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Published 2013
Tell this in my memory : stories of enslavement from Egypt, Sudan, and the Ottoman Empire /

: Originally published: Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2012. : 246 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 24 cm. : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9789774166228

Published 2011
Marine craft in ancient mosaics of the Levant /

: viii, 77 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 30 cm. : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9781407308166

Published 2021
Memory and Identity in the Syriac Cave of Treasures : Rewriting the Bible in Sasanian Iran /

: In Memory and Identity in the Syriac Cave of Treasures: Rewriting the Bible in Sasanian Iran Sergey Minov examines literary and socio-cultural aspects of the Syriac pseudepigraphic composition known as the Cave of Treasures , which offers a peculiar version of the Christian history of salvation. The book fills a lacuna in the history of Syriac Christian literary creativity by contextualising this unique work within the cultural and religious situation of Sasanian Mesopotamia towards the end of Late Antiquity. The author analyses the Cave 's content and message from the perspective of identity theory and memory studies, while discussing its author's emphatically polemical stand vis-à-vis Judaism, the ambivalent way in which he deals with Iranian culture, and the promotion in this work of a distinctively Syriac-oriented vision of the biblical past.
: 1 online resource. : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9789004445512
9789004445505

Published 2005
Mediaeval Manichaean Book Art : A Codicological Study of Iranian and Turkic Illuminated Book Fragments from 8th-11th Century East Central Asia /

: Mediaeval Manichean Book Art focuses on a corpus of c. one hundred fragments of exquisitely illuminated manuscripts that were produced under the patronage of the Turkic-speaking Uygurs in the Turfan region of East Central Asia between the 8th and 11th centuries CE, and used in service of the local Manichaean church. By applying a codicological approach to the analysis of these sources, this study casts light onto a lost episode of Central Asian art history and religious book culture. Each of the five chapters in this book accomplishes a well-defined goal. The first justifies the formation of the corpus . The second examines its dating on the basis of scientific and historical evidence. Chapter three assesses the artistry of their bookmakers, scribes, and illuminators. The fourth documents the patterns of page layout preserved on the fragments. The final chapter analyses the contextual relationship of their painted and written contents . Mediaeval Manichaean Book Art represents a pioneer study in its subject, research methodology, and illustrations. It extracts codicological and art historical data from torn remains of lavishly decorated Middle-Persian, Sogdian, and Uygur language manuscripts in codex, scroll, and "palm-leaf" formats. Through detailed analyses and carefully argued interpretations aided by precise computer drawings, the author introduces an important group of primary sources for future comparative research in Central Asian art, mediaeval book illumination, and Manichaean studies.
: 1 online resource. : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9789047405962
9789004139947

Fumetti d'Egitto : L'Egitto dei faraoni nel mondo del fumetto /

: "Torino, Museo Egizio, 6 luglio-31 ottobre 1993" -- title pages verso. : 139 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm. : Bibliography : pages 138-139.

Published 2011
The memory of pain : women's testimonies of the Holocaust /

: In this book, Camila Loew analyzes four women's testimonial literary writings on the Holocaust to examine and question some of the tenets of the fields of Holocaust studies, gender studies, and testimony. Through a close reading of the works of Charlotte Delbo, Margarete Buber-Neumann, Ruth Klüger, and Marguerite Duras, Loew foregrounds these authors' search for a written form to engage with their experiences of the extreme. Although each chapter contains its individual focus and features, the book possesses a unity in intention, concerns, and consequences. In the theoretical introduction that unites the four chapters, Loew eschews essentialism and revises the emergence of the field of Women and Holocaust studies from the early 1980s on, and signals some of its shortcomings. In response, and in accordance with a recent turn in various disciplines of the Humanities, Loew highlights the ethical dimension of testimony and its responsible commitment to the other. In dealing with the texts as literary testimonies-a complex genre, between literature and history-, testimony is freed from the obligation to respond to the requirements of factual truth, and becomes a privileged form to voice the traumatic event, and to symbolically explore the role of excess.
: 1 online resource (xxii, 227 pages) : illustrations. : Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-205) and index. : 9789401207065 : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Bradley, His Book

