Автор: Peter J. Ahrensdorf Название: Homer and the Tradition of Political Philosophy: Encounters with Plato, Machiavelli, and Nietzsche ISBN: 1107124700 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107124707 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 82370.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book demonstrates the crucial role played by Homer as a philosophic thinker in the thought of Plato, Machiavelli, and Nietzsche concerning the relation among politics, religion, and philosophy and in their debates concerning human nature, morality, the proper education for human excellence, and the best way of life.
Автор: Ayman Ibrahim Название: Medieval Encounters: Arabic-speaking Christians and Islam ISBN: 1463244479 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781463244477 Издательство: Marston Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 60720.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: A sourcebook of major Arabic Christian theologians and texts from the 9th-11th centuries. They had to express their theology in new ways, polemicize against the claims of a new religion, as well as defend their doctrines against Islam`s challenges.
Автор: Christopoulos Menelaos, Papachrysostomou Athina, Antonopoulos Andreas P. Название: Myth and History: Close Encounters ISBN: 3110779587 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783110779585 Издательство: Walter de Gruyter Рейтинг: Цена: 174590.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
The fluidity of myth and history in antiquity and the ensuing rapidity with which these notions infiltrated and cross-fertilized one another has repeatedly attracted the scholarly interest. The understanding of myth as a phenomenon imbued with social and historical nuances allows for more than one methodological approaches. Within the wider context of interdisciplinary exchange of ideas, the present volume returns to origins, as it traces and registers the association and interaction between myth and history in various literary genres in Greek and Roman antiquity (i.e. an era when the scientific definitions of and distinctions between myth and history had not yet been perceived as such, let alone fully shaped and implemented), providing original ideas, new interpretations and (re)evaluations of key texts and less well-known passages, close readings, and catholic overviews. The twenty-four chapters of this volume expand from Greek epos to lyric poetry, historiography, dramatic poetry and even beyond, to genres of Roman era and late antiquity. It is the editors’ hope that this volume will appeal to students and academic researchers in the areas of classics, social and political history, archaeology, and even social anthropology.
Автор: Dougherty Carol Название: Travel and Home in Homer`s Odyssey and Contemporary Literature: Critical Encounters and Nostalgic Returns ISBN: 0198814011 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780198814016 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 182010.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Bringing the Odyssey together with contemporary literary texts, this volume offers new readings that reframe, reorient, and ultimately revise aspects of Homer`s iconic story of travel and home, prompting readers to ask new questions of that well-read text around the themes of improvisation, nostalgia, domesticity, and mobility.
Название: Rome: Continuing Encounters between Past and Present ISBN: 1138383988 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138383982 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 50010.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Few other cities can compare with Rome's history of continuous habitation, nor with the survival of so many different epochs in its present. This volume explores how the city's past has shaped the way in which Rome has been built, rebuilt, represented and imagined throughout its history. An imaginative approach to the study of the urban and architectural make-up of Rome, this volume will be valuable not only for historians of art and architecture, but also for students of cultural history and film studies.
Автор: Jacoby, David Название: Latins, Greeks and Muslims: Encounters in the Eastern Mediterranean, 10th-15th Centuries ISBN: 1138382426 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138382428 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 46950.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: Trade, shipping, military conquest, migration and settlement in the eastern Mediterranean of the 10th-15th centuries generated multiple encounters between states, social and 'national' groups, and individuals belonging to Latin Christianity, Byzantium and the Islamic world. The nature of these encounters varied widely, depending on whether they were the result of cooperation, rivalry or clashes between states, the outcome of Latin conquest, which altered the social and legal status of indigenous subjects, or the result of economic activity. They had wide-ranging social and economic repercussions, and shaped both individual and collective perceptions and attitudes. These often differed, depending upon 'nationality', standing within the dominant or subject social strata, or purely economic considerations. In any event, at the individual level common economic interests transcended collective 'national' and cultural boundaries, except in times of crisis. The studies in this latest collection by David Jacoby explore the multiple facets of these eastern Mediterranean encounters and their impact upon individual economic activities, with special attention to the 'other', outsiders in foreign environments, foreign privileged versus indigenous traders, the link between governmental intervention, 'naturalization', and fiscal status, as well as the interaction between markets and peasants.
