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Author : Institute of Mediaeval Music
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Music
ISBN : STANFORD:36105004312489
Author : Niall Ferguson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101548028
From the bestselling author of The Ascent of Money and The Square and the Tower “A dazzling history of Western ideas.” —The Economist “Mr. Ferguson tells his story with characteristic verve and an eye for the felicitous phrase.” —Wall Street Journal “[W]ritten with vitality and verve . . . a tour de force.” —Boston Globe Western civilization’s rise to global dominance is the single most important historical phenomenon of the past five centuries. How did the West overtake its Eastern rivals? And has the zenith of Western power now passed? Acclaimed historian Niall Ferguson argues that beginning in the fifteenth century, the West developed six powerful new concepts, or “killer applications”—competition, science, the rule of law, modern medicine, consumerism, and the work ethic—that the Rest lacked, allowing it to surge past all other competitors. Yet now, Ferguson shows how the Rest have downloaded the killer apps the West once monopolized, while the West has literally lost faith in itself. Chronicling the rise and fall of empires alongside clashes (and fusions) of civilizations, Civilization: The West and the Rest recasts world history with force and wit. Boldly argued and teeming with memorable characters, this is Ferguson at his very best.
Author : Steven A. Walton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317135395
This volume brings together a series of papers at Kalamazoo as well as some contributed papers inspired by the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Lynn White Jr.’s, Medieval Technology and Social Change (1962), a slim study which catalyzed the study of technology in the Middle Ages in the English-speaking world. While the initial reviews and decades-long fortune of the volume have been varied, it is still in print and remains a touchstone of an idea and a time. The contributors to the volume, therefore, both investigate the book itself and its fate, and look at new research furthering and inspired by White’s work. The book opens with an introduction surveying White’s career, with a bibliography of his work, as well as some opening thoughts on the study of medieval technology in the last fifty years. Three papers then deal explicitly with the reception and longevity of his work and its impact on medieval studies more generally. Then five papers look at new cast studies areas where White’s work and approach has had a particular impact, namely, medieval technology studies and medieval rural/ ecological studies.
Author : Terence Bailey,Alma Colk Santosuosso
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Music
ISBN : 0754652394
This book presents the most recent findings of twenty of the foremost European and North American researchers into the music of the Middle Ages. The chronological scope of their topics is wide, from the ninth to the fifteenth century. The findings presented in this book will be of interest to those engaged by music and the liturgy, active researchers and students. All the papers are carefully and extensively documented by references to medieval sources.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Civilization, Medieval
ISBN : STANFORD:36105122751147
Author : Colin Morris
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2005-03-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780191520600
The tomb of Christ at Jerusalem was a vital influence in the making of Western Europe. Pilgrimage there influenced the development of society and its structures. The desire to 'bring the Sepulchre to the West' in copies or memorials shaped art and religion, while the ambition to control Christ's tomb was a central objective of the crusades. Western Europe responded to the loss of Jerusalem by creating a new pilgrimage to the East, by making kingdoms 'holy lands' for their subjects, and by creating new pilgrim centres at home. This book brings together social, political, and religious themes often considered in isolation.
