Author: Prof. Frederic J. Baumgartner
Publisher: Palgrave Macmilla
Keywords: century, sixteenth, france
Number of Pages: 334
Published: 1995-11-15
List price: $33.00
ISBN-10: 0312158564
ISBN-13: 9780312158569

Both the golden age of the Renaissance state and the catastrophic era of the Wars of Religion, this fascinating period in French history has been oddly neglected by English-language historians. Professor Baumgartner’s book fills a major gap in the textbook market: an accessible, fully current account which covers the principal political, economic and cultural themes from Francois I’s successful centralization of the state, through France’s near prostration under the Catholic-Huguenot civil war, and ending with the accession of Henri IV.

Author: Prof. Frederic J. Baumgartner
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Keywords: elections, papal, history, doors, locked
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2003-10-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0312294638
ISBN-13: 9780312294632

Since 1600, whenever a Pope dies, the Cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church convene in Rome to elect a successor. The Papal Conclave is an event like no other. Highly secret and conducted behind the locked doors of the Sistine Chapel, it happens about eight times every century. It is an event that has evolved over the centuries and is always filled with high drama: cardinals meeting en masse in their scarlet robes, throngs of the faithful standing watch in St. Peter’s Square, the black or white smoke billowing from the chimney signalling the election of a new Pontiff Since secrecy was

Author: Prof. Frederic J. Baumgartner
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Keywords: civilization, western, millennialism, history, longing
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2001-02-03
List price: $39.00
ISBN-10: 0312238347
ISBN-13: 9780312238346

Jonestown, Waco, and Heaven’s Gate resonate in the contemporary mind in the same way that Masada or Mount Tabor resonated in the minds of others long past. The members of these movements believed that the end of the world was at hand and that they had to act through violence or suicide to ensure its occurrence. Frederic Baumgartner explores the long, often violent, history of millennialism as it has affected Western civilization. From ancient Zoroastrians to Concerned Christians of 1998, a belief in the imminent end of the world and the coming of the new age has motivated hundreds of sec

Authors:Prof Franco Taroni, Prof Silvia Bozza, Dr Alex Biede
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: perspective, statistics, practice, decision, bayesian, analysis, forensic, science, data
Number of Pages: 388
Published: 2010-05-24
List price: $95.00
ISBN-10: 0470998350
ISBN-13: 9780470998359

This is the first text to examine the use of statistical methods in forensic science and bayesian statistics in combination. The book is split into two parts: Part One concentrates on the philosophies of statistical inference. Chapter One examines the differences between the frequentist, the likelihood and the Bayesian perspectives, before Chapter Two explores the Bayesian decision-theoretic perspective further, and looks at the benefits it carries. Part Two then introduces the reader to the practical aspects involved: the application, interpretation, summary and presentation of

Authors:Jeffrey Spier, Prof. Herbert L Kessler, Prof. Steven
Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: art, kimbell, museum, christian, bible, earliest, picturing
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 2007-12-13
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 0300116837
ISBN-13: 9780300116830

Picturing the Bible explores the vast tradition of Christian art at its very beginnings in the third century A.D., just as Christianity was emerging from its outlawed, clandestine status to become the state religion of the Roman Empire. What images did these Christians use to express their faith openly? Were they the first believers to part with Mosaic law by creating “graven images”? What Jewish and pagan sources, if any, did they look to for inspiration? When did they begin to depict the life of Jesus? This beautifully illustrated book takes up such questions, revealing the story of how C

Authors:Jeffrey Spier, Prof. Herbert L Kessler, Prof. Steven
Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: art, kimbell, museum, christian, bible, earliest, picturing
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 2009-01-06
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 0300149344
ISBN-13: 9780300149340

"Picturing the Bible" explores the vast tradition of Christian art at its very beginnings in the third century A.D., just as Christianity was emerging from its outlawed, clandestine status to become the state religion of the Roman Empire. What images did these Christians use to express their faith openly? Were they the first believers to part with Mosaic law by creating ’graven images’? What Jewish and pagan sources, if any, did they look to for inspiration? When did they begin to depict the life of Jesus? This beautifully illustrated book takes up such questions, revealing the sto

Authors:Prof. Jonathan M. Bloom, Prof. Sheila S. Blair, Jona
Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: power, faith, years, thousand, islam
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2002-02-01
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0300094221
ISBN-13: 9780300094220

In its first thousand years - from the revelations given to Muhammad in the 7th century to the great Islamic empires of the 16th - Islamic civilization flourished. While Europeans suffered through the Dark Ages, Muslims in such cities as Jerusalem, Damascus, Alexandria, Fez, Tunis, Cairo and Baghdad made remarkable advances in philosophy, science, medicine, literature and art. This work explores the first millennium of Islamic culture, seeking to shatter stereotypes and enlighten readers about the events and achievements that have shaped contemporary Islamic civilization. Jonathan Bloom and Sh