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Puzzles
A Seminar on the ‘Benefit of Christ’
Av Carlo Ginzburg, Adriano Prosperi
Inbunden, 2026
335 kr
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A seminar, a sixteenth-century heretical text, and the art of slow reading—this is historical research as you’ve never seen it before.Patience Games: A Seminar on the 'Benefit of Christ' invites readers into the unpredictable world of scholarly discovery, where interpretation is not a straight path …
Crime and Forgiveness
Christianizing Execution in Medieval Europe
Inbunden, 2020
348 kr
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A provocative analysis of how Christianity helped legitimize the death penalty in early modern Europe, then throughout the Christian world, by turning execution into a great cathartic public ritual and the condemned into a Christ-like figure who accepts death to save humanity.The public execution …
Justice Blindfolded
The Historical Course of an Image
Inbunden, 2018
1883 kr
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Justice Blindfolded gives an overview of the history of “justice” and its iconography through the centuries. Justice has been portrayed as a woman with scales, or holding a sword, or, since the fifteenth century, with her eyes bandaged. This last symbol contains the idea that justice is both …
