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Marco Polo Research: Past, Present, Future
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 546

Marco Polo Research: Past, Present, Future

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The Chinese Language in European Texts
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 242

The Chinese Language in European Texts

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-08-19
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  • Publisher: Springer

This detailed, chronological study investigates the rise of the European fascination with the Chinese language up to 1615. By meticulously investigating a wide range of primary sources, Dinu Luca identifies a rhetorical continuum uniting the land of the Seres, Cathay, and China in a tropology of silence, vision, and writing. Tracing the contours of this tropology, The Chinese Language in European Texts: The Early Period offers close readings of language-related contexts in works by classical authors, medieval travelers, and Renaissance cosmographers, as well as various merchants, wanderers, and missionaries, both notable and lesser-known. What emerges is a clear and comprehensive understanding of early European ideas about the Chinese language and writing system.

马可·波罗与10—14世纪的丝绸之路
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 440

马可·波罗与10—14世纪的丝绸之路

本书分“马可·波罗研究”“丝绸之路研究”“中外关系史研究”三个主题,收录了《在文本与历史之间:马可·波罗对卢沟桥的描述》《元代军事史上被忽略的一章:蒙古哨马研究》《香料与东西海上之路论稿》等论文。

Marco Polo's Le Devisement Du Monde
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 214

Marco Polo's Le Devisement Du Monde

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013
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  • Publisher: DS Brewer

The first book in English to examine one of the most important and influential texts from a literary perspective.

Forms of Conflict and Rivalries in Renaissance Europe
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 282

Forms of Conflict and Rivalries in Renaissance Europe

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-05-20
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  • Publisher: V&R Unipress

Cultural and intellectual dynamism often stand in close relationship to the expression of viewpoints and positions that are in tension or even conflict with one another. This phenomenon has a particular relevance for Early Modern Europe, which was heavily marked by polemical discourse. The dimensions and manifestations of this Streitkultur are being explored by an International Network funded by the Leverhulme Trust (United Kingdom). The present volume contains the proceedings of the Network's first colloquium, which focused on the forms of Renaissance conflict and rivalries, from the perspectives of history, language and literature.

Digital philology: new thoughts on old questions
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 210
Philology of the Grasslands
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 472

Philology of the Grasslands

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-01-16
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  • Publisher: BRILL

Professor György Kara, an outstanding member of academia, celebrated his 80th birthday recently. His students and colleagues commemorate this occasion with papers on a wide range of topics in Altaic Studies, with a focus on the literacy, culture and languages of the steppe civilizations.

Form and Function in the Late Medieval Bible
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 444

Form and Function in the Late Medieval Bible

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-05-13
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  • Publisher: BRILL

Thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Latin Bibles survive in hundreds of manuscripts, one of the most popular books of the Middle Ages. Their innovative layout and organization established the norm for Bibles for centuries to come. This volume is the first study of these Bibles as a cohesive group. Multi- and inter-disciplinary analyses in art history, liturgy, exegesis, preaching and manuscript studies, reveal the nature and evolution of layout and addenda. They follow these Bibles as they were used by monks and friars, preachers and merchants. By addressing Latin Bibles alongside their French, Italian and English counterparts, this book challenges the Latin-vernacular dichotomy to show links, as well as discrepancies, between lay and clerical audiences and their books. Contributors include Peter Stallybrass, Diane Reilly, Paul Saenger, Richard Gameson, Chiara Ruzzier, Giovanna Murano, Cornelia Linde, Lucie Doležalová, Laura Light, Eyal Poleg, Sabina Magrini, Sabrina Corbellini, Margriet Hoogvliet, Guy Lobrichon, Elizabeth Solopova, and Matti Peikola.

Illuminating the Renaissance
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 593

Illuminating the Renaissance

  • Categories: Art

This comprehensive and richly illustrated catalogue focuses on the finest illustrated manuscripts produced in Europe during the great epoch in Flemish illumination. During this aesthetically fertile period – beginning in 1467 with the reign of the Burgundian duke Charles the Bold and ending in 1561 with the death of the artist Simon Bening – the art of book painting was raised to a new level of sophistication. Sharing inspiration with the celebrated panel painters of the time, illuminators achieved astonishing innovations in the handling of color, light, texture, and space, creating a naturalistic style that would dominate tastes throughout Europe for nearly a century. Centering on the n...

Marco Polo Was in China
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 675

Marco Polo Was in China

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-11-21
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  • Publisher: BRILL

In Marco Polo was in China Hans Ulrich Vogel offers an innovative look at the highly complex topics of currencies, salt production and taxes, commercial levies and other kinds of revenue as well as the administrative geography of the Mongol Yuan empire. The author’s rigorous analysis of Chinese sources and all the important Marco Polo manuscripts as well as his thorough scrutiny of Japanese, Chinese and Western scholarship show that the fascinating information contained in Le devisament dou monde agrees almost pefectly with that we find in Chinese sources, the latter only available long after Marco Polo’s stay in China. Hence, the author concludes that, despite the doubts that have been raised, the Venetian was indeed in Khubilai Khan’s realm.