kuijken Further Notes on Eugenio Pacelli?s ?Ostpolitik? Johan Ickx List of Contributors Register of historical persons‎

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‎Matenadaran: Medieval and Early Modern Armenian Studies, 1.1 (June 2024)‎

‎, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 2025 PaperbackPages: 188 pages, Size:178 x 254 mm, Illustrations:40 col., Language(s):English, French, Italian, *new. ISBN 9782503613857.‎

Bookseller reference : 67367

‎Ludwika Jo?czyk‎

‎Funeral Rites of the Yotvingians Excavations from a Cemetery in North-eastern Poland‎

‎, brepols, 2026 Hardback, Pages: 353 pages, Size:216 x 280 mm, Illustrations:57 b/w, 227 col., 27 tables b/w. Language(s):English, Polish. *NEW. ISBN 9782503618593.‎

‎Summary The burial rites of the Yotvingians, a people who inhabited the Suwa?ki region of north-eastern Poland, were until recently almost completely unknown to archaeologists. For a long time, it was considered that the funeral rites of this people could not be identified archaeologically, and while finds such as settlement complexes have been excavated, related necropolises were not found. This changed with the identification of the Mosi??ysko burial ground in the Szurpi?y settlement complex, dated to the twelfth and thirteenth centuries AD, which is the first sepulchral site of the early medieval Yotvingians to have been discovered and surveyed using state-of-the-art archaeological methods. The results from these excavations are presented for the first time in this monograph. The excavations at the site yielded traces of collective cremation burials discovered scattered on the surface of the site, accompanied by stone structures. The equipment of the deceased, intentionally destroyed and burnt, included numerous fragments of ornaments, parts of costume and tools, as well as sporadically occurring weapons and horse riding gear. In addition to finds of artefacts characteristic of the early medieval Suwa?ki region, it was also possible to distinguish interregional varieties akin to finds from Sambia, Curonia, and other lands inhabited by the Balts. The results of this ground-breaking find, documented here, have now made it possible to expand research into the Yotvingians, and to identify similar sites. TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Translator?s note Chapter 1. Introduction Subject of Study Aim of the Work Geographical Scope Chronological Scope Methodology Chapter 2. Settlement Complex in Szurpi?y History of Research History of Settlement Chapter 3. State of Research on the Funeral Rite Szurpi?y Micro-region The Czarna Ha?cza Group Chapter 4. Natural Environment of the Szurpi?y Area Location Geological Structure Climate Vegetation Chapter 5. Archaeological Investigation at Mosi??ysko Field Surveys Excavations Geophysical Surveys Chapter 6. Analysis Archaeological Sources Archaeological Features Bones Grave Goods Topography of the Cemetery within the Settlement Complex in Szurpi?y Extent of the Cemetery and the Distribution of Finds Burial of the Dead Chronology Chapter 7. The Context of Mosi??ysko Cemetery Funeral Rites of the Settlement Micro-region of Szurpi?y and the Czarna Ha?cza Group Funeral Rites in Selected Regions of Central and North-Eastern Europe Chapter 8. The Funeral Rites of the Old Prussians in the Light of Historical and Ethnographic Sources Chapter 9. Conclusions and Desiderata Works Cited Plates Appendix A. Analysis of Cremated Human Remains El?bieta Jaskulska Appendix B. Metalographical Analysis Grzegorz ?abi?ski, Tomasz Goryczka, and Krzysztof Anio?ek Appendix C. Microscopic Analysis of Non-ferrous Metal Artefacts Karol ?o??dziowski Appendix D. Results of Metallographic Analysis of Non-ferrous Alloys Ewelina Mi?ta-Jakubowska Appendix E. Archaeometric Analyses of Ceramic Vessel Samples from the Cemetery in Szurpi?y and Local Clay Samples Ma?gorzata Daszkiewicz Index‎

Bookseller reference : 68497

‎MOULIN, Léo‎

‎L'Europe à table. Dis-moi ce que tu manges.‎

‎Coll. "Savoir", Bruxelles, 1975, Edition Originale, Elsevier Séquoia, in-8, br., couv. ill. en noir sur fond vert éd., 204 pp., L'auteur, grand spécialiste de la culture culinaire de l'Europe nous donne ici une étude sociologique des habitudes et curiosités culinaires de l'Europe. Un apport important de ce livre est l'étymologie et l'évolution sémantique de quelques 400 mots liés à la gastronomie. Pas Courant bon état‎

