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Autor:
Alexandra R.A. Lee
Providing new insights into the Bianchi devotions, a medieval popular religious revival which responded to an outbreak of plague at the turn of the fifteenth century, this book takes a comparative, local and regional approach to the Bianchi, challeng
Autor:
Julio Samsó
In On Both Sides of the Strait of Gibraltar Julio Samsó studies the history of medieval astronomy in al-Andalus (Muslim Spain), the Maghrib and the Christian kingdoms of the Iberian Peninsula. He proves that the Arabic, Latin, Hebrew, Castilian and
Autor:
Andreas Kaplony, Michael Marx
Qurʾān Quotations Preserved on Papyrus Documents, 7th-10th Centuries is the first book on the Qurʾān's Sitz im Leben, i.e. on how the Qurʾān was quoted in Arabic original letters, legal deeds, and amulets. Qurʾān Quotations also serves as an
Autor:
Jennifer M. Neighbors
In A Question of Intent: Homicide Law and Criminal Justice in Qing and Republican China, Jennifer M. Neighbors uses legal cases from the local, provincial and central levels to explore both the complexity with which Qing law addressed abstract concep
Autor:
Maddalena Bellavitis
Making Copies in European Art 1400-1600 comprises sixteen essays that explore the form and function, manner and meaning of copies after Renaissance works of art. The authors construe copying as a method of exchange based in the theory and practice of
Autor:
Kai Widmaier
Egyptologists have been debating for decades about whether or not Egyptian images classify as art. Nevertheless, the term ‘art'still serves as a guiding concept for Egyptology. Kai Widmaier offers an overview of how different art-historical interpr
Autor:
Lisa Maurice
Rewriting the Ancient World looks at how and why the ancient world, including not only the Greeks and Romans, but also Jews and Christians, has been rewritten in popular fictions of the modern world. The fascination that ancient society holds for lat
Autor:
Ivan Löbl, Daniel Löbl
This new edition of the Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera gives a taxonomic overview of the most diverse group of all organisms living in the world-largest biogeographical area. The present volume is an updated edition of the first issue in 2003 bu
Autor:
Jessica Priestley, Vasiliki Zali
Brill's Companion to the Reception of Herodotus in Antiquity and Beyond offers new insights on the reception and cultural transmission of one of the most controversial and influential texts to have survived from Classical Antiquity. Herodotus'Histori
Autor:
Benjamin Gleede
The author presents a comprehensive historical examination of the early Christian graeco-latin translations of the biblical'apocrypha'and'pseudepigrapha'. The analysis of the translation techniques employed yields a distinction between'literal'and'ad