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THEOLOGY: TEXTS & STUDIES
Jacob of Sarug’s Homilies on the Six Days of Creation: The Fifth Day
Edited and by Edward G. Mathews Jr. Series: Texts from Christian Late Antiquity Jacob comments on the events of the fifth day of Creation.
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In this fifth instalment of the long Homily 71, On the Six Days of Creation, Jacob comments on the events of the fifth day, the creation from the waters of the various species of fish and reptiles, as well as the assorted types of birds and other winged creatures. Jacob highlights the fact that the creation of these animals on the fifth day to inhabit the land and water separated on the third day is a symbol of the Resurrection of Christ.
Gorgias Press • 9781463241179 • Paperback 229 x 152mm • 68 pages • Available Now • £25.00
The History of John the Son of Zebedee
By Jacob A. Loller Series: Texts from Christian Late Antiquity Examines the stories of John the son of Zebedee from the perspective of Syriac Christians.
Many stories and legends about John the son of Zebedee have survived from antiquity. The present volume brings together all of the known Syriac witnesses to the History of John with a new translation and includes, for the first time, a critical discussion of the history, provenance, and importance of this text for the study of Syriac Christianity and Christian Apocrypha more generally.
Gorgias Press • 9781463240752 • Hardback 229 x 152mm • 300 pages • August 2020 • £110.00
Gender in Jewish Studies
Proceedings of the Sherman Conversations 2017 Edited by Daniel Langton Series: Melilah: Manchester Journal of Jewish Studies
Volume 13 of Melilah, an interdisciplinary electronic journal concerned with Jewish law, history, literature, religion, culture and thought in the ancient, medieval and modern eras. This issue focuses on the theme of gender in Jewish studies.
The Binding of Isaac and the Formation of Jewish Cultural Memory By David N. Gottlieb Series: Judaism in Context Analyses the Akedah as a metonym for cultural reorientation.
This work is a study of Jewish cultural memory as exemplified by rabbinic midrash of the Amoraic period, the 2nd through 5th centuries of the Common Era, and especially midrash on the Akedah, the Binding of Isaac (Gen. 22:1–19). The Akedah is proposed and analysed as a model for submission to the divine will through the act of interpretation.
Gorgias Press • 9781463240264 • Hardback • 152 x 229mm 251 pages • Available Now • £74.00
Islamic Origins, Arabian Custom, and the Documents of the Prophet
By Sarah Z. Mirza Series: Islamic History and Thought
Demonstrates the functions of the Prophet Muhammad's pragmatic documents in social relations in late antique Arabia. Along with the Qurʾān and ḥadīth, pragmatic documents negotiating land, taxes, and tribal relations are attributed to the Prophet Muḥammad (c. 570–632 CE) in early Islamic historiography. These are often viewed as relics reflecting the Prophet’s religio-political mission, or as anachronistic texts spuriously ascribed to him. Challenging both conclusions, this book argues that an indigenous Arabian legal and documentary tradition, distinct from classical Islamic law, can be traced in these documents.
Gorgias Press • 9781463206444 • Hardback 229 x 152mm • 300 pages • December 2020 • £140.00
Against “Irenaean” Theodicy
A Refutation of John Hick's Use of Irenaeus By David Hionides Series: Gorgias Studies in Early Christianity and Patristics
Serves to correct the now accepted understanding of Irenaeus’s theodicy.
Entrenched in scholarship on the problem of evil, John Hick’s Irenaean theodicy seemingly stands as a contemporary solution linked to the past. This book examines Hick’s connection of his work to the 2nd-century bishop of Lyon, proposing that the connection ought to be severed. Considering the context and works of both theologians on the problem of evil, it establishes that Irenaeus’s solution contrasts with Hick’s and allows the two theologians’ distinct resolutions of the problem of evil to stand on their own.
Gorgias Press • 9781463240714 • Hardback 229 x 152mm • 213 pages • Available Now • £120.00
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By Aziz S. Atiya Series: Texts from Christian Late Antiquity Portrays the history of the faith of non-Chalcedonian Churches.
This book is a classic in the history of the Oriental Churches. Written by a Copt, it portrays the history of the faith of these non-Chalcedonian Churches with firsthand knowledge of their traditions. The author covers Alexandrine Christianity (the Copts and the Ethiopians), the Church of Antioch (Syriac Orthodox), the 'Nestorian' Church of the East, the Armenian Church, the St. Thomas Christians of South India, the Maronite Church, as well as the Vanished Churches of Carthage, Pentapolis, and Nubia.
Gorgias Press • 9781463241155 • Paperback 229 x 152mm • 512 pages • Available Now • £85.00
An Early Christian Reaction to Islam
Išū‘yahb III and the Muslim Arabs By Iskandar Bcheiry Series: Gorgias Eastern Christian Studies Discusses Išū‘yahb’s view of and attitudes toward Muslim Arabs.
The year 652 marked a fundamental political change in the Middle East and the surrounding region. On this date the Sasanid Empire collapsed and the major part of the Byzantine dominion in the East was lost to the hands of Muslim Arabs. An important and contemporary source of the state of the Christian Church at this time is the correspondence of Iš ū‘yahb III (649–659). This book examines unanswered questions about his attitudes towards the Muslim Arabs.
