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Peeters Publishers Bagage van een Woelige Periode De Vroege
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Peeters Publishers Site Neolithique Et Helladique Ancien De
Book SynopsisLes sondages effectues par O.W. von Vacano sur le site de Kouphovouno en Laconie pendant l'ete 1941 ont livre des vestiges d'habitations, des tombes et une quantite importante de materiel lithique, osseux et ceramique, temoignant d'une occupation allant du Neolithique moyen a l'Helladique ancien II. La publication des travaux d'O.W. von Vacano constitue a ce jour la seule etude consacree a un site de Laconie date de ces periodes. Elle tient compte des hypotheses et des conclusions que le fouilleur a formulees et compare les decouvertes de Kouphovouno avec les resultats des recherches les plus recentes sur le Neolithique et le Bronze ancien, notamment dans le Peloponnese. Apres une presentation de la stratigraphie du site, des vestiges de constructions et des tombes, une partie est consacree a l'etude de l'outillage en pierre taillee, en pierre polie, en os et en terre cuite, et comprend un catalogue complet des pieces entreposees au Musee de Sparte. Puis deux chapitres abordent respectivement la ceramique neolithique et celle de l'Helladique ancien. Enfin, une derniere partie presente les figurines en terre cuite
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Peeters Publishers Aegaeum 6
Book SynopsisTable des Matieres - Rene TREUIL, OA' sont donc les tombes neolithiques ? - Eleni GEORGOULAKI, The Minoan Sanctuary at Koumasa : the Evidence of the Material - Gisela WALBERG, The Finds in the Sealing Deposit at Phaistos and Minoan Administration - Frederique PETIT, Les jarres funeraires du Minoen Ancien III au Minoen Recent I - Edmund F. BLOEDOW, The 'Sanctuary Rhyton' from Zakros : What do the Goats mean ? - Nanno MARINATOS, The Tree, the Stone and the Pithos : Glimpses into a Minoan Ritual - Dimitri LABOURY, Reflexions sur les vases metalliques des tributaires keftiou - Robert LAFFINEUR, The Iconography of Mycenaean Seals and the Status of their Owners - Krzysztof NOWICKI, The West Siteia Mountains at the Turn of the Bronze and Iron Ages - Comptes rendus
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Peeters Publishers Le Peloponnese Au Bronze Ancien
Book SynopsisCette monographie est une contribution a la connaissance des faits sociaux, economiques et culturels du Peloponnese au Bronze Ancien, a travers une etude qui prend en compte l'ensemble des donnees archeologiques. Les cinq chapitres de la premiere partie constituent un catalogue topographique complet des sites archeologiques et des vestiges qui font l'objet de l'etude de la seconde partie, intitulee "L'habitat et le mode de vie". Cette seconde partie s'organise autour de six themes : le premier concerne l'habitat et aborde les questions d'implantation, d'organisation et d'amenagement des habitats; le second concerne les habitations, leur construction, leurs plans et les fonctions attribuees aux batiments; le troisieme traite des moyens de subsistance, de l'exploitation des ressources naturelles, de l'agriculture et de l'elevage; le travail de la pierre, de la terre, du metal, des matieres premieres vegetales et animales constituent la matiere du quatrieme theme; le cinquieme theme - l'organisation economique - est aborde a travers une synthese des donnees sur les sceaux et les scelles; enfin les pratiques funeraires font l'objet du sixieme theme.
