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A Propo[t]s de L'Usage, de La Production Et de La Circulation Des Terres Cuites Dans L'Europe Du Nord-Ouest (Xive-Xvie Siecle)

A Bocquet-Lienard

ISBN:9782902685646

FRENCH LANGUAGE. English info text:The manufacture of earthenware in the 14th-16th centuries underwent a transformation in its modes of production and a significant expansion of available forms parallel to the emergence of whole hamlets or villages that specialized in earthenware production. Based on the joint application of archaeological...more details
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Agricultural Specialization and Rural Patterns of Development (Book)

Annie Antoine

ISBN:9782503532288

The most commonly accepted idea is that specialization is a step forward because it allows farmers to become market-orientated and to escape from the discredited principle of autarky...more details
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Approaching the Holy Mountain: Art and Liturgy at St. Catherine's Monastery in the Sinai (Book)

S E J Gerstel

ISBN:9782503531274

The first comprehensive study of the monastery of St Catherine at Mt Sinai in its full historical, art historical, and religious dimensions, the nineteen collected essays in Approaching the Holy Mountain provide a unique view of the longest continuously inhabited Christian monastery. As an important pilgrimage site...more details
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Aspects of the Roman East, Volume II (Book)

Malcolm Choat

ISBN:9782503528755

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Atlas of the Assyrian Pottery of the Iron Age (Book)

Stefano Anastasio

ISBN:9782503532882

Assyrian pottery of the Iron Age is a very special topic in Near Eastern archaeology: it is widely diffused, related to the expansion of the first real "empire" in Western Asia...more details
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Autant de Modeles de Bon Gout: Jean-Francois de Neufforge Et L'Architecture Du Xviie Siecle (Book in French )

K De Jonge

ISBN:9782503528274

FRENCH LANGUAGE. The engraver Jean-Francois de Neufforge, born in Liege but active in Paris, played a major role on the architectural scene of late eighteenth-century Europe. The Recueil elementaire d'Architecture and its Supplement (1756-1780)...more details
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Byzantine Illuminated Manuscripts of the Book of Job: A Preliminary Study of the Miniature Illustrations. Its Origin and Development (Book)

S Papadaki-Oekland

ISBN:9782503532325

Of all the Old Testament books, the Book of Job remains acutely contemporary today. Written between the 6th and 3rd c. B.C., it deals with subjects such as the presence of evil in the world...more details
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Communities of Learning: Networks and the Shaping of Intellectual Identity in Europe, 1100-1500 (Book)

J N Crossley

ISBN:9782503532332

Communities of Learning: Networks and the Shaping of Intellectual Identity in Europe, 1100-1500 explores the fundamental insight that all new ideas are developed in the context of a community...more details
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Computus and Its Cultural Context in the Latin West, Ad 300-1200: Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on the Science of Computus in Irelan (Book)

D O'Croinin

ISBN:9782503533179

The scientific knowledge that Irish, English and continental European scholars nurtured and developed during the years c. ad 500 to c. ad 1100 was assimilated...more details
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Contexts of Property: The Social Embeddedness of Property Rights to Land in Europe in Historical Perspective (Book)

Rosa Congost

ISBN:9782503532271

The essays in this book tap the analytical potential of social contexts in which property rights are embedded - social relations, power and agency...more details
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Credit and Rural Economy in North-Western Europe, C.1200-C.1850 (Book)

Thijs Lambrecht

ISBN:9782503519845

This book retraces the nature and role of credit in the pre-industrial European countryside. As part of an ongoing examination of credit and its provision in European past societies...more details
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Current Directions in Eleventh- And Twelfth-Century Sculpture Studies (Book)

K Ambrose

ISBN:9782503531656

Contents: A. Maxwell and Kirk Ambrose, Introduction: Romanesque Sculpture Studies at a Crossroads - Jerome Baschet, Iconography beyond Iconography: Relational Meanings and Figures of Authority in the Reliefs of Souillac - Martin Buchsel...more details
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Dante in Purgatory: States of Affect (Book)

