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 Ruthy Gertwagen, Elizabeth Jeffreys, "Shipping, Trade and Crusade in the Medieval Mediterranean: Studies in Honour of John Pryor" English | 2017 | pages: 446 | ISBN: 113811832X, 1409437531 | PDF | 5,5 mb The cutting-edge papers in this collection reflect the wide areas to which John Pryor has made significant contributions in the course of his scholarly career. They are written by some of the world's most distinguished practitioners in the fields of Crusading history and the maritime history of the medieval Mediterranean. His colleagues, students and friends discuss questions including ship construction in the fourth and fifteenth centuries, navigation and harbourage in the eastern Mediterranean, trade in Fatimid Egypt and along the Iberian Peninsula, military and social issues arising among the crusaders during field campaigns, and wider aspects of medieval warfare. All those with an interest in any of these subjects, whether students or specialists, will need to consult this book.  David Brakke, Deborah Deliyannis, "Shifting Cultural Frontiers in Late Antiquity" English | 2016 | pages: 302 | ISBN: 1138275182, 1409441490 | PDF | 16,0 mb Shifting Cultural Frontiers in Late Antiquity explores the transformation of classical culture in late antiquity by studying cultures at the borders - the borders of empires, of social classes, of public and private spaces, of literary genres, of linguistic communities, and of the modern disciplines that study antiquity. Although such canonical figures of late ancient studies as Augustine and Ammianus Marcellinus appear in its pages, this book shifts our perspective from the center to the side or the margins. The essays consider, for example, the ordinary Christians whom Augustine addressed, the border regions of Mesopotamia and Vandal Africa, 'popular' or 'legendary' literature, and athletes. Although traditional philology rightly underlies the work that these essays do, the authors, several among the most prominent in the field of late ancient studies, draw from and combine a range of disciplines and perspectives, including art history, religion, and social history. Despite their various subject matters and scholarly approaches, the essays in Shifting Cultural Frontiers coalesce around a small number of key themes in the study of late antiquity: the ambiguous effects of 'Christianization,' the creation of new literary and visual forms from earlier models, the interaction and spread of ideals between social classes, and the negotiation of ethnic and imperial identities in the contact between 'Romans' and 'barbarians.' By looking away from the core and toward the periphery, whether spatially or intellectually, the volume offers fresh insights into how ancient patterns of thinking and creating became reconfigured into the diverse cultures of the 'medieval.'  Sex, Knowledge, and Receptions of the Past By Kate Fisher; Rebecca Langlands 2015 | 340 Pages | ISBN: 0199660514 | PDF | 4 MB Sex: how should we do it, when should we do it, and with whom? How should we talk about and represent sex, what social institutions should regulate it, and what are other people doing? Throughout history human beings have searched for answers to such questions by turning to the past, whether through archaeological studies of prehistoric sexual behaviour, by reading Casanova's memoirs, or as modern visitors on the British Museum LGBT trail. In this ground-breaking collection, leading scholars show that claims about the past have been crucial in articulating sexual morals, driving political, legal, and social change, shaping individual identities, and constructing and grounding knowledge about sex. With its interdisciplinary perspective and its focus on the construction of knowledge, the volume explores key methodological problems in the history of sexuality, and is also an inspiration and a provocation to scholars working in related fields - historians, classicists, Egyptologists, and scholars of the Renaissance and of LGBT and gender studies - inviting them to join a much-needed interdisciplinary conversation.  Caesarius of Arles, Sr. Mary Magdeleine Mueller O.S.F., "Sermons, Volume 3 (187-238)" English | 1973 | ISBN: 0813214017 | PDF | pages: 316 | 15.4 mb The present volume completes the presentation of the homiletic works of Caesarius begun in 1956. Following upon the "Admonitions" and the sermons on Scripture contained in the first two volumes, Volume III presents the seasonal sermons, those on feasts of saints, and six addressed to monks. There is added the translation of a sermon published in 1953 and known only by title to Dom G. Morin, upon whose edition (1937-1942) these volumes are based. An Appendix supplies additional notes relating to the sources of the sermons contained in Volumes I and II, as well as the Indices to all three volumes.  Caesarius of Arles, Sr. Mary Magdaleine Mueller O.S.F., "Sermons: 1-80" English | 1956 | ISBN: 0813214041 | PDF | pages: 402 | 11.1 mb Caesarius, Bishop of Arles in post-Roman Gaul from 503 to 543, served as the spiritual and administrative leader of an ecclesiastical province that placed twenty-seven bishops under his supervision. During most of his episcopacy Caesarius was subjected to Arian rulers, Visigothic and Ostrogothic, but his vigorous adherence to Catholic doctrine was not weakened. His concern in these translated sermons is the spiritual and moral welfare of ordinary lay folks. This collection comprises the first of five categories established by Dom Morin, the editor of the Latin texts: namely, the category of admonitions.  Self-Games and Body-Play: Personhood in Online Chat and Cybersex By Dennis D. Waskul 2003 | 168 Pages | ISBN: 0820461741 | PDF | 22 MB One of the most fascinating dimensions of online chat and cybersex are the ways that their medium, the Internet, allows people to reconfigure relationships between self, body, and social interaction. Online chat participants discursively write a self into existence in a disembodied medium that allows for extreme fluidity and multiplicity; cybersex participants evoke bodies in words and images, manipulating relationships between selfhood and the corporeal body. Perhaps never before have so many people been actively involved in social psychological experiments in which they redefine themselves in ways that are so distinctively at the cutting edge of important social and cultural transformations. Based on over 150 interviews with online chat and cybersex participants, Self-Games and Body-Play is an empirically grounded analysis of how these unique experiences provide a lens for better understanding the nature of personhood in everyday life.  Seen, Heard, and Valued by Jung, Lee Ann; English | 2023 | ISBN: 1071841858 | 209 pages | True PDF EPUB | 35.02 MB  Dr Terry Mortenson, "Searching for Adam: Genesis & the Truth About Man's Origin" English | ISBN: 0890519757 | 2016 | 528 pages | EPUB | 4 MB You can believe with great intellectual integrity what the Bible says about Adam and the origin and history of man.
 Scripture Re-envisioned: Christophanic Exegesis and the Making of a Christian Bible (Bible in Ancient Christianity, 13) by Bogdan Gabriel Bucur English | 2018 | ISBN: 9004386106 | 346 pages | PDF | 14 MB In Scripture Re-envisioned Bogdan B. Bucur discusses the exegesis of biblical theophanies as an essential "ingredient" for the gradual crystallization of a distinct Christian exegesis, doctrine, liturgy, and spirituality during the first millennium CE.  Trine Hahnemann, Columbus Leth, "Scandinavian Comfort Food: Embracing the Art of Hygge" English | 2016 | pages: 288 | ISBN: 1849498598 | EPUB | 6,5 mb The Scandinavians excel at comfort- family, friends, a good atmosphere, long meals, relaxation, and an emphasis on the simple pleasures. They even have a word for this kind of coziness that comes with spending quality time in hearth and home when the days are short: "hygge". Trine Hahnemann is the doyenne of Scandinavian cooking, and loves nothing more than spending time in her kitchen cooking up comforting food in good company. This is her collection of recipes that will warm you up and teach you to embrace the art of hygge, no matter where you live. |
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