Gorgias Press • 9781463240981 • Hardback 229 x 152mm • 205 pages • Available Now • £100.00
Rewriting Islamic Law
The Opinions of the 'Ulamā' Towards Codification of Personal Status Law in Egypt By Tarek Elgawhary Series: The Modern Muslim World
Explores the codification of Egyptian personal status laws through the eyes of the ‘ulamā’.
The codification process of personal status laws in Egypt began in the mid1800s, continuing until the abolition of the Sharī‘a courts in 1955. To understand the significance of the process of codification, this book examines the attitudes of the ‘ulamā’ regarding its place within the edifice of Islamic law. Furthermore, since the ‘ulamā’ themselves are a diverse group, it also explores various approaches adopted to the process of codification to show its significance on the re-formatting and re-writing of Islamic law.
Gorgias Press • 9781463239084 • Hardback 229 x 152mm • 241 pages • Available Now • £74.00
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By Ettore Rocca The first monograph on the art of significant Danish artist Peter Brandes.
Peter Brandes is one of the most significant Danish visual artists alive today, represented in the collections of leading museums worldwide, including the Louvre, and is featured in the most important Danish museums. This is the first monograph on the art of Peter Brandes, pursuing a series of central themes that cut across Brandes’ artistic production, connecting and traversing these with lines that the book’s author, Ettore Rocca, calls the “meridian of art.”
Aarhus University Press • 9788772190815 • Hardback 260 pages • April 2020 • £42.00
Leaping the Dragon Gate
The Sir Michael Butler Collection of 17th-Century Chinese Porcelain By Teresa Canepa and Katharine Butler Celebrates the most important collection of 17th-century Chinese porcelain in the world.
The most important collection of 17th-century Chinese porcelain in the world was assembled by the distinguished British diplomat Sir Michael Butler. This lavish and comprehensive collection covers most of the types of porcelain produced at Jingdezhen, in Jiangxi province, during the 17th century, illustrated by the variety of the pieces in this collection. An introduction by Katharine Butler also reveals the fascinating story of the circumstances that encouraged her father to acquire, collect and passionately study Chinese porcelain of the 17th century.
Ad Ilissum • 9781912168163 • Hardback • 600 illus. 300 x 245mm • 384 pages • November 2020 • £155.00
Living with Architecture as Art
The Peter May Collection of Architectural Drawings, Models and Artefacts By Peter May, Maureen Cassidy-Geiger, Charles Hind, Basile Baudez and Wells Matthew
This stunning two-volume publication introduces readers to one of the largest private collections of architectural drawings in the world, assembled over 30 years by investor and philanthropist Peter May. Showcasing drawings and related models and artefacts dating from 1691 to the mid-20th century, this lavish tome includes both a catalogue and new texts by leading authorities and provides a fascinating look at these often very beautiful by-products of architectural training and practice.
The Dark Side of Design By Francesco Galli Examines the economic, political and social aspects of design.
We are used to thinking of design in terms of both quality and the beauty of the tangible or intangible artefacts that are generated by an industrialised system. The main difference between craftsmanship and design stays in the replicability and scalability of the proposed solution measured against an existent market and its hierarchical dynamics. This book looks closer to show that all design production involves a carefully controlled balance driven by economic, political and social interests.
Mimesis International • 9788869773006 • Paperback 210 x 210mm • 290 pages • September 2020 • £23.99
The City as Photographic Text
Urban Documentary Photography of Sao Paulo Edited by David William Foster The first comprehensive presentation of photography on São Paulo.
This collection of photography of São Paulo is more than just a study of one city’s photographic legacy—it is a manual for how to understand and talk about Latin American photography in general. Focusing on major figures and referencing widely available books of their work, David William Foster offers a unique analysis of how photographers have contributed to our understanding of the megalopolis São Paulo has become.
University of Pittsburgh Press • 9780822946236 • Hardback 57 b/w illus. • 280 x 203mm • 232 pages • August 2020 • £35.00
Magnetic Woman
Toyen and the Surrealist Erotic By Karla Huebner Examines the life and work of the artist Toyen (Marie Čermínová, 1902–80).
Part art book and part biography, Magnetic Woman examines the life and work of the artist Toyen (Marie Čermínová, 1902–80), a founding member of the Prague surrealist group, and focuses on her construction of gender and eroticism. Using primary sources gathered from disparate disciplines and studies of the artist’s own work, the book is organised both chronologically and thematically, moving through Toyen’s career with attention to specific historical circumstances and intellectual developments approximately as they entered her life.
Thorvaldsen's Plaster Casts from the Antique and 1400-1800
By Jan Zahle
A complete mapping and reevaluation of Thorvaldsens Museum’s cast collection.
Aarhus University Press 9788771843590 • Hardback 652 pages • May 2020 £84.00 Unknown Letters to an Artist and a Friend
By Jean-Paul BouillonA catalogue of the Middle Kingdom. Publishes the letters from Édouard Manet (1832–1883) to artist Félix Bracquemond (1833–1914).
