Basil Williams 
Cecil Rhodes [PDF ebook] 

Were holy men historical figures or figments of the theological imagination? Did the biographies devoted to them reflect facts or only the ideological commitments of their authors? For decades, schol …

Following the end of the First World War the Mediterranean Fleet found itself heavily involved in the Eastern Mediterranean, the Sea of Marmora, the Black Sea and to a lesser extent, the Adriatic. Na …

Legal pluralism and the experience of the state in the Caucasus are at the centre of this edited volume. This is a region affected by a multitude of legal orders and the book describes social action …

Jesuit Science and the End of Nature’s Secrets explores how several prominent Jesuit naturalists – including Niccolò Cabeo, Athanasius Kircher, and Gaspar Schott – tackled the problem of occult or i …

Traditional historiography has always viewed Calvin”s Geneva as the benchmark against which all other Reformed communities must inevitably be measured, judging those communities who did not follow G …

The Good Friday Agreement resulted in the cessation of paramilitary violence in Northern Ireland. However, prejudice and animosity between Protestants and Catholics remains. The Real Peace Process dr …

Taking advantage of critical methodology for history-writing and the use of anthropological insights and ethnographic data from the modern Middle East, this study aims at providing new understandings …

Analyses the foundation of the San-kuo Wei Dynasty by Ts”ao P”I in 220 CE, using the main historical accounts, a wide range of religious and philosophical writings, epigraphical records, and above …

Text, translation, theology – the three nouns in the title indicate the main fields of Old Testament study which are covered in this collection of essays. Text refers both to the history of biblical …

Testing Fresh Expressions investigates whether fresh expressions of church really do what is claimed for them by the fresh expressions movement and, in particular, whether their unique approach helps …