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  • CONSUL OF GOD (ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS)
    JEFFREY RICHARDS
    Gregory the Great, whose reign spanned the years between 590 and 604 A.D., was one of the most remarkable figures of the early medieval Papacy. Aristocrat, administrator, teacher and scholar, he ascended the throne of St Peter at a time of acute crisis for the Roman Church. Consul of God, first published in 1980, revises the traditional picture of Pope Gregory. It examines how ...

    $1,160.00

  • THE POPES AND THE PAPACY IN THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES (ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS)
    JEFFREY RICHARDS
    There has been a tendency to the view the history of the early medieval papacy predominantly in ideological terms, which has resulted in the over-exaggeration of the idea of the papal monarchy. In this study, first published in 1979, Jeffrey Richards questions this view, arguing that whilst the papacy’s power and responsibility grew during the period under discussion, it did so...

    $1,760.00

  • SWORDSMEN OF THE SCREEN
    JEFFREY RICHARDS
    This fascinating study of the genre of swashbuckling films received wide critical acclaim when it was first published in 1977. Jeffrey Richards assesses the contributions to the genre of directors, designers and fencing masters, as well as of the stars themselves, and devotes several chapters to the principal subjects if the swashbucklers – pirates, highwaymen, cavaliers and kn...

    $1,280.00

  • VISIONS OF YESTERDAY
    JEFFREY RICHARDS
    Film is an important source of social history, as well as having been a popular art form from the early twentieth century. This study shows how a society, consciously or unconsciously, is mirrored in its cinema. It considers the role of the cinema in dramatizing popular beliefs and myths, and takes three case studies – American populism, British imperialism, German Nazism – to ...

    $1,280.00

  • SEX, DISSIDENCE AND DAMNATION
    JEFFREY RICHARDS
    For the authorities in medieval Europe, dissent struck at the roots of an ordered, settled world. It was to be crushed - initially by reason and argument, eventually by torture. Jeffrey Richards examines the wretched lives of heretics, witches, Jews, lepers and homosexuals and uncovers a common motive for their persecution: sexual aberrance. ...

    $1,340.00

  • WAR TIME PREACHING AND TEACHING
    JEFFREY J. RICHARDS
    War Time Preaching and Teaching explores the hermeneutics (science of interpretation) and homiletics (art of preaching) of both Rudolf Bultmann and Dietrich Bonhoeffer. The book explores the thought and impact of these two theologians primarily within the American debate. Both Bultmann and Bonhoeffer are somewhat misunderstood, and it seems that they are either totally accepted...

    $497.00

  • THE PROMISE OF DAWN
    JEFFREY J. RICHARDS
    This book identifies Lewis Sperry Chafer, evangelist, teacher, author, and founder of one of the world's largest seminaries, as one who has greatly influenced recent controversies and scholarship concerning the Second Coming of Christ. This work portrays this important figure in the Evangelical movement as a forceful and creative theologian who has had an incredible impact on r...

    $515.00

  • DAVIDIC MILLENNIALISM
    JEFFREY JON RICHARDS
    This book presents a new understanding of the biblical concept of the kingdom of God. In particular, it gives an alternative to the two contrasting views of the Reformed and Progressive Dispensational understanding of how to interpret the kingdom. These two interpretations have been long contested, and dispensationalism has undergone dramatic changes concerning the interpretati...

    $391.00

  • FISH PHYSIOLOGY: HYPOXIA
    JEFFREY G. RICHARDS
    Periods of environmental hypoxia (Low Oxygen Availability) are extremely common in aquatic systems due to both natural causes such as diurnal oscillations in algal respiration, seasonal flooding, stratification, under ice cover in lakes, and isolation of densely vegetated water bodies, as well as more recent anthropogenic causes (e.g. eutrophication). In view of this, it is pe...

    $1,568.00