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The Nature and Function of Water, Baths, Bathing and Hygiene ...

The Nature and Function of Water, Baths, Bathing and Hygiene ...

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31 Alexandra Cuffel, “Reorienting Christian 'Amazons': Christian women warriors in medieval Islamic literature in the context of the crusades” in Gender, Religion, and Culture in the pre-modern world, ed. Brian Britt and Alexandra Cuffel (New ...
Christian Identity amid Islam in Medieval Spain

Christian Identity amid Islam in Medieval Spain

Charles L. Tieszen

and what they hoped would be embraced by the communities that might read their treatises than the Muslims they attacked in them.22 Furthermore, as Alexandra Cuffel clarifies, the volatility within antiMuslim polemic also suggests a certain ...
Ritual Participation and Interreligious Dialogue: ...

Ritual Participation and Interreligious Dialogue: ...

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Chapter 9 1 See, for example, Alexandra Cuffel, “From Practice to Polemic: shared saints and festivals as 'women's religion' in the medieval Mediterranean,” The Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 68 (2005): 401–19; ...
Religion, gender, and culture in the pre-modern world

Religion, gender, and culture in the pre-modern world

Alexandra Cuffel

This book compares shifting formulations of gender, interfaith, and ethnic relations in the Near East, Europe, the Americas, and Africa from antiquity to the nineteenth century.
Locating Religions: Contact, Diversity, and Translocality

Locating Religions: Contact, Diversity, and Translocality

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Alexandra Cuffel draws our attention to the very concrete reasons for Jewish migration to the town of Safed. Dorothea Weltecke picks up a term introduced in recent Mediterranean studies, “connectivity”, in order to describe the communicative ...
Religion, Gender, and Culture in the Pre-Modern World

Religion, Gender, and Culture in the Pre-Modern World

B. Britt

... record for this book is available from the British Library. Design by Newgen Imaging Systems (P) Ltd., Chennai, India. First edition: March 2007 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Alexandra Cuffel and Brian Britt I .
Women, Pain and Death: Rituals and Everyday Life on the ...

Women, Pain and Death: Rituals and Everyday Life on the ...

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In Religion, Gender, and Culture in the Pre-Modern World, edited by Brian Britt and Alexandra Cuffel, 77-104. New York: Palgrave, 2007. Roos, Lena. “God Wants It!” The Ideology of Martyrdom of the Hebrew Crusade Chronicles and its ...
Jews in Medieval Christendom: Slay Them Not

Jews in Medieval Christendom: Slay Them Not

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28 alexandra cuffel, “Filthy Words/Filthy bodies: Gendering disgust in twelfth- and thirteenth-centuryJewish-christian Polemic.” Ph.d. diss., new York University, 2002. 29 robert chazan, European Jewry and the First Crusade (berkeley and los  ...
Gendering Disgust in Medieval Religious Polemic

Gendering Disgust in Medieval Religious Polemic

Alexandra Cuffel

Ed. and trans. Evelyn Schera- bon Firchow and Edwin H. Zeydel. Coral Gables: University of Miami Press, 1972. Eleazar ben Judah of Worms. Perushe sidur ha- tefilah ha-Rokeah: perush ha-tefilah ve- sodoteha le-khol yermot ha-shanah.
Medieval Exegesis and Religious Difference: Commentary, ...

Medieval Exegesis and Religious Difference: Commentary, ...

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Between Epic Entertainment and Polemical Exegesis: Jesus as Antihero in Toledot Yeshu Alexandra Cuffel 1. Riccardo Di Segni, “Due nuovi fonti sullo Toledoth Jeshu,” Rassegna Mensile de Israel 55, no. 1 (1989): 127–32; Riccardo Di Segni ...
Researching Trust and Health

Researching Trust and Health

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Julie Brownlie, Alexandra Greene, Alexandra Howson. Researching Trust and Health Edited by JulieBrownlie, Alexandra Greene and Alexandra Howson New York London First published 2008 by Routledge 270 Madison Ave, New York,
The Parrots

The Parrots

Alexandra Shulman

Alexandra Shulman. Alexandra Shulman THE PARROTS Acknowledgements Follow Penguin By the same author Can We Still.
A entrega: mensagens de Jesus recebidas por Alexandra Solnado

A entrega: mensagens de Jesus recebidas por Alexandra Solnado

Alexandra Solnado

O primeiro momento deste contacto deu-se quando Alexandra Solnado passou por um momento de grande desespero - a filha estava à beira da morte e não havia nada a fazer, por isso não teve outra alternativa senão confiar ao céu a ...
Alexandra David-Neel: Explorer at the Roof of the World

