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Acta S. Congregationis de propaganda fide pro terra sancta / del P. Leonardo Lemmens
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ISBN: 9788862400039 8862400039 Year: 1921 Volume: 1-2 ; 17 Publisher: Milano: Firenze: ETS, Typografia del collegio di S. Bonaventura,

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Portraying the land : hebrew maps of the land of Israel from Rashi to the early 20th century
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ISBN: 3110568934 3110570653 311056453X Year: 2018 Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter,

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The book presents and discusses a large corpus of Jewish maps of the Holy Land that were drawn by Jewish scholars from the 11th to the 20th century, and thus fills a significant lacuna both in the history of cartography and in Jewish studies. The maps depict the biblical borders of the Holy Land, the allotments of the tribes, and the forty years of wanderings in the desert. Most of these maps are in Hebrew although there are several in Yiddish, Ladino and in European languages. The book focuses on four aspects: it presents an up-to-date corpus of known maps of various types and genres; it suggests a classification of these maps according to their source, shape and content; it presents and analyses the main topics that were depicted in the maps; and it puts the maps in their historical and cultural contexts, both within the Jewish world and the sphere of European cartography of their time. The book is an innovative contribution to the fields of history of cartography and Jewish studies. It is written for both professional readers and the general public. The Hebrew edition (2014), won the Izhak Ben-Zvi Prize.

The Reluctant Messiah.An Historical Novel
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ISBN: 0765761688 Year: 2001 Publisher: Northvale, New Jersey Jason Aronson Inc.

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Christian Attitudes Towards the State of Israel
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ISBN: 9780773532557 Year: 2001 Publisher: Montreal & Kingston / London / Ithaca McGill-Queen's University Press

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Incidents of travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan.
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ISBN: 0511699530 1108017282 Year: 2011 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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John Lloyd Stephens (1805-1852) was an American politician, explorer and writer who is renowned for his pioneering research into the ancient Maya civilisation of Central America. In 1839 Stephens was appointed a Special Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Central America (modern Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala and El Salvador). First published in 1841, this two-volume work is an account of his travels in 1839 and 1840, visiting and recording ancient Mayan sites. Stephens describes Copán, Palenque and forty-two other ancient sites and includes over fifty illustrations drawn by his travelling companion Frederick Catherwood (1799-1854), a professional architect. Although earlier accounts of Mayan ruins had been published, Stephens' vivid descriptions and Catherwood's meticulous drawings were far more detailed and accurate than previous reports.


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Incidents of travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan.
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ISBN: 0511700547 1108017290 Year: 2011 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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John Lloyd Stephens was an American politician, explorer & writer who is renowned for his pioneering research into the ancient Maya civilisation of Central America. In 1839 Stephens was appointed a Special Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Central America. First published in 1841, this two-volume work is an account of his travels in 1839 & 1840, visiting & recording ancient Mayan sites. Stephens describes Copán, Palenque & 42 other ancient sites & includes over 50 illustrations drawn by his travelling companion Frederick Catherwood (1799-1854), a professional architect. Although earlier accounts of Mayan ruins had been published, Stephens' vivid descriptions & Catherwood's meticulous drawings were far more detailed & accurate than previous reports, & kindled Victorian interest in the ancient Maya civilisation. Volume 2 focuses on Palenque, Uxmal & other Mayan sites.

Les Franciscains en Terre Sainte (1869-1889) : religion et politique : une recherche institutionnelle
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ISSN: 07692633 ISBN: 2204074101 9782204074100 Year: 2005 Volume: *1 Publisher: Paris: Cerf,

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Les franciscains de la Custodie de Terre sainte étaient perçus comme des moines " inutiles ", " arriérés ", " ignorants ", " inefficaces "... Cependant, ils ont perduré jusqu'à aujourd'hui. Quelle est donc la raison de cette permanence ? A la fin du XIXe siècle, la France républicaine, qui était leur protectrice, a bien tenté de les écarter en favorisant ses propres congrégations religieuses " nationales " : Carmélites, Frères des Ecoles chrétiennes, missionnaires d'Afrique, Assomptionnistes, Sœurs de saint Vincent-de-Paul et Dominicains - des ordres religieux capables de faire face à l'activisme protestant soutenu par l'Angleterre et par l'Allemagne. Les diplomates de la République étaient même arrivés à obtenir, par le biais de Mgr Lavigerie, l'appui de Rome. Face aux puissances nationales de l'Europe, la Custodie a opposé son internationalisme... et l'anarchie dont elle était imprégnée. Sa structure organisationnelle, en effet, échappait à tout contrôle et c'est là précisément que résidaient sa force et la raison de sa résistance. Cette recherche argumentée propose une interprétation dont l'intérêt déborde largement l'étude du cas examiné. Il ressort que la survie de la Custodie de Terre sainte, au moment où l'on pronostiquait sa prochaine élimination du jeu politico-religieux, n'est pas le fruit du hasard mais d'une remarquable capacité à " se donner du jeu " dans un contexte apparemment défavorable. Le motif en est le fonctionnement propre à l'Ordre franciscain, fait d'un juste équilibre entre démocratie et dépendances habilement négociées : une sorte d'anarchie rationnelle qui a permis à la Custodie de résister aux puissances politiques européennes en préservant une forte identité franciscaine. La démonstration est conduite avec méthode à partir d'une documentation abondante et diversifiée, et le souci de ne jamais sacrifier l'explication au détail des faits

UFOs, Prophecy and the End of Time
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ISBN: 1892062356 Year: 2003 Publisher: New Brunswick, NJ Timothy G Beckley/Global Communications/Inner Light Publications


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A Short History of the Order of St. John.6th Edition
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Year: 1971 Publisher: London Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem

De Sion exibit lex et verbum domini de Hierusalem : essays on medieval law, liturgy, and literature in honour of Amnon Linder
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ISBN: 2503510914 9782503510910 9782503537207 Year: 2001 Volume: 1 Publisher: Turnhout: Brepols,

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Amnon Linder, professor of medieval history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem has published seminal studies in the history of the Christian Holy Land and in Jewish-Christian relations in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. In recent years he has dedicated himself to the study of medieval liturgy, particularly Crusader liturgy of the liberation and destruction of Jerusalem (forthcoming as the next volume in this series).The essays gathered here from friends, colleagues and students of Prof. Linder pick up the themes of his publications — medieval law, liturgy and literature. The papers deal with a variety of sources, encompass the fourth to fifteenth centuries, and span from the Holy Land to the British Isles.

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