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Kagero Oficyna Wydawnicza Boeing (Mcdonnell Douglas) F/A-18 A/B/C/D
Book SynopsisThe F/A-18 Hornet is a single- and two-seat, twin engine, multi-mission fighter/attack aircraft that can operate from either aircraft carriers or land bases. The F/A-18 fills a variety of roles: air superiority, fighter escort, suppression of enemy air defenses, reconnaissance, forward air control, close and deep air support, and day and night strike missions. The F/A-18 Hornet replaced the F-4 Phantom II fighter and A-7 Corsair II light attack jet, and also replaced the A-6 Intruder as these aircraft were retired during the 1990s.Trade ReviewThe 181 aircraft photos and illustrations offer some nice photo-op shots, 10 color aircraft profiles provide markings, and 12 pages of black and white drawings offer cockpit layouts and exterior system placements… * The Historical Miniatures Gaming Society 07/12/2022 *
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Iberoamericana Editorial Vervuert S.L.U La verdadera patria: infancia y adolescencia en
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L'Erma Di Bretschneider Failakah: Insediamenti Medievali Islamici.
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L'Erma Di Bretschneider Maestranze E Simboli Templari Nei Cantieri Delle
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Peeters Publishers Literature and Religion in Late Medieval and
Book SynopsisIt is a commonplace that religious and devotional literature makes up the bulk of medieval vernacular literature. This is true for Middle English and even though the body of extant literature of medieval Scotland is less extensive in quantity and scope than that of England and thus may give one a somewhat distorted view of the historical reality, it is nevertheless substantial enough to warrant special study. The present volume focuses on religious and devotional life and literature in Scotland from the late fourteenth and early fifteenth century to the end of the sixteenth.The predominantly literary topics range from the wider implications of the use of secular material in the Prologue to the Scottish Legends of the Saints at the Catholic end of the period to James Anderson's poem The Winter Night which, despite its limited literary qualities, remained popular in Scotland because its anti-prelatical stance could be made to suit militant presbyterianism all the way up to the beginning of the eighteenth century. In between there are discussions of the battle between the body and the soul in Henryson's fable 'The Preaching of the Swallow'; the manuscript of Adam Abell's chronicle, the 'Roit' or 'Quheill of Tyme'; religious elements in the poetic works of Gavin Douglas; pastoral encyclopaedism and its moral-didactic roots in shepherds' calendars in the 'Monologue Recreative' part of the Complaynt of Scotland; James VI's translations of some of the Psalms, and the religious roots of some early Scottish charms. The volume concludes with a philosophical paper on John Mair's perspective on the question of the relation between God's creation of the world and his conservation of it, followed by a historical article on the (medieval) background, execution and consequences of the 'revolutionary' coronation of the thirteen-month old Prince James, Scotland's first protestant coronation.
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Peeters Publishers Adelmann of Liege and the Eucharistic Controversy
Book SynopsisAdemm Adelmann of Liege was one of the first interlocutors of Berengar of Tours in the Eucharistic controversy of the eleventh century. For that reason, his contribution was of great importance for the development of sacramental theology. This book contains all the known texts of this pre-scholastic theologian from the school of Liege, that is, not only his correspondence with Berengar, but also his famous poem on the theologians of Chartres - the Rhythmus alphabeticus - and his admonishing letter to Arshbishop Hermann of Cologne on the forgiveness of sins.