: Vol. 1(1896)-2 (1897) : Publication of this title ceased in 1897. : 1948-0717

Published 1998
Syrien : Hochkulturen zwischen Mittelmeer und Arabischer Wüste /

: Includes indexes. : 472 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 21 cm. : 377013978X

Published 2019
The book in Mamluk Egypt and Syria (1250-1517) : scribes, libraries and market /

: This book is the first to date to be dedicated to the circulation of the book as a commodity in the Mamluk sultanate. It discusses the impact of princely patronage on the production of books, the formation and management of libraries in religious institutions, their size and their physical setting. It documents the significance of private collections and their interaction with institutional libraries and the role of charitable endowments (waqf) in the life of libraries. The market as a venue of intellectual and commercial exchanges and a production centre is explored with references to prices and fees. The social and professional background of scribes and calligraphers occupies a major place in this study, which also documents the chain of master-calligraphers over the entire Mamluk period. For her study the author relies on biographical dictionaries, chronicles, waqf documents and manuscripts.
: xi, 178 pages : illustrations (cheifly color), plans ; 25 cm. : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9789004387003 (hardback : alk. paper)

Published 2011
A study of the life and works of Athanasius Kircher, "Germanus incredibilis" : with a selection of his unpublished correspondence and an annotated translation of his autobiography...

: Athanasius Kircher, a German Jesuit in 17th-century Rome, was an enigma. Intensely pious and a prolific author, he was also a polymath fascinated with everything from Egyptian hieroglyphs to the tiny creatures in his microscope. His correspondence with popes, princes and priests was a window into the restless energy of the period. It showed first-hand the seventeenth-century's struggle for knowledge in astronomy, microscopy, geology, chemistry, musicology, Egyptology, horology... The list goes on. Kircher's books reflect the mind-set of 17th-century scholars - endless curiosity and a substantial larding of naiveté: Kircher scorned alchemy as the wishful thinking of charlatans, yet believed in dragons. His life and correspondence provide a key to the transition from the Middle Ages to a new scientific age. This book, though unpublished, has been long quoted and referred to. Awaited by scholars and specialists of Kircher, it is finally available with this edition.
: 1 online resource. : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9789004216327 : 1871-1405 ; : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 2023
Between Memory and Power : The Syrian space under the late Umayyads and early Abbasids (c. 72-193/692-809) /

: Between Memory and Power intends to demonstrate that a robust culture of historical writing existed in 2nd/8th century Syria, and to offer new methodological approaches to access this now lost history, torn between memory and oblivion. By studying the making of Umayyad heroes or Abbasid origins-myths, this book aims to reveal the successive meanings granted to Syrian history, and to identify the various layers of historical writing and rewriting during the first centuries of Islam. Taken together, these elements make possible a history of meanings of the very space of Syria, articulated around power and its expression, which grants a clear coherence to the period, extending well beyond the dynastic caesura of 132/750.
: 1 online resource (450 pages) : illustrations. : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9789004466326

Published 2023
Under the Adorned Dome, Four Essays on the Arts of Iran and India : Ehsan Yarshater Lecture Series /

: These essays are the revised and updated version of four lectures given in the Yarshater Lecture Series, at SOAS in London in 2013. They concern some aspects of the arts from pre-modern Iran and India, namely, the "making of" of Persian illustrated manuscripts, the iconography of Kashan wares, the use and re-use of luster tiles in Ilkhanid Iran, and the glazed tiles made in three Indian sultanates (Delhi, Bengal and Malwa). These four topics share concepts of influence and impact, although inflected on different modes. The productions they embody represent many poles of influence, even if working on different scales, from the extensive diffusion of products, techniques, and systems to almost isolated productions.
: 1 online resource (270 pages) : illustrations. : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9789004549722

