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The pharaoh: life at court and on campaign
"How did someone become pharaoh? -- What did a pharaoh do each day? -- Did the pharaoh personally lead his army into battle? -- How influential was the Great Royal Wife? -- How was a pharaoh embalmed and buried? -- Who was the last pharaoh (and it…
The Quest for Hermes Trismegistus: From Ancient Egypt to the Modern World
From the sands of Alexandria via the Renaissance palaces of the Medicis, to our own times, this spiritual adventure story traces the profound influence of Hermes Trismegistus -- the 'thrice-great one', as he was often called -- on the western mind.…
Music in Renaissance Magic: Toward a Historiography of Others
Magic enjoyed a vigorous revival in sixteenth-century Europe, attaining a prestige it had not held for over a millenium and becoming, for some, a kind of universal philosophy. Renaissance music also suggested a form of universal knowledge through…
Reincarnation in Christianity: A New Vision of the Role of Rebirth in Christian Thought
Reincarnation is one of the most fascinating ideas in the history of religion, as it is also one of the most recurrent themes in the literature of the world. It is widely assumed to be foreign to the Christian heritage and especially alien to the…
Painters of Faith: The Spiritual Landscape in Nineteenth-Century America
Explores the faith and the crucial role it played in the artistic creations of some of the participants in America's first major artistic movement.
