The Arts Books
Peeters Publishers Invisible Hands?: The Role and Status of the
Book SynopsisThe topic of the workshop entitled 'Role and status of journeyman in artists' and craftmen's workshops in the Low Countries c. 1450 - c. 1650', held in Groningen, 23-24 May 2003, grew out of archival and material-technical research on workshop practices. As a result of this research it gradually became clear that more knowledge about the social and economic mechanisms of art production was required in order to study the painters' workshop. Such research frequently moves in two or more directions, and in this case the workshop proceeded on the basis of two questions: how can socially and economically oriented historical research help art historians, and what can art historical, and material and technical research add to corporate history of the painter's guild? Geographically, the case studies in this volume deal with southern Netherlandish towns, in particular Antwerp, Brussels, Mechelen, Ghent and Bruges. One essay focuses on the Dutch Republic. Chronologically, the contributions treat the late Middle Ages and early Modern Period (c. 1450 and c. 1650). From an artistic point of view, this era can be characterized as the long 'Golden Age' of Flemish painting. The epoch witnessed the apogee of the art of the Flemish Primitives and the rise of the successful genre of Antwerp Mannerism. It also witnessed the start of the influence of the Italian Renaissance on Flemish art, the rise of Antwerp over the course of the sixteenth century as the vanguard of new genres which were exported all over the world, and the international triumph of the Flemish Baroque after 1610.
£54.58
Peeters Publishers Oratio Ou La Parole Persuasive: Etude
Book SynopsisCet ouvrage propose du mot latin oratio (discours, langage, eloquence, priere) une etude fondee sur les methodes de l'analyse semique et les categories de la pragmatique. D'etymologie peu sure, oratio designe essentiellement un discours argumente (de orare), en meme temps qu'il exprime une disposition, caracterise un role ou une position. Dans la Rhetorique a Herennius et chez Ciceron, cette notion de discours (logos) s'elargit a d'autres formes de la persuasion, integrant les passions et l'action oratoire, tandis que sous l'influence de lexis se developpe le concept de style. Par rapport a des noms comme uerbum ou sermo, oratio definit une parole a la fois orientee vers l'action et inseparable de l'enonciation.
£999.99
Peeters Publishers From Rome to Constantinople: Studies in Honour of
Book SynopsisFrom Rome to Constantinople is a collection of articles offered as a tribute to Averil Cameron, the prominent historian of Rome and Byzantium, and Warden of Keble College, Oxford. Opening with an introduction by Peter Brown, who illustrates the sweeping developments in the field and the role of Averil Cameron in them, this volume highlights topics which reflect the breadth of Dame Averil's interests, arranged in following five sub-sections: Historiography and Rhetoric, Christianity in its Social Contexts, Art and Representation, Byzantium and the Workings of Empire, Late Antiquity in Retrospect. Asceticism and monasticism, cults of saints and icons, Mariology, Byzantine historiography, and art history are but a few of the subjects which are discussed here in the English language by some of the leading scholars in the field. The volume also includes a full bibliography of the honorand, as well as indices. It appears as the first volume of the series Late Antique History and Religion, which is dedicated to the study of Late Antiquity and its legacies.
£82.85
Peeters Publishers Signs on the Edge: Space, Text and Margin in
Book SynopsisMedieval cultures to the north and west of the Alps gained their initial understanding of visual spatialization from the Ancient world, but developed their own ways of managing primary and secondary space on any surface where text and/or art interact. The eleven essays of this volume span the period from early insular manuscripts through to later medieval books or artefacts, and examine specific strategies in scribal layout or prescribed authorial design. These vary in their sophistication from the naive and inadvertent to the self-conscious and at times parodic intentional, allowing us a fascinating insight into the many different ways in which main and marginal space on the page could be employed by medieval imaginations.
£999.99
Peeters Publishers Pistoi Dia Ten Technen. Bankers, Loans and
Book SynopsisThis volume contains essays based on the papers presented at the international colloquium "Banks, Loans and Financial Archives in the Ancient World", held in Ghent and Brussels in 2006 in honour of R. Bogaert. Specialists of various fields and periods have contributed studies on banking and finance in the Ancient World (including the Near East) and 18th-century England, each applying his or her own research strategies, methodologies and traditions. A common ground was found transcending the boundaries between disciplines as diverse as Assyriology, social and economic history, Roman law, epigraphy, papyrology and economics. The result of this collaborative effort is a consistent study that takes up many of the challenges posed by recent discoveries and new insights concerning the 'nature' of the ancient economy. As such, it will prove a substantial contribution to the ongoing effort to better understand the genesis, development and role of money, credit and financial mediation in the Ancient World.
£84.00
Peeters Publishers The Sculptural Environment of the Roman Near
Book SynopsisPublic sculptures were the "mass media" of the Roman world. They populated urban centers throughout the empire, serving as a "plastic language" that communicated political, religious, and social messages. This book brings together twenty-eight experts who otherwise rarely convene: text-based scholars of the Greco-Roman, Jewish, and Christian realms from the fields of classics, history, and religion and specialists in the artistic traditions of Greece and Rome as well as art historians and archaeologists. Utilizing the full spectrum of ancient sources, the book examines the multiple, at times even contradictory, meanings and functions that statues served within the complex world of the Roman Near East. Moreover, it situates the discussion of sculpture in the broader context of antiquity in order to reevaluate long-held scholarly consensuses on such ideas as the essence of Hellenism (the culture that emerged from the encounter of Greco-Romans with the Near East) and the everlasting "conflict" among paganism, Christianity, and Judaism.
£999.99
Peeters Publishers Stace Achilleide
Book SynopsisJean Soubiran, auteur notamment d'une traduction commentee des Argonautiques de Valerius Flaccus chez Peeters, et Francois Ripoll, specialiste des epopees latines d'epoque flavienne, ont reuni leurs competences pour livrer a un large public (chercheurs, enseignants, etudiants, lecteurs, cultives) une edition traduite et commentee de l'Achilleide, derniere oeuvre (inachevee) du poete Stace (v. 96 ap. J.-C.). Ce recit de la jeunesse d'Achille, plein de charme, d'humour et de romanesque, est mis en valeur par une traduction rythmee qui en restitue les qualites poetiques. L'ouvrage comporte en outre une ample introduction degageant la personnalite esthetique et l'originalite de l'oeuvre, un commentaire lineaire complet (le premier en francais sur ce poeme), et une serie d'index detailles. Fonde sur les travaux les plus recents et sur les recherches personnelles des auteurs, cet ouvrage interessera les specialistes de Stace, mais le souci pedagogique qui l'impregne et l'abondance des notices explicatives qu'il comporte le rendent accessible au plus grand nombre.