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Peeters Publishers Kres Texnites. L'artisan Cretois: Recueil
Book SynopsisTable des MatieresAvant-proposPreface du Directeur de l'Ecole francaise d'AthenesBiographie de Jean-Claude PoursatBibliographie de Jean-Claude PoursatAbreviations bibliographiquesArticles- Maria Andreadaki-Vlasaki, Cultes et divinites dans la ville minoenne de La Canee. Quelques reflexions- Claude Baurain, " !nya te Minvw \nnevrow basileue " (Homere, Od. XIX 178-179)- Isabelle Bradfer-Burdet, Une kouloura dans le " Petit Palais " de Malia- Pascal Darcque, Mycenes : une ville ou un palais ?- Beatrice Detournay, Les premieres femmes sur les fouilles de Malia (1923-1925) - Christos Doumas, La repartition topographique des fresques dans les batiments d'Akrotiri a Thera- Jan Driessen, On the Use of the Upper Floors in Minoan Neopalatial Architecture- Alexandre Farnoux, Art et litterature : la coupe de Nestor - Louis Godart, Le developpement et la diffusion des ecritures egeennes- Carl Knappett, Artworks and Artefacts : The Pottery from Quartier Mu, Malia - Olga Krzyszkowska, Amethyst in the Aegean Bronze Age. An Archaeological Enigma? - Robert Laffineur, Les chapiteaux chevilles. Propos sur l'architecture minoenne en materiaux perissables- Vincenzo La Rosa, Le motif du poulpe dans la ceramique de Camares a Phaistos - Sylvie Muller-Celka, Le " Cratere au Parasol ", Chypre et l'Egee. Une histoire de vases- Walter Muller, Gold Rings on Minoan Fingers- Elsa Papatsaroucha, La pierre et l'objet double : Questions iconographiques de la glyptique minoenne - Olivier Pelon, Les deux destructions du palais de Malia - Ingo Pini, Spatbronzezeitliche Agaische Weichsteinsiegel mit Ausnahme der ?Mainland Popular Group' von Fundorten Ausserhalb Kretas- Rene Treuil, Entre morts et vivants a Malia. La " zone des necropoles " et les quartiers d'habitation - Peter Warren, A Model of Iconographical Transfer. The Case of Crete and EgyptTabula gratulatoria
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Peeters Publishers Epos. Reconsidering Greek Epic and Aegean Bronze
Book SynopsisTable of Contents Preface and Acknowledgments List of abbreviations I. EPOS AND LOGOS: HOMER AND TROY - Malcolm WIENER, Homer and History: Old Questions, New Evidence - Marianna NIKOLAIDOU and Dimitra KOKKINIDOU, Epos, History, Metahistory in Aegean Bronze Age Studies - Maureen BASEDOW, Troy without Homer: the Bronze Age-Iron Age Transition in the Troad - Sarah P. MORRIS, Troy Between Bronze and Iron Ages: Myth, Cult and Memory in a Sacred Landscape II. EPOS AND EIKON: ART, POETRY AND WRITING - John YOUNGER, The Mycenaean Bard: The Evidence for Sound and Song - Robert LAFFINEUR, Homeric Similes: A Bronze Age Background? - Edmund F. BLOEDOW, Homer and the depas amphikypellon - L. Vance WATROUS, The Fleet Fresco, the Odyssey and Greek Epic Narrative - Andreas VLACHOPOULOS, Mythos, Logos and Eikon. Motifs of Early Greek Poetry in the Wall Paintings of Xeste 3 III. WANAX AND BASILEUS: RULERSHIP IN HOMER AND ARCHAEOLOGY - Pierre CARLIER, Are the Homeric Basileis 'Big Men'? - Thomas G. PALAIMA, Mycenaean Society and Kingship: Cui Bono? A Counter-Speculative View - Bryan E. BURNS, Epic Reconstructions: Homeric Palaces and Mycenaean Architecture - Brendan BURKE, Gordion of Midas and the Homeric Age - Eric H. CLINE and Assaf YASUR-LANDAU, Poetry in Motion: Canaanite Rulership and Minoan Narrative Art at Tel Kabri