Middle Eastern history Books
Peeters Publishers Magnalia Dei . Biblical History in Epic Verse by
Book SynopsisComposed by Grigor Magistros, an 11th-century Armenian princely savant and friend of the Byzantine Emperor Constantine IX Monomachus (reigned 1042-55), the Magnalia Dei is a summation of the Bible in epic verse. Written on one of the author's visits to Constantinople, it resulted from an encounter there with a Moslem intellectual by the name of Manazi - none other than Abu Nasr al-Manazi, vizier and emissary of the Abbasid Caliphate, theologian and poet, who frequently visited Constantinople in quest of Greek scientific manuscripts. During their discussion on the Bible and the Qur'an, a stock Islamic argument emerged: that the Qur'an is superior to the Christian Scriptures on account of its beautiful, inimitable verse. The epic is Magistros's response.The Magnalia Dei is the earliest literary epic in medieval Armenian, and one of the most informative compositions within the genre of biblically inspired verse narratives in Christian literature.
£58.08
Peeters Publishers Sources and Approaches Across Disciplines in Near
Book SynopsisThis volume collects papers from the 24th Congress of the Union Europeenne des Arabisants et Islamisants (UEAI) in 2008 at the University of Leipzig. Original research and new approaches illustrate its theme of Sources and Approaches across Disciplines in Near Eastern Studies. The studies span Muslim culture, civilizations, and intellectual thought in the medieval and modern periods. The contributions demonstrate the benefits of following methodological and interdisciplinary approaches that draw upon literary criticism, sociology and anthropology in the field of Qur'anic studies, religion, philosophy and mysticism; state and society; literature and rhetoric; philology and linguistics; mathematics and astronomy; art and epigraphy; and Islamic sciences and economic history. The volume also highlights the commonalities and overlaps that exist between these different branches and fosters cooperative study across a wide cultural, historical, and sociological milieu. Rather than following an isolated approach to their areas of study, academics in different fields of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies benefited from one another's methodologies, and collectively built a wide body of knowledge.
£107.35
Peeters Publishers A Grammar of Qumran Aramaic
Book SynopsisThis is a comprehensive reference grammar of Qumran Aramaic. Not only Aramaic texts from Qumran caves, but also contemporary texts originating from other neighbouring locations in the Judaean Desert such as Nahal Hever, Murabba'at, Jericho, and Massada are covered. It would be an important tool of study for specialists in Aramaic linguistics, the Jewish culture of the Second Temple period, and the New Testament. The scope and nature of the grammar is comparable to that of Muraoka - Porten, A Grammar of Egyptian Aramaic (2nd revised ed., 2003).
£999.99
Peeters Publishers Die Assyrer Und Das Westland: Studien Zur
Book SynopsisMit dem Beginn der assyrischen Expansion im 8. Jh. v. u. Z. endete schrittweise die politische Unabhangigkeit der Levante. Die Frage, wie die Expansion erfolgte und wie die Assyrer dieses Territorium organisiert und verwaltet haben, steht im Mittelpunkt der Arbeit. Wichtige Aspekte dieser Thematik sind u. a., welche Grenzen die unabhangigen oder annektierten politischen Einheiten hatten, was die Assyrer von den vorhandenen Strukturen ubernahmen und was sie veranderten, welche konkrete Massnahmen einer Annexion folgten. Anhand der Analyse der assyrischen Herrschaftspraxis wird eine neue Interpretation des assyrischen Einflusses in der Region sowie der Rolle des assyrischen Reiches in der Geschichte der Weltreiche geboten. Ausgangspunkt und Grundlage der Arbeit bildet die neuassyrische Toponymie der Levante und ein wesentlicher Teil derselben besteht aus 53 historischen Karten, die die historisch-geographischen Informationen graphisch darstellen: lokalisierbare Ortsnamen (3 Karten), die assyrischen Vorstellungen der Levante (8 Karten), lokalisierbare Gewasser- und Bergnamen (1 Karte), Tribut und Bevolkerungspolitik (5 Karten), assyrische Denkmaler in der Levante (1 Karte), die Westfeldzuge (30 Karten) und die politische Geographie der Levante (5 Karten).
£99.83
Peeters Publishers Afrikanischstammiger Lehnwortschatz Im Alteren
Book SynopsisSprachkontakte zwischen Agyptern und Sprechergruppen des nordostafrikanischen Raumes haben vom ausgehenden vierten Jahrtausend v. Chr. bis in die Mitte des ersten nachchristlichen Jahrtausends zur Entlehnung eines nicht unerheblichen afrikanischstammigen Wortschatzes in die schriftliche Uberlieferung des Agyptisch-Koptischen gefuhrt. Die Relevanz, die diese Transferenzbefunde insbesondere fur die (Sprach-)geschichte des nordostafrikanischen Raumes besitzen, ist in ihrem besonderen sprachhistorischen Zeugniswert sowohl fur die afrikanischen Quellsprachen, als auch das Agyptisch-Koptische zu sehen. Wahrend die Transferenzbefunde agyptischer Quellen fur die unverschrifteten afrikanischen Einzelsprachen die einzigen greifbaren Reflexe fruher Sprachzustande darstellen, bieten sie fur das Agyptische die Moglichkeit zur Uberprufung besonders der lautlichen Verhaltnisse seiner fruhesten verschrifteten Sprachstufe, dem alteren Agyptisch. Ziel der Arbeit ist es, ausgehend von den agyptischen Quellen, vor allem die sprachliche Evidenz der Transferenzbefunde herauszuarbeiten und diese auch in den historischen und sprachhistorischen Kontext einzuordnen. Im ersten Abschnitt der Arbeit erfolgt zunachst ein diachroner Querschnitt zur agyptisch-afrikanischen lexikalischen Interferenz vom dritten Jahrtausend v. Chr. bis in das erste Jahrtausend n. Chr. Abschnitt II bietet synchrone Analysen zu den im alteren Agyptisch uberlieferten afrikanischstammigen Entlehnungen, dem kontextuellen und kotextuellen Zeugniswert der Trageruberlieferungen und der sprachlichen Evidenz der Transferenzbefunde. Im Rahmen eines Lemmakataloges werden daraufhin 428 Entlehnungen dokumentiert und besprochen. Durch die in dieser Arbeit vorgenommenen einzelsprachlichen Anschlusse vor allem nubischer Topo-, Ethno- und Anthroponyme an das nordkuschitische Beja, das Ost- und Zentralkuschitische, das Libysch-Berberische und das Meroitische, erhalten die historischen Sprachkontakte zwischen Agypten und seinen afrikanischen Nachbarn eine konkretere Gestalt.
