Founding the year : Ovid's Fasti and the poetics of the Roman calendar /
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This book considers the relationship between the Fasti , Ovid's long poem on the Roman calendar, and the calendar itself, conceived of as consisting both in the rites and commemorations it organizes and in its graphic representation. The Fasti treats the calendar, recently revised by Caesar and Augustus, as its most important cultural model and as a quasi-literary 'intertext': the poem simultaneously reshapes and is itself shaped by the calendar. The study includes chapters on Book 4 and the rites of April, on the addition of Julio-Claudian holidays to the calendar, and on the final two books of the poem as shaped by the renaming of the months Quintilis and Sextilis for Julius Caesar and Augustus.
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1 online resource (326, [4] pages of plates) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-308) and indexes. :
9789047409595 :
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
Lost and now found : explorers, diplomats and artists in Egypt and the near East /
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Long distance travel and mass tourism are not recent phenomena. This collection of papers from the 2015 ASTENE Conference in Exeter demonstrates that over the centuries many individuals and groups of people have left the safety of their family home and travelled huge distances both for adventure and to learn more about other peoples and places. Some travels were to help establish trade routes, while others were for personal pleasure and knowledge. Many of those who travelled have left little or no record but in a few cases their travels can be determined from the brief encounters they had with other travellers who noted these chance meetings in their journals and diaries, which they later used to inform and write for publication accounts of their own travels and impressions.
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Previously issued in print: 2017.
Includes index.
Selected conference papers. :
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour) :
Specialized. :
9781784916282 (ebook) :
Wonders lost and found : a celebration of the archaeological work of Professor Michael Vickers /
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Twenty-one contributions, written by friends and colleagues, reflect the wide interests of Professor Michael Vickers; from the Aegean Bronze Age to the use made of archaeology by dictators in the modern age. Seven contributions relate to Georgia, where the Professor has worked most recently, and made his home.
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1 online resource (230 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour) :
Specialized. :
Includes bibliographical references. :
9781789693829 (PDF ebook) :
The Road to Found Poetry : Understanding People's Perceptions and Lived Experiences Creatively /
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The Road to Found Poetry: Understanding People's Perceptions and Lived Experiences Creatively is a book based on the author's Educational Doctorate thesis. The book introduces the use of found poetry as an alternative means of knowing and understanding in various educational and non-educational contexts. Its ambition is to encourage educational researchers, educators, academics, undergraduate and postgraduate students, and practitioners interested in experimenting with a novel approach of analysis, presentation and dissemination that helps in gaining a deeper insight of research participants' experiences. The Road to Found Poetry moves beyond the traditionally accepted methods of doing research and offers a better understanding of people's perceptions and lived experiences. This new arts-based research methodology is participatory in nature and gives voice to researchers and research participants. It creates possibilities for researcher's reflexivity and participant's agency.
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1 online resource (126 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004736993
Tutankhamun : the eternal splendor of the boy pharaoh /
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"Text by T.G. H James, photographs by Araldo De Luca, edited by Valeria Manferto De Fabianis, graphic design [by] Patricia Balocco Lovisetti"--p. 8 of cover.
This edition published by arrangement with White Star S.r.l. Verecelli, Italy" :
319 p. : col. ill. ; 37 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references (p. 319) and index. :
9774245865
9789774245862
Where can wisdom be found? : the sage's language in the Bible and in ancient Egyptian literature /
: Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral--Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1984) : xxxi, 508 pages ; 24 cm. : Includes bibliographical references (pages [422]-449) and indexes. : 3727808993
Metal sewing-thimbles found in Britain /
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This reference work deals specifically with all types of sewing-thimble made from copper-alloy or silver, or either of these materials combined with iron or steel, and found in Britain. Domed, ring-type and open-top sewing-thimbles are described, among them unusual examples and others previously absent from the known record.