IV. BEYOND ELITE: HOMERIC SOCIETY AND ARCHAEOLOGY - Kim S. SHELTON, Foot Soldiers and Cannon Fodder: The Underrepresented Majority of the Mycenaean Civilization - Helene WHITTAKER, Sacrificial Practice and Warfare in Homer and in the Bronze Age - Andrea GUZETTI, Homer and the Dorians: The Reasons For a Missed Encounter V. EPOS AND MYTHOS - Ernestine S. ELSTER, Odysseys Before Homer: Trade, Travel, and Adventure in Prehistoric Greece - Cynthia S. COLBURN, The Symbolic Significance of Distance in the Homeric Epics and the Bronze Age Aegean - Fritz BLAKOLMER, The Silver Battle Krater from Shaft Grave IV at Mycenae: Evidence of Fighting 'Heroes' on Minoan Palace Walls at Knossos? - Massimo PERNA, Homer and the 'Folded Wooden Tablets' VI. EPOS AND TOPOS: HOMERIC LANDSCAPES - Oliver DICKINSON, Aspects of Homeric Geography - Philip P. BETANCOURT, The Amnissos Cave: Poetry Meets Reality - Aleydis VAN DE MOORTEL, The Site of Mitrou and East Lokris in 'Homeric Times' - Anne P. CHAPIN and Louise A. HITCHCOCK, Homer and Laconian Topography: This Is What the Book Says, and This Is What the Land Tells Us - Naya SGOURITSA, Myth, Epos and Mycenaean Attica: The Evidence Reconsidered
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Peeters Publishers Dais. the Aegean Feast: Proceedings of the 12th
Book SynopsisTable of Contents Preface and Acknowledgments Abbreviations KEYNOTE ADDRESS - Yannis HAMILAKIS, Time, Performance, and the Production of a Mnemonic Record: From Feasting to an Archaeology of Eating and Drinking I. FEASTS FOR THE GODS: FEASTING PRACTICES AND RELIGIOUS ASPECTS - Jennifer WILSON, What Were the Women Doing While the Men Were Eating and Drinking? The Evidence of the Frescoes - Anna SIMANDIRAKI, The Minoan Body as a Feast - Bernice JONES, Anthropomorphic Vessels at the Feast: Evidence for Dress or Ornament? - Brent DAVIS, Libation and the Minoan Feast - David COLLARD, Possible Alternatives to Alcohol: The Contextual Analysis of Poppy-shaped Jugs from Cyprus and the Aegean - Dora CONSTANTINIDIS, From Fields to Feasts: Interpreting Aegean Architecture and Iconography in Relation to Feast Preparations - Janice L. CROWLEY, In Honour of the Gods ' But Which Gods? Identifying Deities in Aegean Glyptic - Helene WHITTAKER, The Role of Drinking in Religious Ritual in the Mycenaean Period - Elizabeth SHANK, Decorated Dining Halls - Gullog NORDQUIST, Feasting: Participation and Performance II. FEASTS FOR THE HUMANS: COOKING, FOOD AND WINE - Sarah P. MORRIS, Wine and Water in the Bronze Age: Fermenting, Mixing and Serving Vessels - Thomas M. BROGAN and Andrew J. KOH, Feasting at Mochlos? New Evidence for Wine Production, Storage and Consumption from a Bronze Age Harbor Town on Crete? - Rachel FOX, Tastes, Smells and Spaces: Sensory Perceptions and Mycenaean Palatial Feasting - Bartlomiej LIS, Cooked Food in the Mycenaean Feast ' Evidence from the Cooking Pots - Julie HRUBY, You Are How You Eat: Mycenaean Class and Cuisine IIIa. FEASTS IN THE AEGEAN LANDSCAPE: THE EVIDENCE FROM CRETE - Philip P. BETANCOURT, David S. REESE, Louise L. VERSTEGEN, and Susan C. FERRENCE, Feasts for the Dead: Evidence from the Ossuary at Hagios Charalambos - Luca GIRELLA, Feasts in 'transition'? An overview of feasting practices during MM III in Crete - Loeta TYREE, Athanasia KANTA and Harriet Lewis ROBINSON, Evidence for Ritual Eating and Drinking: A View from Skoteino Cave - Judith REID, Dinnertime at Kato Zakro - Jan DRIESSEN, Alexandre FARNOUX and Charlotte LANGOHR, Favissae. Feasting Pits in LM III - Quentin LETESSON and Jan DRIESSEN, From 'Party' to 'Ritual' to 'Ruin' in Minoan Crete: The Spatial Context of Feasting IIIb. FEASTS IN THE AEGEAN LANDSCAPE: THE EVIDENCE FROM THE MAINLAND - Jennifer O'NEILL, Utility and Metaphor: The Design of The House of Tiles at Lerna - Kim S. SHELTON, Drinking, Toasting, Consumption and Libation: Late Helladic IIIA Pottery and a Cup for Every Occasion - Salvatore VITALE, Ritual Drinking and Eating at LH IIIA2 Early Mitrou, East Lokris. Evidence for Mycenaean Feasting Activities? - Gisela WALBERG and David S. REESE, Feasting at Midea IV. IMAGES OF THE FEAST: ICONOGRAPHY - Ingo PINI, Are there any Representations of Feasting in the Aegean Bronze Age? - Fritz BLAKOLMER, Processions in Aegean Iconography II: Who are the Participants? - Susan C. FERRENCE, Is There Iconography of the Minoan Feast? - Marcia NUGENT, Picturing the Feast ' Recipes as Art. Botanic Motifs of the Late Bronze Age Cycladic Islands V. FEASTS ABROAD: COMPARATIVE EVIDENCE FROM THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN - Jennifer M. WEBB and David FRANKEL, Fine Ware Ceramics, Consumption and Commensality: Mechanisms of Horizontal and Vertical Integration in Early Bronze Age Cyprus - Kathryn O. ERIKSSON, Feasting as Part of the Multiculturalism of Late Bronze Age Cyprus - Alison SOUTH, Feasting in Cyprus: a View from Kalavasos - Louise A. HITCHCOCK, Architectures of Feasting - Karen Polinger FOSTER, A Taste for the Exotic - Ann E. KILLEBREW and Justin LEV-TOV, Early Iron Age Feasting and Cuisine: an Indicator of Philistine-Aegean Connectivity? - Aren M. MAEIR, Aegean Feasting and other Indo-European Elements in the Philistine Household -Assaf YASUR-LANDAU, Hard to Handle: Aspects of Organization in Aegean and Near Eastern Feasts VI. FEASTS IN THE TEXTS: THE WRITTEN RECORD - John G. YOUNGER, Food Rations and Portions in Cretan Hieroglyphic Documents - Ioannis FAPPAS, The Use of Perfumed Oils during Feasting Activities: A Comparison of Mycenaean and Near Eastern Written Sources - Stavroula NIKOLOUDIS, Bulls and Belonging: Another Look at PY Cn 3 - Thomas G. PALAIMA, The Significance of Mycenaean Words Relating to Meals, Meal Rituals, and Food - Vassilis P. PETRAKIS, E-ke-ra2-wo A wa-na-ka: The Implications of a Probable Non-Identification for Pylian Feasting and Politics - Cynthia W. SHELMERDINE, Host and Guest at a Mycenaean Feast - Jorg WEILHARTNER, Some Observations on the Commodities in the Linear B Tablets Referring to Sacrificial Banquets AFTERTHOUGHT - Thomas G. PALAIMA, A New Linear B Inscription from the Land Down Under: AUS HO(ME) Bo 2008
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Peeters Publishers Fylo. Engendering Prehistoric 'stratigraphies' in
Book SynopsisTable of Contents Preface and Acknowledgments Introductory note Abbreviations A. OPENING LECTURE - Liv Helga DOMMASNES , Women in archaeology in Norway : twenty years of gendered archaeological practice and some thoughts about changes to come B. PLENARY SESSION ' A TRIBUTE TO PAUL REHAK: PAST AND PRESENT GENDER ISSUES, A STATE OF ART - Paul REHAK (ed. John YOUNGER), Some unpublished studies by Paul Rehak on gender in Aegean art - Alexandra ALEXANDRI, Envisioning gender in Aegean prehistory - Dimitra KOKKINIDOU and Marianna NIKOLAIDOU, Feminism and Greek archaeology: an encounter long over-due C. WORLDS