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This book provides the first complete study of the documentation relevant to the gymnasium and gymnasial life in Egypt at the time of the Ptolemies, the longest reigning Hellenistic Royal House (323-30 BC). Paganini analyses the diffusion, characteristics,...
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OUP Oxford
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2021-12-16
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This book provides the first complete study of the documentation relevant to the gymnasium and gymnasial life in Egypt at the time of the Ptolemies, the longest reigning Hellenistic Royal House (323-30 BC). Paganini analyses the diffusion, characteristics,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-12-16
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The Ethics of Survival in Contemporary Literature and Culture delves into the complex problems involved in all attempts to survive.The essays analyze survival in contemporary prose narratives, short stories, poems, dramas, and theoretical texts, but also in films and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2021-12-14
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This edited volume systematically analyzes the connection between xenophobia, nativism, and Pan-Africanism. It situates attacks on black Africans by fellow black Africans within the context of ideals such as Pan-Africanism and Ubuntu, which emphasize unity. The book...
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Springer
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2021-12-14
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This book presents the proceedings of the international conference “The Middle Ages in the Modern World,” held in Rome November 21-24, 2018. Attended by more than a hundred participants of different ages, educational backgrounds, and places of origin, the conference...
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Publications de l'École française de Rome
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2021-12-14
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Collection de l'École française de Rome
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Imagery and iconography served specific functions in public, private, and ritual spheres in the Roman world. State-sanctioned imagery communicated politically charged ideas through an often-complex pictorial language, composed of emblems and attributes that signaled...
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Oxford University Press
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2021-12-14
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Dedicato alla memoria di Mireille Cébeillac-Gervasoni, scomparsa il 29 marzo 2017, il volume raccoglie 22 contributi di amici e colleghi presentati al Quinto seminario Ostiense (Roma – Parco Archeologico di Ostia Antica, 21 e 22 marzo 2018). Dopo un’introduzione che...
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Publications de l'École française de Rome
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2021-12-13
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Collection de l'École française de Rome
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Lord Herbert of Cherbury was a flamboyant Stuart courtier, soldier, and diplomat who acquired a reputation for duelling and extravagance but also numbered among the leading intellectuals of his generation. He travelled widely in Britain and Europe, enjoyed the patronage...
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OUP Oxford
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2021-12-13
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Lord Herbert of Cherbury was a flamboyant Stuart courtier, soldier, and diplomat who acquired a reputation for duelling and extravagance but also numbered among the leading intellectuals of his generation. He travelled widely in Britain and Europe, enjoyed the patronage...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-12-13
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This book explores modern representations of the Black Death, a medieval pandemic. The concept of cultural memory is used to examine the ways in which journalists, writers of fiction, scholars and others referred to, described and explained the Black Death from around...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2021-12-11
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Since Plato, no one had put our ancestor in such a situation. Our researchers have already had a hard time figuring it out in the face of competition from Neanderthals and other hominids. This is understandable in a prehistoric manhandled with a multitude of proposals....
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JePublie
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2021-12-10
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JePublie présente
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Contemporary Muslims face a challenge: how should they define the relationship between normative Islamic jurisprudence--worked out by classical jurists over the course of centuries-and the reality that confronts them in their everyday lives. They have to reckon with how...
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Oxford University Press
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2021-12-09
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Counting Religion in Britain, 1970-2020, the fourth volume in the author's chronological history of British secularization, sheds significant new light on the nature, scale, and timing of religious change in Britain during the past half-century, with particular...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-12-09
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Counting Religion in Britain, 1970-2020, the fourth volume in the author's chronological history of British secularization, sheds significant new light on the nature, scale, and timing of religious change in Britain during the past half-century, with particular...
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OUP Oxford
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2021-12-09
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Die Studie untersucht das Verständnis des Adels in der Spätphase der ständischen Gesellschaft. Dazu nutzt sie die Situation nach einem Herrschaftswechsel, in dem zwei ständische wie politische Traditionen miteinander konfrontiert wurden. Zugleich erfolgte eine...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-12-08
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This open access book analyses the practice of banishment and what it can tell us about the values of late medieval society concerning morally acceptable behaviour. It focuses on the Dutch town of Kampen and considers the exclusion of offenders through banishment and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-12-07
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The gritty, true blue story of two remarkable cops and an equally extraordinary nurse who provided the spirit and smarts that transformed Fear City into the safest big city in America.NEW YORK'S FINEST is the story of a city's transformation through the tireless...
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Twelve
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2021-12-07
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Between Scholarship and Church Politics describes the life and career of John Prideaux, rector of Exeter College, Oxford, 1612-1642, regius professor of divinity, 1615-1642, and bishop of Worcester, 1641-1646. Prideaux was the leading representative of the 'old guard'...
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OUP Oxford
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2021-12-07
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Between Scholarship and Church Politics describes the life and career of John Prideaux, rector of Exeter College, Oxford, 1612-1642, regius professor of divinity, 1615-1642, and bishop of Worcester, 1641-1646. Prideaux was the leading representative of the 'old guard'...
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OUP Oxford
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2021-12-07
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This open access edited collection brings together established and new perspectives on Cold War civil defence in Western Europe within a common analytical framework that also facilitates comparative and transnational dimensions. The current interest in creating...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2021-12-06
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