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The Emergency of Monasticism: From the Desert Fathers to the Early Middle Ages
"This is the first book to provide a account of the emergence of monasticism from its roots in late antiquity and its transition to the early medieval West. Beginning with the search for individual perfection in the context of the religious and…
Wisdom and Compassion: The Sacred Art of Tibet, Expanded Edition
"Tibetans create art to open windows from the ordinary, earthly world onto a perfected universe. Their tangka paintings, sculptures, and mandalas are regarded as points to transition from the coarse world we know to the perfected enlightenment realm…
There and Back Again: J.R.R. Tolkien and the Origins of The Hobbit
Mark Atherton here explores the chief influences on Tolkien's work: his boyhood in the West Midlands; the landscapes and seascapes which shaped his mythologies; his experiences in World War I; his interest in Scandinavian myth; his friendships,…
The Secret History of the World as laid down by the Secret Societies
An intellectual tour of the world's lesser-known histories offers a collection of alternate views that are drawn from a premise that history has been recorded from the corrupted perspectives of its victors.
The Venture of Islam: Conscience and History in a World Civilization
In Volume 3: The Gunpowder Empires and Modern Times, Hodgson investigates the establishment of an international Islamic civilization through about 1500. This includes a theoretical discussion of cultural patterning in the Islamic world and the…
The Venture of Islam: Conscience and History in a World Civilization
Volume 1: The Classical Age of Islam analyzes the world before Islam, Muhammad's challenge, and the early Muslim state between 625 and 692. Hodgson then discusses the classical civilization of the High Caliphate. The volume also contains a general…