Revue d'Histoire Des Textes, N.S. 19/2024
Author | : Brepols Publishers |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2024-06 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9782503608815 |
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Author | : Brepols Publishers |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2024-06 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9782503608815 |
Author | : D. Graham J. Shipley |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 578 |
Release | : 2024-04-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1009207180 |
Ancient Greek geographical writing is represented not just by the surviving works of the well-known authors Strabo, Pausanias, and Ptolemy, but also by many other texts dating from the Archaic to the Late Antique period. Most of these texts are, however, hard for non-specialists to find, and many have never been translated into English. This volume, the work of an international team of experts, presents the most important thirty-six texts in new, accurate translations. In addition, there are explanatory notes and authoritative introductions to each text, which offer a new understanding of the individual writings and demonstrate their importance: no longer marginal, but in the mainstream of Greek literature and science. The book includes twenty-eight newly drawn maps, images of the medieval manuscripts in which most of these works survive, and a full Introduction providing a comprehensive survey of the field of Greek and Roman geography.
Author | : Brepols Publishers |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2021-12-31 |
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ISBN | : 9782503592367 |
Author | : Brepols Publishers |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2020-12-31 |
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ISBN | : 9782503587547 |
Author | : Mircea Eliade |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 490 |
Release | : 2024-01-09 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 069126502X |
The foundational work on shamanism now available as a Princeton Classics paperback Shamanism is an essential work on the study of this mysterious and fascinating phenomenon. The founder of the modern study of the history of religion, Mircea Eliade surveys the tradition through two and a half millennia of human history, moving from the shamanic traditions of Siberia and Central Asia—where shamanism was first observed—to North and South America, Indonesia, Tibet, China, and beyond. In this authoritative survey, Eliade illuminates the magico-religious life of societies that give primacy of place to the figure of the shaman—at once magician and medicine man, healer and miracle-doer, priest, mystic, and poet. Synthesizing the approaches of psychology, sociology, and ethnology, Shamanism remains the reference book of choice for those interested in this practice.
Author | : Sheila Blair |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 323 |
Release | : 1991-11-01 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 900466081X |
Inscriptions on buildings are a distinctive feature of Islamic architecture, and this book studies the 79 surviving monumental inscriptions in the Iranian world from the first five centuries of the Muslim era (A.D. 622-1106), the period in which all the major trends of monumental epigraphy in the area were set. These foundation, commemorative, and funerary texts come from the region between Iraq and Soviet Central Asia. Written primarily in Arabic, they embellished architectural monuments and furnishings whose nature implies the construction of major buildings. An extended introduction discusses such general topics as titulature, patronage, and stylistic development. Each text is then presented individually with photographs, drawings, transcriptions, translations and an extensive commentary, which presents the inscription in its larger palaeographic and historical contexts.
Author | : Richard Hunter |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 381 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107116279 |
A series of innovative studies in the textual and literary criticism of Latin literature and their mutually supportive relationship.
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Total Pages | : 2140 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : American literature |
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Author | : Laurent Gayer |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 381 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199354448 |
With an official population approaching fifteen million, Karachi is one of the largest cities in the world. It is also the most violent. Since the mid-1980s, it has endured endemic political conflict and criminal violence, which revolve around control of the city and its resources (votes, land and bhatta-"protection" money). These struggles for the city have become ethnicized. Karachi, often referred to as a "Pakistan in miniature," has become increasingly fragmented, socially as well as territorially. Despite this chronic state of urban political warfare, Karachi is the cornerstone of the economy of Pakistan. Gayer's book is an attempt to elucidate this conundrum. Against journalistic accounts describing Karachi as chaotic and ungovernable, he argues that there is indeed order of a kind in the city's permanent civil war. Far from being entropic, Karachi's polity is predicated upon organisational, interpretative and pragmatic routines that have made violence "manageable" for its populations. Whether such "ordered disorder" is viable in the long term remains to be seen, but for now Karachi works despite-and sometimes through-violence.
Author | : Wilfried Nippel |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 399 |
Release | : 2016-01-11 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1316565114 |
Ancient and Modern Democracy is a comprehensive account of Athenian democracy as a subject of criticism, admiration and scholarly debate for 2,500 years, covering the features of Athenian democracy, its importance for the English, American and French revolutions and for the debates on democracy and political liberty from the nineteenth century to the present. Discussions were always in the context of contemporary constitutional problems. Time and again they made a connection with a long-established tradition, involving both dialogue with ancient sources and with earlier phases of the reception of Antiquity. They refer either to a common cultural legacy or to specific national traditions; they often involve a mixture of political and scholarly arguments. This book elucidates the complexity of considering and constructing systems of popular self-rule.