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Imagining the Balkans
'Imagining the Balkans' examines how an innocent geographic appellation was transformed into a powerful and widespread pejorative designation. In a new afterword, Maria Todorova discusses the reaction to her dubbing of the term Balkanism and recent events in the Balkans.
Alep dans la littérature de voyage européenne pendant la période ottomane (1516-1918)
Titre : Alep dans la littérature de voyage européenne pendant la période ottomane (1516-1918) Auteur : Olivier Salmon Préface par Hussein I. El-Mudarris Editeur : Dar al-Mudarris & Dar Mardin Publication : décembre 2011 (2e éd. 2016) Format : 21 x 29,7 cm, 3 tomes, 2123 pages, ill. noir et blanc et ill. couleur Cet ouvrage, résultat d’un travail de thèse de cinq années, établit un corpus de plus de quatre cents voyageurs et auteurs européens, passés ou non par Alep pendant la période ottomane (1516-1918), dont les Å“uvres évoquant la métropole syrienne relèvent de la littérature de voyage. Centre économique, religieux et culturel, situé à la croisée des routes entre lâ...
A History of Cyprus
A rich, varied history of conquerors and colonizers which recognizes the centrality of Cyprus to the Mediterranean world.
The Making of Syriac Jerusalem
This book discusses hagiographic, historiographical, hymnological, and theological sources that contributed to the formation of the sacred picture of the physical as well as metaphysical Jerusalem in the literature of two Eastern Christian denominations, East and West Syrians. Popa analyses the question of Syrian beliefs about the Holy City, their interaction with holy places, and how they travelled in the Holy Land. He also explores how they imagined and reflected the theology of this itinerary through literature in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, set alongside a well-defined local tradition that was at times at odds with Jerusalem. Even though the image of Jerusalem as a land of sacred...
