-
- Subject
- Art; Librarianship; Music; Religious studies
- Distribution
- Sale, CD-ROM (Hybrid), £12.95
The Sherborne Missal, which included illustrations of British birds in its decorative borders, is the largest, most lavishly decorated late-medieval service book to have survived. It contains 694 parchment...
-
aka: Trilogy on Tibet, A
- Subject
- Philosophy; Religious studies
- Distribution
- Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 56, 129, 52 minutes), £21.95
A digitally remastered reissue of the seminal trilogy of films on Tibet originally released in 1979, now on one DVD and containing additional materials and a new commentary.The trilogy portrays the unbroken...
-
aka: Mohammed
- Subject
- History; Religious studies
- Distribution
- Sale, DVD (Region 0, 290 minutes), £27.00
A documentary series of five 52-minute episodes on the genesis of Islam, the life of the Prophet, the Koran, the Sunna, the Haddith, the emergence of the commentaries and Muslim rights, but also the Arabs,...
-
- Date
- 4 Mar 2014, 14:39
- Author
- Sergio Angelini
- Post Type
- BUFVC Review
The Passion of the Christ by Neal King (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), 148 pages, ISBN: 978-0230294349 (paperback), Price: £12.99
About the reviewer: Dr Catherine O’Brien is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies...
Other Record only
-
- Subject
- Archaeology
From 1966 to 1990, the BBC’s landmark archaeology series Chronicle took viewers around the world to explore historical excavations and discover long-gone cultures and civilisations. With a mix of live...
-
- Date
- 14 Jul 2017, 10:35
- Author
- Ben Hodson
- Post Type
- BUFVC Review
Jonathan Miller – One Thing and Another: Selected Writings 1954-2016 edited by Ian Greaves, (Oberon Books, 2017), 431 pages, ISBN: 978-1783197453 (paperback), £20
About the reviewer: John Cook is...
Other Record only
-
- Date
- 3 Feb 2015, 10:34
- Author
- Sergio Angelini
- Post Type
- BUFVC Review
Shakespeare, Dissent and the Cold War by Alfred Thomas (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), 265 pages, ISBN: 978-1403911643 (hardback) £55.00
About the reviewer: Dr Erica Sheen teaches and researches in the...
Other Record only
-
- Date
- 3 Jan 2013, 14:13
- Author
- Sergio Angelini
- Post Type
- BUFVC Review
Anne Frank Unbound: Media, Imagination, Memory
Edited by Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett & Jeffrey Shandler
(Indiana University Press, November 2012), 448 pages
ISBN: 978-0253007391 (paperback),...
Other Record only
-
- Date
- 27 Jun 2017, 12:19
- Author
- Ben Hodson
- Post Type
- BUFVC Review
Spanish Gothic: National Identity, Collaboration and Cultural Adaption by Xavier Aldana Reyes, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), 241 pages, ISBN: 978-1137306005, (hardback), £66.99
About the reviewer: Dr Leon...
Other Record only
-
- Date
- 25 Oct 2011, 10:39
- Author
- bufvcsergio
- Post Type
- Post
Roland Emmerich's controversial new film Anonymous is released in UK cinemas this Friday (28 October) and it explores some of the theories that question whether Shakespeare did, or did not, in fact author...
Other Record only