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Die Materialität des Todes ist ein besonders lohnendes Studienobjekt und verbindet Forschungsdiskurse, deren Austausch neue Perspektiven auf Tod und Sterben in der lateineuropäischen Vormoderne eröffnet. Dieser interdisziplinäre Sammelband geht den Möglichkeiten nach,...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2023-08-28
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In this lively and wide-ranging study, Peter Swallow explores the reception of Aristophanes in Britain throughout the long-nineteenth century, setting it in the broader context of Victorian Classicism and, more specifically, the period's reception of Greek tragedy....
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OUP Oxford
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2023-08-27
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Defining class broadly as an identity categorization based on status, wealth, family, bloodlines, and occupation, Intersectionalities of Class in Early Modern English Drama e xplores class as a complicated, contingent phenomenon modified by a wider range of social...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2023-08-26
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This book addresses a little-considered aspect of the study of the history of emotions in medieval literature: the depiction of perplexing emotional reactions. Medieval literature often confronts audiences with displays of emotion that are improbable, physiologically...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2023-08-24
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Often cited but rarely studied in their own right, family directories allow a reconsideration of how ancestry and genealogy became an object of widespread commercialization across the eighteenth century. These directories replaced the expensive, locally-produced, early...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-08-23
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Time and Ancient Medicine is the first monograph to explore, on the one hand, how the introduction of new timekeeping technologies (namely, sundials and water clocks) affected the practice, rhetoric, and philosophy of ancient medicine and, on the other hand, how medical...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-08-23
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The untold story of generations of Middle Eastern freedom fighters—horsewomen who safeguarded an ancient breed of Caspian horse—and their efforts to defend their homelands from the Taliban and others seeking to destroy them."A breathtaking book that...
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Grand Central Publishing
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2023-08-22
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From an award-winning former law enforcement park ranger and investigator, this female-driven true crime adventure follows the author’s quest to find missing hikers along the Pacific Crest Trail by pairing up with an eclectic group of unlikely allies....
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Grand Central Publishing
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2023-08-22
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This book argues that abbatial authority was fundamental to monastic historical writing in the period c.500-1500. Writing history was a collaborative enterprise integral to the life and identity of medieval monastic communities, but it was not an activity for which time...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-08-22
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This study documents and analyses the structure and function of Greek incubation rituals in Classical and Hellenistic times addressing all relevant and extant literary and epigraphical testimonial concerning the rites and rules surrounding incubation. It shows that...
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Presses universitaires de Liège
Parution :
2023-08-21
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Kernos suppléments
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Purity, and its converse, impurity, formed a versatile metaphor in the ancient Greek world. Constructing a multifaceted investigation, with both complementary and contrastive approaches, the thirteen papers collected in this volume explore the range of these ideas, from...
Editeur :
Presses universitaires de Liège
Parution :
2023-08-21
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Kernos suppléments
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Studies in the cultic honours for Hellenistic leaders and benefactors mainly focus on the ideological and diplomatic features of the phenomenon. Conversely, the papers collected in this volume aim to shift the focus to its material and practical aspects: media, ritual...
Editeur :
Presses universitaires de Liège
Parution :
2023-08-21
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Kernos suppléments
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Ritual permeates Greek comedies of the fifth and fourth centuries BC. In Birds and Peace, the performance of sacrifice is central to the plot and its dramatic action; Women at the Thesmophoria is set during the celebration of a religious festival; while the story of...
Editeur :
Presses universitaires de Liège
Parution :
2023-08-21
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Kernos suppléments
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Prickings (Einstiche) haben die Textspiegel mittelalterlicher Manuskripte vorbereitet. Das weiß man seit knapp 100 Jahren. Mit Hilfe vonPrickings wurden aber auch Bilder konzipiert. Das weiß man, seit der Autor seine Dissertation veröffentlicht hat (2017). Im...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2023-08-21
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Concerned with the fate of the minority in the age of the nation-state, Muslim political thought in modern South Asia has often been associated with religious nationalism and the creation of Pakistan. The Muslim Secular complicates that story by reconstructing the ideas...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-08-16
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This book examines the forms of estate management in the countryside of Florence and Lucca between the eleventh and the middle of the thirteenth centuries. It argues that their change reflects wider transformations of medieval economic patterns, and specifically the...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-08-15
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A HISTORY OF MODERN GERMANYA History of Modern Germany provides a comprehensive account of the social, political, and economic history of Germany from 1800 to the present. Written in an engaging and accessible narrative style, this popular textbook offers an expansive...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2023-08-15
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With an introduction from RuPaul's Drag Race winner Sasha VelourTheir greatest act of resistance was simply existing In 1950s New York, a group of drag pioneers found work in a small number of Lower East Side clubs. They occupied the margins of society, determined to...
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Sphere
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2023-08-15
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Dilly's Story
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This book provides readers with rich context and detailed description leading to new perspectives on major historical events in China. Positioned as a thought leader and highly acclaimed arts professional in China, the author is able to give a historical account of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-08-14
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In this lively and wide-ranging study, Peter Swallow explores the reception of Aristophanes in Britain throughout the long-nineteenth century, setting it in the broader context of Victorian Classicism and, more specifically, the period's reception of Greek tragedy....
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-08-12
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