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This book contributes to the history of medieval Jewry in general, as a basis for a comparative study of the position of the Jews in Christian Europe in the Late Middle Ages. The eight articles written by leading experts on this topic pay special attention to the following issues: the measure of tolerance of the Mamluk rulers and the Muslim populace toward the Jews; Jews in government positions and as court physicians; conversion and attitudes toward converted Jews; the Sufi (mystical) nature of Jewish leadership and its relation to the Sufi Islamic discourse; professional, intellectual, and legal interactions between Jews and Muslims. In the end, the contributions help us to sharpen our understanding of Jewish life during the Middle Islamic Period in the Near East.

Employing survey archaeology, excavation, ethnographic study, and multinational archival work, the Shala Valley Project uncovered the many powerful, creative ways whereby the men and women of Shala shaped their world: through dynamic, world-systemic relationships with the powers that surrounded but never fully conquered them. The Shala Valley Project presents the highlanders, the malesore, in the full complexity of their lives, while also unveiling a new, deeper history for the region--a history that reaches back to an unexpected fortified Iron Age site. Light and Shadow tells many stories. Archaeologists, historians, and students of tribes, of empires, of imperial-indigenous relations, of blood feud, of kinship, of the built landscape, of world-systems theory and sustainability science, and more, will find much here to digest. The people of Shala, to which Light and Shadow is dedicated, may serve as an example in our modern age, one in which persistent, tribal peoples still fight for their survival, and seek to preserve some degree of independence from capitalist economies bent on their incorporation.

This volume, the second in a series of studies on the archaeology of the Titicaca Basin, serves as an excellent springboard for broader discussions of the roles of ritual, authority, coercion, and the intensification of resources and trade for the development of archaic states worldwide. Over the last hundred years, scholars have painstakingly pieced together fragments of the incredible cultural history of the Titicaca Basin, an area that encompasses over 50,000 km2, achieving a basic understanding of settlement patterns and chronology. While large-scale surveys will need to continue and areas will need to be revisited to further refine chronologies and knowledge of site-formation processes, the maturation of the field now allows archaeologists to fruitfully invest energy in single locations and specialized topics.

Recipient of the Jo Anne Stolaroff Cotsen Prize Scholars from Aristotle to Marx and beyond have been fascinated by the question of what constitutes value. The Construction of Value in the Ancient World makes a significant contribution to this ongoing inquiry, bringing together in one comprehensive volume the perspectives of leading anthropologists, archaeologists, historians, linguists, philologists, and sociologists on how value was created, defined, and expressed in a number of ancient societies around the world. Based on the basic premise that value is a social construct defined by the cultural context in which it is situated, the volume explores four overarching but closely interrelated themes: place value, body value, object value, and number value. The questions raised and addressed are of central importance to archaeologists studying ancient civilizations: How can we understand the value that might have been accorded to materials, objects, people, places, and patterns of action by those who produced or used the things that compose the human material record? Taken as a whole, the contributions to this volume demonstrate how the concept of value lies at the intersection of individual and collective tastes, desires, sentiments, and attitudes that inform the ways people select, or give priority to, one thing over another.

Unique among the extant works on visiting tombs, the Muhaddib al-talibin ila qubur al-Salihin (The Educator for Seekers of Tombs of the Pious), by Ibn al-Gabbas (d. after 736/1336) is the only book that is organised by generations (rabaqat). This critical edition is based on a rare manuscript copied in Egypt and restored by Sihab al-Din b. al-Agami, the historian and visitor (d. 1086/1675) who owned it. We do not know precisely when it was moved to al-Zawiya al-Nasiriyya, in southeastern Morocco.

The second volume of Saints and Sinners on Horseback introduces new equine and human characters whose lives and deaths continue to have social, cultural, and religious influence centuries after their time on earth. Humans record their own deeds, but sometimes forget to honour the horses who made their successes possible. This volume recognises the unnamed equids who exertan influence over the human mind in compelling ways. Equally, the names of some individual horses ring down through the ages, whether for their heroism or as symbols for justice and injustice. Where horses meet humans, religion, magic, and the supernatural are never far away, creating a rich fund of stories for Saints and Sinners on Horseback.