£999.99
Peeters Publishers Les Relations Du Clerge Egyptien Et Des Lagides
Book SynopsisLes principaux axes de cet ouvrage sont les modalites du passage du personnel des temples au service de la couronne; la mise en place d'un nouveau personnel religieux; la position des Egyptiens dans l'Etat lagide. La premiere partie est la prosopographie du personnel religieux etudie. La seconde partie, apres l'etablissement d'une typologie des relations observees, etudie le debut de l'epoque grecque qui se caracterise par une integration limitee du clerge aussi bien dans l'entourage royal que dans les affaires de l'Etat. Cette situation s'oppose a celle de la fin du IIeme et du Ier siecles, oA', souvent, les memes personnes dirigent les temples et representent l'autorite royale. Les IIIeme et IIeme siecles voient donc la constitution d'un personnel a la fois religieux et civil, phenomene bien connu dans l'Egypte pharaonique mais qui constitue une evolution majeure pour l'Egypte ptolemaique. Un tel processus peut etre compris par l'exemple des pontifes de Ptah a Memphis qui entretiennent d'etroites relations avec le pouvoir.
£105.00
Peeters Publishers Feeding the Ancient Greek City
Book SynopsisIn ancient cities, 'daily bread' was a subject of prayer. Grain-harvests could be fickle, but a regular supply was a matter of survival. Food-shortage could lead to social unrest, and long-term solutions required all kinds of political an institutional resources from the authorities. Yet feeding the city was not just a problem. It was an opportunity for the political management of the poor, for competitive display among the elite, and for making money. The essays in this volume present cities and societies which responded to these challenges in very different ways, from the agro-towns in which the citizens commuted to their fields to the market-supplied towns in which an urban proletariat worked for their bread. The articles debate the food supply through all its aspects, economic, demographic, political and institutional to give a new perspective on this debate at the heart of our understandings of ancient society.
£999.99
Peeters Publishers Cultural Mediators: Artists and Writers at the
Book SynopsisThe notion of cultural mediation is a promising albeit not yet methodologically clear-cut and well-probed instrument for studying artistic and literary phenomena in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Period. This volume addresses the role of artists and writers as cultural mediators in a variety of cultural fields such as religion, politics, morality and artistic expression (art, literature and theatre). It fully acknowledges the diversity of roles that the term cultural mediator incorporates. The artist or writer may be a neutral transmitter, a dedicated instructor, a conscious advocate, an unconscious exponent or an autonomous inventor of whatever message is being transmitted by way of visual or verbal artefacts. In reality, these roles were often intertwined, but distinguishing them enables us to recognise the main variables that shaped the role of a cultural mediator: the intentionality of the artist or writer, the function of his or her work and its reception by the viewers or audience. The essays collected in this volume offer a stimulating, interdisciplinary exploration of the range, variety and impact of the artist or writer as a cultural mediator, while avoiding a deadlock between notions of art and literature as subsidiary versus self-contained fields of creative expression.
£54.90
Peeters Publishers The Autonomy of Literature at the Fins De
Book SynopsisThe autonomy of the arts and literature is a central issue in the current debate on the 'crisis' in contemporary culture. In this debate, the tension between two conceptions of art - conceived as autotelic, or as serving social, ethical, ideological or commercial ends - plays a key role. For literature, two periods are particularly interesting in this respect: the period around 1900, and the turn of the millennium. The former is considered to witness the consecration of the autonomy of the arts with respect to morality or social utility, and of its prestige as 'high art', against the background of compelling countermovements, such as the Arts and crafts movements or socialist art. The second period, on the other hand, has been analysed as displaying, in post-modern Western cultures, an opposite tendency towards deautonomization. 'High' literature and art are deemed to have lost their ideological and moral autonomy, their aesthetic superiority, and their independence with respect to commercial interests. The essays in this volume investigate these often strategic claims and conceptions, taking into account the social, political and institutional contexts in which they are articulated. To analyse the issue of the autonomy of literature offers incisive insights into conflicting standpoints about the function of literature in society, revealing its connection to law, social responsibility, gender, and political, national and religious identities. Combining in an often innovative way institutional, historical and hermeneutical approaches, the collected essays intend to shed new light on the historical and national specifics of the debate about the function of literature.
£57.95
Peeters Publishers De Kadasterkaarten Van Popp, Een Sleutel Tot Uw
Book SynopsisHoe zag uw gemeente eruit in het midden van de 19de eeuw? Wat rest er nog van de oude dorpskern, van een moeras, waterloop of bosgebied? Wie was de eigenaar van het perceel waar u nu woont? Waar bevonden zich de akkerlanden, weiden, woonhuizen, fabrieken...?De kadasterkaarten van Philippe Christian Popp (1805-1879) geven u een antwoord op deze vragen. De Atlas cadastral parcellaire de la Belgique van Popp is een doorsnede, een tijdsopname van bijna elke gemeente rond 1860. De kaarten en leggers geven erg volledige informatie over het onroerend goed en over elke eigenaar van die goederen. Een schat aan informatie voor de geschiedenis van uw gemeente.In de publicatie De kadasterkaarten van Popp: een sleutel tot uw lokale geschiedenis van Wouter Ronsijn, leest u meer over de ontstaansgeschiedenis en de toepassingsmogelijkheden van de Poppkaarten en -leggers. Om het wat concreter te maken, worden vier Vlaams-Brabantse gemeenten aan een voorbeeldanalyse onderworpen, telkens vanuit een specifieke invalshoek: landschap (Aarschot), huizenbestand (Asse), landbouw (Halle), industrialisering en verstedelijking (Tienen). Er wordt tevens een aanzet gegeven tot een meer vergelijkend onderzoek van de verschillende Vlaams-Brabantse regio's.Deze publicatie is een werkinstrument! U vindt er heel wat praktische informatie in terug om mee aan de slag te gaan: een lijst van Poppkaarten van Vlaams-Brabant en hun belangrijkste bewaarplaatsen, een overzicht van de gebruikte databanken en een thematische bibliografie. En als kers op de taart krijgt u een cd-rom met de Poppkaarten en -leggers van de besproken gemeenten.Deze publicatie werd gerealiseerd door het Liberaal Archief vzw in opdracht van de provincie Vlaams-Brabant en is het eerste nummer in de reeks 'Accenten uit de geschiedenis van Vlaams-Brabant'.