£98.87
Peeters Publishers Penser, Agir Et Vivre Dans L'Empire Ottoman Et En
Book SynopsisEn suivant certains des silllons creuses par Francois Georgeon, les etudes ici reunies se repartissent en quatre groupes. Les premieres s'inscrivent dans le registre de l'histoire politique et ideologique des dernieres decennies de l'epoque ottomane. Elles touchent a la politisation et a la question des provinces de l'Empire. Elles touchent aussi au vocabulaire politique et aux nouvelles temporalites introduites par la revolution jeune-turque dans la reflexion de certains intellectuels. Les secondes sont des contributions a l'histoire intellectuelle. Une place importante est faite dans cette partie a la presse et a l'imprime, tandis qu'une derniere contribution reprend la question des intellectuels voyageurs. La troisieme partie est consacree a l'histoire sociale. Y sont abordees des themes divers tels que: la construction et la fluidite des identifications, les fetes, l'alimentation, et les evolutions sociales a l'echelle urbaine, comme a l'echelle individuelle. Enfin, la quatrieme et derniere partie rassemble d'un cote des etudes sur la Turquie kemaliste et, de l'autre, des essais sur le passage "des Ottomans aux Turcs" (pour reprendre le titre d'un volume d'articles de Francois Georgeon), et sur la construction des savoirs dans ce domaine. Following in Francois Georgeon's footsteps, this volume is divided in four parts. The first group of studies concerns the political and ideological history of the last decades of the Ottoman Empire. These studies tackle the issue of politicization, the question of the provinces of the Empire, political vocabulary and new timescales brought by the Young Turc Revolution in the thought of some intellectuals. The second group includes contributions on intellectual history. Important themes in this part are printed publishing and the press, while the last contribution takes up the issue of intellectual travelers. The third group is devoted to social history. Studies address identity development and fluidity, celebrations, food, and social developments on an urban or individual scale. The fourth and last part brings together both studies on Kemalist Turkey and essays on the switch from Ottomans to Turks (to quote a title of one of Francois Georgeon's volumes) and on knowledge construction in this field.
£999.99
Peeters Publishers An Ancient Egyptian Literary Text in Context: The
Book SynopsisThe book attempts to reconstruct the social context for Egyptian wisdom literature during the Middle and New Kingdoms (c. 2000-1000 BC), using The Instruction of Ptahhotep as a case-study. By looking at the archaeology and material culture of manuscripts, intertextual references and editorial changes to the text over time, the book traces the life of a wisdom poem from the hands of its copyists to the minds of its readers, charting its use and reception over hundreds of years.
£84.00
Peeters Publishers The Ancient Near East, a Life!: Festschrift Karel
Book SynopsisThis volume in honour of Karel Van Lerberghe contains 47 contributions by his colleagues and students dealing with the history and archaeology of the Syro-Mesopotamian area. The focus on Syria and on the Old-Babylonian period reflects Karel's main research interests. Quite some cuneiform tablets are published here for the first time (both in hand-copy and with the help of the Portable Light Dome). Most recent archaeological field research is presented in contributions concerning Ugarit, Tell Tweini, Tell Beydar and many other sites.
£105.75
Peeters Publishers Cities and Citadels in Turkey: From the Iron Age
Book SynopsisFor millennia, walled citadels have served both as residences for rulers and military forces and as sacred centers embodying the power of the elite. The outcome of a symposium organized by Koc University's Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations, the essays in this volume are by leading scholars on the area that is now Turkey, from the first millennium BC through the fourteenth century AD. They examine the phenomenon of citadels in a comparative perspective in Anatolia and neighboring regions. Archaeology, art history, and history are brought to bear on the phenomenon of the citadel in its urban context.
£102.52
Peeters Publishers Prosopographia Ponti Euxini Externa
Book SynopsisAlthough there are specialist studies on the mobility of the inhabitants of the cities and regions of the Black Sea, we lack a comprehensive prosopography of those of them active abroad. This work, containing 3358 entries, is a first attempt, casting light on the mobility of different social and professional groups, not only mercenaries and merchants but also itinerant philosophers and artists. It demonstrates that the Black Sea was well integrated into the main circles of the Greek, Roman and Early Byzantine world. Chronologically, the work starts with the earliest attestations and finishes with the end of the 6th century AD. It includes not only people attested by external documents but also persons mentioned by internal inscriptions as having travelled or died outside their country. The area of investigation covers the entire Black Sea coast. The Prosopographia Ptolemaica is used as a model. Each entry follows a set form: name; family relationships (father/mother, son/daughter, brother/sister); type of inscription or category of papyrus; profession or further data on the person's activity; form of the ethnic; dating; testimonies and bibliographical references. For each heading the geographical order of attestations is that of the SEG. There are very detailed indexes (names, cases of double or multiple citizenship, proxenies or other honours awarded abroad, professional categories, etc.).
£104.50
Peeters Publishers Le Sort Des Gathas Et Autres Etudes Iraniennes in
Book SynopsisLes circonstances ont dicte la matiere de cet hommage: quelques etudes iraniennes diverses ont pris place a cote des actes d'un colloque (Liege, avril 2010) avec lequel l'Universite de Liege venait de celebrer le centenaire de Jacques Duchesne-Guillemin. Le grand iranologue venait meme d'y faire une derniere communication, mais allait nous quitter a pres de 102 ans. L'intitule du colloque, Le sort des Gathas, faisait echo a la traduction que Jacques Duchesne-Guillemin avait donnee des Gathas dans son Zoroastre (1948), important jalon des etudes de l'Iran ancien. Les principes directeurs de la rencontre etaient de traiter une question la plus precise possible et encore debattue, pour laquelle des etudes philologiques techniques puissent apporter une solution positive et de le faire avec un nombre restreint de participants choisis sur la seule base de leurs apports recents sur le sujet: le resultat de l'entreprise fut a la hauteur de l'hommage qu'il convenait de rendre a l'une des plus grandes figures de l'iranologie. Le theme du colloque, la reutilisation et le role des passages vieil-avestiques dans la litterature mazdeenne ulterieure, avestique recente, mais aussi moyen-iranienne, a ete aborde de plusieurs facons: Philippe Swennen (Liege), a titre preambule, s'est penche sur les emplois vediques du mot gatha-; ensuite, Antonio Panaino (Ravenne) a examine la portee du compose asrauuaiiat.gatha- "qui ne recite pas les Gathas"; Helmut Humbach (Mayence) a recherche des traces dialectales vieil-avestiques subsistant dans l'Avesta recent; avec la collaboration de Klaus Faiss, Helmut Humbach examine aussi l'histoire de la comprehension d'une strophe gathique; Almut Hintze (Londres), Prods Oktor Skjaervo (Cambridge, MA) et Elizabeth Tucker (Oxford) ont examine les raisons des citations que l'Avesta recent faisait des textes vieil-avestiques; Jean Kellens (Paris) et Eric Pirart (Liege) ont montre comment les auteurs de l'Avesta recent avaient fabrique certains noms propres nouveaux a partir du texte des Gathas; Alberto Cantera (Salamanque) et, dans une communication ulterieure, Eric Pirart ont traite de la diascevase des textes vieil-avestiques ou de la place que ceux-ci tenaient dans la liturgie longue. Les quelques autres etudes qui, reprises dans ce volume, ne concernent pas les textes vieil-avestiques sont au nombre de quatre: Miguel Angel Andres Toledo (Salamanque) s'interesse aux chiens de l'au-dela zoroastrien; Michiel de Vaan (Leyde), a un fait de phonetique avestique; Norbert Oettinger (Ulm), a l'emploi que l'Avesta recent fait de l'indicatif imparfait; Pierre Lecoq (Paris), a la place du kurde parmi les dialectes iraniens. Le volume contient aussi la liste que Philippe Swennen dresse des dernieres publications de Jacques Duchesne-Guillemin ainsi que l'evocation que Jean Loicq offre de la personne du grand iranologue.
£86.00
Peeters Publishers Early Iron Age Exchange in the West: Phoenicians
Book SynopsisThe so-called Phoenician 'expansion' in the western Mediterranean is treated here from the point of view of the social and economic factors that led to the phenomenon and the way it evolved over a period of approximately 300 years. To this end, the book gathers, collates and analyses the disparate evidence for networks of interaction in the western Mediterranean and Atlantic regions of Europe and north Africa in the period from the 9th to the 7th century BC. The focus form the less well-known areas of the expansion, the Iberian Peninsula and north-west Africa, which are studied within the broader context of Mediterranean interactions in the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age periods from the Near East to the Atlantic. The discussion is detailed and takes into account some of the latest archaeological discoveries, along with previously unpublished material. Detailed descriptions of selected sites are provided in an appendix.