OF WOMEN, MEN AND BEYOND: GENDER IDENTITIES, ROLES, INTERACTIONS, SYMBOLISMS Cyprus - Diane BOLGER, Beyond male/female: recent approaches to gender in Cypriot prehistory - Giorgos VAVOURANAKIS, A 'speared Aphrodite' from Bronze Age Audemou, Cyprus Jordan - Julia MULLER-CLEMM, Cemetery A of Tell el-Mazar, Jordan. A gender-critical relecture Spain - Paloma GONZALEZ-MARCEN and Sandra MONTON-SUBIAS, Time, women, identity and maintenance activities. Death and life in the Argaric communities of southeast Iberia - Margarita SANCHEZ-ROMERO, Women in Bronze Age southeast Iberian peninsula : daily life, relationships, identities Aegean and the Balkans - Christina MARANGOU, Gendered/sexed and sexless beings in prehistory: readings of the invisible gender Aegean - Louise A. HITCHCOCK, Knossos is burning: gender bending the Minoan genius - Penelope J.P. McGEORGE, Gender meta-analysis of Late Bronze Age skeletal remains: the case of Tomb 2 in the Pylona cemetery on Rhodes - Barbara A. OLSEN, Was there unity in Mycenaean gender practices? The women of Pylos and Knossos in the Linear B tablets - Kim S. SHELTON, Who wears the horns? Gender choices in Mycenaean terracotta figurines - Alexander UCHITEL, The Minoan Linear A sign for 'woman': a tentative identification - Judith WEINGARTEN, The Zakro master and questions of gender - Marika ZEIMBEKI, Gender, kinship and material culture in Aegean Bronze Age ritual D. FORMATION OF PAST GENDER: COMING OF AGE, CHILDHOOD, WOMANHOOD, MOTHERHOOD - Francoise AUDOUZE and Frederic JANNY, Can we hope to identify children's activities in Upper Palaeolithic settlements? - Anne P. CHAPIN, Constructions of male youth and gender in Aegean art: the evidence from Late Bronze Age Crete and Thera - Katerina KOPAKA, Mothers in Aegean stratigraphies? The dawn of ever-continuing engendered life cycles - Maia POMADERE, OA' sont les meres ? Representations et realites de la maternite dans le monde egeen protohistorique - John G. YOUNGER, 'We are woman': girl, maid, matron in Aegean art E. READING AEGEAN GENDER: THROUGH WOMEN'S AND MEN'S EYES - Isabelle BRADFER-BURDET, Phedre ou la Goulue : l'antiquite travestie. Les femmes de l'Age du Bronze mises a nu par les archeologues du XXeme siecle - Gerald CADOGAN, Gender metaphors of social stratigraphy in pre-linear B Crete , or Is 'Minoan gynaecocracy' (still) credible? - Lucy GOODISON, Gender, body and the Minoans: contemporary and prehistoric perceptions - Christine MORRIS, The iconography of the bared breast in Aegean Bronze Age art F. ENGENDERING AEGEAN FIELDWORK: THE CONTRIBUTION OF WOMEN ARCHAEOLOGISTS - Susan Heuck ALLEN, Excavating women: female pairings in early Aegean archaeology (1871-1918) - Anna Lucia D'AGATA, Women archaeologists and non-palatial Greece : a case-study from Crete'of the hundred cities' - Metaxia TSIPOPOULOU, Harriet Boyd's 'granddaughters': women directors of excavations and surveys in Crete at the end of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st century
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Peeters Publishers De Letter Levend Maken: Opstellen Aangeboden Aan
