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Plurilingualism in Traditional Eurasian Scholarship
Thinking in Many Tongues
Inbunden, 2023
2660 kr
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Was plurilingualism the exception or the norm in traditional Eurasian scholarship? This volume presents a selection of primary sources—in many cases translated into English for the first time—with introductions that provide fascinating historical materials for challenging notions of the ways in …
Religion and Rituals of the Nomads of Pre-Islamic Arabia
A Reconstruction Based on the Safaitic Inscriptions
Inbunden, 2022
1723 kr
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This book approaches the religion and rituals of the pre-Islamic Arabian nomads using the Safaitic inscriptions. Unlike Islamic-period literary sources, this material was produced by practitioners of traditional Arabian religion; the inscriptions are eyewitnesses to the religious life of Arabian …
Songs of the Royal Zhōu and the Royal Shào
Shī 詩 of the Ānhuī University Manuscripts
Av Dirk Meyer, Adam Craig Schwartz
Inbunden, 2022
2272 kr
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The songs of the Royal Zhōu (“Zhōu Nán” 周南) and of the Royal Shào (“Shào Nán” 召南) have formed a conceptual unit since at least the late Spring and Autumn period (771–453 BC). With this book Meyer and Schwartz provide a first complete reading of their earliest, Warring States (453–221 BC), iteration …
Tea, Fragrance, and Music
Ephemeral Arts and the Formation of Scholar-Artist Communities in Northern Song China
Av Kin Sum Li
Inbunden, 2024
1358 kr
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This book explores one of the central questions among many disciplines: how communities are formed. It investigates this question through the perspectives of scholar-artist communities in Northern Song China. You will learn how some of the then popular ephemeral artistic practices, such as whisking …
Historical Landscape of Ancient Kalabría
Balkan and Aegean Linguistic Influences
Inbunden, 2024
1292 kr
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This book focuses on Kalabría as an ancient land of Italy from its origin to the early Middle Ages. The place name referred to the Salento peninsula, also called Messapia, as part of present-day Puglia and later to the land of the Bruttii, now the region of Calabria. This work is the first to …
Contacts of Languages and Peoples in the Hittite and Post-Hittite World
Volume 1, The Bronze Age and Hatti
Av Federico Giusfredi, Valerio Pisaniello m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
2808 kr
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Ever since the early 2nd millennium BCE, Pre-Classical Anatolia has been a crossroads of languages and peoples. Indo-European peoples – Hittites, Luwians, Palaeans – and non-Indo-European ones – Hattians, but also Assyrians and Hurrians – coexisted with each other for extended periods of time …
Identifying the Stones of Classical Hebrew
A Modern Philological Approach
Inbunden, 2024
1156 kr
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Since the translation of the Septuagint in the 3rd century BCE, scholars have attempted to identify the stones that populate the biblical text. This study rejects the long-standing reliance on ancient translations for identifying biblical stones. Despite the evident contradictions and historical …
Dragon and the Rainbow
Man’s Oldest Story
Av Robert Blust
Inbunden, 2023
1436 kr
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Modernization and conversion to world religions are threatening the survival of traditional belief systems, leaving behind only mysterious traces of their existence. This book, based upon extensive research conducted over a period of nearly four decades, brings scientific rigor to one of the …
Pindar’s Pythian Twelve: A Linguistic Commentary and a Comparative Study
Inbunden, 2024
1513 kr
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Pindar’s Pythian Twelve is the only choral lyric epinicion in our possession composed for the winner of a non-athletic competition. Often regarded as an ode of straightforward interpretation, close analysis of the text reveals that it presents several challenges to modern readers. This book offers …
Narration of China (Part 1)
Ancient China between the Lines
Inbunden, 2025
2828 kr
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Part 1 of the Festschrift honoring William H. Nienhauser invites readers to explore the fascinating world of ancient Chinese texts through a scholarly lens. The collected articles investigate how already in early times, formerly lost texts were recovered, studied, and edited in order to produce the …
Signs and Signification in a Global Comparative Perspective
Premodern and Early Modern Sources in Original and Translation
Inbunden, 2025
1208 kr
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Theories and practices of signification have flourished across space and time. This book examines premodern thinking on signs in ancient Greek philosophy, Chinese divination, Islamic theology, Hebrew epistemology, medieval Latin logic, South Asian language theory, and early modern European …
Inscribed Copies
Manuscript Models in South, Southeast, and East Asian Epigraphy
Inbunden, 2026
1318 kr
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Inscriptions are often regarded as the ultimate textual ‘originals’ – authentic, authoritative, and unique. This volume challenges that longstanding assumption by showing that formal inscriptions were commonly produced with the help of manuscripts and are, in many cases, copies of preexisting …
Narration of China (Part 2)
Medieval and Early Modern China, Expanding Horizons
Inbunden, 2025
2229 kr
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Part 2 of the Festschrift dedicated to William H. Nienhauser presents a collection of twelve academic papers that delve into the realms of poetry, fiction, and anecdotal writing from the Tang dynasty onwards. Readers will immerse themselves in the linguistic and literary intricacies of some of the …
Contacts of Languages and Peoples in the Hittite and Post-Hittite World
Volume 2, The 1st Millennium and the Eastern Mediterranean Interface
Av Alvise Matessi, Federico Giusfredi m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
1650 kr
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During the 1st millennium BCE, Pre-Classical Anatolia acted as a melting pot and crossroads of languages, cultures and peoples. The political map of the world changed after the collapse of the Bronze Age, the horizon of sea routes was expanded to new interregional networks, new writing systems …