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Peeters Publishers Histoire, Geographie Et Religion De L'Egypte
Book SynopsisCet ouvrage reunit quarante-sept etudes du professeur Jean Yoyotte (1927-2009) dont un certain nombre de travaux publies dans des revues non egyptologiques ainsi que les comptes rendus de ses cours de l'Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, ou il enseigna comme Directeur d'etudes de 1964 a 1991 et du College de France ou il fut professeur de 1991 a 1997. Les articles reedites ici sont ceux que Jean Yoyotte avait choisis. Republies de maniere uniforme et indexes, afin d'en rendre l'usage plus commode, ils traitent pour la plupart de questions relatives a la pensee religieuse, a la geographie et a l'histoire de l'Egypte ancienne, qui, quoiqu'il s'interessa a tous les aspects de la societe egyptienne ancienne, constituent neanmoins ses sujets de recherche privilegies. Cette somme qui temoigne tant de son immense erudition et de ses multiples curiosites qu'elle revele l'enseignant hors pair qu'il etait, s'adresse tout autant aux egyptologues qu'aux specialistes des cultures du Proche-Orient ancien et du monde hellenistique et romain.
£110.54
Peeters Publishers Islam and Globalisation: Historical and
Book SynopsisThis volume contains the Proceedings of the 25th Congress of the Union Européenne des Arabisants et Islamisants (Naples, September 8-12, 2010) on Islam and Globalisation: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. Besides a general view on globalisation (Agostino Cilardo) and the history of the Union on the occasion of its fiftieth anniversary (Urbain Vermeulen), the contributions concern History (Axel Havemann, Pasquale Macaluso, Antonino Pellitteri, Maria Giovanna Stasolla, Maria Vidyasova), Islam (Roswitha Badry, Marek M. Dziekan, Dmitry Frolov, Christopher Melchert, Katarzyna Pachniak, Orsolya Varsanyi), Islamic Law (María Arcas Campoy, Reiner Brunner, Ana María Carballeira Debasa & Camilo Álvarez De Morales, Agostino Cilardo, Vasco Fronzoni, Wilferd Madelung), Literature & Linguistics (Abdessamad Belhaj, Julia Bray, Hélène Condylis, Francesca Maria Corrao, Adelya Gaynutdinova, Ali Kadem Kalati, Vladimir Lebedev, Ewa Machut-Mendecka, Mariangela Masullo, Barbara Michalak-Pikulska, Christina Ossipova, Arie Schippers, Krystyna Skarzynska-Bochenska, Ludmila Torlakova, Urbain Vermeulen, Monika Winet), Travel (Oriana Capezio, Roberta Denaro, Maria Grazia Sciortino, Richard van Leeuwen), Philosophy & Science (Carmela Baffioni, Daniel De Smet, Montse Díaz-Fajardo, Paulina B. Lewicka, Miklós Maróth, Juan Martos Quesada & María del Carmen Escribano Ródenas, Antonella Straface, Johannes Thomann), Art (Vincenza Grassi, Eva-Maria von Kemnitz).
£113.86
Peeters Publishers Aram Periodical. Volume 22 - The Mandaeans
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Peeters Publishers Marduk-remanni: Local Networks and Imperial
Book SynopsisMarduk-remanni was a Babylonian man who lived in the provincial town of Sippar during the first decades of Persian rule in Mesopotamia (second half of the sixth century BC). His archive of c. 187 cuneiform texts was found in 1881 during excavations carried out on behalf of the British Museum, but since then it has received little attention. On first sight, the historical relevance of Marduk-remanni's records seems minimal. They relate to his private assets, business enterprises, and legal concerns - matters that barely seem to transcend the personal and local spheres. But upon closer scrutiny, it becomes clear that Marduk-remanni was at the centre of a far-flung personal network and that his life, despite his having lived far from the political centre, reflects many of the developments and changes taking place at the highest imperial level. He was a child when Cyrus the Great of Persia conquered Babylonia, and although this regime change caused little upheaval outside the political arena at first, by the time of Marduk-remanni's death several decades later, the world of his childhood had changed. His life had taken a completely different course than that of his father and grandfather. He had traveled near and far, visiting the Persian court at Susa on several occasions. No longer were the horizons of his world confined to the Babylonian heartland, as they had been for his father and grandfather. Marduk-remanni was born in provincial Babylonia, but he died as a citizen of a world empire. This book traces the social, economic and political dynamics that transformed his life.
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Peeters Publishers Inside and Out: Interactions between Rome and the
Book SynopsisIn recent years, exciting new discoveries of inscriptions and archaeological remains on the Arabian Peninsula have led to a re-evaluation of the peoples on the Arabian frontier, which through their extensive contacts with Rome and Persia are now seen as dynamic participants in the Late Antique world. The present volume contributes to this recent trend by focusing on the contrast between the 'outside' sources on the peoples of the frontier - the Roman view - and the 'inside' sources, that is, the precious material produced by the Arabs themselves, and by approaching these sources within an anthropological framework of how peripheral peoples face larger powers. For the first time, the situation on the Arabian frontier is also compared with that on the southern Egyptian frontier, where similar sources have been found of peoples such as the Blemmyes and Noubades. Thus, the volume offers a richly-documented examination of the frontier interactions in these two vibrant and critically-important areas of the Late Antique East. The book is of interest to anthropologists, archaeologists, historians, Egyptologists, Arabists, epigraphists and papyrologists and, in general, to all scholars working in the period of Late Antiquity.
£94.00
Peeters Publishers Egypt and Syria in the Fatimid, Ayyubid and
Book SynopsisThe eighth volume of proceedings of the International Colloquia on the History of Egypt and Syria in the Fatimid, Ayyubid and Mamluk Eras covers the 19th, 20th, 21st and 22nd gatherings, organized at Ghent University in 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013. True to tradition, the 27 articles deal with a wide variety of scholarly subjects, all revolving around the central theme of Syro-Egypt's high and late medieval history. Topics dealt with include archaeology, architecture, codicology, economic, political, and religious history, as well as belles-lettres. With contributions by P.-V. Claverie, N. Coureas, J.-Ch. Ducène, H. Hanisch, D. Igarashi, G. Lelli, Y. Lev, P. Moukarzel, D. Nicolle, C. Onimus, M. Piana, S. Pradines, B. Shoshan, N. Vanthieghem, Th.M. Wijntjes, J. Yeshaya, K. Yosef and M. Zouihal.
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Peeters Publishers Coelé-Syrie: Palestine, Judée, Pérée
Book SynopsisLa C÷lé-Syrie a eu une définition mouvante, coïncidant ou s'opposant à la Palestine / Philistie, Phénicie / Canaan, Syrie / Assyrie, Transeuphratène et Pérée du Jourdain. L'épithète koilè, «creuse», s'explique par la manière grecque de désigner un pays vallonné - le couloir de l'Oronte, du Litani et du Jourdain. Aux IIIe et IIe siècles, la C÷lé-Syrie fur restreinte à la zone côtière disputée entre Lagides et Séleucides. Suite aux expansions asmonéenne et hérodienne de la Judée, l'appellation s'est retrouvée refoulée au-delà du Jourdain, couvrant la Décapole. Au IIIe siècle apr. J.-C., la Syria Coele désigne la province romaine d'Antioche. Les perceptions variables des chaînes du Liban et de l'Antiliban justifient ces déplacements et marquent la différence inéluctable entre les espaces fluides des Anciens et les territoires figés des Modernes.