£26.76
Peeters Publishers Classical Mythology in the Netherlands in the Age
Book SynopsisMythology has played an important role in the age of Renaissance and Baroque. The classical myths have provided themes and subjects for the arts in their different expressions: painting, sculpture, literature, music, theatre, ...Mythological figures and stories have often served as moralistic examples, in bono or in malo, and as allegorical points of reference, e.g. in education. The pluridisciplinary study of these phenomena throws light upon the intellectual climate of the period. La mythologie a joue un role important aux temps de la Renaissance et du Baroque. Les mythes classiques ont procure des themes et des sujets pour les arts dans leurs expressions differentes : peinture, sculpture, litterature, musique, theatre, ...Les figures et les histoires mythologiques ont servi souvent d'exemples moralisateurs, en bon ou en mal, et comme points de reference allegoriques, entre autres dans l'education. L'etude pluridisciplinaire de ces phenomenes eclaire le climat intellectuel de l'epoque.
£999.99
Peeters Publishers Epistulae Antiquae V: Actes du ve Colloque
Book SynopsisLe present volume, Epistulae antiquae V, contient les communications presentees a l'occasion du Ve Colloque tourangeau sur " L'epistolaire antique et ses prolongements europeens ", qui s'est tenu a l'Universite Francois-Rabelais de Tours les 6, 7 et 8 novembre 2006. Il s'inscrit dans la ligne des quatre precedents ouvrages de la serie, qui donnent une suite ecrite a des rencontres bi-annuelles entre universitaires francais et etrangers reunis par ce sujet d'etude commun. Fidele a ses perspectives pluridisciplinaire, diachronique et synchronique a la fois, il regroupe des interventions portant sur la lettre, ses formes et ses contenus. Le contexte historique, ancre dans l'Antiquite classique, nous met en contact avec les differentes facettes du genre epistolaire au sein des cultures grecque et romaine, mais egalement a des epoques plus recentes dont notre Europe est l'heritiere. Les sujets abordes, divers et complementaires, portent aussi bien sur le discours et ses modalites que sur la specificite de certains epistoliers et de leur temps.
£57.95
Peeters Publishers (In)site Sagalassos
Book Synopsis(In)site Sagalassos is het eerste fotoboek dat verschijnt over de archeologische site van Sagalassos. Al 18 jaar onderzoekt een interdisciplinair-archeologisch team van de KULeuven onder leiding van Prof. Marc Waelkens de antieke stad in zuidwest Turkije. Sinds 2003 fotgraferen Bruno Vandermeulen en Danny Veys de vondsten en structuren van de stad. Als fotografen bekijken zij de site met andere ogen dan de archeoloog. Dit boek is een fotografische impressie van de opgraving met haar monumenten en wijken. Zij toont de stad op een andere, verrassende manier. Door de combinatie van grote en kleine foto's, details en overzichten, architectuur en landschap wordt dit boek tot een boeiend geheel verweven. Het fotoboek wordt ingeleid door Marc Waelkens en bevat een historisch overzicht van de opgraving en de site. Meer informatie is beschikbaar op de website www.arts.kuleuven.be/fotolab/insite
£999.99
Peeters Publishers Northern Voices: Essays on Old Germanic and
Book SynopsisThis book contains a wealth of new essays on many aspects of Germanic Philology, and the range reflects the scholarly activity of the dedicatee of this festschrift. Section I contains articles on historical philology as this relates to the Old Germanic languages and literatures; Section II contains essays on various aspects of Frisian and Frisian studies; Section III is devoted to the relationship between the Germanic and the Balto-Finnic languages; the articles in Section IV consist of applications of the methods and insights of modern linguistics to the study of the Germanic languages.
£80.28
Peeters Publishers Marian Pilgrimage Sites in Brabant: A
Book SynopsisThis analytical bibliography, compiled with the support of the University of Antwerp, represents a first, important step toward broader studies concerning the nature, function, and significance of propagandistic materials that have been printed and distributed since the seventeenth century in connection with pilgrimage sites in the Southern Netherlands. Two and a half centuries (from 1600 to 1850) of publications are documented. This is an intriguing period for such a study because Catholic clergy made great use of printed propaganda materials for their (often successful) attempts to revitalize pilgrimages as part of the Counter-Reformation. Consequently, there was a new surge of such publications in the Southern Netherlands as of 1600 that prevailed until the early nineteenth century, when changing ecclesiastical views of how one should experience the Catholic faith led many local clergy to publish new types of pilgrimage books. As tens of thousands of pilgrimage texts were printed in this period, only one essential sub-group of these publications could be featured here, namely those related to Marian pilgrimage sites in the current provinces of Antwerp, Vlaams-Brabant, and the county of Brussels. The resulting bibliography reflects the holdings of numerous collections and provides, for each publication whenever possible, a full transcription of the title page, the collation of the book, and notes on whether or not illustrations, dedicatory texts, and personal notations by previous owners are present. This work consequently provides a useful base of knowledge for those interested in a wide variety of topics pertaining both to the production of devotional literature and the extensive popular hold these pilgrimage sites had on people in and beyond the Southern Netherlands.
£79.67
Peeters Publishers Brussel En De Vlaamse Rand, Een Verhaal Van
Book SynopsisWaarom spreken Franstaligen over de peripherie bruxelloise en over een carcan flamand rond Brussel en waarom willen de Vlamingen de Brusselse olievlek 'indijken' of 'indammen'? Waarom vragen de Franstalige partijen de territoriale uitbreiding van het Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest en waarom wordt dit langs Vlaamse kant radicaal afgewezen? Deze tegenstellingen zijn te lapidair, maar maken duidelijk dat de twee grootste taalgemeenschappen in Belgie een andere visie hebben over de Vlaamse Rand en over de relatie van dit ommeland met de hoofdstad. Hoe komt dat? Welke historische evoluties liggen daaraan ten grondslag? Dit tweede nummer in de reeks 'Accenten uit de geschiedenis van Vlaams-Brabant' verschijnt in opdracht van de provincie Vlaams-Brabant en is een realisatie van het ADVN, archief-, documentatie- en onderzoekscentrum. In het boek zijn ook een aantal foto's opgenomen uit de reportage die persfotograaf Michiel Hendryckx speciaal voor deze gelegenheid maakte en die her en der in de provincie zal worden tentoongesteld. Zijn lens registreerde tot zijn eigen verwondering het nog sterk landelijk karakter van de streek.