Book SynopsisGuido de Baere werd in 2006 gevierd bij zijn emeritaat als professor bij het Ruusbroecgenootschap. Nu hij de zeventigjarige leeftijd bereikt en zich onverminderd blijft wijden aan de studie van de Middelnederlandse geestelijke letterkunde, wordt hem een hulde-album met bijdragen van collega's aangeboden. Daarnaast bevat de bundel een heruitgave van een zevental van Guido de Baere's belangrijkste artikelen, waarin Ruusbroec de centrale figuur vormt, zoals dat ook in zijn wetenschappelijke loopbaan het geval was.De 24 bijdragen van collega's bestrijken het brede veld van de geestelijke letterkunde in de Lage Landen. In de eerste plaats is er aandacht voor Ruusbroec, zijn leer en zijn teksten, en zijn Europese invloed via verschillende edities en vertalingen. Vervolgens worden aspecten van belangrijke verwante mystici belicht: Hadewijch, Eckhart, Marguerite Porete, Thomas a Kempis, Bernardus van Clairvaux. Andere bijdragen passen bij de brede belangstellingssfeer van Guido de Baere: middeleeuws grammatica-onderwijs, de arbeid van vrouwelijke kloosterkopiisten, een bijzonder Middelnederlands verzamelhandschrift met tekeningen, catechetische teksten en boekrollen. Een drietal bijdragen over jezuieten bedrijvig in letteren en maatschappij, vroeger en nu, vervolledigt deze feestbundel voor de collega en vriend Guido de Baere.
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Peeters Publishers Schoon Volk: Kasteelbewoners in West-Limburg in
Book SynopsisIn de 19e eeuw trad in West-Limburg een nieuwe sociale groep van superrijken op het voorplan. Met kapitaal verkregen uit het verhandelen van (tijdens de Franse revolutie) geconfisqueerd vastgoed en door investeringen in de nieuwe industrie in Wallonie, zouden zij veel grotere domeinen verwerven dan de rijken uit eerdere generaties. Hun status werd vormgegeven door in kastelen en landhuizen te verblijven, waarrond parken werden aangelegd van afmetingen die voorheen ondenkbaar waren. Gezien landbouw omzeggens de enige economische activiteit van betekenis was in West-Limburg en de nieuwe rijken de meeste grond bezaten, waren veel inwoners voor hun inkomen van hen afhankelijk. Door het cijnskiesrecht kreeg dezelfde groep het ook in de gemeentebesturen en in de provincieraad voor het zeggen. De meest vermogende families zagen hun zonen in de Kamer en de Senaat verkozen worden; zij combineerden economische en politieke macht. Zij bepaalden waar er steenwegen aangelegd werden, waar de spoorwegstations kwamen, wie er gemeentesecretaris, onderwijzer of veldwachter werd. Aan de hand van een aantal voorbeelden worden in dit boek maatschappelijke en economische evoluties belicht die het leven in de 19e eeuw bepaald hebben en waarvan de sporen in het West-Limburgse landschap nog onuitwisbaar zijn.
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Peeters Publishers Between Satricum and Antium : Settlement
Book SynopsisBetween Satricum and Antium' presents a study carried out by the Groningen Institute of Archaeology of the territories of two ancient settlements, both situated in the coastal landscape of ancient Latium on the Thyrrhenian seaboard, ca. 60 km south of Rome. Starting with the earliest traces of human presence in the Palaeolithic, the book deals in depth with the settlement dynamics in the area from the Middle Bronze age to the medieval period. Systematic archaeological surveys, studies of existing site inventories and relevant artefact studies are all combined in this well-illustrated volume that provides a detailed account of the appearance of the first permanent dwellings during the Bronze and Iron Ages, of the rise of Archaic and Roman rural and maritime settlement and of the gradual process towards incastellamento during the Middle Ages.