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Peeters Publishers Limits to Learning: The Transfer of Encyclopaedic
Book SynopsisIn the history of early medieval culture in Western Europe, limits and boundaries define the intellectual landscape. These landmarks range from manuscript contexts to 'genres', from authorial shortcomings to the paucity of books and means, from moral or doctrinal constraints to self-imposed limitations for didactic purposes, and from the origin of the world (Genesis) to its conclusion (Doomsday) - the temporal limits of the Christian narratio of human history. Sometimes these confines were perceived as being too narrow, inviting extension and transgression. At other times, they were seen as necessary and functional, especially for didactic or pedagogical reasons. Boundaries, in short, constitute frameworks which help us understand the significance or role of a given text in a given context. The essays here gathered focus on the production, adaptation and recontextualisation of letters, words, texts or clusters of texts in the context of the early medieval intellectual tradition. Hailing from either the vernacular or the classical tradition, such wholesome learning was often modified to create new systems of scholarship, for new purposes, in new cultural milieux. Subject to the perimeters of these cultural environments, this reinterpretation of scholarship often served to reduce tensions between different conceptual frameworks, such as between secular learning and religious orthodoxy, between pagan vestiges and Christian belief, or, simply, between two different didactic approaches. The articles in this volume were first presented at the third workshop of the 'Storehouses of Wholesome Learning' project (Leeuwarden, 2007). Once put together like the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, the articles - whether devoted to such writers as Bede, Alcuin and Alfric, or to, for example, the anonymous De diebus malis - provide an overall picture. The 'limits to learning' are often overcome, but there is a keen awareness of the difficulties faced by a medieval author who had to cope with languages such as Greek and Latin, and deal with works such as the Bible or the De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii. As witnesses to the circulation of these texts, manuscripts also set their physical boundaries. It is within a codex or even within a single folio that an image, an alphabet series, a colophon, a comment or a text lived and is given new life. A renewed awareness of the spatial collocation of the works under examination in this volume has allowed its contributors to look beyond the limits of the past.
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Peeters Publishers Witnessing the Sixties: A Decade of Change in
Book SynopsisThis volume focuses on the convergence between journalism and literature in the 1960s. The sixties is shorthand for a ubiquitous social, political and cultural upheaval in the Western world with its culmination point in 1968. The changes in society were so encompassing and impressive that many considered traditional ways of making sense of the world no longer sufficient; accepted cultural forms suddenly seemed to lose their capacity to interpret reality. While witnessing and experiencing the reshaping of society both journalists and novelists - as well as film makers and artists - had to find new ways to describe what was happening. Imagination and commitment, subjectivity and performativity were pervading literary and journalistic representations alike. The contributions in this volume explore how journalistic and literary norms, practices and forms got entwined in the 1960s and how the limits of both domains were stretched.
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Peeters Publishers Manuscripta Graeca et Orientalia: Mélanges
Book SynopsisCe volume de mélanges rassemble 27 contributions en l'honneur de Paul Géhin, directeur de recherche émérite au CNRS, qui fut pendant 15 ans directeur de la Section grecque et de l'Orient chrétien de l'IRHT (1997-2011). Spécialiste d'Évagre le Pontique et de manière plus large de la transmission de la littérature patristique et ascétique dans les domaines byzantin et oriental (syriaque et arabe), P. Géhin, membre du Comité international de Paléographie grecque, est également un grand connaisseur des manuscrits tant grecs que syriaques et arabes. Les contributions qui lui sont offertes reflètent ces divers intérêts et proposent des éditions de textes, des études de manuscrits et de copistes, des enquêtes sur les textes et les pratiques ascétiques et monastiques; plusieurs d'entre elles concernent des livres ou des hommes en lien direct avec le Sinaï.
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Peeters Publishers Studies in Later Medieval Intellectual History in
Book SynopsisFor more than half a century, William J. Courtenay has been opening up new avenues in the exploration of later-medieval intellectual and university history. He has also trained several generations of scholars who are themselves active researchers, and some of his students have had students of their own. The present volume collects thirteen contributions authored by Courtenay's students and "grand-students". From early thirteenth-century manuscripts to fourteenth-century atomism and the eternity of the world; from the theology of the resurrection to that of the incarnation; from Paris to Oxford and Regensburg, the studies and the critical editions of texts gathered here are eloquent witness to the range of William J. Courtenay's influence in medieval studies.
