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Culto e santuari di san Michele nell'Europa medievale : atti del Congresso internazionale di studi (Bari-Monte Sant'Angelo, 5-8 aprile 2006)


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Pèlerinage et espace religieux : conférences de la Fondation Sedes Sapientiae et de la Faculté de théologie, Université catholique de Louvain, février-mars 2006

Sacred space and sacred function in ancient Thebes : occasional proceedings of the theban workshop
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ISBN: 9781885923462 Year: 2007 Volume: 61 Publisher: Chicago : Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago,

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This volume presents a series of papers delivered at a two-day session of the Theban Workshop held at the British Museum in September 2003. Due to its political and religious prominence throughout much of pharaonic history, the region of ancient Thebes offers scholars a wealth of monuments whose physical remains and extant iconography may be combined with textual sources and archaeological finds in ways that elucidate the function of sacred space as initially conceived, and which also reveal adaptations to human need or shifts in cultural perception. The contributions herein address issues such as the architectural framing of religious ceremony, the implicit performative responses of officiants, the diachronic study of specific rites, the adaptation of sacred space to different uses through physical, representational, or textual alteration, and the development of ritual landscapes in ancient Thebes

Subfloor pits and the archaeology of slavery in colonial Virginia
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ISBN: 081738149X 9780817381493 9780817315863 0817315861 9780817354541 0817354549 0817315861 9780817315863 Year: 2007 Publisher: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press,

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Enslaved Africans and their descendants comprised a significant portion of colonial Virginia populations, with most living on rural slave quarters adjacent to the agricultural fields in which they labored. Archaeological excavations into these home sites have provided unique windows into the daily lifeways and culture of these early inhabitants. A common characteristic of Virginia slave quarters is the presence of subfloor pits beneath the houses. The most common explanations of the functions of these pits are as storage places for personal belongings or root vege

I santuari cristiani d'Italia : bilancio del censimento e proposte interpretative
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ISBN: 9782728307845 2728307849 Year: 2007 Volume: 387 Publisher: Rome: École française de Rome,

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Church shrines --- Christian art and symbolism --- Eglises --- Art et symbolisme chrétiens --- Congresses --- Enseignes --- Congrès --- Italy --- Italie --- Religious life and customs --- Vie religieuse --- Christian shrines --- Church history --- Art et symbolisme chrétiens --- Congrès --- Holy places, Christian --- Shrines, Christian --- Shrines --- Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages --- Repubblica italiana (1946- ) --- Italian Republic (1946- ) --- Włochy --- Regno d'Italia (1861-1946) --- Iṭalyah --- Italia --- Italien --- Italii︠a︡ --- Kgl. Italienische Regierung --- Königliche Italienische Regierung --- إيطاليا --- Īṭāliyā --- جمهورية الإيطالية --- Jumhūrīyah al-Īṭālīyah --- Італія --- Італьянская Рэспубліка --- Italʹi︠a︡nskai︠a︡ Rėspublika --- Италия --- Италианска република --- Italianska republika --- Ιταλία --- Ιταλική Δημοκρατία --- Italikē Dēmokratia --- 이탈리아 --- It'allia --- 이탈리아 공화국 --- It'allia Konghwaguk --- איטליה --- רפובליקה האיטלקית --- Republiḳah ha-Iṭalḳit --- Lýðveldið Ítalía --- Itālija --- Itālijas Republika --- Italijos Respublika --- Olaszország --- Olasz Köztársaság --- イタリア --- Itaria --- イタリア共和国 --- Itaria Kyōwakoku --- Italiya Respublikasi --- Италия Республикаси --- Italii︠a︡ Respublikasi --- Итальянская Республика --- Італійська Республіка --- Italiĭsʹka Respublika --- İtalya --- İtalya Cumhuriyeti --- איטאליע --- Iṭalye --- 意大利 --- Yidali --- 意大利共和国 --- Yidali Gongheguo --- Laško --- Sardinia (Italy) --- Congresses. --- Christian holy places --- Італійська Республіка --- Christian shrines - Italy - Congresses --- Sanctuaires --- Italy - Religious life and customs - Congresses --- Italy - Church history - Congresses


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La politique des reliques de Constantin à Saint Louis : protection collective et légitimation du pouvoir
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ISBN: 9782701014913 2701014913 Year: 2007 Publisher: Paris: Beauchesne,

