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The First Christian Communities 32 - 380 CE Quiet Christians Visible Martyrs and Compelling Texts

The First Christian Communities 32 - 380 CE Quiet Christians Visible Martyrs and Compelling Texts

This concise history of how the Christian Church grew between 32 and 380 focuses on the anonymous Christians who formed diverse congregations as they guided their communities through the age of the Apostles violent martyrdoms and to the establishment of the Roman Church. Readers will understand why people converted to Christianity in the first three centuries and learn about the rich diversity of the early church as people interpreted the new religion in different ways. This book explores how Christian interactions with the Roman empire led to violent persecutions and martyrdoms and eventually the fourth-century establishment of the top-down Roman Church. Readers also become familiar with Christian texts during this period – some became Scripture and some were rejected but all were written to make sense of the Jewish and Christian experience in the Roman Empire. These written memories shaped the future of the church. It also explores how early Christian lives were shaped by the religious rituals and preaching of their new and changing faith. In addition maps illustrations and charts of Christian texts help tell this fascinating story. The First Christian Communities 32 - 380 CE is an accessible and valuable resource suitable for students working on Christian history and Roman and Late Antique social political and religious history as well as general readers who are interested in the origins of Christianity. | The First Christian Communities 32 - 380 CE Quiet Christians Visible Martyrs and Compelling Texts

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Mastering Objective-C A Beginner's Guide

Mastering Objective-C A Beginner's Guide

Mastering Objective-C is a detailed guide for beginners that gives a modern programmer’s viewpoint on Objective-C. It introduces the principles of Objective-C and current Apple programming skills and libraries allowing the reader to make the best use of the tools available. Concise and easy to understand this book covers many topics including an introduction to key concepts of language and primary toolkits as well as the Foundation and AppKit frameworks to help quickly advance with the necessary information. This book explains how to structure applications properly and organize code for optimum performance. The fundamental principles explained here are helpful to beginner and intermediate users interested in learning this highly technological and diverse language. | Mastering Objective-C A Beginner's Guide

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C. G. Jung The Basics

C. G. Jung The Basics

C. G. Jung: The Basics is an accessible concise introduction to the life and ideas of C. G. Jung for readers of all backgrounds from those new to Jung’s work to those looking for a convenient reference. Ruth Williams eloquently and succinctly introduces the key concepts of Jungian theory and paints his biographical picture with clarity. The book begins with an overview of Jung’s family life childhood and relationship with (and subsequent split from) Sigmund Freud. Williams then progresses thematically through the key concepts in his work clearly explaining ideas including the unconscious the structure of the psyche archetypes individuation psychological types and alchemy. C. G. Jung: The Basics also presents Jung’s theories on dreams and the self and explains how his ideas developed and how they can be applied to everyday life. The book also discusses some of the negative claims made about Jung especially his ideas on politics race and gender and includes detailed explanations and examples throughout including a chronology of Jung’s life and suggested further reading. C. G. Jung: The Basics will be key reading for students at all levels coming to Jung’s ideas for the first time and general readers with an interest in his work. For those already familiar with Jungian concepts it will provide a helpful guide to applying these ideas to the real world. | C. G. Jung The Basics

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Crusading at the Edges of Europe Denmark and Portugal c.1000 c.1250

Crusading at the Edges of Europe Denmark and Portugal c.1000 c.1250

This book is the first to compare Denmark and Portugal systematically in the High Middle Ages and demonstrates how the two countries became strong kingdoms and important powers internationally by their participation in the crusading movement. Communication in the Middle Ages was better developed than often assumed and institutions ideas and military technology was exchanged rapidly meaning it was possible to coordinate great military expeditions across the geographical periphery of Western Europe. Both Denmark and Portugal were closely connected to the sea and developed strong fleets at the entrance to the Baltic and in the Mediterranean Seas respectively. They also both had religious borders to the pagan Wends and to the Muslims that were pushed forward in almost continuous crusades throughout the centuries. Crusading at the Edges of Europe follows the major campaigns of the kings and crusaders in Denmark and Portugal and compares war-technology and crusading ideology highlighting how the countries learned from each other and became organised for war. | Crusading at the Edges of Europe Denmark and Portugal c. 1000 � c. 1250