21st Century Medievalisms. Between the Global and Individual is an edited volume consisting of 14 chapters by scholars interested in contemporary medievalisms across the world. It is a timely contribution to the growing scholarship on medievalisms offering chapters that consider both the individual experiences of medievalisms, as well as those of societies and cultures at large. The chapters of the book are grouped into three parts, the first explores stereotypes and myths in medievalisms; the second examines medievalisms that speak to particular communities and audiences; and the third studies how medievalisms are impacted by or stimulate conversations of politics and gender. These chapters all reflect a growing interest in medievalisms, and the appreciation of how they are present, materialise and evolve in different contexts and offers insights into medievalisms in politics, popular culture, social activism and more. Throughout the book, examples and case studies demonstrate how medievalisms in the modern age are at times individual experiences, at other times global phenomena and sometimes are in between. Therefore these medievalisms can speak to different audiences at the same time, showcasing how the Middle Ages and their memory continue to be a pertinent topic of study within the wider field of medieval studies.

This volume presents the primary archaeological report about the excavation of the Late Minoan I town of Gournia in eastern Crete, directed by Harriet Boyd Hawes at the beginning of the 20th century. This second edition presents exactly the same information and images as the first edition, but in a smaller, more user friendly format than the original elephantine book. Plans, pottery, and small finds among many other topics on the Bronze Age archaeology of eastern Crete are all included, just as in the first edition.

La obra de Bartolomé de las Casas ejerció una gran influencia en los procesos legislativos así como en el pensamiento histórico, jurídico y teológico sobre las Indias en los siglos XVI y XVII. Este estudio examina los criterios argumentales que le permitieron sustentar sus propuestas y los vincula primariamente con el Ius commune, en particular con el Derecho Canonico. Asi, los tratados de 1552 se analizan en funcion de los canones que Las Casas aplica y de los canonistas que discute para elaborar las figuras juridicas de cada tratado. Se analiza luego el vinculo que existe entre esta demostracion juridica y el proyecto historico y etnografico que representan, respectivamente, la Historia de las Indias y la Apologetica historia sumaria. Se muestra, ademas, que Las Casas organiza sus materiales y concibe su prosa en funcion de los principios con que los glosadores del Derecho Comun comentaban las leyes. Sobre estas bases, se deslinda finalmente la voz autorial de Las Casas, se precisa la naturaleza de sus intervenciones y su contribucion a la tradicion canonistica. El trabajo se cierra con una indagacion sobre la manera en que el pensamiento de Las Casas sirvio para formar la opinion comun sobre los asuntos de Indias entre los miembros de la Escuela de Salamanca.

La obra y el legado del excepcional hispanista George Ticknor (1791-1871) es el objeto de estudio en este volumen colectivo. Su amor a las lenguas clásicas y modernas comenzó en Dartmouth College (1807) y continuo durante su estancia de tres años en la universidad alemana de Gotinga, donde completo su educacion con el notable historiador Friedrich Bouterwek. Tras una serie de viajes por Europa, incluida una estancia de seis meses en España, regreso a su Boston natal para hacerse cargo de la primera catedra de lenguas romanicas (frances y español) en Harvard. Durante casi dos decadas Ticknor contribuyo a fortalecer el campo de las lenguas modernas, o vivas, y el estudio de la literatura desde la erudicion y los metodos filologicos mas influyentes del dia.Ademas de su Syllabus of a Course of Lectures on the History and Criticism of Spanish Literature (1823), The Best Methods of Teaching the Living Languages (1832), Ticknor publico la monumental History of Spanish Literature en 3 volumenes (1849), que, basada en la nocion de "espiritu nacional" del idealismo aleman, sirvio para establecer el campo del hispanismo en los Estados Unidos, alcanzando gran repercusion tambien en España e Hispanoamerica. Ticknor fue tambien un gran bibliofilo y un defensor del acceso a la cultura de las capas sociales menos favorecidas; resultado de este compromiso fue su labor esencial en la fundacion de la Biblioteca Publica de Boston en 1848. Los participantes en este volumen tambien exploran la actividad mentora de Ticknor con historiadores de la talla de William H. Prescott, la resonancia de su legado en figuras como Archer M. Huntington, fundador de la Hispanic Society of America, en Nueva York, asi como el establecimiento de los estudios hispanicos en las universidades americanas durante el siglo XIX.