£26.76
Peeters Publishers La Chronique D'Apollodore Et Le Pseudo-Skymnos:
Book SynopsisOn sait que la Chronique d'Apollodore d'Athenes, dont il ne reste que des fragments, a joue un role fondamental dans la tradition chronographique concernant les philosophes, les poetes, les prosateurs. A-t-elle ete importante egalement pour la transmission des dates de fondation des cites? Est-ce sur elle que s'est appuye l'auteur inconnu de l'ouvrage qu'on appelle la Periegese du Pseudo-Skymnos, lorsqu'il a voulu dater les ktiseis des cites du Pont-Euxin? Voila les questions qui ont ete a l'origine de cette recherche. Pour y repondre, il a fallu poser d'autres questions encore, et notamment: Quelle etait l'attitude du Ps.-Skymnos a l'egard de son contemporain Apollodore? Quelle etait sa maniere de travailler? Comment expliquer les ressemblances entre son expose et Ora maritima d'Avienus? Pourquoi, tout en pretendant decrire le monde du present, decrit-il en fait le monde de jadis? Quels etaient les aspects du passe envisages dans la Chronique d'Apollodore? Comment les informations y etaient-elles organisees? Quelle etait la place qu'y occupaient les fragments conserves par l'Academicorum philosophorum index Herculanensis? Cette recherche vise a eclairer le travail de deux intellectuels atheniens - d'un grand erudit et d'un litterateur mineur - du temps de l'effondrement politique du monde hellenistique. Elle entend aussi contribuer a l'etude de la chronographie grecque, a la geographie historique et a la critique du texte de plusieurs auteurs.
£999.99
Peeters Publishers The Beloved Mothertongue: Ethnolinguistic
Book SynopsisDuring the long nineteenth century, the Herderian motto that language reflects the soul of the nation proved to be a pivotal agent in forming ethnies, nations and national territories as well as in excluding linguistic minorities. In the spring of 2005, the Groningen Research School for the Study of the Humanities hosted a workshop on the subject of Ethnolinguistic nationalism in the Netherlands, Flanders and the Scandinavian countries. The workshop was organized and attended by a select, interdisciplinary group of scholars whose papers are presented in this volume, XXXIII in the series Groningen Studies in Cultural Change. The volume opens with introductory and theoretical surveys on the theme of nationalism, followed by critical surveys of each of the above-mentioned regions and nations. The contributions to the volume consist of the discussion and development of some interesting new fields of research on the subject.
£57.95
Peeters Publishers Friars, Scribes, and Corpses: A Marian
Book SynopsisGilbert Lazard, "Un salut amical a Philippe Gignoux"; Gherardo Gnoli, "Un demi siecle"; Guitty Azarpay, "Imagery of the Sogdian den"; Sebastian Brock, "The contributions of Philippe Gignoux to Syriac studies"; Carlo G. Cereti, "Some aspects of Philippe Gignoux's contribution to Zoroastrian studies"; Frantz Grenet, "Quelques nouvelles notes sur Kerdir et "sa" vision"; Rika Gyselen, "Sceaux, monnaies et argenterie dans l'?uvre de Philippe Gignoux"; Philip Huyse, "L'epigraphie moyen-perse et l'histoire sassanide dans l'?uvre de Philippe Gignoux"; Christelle Jullien, "Chretiens d'Iran. Entre hagiographie et histoire"; Florence Jullien, "La Passion syriaque de Mar 'Abda. Quelques relations entre chretiens et mazdeens"; Antonio Panaino, "Apocalittica, Escatologia e Sciamanismo nell'opera iranologica di Ph. Gignoux"; Rudiger Schmitt, "Philippe Gignoux' Beitrag zur iranischen Anthroponomastik"; Michel Tardieu, "Les metaphores du temps"; Dieter Weber, "Philippe Gignoux' Beitrag zur Interpretation der Dokumente des "Pahlavi Archive" in Berkeley, CA".
£62.48
Peeters Publishers Looking for Mithra in Malta
Book SynopsisMany aspects of the mystery cult of Mithra remain enigmatic. It was a belief system that touched the hearts and minds of all manner of people, rich and poor, in the early centuries AD. Secretive, private and exclusive enclaves of believers infiltrated numerous regions of the Roman Empire, assembling in caves and cellars, where strange, sometimes terrifying, initiation rites were carried out. Never before has the evidence for the mysteries of Mithra been traced to the Maltese archipelago. This group of islands in the central Mediterranean fell under Roman domination, but their somewhat isolated location may have appealed to followers of Mithra. Cult artefacts and possible places of Mithraic worship in the islands have been presented here fore the first time.
£47.50
PEETERS PUB Tapisserie
Book Synopsis
£83.60
Peeters Publishers At the Crossroads of Art and Religion:
Book SynopsisSince the 'turn to the subject' in modernity, aesthetic experiences have become crucial in the creation of meaning. This explains why art and religion are becoming increasingly intermingled in late modern Western culture. The search for meaning is no longer confined to traditional religious settings and it is especially in art that people are looking for moral and spiritual significance. Religion is being aestheticised while art is being spiritualised. This volume contains studies on the interface between art and religion. Scholars from art studies, theology, philosophy and psychology of religion address the following questions: What psychological and religious functions does art fulfil? What are the similarities and differences between aesthetic and religious experiences? How does the aestheticising of religion affect theological thinking? How does the spiritualising of art affect artistic practices and theory? Case studies are taken from literature, visual art, film and opera, both from 'high' and popular culture. Among others, there are chapters on J.M. Coetzee's novel Waiting for the Barbarians, Richard Wagner's operas, the Harry Potter books and the concept of beauty from a theological perspective. The contributors all highlight the crucial role of human imaginative capabilities and the capacity of art to open up wider horizons of meaning.
£57.95
Peeters Publishers The Scourge and the Cross: Ascetic Mentalities of
Book SynopsisHarsh asceticism, including ritual self-mortification, remains one of the most troubling and least understood aspects of monastic life in the Later Middle Ages. The nuns whose austere lives are celebrated in spiritual biographies and autobiographies in the Order of Preachers were long dismissed by traditional scholars as hysterics or inferior mimics of true mysticism. Some recent feminist studies either gloss over asceticism or portray its practitioners as traumatized victims of patriarchal oppression. Traditionalists and progressives seem to agree: extreme asceticism is best understood as pathetic or even pathological behavior. David Tinsley seeks to temper this view by exploring late-medieval asceticism on its own terms. Building on the work of Caroline Walker Bynum, Peter Dinzelbacher, and Jeffrey Hamburger, Tinsley analyzes the ascetic mentalities of Dominican convent culture in the 14th century, including the sources the nuns read, the famous ascetics they venerated, and their most common rituals and practices. The key question is how these nuns could see self-imposed suffering as so crucial to shaping the questing soul's journey to God.
