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  • Life Between the Lines

    A Memoir

    by John Izbicki ...
    The Daily Telegraph correspondent tells his "fascinating history, not just of newspapers, but of his personal life, fleeing Nazi Germany, as a child" ( The Independent).Berlin-born, John Izbicki lived through the horrors of Nazi persecution and, on the day after his eighth birthday, he witnessed the Kristallnacht, and the smashing of his parents' shop windows. On the day Germany invaded Poland and ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Nicholas of Cusa and the Renaissance

    by F. Edward Cranz, Thomas M. Izbicki ...
    Series series Variorum Collected Studies
    This volume brings together Professor Cranz’s published studies on Nicholas of Cusa with a set of seven papers left unpublished at the time of his death. Their subjects are the speculative thought of Cusanus and his relationship with the broader themes of the Renaissance. Particular attention is given to patterns of development in Cusanus’ thought as he wrestled with problems of divine ... Read more

    $107.17 CAD

  • Concord and Reform

    Nicholas of Cusa and Legal and Political Thought in the Fifteenth Century

    by Morimichi Watanabe, Thomas M. Izbicki ...
    Series series Variorum Collected Studies
    Nicholas of Cusa is known as one of the most original philosophers of the 15th century, but by training he was a canon lawyer who received his degree from the University of Padua in 1423. The essays in this book analyse his legal and political ideas against the background of medieval religious, legal and political thought and its development in the Renaissance. The first two pieces deal with the ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD

  • Reform, Ecclesiology, and the Christian Life in the Late Middle Ages

    by Thomas M. Izbicki ...
    Series series Variorum Collected Studies
    Philosophy was not an idle venture in the Renaissance. There were no clear-cut boundaries between theory and the practice. Theologians, jurists and humanists gave opinions on practical matters from within some larger intellectual context, and many held high office. Among the writers represented here are Pope Pius II (1458-1464), Nicholas of Cusa (d. 1464) and Juan de Torquemada OP (d. 1468). All ... Read more

    $67.32 CAD

  • The Eucharist in Medieval Canon Law

    by Thomas M. Izbicki ...
    Thomas Izbicki presents a new examination of the relationship between the adoration of the sacrament and canon law from the twelfth to fifteenth centuries. The medieval Church believed Christ's glorified body was present in the Eucharist, the most central of the seven sacraments, and the Real Presence became explained as transubstantiation by university-trained theologians. Expressions of this ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Oesophagus and Stomach

    Edited by Matthias Reeh, Jakob R. Izbicki ...
    Series series Gastrointestinal Surgery Library
    Over the last two decades, there have been major advances in imaging, endoscopy, and laparoscopy in the field of gastrointestinal (GI) surgery. GI surgery is the newest sub-specialty branch of general surgery, where enhanced expertise and high-volume centres have made a difference in the outcomes of complex operations. Surgeons can now perform difficult procedures with low morbidity and mortality ... Read more

    $123.99 CAD

  • Religion, Power, and Resistance from the Eleventh to the Sixteenth Centuries

    Playing the Heresy Card

    Edited by K. Bollermann, T. Izbicki, C. Nederman ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Addressing the myriad ways in which heresy accusations could fulfill political aims during the Middle Ages, this collection shows acts of heresy were not just influenced by religion. Essays examine individual cases, in addition to the close relationship of orthodoxy and political dominance in medieval games of power. ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Introducing Nicholas of Cusa

    A Guide to a Renaissance Man

    Edited by Bellitto, Christopher M., Izbicki, Thomas M., Christianson, Gerald ...
    A primer on the the vocabulary, ideas, and works of this leading Renaissance thinker of the fifteenth century who wrote on everything from papal politics to astronomy to interreligious dialogue. ... Read more

    $32.93 CAD

  • Bayesian Inference and Maximum Entropy Methods in Science and Engineering

    MaxEnt 37, Jarinu, Brazil, July 09–14, 2017

    Edited by Adriano Polpo, Julio Stern, Francisco Louzada, Rafael Izbicki, Hellinton Takada ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    These proceedings from the 37th International Workshop on Bayesian Inference and Maximum Entropy Methods in Science and Engineering (MaxEnt 2017), held in São Carlos, Brazil, aim to expand the available research on Bayesian methods and promote their application in the scientific community. They gather research from scholars in many different fields who use inductive statistics methods and focus on ... Read more

    $204.99 CAD

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  • Proving Woman

    Female Spirituality and Inquisitional Culture in the Later Middle Ages

    by Dyan Elliott ...
    Around the year 1215, female mystics and their sacramental devotion were among orthodoxy's most sophisticated weapons in the fight against heresy. Holy women's claims to be in direct communication with God placed them in positions of unprecedented influence. Yet by the end of the Middle Ages female mystics were frequently mistrusted, derided, and in danger of their lives. The witch hunts were just ... Read more

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  • Enlightenment Underground

    Radical Germany, 1680-1720

    by Martin Mulsow ...
    Translated by H. C. Erik Midelfort ...
    Series series Studies in Early Modern German History
    Online supplement,"Mulsow: Additions to Notes drawn from the 2002 edition of Moderne aus dem Untergrund": full versions of nearly 300 notes that were truncated in the print edition. Hosted on H. C. Erik Midelfort's website.Martin Mulsow’s seismic reinterpretation of the origins of the Enlightenment i... ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

  • Mechthild of Magdeburg and Her Book

    Gender and the Making of Textual Authority

    by Sara S. Poor ...
    Series series The Middle Ages Series
    Sometime around 1230, a young woman left her family and traveled to the German city of Magdeburg to devote herself to worship and religious contemplation. Rather than living in a community of holy women, she chose isolation, claiming that this life would bring her closer to God. Even in her lifetime, Mechthild of Magdeburg gained some renown for her extraordinary book of mystical revelations, The ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD