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"The third edition of Reading the Middle Ages retains the strengths of previous editions-thematic and geographical diversity, clear and informative introductions, and close integration with A Short History of the Middle Ages-and adds significant new material on the Mediterranean region, as well as new readings from the Byzantine and Islamic worlds. The "Reading through Looking" sections, designed to showcase how historians study medieval material...
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2020
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1 online resource (1 EPUB unpaged) : facsimiles.
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This first complete modern edition of Peter Schott's Lucubraciunculae opened a treasure-trove of information to students of German literature, historians of Humanism, folklorists, and theologians on its publication in 1963. Also included in this volume are the De mensirus syllabarum epithoma and a letter in German to Schott's sister Anna. Schott's works shed light on social, historical and religious questions of the time and are valuable documents...
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2020
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1 online resource (1 EPUB unpaged) : facsimiles.
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This companion volume to The Works of Peter Schott, Vol. I: Introduction and Text is an essential tool for gaining access to the writings of the humanist Peter Schott. The commentary volume comprises explanatory notes to Vol. I, including English summaries of all items and, in addition, pertinent cultural, economic, and political information. The editors have also included brief biographies of those persons mentioned in Schott's writings and their...
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Southeast Asia Program volume no. 69
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2016
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1 online resource (xii, 154 pages) : illustrations, maps.
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This book contains the first academic translations of key legal texts from the Ayutthaya era (1351-1767), along with an essay on the role of law in Thai history. The legal history of Southeast Asia has languished because few texts are accessible in translation. The Three Seals Code is a collection of Thai legal manuscripts surviving from the Ayutthaya era. The Palace Law, probably dating to the late fifteenth century, was the principal law on kingship...
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[2015]
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2 volumes : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
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This anthoogy, edited by world-renowned scholars under the direction of Pulitzer Prize winner Jack Miles, offers a portable library of more than 1,000 primary texts from the world's major religions: Hinduism, Buddhism, and Daoism (Volume 1); Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (Volume 2). The anthology brings together foundational works--the Bhagavad Gita, the Daodejing, the Bible, the Quʹran--with the writings of scholars, seekers, believers, and skeptics...
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[2017]
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Examines the evolution of concern about environmental degradation, pollution, climate change, and resource conservation in America from the Colonial period the present. This third edition is filled with important updates and new coverage of documents published from 2010 to 2017.
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Edited by Edward L. Ayers, America's War is an anthology of Civil War writing originally published between 1852 and 2008. Co-published by the American Library Association and the National Endowment for the Humanities, America's War was created in support of a national reading and discussion program for libraries called Let's Talk About It: Making Sense of the American Civil War. The selections in America's War include works of historical fiction and...
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[2016]
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An essential, one-of-a-kind reader, this book frames, explores, and interprets Eastern Orthodoxy through primary sources. It is the first comprehensive reader on the Eastern Orthodox Church for the English-speaking world and is accessible to readers with no prior knowledge of theology or religious history. Lively introductions and short narratives touch on anthropology, art, law, literature, music, politics, women's studies, and a host of other areas....
