Product Description: Over the past fifty years, Orthodox theologies of ecclesiology have been revoling around competing schools of ecclesiology one universal, the other eucharistic. Father Loudovikos, in this masterful interconnected series of studies, moves beyond this dialectic by exploring the very mode of the Church s existence...read more

Product Description: 1894, Sir Montague Fowler, warden of St Michael’s College, Oxford, dies from apparent natural causes. Before long vicious rumours begin to circulate about the actual cause of his death, and an autopsy reveals that Sir Montague’s body was full of the deadly poison mercuric chloride...read more

Product Description: When Maximilian Paget inherits Mayfield Court, he and his niece Catherine find it to be half ruined, and haunted by the wraith of a murdered child. Catherine discovers a child’s skeleton, bringing rural Detective Inspector Saul Jackson and his bibulous but shrewd sergeant, Herbert Bottomley, to investigate...read more

Product Description: Arthur Waldegrave, heir to a vast estate and fortune, perishes in a spectacular fire. Shortly afterwards, rural detectives Inspector Saul Jackson and his bibulous but shrewd sergeant, Herbert Bottomley, establish that he was murdered with cyanide...read more

Product Description: Dorset House is the home of the Claygate family, and a place where diplomats love to congregate. When young Maurice Claygate and Sophie Lenart, a notorious woman spy, are found shot dead, Inspector Arnold Box, investigating the murders, hears from Colonel Kershaw, Head of Secret Intelligence, that there are international ramifications to the case...read more

Product Description: When renowned archaeologist Professor Roderick Ainsworth unearths an ancient Roman temple of Mithras in London's Clerkenwell, his career is set to be crowned with a knighthood. Then a young analytical chemist is murdered in the temple, and circumstances suggest a ritual murder...read more

Product Description: At the opening of Tower Bridge in June 1894, a would-be assassin, Anton Grunwalski, is arrested but is later dramatically rescued from police custody. Detective Inspector Arnold Box, working with Colonel Kershaw, Head of Secret Intelligence, uncovers a conspiracy—codenamed the Aquila Project—that aims to assassinate the Russian Tsar and plunge Europe into War...read more

Product Description: Ursula Holt had spent six months in a lunatic asylum for killing and maiming farm animals while sleepwalking. Like her keepers, she is convinced of her own guilt, as is her kindly uncle, Dr. Matthew Holt. Only her loyal and loving cousin Kate, and the Holts' neighbor, wealthy Alexander Skeffington, stoutly maintain Ursula's innocence...read more

If Theophilus of Alexandria seems a minor figure today, it is because we persist in seeing him through the eyes of hostile contemporary witnesses, each of whom had his own reasons for diminishing Theophilus’ stature. In fact, he was one of the greatest bishops of the Theodosian era, who played an important role in a crucial phase of the Roman Empire’s transformation into a Christian society. Norman Russell's new assessment of Theophilus shows him as an able theologian, an expert ecclesiastical lawyer, a highly skilled orator and, surprisingly, a spiritual teacher. The introductory section examines his efforts to Christianize an Egypt still denominated by its great temples and his battles to maintain the pre-eminence of the Alexandrian Church in an age of rapid change. The texts, most of them translated into a modern language for the first time, reveal the full power and range of his thinking. Thoephilus of Alexandria brings back into focus a figure who has long been neglected in the study of early Christianity and will provide students and lecturers with a fresh perspective, not least through the translation of texts, for the first time, into English.

The rivalry between international financier Sir Hamo Strange and private banker Lord Jocelyn Peto, both of them collectors of ancient books, leads to theft and murder, and an investigation by Detective Inspector Box and Sergeant Knollys.

Product Description: Fate and Ambiguity in Oedipus the King is a literary and philosophical reflection by one of Greece's leading contemporary philosophers on one of the world's greatest dramatic works, with special relevance for today's readers. There is also a Foreword by Olympia Dukakis, who has performed in many Greek plays...read more

Product Description: Lucy Forster's marriage to wealthy young landowner Robert Davenant makes her mistress of Lowthorpe Hall, a gracious country seat in a remote Warwickshire valley. But she soon learns that Lowthorpe harbors a sinister and dangerous secret...read more

Product Description: Returning from a court appearance, Detective Inspector Box finds himself investigating the violent death of Sir John Courteline, the great philanthropist. It looks like an act of private revenge, but Box soon uncovers a widespread conspiracy...read more

To the good folk of late-Victorian Ancaster, the ancient figures of angels carved on the cathedral tower are benevolent guardians. However, the stubborn, autocratic Dean Girdlestone sees them as idols and orders their destruction. On the night of the Ancaster Revel, the Dean's murdered body is discovered, and suspicion falls on his bitter lifelong rival, the genial but unstable Prebendary Nicholas Arkwright. Haunted by frightful dreams, Arkwright confesses, but it takes the skills of the rural detective Inspector Jakson and Sergent Bottomley to uncover the brutal truth behind Girdelstone's murder, and to reveal the Ancaster Demons for what they really are.

Product Description: Adelaide has had a good marriage to Sir William Porteous, and already she has launched two of her three daughters into society. But then disaster strikes. A homicidal dilettante makes a very public attempt on Sir William's life, and the ensuing investigation brings out some gruesome Porteous family skeletons...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

As a ruler of the church of Alexander and president of the Third Ecumenical Council of 431, Cyril was one of the most powerful men of the fifth century. Not only did he define the concept of christological orthodoxy for the next two centuries, but he is also often regarded as an unscrupulous cleric who was responsible for the murder of the female philosopher Hypatia and for the overthrow of the archbishop Nestorius.Cyril of Alexandria presents key selections of Cyril's writings in order to make his thought accessible to students. The writings are all freshly translated and an extended introduction outlines Cyril's life and times, his scholastic method, his christology, his ecclesiology, his eucharistic doctrine, his spirituality, and his influence on the Christian tradition.

Product Description: Mary Grant achieves her heart's desire when the kindly Mr Romanis engages her as governess to his children: the ailing Neville and his talented, endearingly guileless sister, Rose. But Mary is haunted, not only by memories of her orphan childhood, but also by frightful dreams...read more

Product Description: Jane Ashwood longs to see her vision of a public school for girls translated into reality and is thrilled when headmaster Edward Dalton becomes committed. But when a violent death strikes she finds that he is the prime suspect.

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Product Description: A collection of 20 studies on the history of the Cypriot Church from the early Byzantine era until the period of British rule. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book breaks new ground by identifying and illustrating the realities of Victorian commercial life and examining the ways in which novelists like Dickens, Thackeray, and Trollope portrayed these realities in their fiction. What exactly did Ebenezer Scrooge do for a living? How much did Dickens really know about the Stock Exchange? Why are stockbrokers the villains of so many of these novels? In answering questions like these, The Novelist and Mammon depicts a real world of frauds, villains and rogues as fascinating as any to be found in the fiction of the day...read more