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C. G. Jung’s Archetype Concept Theory Research and Applications

C. G. Jung’s Archetype Concept Theory Research and Applications

The concept of archetypes is at the core of C. G. Jung’s analytical psychology. In this interesting and accessible volume Roesler summarises the classical theory of archetypes and the archetypal stages of the individuation process as it was developed by Jung and his students. Various applications of archetypes in cultural studies as well as in clinical practice are demonstrated with detailed case studies dream series myths fairy tales and so on. The book also explores how the concept has further developed as a result of research and for the first time integrates findings from anthropology human genetics and the neurosciences. Based on these contemporary insights Roesler also makes a compelling argument for why some of Jung’s views on the concept should be comprehensively revised. Offering new insights on foundational Jungian topics like the collective unconscious persona and shadow C. G. Jung’s Archetype Concept is of great interest to Jungian students analysts psychotherapists and scholars. | C. G. Jung’s Archetype Concept Theory Research and Applications

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Perspectives On A Changing China Essays In Honor Of Professor C. Martin Wilbur

Perspectives On A Changing China Essays In Honor Of Professor C. Martin Wilbur

This collection of essays represents current research in modern (post-1800) Chinese history. All contributors are former students of Professor C. Martin Wilbur one of the great names in the China field over the past forty years who recently retired from a long tenure as modern Chinese historian at Columbia University. While diverse in their subje | Perspectives On A Changing China Essays In Honor Of Professor C. Martin Wilbur

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E. M. Forster The Personal Voice

E. M. Forster The Personal Voice

Originally published in 1975 E. M. Forster: The Personal Voice draws on information about the life and works of E. M. Forster that came to light following his death in 1970. Exploring in particular the publication of Maurice in 1971 The Life to Come in 1972 and the Forster papers in King's College Library Cambridge this volume is an extensive study of E. M. Forster. It provides a comprehensive and detailed overview of Forster's work his intellectual and literary background his personality and the reception of his work. E. M. Forster: The Personal Voice places Forster's works in their social and cultural context and provides an excellent insight into his development as a writer. | E. M. Forster The Personal Voice

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Kabbalistic Visions C. G. Jung and Jewish Mysticism

Kabbalistic Visions C. G. Jung and Jewish Mysticism

In 1944 C. G. Jung experienced a series of visions which he later described as the most tremendous things I have ever experienced. Central to these visions was the mystic marriage as it appears in the Kabbalistic tradition and Jung’s experience of himself as Rabbi Simon ben Jochai the presumed author of the sacred Kabbalistic text the Zohar. Kabbalistic Visions explores Jung’s 1944 Kabbalistic visions the impact of Jewish mysticism on Jungian psychology Jung’s archetypal interpretation of Kabbalistic symbolism and his claim late in life that a Hasidic rabbi the Maggid of Mezhirech anticipated his entire psychology. This book places Jung’s encounter with the Kabbalah in the context of the earlier visions and meditations of his Red Book his abiding interests in Gnosticism and alchemy and what many regard to be his Anti-Semitism and flirtation with National Socialism. Kabbalistic Visions is the first full-length study of Jung and Jewish mysticism in any language and the first book to present a comprehensive Jungian/archetypal interpretation of Kabbalistic symbolism. | Kabbalistic Visions C. G. Jung and Jewish Mysticism

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Reading the Red Book An Interpretive Guide to C. G. Jung’s Liber Novus

Reading the Red Book An Interpretive Guide to C. G. Jung’s Liber Novus

The long-awaited publication of C. G. Jung's Red Book in October 2009 was a signal event in the history of analytical psychology. Hailed as the most important work in Jung's entire corpus it is as enigmatic as it is profound. Reading The Red Book by Sanford L. Drob provides a clear and comprehensive guide to The Red Book's narrative and thematic content and details The Red Book's significance not only for psychology but for the history of ideas. | Reading the Red Book An Interpretive Guide to C. G. Jung’s Liber Novus

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Sexual Diversity in Asia c. 600 - 1950

