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Time and the Ancestors : Aztec and Mixtec Ritual Art
In Time and the Ancestors: Aztec and Mixtec Ritual Art, Maarten Jansen and Aurora Pérez present new interpretations of enigmatic masterpieces from ancient Mexico. Combining iconographical analysis with the study of archaeological contexts, historical sources and living cultural traditions, they shed light on central symbols and values of the religious heritage of indigenous peoples, paying spe…
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- 9789004340527
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- 648 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- The Early Americas: History and Culture, Volume: 5
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Traces of Ink : Experiences of Philology and Replication
Traces of Ink. Experiences of Philology and Replication is a collection of original papers exploring the textual and material aspects of inks and ink-making in a number of premodern cultures (Babylonia, the Graeco-Roman world, the Syriac milieu and the Arabo-Islamic tradition). The volume proposes a fresh and interdisciplinary approach to the study of technical traditions, in which new results …
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- 9789004444805
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- 216 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Nuncius Series, Volume: 7
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Worlds of Labour Turned Upside Down = Revolutions and Labour Relations in Glo…
This volume offers a bold restatement of the importance of social history for understanding modern revolutions. The essays collected in Worlds of Labour Turned Upside Down provide global case studies examining: - changes in labour relations as a causal factor in revolutions; - challenges to existing labour relations as a motivating factor during revolutions; - the long-term impact of revolut…
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- '9789004440395
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- 348 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Studies in Global Social History, Volume: 41
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Translating the Hebrew Bible in Medieval Iberia : Oxford, Bodleian Library, M…
Translating the Hebrew Bible in Medieval Iberia provides the princeps diplomatic edition and a comprehensive study of Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Hunt. 268. The manuscript, produced in the Iberian Peninsula in the late thirteenth century, features a biblical glossary-commentary in Hebrew that includes 2,018 glosses in the vernacular and 156 in Arabic, and to date is the only manuscript of thes…
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- '9789004461222
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- The Iberian Religious World, Volume: 7
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Vagaries of Desire: A Collection of Philosophical Essays
Vagaries of Desire is a major collection of new essays by Timo Airaksinen on the philosophy of desire. The first part develops a novel account of the philosophical theory of desire, including Girard. The second part discusses Kafka’s main works, namely The Castle, The Trial, and Amerika, and Thomas Hobbes and the problems of intentionality. The text develops such linguistic tropes as metaphor…
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- 9789004410305
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- 236 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Value Inquiry Book Series, Volume: 340 Value Inquiry Book Series Online, Volume: 340 Philosophy, Literature, and Politics, Volume: 340
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Women and Gender in the Early Modern Low Countries, 1500 - 1750
Women and Gender in the Early Modern Low Countries, 1500-1750 brings together research on women and gender across the Low Countries, a culturally contiguous region that was split by the Eighty Years' War into the Protestant Dutch Republic in the North and the Spanish-controlled, Catholic Hapsburg Netherlands in the South. The authors of this interdisciplinary volume highlight women’s experie…
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- 9789004391352
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- 346 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions, Volume: 217
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Witchcraft, Gender and Society in Early Modern Germany
Recent witchcraft historiography, particularly where it concerns the gender of the witch-suspect, has been dominated by theories of social conflict in which ordinary people colluded in the persecution of the witch sect. The reconstruction of the Eichstätt persecutions (1590-1631) in this book shows that many witchcraft episodes were imposed exclusively ‘from above’ as part of a programme o…
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- 9789047420552
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- 316 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions, Volume:
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Women, Consumption, and the Circulation of Ideas in South-Eastern Europe, 17t…
Women, fashion, consumption, luxury, and education are the main subjects of our researchers. The contributors of this volume accompanied women and objects in their travels across Modern Europe and offered thorough and diverse analyses connecting the circulation of people with the circulation of ideas. Making use of archive materials, visual sources and museum collections, the authors point out…
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- 9789004355095
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- 244 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Balkan Studies Library, Volume: 20
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Women Writing Intimate Spaces = The Long Nineteenth Century at the Fringes of…
The messy and multi-layered issue of intimacy in connection with transnationality and spatiality is the topic of this volume on women’s writing in the long nineteenth century. A series of intimacies are dealt with through case studies from a wide range of countries situated on the European fringes. Within the field of feminist literary studies, the volume thus differs from other publications …
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- 9789004527454
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- 236 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Women Writers in History, Volume: 5
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Verse and Transmutation : A Corpus of Middle English Alchemical Poetry (Criti…
Verse and Transmutation: A Corpus of Middle English Alchemical Poetry identifies and investigates a corpus of twenty-one anonymous recipes for the philosophers’ stone dating from the fifteenth century. These were circulated and received in association with each other until the mid-seventeenth century, when a number of them appeared in Elias Ashmole’s Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum. These …
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- 9789004254831
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- 390 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy and Science, Volume: 21
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