Armées et combats en Syrie de 491/1098 à 569/1174 : analyse comparée des chroniques médiévales latines et arabes /
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Revised version of author's doctoral dissertation, Université Lumière Lyon 2, 2005. :
1000 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references (pages [911]-968) and index. :
9782351590256
2351590252
Brill's companion to military defeat in ancient Mediterranean society /
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In Brill's Companion to Military Defeat in Ancient Mediterranean Society , Jessica H. Clark and Brian Turner lead a re-examination of how Near Eastern, Greek, and Roman societies addressed - or failed to address - their military defeats and casualties of war. Original case studies illuminate not only how political and military leaders managed the political and strategic consequences of military defeats, but also the challenges facing defeated soldiers, citizens, and other classes, who were left to negotiate the meaning of defeat for themselves and their societies. By focusing on the connections between war and society, history and memory, the chapters collected in this volume contribute to our understanding of the ubiquity and significance of war losses in the ancient world.
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1 online resource (xviii, 382 pages) : illustrations, maps. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004355774 :
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Narrative analogy in the Hebrew Bible : battle stories and their equivalent non-battle narratives /
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This volume sheds fresh light upon the phenomenon of narrative doubling in the Hebrew Bible. Through an innovative interdisciplinary model the author defines the notion of narrative analogy in relation to other literatures where it has been studied such as English Renaissance drama and makes extensive critical use of contemporary literary theory, particularly that of the Russian formalist Vladimir Propp. His exploitation of narrative doubling, with a focus upon the metaphorical, reorients our reading by uncovering a major dynamic in biblical literature. The author examines several battle reports and demonstrates how each could be interpreted as an oblique commentary and metaphor for the non-battle account that immediately precedes it. Battle scenes are revealed to stand in metaphoric analogy with, among others, accounts of a trial, a rape, a drinking feast, and a court-deliberation. Joshua Berman offers new insights to the ever-growing concern with the relationship between historiography and literary strategies, and succeeds in articulating a new aspect of biblical ideology concerning human and divine relationship.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-232) and indexes. :
9789047413684 :
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