Sexual Diversity in Asia c. 600 - 1950

Non-reproductive sex practices in Asia have historically been a source of fascination prurient or otherwise for Westerners who being either Catholic or Protestant were often struck by what they perceived as the widespread promiscuity and licentiousness of native inhabitants. Graphic descriptions and pious denunciations of sodomy bestiality transvestitism and incest abound in Western travel narratives missionary accounts and ethnographies. But what constituted indigenous sexual morality and how was this influenced by Hinduism Buddhism Confucianism Islam and Christianity over time and place? What sex practices were tolerated or even encouraged by society community and religious ritual and what acts were considered undesirable transgressive and worthy of punishment? Sexual Diversity in Asia c. 600-1950 is the first book to foreground same- sex acts and pleasure seeking in the histories of India China Japan the Philippines Thailand and Indonesia. Drawing on a range of indigenous and foreign sources the contributors all renowned experts in their fields shed light on indigenous notions of gender and the body social hierarchies fundamental ideas concerning morality and immorality and episodes of seduction. The book illuminates - in striking case studies – attitudes toward non-procreative sex acts and representations and experiences of same-sex pleasure seeking in the histories of Asia. This path-breaking book is an important contribution to the study of gender and sexuality in Asian cultures and will also interest students and scholars of world history. | Sexual Diversity in Asia c. 600 - 1950

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Diplomatic Cultures at the Ottoman Court c.1500–1630

Diplomatic Cultures at the Ottoman Court c.1500–1630

In the sixteenth century the Ottoman court in Constantinople emerged as the axial centre of early modern diplomacy in Eurasia. Diplomatic Cultures at the Ottoman Court c. 1500-1630 takes a unique approach to diplomatic relations by focusing on how diplomacy was conducted and diplomatic cultures forged at a single court: the Sublime Porte. It unites studies from the perspectives of European and non-European diplomats with analyses from the perspective of Ottoman officials involved in diplomatic practices. It focuses on a formative period for diplomatic procedure and Ottoman imperial culture by examining the introduction of resident embassies on the one hand and on the other changes in Ottoman policy and protocol that resulted from the territorial expansion and cultural transformations of the empire in the sixteenth century. The chapters in this volume approach the practices and processes of diplomacy at the Ottoman court with special attention to ceremonial protocol diplomatic sociability gift-giving cultural exchange information gathering and the role of para-diplomatic actors. | Diplomatic Cultures at the Ottoman Court c. 1500–1630

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Germs in the English Workplace c.1880–1945

Germs in the English Workplace c.1880–1945

This book looks at how the workplace was transformed through a greater awareness of the roles that germs played in English working lives from c. 1880 to 1945. Cutting across a diverse array of occupational settings – such as the domestic kitchen the milking shed the factory and the Post Office – it offers new perspectives on the history of the germ sciences. It brings to light the ways in which germ scientists sought to transform English working lives through new types of technical and educational interventions that sought to both eradicate and instrumentalise germs. It then asks how we can measure and judge the success of such interventions by tracing how workers responded to the potential applications of the germ sciences through their participation in friendly societies trade unions colleges and volunteer organisations. Throughout the book close attention is paid to reconstructing vernacular traditions of working with invisible life in order to better understand both the successes and failures of the germ sciences to transform the working practices and material conditions of different workplaces. The result is a more diverse history of the peoples politics and practices that went into shaping the germ sciences in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century England. | Germs in the English Workplace c. 1880–1945

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The Nasirean Ethics (RLE Iran C)

The Nasirean Ethics (RLE Iran C)

The Nasirean Ethics is the best known ethical digest to be composed in medieval Persia if not in all mediaeval Islam. It appeared initially in 633/1235 when Tūsī was already a celebrated scholar scientist politico-religious propagandist. The work has a special significance as being composed by an outstanding figure at a crucial time in the history he was himself helping to shape: some twenty years later Tūsī was to cross the greatest psychological watershed in Islamic civilization playing a leading part in the capture of Baghdad and the extinction of the generally acknowledged Caliphate there. In this work the author is primarily concerned with the criteria of human behaviour: first in terms of space and priority allotted at the individual level secondly at the economic level and thirdly at the political level. | The Nasirean Ethics (RLE Iran C)