£65.81
Peeters Publishers Campanae Lovanienses: Het Klokkenpatrimonium van
Book SynopsisKlokken zijn meestal niet opvallend zichtbaar aanwezig; hoorbaar zijn ze echter des te beter. Door de jaren, soms eeuwen heen hebben zij hun stem laten horen, en zijn zo een belangrijke sfeerbepalende factor geweest voor hun onmiddellijke omgeving. Vroeger bepaalden zij het ritme van de dag: niet alleen door middel van de uurslag, maar ook met bijvoorbeeld het Angelusluiden en het luiden voor de mis. Klokken hadden bovendien een signaalfunctie: bij het sluiten van de poort, bij brandalarm en bij gerechtelijke beslissingen werden respectievelijk de poortklok, de brandklok en de banklok geluid. Het belang van grote gebeurtenissen werd onderstreept met klokgelui of door het spelen op de beiaard. De maatschappelijke betekenis van klokken is nu veranderd. Al blijft de traditie van het klokkenluiden nog bestaan op zon- en feestdagen, de brandklok heeft haar functie verloren en ook het Angelusklokje wordt op steeds minder plaatsen gehoord. Veel kerken en kapellen worden geleidelijk gesloten, verlaten of verkocht. Hierdoor bestaat de kans dat klokken en torenuurwerken worden verwaarloosd of worden opgekocht door handelaars en antiquairs. In andere gevallen wil men bestaande installaties moderniseren of vervangen, wat vaak leidt tot vermindering of verarming van het klokkengelui. Hierdoor staan talloze historische mechanismen werkloos weg te roesten. Met deze uitgave publiceert Campanae Lovanienses haar inventaris van de klokken van Leuven. Het doel van de inventaris is het campanologisch erfgoed te beschermen en te bewaren voor toekomstige generaties. Hiervoor werden de klokken opgezocht, hun afmetingen en klankstructuur bepaald, en de versieringen vastgelegd met afwrijfsels en foto's. Het is de eerste publicatie in haar soort in ons land, een stevig opgebouwd en kwalitatief hoogstaand boekwerk dat zowel aantrekkelijk is voor campanologische specialisten als iedereen die het Leuvens erfgoed in zijn hart draagt.
£999.99
Peeters Publishers Nature and Science in Hellenistic Poetry
Book SynopsisThis volume contains the papers of the 'Groningen Workshop on Hellenistic Poetry 8: Nature and Science' (Groningen 2006). During the workshop a first draft of the papers was commented on by an international group of specialists in the field of Hellenistic poetry. This volume deals with the interaction between 'nature and science' and Hellenistic poetry, particularly the ways in which poets were inspired and stimulated by the results of science and incorporated them into their work. In the Hellenistic period the fields of nature and science on the one hand and scholarship and poetry on the other hand touch and overlap to a large extent and the boundaries between science and poetry were not as straight and clear as they are today. The articles in this volume refine the general picture somewhat further. They focus on various authors and topics, e.g. Aratus, Nicander and Callimachus, medicine, astronomy, and geography. 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'.
£64.26
Peeters Publishers The World of Travellers: Exploration and
Book SynopsisTravel has always been a favourite human concern. Throughout the centuries, fascination with the unfamiliar or even unknown has turned many people into geographers, explorers, and writers of travel fiction. In the early Middle Ages, a great variety of travel accounts were accordingly appropriated, translated, recontextualised, and ultimately found their way into the literary production of Germanic Europe. The interest in distant countries and peoples was complemented by spiritual concerns, such as one finds in the accounts of early pilgrims to the Holy Land. The key words in the title of this book, 'exploration and imagination', imply that travel meant more than visiting foreign places and peoples. As with modern fantasy and science fiction literature, travel could also stimulate the imagination, especially in cases when perilous physical journeys were enhanced by imagined travel. Such accounts were rich in descriptions of the physical world, but they lent themselves equally to the relation of spiritual journeys. As a result, modern out-of-body experience finds its medieval counterpart in the journeyings and adventures of the human soul within a metaphysical and eschatological perspective. Finally, imagery travel may also be purely intellectual. The articles in this volume address the categories of travel outlined above in the light of the interface between the Latin and Germanic traditions.
£999.99
Peeters Publishers Church, Cities, and People: A Study of the Plebs
Book SynopsisThis book is about people. It is an attempt to make sense of the position of the plebs in the Church and cities of Roman Africa in Late Antiquity. By looking at the terminology of plebs and populus in Christian texts, in combination with aspects of the vast amount of archaeological evidence and epigraphy from the African provinces of the Roman Empire, Evers seeks to establish a much closer link between text and context, arguing that the laity in the Early Church had an active role to play. The writings of Cyprian of Carthage, Optatus of Milevis, and Augustine of Hippo are taken more at face value, and not discarded as purely theological treatises and other programmatic products of the Christian pen. Christian texts, certainly of earlier times, most of all aimed at convincing an audience as large as possible, of all sorts, and of all ranks. And hence they must have made sense in almost every possible way. The "rhetoric of Empire" became rapidly adapted by the great minds of the Early Church to the needs of Christianity. But this rhetoric was not simply an artificial language, transmitted and maintained throughout the centuries, creating a world that was merely recognisable through memory. The written and spoken words of bishops, priests, and other Christian figures of authority, following the example of their secular counterparts, were not simply compositions of eschatological fiction. Their works continued to refer to real, social, political, and cultural frameworks outside the texts, as is established by the archaeological and epigraphic evidence. Both plebs and populus continued to have significant social and political connotations. The conversion of Emperor Constantine did not bring about a rapid change. Orthodoxy, and hence authority, was not established and secured overnight. The ecclesiastical hierarchy, moulded over centuries, and with the structures of Empire as its prime example, continued to depend on the people within the Church, even until Augustine's time and beyond. Arguably, the position of the plebs Christiana was a reflection of that of the plebs urbana, the people in the cities of Roman Africa. The Empire and its cities acted as a model for the Church, hence the Church became a mirror for the cities and the Empire.
£999.99
Peeters Publishers Dulcissima Aequora: Wasserbewirtschaftung und
Book SynopsisDie Terme Suburbane in Pompeii, integraler Bestandteil eines extraurbanen Gebaudekomplexes, bieten aufgrund ihrer exzellenten Erhaltung die besten Voraussetzungen fur eine detaillierte Untersuchung der wasserwirtschaftlichen und hydrotechnischen Einrichtungen in allen ihren Teilbereichen: Versorgung, Nutzung, Entsorgung und Betriebsmodi; daruber hinaus konnen Erkentnisse zu Umbauphasen mit ihren Konsequenzen im Hinblick auf die Wasserbewirtschaftung gewonnen werden. Neben den Standardeinrichtungen enthalt dieses wohl von einem Privatmann errichtete kleindimensionierte Bad eines der seltenen Beispiele der sog. 'Samowar'-Piscina, die den Luxus dieser Thermen in aller Deutlichkeit demonstriert. Es lasst sich nachweisen, wieviel Aufwand der Auftraggeber bezuglich der Architektur, der dekorativen Ausstattung und nicht zuletzt der Heiz- und Hydrotechnik betrieben hat, um den Badegasten eine exklusive Anlage zur Verfugung zu stellen, zu der sicherlich nicht jedermann Zugang hatte. Nicht nur auf die Bewohner von Pompeii, sondern auch auf Auswartige wird sie eine grosse Anziehungskraft ausgeubt haben.
£999.99
Peeters Publishers Making Myths: Jews in Early Christian Identity
Book SynopsisWere the Jews who appear so abundantly in the writings of the early Church real or were they figments of the imagination? In this new book, Leonard Rutgers argues that they were both. Exploring Jewish-Christian interaction in Late Antiquity in the form of three case studies, Rutgers shows that early Christian ideas about Jews and Judaism not only played a determining role in the ideologies that shaped early Christian identity formation. They also had a tendency to spill over into the real world. Therefore such ideas deeply influenced the dynamics of Jewish-Christian relations during a period that saw the curtailing of Jewish civil rights and liberties precisely as a result of early Christian exegetical activity. Making Myths draws a picture of Jewish-Christian relations in Late Antiquity that is significantly bleaker than the optimistic view of Roman-period Jewish history that permeates many recent studies on the topic. An epilogue sets out to explain why more irenic scenarios do not apply to the period under study.
£28.55
Peeters Publishers De Hoge Gezondheidsraad (1849-2009): Schakel
Book SynopsisIn 1849 richtte minister Charles Rogier een raad van experten op om hem advies te verlenen over alle kwesties die te maken hadden met volksgezondheid. 160 jaar later voert de Hoge Gezondheidsraad in principe nog altijd dezelfde kernopdracht uit. De behandelde thema's waren aanvankelijk zeer breed: arbeidershuisvesting, persoonlijke hygiene, de strijd tegen infectieziekten, de ziekenhuisinfrastructuur enz. Dit boek toont hoe de raad achter de schermen mee de krijtlijnen uittekende van het Belgische volksgezondheidsbeleid. Daarom is het verhaal veel ruimer dan alleen de geschiedenis van een overheidsorgaan. Het boek weerspiegelt de evolutie die Belgie doormaakte op het gebied van hygiene, medisch-wetenschappelijke ontdekkingen, gezondheidsbeleid en sociale wetgeving en toont hoe de wetenschappelijke adviezen van de Hoge Gezondheidsraad op lange termijn het dagelijks handelen tot in het kleinste detail beinvloed hebben. 160 jaar lang vormde de raad de schakel tussen wetenschap en beleid.
£999.99
Peeters Publishers Faces of Hellenism: Studies in the History of the
Book SynopsisCollecting papers on historiography, papyrology, history, and material culture, this volume charts the changing faces of Hellenistic civilization from the fourth century B.C. to Late Antiquity. The Macedonian colonisation and the Roman conquest had an important impact on society, politics, and culture of the Eastern Mediterranean. The papers address issues such as bilingualism and the role of 'invented traditions' in Roman Egypt. They emphasise local differences within the Roman Empire, for example the difficult access inhabitants of Egypt had to Roman citizenship. Other contributions asses the perspective of the sources and how they reveal different facets of Hellenistic society. Drawing on approaches developed in the Section of Ancient History of the University of Leuven, the contributions pay homage to three retiring professors, L. Mooren, G. Schepens, and H. Hauben, who each in their different way have explored the changing faces of Hellenism for the past thirty years.
£999.99
Peeters Publishers Vilvoorde City, Meer Bepaald in De Far-West:
Book SynopsisVilvoorde City, meer bepaald in de Far-West bundelt de resultaten van het studieproject 'Sociale huisvesting in Vlaams-Brabant' in opdracht van het provinciebestuur. Het werd door Amsab-Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis uitgevoerd in het kader van het onderzoeksprogramma 'Accenten uit de geschiedenis van Vlaams-Brabant'. Amsab-ISG koos voor een diepgaande studie van de wijk Far-West in Vilvoorde. De kern van deze buurt is de tuinwijk Maurits Duche. In 1921 gaf de sociale huisvestingsmaatschappij De Vilvoordse Haard de opdracht tot de bouw van een nieuwe wijk. Die ontwikkelde zich al snel tot een hechte gemeenschap waar cafes en sport een belangrijke plaats innamen.Tuinwijken waren zeer populair toen Belgie na de Eerste Wereldoorlog oplossingen moest zoeken voor het ernstig woningtekort. Het idee kwam uit Engeland waar Ebenezer Howard in 1902 de term 'tuinsteden' introduceerde in zijn werk Garden Cities of To-Morrow. Vanuit een utopische visie pleitte hij voor nieuwe geplande steden omgeven door landbouwgebied en groen. Toen na de Eerste Wereldoorlog meer dan 100.0 00 huizen moesten worden heropgebouwd in Belgie, zagen socialistisch en modernistisch geinspireerde architecten het heil in tuinwijken, de afgeslankte versie van tuinsteden. De opdrachtgevers waren vooral cooperatieve huurdersverenigingen en sociale huisvestingsmaatschappijen. In drie hoofdstukken krijgt de lezer een historisch overzicht van het ontstaan van de Far-West tot de uitbreiding ervan vandaag. Het archiefmateriaal bood dikwijls verrassende details die het verleden weer springlevend maakten. De wijk is echter meer dan een geografische afbakening van een stuk grond. Het is ook een verzameling van persoonlijke ervaringen en geschiedenissen. Daarom bundelt het vierde hoofdstuk niet alleen herinneringen aan het leven in de wijk van vroeger, maar ook getuigenissen van jonge bewoners nu. Hierdoor werden zij actief betrokken bij de geschiedenis van de eigen wijk, die tenslotte nog steeds verder evolueert. Fotograaf Piet Janssens gaf zijn eigen interpretatie van het verhaal van de Far-West. Dat resulteerde in een kleurrijke reeks beelden.