Great Art Critics (1750- 2000)
By Jesús Pedro Lorente
Pays homage to the most influential art critics in different cultural contexts.
Mimesis International 9788869772566 • Paperback 192 pages • March 2020 £17.99 Governing by Design
History Collective Examines the influence of politics, culture, economics and globalisation in the role of architectural history.
Hartford Seen
By Pablo Delano
The first modern-day ar t photography book to focus on Connecticut’s capital.
Wesleyan University Press 9780819579256 • Paperback 160 pages • April 2020
Manet to Bracquemond:
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C o l o n i a l i s m a n d Modern Architecture in Germany
By Itohan Osayimwese
C o n s i d e r s t h e e f f e c t s o f c o l o n i a l i s m , t r a v e l , a n d globalisation on modern architecture in Germany.
Ad Ilissum • 9781912168170 University of Pittsburgh Press University of Pittsburgh Press
Paperback • 136 pages 9780822961789 • Paperback 9780822945086 • Hardback
September 2020 • £35.00 300 pages • April 2012 352 pages • June 2017 £29.50 £49.95
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Architecture and Transformation from the 1960s to the Present
Edited by Kenny Cupers, Catharina Gabrielsson and Helena Mattsson Reframes accepted narratives of neoliberalism and postmodernism through an architectural lens.
Architecture and urbanism have contributed to one of the most sweeping transformations of our times. Over the past four decades, neoliberalism has been not only a dominant paradigm in politics but a process of bricks and mortar in everyday life. Rather than ask what a neoliberal architecture looks like, or how architecture represents neoliberalism, this volume examines the multivalent role of architecture and urbanism in geographically variable yet interconnected processes of neoliberal transformation across the world.
University of Pittsburgh Press • 9780822946014 • Hardback • 90 b/w illus. 254 x 178mm • 448 pages • February 2019 • £50.00
Architecture of Good Behavior
Psychology and Modern Institutional Design in Postwar America By Joy Knoblauch Explores psychological functionalism as a political tool.
Inspired by the rise of environmental psychology and increasing support for behavioural research after the Second World War, new initiatives in America at the federal, state, and local levels looked to influence the human psyche through form, or elicit desired behaviours with environmental incentives. This book explores psychological functionalism as a political tool and the architectural projects funded by a post-war nation in its efforts to govern, exert control over, and ultimately pacify its patients, prisoners, and residents.
University of Pittsburgh Press • 9780822945734 • Hardback • 85 b/w illus. 254 x 178mm • 320 pages • April 2020 • £42.00
Race and Modern Architecture
A Critical History from the Enlightenment to the Present Edited by Irene Cheng, Charles L. Davis and Mabel O. Wilson Constructions of race and their impact on architecture and theory.
Although race has played a critical role in the development of modern architectural discourse and practice since the Enlightenment, its influence on the discipline remains largely underexplored. This volume offers a welcome and long-awaited intervention for the field by shining a spotlight on constructions of race and their impact on architecture and theory in Europe and North America and across various global contexts since the eighteenth century.
Gender, Sexuality, and Race in Irish Traditional Music By Tes Slominski A nuanced exploration of nationalism in traditional Irish music.
Just how “Irish” is traditional Irish music? This study combines ethnography, oral history, and archival research to challenge the longstanding practice of using ethnic nationalism as a framework for understanding vernacular music traditions. It discusses early-twentieth century women whose musical lives were shaped by Ireland’s struggles to become a nation; follows the career of Julia Clifford, a fiddler who lived much of her life in England, and explores the experiences of women, LGBTQ+ musicians, and musicians of colour in the earlytwenty-first century.
Wesleyan University Press • 9780819579287 • Paperback • 12 illus. 279 x 216mm • 244 pages • July 2020 • £20.95
ALSO AVAILABLE IN HARDBACK 9780819579270 • £62.50
Parameters and Peripheries of Culture
Interpreting Maroon Music and Dance in Paramaribo, Suriname By Corinna Campbell A vital contribution to knowledge about the cultural map of the African diaspora.
How do people in an intensely multicultural city live alongside one another while maintaining clear boundaries? This question is at the core of this book, which illustrates how the Maroons (descendants of escaped slaves) of Suriname, on the northern coast of South America, have used culture-representational performance to sustain their communities within Paramaribo, the capital.
Wesleyan University Press • 9780819579553 • Paperback • 25 illus., 15 tables and graphs • 203 x 152mm • 250 pages • July 2020 • £22.50
ALSO AVAILABLE IN HARDBACK 9780819579546 • £70.00
Resounding Spaces
Approaching Musical Atmospheres Edited by Federica Scassillo A collection of papers examining music and atmospheres.
This book is the result of an international conference that took place in Rome on September 13th-14th 2019, entitled “Resounding Spaces: Music and Atmospheres”. The main topic was the relationship between music(s) and concepts like resonance, atmosphere, and mood. Talking about “music(s)” and not “music” (in singular) reflects the academic backgrounds of its authors: philosophers, musicologists, ethnomusicologists, aestheticians of music, composers, all of whom enrich the volume with contributions from their own perspective.
