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Church Misericords and Bench Ends

Richard Hayman

Carvings: artworks; Religious buildings

Paperback

With the increasing disappearance of stained glass in medieval churches, the surviving wood carvings on church misericords... [more]

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Ss. Vincenzo E Anastasio at Tre Fontane Near Rome: History and Architecture...

Joan Barclay Lloyd

Religious buildings; Church history

Hardback

Presents the history of the abbey of Ss Vincenzo e Anastasio at Tre Fontane near Rome that reached back into Roman antiquity.... [more]

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The California Missions: History, Art, and Preservation

Edna Kimbro, Julia Costello, Tevvy Ball

History of Art & Design Styles; Religious buildings; Social & cultural history

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Presents an illustrated exploration of the history, heritage, and future of California's Missions. Combining a narrative with... [more]

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Salisbury Cathedral: The Making of a Medieval Masterpiece

Timothy Tatton-Brown

Religious buildings

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'Salisbury Cathedral', a famously beautiful work of ecclesiastical architecture, was erected within about 40 years in a single... [more]

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Art and Architecture of the World's Religions

Leslie Ross

Religious subjects depicted in art; Religious buildings

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Beginning with faiths in the ancient worlds of Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome, this set examines the major religions... [more]

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The Gargoyles of Notre Dame: Medievalism and the Monsters of Modernity

Michael Camille

Architectural structure & design; Religious buildings

Hardback

Most of the people who visit the cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris probably do not realize that the legendary gargoyles adorning... [more]

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Macao's Church of Saint Paul: A Glimmer of the Baroque in China

Cesar Guillen-Nunez

Religious buildings

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Macao's Ruins of St Paul, whose correct name is the Church of Madre de Deus, is the only example of Baroque art and architecture... [more]

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Buddhist Stupas in South Asia: Recent Archaeological, Art-historical, and...

Akira Shimada, Jason Hawkes

Religious buildings; Asian history; Archaeology; Buddhism

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Bringing together the latest research on stupas in South Asia, this volume utilizes archaeological, art historical, and epigraphic... [more]

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The Four Great Temples: Buddhist Art, Archaeology, and Icons of Seventh-century...

Donald F. McCallum

Religious buildings; Asian history; Early history: c 500 to c 1450&1500; Archaeology; Buddhism

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Analysing the four temples, Asukadera, Kudara Odera, Kawaradera, and Yakushiji, this book considers historiographical issues,... [more]

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Lexicon of Medieval Choir Stalls

Elaine C Block, F Billiet

Religious buildings

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This lexicon is an indispensable tool long awaited by researchers and students so they may better conduct and exchange the... [more]

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Piety and Politics in the Early Indian Mosque

Finbarr Barry Flood

Religious buildings; Asian history; Islam

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Through a study of the mosques and their interpretative histories at different periods of time, this volume shows the link... [more]

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Calvinist Churches in Early Modern Europe

Andrew Spicer

Religious buildings

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A wide-ranging and interdisciplinary study of the impact of the European Reformation on the architecture, arrangement and... [more]

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Reinventing the Wheel: Paintings of Rebirth in Medieval Buddhist Temples...

Stephen F. Teiser

Oriental art; Religious subjects depicted in art; Religious buildings; Other non-Christian religions

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Explores the history and varied interpretations of the Wheel of Rebirth, a circle divided into sections depicting the Buddhist... [more]

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The Dome of the Rock

Oleg Grabar

Religious buildings; History

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Presents the story of the Dome of the Rock, the beautiful Muslim shrine in the walled Old City of Jerusalem, from the first... [more]

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American Country Churches

Dr. William Morgan M.D. (University of Southern California US)

Religious buildings; History of architecture

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Now more than ever, vacationing Americans are choosing to stay right here in the U.S., to look inward at our own rich national... [more]

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The Complete Taj Mahal: and the Riverfront Gardens of Agra

Ebba Koch

Architecture; Architectural structure & design; Religious buildings

Hardback

Leads the reader through the complex and gardens of the Taj Mahal, illustrated by hundreds of photographs and drawings and... [more]

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Damanhur: Temples of Humankind

Roberto Benzi, Sylvia Duffagni

Photography & photographs; Religious buildings

Hardback

Nearly three decades ago, Italian spiritual leader Oberto Airaudi had a vision of sacred temples built inside a mountain near... [more]

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The House of God: Church Architecture, Style and History

Edward Norman

Religious buildings

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The totality of Christian worship, a union of theology, spiritual experience and art, has nowhere been more fluently and movingly... [more]

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St Martin-in-the Fields

Malcolm Johnson (University of Bristol)

Religious buildings; Local history

Hardback

St Martin's has a long history stretching back more than eight hundred years. Its clergy and congregation have always been... [more]

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Sense of Mission

Thomas Drain

Religious buildings; Christian mission & evangelism

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The Spanish missions of the United States are the unique legacy of two very different cultures. Conceived as an expression... [more]

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Hagia Sophia 1850-1950: Holy Wisdom Modern Monument

Robert S. Nelson

Religious buildings

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Built in the 6th century as the cathedral for Constantinople, the Hagia Sophia was later a mosque, monument and museum. Robert... [more]

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The Stones of Naples: Church Building in the Angevin Kingdom 1266-1343

Caroline Bruzelius

Religious buildings

Hardback

The rich architectural legacy of the Angevins, three generations of French kings who reigned in southern Italy from 1266 to... [more]

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The Medieval English Cathedral: Papers in Honour of Pamela Tudor-Craig

Janet Backhouse

Religious buildings; History

Hardback

Pamela Tudor-Craig is one of the leading lights of the Harlaxton Medieval Symposium and is well known for her work on the... [more]

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Resplendent Synagogue: Architecture and Worship in an Eighteenth-century...

Thomas C. Hubka

Religious buildings; Social & cultural history; Judaism; Worship, rites & ceremonies; Jewish studies

Hardback

A study of the wooden 18th-century Polish synagogue in the town of Gwozdziec, in modern-day Ukraine. Using over 150 historical... [more]

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Monastic Spaces and Their Meanings

Megan Cassidy-Welch

Religious buildings

Hardback

Medieval Cistercians distinguished between material and imagined space, while the landscapes in which they lived were perceived... [more]

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