Vernacular buildings and urban social practice : wood and people in early modern Swedish society /
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Wooden buildings housed the majority of Swedish urban populations during the early modern era, but many of these buildings have disappeared as the result of fire, demolition, and modernisation. This book reveals the fundamental role played by the wooden house in the formation of urban Sweden and Swedish history.
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Also issued in print: 2021. :
1 online resource (336 pages) : illustrations :
Specialized. :
Includes bibliographical references. :
9781789696783 (PDF ebook) :
John the Physician's Therapeutics : a medical handbook in vernacular Greek /
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The Therapeutics of John the Physician is a medical handbook from the thirteenth century, holding important new evidence on medicine as craft. Of particular interest is a vernacular version of the text, which also contains a commentary. Here, an unknown reviser vividly describes cases and medical procedures, a type of knowledge rarely encountered in scholarly texts. In the present volume, the Therapeutics is published for the first time, along with a translation and an introduction to the topic. Apart from insights into medical history, the text also yields a large quantity of new material on the medical terminology used in everyday language and brings to life the development from ancient to modern Greek. The editorial technique may be of interest to those working on digital humanities.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. :
9789047430674 :
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
Like Joseph in beauty : Yemeni vernacular poetry and Arab-Jewish symbiosis /
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Like Joseph in Beauty traces the evolution of an Arabic poetic form called 'Humayni poetry'. From Muslim mystical circles, the courts of aristocrats in Highland Yemen, and kabbalist circles of Yemenite Jews, Humayni poetry distinguishes itself with lyricism, musicality, and eroticism. It also plays a variety of code-switching linguistic games. The book addresses the connections between the Humayni poetry of Yemen and the sacred poetry of Jews from Yemen, a hitherto-neglected chapter in the history of Arabic and Jewish literatures. The book culminates with a discussion of ways in which poets and critics in modern-day Yemen and in Israel transformed this poetry.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references (p. [327]-339) and index. :
9789047442196 :
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
L'Habitat traditionnel dans les pays musulmans autour de la Méditerranée : rencontre d'Aix-en-Provence, 6-8 juin 1984 /
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"En vente sous la référence IF 677 ... Paris, au Département des ventes de l'Imprimerie nationale" --Colophon.
Papers presented at the Rencontre sur l'habitat traditionnel dans les pays musulmans autour de la Méditerranée. :
3 volumes : illustrations ; 33 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references. :
2724700600 (set)
2724700619 (volume 1)
Les maisons dans la Syrie antique du IIIe millénaire aux débuts de l"Islam : pratique et représentations de l'espace domestique : actes du Colloque International, Damas, 27-30 juin...
: At head of title : Institut français d'archéologie du Proche-Orient, Beyrouth, Damas, Amman. : xvii, 332 pages : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm. : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 270530567X
Shali : a matter of conservation : result of the cultural heritage activities of the Italo-Egyptian development cooperation project : "Protection and promotion of cultural heritage...
: At head of title: Ricerca e Cooperazione ; Associazione Giovanni Secco Suardo. : 110 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), map ; 28 cm. : Includes bibliographical references (p. 101-109). : 9788863360783