J Tambling

ISBN:9782503531298

This volume provides an advanced survey of Dante studies and offers a new, detailed, and accessible reading of his Purgatorio, making this very rich text freshly available to an English-speaking readership. Through analysis of a variety of emotional states across Dante's three major works - the Purgatorio...more details
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Demotic Papyri from the Memphite Necropolis: In the Collections of the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden, the British Museum and the Hermitage (Book)

C J Martin

ISBN:9782503533537

The Demotic texts published in this volume come from the Archives of the funerary-workers of the Memphite Necropolis. The papyri date to the Ptolemaic Period and were discovered early in the 19th century...more details
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Des Villes En Revolte: Les 'Republiques Urbaines' Urbaines' Aux Pays-Bas Et En France Pendant La Deuxieme Moitie Du Xvie Siecle (Book in French )

Monique Weis

ISBN:9782503526645

FRENCH LANGUAGE. English info text: This volume fills an important gap in historical research. It demonstrates the tight link between religious aspirations, political challenges...more details
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Echanges Artistiques Entre Les Anciens Pays-Bas Et La France (Book in Dutch )

J Blanc

ISBN:9782503530956

DUTCH LANGUAGE. Table of Contents: J. Bos, 'Between Physiognomy and Pathognomy. Theoretical Perspectives on the Representation of Characters and Emotions in the Seventeenth Century'; U. Heinen...more details
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Emar After the Closure of the Tabqa Dam. the Syrian-German Excavations 1996 - 2002. Volume I: Late Roman and Medieval Cemeteries and Environmental Stu (Book)

Uwe Finkbeiner

ISBN:9782503533209

Emar after the closure of the Tabqa Dam I constitutes the first volume of a new sub-series dedicated to the final publications of the Syrian-German excavations at Meskene Qadima / Emar (Syria)...more details
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England and the Continent in the Tenth Century: Studies in Honour of Wilhelm Levison (1876-1947)

C Leyser

ISBN:9782503532080

Dedicated as a memorial to the great historian of England and the Continent in the eighth century, Wilhelm Levison, this book provides the widest and most in-depth exploration to date of relations between England and the Continent during an equally crucial period...more details
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Epistimology of Rock Art Science Courting Sophistication (Book)

Federation Of Rock Art Or International

ISBN:9782503991252

This volume introduces a selection of the most innovative papers presented at two major conferences, the 1995 International Rock Art Congress in Turin...more details
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Etudes Archeologiques Et Historiques: Actes Du Colloque Saint-Victor, Marseille, 18-20 Novembre 2004 (Book in French )

Michel Fixot

ISBN:9782503532585

FRENCH LANGUAGE. A l'origine de l'etude d'un monument qui reste emblematique de Marseille se presenta l'opportunite de programmes de restauration et de fouille. Un premier volume a repondu a la necessite de rendre public les resultats. La conjonction recente avec un moment historiographique paradoxalement sensible a l'histoire religieuse...more details
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Holy, Holier, Holiest': The Sacred Topography of the Early Medieval Church (Book)

D Jenkins

ISBN:9782503533162

This book explores the morphology of early medieval Irish religious settlement. It seeks to shift the focus of academic interest away from simply the materiality of settlement towards a greater concern for its possible theological significance...more details
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Jacopo Tintoretto (Book)

M Falomir

ISBN:9788484801719

Table of contents: I. Tintoretto and the Venetian Culture and Religious Environment Paul Hills, Tintoretto and Venetian Gothic - Augusto Gentili...more details
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Jan Van Rillaer Louvain City Painters (Book)

Y Bruijnen

ISBN:9782503525693

This monograph introduces the sixteenth-century Louvain artist Jan Rombouts (c. 1480 - 1535), whose oeuvre was previously assigned to Jan van Rillaer. Debates concerning Rombouts's identity are explored in detail by means of reinterpretation of published archival documents and the discovery of numerous new documents. The publication of the sources...more details
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La Normandie Dans L'Economie Europeenne. Colloque de Cerisy-La-Salle (Book in French )

Mathieu Arnoux

ISBN:9782902685691

FRENCH LANGUAGE. English info text: These conference proceedings, consisting of general essays and case studies, bring to light the importance of monetary exchanges throughout the countrysides of Normandy...more details
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La Tombe de Setaou (Book in French )