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Peeters Publishers The Anonymous Syriac Chronicle of 1234 and its
Book SynopsisIn the late 1230s or in the 1240s, a Syriac Orthodox historian continued a Syriac Chronicle up to the Year 1204. The result, the Anonymous Syriac Chronicle up to the Year 1234, is the subject of this monograph. While accepting the chronicle’s import for the history of the city of Edessa, the Syriac Orthodox Church and the Crusades, this study approaches the text from a literary historical standpoint, as a valuable source for historical, hagiographical, apocryphal, exegetical and epistolary traditions, taken from extant as well as now lost sources. Through the deconstruction of a process of intercultural transmission that began in the fourth or third century BC, it reveals the influence of a wide range of Jewish, Christian and Islamic sources, written in Syriac, Hebrew, Greek and Arabic, and reconstructs some of the chronicle’s now lost sources such as the chronicle of Andronicus and a medieval Greek history along the way.
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Peeters Publishers New Themes, New Styles in the Eastern
Book SynopsisBuilding on and echoing Averil Cameron's series of articles entitled New Themes, New Styles, the contributors to this volume wished to revisit the phenomenon of enhanced, renewed, or invented, literary and artistic modes of expression in the period after the great authorities of the patristic age until early Islamic times. In the period under investigation, that is the fifth to the eighth centuries, scholars may point to a transformation of artistic expressions in a number of ways. One such example is a marked increase in reductionist activity on the one hand, and the disappearance of classicising historiography on the other. In this volume, a number of experts from a variety of disciplines - studies in Late Antiquity and Byzantium, Arabic studies, Jewish studies, Syriac studies, and Art History - have come together to form a unique platform where the dynamic nature of Late Antique societies is portrayed against the background of the advent of Islam. Some rich encounters are revealed.
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Peeters Publishers Apocalypticism and Eschatology in Late Antiquity:
Book SynopsisThis volume includes papers on ancient apocalypticism and eschatology in the crucial period prior to the advent of Islam in the Mediterranean basin, and through the period (the sixth to the eighth centuries) when this new religion took roots and established itself in the area. As these were important social, religious, and cultural phenomena, the contributors to this volume - specialists in Late Antique and Byzantine, Syriac, Jewish, and Arabic studies - have investigated them from a variety of angles and foci, rendering this volume unique in terms of its interdisciplinary approach and broad scope. In this regard, Apocalypticism and Eschatology in Late Antiquity should be read as complimentary to the previous volume in the series, New Themes, New Styles in the Eastern Mediterranean, where similar goals were set and met, namely to understand not only how the Christian and Jewish populations responded to the dramatic political and military changes, but also how they expressed themselves in existing, reinvented, and new literary means at their disposal.
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Peeters Publishers Des cahiers à l'histoire de la culture à Byzance:
Book SynopsisCet hommage à la mémoire de Mgr Paul Canart († 14 septembre 2017), organisé par Michel Cacouros et Jacques-Hubert Sautel, regroupe douze contributions de ses collègues et amis; il explore les domaines dans lesquels Paul Canart s’est illustré, en prenant comme point de repère les manuscrits grecs, en particulier la confection du codex et son organisation en cahiers, la transmission des textes copiés et leur impact sur l’histoire de la culture à Byzance. Ainsi, certaines contributions se cantonnent au domaine de la codicologie (P. Andrist et M. Maniaci; J.-H. Sautel), d’autres portent sur la transmission de l’héritage antique à Byzance, dans le domaine proprement littéraire (M.-L. Agati), philosophique (M. Cacouros) ou scientifique (A. Tihon; R. Burri), ou encore sur celle de l’héritage biblique (K. Demoen, R. Ricceri et M. Tomadaki) et patristique (R. Ceulemans; P. Van Deun). Enfin, quelques-unes s’intéressent à l’histoire ancienne ou plus récente de Byzance (S. Voicu; J. Schamp) ou à la transmission de la culture antique ou chrétienne en Arménie (P. Cornil).