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Previously issued in print: 2018. :
1 online resource (viii, 88 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour) :
Specialized. :
Includes bibliographical references. :
9781784919467 (ebook) :
Some recently found Greek poems : text and commentary /
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This book deals with some (fragmentary) poems of Alcaeus, Archilochus, Hipponax and Stesichorus. The choice of the poems was determined by external factors: all of them are written on papyrus and were first published during the last few decades. After the first edition the fragments were discussed by many scholars, mainly in periodicals. The authors of this volume have assembled the results of this scholarly work and used it as a foundation for a carefully contituted text and an extensive overall commentary. In this way the poems will be more easily accessible than they were hitherto.
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Includes indexes. :
1 online resource (viii, 176 pages, [8] pages of plates) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-174). :
9789004328341 :
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
The Founding of the Red Trade Union International : Proceedings and Resolutions of the First Congress, 1921 /
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The 1921 founding congress in Moscow of the Red International of Labour Unions was a historic event. That gathering set out to create an international revolutionary trade-union organisation embracing millions of workers, and it brought together a wide variety of forces within the world labour movement. Lively and at times acrimonious debates occurred at the congress with syndicalist and other currents over the purpose and tasks of trade unions, the nature of class-struggle unionism, and union strategy and tactics. The congress proceedings, published here in a richly annotated edition, are part of a multi-volume series on the Communist International in Lenin's time. See Less
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1 online resource (744 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004712867
The Type Specimen of Jacques-François Rosart, Brussels, 1768 /
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Fine facsimile of the Epreuve des caracteres, qui se gravent & fondent dans la nouvelle fonderie de Jacques-François Rosart (deuxième édition augmentée. Bruxelles, 1768).
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1 online resource (82 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004619227
Documents linguistiques et ethnographiques : sur une région du sud Tunisien, Nefzaoua /
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"Publié avec le concours de l'institute des hautes études de Tunis, de l'institute des hautes études marocaines, du Gouvernement Général de l'Algérie et du centre national de la recherche scientifique."
Contributions in Arabic (with their transcription) and French. :
xvi, 272 pages, [9] leaves of plates : illustrations, maps (folded) ; 25 cm.
Arab Traders in Their Own Words : Merchant Letters from the Eastern Mediterranean Around 1800 /
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Arab Traders in their Own Words explores for the first time the largest unified corpus of merchant correspondence to have survived from the Ottoman period. The writers chosen for this first volume were mostly Christian merchants who traded within a network that connected the Syrian and Egyptian provinces and extended from Damascus in the North to Alexandria in the South with particular centers in Jerusalem and Damietta. They lived through one of the most turbulent intersections of Ottoman and European imperial history, the 1790s and early 1800s, and had to navigate their fortunes through diplomacy, culture, and commerce. Besides an edition of more than 190 letters in colloquial Arabic this volume also offers a profound introductory study.
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Arab Traders in their Own Words explores for the first time the largest corpus of merchant correspondence to have survived from the Ottoman period. The mostly Christian traders of the Syrian and Egyptian provinces lived through one of the most turbulent intersections of Ottoman and European imperial history. :
1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004505247
9789004505230
Neue Perspektiven der Unternehmensgeschichte /
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Der Band reflektiert systematisch das Verhältnis der Unternehmensgeschichte zu anderen Disziplinen der Geschichtswissenschaft, indem die Beiträge die methodischen wie inhaltlichen Schnittpunkte für zukünftige Forschungen aufzeigen - etwa zwischen Unternehmensgeschichte und Sozialgeschichte, Kulturgeschichte, Geschlechtergeschichte, Umweltgeschichte, Kolonialgeschichte, Wissenschaftsgeschichte oder Rechtsgeschichte. Jedes der instruktiven Kapitel gibt Anregungen dafür, wie die Unternehmensgeschichte in besonderer Weise dazu beitragen kann, wirtschaftliche Themen auch fernab quantitativer Verfahren für Historiker:innen verständlich zu machen und so maßgeblich zur ökonomischen Fundierung der Geschichtswissenschaft beizutragen.
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1 online resource (370 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9783657794775