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Byzantine Gardens and Beyond
Häftad, 2013
326 kr
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A garden, like the life it provides, may appear to the viewer in many different ways. As a space laid out for the nurturing of plants, a garden fulfils a variety of functions – practical, sacred, decorative or recreational. The garden may be an exquisite work of art and convey notions of cultural …
Translating and Teaching : from the Arabic Kalila wa-Dimna to the Byzantine Stephanites kai Ichnelates
Häftad, 2026
316 kr
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In the late eleventh century, Symeon Seth – a Byzantine scholar originally from Antioch – produced a translation of the highly popular Arabic fable collection Kalila wa-Dimnah and dedicated it to the Byzantine emperor Alexios I Komnenos. As an educational and at the same time entertaining text, the …
Receptions of the Bible in Byzantium: Texts, Manuscripts, and their Readers
Häftad, 2021
347 kr
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The twenty papers in this volume, fifteen in English and five in French, range from the fourth to the fifteenth century and are arranged in five sections according to a typology of reception of the Bible. The first section of the volume focuses on approaches to biblical exegesis often determined, …
Spatial Paths to Holiness: Literary ‘Lived Spaces’ in Eleventh-Century Byzantine Saints’ Lives
Av Myrko Veikou
Häftad, 2023
326 kr
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In the city of Uppsala, located at some 70km-distance from the Stockholm Archipelago, the average wind-speed throughout the year is 10–15 kilometers per hour. These dynamics generate recurring spectacles of ‘turbulent’ skies, as clouds are constantly in motion and they rapidly form, reform and …
A Catalogue of Christian Arabic Bible Translations at the British Library
Häftad, 2025
497 kr
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The present work contains records of the Christian Arabic Bible translations and Bible commentaries that are kept at the Department of Asian and African Studies at the British Library. Many of these manuscripts have previously been described in various catalogues, yet with different levels of …
Wanted: Byzantium. The Desire for a Lost Empire.
Häftad, 2014
326 kr
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What is Byzantium? The question is not easy to answer. Is it a place, a time, an idea? Is Byzantium a closed chapter in history books or can it be part of modern Europe? Is it irretrievably lost, a kind of Arcadia – a topos rather than a reality, a nebulous yardstick against which we can measure …
Byzantium and the viking world
Häftad, 2016
606 kr
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The title of this book encompasses two quite different academic worlds—those of Byzantine and Scandinavian studies. Each has its own academic tradition rooted in distinctive source materials. The world of Byzantine studies, which owes its origins largely to the study of the classics, has been …