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Digital Image Processing with C++ Implementing Reference Algorithms with the CImg Library

Digital Image Processing with C++ Implementing Reference Algorithms with the CImg Library

Digital Image Processing with C++: Implementing Reference Algorithms with the CImg Library presents the theory of digital image processing and implementations of algorithms using a dedicated library. Processing a digital image means transforming its content (denoising stylizing etc. ) or extracting information to solve a given problem (object recognition measurement motion estimation etc. ). This book presents the mathematical theories underlying digital image processing as well as their practical implementation through examples of algorithms implemented in the C++ language using the free and easy-to-use CImg library. Chapters cover the field of digital image processing in a broad way and propose practical and functional implementations of each method theoretically described. The main topics covered include filtering in spatial and frequency domains mathematical morphology feature extraction and applications to segmentation motion estimation multispectral image processing and 3D visualization. Students or developers wishing to discover or specialize in this discipline and teachers and researchers hoping to quickly prototype new algorithms or develop courses will all find in this book material to discover image processing or deepen their knowledge in this field. | Digital Image Processing with C++ Implementing Reference Algorithms with the CImg Library

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Deviant Maternity Illegitimacy in Wales c. 1680–1800

Deviant Maternity Illegitimacy in Wales c. 1680–1800

This is the first-ever book to explore illegitimacy in Wales during the eighteenth century. Drawing on previously overlooked archival sources it examines the scope and context of Welsh illegitimacy and the link between illegitimacy courtship and economic precarity. It also goes beyond courtship to consider the different identities and relationships of the mothers and fathers of illegitimate children in Wales and the lived experience of conception pregnancy and childbirth for unmarried mothers. This book reframes the study of illegitimacy by combining demographic social and cultural history approaches to emphasise the diversity of experiences contexts and consequences. | Deviant Maternity Illegitimacy in Wales c. 1680–1800

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The Presidential Character Predicting Performance in the White House With a Revised and Updated Foreword by George C. Edwards III

The Presidential Character Predicting Performance in the White House With a Revised and Updated Foreword by George C. Edwards III

A book entitled The Presidential Character is more timely and necessary than ever. This new issue of James David Barber’s classic work appears almost 50 years after its first publication and yet reads like a roadmap to the 2020 presidential election. Its subtitle “Predicting Performance in the White House ” is an apt reflection on the election of 2016. With a revised and updated foreword by George C. Edwards III that brings in the Trump Administration this book argues that patterns in a person’s character world view and political style can allow us to anticipate his or her performance as president. How would Barber have categorized Donald J. Trump who appears to defy every presidential type and norm? This question suggests one of the most provocative and appealing reasons for students scholars and voters to re-read The Presidential Character at this particular juncture. What should we look for in a president? This text offers explanations and predictions of the performance of past presidents and presidential candidates with many cautionary tales looking forward. Features Presents a revised and updated foreword by presidential scholar George C. Edwards III Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Texas A&M University that includes the advent of the Trump Administration and highlights the book’s classic and enduring contributions. Includes predictions of presidential performance from Nixon to Bush. Analyzes the media’s role in providing information about the political candidates and in shaping public opinion of them. Draws on historical biographical and psychological research to help voters make judicious choices in determining the country’s highest leaders. Encourages citizens to be actively involved scholars critics and participants in their government. | The Presidential Character Predicting Performance in the White House With a Revised and Updated Foreword by George C. Edwards III

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The Creationist Writings of Byron C. Nelson

The Creationist Writings of Byron C. Nelson

Originally published in 1995 this is the fifth volume in the series Creationism in 20th Century America. It re-publishes After Its Kind – a critique on theories of biological evolution and a defense of the biblical account of creation which Nelson wrote when he was a Pastor in New Jersey where he also attended classes in genetics and zoology at Rutgers university. His 1931 volume The Deluge Story in Stone: A History of the Flood Theory of Geology also reprinted here was continuously in print until the 1960s. As his scientific and theological correspondence expanded in the wake of his publications Nelson became further involved in the ‘evolution debates’. During the late 1930s his writings concentrated on early man and the glacial phenomena he saw all about him in Wisconsin and he compiled the materials he thought necessary to relate Scripture to the evidence of human antiquity. | The Creationist Writings of Byron C. Nelson

