Eastern Christians from Focloir

Turkey ssjI Shaw, Stanford Jay and Ezel Kural Shaw History of the Ottoman Empire and modern Turkey. Vol. 1, Empire of the Gazis: the rise and decline of the Ottoman Empire, 1280-1808. Cambridge University Press, 1976 [i.e. 1977], xv, 351 pages, bib, index. Very good in like dust jacket. Volume 1 only of the two… Read more about this item

Bosnian 157 Fine, John V.A. (John Van Antwerp), 1939- The Bosnian Church: a new interpretation: a study of the Bosnian Church and its place in state and society from the 13th to the 15th centuries. (Series: East European monographs, no. 10) New York: East European quarterly; Distributed by Columbia University Press, Boulder, 1975, ix, 447 pages, bib, notes. Very… Read more about this item

Byzantium hhtb Hennephof, Hermann, editor. Textus byzantinos ad Iconomachiam pertinentes: .[Theophanes. Theophanes continuatus. Hagiographical testimonies.] In usum academicum edidit Herman Hennephof. (Series: Byzantina neerlandica. Series: A. Textus. Fasc. 1). Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1969, 91 pages. Paperback, pages. Signature of scholar on front free endpaper. Fine, like new copy. $30.00

Persia rmep (du Mans, Father Raphael, 1613-1696). Raphaël, du Mans, 1613-1696. Estat de la Perse en 1660. Par le P. Raphaël du Mans; publié avec notes et appendice par Ch. Schefer. Farnborough Hants, England: Gregg International Publishers Limited, 1969, cxv, 464 pages, bib., index. This is the Gregg reprint of the work first published in 1890 by Editions Leroux in… Read more about this item

Byzantium mpch Michel Psellos, 1017/18 -1096? Chronographie, ou, Histoire d'un Siecle de Byzance (976-1077). Texte etabli et traduit par Emile Renauld. Two volumes. Paris: Societe d'Edition "Les Belles Lettres", 1926-1928, lxxxviii, 155p; 199p, index, addenda et corrigenda. Ex-library copies but good to very good in cloth with marbled paper over cover. Greek and French translation on facing pages. Important Byzantine… Read more about this item

Coptic kkcn Kuratorium des Villa Hugel. Koptische Kunst; Christentum am Nil. 3, Mai bis 15, August 1963. In Villa Hugel, Essen. Essen: Villa Hugel, 1963, 628 pages: illus., map, plates (part. col.). Paperbound. Good copy. This is a complicated bibliographical issue. Virtually all the entries on OCLC and Amazon refer to a catalogue published in 1964 which was based… Read more about this item

Byzantium dheb Diehl, Charles, 1874-1947. Études Byzantines: Introduction a L`histoire De Byzance - Les Études D`histoire Byzantine En 1905 - La Civilisation Byzantine - L`empire Grec Sous Les Paléologues - Les Mosaiques De Nicee, Saint-Luc, Kahrié-Djami, Etc., (Series: Burt Franklin Research and Source Works Series No. 39).New York: Bert Franklin, 1963, viii, 437 pages, 58 text figures. Ex-library… Read more about this item

Coptic113 Amélineau, E. (Emile), 1850-1915. Histoire des monastères de la Basse-Egypte: vies des saints Paul, Antoine, Macaire, Maxime et Domèce, Jean le Nain, etc: texte copte et traduction française. (Series: Monuments pour servir à l'histoire de l'Égypte chrétienne). Paris: Ernst Leroux, 1894, lxiii, 429 pages. Paperback, photographic reprint. This not the original imprint but a photographic reprint. An on-demand… Read more about this item

Religion 113fek Fowden, Elizabeth Key. The Barbarian Plain: Saint Sergius between Rome and Iran. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999, xix, 227 pages: illustrations, maps, bib, index. Very good in dust jacket. $25.00 Box A 113 Contents: 1. Portraits of a Martyr -- The Passio of SS. Sergius and Bacchus -- History in the Passio: The Emperor -- The Hagiographic Milieu… Read more about this item

Byzantium ulp Paliouras, Athanasios D., Damaskēnos, Metropolitan of Switzerland, 1936-, and Garo Nalbandian, Constantinople (Ecumenical Patriarchate). The Oecumenical Patriarchate: the Great Church of Christ. (Translation of: To Oikoumeniko Patriarcheio). Geneva, Switzerland: Orthodox Centre of the Oecumenical Patriarchate/Athens, Greece: E. Tzaferis S.A., 1989, 374 pages, illus. (many colored), bib, index. Very heavy and very large (34 cm) book. … Read more about this item

