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Lloyd's War Losses
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Rotuli Parisienses
This edition of texts resulting from supplications by the University of Paris for papal benefice support in the second half of the fourteenth century provides new biographical information on some 1600 Parisian masters, many of them previously undocumented.
Napoli da capitale a periferia
Nel corso del Settecento le antichità campane si erano imposte all’attenzione internazionale anche a seguito di precise scelte della monarchia borbonica, che dichiarava gli scavi archeologici attività complementari ai successi militari del re. Dopo l’Unità Napoli da capitale del Regno, centro di interessi collezionistici e di mercato, divenne zona periferica rispetto al più vasto Stato unitario, con una progressiva marginalizzazione politica ed economica che doveva condizionare anche un settore profondamente legato all’autorappresentazione dei ceti sociali dominanti, come la compravendita di antichità, il collezionismo e la stessa pratica dell’archeologia. Questo lavoro esamina la storia sociale dell’archeologia napoletana, inscindibilmente connessa al fenomeno del commercio antiquario, a partire dagli ultimi anni prima del crollo della monarchia borbonica e sino agli esordi del Novecento, esaminando le trasformazioni culturali, socio-politiche, e conseguentemente istituzionali, che portarono alla necessità della promulgazione di una legislazione dedicata, restrittiva in materia di esportazioni dei Beni Culturali a salvaguardia dei più generali interessi nazionali.
Choral & Organ Guide
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The Scarith of Scornello
"As recounted here by Ingrid D. Rowland, Curzio preyed on the Italian fixation with ancestry to forge an array of ancient Latin and Etruscan documents. For authenticity's sake, he stashed the counterfeit treasure in scarith (capsules made of hair and mud) near Scornello. To the seventeenth-century Tuscans who were so eager to establish proof of their heritage and history, the scarith symbolized a link to the prestigious culture of their past. But because none of these proud Italians could actually read the ancient Etruscan language, they couldn't know for certain that the documents were frauds. The Scarith of Scornello traces the career of this young scam artist whose "discoveries" reached the Vatican shortly after Galileo was condemned by the Inquisition, inspiring participants on both sides of the affair to clash again - this time over Etruscan history."--BOOK JACKET.
Maimonides and the Merchants
The advent of Islam in the seventh century brought profound economic changes to the Jews living in the Middle East, and Talmudic law, compiled in and for an agrarian society, was ill equipped to address an increasingly mercantile world. In response, and over the course of the seventh through eleventh centuries, the heads of the Jewish yeshivot of Iraq sought precedence in custom to adapt Jewish law to the new economic and social reality. In Maimonides and the Merchants, Mark R. Cohen reveals the extent of even further pragmatic revisions to the halakha, or body of Jewish law, introduced by Moses Maimonides in his Mishneh Torah, the comprehensive legal code he compiled in the late twelfth cen...
The JPS Jewish Heritage Torah Commentary
The JPS Jewish Heritage Torah Commentary shows Jews of all ages and backgrounds that the Jewish people’s most significant book is not dusty and irrelevant but an eternally sacred text wholly pertinent to our modern lives. Designed to keep the attention of all readers, each lively essay is both brief enough to be read in minutes and deep and substantive enough to deliver abundant food for thought. Its cornerstone is its unique four-part meditation on the Jewish heritage. After briefly summarizing a Torah portion, the commentary orbits that portion through four central pillars of Jewish life—the Torah (Torat Yisrael), the land of Israel (Eretz Yisrael), the Jewish people (Am Yisrael), and Jewish thought (Mahshevet Yisrael)—illuminating how the four intersect and enrich one another. Furthering the Jewish thought motif, every essay ends with two questions for thought well suited for discussion settings. Each commentary can be used as the launchpad for a lesson, a sermon, a d’var Torah, or a discussion. Readers from beginners to experts will come away with new understandings of our Jewish heritage—and be inspired to draw closer to its four dimensions.
The Metropolis in Latin America, 1830-1930
This volume examines the unprecedented growth of several cities in Latin America from 1830 to 1930, observing how sociopolitical changes and upheavals created the conditions for the birth of the metropolis. In the century between 1830 and 1930, following independence from Spain and Portugal, major cities in Latin America experienced large-scale growth, with the development of a new urban bourgeois elite interested in projects of modernization and rapid industrialization. At the same time, the lower classes were eradicated from old city districts and deported to the outskirts. The Metropolis in Latin America, 1830–1930 surveys this expansion, focusing on six capital cities—Havana, Mexico ...
Maritime Guide
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