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C. G. Jung and the Dead Visions Active Imagination and the Unconscious Terrain

C. G. Jung and the Dead Visions Active Imagination and the Unconscious Terrain

C. G. Jung and the Dead: Visions Active Imagination and the Unconscious Terrain offers an in-depth look at Jung’s encounters with the dead moving beyond a symbolic understanding to consider these figures a literal presence in the psyche. Stephani L. Stephens explores Jung’s personal experiences demonstrating his skill at visioning in all its forms as well as detailing the nature of the dead. This unique study is the first to follow the narrative thread of the dead from Memories Dreams Reflections into The Red Book assessing Jung’s thoughts on their presence his obligations to them and their role in his psychological model. It offers the opportunity to examine this previously neglected theme unfolding during Jung’s period of intense confrontation with the unconscious and to understand active imagination as Jung’s principle method of managing that unconscious content. As well as detailed analysis of Jung’s own work the book includes a timeline of key events and case material. C. G. Jung and the Dead will offer academics and students of Jungian and post-Jungian studies the history of psychology Western esoteric history and gnostic and visionary traditions a new perspective on Jung’s work. It will also be of great interest to Jungian analysts and psychotherapists analytical psychologists and practitioners of other psychological disciplines interested in Jungian ideas. | C. G. Jung and the Dead Visions Active Imagination and the Unconscious Terrain

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Nordic Elites in Transformation c. 1050–1250 Volume II Social Networks

Nordic Elites in Transformation c. 1050–1250 Volume II Social Networks

Nordic Elites in Transformation c. 1050-1250 Volume II explores the structures and workings of social networks within the elites of medieval Scandinavia to reveal the intricate relationship between power and status. Section one of this volume categorizes basic types of personal bonds both vertical and horizontal while section two charts patterns of local regional and transnational elite networks from wide-scope longitudinal perspectives. Finally the third section turns to case-studies of networks in action analyzing strategies and transactions implied by uses of social resources in specific micro-political settings. A concluding chapter discusses how social power in the North compared to wider European experiences. A wide range of sources and methodologies is applied to reveal how networks were established maintained and put to use – and how they transformed in processes of centralizing power and formalizing hierarchies. The engagement with and analysis of intriguing primary source material has produced a key teaching tool for instructors and essential reading for students interested in the workings of medieval Scandinavia elite class structures and Social and Political History more generally. | Nordic Elites in Transformation c. 1050–1250 Volume II Social Networks

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Micro-geographies of the Western City c.1750–1900

Micro-geographies of the Western City c.1750–1900

This book examines the overlapping spaces in modern Western cities to explore the small-scale processes that shaped these cities between c. 1750 and 1900. It highlights the ways in which time and space matter framing individual actions and practices and their impact on larger urban processes. It draws on the original and detailed studies of cities in Europe and North America through a micro-geographical approach to unravel urban practices experiences and representations at three different scales: the dwelling the street and the neighbourhood. Part I explores the changing spatiality of housing examining the complex and contingent relationship between public and private and commercial and domestic as well as the relationship between representations and lived experiences. Part II delves into the street as a thoroughfare connecting the city but also as a site of contestation over the control and character of urban spaces. Part III draws attention to the neighbourhood as a residential grouping and as a series of spaces connecting flows of people integrating the urban space. Drawing on a range of methodologies from space syntax and axial analysis to detailed descriptions of individual buildings this book blends spatial theory and ideas of place with micro-history. With its fresh perspectives on the Western city created through the built environment and the everyday actions of city dwellers the book will interest historical geographers urban historians and architects involved in planning of cities across Europe and North America. | Micro-geographies of the Western City c. 1750–1900

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Accounting for M&A Uses and Abuses of Accounting in Monitoring and Promoting Merger

Accounting for M&A Uses and Abuses of Accounting in Monitoring and Promoting Merger