L Delvaux

ISBN:9782503532868

FRENCH LANGUAGE. English summary: This is the first complete and comprehensive publication of the tomb of Setaou, the fist prophet of Nekhbet at Elkab during the 20th Dynasty. After the history of the discovery of the tomb...more details
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Late-Gothic Flemish Wall Painting (Book)

C Fryklund

ISBN:9782503512372

The present book considers the development of figurative wall painting in the southern Low Countries over a period of two centuries, between circa 1300 and 1500. The region had a long-standing tradition of monumental figurative painting...more details
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Law and Practice in the Age of Reform: The Legatine Work of Hugh of Die (1073-1106)

K Rennie

ISBN:9782503531908

In reconstructing Hugh of Die's legatine and conciliar activity, this book offers intriguing new arguments about the many relevant and often confused issues surrounding eleventh-century legates...more details
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Luxury Bond: Illustrated Manuscript Production and Noble and Princely Book Ownership in the Burgundian Netherlands (1400-1550)

H Wijsman

ISBN:9782503525587

This interdisciplinary study presents a two-part survey of the production and ownership of luxury manuscripts in the late-medieval Netherlands. Part I analyses a corpus of 3...more details
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Manuscrits de Louis de Bruges (Book in French )

I Hans Collas

ISBN:9782717723960

FRENCH LANGUAGE. English summary: At the court of Burgundy, Louis of Bruges was one of the most remarkable bibliophiles of the 15th century. The majority of his collection consists of secular volumes written in French. Copiously illustrated and in large format...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:280

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Masculinities and Femininities in the Middle Ages and Renaissance (Book)

F Kiefer

ISBN:9782503529974

Table of Contents:Tracy Adams, 'Make me chaste and continent, but not yet': A Model for Clerical Masculinity? - Victor Scherb, Shoulder Companions and Shoulders in Beowulf - Lynn Shutters...more details
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Music and Dictatorship in Europe and Latin America (Book)

Roberto Illiano

ISBN:9782503527796

In this book, twenty-four scholars investigate the relationship between music and dictatorship in twentieth-century Europe and Latin America. The music is explored as a political phenomenon in fifteenth nations under totalitarian regimes: Argentina...more details
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Pratiques de L'Espace: Archeologie Et Histoire Des Territoires Medievaux (Book in French )

V Carptenier

ISBN:9782902685653

FRENCH LANGUAGE. English info text: Settlement studies have undergone a major epistemological change: natural and social dynamics, the interaction of societies and environments...more details
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Province Et Identite Provinciales Dans L'Afrique Romaine (Book in French )

C Briand-Ponsart

ISBN:9782902685684

FRENCH LANGUAGE. English info text: The papers from this round table deal with the question of province and provincial identities in Roman Africa. They approach the subject from two different...more details
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Public Buildings in Early Modern Europe (Book)

Monique Chatenet

ISBN:9782503533544

In the early modern European city, public buildings were the main pillars of the political, mercantile and social infrastructure. In a first attempt to create a preliminary overview of current knowledge in various European countries...more details
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Retext: Late Medieval Literacies and Multilingualism (Book)

Mark Amsler

ISBN:9782503532363

Adapting critical approaches and concepts from New Literacy Studies, historical sociolinguistics, and close reading, Amsler analyses how late medieval writing and literacies in Latin...more details
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Romance and Rhetoric: Essays in Honour of Dhira B. Mahoney (Book)

G Donavin

ISBN:9782503531496

This volume honours the academic career of Professor Dhira B. Mahoney, recently retired from the Department of English at Arizona State University...more details
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Saint Victor de Marseille: Etude Archeologique Et Monumentale (Book in French )

Michel Fixot

ISBN:9782503532578

FRENCH LANGUAGE. English info text: This volume publishes the documentation of archaeological excavations at the Abbey of Saint Victor of Marseille, which was founded in the fifth century AD...more details
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Saints and Sinners in Early Christian Ireland: Moral Theology in the Lives of Saints Brigit and Columba (Book)