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Peeters Publishers The Incomprehensibility of God: Augustine as a
Book SynopsisAugustine's way of speaking about God has been frequently deplored. It has been dismissed as too confident regarding the content of its assertions and too narrowly confined. The reception of Augustine's work appears to indicate that there was not a little truth to this view. Augustine's affirmative statements on God's essence and activities constituted the 'initial capital' of Christian theology and spirituality.In contemporary religion, a tendency is in evidence to deny that too specific an image of God can really contain absolute truth. Fully formulated religious truths have to be placed in perspective, or must even be deconstructed, especially if the suspicion arises that they inhibit openness to authentic religious experiences of unity and harmony. Given such an outlook on religion, it seems understandable that those who take contemporary culture's renewed interest in religion seriously ignored Augustine's work as an authoritative source for 'post-christian' discourse about God.The presupposition of this book is that, throughout his life, Augustine maintained a balance between speaking about God and remaining silent about him to a much greater extent than has often been realized. On the one hand, as a priest and a bishop, he wished to prevent misunderstandings concerning the nature of God's essence and activity. On the other hand, as a young priest, he already showed his concern to drive home to the faithful the idea that God was a mystery.If Augustine positioned himself at the cutting edge of speaking and remaining silent, then his work is once more of importance for the future of the Christian faith, because it recognizes that the tension between affirmative and negative discourse about God has been characteristic of the Christian tradition from time immemorial.
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Peeters Publishers Commonplace Culture in Western Europe in the
Book SynopsisThis is the first of three volumes from the project 'Authority and Persuasion: the Role of Commonplaces in Western Europe (c.1450-c.1800)'. The project was launched by the universities of Copenhagen, Durham and Groningen and involved scholars from a range of disciplines who researched the use of commonplaces as a means of persuasion in the early modern world. Commonplace as a technical term refers to the loci communes collected in late medieval and early modern commonplace books. In the project, however, the notion of commonplace was broadened to include means of persuasion in all kinds of texts as well as the visual arts, theatre, music and other media. This broader notion embraces metaphors, proverbs, figures, and expressions that enjoyed both a history of use in a given society or language community and a wide currency in that society. This first volume, subtitles 'Reformation, Counter-Reformation and Revolt', focuses on the role of argument from commonplaces, whether linguistic, textual, visual, performative, or musical, during a period of rapid and far-reaching ideological and social change characterised by theological controversies and political turmoil. Progressing from a strict to a more flexible definition of the commonplace, the thirteen contributions to this volume explore the role of the commonplace in the early modern classroom, its place in contemporary polemic and controversy as well as its relationship with (disputed) authority, and trace its presence across a variety of media in the visual, theatrical, and spatial arts. The second volume concerns 'Consolidation of God-given Power', and the third volume deals with 'Legitimation of Authority'.
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Peeters Publishers Commonplace Culture in Western Europe in the
Book SynopsisThis is the second of three volumes from the project 'Authority and Persuasion: the Role of Commonplaces in Western Europe (c.1450-c.1800)'. The project was launched by the universities of Copenhagen, Durham and Groningen and involved scholars from a range of disciplines who researched the use of commonplaces as a means of persuasion in the early modern world. Commonplaces as a technical term refers to the loci communes collected in late medieval and early modern commonplace books. In the project, however, the notion of commonplace was broadened to include means of persuasion in all kinds of texts as well as the visual arts, theatre, music and other media. This broader notion embraces metaphors, proverbs, figures, and expressions that enjoyed both a history of use in a given society or language community and a wide currency in that society. This is the second volume from the Commonplace Culture series. It analyses the use of commonplaces to bolster power, or sometimes to question it. The volume focuses on the seventeenth century. In the latter part of this period, the status and cognitive scope of the printed commonplace book declined; yet, a sthe essays in this volume demonstrate, the cognitive practices evidenced in commonplace books continued to enjoy good health. The 'commonplaces' analysed by contributors to this volume constitute cultural objects which gained persuasive potential from the exploitation of material bearing the authority of the past, yet they are not commonplaces stricto sensu. The essays in the volume examine not only written texts but also theatre, music, processions, ballets, and royal entries. In particular, the notion of the commonplace is taken into the visual domain, indicating that in the seventeenth century the visual was central to those diverse practices which sought to shore up God-given power through the pre-existing authority of commonplace material. The first volume concerns 'Reformation, Counter-Reformation and Revolt', and the third volume deals with 'Legitimation of Authority'.