Spending on M&A has in aggregate grown so fast that it has even overtaken capital expenditure on increasing and maintaining physical assets. Yet McKinsey the leading management consultancy reports that Anyone who has researched merger success rates knows that roughly 70% fail. The idea that businesses might be using huge and increasing sums of shareholders’ money for an activity that more often than not leads to failure calls into question the information on which M&A decisions are based. This book presents statistical studies case material and standard-setters’ opinions on company accounting before during and after M&A. It documents the manipulation of annual accounts by acquirers ahead of share for share bids biased forecasts of post-merger earnings by bidders and devices to flatter earnings when recording the deal. It explores the challenges for standard-setters in regulating information flows during and after M&A and for account-users wishing to learn from financial statements how a deal has affected performance. Drawing on a wide range of international examples this readable book is targeted not just at accounting specialists but at anyone who is comfortable reading the serious financial press is intrigued by what is going on in the massive M&A market and is concerned with achieving better-informed M&A. As such it might be of particular interest to business executives lawyers bankers and investors involved in M&A as well as graduate students interested in researching or learning about the role of accounting in M&A. | Accounting for M&A Uses and Abuses of Accounting in Monitoring and Promoting Merger

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Researching Literate Lives The Selected Works of Jerome C. Harste

Researching Literate Lives The Selected Works of Jerome C. Harste

In the World Library of Educationalists series international experts themselves compile career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces – extracts from books key articles salient research findings major theoretical and practical contributions – so the world can read them in a single manageable volume. Readers will be able to follow the themes and strands and see how their work contributes to the development of the field. This volume brings together articles essays poetry and artwork from Jerome C. Harste’s extensive career across the field of literacy studies. This book addresses his contributions to early literacy reading comprehension ways of knowing inquiry-based education and creating critical classrooms – among other topics – in his characteristically whimsical tone. Following the chronology of his career each section of the book reflects an important theme of Harste’s work and documents the impact of his contributions on the field. Combining his key articles with historical notes fun facts and professional tips Harste tells stories about encounters with colleagues and covers everything from seminars he developed and taught the importance of collaboration how his thinking and teaching have grown and evolved ways his scholarship was enhanced through participation in professional organizations as well as pithy words of advice for fellow scholars. The articles in this collection trace the development of a thought collective which Harste helped create and which continues to shape research and practice in the field of literacy education. | Researching Literate Lives The Selected Works of Jerome C. Harste

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C. G. Jung in the Humanities Taking the Soul's Path

C. G. Jung in the Humanities Taking the Soul's Path

This book demonstrates for the first time the significance of Jung’s work to the humanities and to those areas where the humanities and sciences share borders. More radically it shows that Jung was a writer of myth alchemy narrative and poetics as well as on them. Jung’s core concepts are introduced their ongoing relevance is championed. The book also addresses Jung’s sometimes questionable judgment on politics and gender and previews contemporary extensions of Jungian theory. By privileging the creative psyche and exploring the connections between individual natural environment and social/psychological collective Jung anticipates the new holism offering the promise of reconciling the sciences with the arts humanity with nature. | C. G. Jung in the Humanities Taking the Soul's Path

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Godfrey of Bouillon Duke of Lower Lotharingia Ruler of Latin Jerusalem c.1060-1100

Godfrey of Bouillon Duke of Lower Lotharingia Ruler of Latin Jerusalem c.1060-1100

This book offers a new appraisal of the ancestry and career of Godfrey of Bouillon (c. 1060-1100) a leading participant in the First Crusade (1096-99) and the first ruler of Latin Jerusalem (1099-1100) the polity established by the crusaders after they captured the Holy City. While previous studies of Godfrey’s life have tended to focus on his career from the point at which he joined the crusade this book adopts a more holistic approach situating his involvement in the expedition in the light of the careers of his ancestors and his own activities in Lotharingia the westernmost part of the kingdom of Germany. The findings of this enquiry shed new light on the repercussions of a range of critical developments in Latin Christendom in the eleventh and early twelfth centuries including the impact of the ‘Investiture Conflict’ in Lotharingia the response to the call for the First Crusade in Germany Godfrey’s influence upon the course of the crusade his role in its leadership and his activities during the initial phases of Latin settlement in the Holy Land in its aftermath. | Godfrey of Bouillon Duke of Lower Lotharingia Ruler of Latin Jerusalem c. 1060-1100

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