Middle Ages 107cjk Capgrave, John, 1393-1464.The life of Saint Katherine. Edited by Karen A. Winstead.Kalamazoo, Michigan: Medieval Institute Publications, 1999, x, 320 pages, notes, glossary. Paperbound. Fine copy. Friendly presentation copy from the editor on the front free endpaper to another medievalist thanking her for herhelp. $20.00 Box A 107 Catherine of Alexandria, or Katherine of Alexandria, also known… Read more about this item

Philosophy 02511. Gemistus Plethon, George, c. 1355/1360 – 1452/1454. Geōrgiou Gemistou Plēthōnos Peri aretōn = Georges Gémiste Plethon Traité des vertus. Edition critique avec introduction, traduction et commentaire par Brigitte Tambrun-Krasker. (Series: Corpus philosophorum Medii Aevi. Philosophi Byzantini; 3). Athēnai: Akadēmia Athēnōn; Leiden; New York: E.J. Brill, 1987, xcii, 127 pages, bib, indices. Hardcover volume, has blindstamp of… Read more about this item

Middle East 107b23d Bianquis, Thierry. Damas et la Syrie sous la Domination Fatimide (359-468/969-1076): Essai d'Interpretation de Chroniques Arabes Medievales. Volumes I and II.Damascus, Syria: Institut Francais de Damas, 1986-1989, xxii, 387 pages; pages 391 to 800, maps, bib, index, errata. Paperbound volumes. A few of the top edge pages have been carelessly opened. The cover to Volume… Read more about this item

Middle Ages 274j5 Geanakoplos, Deno John. Medieval Western Civilization and the Byzantine and Islamic Worlds: Interaction of three Cultures. Lexington. MA: D. C. Heath, 1979, x, 513 pages, maps, illus, index. Good, solid copy. $14.50

Modern Greece 002 Frazee, Charles A. The Orthodox Church and independent Greece, 1821-1852. London: Cambridge University Press, 1969, viii, 220p, bib, index. A very nice bright clean tight copy with only the slightest hint of offsetting on the front free endpaper from the review slip laid in. Also laid in are some newspaper clippings pertaining to the Patriarchate in… Read more about this item

Ancient world 1321 Tisserant, Eugène, 1884-1972. Recueil Cardinal Eugène Tisserant: "Ab Oriente et Occidente." Publié par Sever Pop avec la collaboration de Georges Levi della Vida, Gérard Garitte et Octave Bârlea. (Travaux publiés par le Centre international de dialectologie générale près l'Université catholique de Louvain). Two volumes. Louvain: Centre international de dialectologie générale, 1955, (xxxi,… Read more about this item

Ancient world 1299Tertullian, Tertullianus, Quintus Septimius Florens. De praescriptione haereticorum. Ubersetzt und eingeleitet von Johannes Dietrich Schleyer. [Fontes Christiani; Bd. 42]. Turnhout: Brepols, 2002, 363p, bib, index. Very good copy. Latin with German translation (text and translation actually begins on page 231). $37.50

Ancient world 1191Shenute, Saint, approximately 360-450. Sinuthii archimandritae. Vita et opera omnia. III. Interpretatus est H. Wiesmann. (Corpus scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium ; v. 96: Scriptores Coptici ; t. 8.). Louvain: Secretariat du CorpusSCO, 1965, 162p, indexes. Paperback, very good copy, very minor waterstaining on spine. Pages still uncut. Photographic reprint of Paris, 1931 edition. $35.00 Shenute,… Read more about this item

Ancient world 1153Saller, Sylvester John, 1895- and Bellarmino Bagatti. The town of Nebo (Khirbet el-Mekhayyat). With a brief survey of other ancient Christian monuments in Transjordan. (Publications of the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum, no. 7). Jerusalem: Printed by Franciscan Press, 1949, xiv, 302p, bib, index, illus., plates. maps (part fold.) diagrams. Bound in sturdy blue buckram with gilt lettering on spine.… Read more about this item

Ancient world 1122 Rogers, Francis M. The Quest for Eastern Christians: Travels and Rumor in the Age of Discovery. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1962, xii, 221p, notes, bib, index. Very good in dust jacket. $20.00