Author : Michael Frassetto,John Hosler,Matthew Gabriele
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004274167
Where Heaven and Earth Meet is a Festschrift in honor of Daniel F. Callahan, Professor of History at the University of Delaware. It is an interdisciplinary collection that celebrates and advances research in his principal scholarly interests. One central focus is on the writings of Ademar of Chabannes and what they reveal about heresy, music, warfare, and the Peace of God in the early Middle Ages. Another is on Western religious history (ecclesiastical houses, hagiography, and papal writings), and the collection is rounded out by studies of early Islamic Jerusalem as well as Arabic numismatics. Contributing authors include Professor Callahan’s former classmates, graduate students, colleagues and admirers of his research. The collection will be of interest to researchers in art history, history, musicology, and religion. Contributors are: Bernard S. Bachrach, Daniel F. Callahan, Lawrence G. Duggan, Michael Frassetto, Matthew Gabriele, James Grier, John D. Hosler, Anna Trumbore Jones, Lawrence Nees, Richard R. Ring, Jane T. Schulenburg
Author : Alfonso J. García-Osuna
Publisher : Vernon Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2023-05-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781648896279
'The Atlantic as Mythical Space' is a study of medieval culture and its concomitant myths, legends and fantastic narratives as it developed along the European Atlantic seaboard. It is an inclusive study that touches upon early medieval Ireland, the pre-Hispanic Canary Islands, the Iberian Peninsula, courtly-love France and the pagan and early-Christian British Isles. The obvious and consequential ligature that runs throughout the different sections of this text is the Atlantic Ocean, a bewildering expanse of mythical substance that for centuries fueled the imagination of ocean-side peoples. It analyzes how and why myths with the Atlantic as preferential stage are especially relevant in pagan and early-Christian western Europe. It further examines how prescientific societies fashioned an alternate cosmos in the Atlantic where events, beings and places existed in harmony with communal mental structures. It explores why in that contrived geography these societies’ angels and monsters were able to materialize with wonderful profusion; it further analyzes how the ocean became a place where human beings ventured forth searching for explanations for what is essentially unknowable: the origins of the universe and the reason for our existence in it.
Author : Armen Carapetyan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Music
ISBN : STANFORD:36105020854902
Author : Albrecht Classen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 828 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110321517
This new volume explores the surprisingly intense and complex relationships between East and West during the Middle Ages and the early modern world, combining a large number of critical studies representing such diverse fields as literary (German, French, Italian, English, Spanish, and Arabic) and other subdisciplines of history, religion, anthropology, and linguistics. The differences between Islam and Christianity erected strong barriers separating two global cultures, but, as this volume indicates, despite many attempts to 'Other' the opposing side, the premodern world experienced an astonishing degree of contacts, meetings, exchanges, and influences. Scientists, travelers, authors, medical researchers, chroniclers, diplomats, and merchants criss-crossed the East and the West, or studied the sources produced by the other culture for many different reasons. As much as the theoretical concept of 'Orientalism' has been useful in sensitizing us to the fundamental tensions and conflicts separating both worlds at least since the eighteenth century, the premodern world did not quite yet operate in such an ideological framework. Even though the Crusades had violently pitted Christians against Muslims, there were countless contacts and a palpitable curiosity on both sides both before, during, and after those religious warfares.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:39015048054160
Author : Wendy Scase,Rita Copeland,David Lawton
Publisher : New Medieval Literatures
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2000-01-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0198186800
New Medieval Literatures is an annual of work on medieval textual cultures. It provides a venue for innovative essays that deploy diverse methodologies-theoretical, archival, philological and historicist. The editors, active in three continents and supported by a distinguishedmultidisciplinary Advisory Board, aim to engage with intellectual and cultural pluralism in the Middle Ages and now.
Author : José Maceda
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:39015041714232
This panorama is a pictorial view of music instruments starting with older bamboo and other instruments of undetermined age, going on two types of gongs-flat in Northern Luzon and bossed in the South. These two areas may be viewed as pocket cultures comparable to other pocket cultures in Borneo, Sumatra, other islands in Southeast Asia and the mountain regions south of and including Yunnan province of China, thus placing the music of Luzon and Mindanao in a larger geographical context. For example, mouth organs in Borneo and continental Southeast Asia are absent in the Philippines, where, however, separate pipes of panpipes are on occasion still being played by groups of boys among the Kalingga of Luzon. The musical elements of drone and melody identified in two lutes in Borneo or ensembles in Yunnan find examples in two players of the same tube zither in Mindanao and flat gongs in Luzon. The nearly 500 photographs in the book are almost all taken in the field, showing details of making and playing bamboo buzzers, jaw harps, zithers, percussion tubes, flutes and other instruments. Manners of tapping and sliding with the hands on flat gongs differ from beating them with sticks. Examples of big bossed gongs with wide rims (agung) struck with a mallet on the boss and a stick on the rim show affinities with a manner of playing bronze drums in Yunnan. In North Luzon, men and women dancing in circles with outstretched hands distinguish them from solo dancers with minimum body movements in the South.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2230 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : American literature
ISBN : UOM:39015058373740
A world list of books in the English language.
Author : Albrecht Classen
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0415930022
First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.