£999.99
Peeters Publishers Beethoven's Tempest Sonata: Perspectives of
Book SynopsisFor music analysts and performers alike, Beethoven's Tempest sonata (1802) represents one of the most challenging pieces of the classical and early romantic piano repertoire. This book is a collection of eleven essays, each dealing with this sonata from a different analytical perspective and investigating the possible connections between music analysis and the practice of performance. Under the editorship of Pieter Berge, Jeroen D'hoe and William E. Caplin, the book presents essays by Scott Burnham (hermeneutics), Poundie Burstein (Schenkerian approach), Kenneth Hamilton (history of performance), Robert Hatten (semiotics), James Hepokoski (Sonata Theory), William Kinderman (source studies), William Rothstein (tempo, rhythm, and meter), Douglas Seaton (narratology), Steven Vande Moortele (20th-century Formenlehre) and the editors themselves (motivic analysis and form-functional approach respectively).
£86.74
Peeters Publishers Utopianism and the Sciences, 1880-1930
Book SynopsisThis volume focuses on the relationship between utopianism and the sciences in the period from 1880 to 1930. Towards the end of the nineteenth century, Europe and the United States experienced a mushrooming desire for a more beautiful, happier world. During the nineteenth century, the older 'classic' utopianism of Plato and More started to develop into so-called 'modern' utopianism: ideas that used to be considered mere thought experiments were developing into programmes that could in fact be realised in time. The proposed societal ideal thus needed to be supported by convincing and preferably scientific arguments, particularly at a time when, despite all the criticism, people still kept faith in science. Science was thus strongly embraced by those engaged in theory formation, sociopolitical debate and artistic expression, all of which were directed at supporting the ideal of a better future. The contributions to this book demonstrate how scientific discoveries such as electricity and the X-ray, as well as scientific theories in the fields of physics, mathematics, biology, the medical sciences, sociology and even linguistics, were used to substantiate, illustrate and realise the future utopia. This volume is the result of recent interdisciplinary research in the fascinating field of utopian sciences and scientific utopias.
£999.99
Peeters Publishers Imagination and Commitment: Representations of
Book SynopsisIn this volume the social question is related to forms of visualisation and imagination and to the political action that arose from them. In the debate of the social question, individual distress (such as poverty, illness and unemployment) was reformulated into societal and political issues, bringing to the fore the question of inclusion: Who belongs to the nation? Who can become a citizen? In this process, the visual, statistical and textual representation of the social question enabled a determination of public opinion, political agenda setting and eventually the implementation of social politics. These representations provide us with new perspectives on the social question itself, help us to broaden the definition of politics, and shed light upon the social and political implications of art and literature. This volume is based on contributions to the international conference 'Imagination and Commitment. Representations of the Social Question', University of Groningen, the Netherlands, which took place on 10-11 May 2007, and was sponsored by the NWO programme 'Democracy, policy, knowledge' and the Groningen Research School for the Study of the Humanities.
£57.95
Peeters Publishers Salutz E Amors. La Lettre D'amour Dans La Poesie
Book SynopsisEn marge de la production litteraire des troubadours des 12eme et 13eme siecles on trouve un certain nombre de lettres d'amour en vers. Dans ces epitres amoureuses, mieux connues sous le terme de saluts, l'amant implore la grace de sa dame selon les preceptes de la litterature courtoise de l'epoque. Thematiquement proches du genre lyrique majeur de la canso, les saluts se distinguent toutefois de celle-ci par l'emploi de la forme non-lyrique des genres didactiques et narratifs, non sans conferer une nouvelle unite a ce melange remarquable en observant les regles dictees par les manuels epistolaires contemporains. En meme temps, c'est ce caractere hybride qui fait du salut un genre mal defini et peu connu. Cette etude propose une reevaluation de ce genre mineur de la lyrique troubadouresque. En partant des diverses etudes dont le salut a fait l'objet jusqu'a maintenant, elle examine d'abord l'ensemble des poesies designees par ce terme afin d'offrir une delimitation pratique du corpus. L'analyse detaillee de l'un des saluts du 'maitre' du genre, le troubadour Arnaud de Mareuil, permet ensuite de mieux cerner sa technique poetique. La specificite du discours amoureux du salut ressort d'un examen approfondi de son caractere epistolaire, qui, par le dialogue implicite avec la dame qu'il entraine, fait eclater la construction lyrique traditionnelle en ouvrant la voie vers les genres narratifs. Ce double statut generique lyrico-narratif du salut est enfin illustre par un survol de l'emploi de la designation salutz, par un examen succinct de sa tradition manuscrite et par un inventaire des traces que le genre a laissees dans les textes contemporains.Le salut apparait ainsi comme un genre original, qui, a travers ses carateristiques specifiques, jette un pont entre le lyrique et le narratif. Ce faisant, il constitue un moment particulier dans l'evolution de la litterature occitane medievale.
£999.99
Peeters Publishers Writing to Survive. A Commentary on Sidonius
Book SynopsisA key figure in late antique Gaul, Sidonius Apollinaris - aristocrat, administrator, poet, letter-writer, and bishop - is still insufficiently understood. This study aims to contribute to an up-to-date appreciation, both by incorporating recent research and by breaking new ground. It is a philological and historical commentary with many of the qualities of a monograph. Focusing on eleven letters written by Sidonius to his fellow bishops, one of which contains the only surviving example of Sidonius' prose oratory, it fills an important gap in the critical coverage of his literary production. A lengthy introduction situates the letters within Sidonius' life and works, the politics of the last years of the Roman empire in the west, and the traditions of late antique epistolography. Use is made throughout of modern research in linguistics, and a fresh hypothesis on the rendering of 'you' and 'I' in Sidonius' correspondence is proposed. The book offers a reappraisal of late antique stylistic 'mannerism' as 'community art' which gives preference to the socially unifying function of art over its individual creative potential. This is a work which will be of interest to classicists and medievalists, to literary scholars and church historians, to those concerned with philological and historical intricacies and those interested in the broader development of literature and mentalities in Late Antiquity.
£100.68
Peeters Publishers The Black Sea, Greece, Anatolia and Europe in the
Book SynopsisThe volume celebrates the 75th birthday of Prof. Jan Bouzek, one of the leading specialists in Mediterranean, Black Sea, Anatolian and European archaeology. The chapters, written by leading specialists who are friends and colleagues of the dedicatee, address many of Prof. Bouzek's primary interests: Thrace, the Getae, the Persians in Europe, the impact of the Etruscans on ancient Europe, Black Sea archaeology, Hallstatt Europe, the Celts, the Scythians, the Iron Age in Central Anatolia, jewellery, etc. All chapters are substantial pieces that offer overviews of our present state of knowledge.