Published 1992
Science for conservators /

: Originally published: Crafts Council, 1982-1983. : 3 volumes : illustrations ; 25 cm. : Includes bibliographical references and indexes. : 0415071658
0415071631

Published 2018
The Book of Jeremiah : composition, reception, and interpretation /

: Written by leading experts in the field, The Book of Jeremiah: Composition, Reception, and Interpretation offers a wide-ranging treatment of the main aspects of Jeremiah. Its twenty-four essays fall under four main sections. The first section contains studies of a more general nature, and helps situate Jeremiah in the scribal culture of the ancient world, as well as in relation to the Torah and the Hebrew Prophets. The second section contains commentary on and interpretation of specific passages (or sections) of Jeremiah, as well as essays on its genres and themes. The third section contains essays on the textual history and reception of Jeremiah in Judaism and Christianity. The final section explores various theological aspects of the book of Jeremiah.
: 1 online resource. : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9789004373273 : 0083-5889 ; : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Études de linguistique arabe /

: "Liste des travaux de Jean Cantineau, par Claude Denizeau" : pages [v]-xii. : xii, 299 pages ; 23 cm. : Bibliography : pages [123]-125.

Published 2011
History, time, meaning, and memory ideas for the sociology of religion /

: It can be said that history is poor sociology that does not account sufficiently for present social circumstances, while sociology is bad history in that it does not go back in time. This volume in the Religion and Social Order series sets out to address these conjoint problems of history and sociology within the disciplinary boundaries of the sociology of religion. History has such a fickle nature that it has seen religion hold varied and different places within the timeline of sociological thought. Religion had a high level of importance among the early founders of sociology. A perceived decline of significance for religion by sociology in the latter half of the twentieth century mirrored the changing social location of religion. The increase in world fundamentalisms, religious movements, private spiritualities and other indicators in the millennial age have brought a renaissance to this longstanding subdiscipline and shown that religion is far from extinction.
: 1 online resource. : Includes bibliographical references. : 9789004215610 : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 2010
Mark's memory resources and the controversy stories (Mark 2:1-3:6) : an application of the frame...

: This book is a study of the New Testament using the insights of modern linguistics. Its principal concern, above all, is to examine how the Gospel of Mark, produced in an oral-aural culture, may be illuminated by frame theory from cognitive linguistics, a linguistic theory in which the meaning of a word, phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph and thematic unit can only be properly understood against the background of a particular body of knowledge and assumptions. The reason this theory is particulary useful for understanding Mark's ancient text is because as an oral-aural narrative it heavily relies on human memory (cognitive) resources; and so the cognitive theory leads us into a better understanding of ways in which the text is communicated in terms of cognitive processing.
: Revised version of the author's thesis (Th.D.)-- University of Toronto, 2008. : 1 online resource. : Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-325) and indexes. : 9789047443926 : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 1982
The Sèvres Egyptian service, 1810-12 /

: Exhibit displayed at Apsley House, London. : 72 pages, [1] folded leaf of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 20 x 21 cm. : Bibliography : pages 30. : 0905209249 (pbk.)

Published 2024
A Walk in the Park: Kinesthesia in the Arts of Landscape /

: Current neuroscience discloses that all emotional feeling originates as movement. Kinesthesia, our sixth sense, begins with movement of muscle cells and ends as emotion. Depth perception, which depends on movement, is always feeling-laden. To be expressive, art must somehow move our bodies. Studies of expressive dance demonstrate that we unconsciously model observed movements, duplicating in ourselves the feelings that generated the dancer's movements. The art of landscape creates choreography for a walk. But each of the fine arts play a role in landscape design. Here, then, is a new theory of landscape that easily extends to all the fine arts, explaining our enjoyment in landscape, as well as aesthetic enjoyment more generally.
: 1 online resource (452 pages) : illustrations. : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9789004697591

Published 2010
Word of God, Art of Man : the Qur'an and its creative expressions : selected proceedings from the International Colloquium, London, 18-21 October 2003 /

: xxi, 330 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 0199238359