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Il formaggio e i vermi
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Carlo Ginzburg,John Tedeschi,Anne C. Tedeschi |
Offers a study of culture in the sixteenth century as seen through the eyes of one man, the miller known as Menocchio, who was accused of heresy during the Inquisition and sentenced to death. This bo… |
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Chalcedon in context
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Mary Whitby,Price, Richard |
This collection of essays has its origin in a conference held at Oxford in 2006 to mark the publication of the first English edition of the Acts of Chalcedon. Its aim is to place Chalcedon in a broad… |
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The pope and the heretic
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Michael White |
Natural philosopher Giordano Bruno accepted nothing and challenged everything in his pursuit of an all-embracing system of thought, a vision that earned him the patronage of powerful royals including… |
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Politics and Religion in Napoleonic Italy
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Michael Broers |
The Politics of Religion in Napoleonic Italy explores the intense cultural conflict created by French rule in Italy at the start of the nineteenth century. Napoleon's desire for cultural conformity s… |
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An irreverent curiosity
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David Farley |
A tour through the centuries and through a bizarre Italian town in search of an unbelievable relic: the foreskin of Jesus ChristIn December 1983, a priest in the Italian hill town of Calcata shared s… |
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