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Motherhood in Antiquity
This edited collection examines concepts and realities of motherhood in the ancient world. The collection uses essays on the Roman Empire, Mesoamerica, the Philippines, Egypt, and India to emphasize the concept of motherhood as a worldwide phenomenon and experience. While covering a wide geographical range, the editors arranged the collection thematically to explore themes including the relationship between the mother, particularly ruling mothers, and children and the mother in real life and legend. Some essays explore related issues, such as adaptation and child custody after divorce in ancient Egypt and the mother in religious culture of late antiquity and the ancient Buddhist Indian world. The contributors utilize a variety of methodologies and approaches including textual analysis and archaeological analysis in addition to traditional historical methodology.
Continuation or Change? Borders and Frontiers in Late Antiquity and Medieval Europe
This volume examines interdisciplinary boundaries and includes texts focusing on material culture, philological analysis, and historical research. What they all have in common are zones that lie in between, treated not as mere barriers but also as places of exchange in the early Middle Ages. Focusing on borderlands, Continuation or Change uncovers the changing political and military organisations at the time and the significance of the functioning of former borderland areas. The chapters answer how the fiscal and military apparatus were organised, identify the turning points in the division of dynastic power, and assign meaning to the assimilation of certain symbolic and ideological elements...
Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages (500-1300) (2 vols)
Winner of the 2020 Verbruggen prize This book provides a comprehensive synthesis of scholarship on Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages. The goal is to offer an overview of the current state of research and a basic route map for navigating an abundant historiography available in more than 10 different languages. The literature published in English on the medieval history of Eastern Europe—books, chapters, and articles—represents a little more than 11 percent of the historiography. The companion is therefore meant to provide an orientation into the existing literature that may not be available because of linguistic barriers and, in addition, an introductory bibliography in English. Winner of the 2020 Verbruggen prize, awarded annually by the De Re Militari society for the best book on medieval military history. The awarding committee commented that the book ‘has an enormous range, and yet is exceptionally scholarly with a fine grasp of detail. Its title points to a general history of eastern Europe, but it is dominated by military episodes which make it of the highest value to anybody writing about war and warmaking in this very neglected area of Europe.’ See inside the book.
China
In the great tradition of publications on Chinese art from the Metropolitan Museum, China: Dawn of a Golden Age will become an essential text for years to come. This book is the catalogue for a major exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art (October 5, 2004 to January 23, 2005).
Congressional Record
The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)
Amandus Ivanschiz
The ensembles associated with monastery and parish churches were a very important element of musical life in Central Europe around the mid-eighteenth century. Yet the music created by early Classical composers, which constituted the core of their repertoire, remains poorly explored. Fr. Amandus Ivanschiz OSPPE (1727–1758) was one of such musicians, active in monasteries in Ranna, Wiener Neustadt, Rome, and Graz. Recent findings reveal that he died in 1758 at the young age of 31, which is much earlier than previously thought. Consequently, the dating of his compositions and their position in the context of the transformation of musical language in the middle of the eighteenth century needs to be revisited. This volume is the first to provide a critical evaluation of the attribution of works ascribed to Ivanschiz, which brought to light the true scope and reception of his oeuvre. The fact that there are nearly 300 copies of his works preserved in various archives across eleven European countries indicates that his music was readily performed and disseminated, and places Ivanschiz among the most popular monk-composers of his epoch. (From the Epilogue)
Ergrabene Kontexte
Diese Studie zeigt das Potential einer Analyse archäologischer Fundzusammenhänge: Räumliche und soziale Kontextualisierungen ermöglichen aufschlussreiche Einblicke in die komplexen materiellen Kulturen adeliger Haushalte und in die zeitgenössische Nutzung von Burgarealen. Leicht veränderbare, nicht-ortsfeste Elemente der Innenausstattung – die meist in Form archäologischer Funde überliefert sind – stellen eine wichtige Quelle zur funktionalen Analyse von Räumen dar. Besonderes Potential für die Untersuchung von Raumfunktionen und Ausstattungsmustern auf Adelssitzen liegt dabei in der Interpretation des Zusammenspiels architektonischer und archäologischer Spuren. Im Fokus dieser Untersuchung stehen daher aus archäologischen Fundkontexten erschließbare Depositionsbedingungen, Gebrauchskontexte und Bezüge zu Objekten, Personen oder Räumen.
Das mittlere Burgenland
Renate Mackays Bildband ist eine Einladung, auf das Burgenland zu blicken, und zwar jenseits des Neusiedlers Sees auf eine Gegend, die für viele schon als Geheimtipp gilt, aber sehr zu Unrecht noch zu wenig bekannt ist. Geprägt von einer sanften Hügellandschaft, die sich im Geschriebensteiner und Landseer Naturpark erwandern lässt, ist das Mittelburgenland schlicht und einfach anders. Manchmal scheint es, als wäre die Zeit hier stehen geblieben, wenn man durch verträumte Dörfer fährt, alte Burgen besichtigt oder vor den großen Kastanienbäumen in Liebing steht. Vielfältige Möglichkeiten bieten sich hier, einen Tag, einen Urlaub oder die Wochenenden zu verbringen. Mit Rad, Pferd, z...