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Peeters Publishers Commonplace Culture in Western Europe in the
Book SynopsisThis is the third of three volumes from the project 'Authority and Persuasion: the Role of Commonplaces in Western Europe (c.1450-c.1800)'. The project was launched by the universities of Copenhagen, Durham and Groningen and involved scholars from a range of disciplines who researched the use of commonplaces as a means of persuasion in the early modern world. Commonplace as a technical term refers to the loci communes collected in late medieval and early modern commonplace books. In the project, however, the notion of commonplace was broadened to include means of persuasion in all kinds of texts as well as the visual arts, theatre, music and other media. This broader notion embraces metaphors, proverbs, figures, and expressions that enjoyed both a history of use in a given society or language community and a wide currency in that society. This third volume, subtitled 'Legitimation of Authority', focuses on the eighteenth century, an era in which many new political groups appeared, challenging and confronting existing rulers and elites, who in turn were forced to find alternative ways of legitimating their authority. Although the traditional commonplace books went out of fashion, the ten contributions in this volume demonstrate that practices of quotation as well as persuasive uses of stock material did not disappear. As in the previous two volumes, the authors represented in the present one have studied the use of generalised commonplaces in different sources and genres and in various media, such as political rituals and symbols, news sources, reference books, literature and also theatre and music. The first volume concerns 'Reformation, Counter-Reformation and Revolt, and the second volume deals with 'Consolidation of God-given Power'.
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Peeters Publishers Gods and Religion in Hellenistic Poetry
Book SynopsisThis volume contains the papers of the 'Groningen Workshop on Hellenistic Poetry 9: Gods and Religion in Hellenistic Poetry' (Groningen 2008). During the workshop a first draft of the papers was commented on by an international group of specialists in the field of Hellenistic poetry.Following developments in recent research, where the study of ancient religion is flourishing, the articles in this volume explore the ways in which Hellenistic poets deal with issues relating to gods and religion. Some themes have been selected for special treatment. Thus some articles focus on the way in which Hellenistic poets inscribe the old gods in their poetry and give them a new role and meaning: they discuss, for instance, the role of Aphrodite, who is prominent in Hellenistc epigram, or the role of Zeus, who is portrayed as a model and example for the Ptolemies and thus adds an extra dimension to the first hymn of Callimachus. Besides, there is room for more general aspects, such as the chronology of myth, the interaction between the rule of gods and the acts of human characters in Apollonius' Argonautica, or the role of gods in Lycophron's Alexandra or in Hellenistic metamorphoses.The volume is part of a series. Every two years a 'Workshop on Hellenistic Poetry' takes place at the University of Groningen, the papers of which are published in the series 'Hellenistica Groningana'.
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Peeters Publishers Sagalassos Jaarboek 2009 de Late Oudheid Ca
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Peeters Publishers Aegean and Cypro-Aegean Non-Sphragistic Decorated
Book SynopsisFor the Aegean Bronze Age gold finger rings immediately call to mind the many gold signet rings and impressions thereof on clay sealings from both Crete and the Greek mainland; such items continue to be found in new excavations. The numerous seal impressions demonstrate that the rings were primarily used for administrative purposes. These are excluded from the present study, which focuses instead on the non-sphragistic decorated finger rings that occur less frequently. It also encompasses rings from Cyprus that are somehow related to examples from the Aegean.
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Peeters Publishers PieterJozef Verhaghen 17281811 In Het Spoor Van
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Peeters Publishers Roman Toilets: Their Archaeology and Cultural
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Peeters Publishers Changing Minds: Religion and Cognition Through
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Peeters Publishers Lady Macbeth's Sisters: Women's Power in
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Peeters Publishers L'emergence De La Civilisation Mycenienne En
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Peeters Publishers 100 Jaar De Wijnpers: Het Verhaal Van Een
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