Messages From Antiquity

Author : Ulrike Babusiaux,Mariko Igimi
Publisher : Böhlau Köln
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783412514525

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"Messages from Antiquity" by Ulrike Babusiaux,Mariko Igimi Pdf

Roman law has shaped the Civil law tradition but its influence undoubtedly also extends to Common law countries. Legal institutions as well as legal reasoning reassembled in the Corpus iuris civilis have been studied for nearly one thousand years in Western Europe and have been a constant point of reference. Japanese law adopted this tradition since the Meiji-era. Roman law does not only offer a historical insight into the foundations of modern legal thinking, but can also be a useful tool for deeper understanding and analysis of current legal problems. The international seminar held at the University of Kyushu in February 2016 intended to show the validity of Roman law for contemporary legal practitioners facing current challenges by looking at selected issues. Das römische Recht hat die Tradition des Civil law geprägt, aber ohne Zweifel auch das Common law beeinflusst. Die Rechtsinstitute und die rechtliche Argumentation, welche im Corpus iuris civilis gesammelt sind, stehen in Westeuropa seit über tausend Jahren im Zentrum juristischer Studien und bilden auch im Japanischen Recht seit der Meiji-Ära einen wichtigen Bezugspunkt. Allerdings erlaubt das römische Recht nicht nur einen Zugang zu den historischen Grundlagen des modernen Rechtsdenkens; vielmehr kann es auch als Instrument zum tieferen Verständnis und zur Analyse aktueller Rechtsprobleme dienen. Die internationale Tagung an der Universität Kyushu im Februar 2016 verfolgte den Zweck, anhand ausgewählter Rechtsfragen den zeitlosen Wert des römischen Rechts auch für die Herausforderungen der heutigen Jurisprudenz aufzuzeigen.

Author : Jonathan A. Draper
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004130432

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Orality, Literacy, and Colonialism in Antiquity by Jonathan A. Draper Pdf

Essays in this collection explore the complex relationship between text and orality in colonial situations of antiquity from Homer, Plato, and Mithras to the Hebrew and Christian scriptures and rabbinic tradition. Orality could be a deliberate decision by highly literate people who chose not to put certain things in writing, either to exercise control over the tradition or to preserve the secrecy of ritual performance. Exploring both theoretical issues and historical questions, the book demonstrates the role of text as a form of imperial control over against oral tradition as a means of resistance by the marginalized peasantry or marginalized elite of Israel and the early Church. Paperback edition is available from the Society of Biblical Literature (www.sbl-site.org)

Author : Mary Harlow
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781350114036

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A Cultural History of Dress and Fashion in Antiquity by Mary Harlow Pdf

Whilst seemingly simple garments such as the tunic remained staples of the classical wardrobe, sources from the period reveal a rich variety of changing styles and attitudes to clothing across the ancient world. Covering the period 500 BCE to 800 CE and drawing on sources ranging from extant garments and architectural iconography to official edicts and literature, this volume reveals Antiquity's preoccupation with dress, which was matched by an appreciation of the processes of production rarely seen in later periods. From a courtesan's sheer faux-silk garb to the sumptuous purple dyes of an emperor's finery, clothing was as much a marker of status and personal expression as it was a site of social control and anxiety. Contemporary commentators expressed alarm in equal measure at the over-dressed, the excessively ascetic or at 'barbarian' silhouettes. Richly illustrated with 100 images, A Cultural History of Dress and Fashion in Antiquity presents an overview of the period with essays on textiles, production and distribution, the body, belief, gender and sexuality, status, ethnicity, visual representations, and literary representations.

Author : Paul E. Quast,David Dunér
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2024-04-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781476690001

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Speaking Beyond Earth by Paul E. Quast,David Dunér Pdf

Since the dawn of the Space Age, small cohorts of humanity have broadcast signals towards other stars, fabricated "space-time capsules" to "speak for Earth" aboard interstellar probes, deposited collections of "space oddities" on other astronomical bodies, and permanently incised the memory of our species across the deep-time legacy of the Sol System. Many of these purposeful "messages" are the consequence of age-old behaviors, traditions, and material practices using modern aerospace technologies. Most attempt to preserve narratives of human experience in social exchange devices for imagined, exotic audiences. Looking back upon this accumulative history of "messaging from Earth", how do we begin to interpret such an eclectic portrait of Earth for ourselves? Surveying and cataloguing the variety of these artifacts through a series of interdisciplinary essays and visual documentation, this volume chronicles our changing relationships, customs, and assumptions made within this material culture for our own eyes. What do these autobiographical accounts tell us about Terrans and our minds, set against the backdrop of our planetary history?

Author : Sebastiana Nervegna
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107328259

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Menander in Antiquity by Sebastiana Nervegna Pdf

The comic playwright Menander was one of the most popular writers throughout antiquity. This book reconstructs his life and the legacy of his work until the end of antiquity employing a broad range of sources such as portraits, illustrations of his plays, papyri preserving their texts and inscriptions recording their public performances. These are placed within the context of the three social and cultural institutions which appropriated his comedy, thereby ensuring its survival: public theatres, dinner parties and schools. Dr Nervegna carefully reconstructs how each context approached Menander's drama and how it contributed to its popularity over the centuries. The resultant, highly illustrated, book will be essential for all scholars and students not just of Menander's comedy but, more broadly, of the history and iconography of the ancient theatre, ancient social history and reception studies.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 547 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004283893

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Urban Dreams and Realities in Antiquity by Anonim Pdf

A unique variety of approaches to all aspects of urban culture in the ancient world can be found in Urban Dreams and Realities in Antiquity, a collection of 19 essays addressing ancient cities from an interdisciplinary perspective. As the title indicates, the volume considers both how ancient people lived in their cities as physical structures and how they thought with them as ideas and symbols. Essays in this volume deal with texts and sites from Spain to South India, but there is a particular focus on the archaeology and epigraphy of Roman-era Italy, civic identity in the Roman provinces, the Hebrew Bible and Early Christian literature, Vergil and other imperial Latin authors.

Author : atlantisrising.com
Publisher : Atlantis Rising magazine
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Atlantis Rising Magazine Issue 19 – Egypt’s Great Antiquity by atlantisrising.com Pdf

LETTERS EARLY RAYS THRESHOLD ATLANTIS: THE TOURIST SPOT Is There Gold in the Lost Continent? Sun International Thinks So COLD FUSION PROVEN Japanese Research Establishes What the U.S. Academic Establishment Could Not THE POWER OF WATER Could Her Secrets Be the Solution to Many of Our Worst Problems? WHEN THE STICK SHAKES Why the Ancient Art of Dowsing Is Alive and Well THE HIDDEN TUNNELS OF SOUTH AMERICA What Wonders May Lie Beneath the Earth’s Surface? ROBERT SCHOCH DEFENDS CATASTROPHES The Famed Geologist Attacks the Natural History Paradigm THE DE LUBICZ MASTERPIECE A New English Translation of The Temple of Man JOHN ANTHONY WEST New Evidence for Egypt’s Great Antiquity OUR DWINDLING ANCIENT HERITAGE A Leading Researcher with a Dire Warning ISAAC NEWTON AND THE OCCULT The Great Scientist’s Hidden Side ASTROLOGY VIDEOS RECORDINGS

Author : Bloomsbury Publishing
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350253384

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A Cultural History of Money in Antiquity by Bloomsbury Publishing Pdf

The origins of the modern, Western concept of money can be traced back to the earliest electrum coins that were produced in Asia Minor in the seventh century BCE. While other forms of currency (shells, jewelry, silver ingots) were in widespread use long before this, the introduction of coinage aided and accelerated momentous economic, political, and social developments such as long-distance trade, wealth creation (and the social differentiation that followed from that), and the financing of military and political power. Coinage, though adopted inconsistently across different ancient societies, became a significant marker of identity and became embedded in practices of religion and superstition. And this period also witnessed the emergence of the problems of money - inflation, monetary instability, and the breakup of monetary unions - which have surfaced repeatedly in succeeding centuries. Drawing upon a wealth of visual and textual sources, A Cultural History of Money in Antiquity presents essays that examine key cultural case studies of the period on the themes of technologies, ideas, ritual and religion, the everyday, art and representation, interpretation, and the issues of the age.

Author : Lisa C. Nevett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2010-08-05
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780521783361

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Domestic Space in Classical Antiquity by Lisa C. Nevett Pdf

Explores the wider cultural framework in which we should study the housing in the Greek and Roman worlds.

Author : K. L. Noll
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567441171

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Canaan and Israel in Antiquity: A Textbook on History and Religion by K. L. Noll Pdf

This comprehensive classic textbook represents the most recent approaches to the biblical world by surveying Palestine's social, political, economic, religious and ecological changes from Palaeolithic to Roman eras. Designed for beginners with little knowledge of the ancient world, and with copious illustrations and charts, it explains how and why academic study of the past is undertaken, as well as the differences between historical and theological scholarship and the differences between ancient and modern genres of history writing. Classroom tested chapters emphasize the authenticity of the Bible as a product of an ancient culture, and the many problems with the biblical narrative as a historical source. Neither "maximalist" nor "minimalist'" it is sufficiently general to avoid confusion and to allow the assignment of supplementary readings such as biblical narratives and ancient Near Eastern texts. This new edition has been fully revised, incorporating new graphics and English translations of Near Eastern inscriptions. New material on the religiously diverse environment of Ancient Israel taking into account the latest archaeological discussions brings this book right up to date.

Author : Scott Fitzgerald Johnson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1296 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199996339

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The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity by Scott Fitzgerald Johnson Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity offers an innovative overview of a period (c. 300-700 CE) that has become increasingly central to scholarly debates over the history of western and Middle Eastern civilizations. This volume covers such pivotal events as the fall of Rome, the rise of Christianity, the origins of Islam, and the early formation of Byzantium and the European Middle Ages. These events are set in the context of widespread literary, artistic, cultural, and religious change during the period. The geographical scope of this Handbook is unparalleled among comparable surveys of Late Antiquity; Arabia, Egypt, Central Asia, and the Balkans all receive dedicated treatments, while the scope extends to the western kingdoms, and North Africa in the West. Furthermore, from economic theory and slavery to Greek and Latin poetry, Syriac and Coptic literature, sites of religious devotion, and many others, this Handbook covers a wide range of topics that will appeal to scholars from a diverse array of disciplines. The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity engages the perennially valuable questions about the end of the ancient world and the beginning of the medieval, while providing a much-needed touchstone for the study of Late Antiquity itself.

Author : A.J. Kingston
Publisher : A.J. Kingston
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781839383625

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Pearl Harbor by A.J. Kingston Pdf

Experience the gripping story of Pearl Harbor like never before with our exclusive book bundle, "Pearl Harbor." This carefully curated collection of four captivating books takes you on a riveting journey through the events leading up to the attack, the harrowing survival stories, the incredible work of the codebreakers, and the enduring legacy that reverberates to this day. Book 1: "Dawn of Infamy: The Road to Pearl Harbor" sets the stage for the pivotal events of December 7, 1941. Immerse yourself in the complex geopolitical landscape, the rising tensions, and the diplomatic struggles that shaped the road to that fateful day. Meticulously researched and brilliantly written, this book offers a comprehensive exploration of the events that led to the attack on Pearl Harbor. In Book 2: "Through the Smoke: Surviving Pearl Harbor," you will witness the heart-stopping moments of the attack itself. Through gripping firsthand accounts and harrowing narratives, you will be transported to the chaos and confusion that unfolded as brave individuals fought for survival amidst the devastation. Experience the resilience, courage, and determination of those who emerged from the smoke-filled skies of Pearl Harbor. Book 3: "The Codebreakers: Cracking the Secrets of Pearl Harbor" unveils the remarkable world of intelligence and cryptography. Discover the incredible stories of the codebreakers who unraveled the Japanese encryption systems, providing crucial intelligence that turned the tide of the war. This book takes you behind the scenes of their groundbreaking work, showcasing their unwavering dedication and their invaluable contributions to the Allied war effort. Finally, in Book 4: "The Aftermath: Reflections on Pearl Harbor's Legacy," you will explore the profound and enduring impact of the attack. Reflect on the immediate aftermath, the efforts of rebuilding and reconciliation, and the long-term consequences that shaped the course of history. This book offers poignant insights into the lessons learned and the lasting legacy of Pearl Harbor, ensuring that its significance is never forgotten. By purchasing the "Pearl Harbor" book bundle, you gain exclusive access to an immersive and comprehensive collection of books that delve deep into the history, stories, and impact of this pivotal event. With meticulous research, compelling narratives, and thought-provoking reflections, these books provide a rich and unforgettable reading experience. Whether you are a history enthusiast, a student of World War II, or simply seeking a captivating and enlightening read, the "Pearl Harbor" book bundle is a must-have addition to your library. Join us on this extraordinary journey as we revisit the events, honor the heroes, unravel the secrets, and explore the enduring legacy of Pearl Harbor. Don't miss this opportunity to own this exceptional book bundle. Order your copy of the "Pearl Harbor" collection today and immerse yourself in the profound and transformative story that shaped the course of history.

Author : John Weale
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1004 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1854
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UOM:39015049816872

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The Pictorial Handbook of London Comprising Its Antiquities, Architecture, Arts ... and Scientific Institutions ... by John Weale Pdf

Author : Arash Zeini
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474442909

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Zoroastrian Scholasticism in Late Antiquity by Arash Zeini Pdf

Examines Zoroastrian exegesis by investigating a late antique translation of an ancient Iranian textChallenges the view that considers the study of the Zand an auxiliary science to Avestan studiesViews the Zand of the YH as a text in its own right and investigates it within the wider Pahlavi leiteratureConsiders the so-called glosses in the Zand for the first time as an integral part of the textOffers a variorum edition of the Middle Persian text, refusing to establish an UrtextIn late antiquity, Zoroastrian exegetes set out to translate their ancient canonical texts into Middle Persian, the vernacular of their time. Although undated, these translations, commonly known as the Zand, are often associated with the Sasanian era (224-651 ce). Despite the many challenges the Zand offers to us today, it is indispensable for investigations of late antique exegesis of the Avesta, a collection of religious and ritual texts commonly regarded as the Zoroastrians' scripture.Arash Zeini also offers a fresh edition of the Middle Persian version of the Avestan Yasna HaptaA hA iti, a ritual text composed in the Old Iranian language of Avestan, commonly dated to the middle of the second millennium bce. Zeini challenges the view that considers the Zand's study an auxiliary science to Avestan studies, framing the text instead within the exegetical context from which it emerged.

Author : Maria Helena Trindade Lopes,André Patrício
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2023-01-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781527592766

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Images, Perceptions and Productions in and of Antiquity by Maria Helena Trindade Lopes,André Patrício Pdf

This book provides access to new and exclusive research in several Antiquity and Antiquity-related fields and subjects. Revolving around four general subjects (Ancient Egypt, the Ancient Near and Middle East, the Classical World, and the Reception of Antiquity), it will provide access to new works spanning from archaeology, literature, art, reception studies, among others, allowing the reader to gain insights into some of the most current subjects of investigation in modern academia.