£57.00
Peeters Publishers Contacts and Interaction: Proceedings of the 27th
Book SynopsisThe Proceedings of the 27th congress of the Union Européenne des Arabisants et Islamisants (Helsinki, Finland, June 2-6, 2014) contain forty-three scholarly articles on various aspects of the Islamic world from late antiquity to modernity. The scholarly focus of most contributions is the medieval Muslim civilisation. In addition to the Arabic cultural sphere, the Persian and Turkish regions and sources are represented in this collection of articles. The studies discuss social, political, literary, religious and cultural history. The variety of approaches to the sources and methods employed shows the width of European research on the Arab-Islamic culture. This volume provides an easy access to the newest European scholarship on the Middle East.
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Peeters Publishers Labor omnia uicit improbus: Miscellanea in
Book SynopsisCe recueil de vingt-huit études offertes à Ariel Shisha-Halevy par ses collègues et amis est représentatif des nombreux domaines où ce grand linguiste s'est illustré durant sa carrière à l'Université hébraïque de Jérusalem. Part belle est faite à l'égyptien, dans toutes ses phases, et notamment au copte, dont le dédicataire se plaît à dire que nous n'en connaissons encore que l'écriture. On trouve ainsi dans la première partie, «Orient», des articles analysant toutes sortes d'aspects linguistiques de cette langue - constructions grammaticales, dialectes, lexicographie - et concernant divers types de textes, littéraires et documentaires, ainsi que deux études consacrées à l'arabe. L'irlandais et le gallois, autres domaines de prédilection d'A. Shisha-Halevy, sont représentés par quatre articles illustrant l'«Occident», tandis qu'une partie «Varia» clôt l'ensemble.
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Peeters Publishers Ancient Egyptian Coffins: Craft Traditions and
Book SynopsisThis volume contains the proceedings of the twenty-third Annual Egyptological Colloquium, held at the British Museum in 2014, augmented by additional papers. The twenty-three contributions investigate functionality, iconography and manufacture of ancient Egyptian coffins from the First Intermediate Period to the eighth century AD. The authors explore the conceptual aspects which lay behind the production of coffins through the study of iconography and texts, examining the functional role of these complex objects as 'structured compositions' which were designed to play an important part in transforming the deceased occupants and perpetuating their existence beyond death. Reinstating coffins in their archaeological and societal contexts, the papers reflect on the circumstances in which they were made, considering workshop practices and regional variability, and studying coffins not only individually but also as components of larger conceptual entities in which the mummy, the burial chamber and the tomb itself all had specific meanings. Several contributions focus on areas of current interest, such as the post-burial adaptation and reuse of coffins, considering how these issues relate to the economic environment in which they were made and to changing attitudes towards the immutability of burial arrangements.
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Peeters Publishers L'Égypte des villages autour du seizième siècle
Book SynopsisCe livre se propose d’éclairer l’une des périodes les moins connues de l’histoire de l’Égypte musulmane, le XVIe siècle, à travers son pan le moins étudié: le monde rural. Une fois l’Égypte conquise (1517), les Ottomans ont porté un intérêt majeur aux campagnes, première source de revenus de l’État; leur souci d’en dresser l’inventaire a produit un ensemble exceptionnel d’archives, partiellement conservées. Elles règlementent ou enregistrent les statuts fonciers, l’organisation fiscale et la répartition des pouvoirs et de l’autorité au sein des villages et font percevoir la large autonomie dont jouissaient les communautés rurales. Cependant l’apparente uniformité du monde des villages et de la société paysanne que transmettent les archives masquait des inégalités et une diversité considérables. Premier siècle dont sont conservés les registres, le XVIe siècle éclaire rétrospectivement le régime antérieur, mamelouk, et permet de comprendre les évolutions ultérieures de l’époque ottomane. This book aims at studying the history of Islamic Egypt during a little-known time period (the 16th century) through the lens of its rural world, an even lesser-known reality. Following their conquest of Egypt in 1517, the Ottomans developed a lasting concern for the countryside, as it represented a major source of state income. Their attempt to assess and harness its resources brought about an exceptional set of archival records, part of which remain extant to date. These archives retain information on land regimes and fiscal organisation as well as shedding light on the distribution of power and authority within rural societies. Despite giving evidence on the wide-ranging autonomy that local peasant communities could enjoy, such records still impart uniformity to highly diverse and unequal societies. Studying 16th-century Egypt in this way is thus insightful to understand its former Mamluk history as well as its evolutions to come during Ottoman times.
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Peeters Publishers A True Scribe of Abydos: Essays on First
Book SynopsisThis book comprises twenty-two articles devoted to First Millennium Egypt, all intended to honour Antony Leahy, whose interest in this period is well known to scholars of this period. Both archaeology and philology are represented in this volume as well as studies on history and material culture. The interlocking interpretation of texts and objects is also noteworthy. The paper by Karl Jansen-Winkeln re-examines the question of the Libyan or Egyptian nature/origin/ethnic identity of the Third Intermediate Period, whilst others are more specific in their scope. Chronological discussions concerning the order of the kings of the 25th Dynasty in Egypt and Nubia are presented by Gerard Broekman and Roberto Gozzoli. Several objects belonging to a king Djehutyemhat are described by Troy Sagrillo. Statues belonging to the Memphite governor, chancellor and scribe to the king Horsematuyemhat; the Theban governor Nesptah A; the admiral Hor, who presumably lived in Tell el Yahudiya; and the royal tutor Ankhefensenmut from Permanu are discussed by Mélanie Cressent, Frédéric Payraudeau, Campbell Price and Oliver Perdu respectively, with the latter arguing for an identification of Permanu with Kom Firin. The Theban choachytes of the Third Intermediate Period are studied by Cynthia Sheikoleslami, whilst Maria Cannata reports on the remains of an embalmer’s cache from the Saite Period. The minor arts of the First Millenium BC are addressed by Claus Jurman, who writes on a number of seals, Julia Budka, who deals with Twenty-fifth Dynasty votive pottery from Abydos, Benjamin Hinson, who reports on the presence of bells in First Millennium private tombs, and John Taylor, who discusses two lost Twenty-second Dynasty Theban cartonnages. Other studies examine the possibility of a third large Twenty-first dynasty cache at Thebes (David Aston); the possible location of the tomb of Osorkon III at Thebes (Michinori Ohshiro); the use of Pyramid texts in Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth Dynasty tombs (Antonio Morales); Saite warfare (Alan Lloyd) and Thirtieth Dynasty Apis burials (Didier Devauchelle). The volume also comprises philologically orientated contributions on Glorification Texts (Martin Bommas) and the Horus Throne in djet and neheh (Stephen Gregory). The collection of articles is rounded off by Günter Vittmann’s account of a previously unpublished letter written in abnormal hieratic from Amheida in the Dakhleh Oasis.
