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Kramer, Samuel Noah.
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(1988)
| 9780812212761 | Univ of Pennsylvania Press | pbk. | book | 416pp
AUD 90.95 (inc. GST), AUD 82.68 (ex. GST),
Which civilization had the first system of law? The first formal educationalsystem? The first tax cut? The first love song? The answers were found inexcavations of ancient Sumer, a society so developed, resourceful, andenterprising that it, in a sense, created history. The book presents a crosssection...
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Gerbner, Katharine.
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(2019)
| 9780812224368 | Univ of Pennsylvania Press | pbk. | book | 296pp
AUD 65.95 (inc. GST), AUD 59.95 (ex. GST),
Could slaves become Christian? If so, did their conversion lead to freedom? Ifnot, then how could perpetual enslavement be justified? In Christian Slavery,Katharine Gerbner contends that religion was fundamental to the development ofboth slavery and race in the Protestant Atlantic world. Slave owners...
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Mitchell, Stephen A.
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(2013)
| 9780812222555 | Univ of Pennsylvania Press | pbk. | book | 384pp
AUD 50.95 (inc. GST), AUD 46.32 (ex. GST),
Stephen A. Mitchell here offers the fullest examination available of witchcraftin late medieval Scandinavia. He focuses on those people believed to beable—and who in some instances thought themselves able—to manipulate theworld around them through magical practices, and on the responses to thesebeliefs...
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Fallon, Samuel.
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(2019)
| 9780812251296 | Univ of Pennsylvania Press | hbk. | book | 272pp
AUD 130.95 (inc. GST), AUD 119.05 (ex. GST),
In Paper Monsters, Samuel Fallon charts the striking rise, at the turn to theseventeenth century, of a new species of textual being: the serial,semifictional persona. When Thomas Nashe introduced his charismatic alter egoPierce Penilesse in a 1592 text, he described the figure as a "paper monster,"not...
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Bielefeldt, Heiner. Wiener, Michael.
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(2019)
| 9780812251807 | Univ of Pennsylvania Press | hbk. | book | 280pp
AUD 145.95 (inc. GST), AUD 132.68 (ex. GST),
Freedom of religion or belief is deeply entrenched in international human rightsconventions and constitutional traditions around the world. Article 18 of theUniversal Declaration of Human Rights enshrines the right to freedom of thought,conscience, and religion as does the International Covenant on...
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