Bookseller reference : 62209

‎GERARD, Jo.‎

‎Europe 1900.‎

‎Bruxelles, éd. Les Ateliers d'Art Graphiques Meddens, 1977, gd. in-4 carré,cartonnage souple à rabats avec photo en noir sur couv. éd., non paginé (31 pp. de texte et 96 pp. d'ill. en noir), 231 photos, reproductions de cartes postales anciennes et documents anciens en noir, Table des matières, Superbe iconographie de la vie en Europe autour de 1900. Pas courant. Très bon état‎

Bookseller reference : 64051

‎COLLECTIF.‎

‎Escales gourmandes. Sept pays - quinze étapes - quarante cinq recettes. La Méditerranée.‎

‎Marseille, Rives Sud, 1990, EDITION ORIGINALE, in-8, cartonnage souple couv. ill. en noir éd., 112 pp. papier fort, ill. en noir de Lionel NOSMAS, Sommaire, Table des recettes, Dans le cadre de la 5e biennale des Jeunes Créateurs de l'Europe de la Méditerranée qui s'est tenue à Marseille en septembre 1990, sept pays et quinze villes ont sélectionné quinze menus. Ce livre rassemble les recettes inédites de ces jeunes toques promises au plus bel avenir comme : Miguel Ristol de Barcelone, Renato Pistonne de Naples, Serge Gatinel de Toulouse et bien d'autres. Un parcours gastronomique très original ! Très belle illustration de Lionel Nosmas. RARE. Très bon état‎

‎Librairie spécialisée en gastronomie , œnologie et tabagie‎

Bookseller reference : 64523

‎JAEKEN, Godfried - WESTERLING, Hans.‎

‎L'Ecosse.‎

‎Bruxelles, éd. Artis - Historia, 1994, gd. in-4, cartonnage toilé éd., jaquette photo en coul. éd., 106 pp., 1 cartes en coul. et très nb. chromos contrecollés en coul., Table des matières, Très beau voyage en Ecosse. Bien complet des chromos. Très bon état‎

Bookseller reference : 65909

‎FERNIOT, Jean.‎

‎L'Europe à table.‎

‎Paris, éd. du Mécène, novembre 1993, EDITION ORIGINALE, gd. in-4, cartonnage toilé noir, jaquette rempliée ill. en coul. éd., 232 pp., papier glacé, très nb. photos et reproductions de documents anciens en coul. et en noir, sommaire, De l'Antiquité à nos jours; l'histoire de l'alimentation européenne, frugale chez les gens du peuple, mais le plus souvent riche, raffinée et parfois extravagante chez les classes riches. Rappel de l'apport des marchands, croisés et conquistadores à l'amélioration de la gastronomie européenne. Il s'agit ici de l'édition de luxe en grand format avec une superbe iconographie couleur. Pas courant ! Très bon état; pliures verticales sur les pages 161 à 174 mais sans manque‎

Bookseller reference : 66687

‎DE TOLEDO, Camille.‎

‎Le hêtre et le bouleau. Essai sur la tristesse européenne suivi de L'utopie ou la pédagogie du vertige.‎

‎Coll. "La Librairie du XXIe siècle", Paris, éd. Seuil, 2009, EDITION ORIGINALE, pt. in-8 étroit, cartonnage souple à rabats, couv. texte en noir et rouge éd., 224 pp., table des matières, biographie, table des matières, catalogue de la collection, " Le bouleau, dans le temps littéraire et poétique de la révélation, fut l'arbre du drame, le témoin silencieux de l'extermination ; l'arbre du massacre en train d'avoir lieu. La peau de son écorce en lambeaux est le visage d'un temps que nous n'avons pas connu, temps de l'anéantissement. Plus d'une moitié de siècle après, nous voilà désormais dans le présent du hêtre, arbre gagné par le "h' de la hantise. Mais quelle serait la voie de notre désenvoûtement ? Comment quitter le XXe siècle ? " Très bon état‎

Bookseller reference : 67492

‎AUERSWALD, Thomas - KRUMME, Heidi et Reinhold - WIESER, Ernest.‎

‎Voyage culinaire à travers l'Europe - Kulinarische reise durch Europa.‎

‎Lüdenscheid, éd. Bruchaus Maack, S.d. (c 1985), pt. in-4 oblong, cartonnage couv. photos coul. sur fond noir éd., 120 pp., papier glacé, nb. photos coul., bilingue français - allemand, sommaire, Voici un livre de passionné, le chef Ernest Wieser, très connu de la télévision allemande. Un livre intéressant qui nous donne des recettes de toute l'Europe avec ses spécialités locales. Ecrit en deux langues : français et allemand. Très bon état‎

Bookseller reference : 69928