Katja Ritari

ISBN:9782503533155

In this volume, Katja Ritari shows how a theological reading of hagiography works towards gaining a fuller understanding of the complexity of issues that can be addressed in a hagiographical narrative and of the aims of the medieval authors...more details
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Saints and Their Lives on the Periphery: Veneration of Saints in Scandinavia and Eastern Europe (C.1000-1200)

H Antonsson

ISBN:9782503530338

This volume examines the cult of the saints and their associated literature in two peripheral regions of Christendom which were converted to Christianity around the turn of the first millennium...more details
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The Ceiling Decoration of the Banqueting Hall (Book)

G Martin

ISBN:9780905203720

Rubens' nine paintings on the ceiling of the Banqueting Hall, in Whitehall, London, provided the main decoration of this magnificent room, which was the focal point of Stuart Court ceremonial. Commissioned by King James I and his son...more details
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The Dance of Death in the Middle Ages: Image, Text, Performance (Book)

E Gertsman

ISBN:9782503530635

This book introduces readers to the texts and imagery of the Dance of Death, a subject that first emerged in western European art and literature in the late medieval era. Depicting a long procession of representatives of different classes and ages...more details
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The Fish Hunters of El-Hosh: Prehistoric Rock Art of the Upper Egyptian Nile Valley (Book)

D Huyge

ISBN:9782503991269

Rock art in the vicinity of the village of El-Hosh, about 100 kilometer south of Thebes, was discovered more than a century ago. German explorer and ethnographer Hans Winkler surveyed the area in the 1930s and published a number of the drawings. These include bizarre-looking curvilinear designs...more details
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The Medieval Translator: Lost in Translation? (Book)

Denis Renevey

ISBN:9782503531397

The central role played by the act of translation in the transmission and reformulation of knowledge between late antiquity and the close of the Middle Ages has been the subject of investigation of the Cardiff Conferences on the Theory and Practice of Translation in the Middle Ages for several years. In an intellectual landscape where texts...more details
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The Playful Middle Ages: Essays in Memory of Elaine C. Block (Book)

P Hardwick

ISBN:9782503528809

Love play or playing dead, wordplay or playing games - the notion of play inhabits all spheres of human activity. This collection of essays brings together international scholars from a range of disciplines to explore aspects of playfulness in the later European Middle Ages. From manuscript to performance and from the domestic to the doctrinal...more details
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The Quintessence of Lives: Intellectual Biographies in the Low Countries Presented to Jan Roegiers (Book in Dutch )

P Delsaerdt

ISBN:9782503532103

DUTCH LANGUAGE. What is the essence of a life? Which elements merit selection by a biographer? Which should be discreetly left out? To what extent can an intellectual's thoughts and actions be captured in schemes and structures...more details
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Thebes Aux 101 Portes. Melanges a la Memoire de Roland Tefnin (Book in French )

V Angenot

ISBN:9782503533940

FRENCH LANGUAGE. ...more details
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This Earthly Stage': World and State in Late Medieval and Early Modern England (Book)

B Hirsch

ISBN:9782503532264

The thirteen essays collected in 'This Earthly Stage' explore intersections between the world as stage and the stage as world in late medieval and early modern England. This collection features studies of stages both familiar and unfamiliar...more details
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Trente ANS D'Archeologie Medievale En France: Un Bilan Pour Un Avenir Colloque de La Societe D'Archeologie Medievale (Book in French )

Jean Chapelot

ISBN:9782902685639

FRENCH LANGUAGE. De nouvelles technologies, de nouvelles pratiques, de nouveaux domaines d'etudes dans un contexte ou les fouilles preventives n'ont cesse de se developper rendaient necessaire ce bilan afin d'envisager l'avenir de l'archeologie medievale. Au cours des trente dernieres annees...more details
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Tristan and Isolde: Medieval Illustrations of the Verse Romances (Book)

S C Van D'Elden

ISBN:9782503530987

The story of Tristan and Isolde was one of the most popular in the Middle Ages. Resonances of it appear in other narratives, in poetry, and especially in art in the form of wall paintings...more details
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