Travel narratives and historical works shaped the perception of Muslims and the East in the Victorian and post-Victorian periods. Analyzing the discourses on Muslims which originated in the European Middle Ages, the first part of the book discusses the troubled legacy of the encounters between the East and the West and locates the nineteenth-century texts concerning the Saracens and their lands in the liminal space between history and fiction.
Drawing on the nineteenth-century models, the second part of the book looks at fictional and non-fictional works of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century which re-established the "Oriental obsession," stimulating dread and resentment, and even more strongly setting the Civilized West against the Barbaric East. Here medieval metaphorical enemies of Mankind – the World, the Flesh and the Devil – reappear in different contexts: the world of immigration, of white women desiring Muslim men, and the present-day "freedom fighters."
Tasting Difference examines early modern discourses of racial, cultural, and religious difference that emerged in the wake of contact with foreign peoples and foreign foods from across the globe. Gitanjali Shahani reimagines the contact zone between Western Europe and the global South in culinary terms, emphasizing the gut rather than the gaze in colonial encounters.
From household manuals that instructed English housewives how to use newly imported foodstuffs to "the spiced Indian air" of A Midsummer Night's Dream, from the repurposing of Othello as an early modern pitchman for coffee in ballads to the performance of disgust in travel narratives, Shahani shows how early modern genres negotiated the allure and danger of foreign tastes.
Turning maxims such as "We are what we eat" on their head, Shahani asks how did we (the colonized subjects) become what you (the colonizing subjects) eat? How did we become alternately the object of fear and appetite, loathing and craving? Shahani takes us back several centuries to the process by which food came to be inscribed with racial character and the racial other came to be marked as edible, showing how the racializing of food began in an era well before chicken tikka masala and Balti cuisine. Bringing into conversation critical paradigms in early modern studies, food studies, and postcolonial studies, she argues that it is in the writing on food and eating that we see among the earliest configurations of racial difference, and it is experienced both as a different taste and as a taste of difference.
Автор: Armann Jakobsson, Miriam Mayburd Название: Paranormal Encounters in Iceland 1150–1400 ISBN: 158044329X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781580443296 Издательство: Walter de Gruyter Цена: 149940.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
This anthology of international scholarship offers new critical approaches to the study of the many manifestations of the paranormal in the Middle Ages. The guiding principle of the collection is to depart from symbolic or reductionist readings of the subject matter in favor of focusing on the paranormal as human experience and, essentially, on how these experiences are defined by the sources. The authors work with a variety of medieval Icelandic textual sources, including family sagas, legendary sagas, romances, poetry, hagiography and miracles, exploring the diversity of paranormal activity in the medieval North. This volume questions all previous definitions of the subject matter, most decisively the idea of saga realism, and opens up new avenues in saga research.
Автор: Harbus Antonina, Poole Russell Название: Verbal Encounters: Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse Studies for Roberta Frank ISBN: 1487525494 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781487525491 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 37580.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The essays in Verbal Encounters are not merely a fitting tribute to Roberta Frank, but also strong contributions to current scholarship on medieval literature and culture.
Автор: Barr Jessica Название: Intimate Reading: Textual Encounters in Medieval Women`s Visions and Vitae ISBN: 0472131699 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780472131693 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 67450.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Explores the ways that women mystics sought to make their books into vehicles for the reader`s spiritual transformation. Jessica Barr argues that the cognitive work of reading these texts was meant to stimulate intensely personal responses, and that the very materiality of the book can produce an intimate encounter with God.
Автор: Geoffrey C. Benson Название: Apuleius` Invisible Ass: Encounters with the Unseen in the Metamorphoses ISBN: 1108475558 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108475556 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 95040.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Argues that invisibility is one of the central motifs of Apuleius` Metamorphoses and presents a new interpretation of the novel as a visionary, esoteric text. Enhances our understanding of the subtle relationship between literature and Platonic philosophy and the cultural history of invisibility in classical antiquity and beyond.
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