CALENDARS AND YEARS Vol.II "ASTRONOMY AND TIME IN THE ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL WORLD"

- Multi-disciplinary approach: includes essays on archaeology, language, religion, history, and art. - International field of contributors. - Thoroughly illustrated throughout. Roman Egypt is a critical area of interdisciplinary research, which has steadily expanded since ...

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The fifth volume of The Oxford History of Historical Writing offers essays by leading scholars on the writing of history globally since 1945. Divided into two parts, part one selects and surveys theoretical and interdisciplinary ...

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From exquisite medieval bookbindings made of precious metals and jewels to the unique and highly imaginative creations of contemporary bookbinders, this book celebrates over 100 of the most beautiful bookbindings of the last 1000 years. ...

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Today Renaissance-era prints are typically preserved behind glass or in solander boxes in museums, but these decorative objects were once a central part of everyday life. Altered and Adorned is a delightful, surprising look at ...

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- Restores coherence and context to the study of Assyriology through its emphasis on textual sources which are at the same time material artefacts - Written by an outstanding team of international scholars - Disciplines ...

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Fra Mauro's mappamundi, drawn around 1450 in the monastery of San Michele on Murano in the lagoon of Venice, is among the most relevant compendia of knowledge of the Earth and the Cosmos of the ...

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Philologue, éditeur, traducteur, libraire, imprimeur, peut-être graveur et relieur, Geoffroy Tory (1480-1533) est une figure inclassable de la première Renaissance qui croise les disciplines (linguistique, stylistique, gravure, architecture, philosophie, histoire, etc.) et multiplie les innovations. ...

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Hope for life after death is evidenced even in prehistoric times in Upper Egypt. The first written aids for attaining and supporting life in the hereafter were the Pyramid Texts inscribed within royal tombs towards ...

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- Includes new essays by an international team of leading scholars - Uniquely detailed cross-cultural overview of historical writing - Thematic chapters on the connection of history with inscriptions, philosophy, and empire facilitate cross-cultural compaisons, ...

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The Tebtunis temple library is the only ancient Egyptian temple library of which substantial remains are preserved -- by far the richest, single source of Egyptian literary texts. This volume contains a selection of demotic ...

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Codex Sinaiticus is one of the world's most remarkable books. Written in Greek in the fourth century, it is the oldest surviving complete New Testament, and one of the two oldest manuscripts of the whole ...

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This is a magnificent, lavishly illustrated book exploring the perilous journey that the ancient Egyptians believed lay between death and the perfect afterlife a journey that could be navigated using a specially commissioned collection of ...

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