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The Art of Medieval Falconry
A beautifully illustrated tour of the visual culture of medieval falconry in Europe and beyond. Medieval falconry was not just about hunting; the practice also signified sovereignty, power, and diplomacy. In The Art of Medieval Falconry, Yannis Hadjinicolaou describes the visual culture that sprang up around these practices, tracking how imagery, equipment, and even the birds themselves moved through the medieval world. Indeed, Hadjinicolaou shows that falconry has been a global phenomenon since at least the thirteenth century. This beautifully illustrated book offers a unique glimpse at how cultures across the globe adopted and adapted the visual culture of medieval falconry.
Life and work of Michael Knüppel
The book is a bio-bibliography of the Turkologist, Tungusologist, Altaist, historian of science and ethnologist Michael Knüppel (*1967) for the years 1996-2022.
The Art of the Eurasian Steppe
The Art of the Eurasian Steppe is a contextual analysis which traces the stylistic transformation of artefacts depicting animals from various cultures of the Eurasian steppe, and investigates its possible influence on Central and Northern European art. A wide range of individual cultures are "visited" and their historic, cultural, and geographic specifics are explored. The survey in this book is based on a chronological structure, including an East-West geographic direction. This accommodates to position described artefacts of certain styles within time periods, cultures, and locations. Most of the existing literature related to cultures of the Eurasian steppe is specialised on one particula...
Raptor on the Fist
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Historical Linguistics and Philology of Central Asia
This is a collection of papers in Turkic and Mongolic Studies, with a focus on the literacy, culture, and languages of the steppe civilizations.
Early Modern Merchants as Collectors
This book encourages the rethinking of collecting not as an elite, often aristocratic pursuit, but rather as a vital activity that has engaged many different groups within society.
Germanisches Altertum und Europäisches Mittelalter
Die Publikation versammelt 25 Beiträge von Freunden, Weggefährten und Kollegen zu Ehren von Heinrich Beck, dem 2019 verstorbenen Herausgeber des Reallexikons der Germanischen Altertumskunde und Mitbegründer der Reihe Ergänzungsbände zum RGA sowie von G(ermanische) A(lterumskunde) O(nline) mit Themen aus dem Bereich der frühmittelalterlichen Archäologie, der altgermanistischen und altnordistischen Literatur- und Sprachwissenschaft, der Namenkunde, der Runologie sowie der mittelalterlichen Geschichte Skandinaviens. Zudem enthält der Band zwei biographische Skizzen sowie ein vollständiges Verzeichnis der Schriften Heinrich Becks.
Schriftenverzeichnis Michael Knüppel (1996-2024)
Der hier vorliegende Band bietet ein Schriftenverzeichnis des Turkologen, Tungusologen, Altaisten, Religions- und Wissenschaftshistorikers der orientalischen Philologie etc. Michael Knüppel für den Zeitraum 1996-2024. Insgesamt sind in dieser Zusammenstellung 875 Titel erfaßt, womit diese aktualisierte Bibliographie über die vorausgegangenen aus den Jahren 2020 und 2022 deutlich hinausgeht. Zudem sind in den Anhängen Übersichten über Vortrags- und Lehrtätigkeiten etc. gegeben.
Raptor on the Fist
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