£92.99
Peeters Publishers Les Reclus Grecs du Sarapieion de Memphis: Une
Book SynopsisLes archives bilingues des reclus grecs (katokhoi) du Sarapieion de Memphis constituent un corpus exceptionnel pour etudier les relations entre Hellenes et Egyptiens dans le cadre d'un temple egyptien au deuxieme siecle avant notre ere. L'enquete replace la reclusion en Egypte dans le cadre plus large du monde hellenistique et romain. Elle propose une solution au debat sur la nature de cette reclusion (katokhe) en montrant que ces hommes, qui beneficient de la protection des dieux dans l'espace sacre, ont ete seduits par la religion egyptienne. Les deux fils du clerouque Macedonien Glaukias, Ptolemaios et Apollonios, sont le c'ur de la recherche, qui degage leurs moyens economiques de vie, leurs amities et les tensions avec le milieu egyptien, et leur niveau de culture orale et ecrite. La question de leur eventuel bilinguisme et l'etude des lectures que revele leur bibliotheque posent la question du niveau de leur education grecque et de leur degre d'ouverture au monde egyptien.
£86.45
Peeters Publishers Cultural Messages in the Graeco-Roman World: Acta
Book SynopsisThis volume presents the outcome of the workshop 'Cultural Messages in the Graeco-Roman World', which marked the 80th anniversary of BABESCH. It takes as its premise that looking at modes to analyse cultural messages in the classical world is a valuable approach to the study of antiquity. The main purpose of the volume is therefore to explore ways in which (and the extent towards which) one can answer substantial questions about Greek and Roman culture through analysing material sources. To this end, the volume includes papers by archaeologists and ancient historians with an interest in larger methodological and theoretical questions. They all explore one of two broader themes: funerary culture and domestic culture. Within the context of those two themes, papers question how one can make statements about ancient societies based upon a specific set of material finds. The focus of the individual papers ranges from the early Greek until the later Roman period, evenly distributed among the two themes. This broad chronological range indicates the wide framework of the volume. The result is a highly interesting mixture of different kinds of studies, all emphasising the critical importance of context - local, geographical, and in terms of materiality - in any sustainable analysis of ancient cultural messages.
£999.99
Peeters Publishers Material Aspects of Etruscan Religion:
Book SynopsisThe articles in this publication are presentations given during and offered to the Colloquium Material Aspects of Etruscan Religion, organised by the Faculty of Archaeology of Leiden University on 29 and 30 May 2008. They shed much new light upon religious aspects of sanctuaries, cities, settlements, necropoles, and tombs in Etruria, in the Po valley and in Campania. Also several, hitherto unpublished artefacts with ritual representations are commented on. A new analysis of the role, gestures and instruments of haruspices (divination experts) suggests that Etruscan divination is of Near Eastern origin. Interdisciplinary research on the function of litui proves that this curved staff of priests (but not of seers) probably originates also from the Near East. Finally, the religious background of Etruscan theatrical plays, always related to historical events in Roman history, is analysed. This BABESCH Supplement casts light on Etruscan gods, the process of anthropomorphisation, the cults, votive deposits, the cult places, also in necropoles, architectural decoration of temples and the relationship with representations on vases in the Faliscan border area of Etruria, rituals, and attributes of seers and priests. Further a new typology of altars is included. Extremely important are the results of very recent excavations in Tarquinia, at Gravisca, a multicultural harbour sanctuary near Tarquinia, at Marzabotto and several other places. The introduction sketches the main lines of the development of Etruscan religion with references to the contents of the colloquium papers.
£999.99
Peeters Publishers Authorship Revisited: Conceptions of Authorship
Book SynopsisHow do conceptions of the literary author change throughout history, and how do they function in specific contexts? The present volume aims to investigate debates on the concept of authorship as a struggle of participants - writers, critics, and scholars - over different conceptions of interpretation. In this struggle all kinds of literary and non-literary norms appear to be at stake. The volume compares the time span around 1900 and 2000, and contrasts the French situation with conditions in other cultures and 'minor literatures'. It addresses the following questions: how did the processes of group-constitution, professionalisation, and (de-)autonomisation of authorship around 1900 and 2000 offer new positionings and roles for writers, and affect conceptions of the author? To what extent can such conceptions of authorship - projected or defended by writers as well as by critics and scholars - be analysed as strategies to claim and legitimise a position in the literary field, respectively in the scholarly field? What light does the analysis of debates about authorship shed on how the social, political or moral relevance of both literature and criticism are defined and defended?
£999.99
Peeters Publishers From Pots to People: A Ceramic Approach to the
Book SynopsisDuring the last forty odd years, archaeological surveys have demonstrated that much can be said about changing patterns of regional exchange and settlement hierarchies based on surface observations. Walking the Mediterranean landscape, the most common indication of ancient human activity survey archaeologists come across are scatters of pottery and other ceramics. Enormous numbers of sherds are counted, collected, recorded, and interpreted in order to understand the ancient cultural, social, economic, and ritual landscapes. Some discrete scatters of ancient artefacts are interpreted as sites where people have lived and/or worked based on an analysis of both cultural and environmental data. These artefact scatters are modern phenomena affected by complex post-depositional processes such as cultivation which obscure potentional behavioural patterning. Artefact-based survey with its treatment of artefacts behaving as sediments in the soil enhanced with a detailed pottery analysis centred on use has the potential to greatly increase our understanding of the ancient rural world. This book offers an attempt to create a methodology for hypothesizing about the general activities taking place at sites identified by survey based on ceramics. The use typology is put forward as a tool for studying artefactual differentiation, and the method consists of establishing empirically generalized pottery indices of different human activities based on artefactual differentiation at Late Roman sites in Cyprus.
£68.38
Peeters Publishers Cyprian of Carthage: Studies in His Life,
Book SynopsisUp to Augustine, bishop Cyprian of Carthage was the theological authority in the West, and he has continued to influence theology ever since. Cyprian of Carthage. Studies in His Life, Language and Thought is the result of a symposium on this Church Father held by the Centre for Patristic Research (CPO), which is an initiative of VU University Amsterdam and Tilburg University. The symposium was held on the occasion of the 1750th anniversary of his martyrdom, which took place on 14 September 258. Virtually all contributions are from Dutch scholars who are members of the CPO. They cover Cyprian's biography, hermeneutical and philological questions, theological issues such as baptism and the role of the laity in episcopal elections, and the reception of the Church Father's texts in ancient and modern times.
£77.47
Peeters Publishers Bagage van een Woelige Periode De Vroege
Book Synopsis
£999.99
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.
£98.73