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Relics --- Body, Human --- Christian shrines --- Christian art and symbolism --- Religion and state --- Relique --- --Politique --- --Pouvoir --- --IIIe-XIIe s., --- History --- Religious aspects --- Christianity --- History of doctrines --- Mediaeval political and religious history - Relics. --- Religion and state. --- Mediaeval political and religious history --- Human body --- Art, Christian --- Art, Ecclesiastical --- Arts in the church --- Christian symbolism --- Ecclesiastical art --- Symbolism and Christian art --- Religious art --- Symbolism --- Church decoration and ornament --- Relics and reliquaries --- Bones --- Religious articles --- State and religion --- State, The --- Human beings --- Body image --- Human anatomy --- Human physiology --- Mind and body --- Holy places, Christian --- Shrines, Christian --- Shrines --- Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages --- Constantine --- Louis --- Ludovik --- Luwīs al-Tāsiʻ, --- Louis, --- Ludwig, --- Ludovicus, --- Constantijn, --- Constantin, --- Constantin --- Constantine, --- Constantino --- Constantinus Flavius Valerius Aurelius, --- Constantinus --- Constantinus, --- Costantino --- Costantino, --- Flaviĭ Valeriĭ Avreliĭ Konstantin, --- Flavius Valerius Aurelius Constantinus Augustus, --- Flavius Valerius Aurelius Constantinus, --- Flavius Valerius Constantinus, --- Konstantin, --- Konstantin --- Kōnstantinos, --- Kōnstantinos --- Konstantyn, --- Kostandianos --- Κωνσταντίνος, --- Флавий Валерий Аврелий Константин, --- Константин --- Константин, --- Flavije Valerije Konstantin --- Byzantine Empire --- Europe --- Church history. --- Civilization. --- Church history --- Christian art and symbolism. --- History. --- Power (Social sciences) --- Reliques --- Pouvoir (Sciences sociales) --- Cult --- Political aspects --- Culte --- Histoire --- Aspect politique --- Aspect religieux --- Pouvoir royal --- Symbolisme en politique --- Église et État --- Christianisme --- Symbolism in art --- Christian holy places --- Relics - History --- Body, Human - Religious aspects - Christianity - History of doctrines - Middle Ages, 600-1500 --- Christian shrines - Europe --- Politique --- Pouvoir --- IIIe-XIIe s., 201-1200

The looming tower : Al-Qaeda and the road to 9/11
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ISBN: 037541486X 9780375414862 Year: 2007 Publisher: New York Knopf

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A sweeping narrative history of the events leading to 9/11, a groundbreaking look at the people and ideas, the terrorist plans and the Western intelligence failures that culminated in the assault on America. Lawrence Wright's remarkable book is based on five years of research and hundreds of interviews that he conducted in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Sudan, England, France, Germany, Spain, and the United States. 'The Looming Tower' achieves an unprecedented level of intimacy and insight by telling the story through the interweaving lives of four men: the two leaders of al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri; the FBI's counterterrorism chief, John O'Neill; and the former head of Saudi intelligence, Prince Turki al-Faisal. As these lives unfold, we see revealed: the crosscurrents of modern Islam that helped to radicalize Zawahiri and bin Laden . . . the birth of al-Qaeda and its unsteady development into an organization capable of the American embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania and the attack on the USS' Cole' . . . O'Neill's heroic efforts to track al-Qaeda before 9/11, and his tragic death in the World Trade towers . . . Prince Turki's transformation from bin Laden's ally to his enemy . . . the failures of the FBI, CIA, and NSA to share intelligence that might have prevented the 9/11 attacks. 'The Looming Tower' broadens and deepens our knowledge of these signal events by taking us behind the scenes. Here is Sayyid Qutb, founder of the modern Islamist movement, lonely and despairing as he meets Western culture up close in 1940s America; the privileged childhoods of bin Laden and Zawahiri; family life in the al-Qaeda compounds of Sudan and Afghanistan; O'Neill's high-wire act in balancing his all-consuming career with his equally entangling personal life& he was living with three women, each of them unaware of the others' existence& and the nitty-gritty of turf battles among U.S. intelligence agencies. Brilliantly conceived and written

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