£105.00
Peeters Publishers Negotiating the Ottoman Constitution 1839-1876
Book SynopsisThis book traces the transcultural and transnational dimension of the internal genesis of the Ottoman Constitution, which was promulgated on December 23, 1876. It shows that the constitutional process incorporated, from domestic authorities to foreign Powers, a plurality of formal and informal agents of different ethno-religious, cultural, and ideological backgrounds and that its investigation goes beyond the study of a national narrative. Considering the issue of constitutional reforms from different angles (foreign influence and pressure, the agency of domestic actors and through discourse analysis of reform decrees), the book brings a critical approach to the existing historiographical narratives, which reduce Ottoman constitutional history to a simplistic process of transplanting western legal artefacts and regimes without measuring the selective control of dominant domestic groups over the process. Instead, the book shows the evolution of a continuous set of negotiations of various actors on the idea of constitution in the Ottoman Empire and thus sheds light on the social construction of the idea of justice and constitutional law. The draft constitutions studied throughout the book are the textual embodiment of these negotiations and unveil the ways in which concepts and issues such as legitimacy, the restriction of political power, lawful government, liberty, equality, the rule of people and the treatment of minorities reached the Ottoman context and the ways in which they acquired new meanings or equivalents during their adaptation to the imperial political culture.
£102.93
Peeters Publishers Episcopal Networks and Authority in Late Antique
Book SynopsisIn this book the author examines how two bishops in the Theban region contributed to the rise of a new, anti-Chalcedonian church hierarchy, which became the forerunner of the Coptic Orthodox Church. Abraham of Hermonthis (ca. 590-621) and Pesynthius of Koptos (599-632) are exceptional, since a large number of their professional documents (mostly in Coptic) is preserved. By applying Social Network Analysis to these documents, the author reconstructed their individual social networks and linked them to a wider regional network that was centered on monastic communities in Western Thebes (west of modern Luxor), but also included a large number of civil officials, clergymen and lay men and women. In addition, a social model of episcopal authority was adopted, in order to evaluate how the bishops used their authority and to explain what made Pesynthius so extraordinary that he is still remembered as a saint by the Coptic Orthodox Church.
£96.00
Peeters Publishers Imaging and Imagining the Memphite Necropolis:
Book Synopsis`Imaging and Imagining the Memphite Necropolis’ is a mixture of archaeological, literary and iconographic studies, all relating to the representation, visualization and reconstruction of the material culture and art of the ancient Egyptian burial grounds of the city of Memphis through time. This Liber Amicorum is offered to René van Walsem on the occasion of his retirement. He has been lecturer in Egyptology at Leiden University since 1979 and was joint field director of the Dutch archaeological mission at Saqqara from 1999 until 2007. The volume contains twenty-four articles written by academics from around the world, all of whom have been part of, and have been influenced by, René van Walsem’s extensive professional career. The contributions are divided into five themes: Material Culture – Finds at the Necropolis, relating amongst others to the (Anglo-)Dutch excavations of the New Kingdom tombs of Horemheb, Maya & Merit, Meryneith, and others, at Saqqara; Epigraphy – Texts and History, highlighting some surprising textual material connected to Saqqara; Theoretics – Religion and Theory of Egyptology, dealing with the material culture of ancient Egypt in particular, art history in general, and the scientific methodology applicable to both fields; Mastabas – Scenes of Daily Life, revolving around the interpretation of iconographic programmes in Old Kingdom elite tombs of the Memphite Area, including the necropoleis of Giza, Abusir, Saqqara, Dashur and Meidum; Funerary Equipment – Coffins and Stolas, focussing on coffins and specific iconographic details. Touching upon the different subjects to which René has made important contributions, the authors imagine new interpretations, and offer images of the Memphite necropolis in various epochs.
£72.66
Peeters Publishers North Kharga Oasis Survey: Explorations in
Book SynopsisThe North Kharga Oasis Survey (NKOS) presents the results of archaeological exploration carried out over seven years in the northern part of Kharga Oasis, the largest and most southern oasis of Egypt’s Western Desert. This area had seen limited archaeological exploration until 2001, when NKOS began. NKOS has discovered and documented sites dating to all eras, ranging from the Prehistoric to the Late Antique. They include temporary camps, rock art sites, settlements, tombs, temples, industrial areas, Roman forts, fields, complex irrigation systems, and a network of routes that connect the sites together, as well as linking Kharga to the Nile Valley, Dakhla Oasis, Sudan, and beyond. The distribution, types of sites, and water acquisition strategies illustrate the changing interactions between humans and the landscape, which has fluctuated between wet and dry over time. Illustrated with maps, plans, drawings and photographs, the archaeological heritage of North Kharga is revealed for the first time.
£158.77
Peeters Publishers Egypt and Syria in the Fatimid, Ayyubid and
Book SynopsisThe ninth volume of proceedings of the International Colloquia on the History of Egypt and Syria in the Fatimid, Ayyubid and Mamluk Eras covers the 23rd and 24th gatherings, organized at the University of Leuven in 2015 and 2016. True to tradition, the 15 articles deal with a wide variety of scholarly subjects, all revolving around the central theme of Syro-Egypt's high and late medieval history. Topics dealt with include archaeology, architecture, codicology, economic, political, and religious history, as well as belles-lettres. With contributions by O. Abdel Barr, Z. Antrim, P.-V. Claverie, N. Coureas, J.-Ch. Ducène, K.A. Goudie, G. Lelli, B. Martel-Thoumian, D. Nicolle, M. Piana, A. Post, L. Richter-Bernburg, Th.M. Wijntjes and M. Zouihal.
£105.00
Peeters Publishers Re-defining a Space of Encounter. Islam and
Book SynopsisThis volume presents the proceedings of the 28th Conference of the Union Européenne des Arabisants et Islamisants that took place in Palermo, Italy. The articles in this volume are grouped in thematic sections, such as Islam and Religion, History, Literature, Travels, Language and Linguistics, Art and Inscriptions, Law, Philosophy and Sciences. The variety of approaches to the sources and methods employed shows the width of European research on the Arab-Islamic culture. This volume provides an easy access to the newest European scholarship on the Middle East.
£102.00
Peeters Publishers Who's Who around Deir el-Medina: Untersuchungen
Book SynopsisDas “Who's who around Deir el-Medina” behandelt das Versorgungspersonal (smd.t) der Arbeitersiedlung erstmals in Form einer Gesamtschau aller (potenziellen) Angehörigen und Tätigkeiten. In rund 1500 meist hieratischen administrativen Quellen aus der Ramessidenzeit konnten dabei gut 600 Männer ermittelt werden, die 12 verschiedenen Berufsgruppen angehörten. Die ermittelten Berufe sind zwei Hauptgruppen zuzuweisen. Während die Arbeiten der spezifisch in Deir el-Medine belegten Holzbringer/-schneider, Wasserträger und Gipshersteller (= Gruppe 1) kaum Vorkenntnisse erforderten, waren für die Ausübung der Berufe der Gruppe 2 (Fischer, Gärtner, Töpfer, Wäscher, Konditoren und Schmiede), die auch außerhalb Deir el-Medines in Ägypten gut belegt sind, sowohl Ausrüstung als auch Ausbildung und Erfahrung notwendig. Anhand einer diachronen Darstellung, zu deren Erarbeitung auch Informationen aus anderen Zeitstufen und Quellengattungen herangezogen wurden, zeigt die Studie, dass die Entstehung des Versorgungspersonals auf Neuerungen unter Ramses II. zurückgeht: Die zuvor siedlungsintern geregelten einfachen Aufgaben der Gruppe 1 wurden in ein spezifisch für Deir el-Medine eingerichtetes Versorgungspersonal ausgelagert und mit den extern ausgeführten Aufgaben der Gruppe 2 kombiniert. Dazu adaptierte man ein für Handwerker und Arbeitskräfte anderer Institutionen bereits übliches Organisationsprinzip. Dieses Arbeitssystem führte rund drei Generationen später, zu Beginn der 20. Dynastie, zur Ausbildung einer gewachsenen Sozialstruktur, die in den reich dokumentierten Regierungszeiten Ramses' III. und IV. detailliert rekonstruiert werden kann. Dabei wurde deutlich, dass die Entstehung und die Zusammensetzung dieses Versorgungspersonals während der 19. und 20. Dynastie wesentlich durch die geographische, administrative, soziale, politische und ökonomische Entwicklung Deir el-Medines beeinflusst wurde, was das Versorgungspersonal zu einer flexiblen Gruppierung machte, deren Zusammensetzung, Anzahl und Arbeitsleistung mehrfach verändert und angepasst wurde. Die mehrheitlich aus Schriftquellen gewonnenen Ergebnisse ließen sich mit Informationen zu den Nutzungsphasen des Dorfes, zu den Anlagen im Tal der Könige und im Tal der Königinnen sowie zu den Millionenjahrhäusern in Einklang bringen und mit dem Erhaltungszustand der Quellen korrelieren. Die Studie präsentiert ein differenziertes Bild Deir el-Medines, wobei die diachrone Betrachtung Veränderungen und Entwicklungen während der Ramessidenzeit erkennen lässt, die einen stetigen Wandel innerhalb der Berufsbilder in und im Umfeld der Arbeitersiedlung über einen Zeitraum von rund 250 Jahren offenbaren.
