“…To highlight the benefits of cross-cultural comparison, contributions include case studies focused on northern and southern Europe, as well as the extreme north and west of the region. A number of essays illustrate nuns' active engagement with formal education, and with varied textual forms, such as the legal and epistolary, while others convey the different opportunities for studying examples of nuns' artistic literacy. …”

“…That violence reigned supreme, that the powerful exercised a pitiless domination over the weak, that justice was cruel and expeditious, that a fanatical religion has ruled the lives of men, barely tempered by them. the most extravagant superstitions, that there was only a very rough knowledge in the fields of science, medicine, or hygiene, that women were despised and ignored all that was foreign to them. the borders of the West, for the majority of us, there is no doubt about it: the Middle Ages, an interminable parenthesis between the achievements of Antiquity and the wonders of the Renaissance, is the obligatory point of reference when one wants to to denigrate the dark times we have escaped to finally reach modernity. …”

“…Drawing on hagiography, chronicles, theology, canon law, and pastoral sources, Dyan Elliott traces the history of spiritual marriage in the West from apostolic times to the beginning of the sixteenth century…”

“…But just as damaging has been the rise in the West of a belief that a single model of political behavior will become a worldwide norm and that, if necessary, it will be enforced at gunpoint. …”

“…The Belt and Road Initiative, which seeks to revitalize and reconnect the ancient Silk Roads that linked much of the world before the rise of the West, is an attempt to place China at the center of this new international order, one shaped by Chinese power, norms, and values. …”

“…"The story of a remarkable era of reform, controversy, optimism, and Cold War confrontation in the Soviet Union Beginning with the death of Stalin in 1953, the "sixties" era in the Soviet Union was just as vibrant and transformative as in the West. The ideological romanticism of the revolutionary years was revived, with renewed emphasis on egalitarianism, equality, and the building of a communist utopia. …”

“…This book argues that US expansion was crucial to the development of the post-bellum US woman suffrage movement and shows how federal discussions of citizenship and voting rights in the context of creating territorial governments in the continental West and, after the Spanish-American War, in the Caribbean and the Pacific, created space on the Congressional calendar for suffragists to instigate debate on the woman question. …”
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“…We thought we knew the story of the twentieth century. For many in the West, after the two world conflicts and the long cold war, the verdict was clear: democratic values had prevailed over dictatorship. …”

“…The manuscripts featured in this book range in date from the 7th to the 17th century, embrace both devotional and secular material, and span a geographical area bounded by the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem in the east and the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Northumbria in the north-west. Some of them, such as the Luttrell Psalter or the Bedford Hours, are already well-known but the majority remain unfamiliar to the general public. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Body, Soul and Judgment in the Christianisation of the Anglo-Saxons -- The Evolution of the Buddhist Otherworld Empire in Early Medieval China -- Space and Power in Byzantine Accounts of the Aerial Tollhouses -- The End of the End: Devotion as an Antidote to Hell -- Empires and Last Days 2 -- The Multiple Uses of an Enemy: Gog, Magog and the "Two-Horned One" -- A.D. 672 - The Apex of Apocalyptic Thought in the Early Medieval Latin West -- Exegesis, Empire and Eschatology: Reading Orosius' Histories Against the Pagans in the Carolingian World -- The Bede Goes On: Pastoral Eschatology in the Prologue to the Chronicle of Moissac (Paris BN lat. 4886) -- The Afterlife of Eschatology -- The Testament of Time - The Apocalypse of John and the recapitulatio of Time according to Giorgio Agamben -- Eschatology as Occidental Lebensform: The Case of Jacob Taubes -- History beyond the Ken: Towards a Critical Historiography of Apocalyptic Politics with Jacob Taubes and Michel Foucault -- Index -- Proper Names -- Geographical Names and Toponyms…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…""The First Australasian Baptist Missionary: Ellen Arnold And The Bengalis, 1882-1931 """"Baptists And The Reformed Church In Mission: Indonesian Papua In The Late Twentieth Century ""; ""Baptists And Buddhists In Burma, 1813-2009 ""; ""Baptists And New Christian Movements In West Africa ""; ""Index ""…”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…El significado de las obras de Orla Holm y Marianne West / "Un planeta extraño". Descripciones de los paisajes, de la flora y fauna de México en textos de autores alemanes e ingleses entre las guerras / Interacción del discurso visual y textual en textos selectos de viajeros germanoparlantes entre la Primera y la Segunda Guerra Mundial / Acerca de los autores -- Índice general…”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…PART THREE: WESTWARD THE COURSE OF DESTINYA Plea for the West; Discourses; Oration; Passage to India; The Star of Empire; PART FOUR: CIVIL WAR AND NATIONAL DESTINY; The Battle Set in Array; National Responsibility before God; Second Inaugural Address; Our Obligations to the Dead; PART FIVE: NATIONAL PROGRESS AND WEALTH; Our Country's Place in History; The Tendencies of American Progress; The Relation of Wealth to Morals; A White Life for Two; PART SIX: AMERICAN DESTINY AND WORLD WAR; Patriotism; Presenting the Treaty for Ratification; Annual Message to Congress…”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Black theology and human identity / Cornel West ; The black church and religious freedom / Stephen L. …”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…The development and context of Hilary's trinitarian theology: Latin anti-modalism in 'In Matthaeum' -- Regula fidei and "the economy" -- Logos-sarx christology -- The passion of the Son -- The Latin West and the beginning of the Homoian crisis -- Sirmium 357 and the "Homoian plot" -- The first Latin response : Phoebadius of Agen -- The second Latin response : Marius Victorinus -- Hilary's first attempts to engage the Homoians -- Liber adversus Valentem et Ursacium -- De fide -- Hilary, Basil of Ancyra and Sirmium -- Basil of Ancyra and the Creed of Sirmium 357 -- De synodis and Hilary's response to Sirmium 357 -- Sirmium 357 and the Homoiousian anathemas -- The dedication creed, Serdica 343 and Sirmium 357 -- De synodis, part II -- The Nicene Creed -- Hilary to the Homoiousians…”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Ryden -- Black church burnings in the 1990s and faith-based responses / Katie Day -- Civil rights rhetoric in media coverage of marriage equality debates: Massachusetts and Georgia / Traci C. West -- The feminization of HIV/AIDS and passivity of black church responses in Denver and beyond / Carroll Watkins Ali -- Black churches and African American opinion on immigration policy / R. …”
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