Alexandra David-Neel: Explorer at the Roof of the World

Facts On File, Incorporated

Alexandra David-Néel, My Journey to Lhasa. Boston: Beacon Press, 1993, p. 153 . 2. Ibid., p. 154. 3. Ibid. 4. Ibid. 5. Ibid., p. 156. 6. Ibid. 7. Ibid. 8. Ibid. 9. Ibid., p. 159. Chapter 2 10. Quoted in Ruth Middleton, Alexandra David-Néel: Portrait of an ...
Alexandra

Alexandra

Scott O''Dell

Tragedy forces Alexandra Papadimitrios, a member of a family of Florida sponge fishers, out of her traditional role into a new and dangerous course that leads her into all kinds of challenges, including the attentions of a handsome sea ...
Leaving Before the Rains Come

Leaving Before the Rains Come

Alexandra Fuller

The sequel to Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight. In her twenties Alexandra Fuller embarked on a new journey, into a long, tempestuous marriage to Charlie Ross, the love of her life.
Suspicion

Suspicion

Alexandra Monir

"If Alfred Hitchcock had directed Downton Abbey, the result would have been this book. Alexandra Monir takes us on a gripping, nonstop thrill ride with just the right amount of supernatural and an ending that you definitely won't suspect.
Kissed By

Kissed By

Alexandra Chasin

Alexandra Chasin. Who. Writes. This. Shit?! You're in your first year of college in the North, where you've always lived, and the boy you're in love with tells a room full of people that the music to which he would commit suicide is Pachel- bel's ...
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood

Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood

Alexandra Fuller

This is her story - of a civil war, of a quixotic battle with nature and loss, and of a family's unbreakable bond with the continent that came to define, scar and heal them.Shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award in 2002, Alexandra ...
Alexandra David-Neel: Portait of an Adventurer

Alexandra David-Neel: Portait of an Adventurer

Ruth Middleton

On the benches of the Sorbonne, in the salons and cafés, young people like Alexandra David were suddenly exposed to a cataclysm of ideas that would sweep away the safe, secure nineteenthcentury world into which they had been born.
Gypsy Fade

Gypsy Fade

Paije Alexandra West

A compilation of short stories written by Paije Alexandra West depicting her life in San Francisco, rife with trials and tribulations, love and heartbreak.
Catholic Reformation in Protestant Britain

Catholic Reformation in Protestant Britain

Alexandra Walsham

Prefaced by an extensive new historiographical overview, this collection brings together a selection of Alexandra Walsham's essays written over the last fifteen years, fully revised and updated to reflect recent research in this flourishing ...
BEHAVIOR ADJUSTMENT TRAINING 2.0: NEW PRACTICAL TECHNIQUES ...

BEHAVIOR ADJUSTMENT TRAINING 2.0: NEW PRACTICAL TECHNIQUES ...

Grisha Stewart, M.A., CPDT-KA

Horse trainers, including Monty Roberts and Alexandra Kurland, have used walking away from the animal as their reward for decades, and Kurland also used a clicker and treats at the same time (see Resources). To my knowledge, Alexandra ...
Initiations and Initiates in Tibet

Initiations and Initiates in Tibet

Alexandra David-Neel

Alexandra David-Neel. Chinnamastha, Dhumavati, Balagamukhi, Mathangi, and Mahalakshmi) will note a remote analogy between the rite described above and the chakra of the Shaktas who worship this goddess. Nevertheless, the object of ...
The Superhuman Life of Gesar of Ling

The Superhuman Life of Gesar of Ling

Alexandra David-Neel

Alexandra David-Neel. many pieces. Several versions of this legend exist; one of them relates how, giving way under the torture that was imposed on him, the demon became converted and swore to become a protector of the Buddhist faith  ...
Scribbling the Cat

Scribbling the Cat

Alexandra Fuller

When Alexandra "Bo" Fuller was in Zambia a few years ago visiting her parents, she asked her father about a nearby banana farmer who was known for being a "tough bugger".
Printmaking in Alberta, 1945-1985

Printmaking in Alberta, 1945-1985

Bente Roed Cochran

Alexandra Haeseker The figurative images of Alexandra Haeseker may be considered threatening, puzzling, unnerving, challenging, but are images that have been developed steadily and with a personal form and content Haeseker came to ...
Can We Still Be Friends

Can We Still Be Friends

Alexandra Shulman

Can We Still Be Friends is the debut novel by Alexandra Shulman, editor of British Vogue.
You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine: A Novel

You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine: A Novel

Alexandra Kleeman

An intelligent and madly entertaining novel reminiscent of The Crying of Lot 49, White Noise, and City of Glass, Alexandra Kleeman's unforgettable debut is a missing-person mystery told from the point of view of the missing person; an ...
Leaving Before the Rains Come by Alexandra Fuller - A ...

Leaving Before the Rains Come by Alexandra Fuller - A ...

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