£115.76
Peeters Publishers The Ornamental Calcite Vessels from the Tomb of
Book SynopsisAt the time of the clearing of the tomb of Tutankhamun Howard Carter and his team made meticulous handwritten notes of every single object found. Yet a full scholarly publication of the majority of them has yet to be undertaken. This book presents a catalogue of the ornamental calcite vessels with an introduction and a discussion of their artistic merit, at times disputed, as well as their purpose during the life of Tutankhamun and after his death. Most of them were designed to contain scented unguents so precious that they proved irresistible to robbers in antiquity. Their intricate design combining utilitarian use with symbolic forms and ornamentation paired with a near perfect state of preservation makes them rare examples of royal arts and crafts of late 18th dynasty Egypt. The book is illustrated with original black & white photographs, most of them taken at the time of the discovery by Harry Burton, as well as some drawings made by Howard Carter. The colour photographs are by Sandro Vannini.
£73.12
Peeters Publishers Le microcosme animal en Égypte ancienne: de
Book SynopsisCette publication fait suite au colloque international organisé par l’Université de Fribourg, Suisse (10-11 septembre 2015). Abordant la relation spécifique entre les Égyptiens et le monde des Arthropodes, objet de peur et de vénération, les études réunies ciblent des espèces liées à des divinités (Isis de Coptos, Isis-Selkis, etc.) capables de déjouer leurs nuisances venimeuses ou de guérir de leurs effets (scorpions, mille-pattes), des espèces véhiculant des maladies parasitaires comme le paludisme ou la leishmaniose (moustiques et phlébotomes), des espèces aux caractéristiques anatomiques et éthologiques remarquables employées d’un point de vue conceptuel (scorpion, scarabée et Lanelater de Neith). Une partie de cette approche est consacrée aux nécrophages, ainsi qu’à l’utilisation médico-magique des Arthropodes dans le corpus médical de l’Égypte classique et la pharmacopée de l’Égypte gréco-romaine. Contributions de S.H. Aufrère, L. Baqué Manzano, T. Bardinet, J. Berlandini, A.-S. von Bomhard, A. Charron, N. Guilhou, P.P. Koemoth, J. Maître, M.-H. Marganne, F. Rouffet, et C. Spieser.
£130.00
Peeters Publishers Egypt at its Origins 6: Proceedings of the Sixth
Book SynopsisThis volume represents the 6th installment of proceedings of the successful international conference series "Origin of the State. Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egypt", which this time was held at the University of Vienna in Austria from 10th to 15th of September 2017. With this new peer-reviewed volume of focused research on early Egypt, the 41 contributors dedicated their research to various questions surrounding prehistoric Egypt, the emergence of Pharaonic civilization and the territorial state. While some papers present new archaeological results from on-going excavations, others involve the analysis and interpretation of previously known evidence from the different regions along the Nile Valley. A large group of papers specifically discuss the area of ancient Memphis, which was also a central theme of the conference helping to summarize 20 years of research at the archaeological site of Helwan. Following the good tradition of previous Origins conferences, a very large number of papers are dedicated to the area of Lower Egypt and the Nile Delta from early prehistoric through to the early Old Kingdom periods. These papers highlight the significance and enormous progress of archaeological fieldwork in an area that was long considered an uninhabitable swampland in prehistoric times. Other papers report on new fieldwork at different sites in a largely unexplored region of the Egyptian Nile Valley – the Eastern Desert of Middle Egypt, where active mining on a very large scale has taken place raising questions about the organization and scale of such activities during the formative periods of Egyptian civilization. There are numerous contributions on archaeological evidence from sites in Upper Egypt and their material culture, many of which having been excavated long ago but offering the opportunity to raise new questions. Material culture from within and outside the Nile Valley, bioarchaeological data as well as modern theoretical approaches discussed in several papers, offer great potential for arriving at wider conclusions about specialized craft production, religious practice, interregional exchange, funerary cult, social organization, kingship, administration, state formation as well as music in early Egypt. This volume is yet another exciting collection of latest research on the origins of Pharaonic Egypt and a must-have for any scholar interested in the archaeology of early civilizations.
£165.00
Peeters Publishers Égypte antérieure: Mélanges de préhistoire et
Book SynopsisCet ouvrage se veut un hommage à Béatrix Midant-Reynes, dont la longue carrière de lithicienne, d’archéologue et d’égyptologue est intimement liée à l’Égypte des origines, même si ses travaux couvrent un large éventail de disciplines. Béatrix Midant-Reynes est une figure majeure des études concernant la préhistoire égyptienne et la période prédynastique. Son oeuvre a une influence considérable tant pour les nouvelles théories qu’elle a posées concernant la constitution des premières sociétés nilotiques et l’émergence de l’État en Égypte, que des techniques de fouille ou d’analyse du matériel archéologique. Ce volume de mélanges propose 35 contributions, rédigées en français et en anglais, dues à des universitaires, des chercheurs et des conservateurs de musée. Les thèmes abordés, tous chers à leur dédicataire, illustrent la curiosité intellectuelle et les centres d’intérêt de Béatrix Midant-Reynes: la chronologie, le néolithique des déserts, le matériel lithique, les relations entre l’Égypte et le Proche-Orient, le sacrifice humain, l’habitat, le site d’Adaïma, le Delta du Nil, la culture matérielle, l’anthropologie de terrain, les premières dynasties égyptiennes, etc. This book is a tribute to Béatrix Midant-Reynes, whose long career as a lithic specialist, archaeologist, and Egyptologist is intimately linked to early Egypt, even though her work covers a wide range of disciplines. Béatrix Midant-Reynes is a major scholarly figure in the study of Egyptian prehistory and the Predynastic period. Her work has had a considerable influence in the new theories she has proposed concerning the constitution of the first Nilotic societies and the emergence of the State in Egypt, but also for the techniques of excavation and analysis of archaeological material she has introduced. This volume of essays offers 35 contributions, written in French and in English, by scholars, researchers, and museum curators. The variety of topics illustrates the intellectual curiosity and interests of Béatrix Midant-Reynes: chronology, the Neolithic of the deserts, lithic material, relations between Egypt and the Near East, human sacrifice, settlement archaeology, the site of Adaima, the Nile Delta, material culture, archaeothanatology, the first Egyptian dynasties, etc.
