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Tobias Churton.
The Gnostics.
Published London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, in association with Channel 4 and Border Television, 1987.
ISBN 0297811045;
ISBN-13: 9780297811046.
Binding: paperback, stitch bound.
Printer: Butler & Tanner, Frome and London.
Size: 135x215x18mm.
Page count: text xi,179pp; plates 8pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair to good: covers rather scuffed and rubbed, especially at the edges and corners, but not too badly worn; pages yellowed with age, a little foxing at the edges; the spine is slightly skewed but not creased from reading, and the text appears to be free of marking.

This item £6.00
plus P&P £3.00 within the UK
(delivery outside the UK not currently available)

Weight without packaging: 230g.

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No overall medieval emphasis. Contents: Gross bodies; Higher reason; Madness & blasphemy; The good men; Mystery tour; What happened to the Cathars?; Hermes comes to Florence; Pico della Mirandola; Eternal God clothed in infinite nature; One symbol, many worlds — Giordano Bruno; From muddy waters to river of life; Universe drained of God; Thou dwellest in eternity.
Appendices: Chronology; The Nag Hammadi library; Joseph Ritman, star & library of the light.

Notes: no
Tables: no
Illustrations: 1 text figure & 8 pages of plates, all monochrome
Maps & plans: 2
Genealogies: no
Chronology: yes
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 2pp
Index: yes

See also | Heresy | TV tie-ins |

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