Augustine and His World - Francis of Assisi and His World 9781912552252

Have you ever wanted accessible introductions to key figures and periods of Christian history? Augustine and His World A

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Augustine and His World - Francis of Assisi and His World
9781912552252

'Reaffirms the vigor and freshness of Francis's message in our time, so different yet equally challenging.

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Offers a series of papers that deal with various aspects of Titian, his city, Venice, and his general culture and person

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A new look at the life, times, and music of Polish composer and piano virtuoso Fryderyk Chopin Fryderyk Chopin (1810–4

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Béla Bartók, who died in New York fifty years ago this September, is one of the most frequently performed twentieth-cent

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Few composers even begin to approach Beethoven's pervasive presence in modern Western culture, from the concert hal

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A biography of composer Sergei Rachmaninoff, published in collaboration with the Bard Music Festival. One of the most po

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Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) has a reputation as one of the leading composers of the twentieth century. But the story

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Claude Debussy's Paris was factionalized, politicized, and litigious. It was against this background of ferment and

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This is an edited volume in the Bard Music Festival series, timed for release to coincide with the summer 2019 edition o

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