Peace in ancient Egypt /
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"Around the year 1257 bce, the Egyptian king Ramesses II concluded a treaty with Hattu'ili III, the king of the Hittite empire based in Anatolia. This treaty was not the first that an Egyptian king entered into with another king"--
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xv, 211 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004380219 :
2352-7501
Peace in Ancient Egypt.
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One of the world's oldest treaties provides the backdrop for a new analysis of the Egyptian concept of hetep (\'peace\'). To understand the full range of meaning of hetep , Peace in Ancient Egypt explores battles against Egypt's enemies, royal offerings to deities, and rituals of communing with the dead. Vanessa Davies argues that hetep is the result of action that is just, true, and in accord with right order ( maat ). Central to the concept of hetep are the issues of rhetoric and community. Beyond detailing the ancient Egyptian concept of hetep , it is hoped that this book will provide a useful framework that can be considered in relation to concepts of peace in other cultures.
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1 online resource. :
9789004380226
The Crimean Khanate and Poland-Lithuania : international diplomacy on the European periphery (15th-18th century) : a study of peace treaties followed by annotated documents /
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This is an extensive study, supplemented by an edition of relevant sources, of the diplomatic contacts between Poland-Lithuania and the Crimean Khanate between the early 15th and the late 18th century. It contains a chronology of mutual relations, a formal analysis of various types of documents, and a glimpse into the working of the Crimean chancery, where Genghisid and Islamic forms mixed with those borrowed from Christian Europe. The book provides a fascinating insight into the intercultural exchange between Catholic Poland (with Latin and then Polish as the main chancery language) and predominantly Orthodox Lithuania (with Ruthenian as the main chancery language) on the one hand, and the Muslim Crimean Khanate (with Khwarezmian Turkic and then Ottoman Turkish as the main chancery language) on the other. It depicts Eastern Europe as a zone of contact, where the relations between Slavs and Tatars were by no means always hostile.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004215719 :
1380-6076 ; :
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