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What Was the Islamic Conquest of Iberia?
What Was the Islamic Conquest of Iberia? Understanding the New Debate brings together leading scholars to offer an introduction to a recent debate with far-reaching implications for the study of history, as well as our understanding of the present. In the year 711 CE, Islamic armies conquered the Iberian Peninsula. This seemingly uncontroversial claim has in fact been questioned, becoming an object of intense scholarly debate, debate that has reached a fevered pitch in recent decades within Spain. This volume introduces an anglophone audience to the terms and contours of this controversy, from its emergence in the late nineteenth century to its contemporary recrudescence. It suggests that fa...
Frontières pyrénéennes au Moyen Âge (XIe-XVe siècles)
Este volumen recoge las actas de un coloquio desarrollado en Toulouse en octubre 2011 con intención de abordar la noción de frontera, cuya complejidad es evidente a lo largo del periodo medieval, y mostrar las tesis doctorales en curso sobre esta temática en Toulouse y Zaragoza. En los 17 textos reunidos y actualizados no solo se trata de la evolución territorial y de la frontera con el islam, sino también de la circulación de bienes e ideas entre las dos vertientes de la cadena pirenaica. Los trabajos interdisciplinares realizados por jóvenes investigadores, tanto como la variedad de las fuentes estudiadas, dan cuenta de las líneas de la investigación actual sobre estas problemáticas.
Post-Roman Kingdoms
Meticulously researched, this book examines the evidence for the post-Roman military forces of France and Britain during the 'Dark Ages', reconstructing their way of life and the battles they fought in compelling detail. The collapse of the former Western Roman Empire during the so called 'Dark Ages' c. AD 410 was gradual and piecemeal. Out of this vacuum arose regional tribes and leaders determined to take back kingdoms that were theirs and oust any Roman presence for good. However, the Roman guard was tenacious and survived in small pockets that emerged in both Gaul and Britain. These areas of Romano-Celtic resistance held out against the Saxons until at least the mid 6th century in Britai...
Desde la Tarraconense hasta la Marca Superior de al-Andalus (siglos IV-XI)
Cet ouvrage regroupe les actes d'un colloque organisé par la Casa de Velàzquez, à Madrid, au mois de mars 2004 sous le titre Desde la Tarraconense hasta Marca Superior de al-Andalus (ss. IV-XI). Il s'agit là du premier volet d'une série intitulée villa dont le champ de recherche couvre l'ensemble de la vallée de l'Ebre et la période des siècles dits obscurs. L'objectif de cette réunion visait à regrouper des universitaires et des chercheurs des deux côtés de la chaîne pyrénéenne pour éclairer la question controversée de la transition de l'Antiquité tardive au Moyen Age. Au-delà de la diversité des exemples abordés, en Navarre, en Aragon comme en Catalogne, les séances ...
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Touch
Described by Aristotle as the most vital of senses, touch contains both the physical and the metaphysical in its ability to express the determination of being. To manifest itself, touch makes a movement outwards, beyond the body, and relies on a specific physical involvement other senses do not require: to touch is already to be active and to activate. This fundamental ontology makes touch the most essential of all senses. This volume of ‘Law and the Senses’ attempts to illuminate and reconsider the complex and interflowing relations and contradictions between the tactful intrusion of the law and the untactful movement of touch. Compelling contributors from arts, literature and social sc...
L'autre bataille de Poitiers
La bataille de Poitiers constitue reste l’un des plus célèbres jalons de ce que l’on désigne parfois comme le « roman national ». Objet de multiples publications et de récupérations politiques, l’année 732 est même devenue pour certains l’expression passée d’un combat opposant l’Occident chrétien à l’Islam à la manière d’un « choc des civilisations ». Sans remettre en cause l’importance de cet épisode dans l’histoire de ce qui allait devenir l’Occident carolingien, ce livre déplace le débat vers la Méditerranée et montre combien cette date tend à occulter une autre histoire : l’établissement de contingents arabo-musulmans dans le sud de la Gaule...
Density-Functional Methods for Excited States
The series Topics in Current Chemistry presents critical reviews of the present and future trends in modern chemical research. The scope of coverage is all areas of chemical science including the interfaces with related disciplines such as biology, medicine and materials science. The goal of each thematic volume is to give the non-specialist reader, whether in academia or industry, a comprehensive insight into an area where new research is emerging which is of interest to a larger scientific audience. Each review within the volume critically surveys one aspect of that topic and places it within the context of the volume as a whole. The most significant developments of the last 5 to 10 years ...
OE Case Files, Vol. 01
Over the past ten years, Organs Everywhere (Œ) has promoted conversations that approach architectural design from the edges of the discipline -- testing its boundaries, technologies, methods and (e)valuation systems, and keeping them unstable. It has valued transdisciplinary, speculative and irreverent explorations over strict publishing formats and academic purity, promoting a profanatory and open-ended ethos. Each issue has strung together disparate organs and limbs, activating precarious couplings and associations, and testing new metabolisms and assemblages. And so does the first volume of Œ Case Files continue its commitment to the making and unmaking of monsters, both by anthologisin...
For a Pragmatics of the Useless
What has a use in the future, unforeseeably, is radically useless now. What has an effect now is not necessarily useful if it falls through the gaps. In For a Pragmatics of the Useless Erin Manning examines what falls outside the purview of already-known functions and established standards of value, not for want of potential but for carrying an excess of it. The figures are various: the infrathin, the artful, proprioceptive tactility, neurodiversity, black life. It is around the latter two that a central refrain echoes: "All black life is neurodiverse life." This is not an equation, but an "approximation of proximity." Manning shows how neurotypicality and whiteness combine to form a normative baseline for existence. Blackness and neurodiversity "schizz" around the baseline, uselessly, pragmatically, figuring a more-than of life living. Manning, in dialogue with Félix Guattari and drawing on the black radical tradition's accounts of black life and the aesthetics of black sociality, proposes a "schizoanalysis" of the more-than, charting a panoply of techniques for other ways of living and learning.
