Joseph Canning 
Conciliarism, Humanism and Law [EPUB ebook] 
Justifications of Authority and Power, c. 1400-c. 1520

Hatshepsut, the daughter of a general who had usurped the throne of Egypt, was born into a privileged position within the royal household. Married off to her own brother, she was expected to bear son …

This original study examines different incarnations of the Pyrenees, beginning with the assumptions of 18th-century geologists, who treated the mountains like a laboratory, and romantic 19th-century …

The vision, controversy and political rivalries that shaped America’s capital are examined in this fascinating history of Washington, D.C. When America’s first congress declared that a national capit …

Preaching was an integral part of the crusade movement. This book focuses on the efforts of the first four Avignon popes to organize crusade preaching campaigns to the Eastern Mediterranean and on th …

Forcing a fundamental rethinking of the Asian American elite, many of whom have attained top positions in business, government, academia, sciences, and the arts, this book will be certain to generate …

The London and North Eastern Railway, or LNER as it was familiarly known, was one of the Big Four companies that took control of Britain”s railway network following the ”Grouping” in 1923. This ne …

By exploring themes of fragility, mobility and turmoil, anxieties and agency, and pedagogy, this book shows how colonialism shaped postcolonial projects in South and Southeast Asia including India, P …

Featured in this edition are notes on various works of Thomas Tallis, “The Seasons” of Vivaldi, and “Jephte” by Carissimi. The latter contains an English paraphrase of the Latin text.Also treated are …

Their persecution was overblown and grand massacres were preferred over imprisonment or banishment. But why? Why were the Huguenots the targets of such brutality? Why were the Huguenot pastors the ob …