£180.00
Peeters Publishers Dendara. Catalogue des dieux et des offrandes
Book SynopsisLes différents monuments de Dendara accueillent environ deux cents divinités, soixante génies de la fécondité et quelque trois cents entités protectrices. Tous sont recensés dans le présent catalogue selon l’ordre alphabétique, individuellement ou réunis sous une seule rubrique pour les dieux mineurs, les génies de la fécondité ou les cohortes protectrices. Une transcription du texte hiéroglyphique est jointe à chacune des occurrences: un catalogue des offrandes et des statues représentées dans les cryptes clôt l’ensemble.
£140.16
Peeters Publishers Quand la fortune du royaume ne dépend pas de la
Book SynopsisPour l’Égypte lagide, la période 180-116, qui s’ouvre par une crise de succession, suivie d’une invasion séleucide du pays et de luttes dynastiques fratricides, est traditionnellement jugée de manière négative, non seulement par les historiens antiques mais aussi par l’historiographie moderne. À la suite de Polybe, l’intervention croissante de Rome dans les affaires du royaume est considérée comme une marque de faiblesse de la dynastie lagide, bien que celle-ci ait résisté plus longtemps à la mise sous tutelle que ses voisins Séleucides. Si l’on ne peut nier les difficultés, cette période est aussi celle d’une recomposition qui voit la mise en place d’un nouveau mode de gouvernement et un approfondissement des pratiques administratives. Les troubles dynastiques qui affaiblissent réellement le pays, témoignent, paradoxalement, d’un attachement populaire accru à la monarchie: la population soutenant l’un ou l’autre camp lagide. Ce sont ces différents aspects que ce volume propose d’explorer à travers différents cas d’étude.
£999.99
Peeters Publishers Remove that Pyramid!: Studies on the Archaeology
Book SynopsisThis volume in honour of the career of Stan Hendrickx includes 47 contributions that deal with the archaeology and history of Predynastic and Pharaonic Egypt. Given the influential role that Stan Hendrickx plays on our current knowledge of the Predynastic and Early Dynastic periods, many of the articles cluster in that time frame and deal with topics in material culture, iconography, and archaeology of early Egypt (pottery, stone vessels, lithics, state formation, and rock art). Contributions covering the pharaonic period primarily consist of ceramic studies, another field of expertise of Stan Hendrickx. Several articles focus on sites such as Elkab, Dayr al-Barsha, Adaïma, and the Dakhla Oasis, where Stan Hendrickx has been involved as an archaeologist and a ceramologist.
£210.00
Peeters Publishers Bastards in Egypt: Social and Legal Illegitimacy
Book SynopsisThroughout the course of Western history, children born out of wedlock enjoyed neither the social nor legal standing of marital children. Being born out of wedlock caused complications in the lives of not only commoners, but even the elite. The question is whether these attitudes developed independently or if they had a common root. In branches of law regulating the relationships within a family, Roman law is the usual suspect as a kind of ‘ideal law’, which may be understood as a model for modern practices, not only in the scholarship, but even in judicial decisions. On the other hand, Christianity is often recognised as inspiration for model of family in the West. The primary aim of this book is, therefore, to reconstruct the Roman concept of bastardy and how that concept evolved between Augustus and Constantine the Great, who changed the standing of individuals born out of wedlock and shaped legal definitions of illegitimacy for the centuries to come. Although the study is focused on Roman Egypt, the conclusions reached in this book are relevant for the whole of the Roman empire.
£91.07
Peeters Publishers Dendara. Hymnes à Hathor et à Isis
Book SynopsisLes temples tentyrites d'Hathor et d'Isis conservent dans la pierre des hymnes millénaires, parfois stylistiquement remaniés à l'époque gréco-romaine. Gravés de manière originale sur l'encadrement des portes, ils permettent en outre d'appréhender les dieux selon une ligne de pensée homogène. Depuis le cœur du temple jusqu'aux portes du pronaos, ils accompagnent les pas des prêtres durant les processions fériales. Le son des sistres rythmant les prières, les fragrances des parfums se mêlant aux odeurs florales, les breuvages et mets choisis exhalant leurs saveurs dans un ballet d'étoffes colorées et de parures chatoyantes, tout contribue à susciter l'extraordinaire fascination exercée par la divinité. Ciel, horizon, soleil, lumière, or, parfum, sistre, ces mots incessamment martelés s'animaient et célébraient la beauté incomparable d’Hathor, la fille de Rê; le temple est ainsi une bibliothèque pariétale et «sonore» utilisant des archives nationales millénaires.
£999.99
Peeters Publishers Dendara. Les structures décoratives du temple
Book SynopsisL'économie du temple d'Hathor répond à des normes strictes auxquelles se conforme la composition architecturale des chapelles. Chacun des éléments est autonome; conçus en fonction du lieu, il convient toutefois de les appréhender globablement. Le présent volume catalogue, en les traduisant, les structures décoratives du temple d'Hathor; séparés du contexte liturgique, des résultats partiels seraient faussés. Reposant sur l'observance de règles et de codes précis, le temple doit se présenter à jamais comme un microcosme parfait, depuis le sol de limon verdoyant jusqu'à la voûte céleste. L'Égypte forme le socle horizontal avec son eau, ses terres et même ses dieux. La philosophie se développe verticalement, des cryptes souterraines aux plafonds astronomiques; elle se hausse, pour ainsi dire, jusqu'à Rê le créateur.
£84.00
Peeters Publishers Déchiffrer le passé d'un empire: Hommage à
Book SynopsisNicolas Vatin est l’auteur d’une œuvre importante sur l’histoire de l’Empire ottoman, tout particulièrement aux XVe-XVIe siècles. Au lendemain de son entrée à l’Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, 34 de ses amis et collègues travaillant dans neuf pays différents ont souhaité lui rendre hommage. Leurs travaux, en français et en anglais (un texte est en allemand), ont été réunis par Elisabetta Borromeo, Frédéric Hitzel et Benjamin Lellouch. Organisés en huit parties thématiques, ils reprennent les nombreux domaines d’étude de Nicolas Vatin: l’historiographie ottomane, la conquête ottomane, les relations diplomatiques entre Orient et Occident, les élites ottomanes, l’identité ottomane, la piraterie en Méditerranée, l’épigraphie funéraire… Nicolas Vatin is the author of a major work on the history of the Ottoman Empire, especially during the 15th and 16th centuries. Following his nomination to the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, thirty-four of his friends and colleagues from nine different countries wished to pay tribute to him. Their contributions, written in French and English (and one in German), are edited by Elisabetta Borromeo, Frédéric Hitzel, and Benjamin Lellouch. Organized around eight themes, they touch on Nicolas Vatin’s numerous areas of study: Ottoman historiography, the Ottoman conquest, diplomatic relations between East and West, the Ottoman elites, Ottoman identity, piracy in the Mediterranean, funerary epigraphy…
£150.00
Peeters Publishers La fonction du lésônis dans les temples égyptiens
Book SynopsisDans la hiérarchie sacerdotale égyptienne, le lésônis désigne le prêtre choisi par ses pairs afin d’administrer les biens et le personnel d’un temple pendant au moins une année. Le terme grec λέσωνις transcrit l’égyptien mr-n. La fonction donnait une place éminente à son porteur dans un pays où les temples jouaient un rôle économique et social important. Après une étude paléographique et lexicale du titre, présentant ses différentes graphies, les difficultés de son étymologie, ses conditions d’emploi en égyptien et les modalités de sa transcription ou de sa traduction en grec, une synthèse socio-historique présente les données sur l’accès à la charge, son exercice et la position de son détenteur dans le temple. Un catalogue de tous les lésôneis attestés depuis les premières mentions du titre jusqu’à la fin de l’époque ptolémaïque complète l’ouvrage, ainsi qu’un choix de 25 textes emblématiques, en démotique et en grec, avec traduction.
