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Urban Potters
- 7,000 copies sold (worldwide) of the first, hardback edition - New, compact size and affordable paperback edition - Ceramics is still wildly popular among hobbyists around the world - Beautifully illustrated with colorful and inspiring images, behind-the-scenes shots of the makers' studios, and photographs of the makers at work - Includes six essays that shed light on the history of ceramics in each of the cities featured - Includes an updated list of places to visit for anyone interested in ceramics Clay is back: the age-old craft of ceramics is being embraced by a new generation of urban makers and collectors. This book explores the contemporary revival of pottery, focusing on six inspiring cities, their history and their makers. Twenty-eight passionate ceramicists in New York, London, Tokyo, Copenhagen, Sydney and São Paulo introduce us to their work, their studios and their inspiration. Includes a practical and updated source list of places to discover and buy handmade ceramics in the six cities featured. Third and updated edition.
Ysengrimus
The "Ysengrimus" is the first fully-fledged medieval beast-epic, and the poem in which Reynard the Fox makes his first appearance on the stage of world literature. It thus occupies a key position in the long and fertile tradition of medieval beast-literature, but it also claims attention as a masterpiece in its own right, the work of one of the most daring and original satirists of the Middle Ages. Despite its importance, the "Ysengrimus" has been comparatively neglected because of its linguistic difficulties. Jill Mann eases these difficulties by presenting an English translation alongside the Latin text, and accompanying it with a detailed commentary. A full- length introduction offers an original account of the poem which shows how literary structure and historical dimensions are fused into an original satiric vision of compelling power. This book will not only interest medieval Latin specialists, but will make this major text accessible to those working on the related vernacular traditions. Its analysis of the poem's allusions to contemporary persons and events will also be of considerable interest to historians of twelfth-century Flanders.
Einstein en Elisabeth
Hij was een wereldberoemde wetenschapper die de Nobelprijs voor Natuurkunde won dankzij zijn relativiteitstheorie. Zij was een nichtje van de sprookjesachtige Oostenrijkse keizerin Sissi en zelf koningin van een klein landje, België. Hij shockeerde de wereld met zijn protest tegen de atoombom, die zonder zijn baanbrekend wetenschappelijk onderzoek niet had kunnen gemaakt worden. Zij shockeerde de wereld met haar bezoeken aan communistisch China en de Sovjet-Unie tijdens de Koude Oorlog. In turbulente tijden, getekend door economische crisis en oorlog, vonden Albert Einstein en koningin Elisabeth elkaar. Twee excentriekelingen maar vooral twee verwante zielen die een passie deelden voor muzi...
Albert Einstein und Elisabeth von Belgien
Er war ein Genie und Nobelpreisträger für seine Verdienste um die theoretische Physik. Sie, eine geborene Wittelsbacherin, war Königin von Belgien. Er war Jude, Emigrant und glühender Pazifist. Sie war Kunstliebhaberin, Mäzenin und sorgende Landesmutter. Zwischen Albert Einstein (1879–1955) und Elisabeth von Belgien (1876–1965) entwickelte sich jenseits aller Konvention in gemeinsamer Freude an Musik und Musizieren eine tiefe Freundschaft. Diese blieb auch bestehen, als Einstein 1933 in die USA emigrierte und nie mehr nach Europa zurückkehrte. Der Briefwechsel der beiden ist Zeugnis einer turbulenten Zeit – Drittes Reich, Zweiter Weltkrieg, Nachkriegszeit, Kalter Krieg – und Brücke zwischen dem "verrückten Genie" und der "Roten" Königin. Eindrucksvoll beschreibt die Autorin zwei Lebensläufe im Kontext der Geschehniss in der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts.
The External School in Carolingian Society
This study explores one means of imparting Latin literacy in early medieval society: the so-called "external school," often presumed to have been a common feature of medieval monastic education. It questions the prevalence of this institution and whether the external school can be used as evidence of relatively widespread literacy among the non- clerical Carolingian population in particular. By precisely defining and chronicling external schooling, M.M. Hildebrandt invites the reader to reconsider conventional notions about the nature of the Carolingian educational program. The author examines the intention of monastic founders and writers regarding education, the effects of missionary activities on the religious training of non-monks, the attempts made by royal and ecclesiastical leaders to rationalize external schooling, and the impact of ninth-century political and economic turmoil on the development of this institution. The scope of this book makes it of interest as a contribution to the current debate concerning the character of medieval literacy as well as a source book for the study of early medieval monastic education.
Those of My Blood
For those who ruled medieval society, the family was the crucial social unit, made up of those from whom property and authority were inherited and those to whom it passed. One's kin could be one's closest political and military allies or one's fiercest enemies. While the general term used to describe family members was consanguinei mei, "those of my blood," not all of those relations-parents, siblings, children, distant cousins, maternal relatives, paternal ancestors, and so on-counted as true family in any given time, place, or circumstance. In the early and high Middle Ages, the "family" was a very different group than it is in modern society, and the ways in which medieval men and women c...
High Dimensional Probability III
The title High Dimensional Probability is used to describe the many tributaries of research on Gaussian processes and probability in Banach spaces that started in the early 1970s. Many of the problems that motivated researchers at that time were solved. But the powerful new tools created for their solution turned out to be applicable to other important areas of probability. They led to significant advances in the study of empirical processes and other topics in theoretical statistics and to a new approach to the study of aspects of Lévy processes and Markov processes in general. The papers in this book reflect these broad categories. The volume thus will be a valuable resource for postgraduates and reseachers in probability theory and mathematical statistics.
A Companion to Henry of Ghent
The volume addresses the historical context of Henry, e.g. his writings and his participation in the events of 1277; examines Henry’s theology, metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics; and studies Henry’s influence on John Duns Scotus and Pico della Mirandola.