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Peeters Publishers L'Eurasie autour de l'an 1000: Cultures,
Book SynopsisLe livre étudie les connexions repérables et les comparaisons possibles entre les sociétés de l’Eurasie, autour de l’an 1000, afin de percevoir les caractères originaux de chacune au sein de solidarités planétaires. Les historiens spécialistes de domaines très différents: le Japon, les mondes chinois et steppique, indien et musulman, l’empire byzantin, l’Occident chrétien, réunis aux Treilles en 2018 ont observé que la tendance globale au développement de cette période s’accompagne d’une diversification remarquable des cultures. En une démarche de critique constructive de la World History ou Global History, ils ont pu envisager les facteurs communs ayant stimulé la croissance dans divers «mondes» de l’Eurasie (ainsi les changements climatiques) ou ne l’ayant pas autant entravé que ne le croyaient les historiens d’antan (invasions ou infiltrations de peuples guerriers, «barbares»), sans oublier les liens tissés à la fois par des échanges commerciaux et par des religions universalistes. This book considers documented connections and raises comparisons among Eurasian societies around the year 1000; using a global frame, it aims to sketch their distinctive characteristics. Scholars of Japan, China, the steppe regions, India, and the Islamic world, Byzantium, and Western Europe concur that a remarkable diversification of different cultures accompanied demographic and economic growth worldwide. Their sketches of various Eurasian “worlds” suggest a meaningful approach to both world and global History. Some factors, like climate change, fostered interaction; others, like the invasions of nomadic peoples, checked interaction less than previously believed. The authors also demonstrate how trade, exchange transactions, and universalist religions contributed to greater interaction.
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Peeters Publishers The Cistercian Hermann Zoest's Treatise on
Book SynopsisThis critical edition of the Cistercian astronomer and conciliarist Hermann Zoest of Münster’s De fermento et azimo, surviving in a dozen complete manuscripts, makes available the greatest medieval treatise concerning the type of bread that Jesus broke at the Last Supper. Since the so-called Schism of 1054, the Greeks, who employed ordinary leavened bread in the sacrament of the Eucharist, routinely claimed that the Latin use of unleavened bread was invalid and did not involve the Body of Christ. Hermann composed his treatise in 1436 at the Council of Basel, with the oecumenical goal of facilitating Church Union. Relying on astronomy, biblical exegesis, conversation with Greeks, and, in a later revision, information from the famous Jewish convert Bishop Paul of Burgos, Hermann came to the conclusion that the Last Supper occurred before Passover when the Jews were still eating leavened bread, although he allowed for the possibility that Jesus established a new rite with unleavened bread. After enumerating the disagreements between Greeks and Latins, Hermann advised that they focus on the faith and ignore what he labelled ceremonial differences.
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Kon Acad Wetenschappen Letteren The Medieval Booklists of the Southern Low Countries. Volume VI: The Reading-List of the Priory of Zevenborren
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Kon Acad Wetenschappen Letteren The Medieval Booklists of the Southern Low
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Stichting Promotie Archeologie Medieval Material Culture: Studies in Honour of
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Kapon Editions Psifidota tis Thessalonikis: 4th to 14th Century
Book Synopsis358 colour illustrations and 38 b&w drawings. Distributed by University of Exeter Press. This volume fills a major gap: there are no modern publications describing the mosaics of the major Byzantine monuments of Thessaloniki aimed at the contemporary reader, both specialist and layman.Table of ContentsPrologue - Charalambos Bakirtzis Introduction - Chrysanthi Mavropoulou-Tsioumi ROTUNDA - Charalambos Bakirtzis, Eftychia Kourkoutidou-Nikolaidou SAINT DΕΜΕTRIOS - Charalambos Bakirtzis LATOΜOU ΜONASTΕRY - Eftychia Kourkoutidou-Nikolaidou, Chrysanthi Mavropoulou-Tsioumi ACHEIROPOIETOS - Eftychia Kourkoutidou-Nikolaidou HAGIA SOPHIA - Chrysanthi Mavropoulou-Tsioumi HOLY APOSTLΕS - Chrysanthi Mavropoulou-Tsioumi Bibliography
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