£155.00
Peeters Publishers Dans les pas d'Imhotep: Mélanges offerts à Audran
Book SynopsisParmi les multiples vies d’Audran Labrousse, celle de l’architecte-archéologue doit retenir toute notre attention. Homme de terrain insatiable, il parcourt les chantiers de fouille depuis un demi-siècle, sillonnant le Proche-Orient et l’Afrique de l’est avec son regard aiguisé et un sens inné des monuments et des civilisations qu’il côtoie. De Suse à Sedeinga, de Pétra à Jérusalem, il observe, analyse, et recense les vestiges des multiples sociétés qui se sont succédé dans ce croissant si fertile au carrefour de l’Afrique et de l’Asie. Fort de cette érudition qui le caractérise, c’est à Saqqâra qu’il trouve le mieux à exercer ses talents d’architecte et d’homme de terrain. La rencontre avec Jean Leclant et Jean-Philippe Lauer le convainc de consacrer ses efforts à la restitution des vestiges monumentaux qui font le renom de cette nécropole royale. Directeur pendant quarante ans des fouilles de la nécropole de Pépy Ier, il met au jour le complexe de ce roi et les ensembles des reines qui lui sont associés. Cet ouvrage se veut à l’image de ce travailleur infatigable. Ses amis et collègues présentent ici un témoignage de reconnaissance et lui offrent un ensemble de contributions qui toutes rendent hommage à l’œuvre entreprise, par des études archéologiques et d’histoire, des présentations de monuments ou d’objets inédits provenant pour l’essentiel de la vallée du Nil. Among Audran Labrousse's many lives, that of the architect and archaeologist must be the focus of our attention. An insatiable hands-on man, he has been travelling through excavation sites for half a century, criss-crossing the Near East and East Africa with his sharp eye and an innate sense of the monuments and civilizations he encounters. From Susa to Sedeinga, from Petra to Jerusalem, he observes, analyses and inventories the remains of the many societies that have succeeded one another in this very fertile crescent, at the crossroads of Africa and Asia. With this erudition that characterizes him, it is in Saqqara that he found the best way to exercise his talents as an architect and a man of action. His meeting with Jean Leclant and Jean-Philippe Lauer convinced him to devote his efforts to the restitution of the monumental remains this royal necropolis is famous for. As the Director of the excavations of the necropolis of Pepy I for forty years, he uncovered the complex of this king and the several queens associated with him. This book is intended to reflect the image of this indefatigable worker. His friends and colleagues hereby present a token of their gratitude and offer him a set of contributions, all of which paying tribute to the work undertaken, through archaeological and historical studies, presentations of monuments or unpublished objects, mainly originated from the Nile Valley.
£84.00
Peeters Publishers Être intellectuel à la fin de l'Empire ottoman:
Book SynopsisÉcrivain, journaliste, polémiste, imprimeur et député unioniste après 1908, Ebüzziya Tevfik (1849-1913) est un intellectuel autodidacte, à cheval entre les cultures ottomane et occidentale, qui se situe pendant presque cinq décennies au cœur des débats politiques, culturels, intellectuels et sociaux de la capitale de l’Empire ottoman. Ce livre retrace sa biographie intellectuelle en adoptant une démarche socio-historique. Il reconstitue un parcours professionnel à partir d’une réflexion sur la formation et la recomposition des élites ottomanes, recense et examine une œuvre imprimée considérable. À travers cette figure, il retrace les méandres du réformisme social et politique ottoman ainsi que la condition sociale des intellectuels sous un angle problématique bien particulier: celui de leur autonomie face au pouvoir politique. En remontant aux origines intellectuelles des idées et des prises de position d’Ebüzziya Tevfik, en analysant les débats publics auquel cet auteur polyvalent a participé, ce livre propose aussi un panorama de la vie intellectuelle et politique dans l’Empire ottoman, des années 1860 aux années 1910. Writer, journalist, polemicist, printer and Unionist deputy after 1908, Ebüzziya Tevfik (1849-1913), a self-taught intellectual embracing both the Ottoman and Western cultures, was for almost five decades at the heart of political, cultural, intellectual and social debates of the capital of the Ottoman Empire. This book retraces his intellectual biography by adopting a socio-historical approach. It reconstructs a professional career from a reflection on the formation and reorganization of the Ottoman elites, identifies and examines a considerable printed work. Through this figure, it retraces the meanders of Ottoman social and political reformism as well as the social condition of intellectuals from a particular angle: that of their autonomy in the face of political power. By going back to the intellectual origins of Ebüzziya Tevfik’s ideas and positions, by analyzing the public debates in which this versatile author participated, this book also offers a panorama of the intellectual and political life in the Ottoman Empire, from the 1860s to the 1910s.
£89.00
Peeters Publishers The Catacombs of Anubis at North Saqqara: An
Book SynopsisIn 1897 Jacques de Morgan published a map of the Memphite necropolis, showing for the first time a pair of catacombs for mummified dogs. No further information was given and the catacombs remained largely un-investigated until the 21st century. In 2009 the Catacombs of Anubis Project was set up by Cardiff University who worked in collaboration with the Egyptian Supreme Council for Antiquities in an attempt to understand the larger of the two catacombs. This publication describes the work of the Catacombs of Anubis Project. It examines the way in which the catacomb was created and the likely phases of its development in the Late and Ptolemaic periods. The way in which the many thousands of animal mummies were procured is discussed in the light of modern faunal analysis and these results are combined with a new survey of the site to give a picture of the functioning of the cult at Saqqara. Finally, the way in which the monument may have been re-used in the post-pharaonic era is discussed. The results will be of interest to all those interested in animal mummies and in the development of catacombs as well as those concerned with the evolution of the sacred landscape of Saqqara.
£127.70
Peeters Publishers Conflict and Coexistence: Proceedings of the 29th
Book SynopsisThis volume comprises nineteen papers presented at the 29th Congress of the Union Européenne des Arabisants et Islamisants at the University of Münster, Germany in September 2018. The articles focus on a variety of phenomena from premodern and modern Islamicate cultures and societies. They are organized in sections on Sciences, Literature and Linguistics, Islamic Law, Theology and Philosophy, History and Society and Material Culture. The variety of approaches to the sources and methods employed represents the width of European research in this field. Thus, the volume provides an easy access to the newest European scholarship on the Islamicate Near and Middle East.
£120.00
Peeters Publishers The Bearers of Business Letters in Roman Egypt
Book SynopsisIn the absence of a postal service available to all, letters exchanged between the inhabitants of Roman Egypt were most often transmitted with the help of informal bearers whose task was not limited to carrying a letter: they brought or collected goods, helped the recipients, sometimes received assistance, facilitated money transfer, performed escort and police duties, and more generally they were an essential link within a wide social network. This short study not only covers formal aspects, such as terminology or the place of the bearer in the structure of a business letter, but also provides a description of the role of the bearers and of their interaction with both senders and recipients.
£31.67
