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The Early Church in Its Context
This volume honors Professor Everett Ferguson of Abilene Christian University on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday. Reflecting the interests of the honoree, the twenty-one contributions focus on various aspects of the early church and its environment. Together the articles form a broad tapestry of interrelated topics informed from the disciplines of philosophy, patristic theology, archaeology, rhetoric, art, Greco-Roman religion, and biblical studies.
Geist und Gestalt
Dieser Band diskutiert, inwieweit sich spirituelle Leitideen in den Raumkonzepten religiöser Gemeinschaften des Mittelalters widerspiegeln. Hierfür nimmt er vergleichend die Klausur betonenden Orden und Verbände ebenso in den Blick wie die Mendikanten oder die Beginen. Er begibt sich dabei hinein in die Spannungsfelder aus Anspruch und Wirklichkeit, Transzendenz und Immanenz, Altem und Neuem, Ritual und Performanz sowie Faktizität und Illusion. "Geist und Gestalt" beleuchtet auch darum einen grundlegenden Aspekt europäischer Kulturgeschichte.
The Book Worlds of East Asia and Europe, 1450–1850
This volume provides the first comparative survey of the relations between the two most active book worlds in Eurasia between 1450 and 1850. Prominent scholars in book history explore different approaches to publishing, printing, and book culture. They discuss the extent of technology transfer and book distribution between the two regions and show how much book historians of East Asia and Europe can learn from one another by raising new questions, exploring remarkable similarities and differences in these regions’ production, distribution, and consumption of books. The chapters in turn show different ways of writing transnational comparative history. Whereas recent problems confronting res...
