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The Quest for an Appropriate Past in Literature, Art and Architecture
This volume explores the various strategies by which appropriate pasts were construed in scholarship, literature, art, and architecture in order to create “national”, regional, or local identities in late medieval and early modern Europe. Because authority was based on lineage, political and territorial claims were underpinned by historical arguments, either true or otherwise. Literature, s…
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- 9789004378216
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- 820 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Intersections, Volume: 60
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The Production of Knowledge of Normativity in the Age of the Printing Press =…
This volume explores the production of knowledge of normativity in the age of early modern globalisation by looking at an extraordinarily pragmatic and normative book: Manual de Confessores, by the Spanish canon law professor Martín de Azpilcueta (1492-1586). Intertwining expertise, methods, and questions of legal history and book history, this book follows the actors and analyses the factors …
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- 9789004687042
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- 452 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Max Planck Studies in Global Legal History of the Iberian Worlds, Volume: 4
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The Preaching of the Third Crusade (1187–1192) = The Early University of Pa…
This book delivers the first substantial study of the preaching of the Third Crusade (1187-92). It assembles c.200 sermon texts and c.100 manuscripts, to understand the explosive dynamic of mobilization in the Latin West. Dealing with the essential fact that a genre called ‘crusade sermon’ did not exist, it develops methodological devices for identifying sermons relevant for the crusading p…
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- 9789004715363
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- 616 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Commentaria, Volume: 16
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Crossroads of Cuisine
Crossroads of Cuisine provides a history of foods, and foodways in terms of exchanges taking place in Central Asia and in surrounding areas such as China, Korea or Iran during the last 5000 years, stressing the manner in which East and West, West and East grew together through food. It provides a discussion of geographical foundations, and an interlocking historical and cultural overview going …
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- 978-90-04-43210-9
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- oer.unej.ac.id
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- Crossroads - History of Interactions across the Silk Routes, Volume: 2
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The Pechenegs: Nomads in the Political and Cultural Landscape of Medieval Europe
In The Pechenegs: Nomads in the Political and Cultural Landscape of Medieval Europe, Aleksander Paroń offers a reflection on the history of the Pechenegs, a nomadic people which came to control the Black Sea steppe by the end of the ninth century. Nomadic peoples have often been presented in European historiography as aggressors and destroyers whose appearance led to only chaotic decline and e…
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- 9789004441095
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- 452 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450, Volume: 74
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The Ottoman Crimean War (1853-1856)
The Crimean War was a defining event in both European and Ottoman history, but it has principally been studied from the Europeans’ point of view. This study analyzes the role of the Ottoman Empire in the Crimean War and the War’s impact on the Ottoman state and Ottoman society. Based on hitherto unused Ottoman and Russian sources, it offers new insights into the Crimean War’s financial, s…
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- 9789004190962
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- 448 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Middle East, Islamic & African Studies The Ottoman Empire and its Heritage, Volume: 44 Brill's Paperback Collection
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The Orient in Utrecht: Adriaan Reland (1676-1718), Arabist, Cartographer, Ant…
Adriaan Reland (1676-1718), Arabist, Cartographer, Antiquarian and Scholar of Comparative Religion covers the intellectual achievements of a remarkable man: Adriaan Reland, professor of Oriental languages (1701) and Hebrew Antiquities (1713) at the University of Utrecht from 1701 to 1718. Although he never travelled beyond the borders of his home country, he had an astonishingly broad worldview…
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- 9789004462175
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- 532 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- The History of Oriental Studies, Volume: 10
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The Mixtec Pictorial Manuscripts = Time, Agency and Memory in Ancient Mexico
The Mixtec civilization (of Oaxaca, Mexico) is one of the most interesting to survive from pre-colonial Mesoamerica. Among its characteristic products were highly artistic pictographic codices depicting the history and dynasties of its city-states. This handbook surveys and describes the illustrated Mixtec manuscripts that survive in Europe, the United States and Mexico, outlines the history of…
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- 9789004193581
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- 600 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- The Early Americas: History and Culture, Volume: 1
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The Mongols and the Armenians (1220-1335)
In the thirteenth century, the Armenians of Greater Armenia and of the Armenian Kingdom in Cilicia were invaded by Mongol nomads of the Inner Asian steppe. The ensuing Mongol-Armenian relations were varied. The Greater Armenians became subjects of the Mongol Empire, whereas the Cilician Armenians, by entering into vassalage, became allies and furthered the Mongol conquests. In order to enhance …
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- 9789004192119
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- 288 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Brill's Inner Asian Library, Volume: 24
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The Medieval Iberian Treasury in the Context of Cultural Interchange (Expande…
The Medieval Iberian Treasury in the Context of Cultural Interchange—expanded beyond the special issue of Medieval Encounters from which it was drawn—centers on the magnificent treasury of San Isidoro de León to address wider questions about the meanings of cross-cultural luxury goods in royal-ecclesiastical settings during the central Middle Ages. Now fully open access and with an updated…
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- 9789004424593
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- 320 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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