Auction catalogue, books of Benedict Eyre, 4 to 5 April 1938
Title | Auction catalogue, books of Benedict Eyre, 4 to 5 April 1938 PDF eBook |
Author | Sotheby & Co. (London). |
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Release | 1938 |
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Library Catalog of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Title | Library Catalog of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York PDF eBook |
Author | Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). Library |
Publisher | |
Pages | 728 |
Release | 1980 |
Genre | Art |
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Apollo
Title | Apollo PDF eBook |
Author | |
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Pages | 554 |
Release | 1938 |
Genre | Art |
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The magazine of the arts for connoisseurs and collectors.
The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs
Title | The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs PDF eBook |
Author | |
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Pages | 402 |
Release | 1938 |
Genre | Art |
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The English Catalogue of Books [annual]
Title | The English Catalogue of Books [annual] PDF eBook |
Author | Sampson Low |
Publisher | |
Pages | 412 |
Release | 1940 |
Genre | English literature |
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Vols. for 1898-1968 include a directory of publishers.
The Social Life of Coffee
Title | The Social Life of Coffee PDF eBook |
Author | Brian Cowan |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 376 |
Release | 2008-10-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0300133502 |
What induced the British to adopt foreign coffee-drinking customs in the seventeenth century? Why did an entirely new social institution, the coffeehouse, emerge as the primary place for consumption of this new drink? In this lively book, Brian Cowan locates the answers to these questions in the particularly British combination of curiosity, commerce, and civil society. Cowan provides the definitive account of the origins of coffee drinking and coffeehouse society, and in so doing he reshapes our understanding of the commercial and consumer revolutions in Britain during the long Stuart century. Britain’s virtuosi, gentlemanly patrons of the arts and sciences, were profoundly interested in things strange and exotic. Cowan explores how such virtuosi spurred initial consumer interest in coffee and invented the social template for the first coffeehouses. As the coffeehouse evolved, rising to take a central role in British commercial and civil society, the virtuosi were also transformed by their own invention.
The Mandaean Book of John
Title | The Mandaean Book of John PDF eBook |
Author | Charles G. Häberl |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Pages | 474 |
Release | 2019-11-18 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 3110487861 |
Given the degree of popular fascination with Gnostic religions, it is surprising how few pay attention to the one such religion that has survived from antiquity until the present day: Mandaism. Mandaeans, who esteem John the Baptist as the most famous adherent to their religion, have in our time found themselves driven from their historic homelands by war and oppression. Today, they are a community in crisis, but they provide us with unparalleled access to a library of ancient Gnostic scriptures, as part of the living tradition that has sustained them across the centuries. Gnostic texts such as these have caught popular interest in recent times, as traditional assumptions about the original forms and cultural contexts of related religious traditions, such as Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, have been called into question. However, we can learn only so much from texts in isolation from their own contexts. Mandaean literature uniquely allows us not only to increase our knowledge about Gnosticism, and by extension all these other religions, but also to observe the relationship between Gnostic texts, rituals, beliefs, and living practices, both historically and in the present day.