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 Free Download The West: Encounters & Transformations By Brian P. Levack; Edward Muir; Meredith Veldman; Michael Maas 2006 | 1104 Pages | ISBN: 032136404X | PDF | 60 MB "The West: Encounters & Transformations" takes a new approach to telling the story of Western Civilization. Rather than looking at Western Civilization only as the history of Europe from ancient times to the present, this groundbreaking book examines the changing nature of the West-how the definition of the West has evolved and transformed throughout history. The text presents a balanced treatment of political, social, religious, and cultural history and emphasizes the ever-shifting boundaries of the geographic and cultural realm of the West. Overview of Western Civilization. Readers interested in the history and development of Western Civilization.*Single volume edition
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Case studies range from first encounters in the early modern period to contemporary novels and focus on actual or imaginary encounters between East Asia and Western European cultures.  Free Download Music Performance Encounters: Collaborations and Confrontations by John Koslovsky and Michiel Schuijer English | 2024 | ISBN: 1032282169 | 245 Pages | True ePUB /PDF | 8.3 MB  Free Download Fabien Arribert-Narce, "Intermedial Encounters Between Image, Music and Text: With and Beyond Roland Barthes " English | ISBN: 1803740337 | 2023 | 240 pages | EPUB, PDF | 9 MB + 19 MB This collection argues that Roland Barthes has much to teach us about intermediality. Analysing works by Breton, Hitchcock, Sebald, Spielberg and Tawada and more, the book demonstrates that Barthes' critical practice provides a means of exploring crucial issues at the intersection image and text through history.  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He is the model of the modern peripatetic scholar. The Festschrift acknowledges the major foci of Professor Doctor Ellens' own work: Psychology, Religious Literature, and Military History. Moreover, there are included in this volume several personal reflections by some of his friends and colleagues, also. The essays/chapters contained herein are works of deep and broad scholarship. Yet, they are deeply personal tributes to a master pedagogue who has touched many lives in many walks of life. All, however, reflect Professor Ellens' influence on the contributors as if one is looking at them through their writings and seeing him. The reader will find this a most informative volume, and will return to it often as an up-to-date reference work on trends in religious studies, psychology, psychology of religion(s), and even the archaeology of the Second Jewish Temple period. One will discover between these covers a rare and valuable reference work that honors a rare, prolific, and generous man.  Free Download Begüm Özden Firat, "Encounters with the Ottoman Miniature: Contemporary Readings of an Imperial Art " English | ISBN: 1780763913 | 2015 | 272 pages | PDF | 13 MB The dominant form of Ottoman pictorial art until the eighteenth century, miniatures have traditionally been studied as reflecting the socio-historical contexts, aesthetic concerns and artistic tastes of the era within which they were produced. Begum Ozden Fyrat proposes instead a radical re-reading of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century miniatures in the light of contemporary critical theory, highlighting the viewer's encounter with the image. Encounters with the Ottoman Miniature employs contemporary concepts such as the gaze, frame/framing, reading and re-reading, drawing on thinkers such as Walter Benjamin, Roland Barthes and Gilles Deleuze to establish the vibrant cultural agency of miniature paintings. With analysis that illuminates both the social and political situations in which these miniatures were painted as well as emphasising the miniature's contemporary relevance, Firat presents an important new re-imagining of this art form.  Free Download Encounters with Jesus: The Man in His Place and Time By Ariana Destro, Mauro Pesce 2011 | 276 Pages | ISBN: 0800698452 | PDF | 7 MB What was there in Jesus person, behavior, and words that prompted not only much enthusiasm but also much hostility? This compelling portrait of the man Jesus of Nazareth by two pioneers of the anthropological study of early Christianity answers this vital question. They bring the fruit of years of scholarship to bear on a radical figure in Roman Galilee and on his encounters with others and the movement those encounters inspired. They give close attention to the everyday realities that shaped those encounters: the facts of travel, common meals, domestic space, and the interactions of bodies. The result is a refreshing new look at the man who proved so significant - and so controversial - in Western culture. |
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