Espectros y conjuras. Asedios a la cuestión colonial examina cómo la escritura colonial encubre la violencia material y simbólica que la hace posible y, a la vez, invoca los espectros de lo borrado; esto es, los signos de lo que debia permanecer enterrado, pero que retorna como diferencia inquietante y disrupcion textual. A partir de las reflexiones de Walter Benjamin, Paul Ricur y Jacques Derrida sobre los espectros, este libro indaga esta cuestion paradojica y espectral en una serie de textos coloniales paradigmaticos de la historia cultural latinoamericana que incluyen relaciones de conquista, obras de teatro imperial, relatos etnograficos, planes de gobierno y control de la poblacion, novelas e historiografias de autores como Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca, Bartolome de las Casas, Michael de Carvajal, sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, Jose de Anchieta, Antonio Vieira, Eligio Ancona y Oswaldo Costa, entre otros.

Discussion of the commercial treaties between Rome and Carthage includes examination of the evidence of Carthaginian trade-goods brought to Rome and of the probable residence of N. Africans in the city for purposes of trade conducted under terms of the treaties and under supervision of Roman aediles.Roman cultural borrowings from Carthaginians are treated. Roman awareness and adoption of Punic religious beliefs and practices during the first two wars between Carthage and Rome are argued. Roman attitudes to foreign gods are discussed.Through re-examination of the evidence of two Roman neighborhoods we learn about Vicus Sobrius and its cult of Mercurius Sobrius and Vicus Africus, two quarters of Rome which Carthaginians frequented and in one case had their market. Punic influence on Roman culture, especially in the realm of religion and agronomy. The sources of Roman acquaintance with Carthaginian commercial, agricultural and religious practices are rehabilitated. How Romans masked their cultural debt to Carthaginians is discussed.

The 360s B.C. were a momentous decade in the North Aegean, when Athens set out to recover cities she had controlled at the height of her empire in the fifth century Amphipolis and the Thracian Chersonese. Setting out in detail the chronology and narrative of the wars over Amphipolis and Chersonese, the author argues that Athens efforts proved unfruitful because several other major powers Olynthus, Macedon, Thrace, Thebes, and Persia had similar expansionist aims. Equally important, she demonstrates for the first time that Amphipolis consistently and avidly pursued policies to evade Athenian domination. This comprehensive treatment shows that the northern Aegean was a major theatre of operations in this period and provides much-needed background to the reign of Philip II.

This e-book is about two giants of 20th century historiography, Michael Rostovzteff (18701952) and Elias Bickerman (18971981) whose lives and careers intersected on many occasions but who have rarely been discussed together. "Writing History in Time of War"contains, in the main, the results of a lecture given by Pierre Briant and a series of responses to that lecture as the Fourth Annual Michael I. Rostovtzeff Lecture and Colloquium hosted by the Department of Classics at Yale University. Both Rostovzteff andBickerman were deeply affected by war and exile, and both sought relevance for the modern world in their work and read their own experiences back into their interpretations of the ancient world. This volume adds much new and exciting information about these two scholars, and brings into focus how their own life experiences informed their historical interpretation of the Hellenistic world. Even those who are well familiar with them will find much of value in this volume.

The Armenian Question in the Caucasus, Russian Archive Documents and Publications (1724-1914) is issued in this three-volume collection as a special topic of study for the first time in world historiography. The topic is presented as a complex based on rare documents and publications which were long stored as secret and top secret in the Russian State Historical Archive (St Petersburg) and the Russian State Military History Archive (Moscow). The third volume deals chronologically with the period 1906-1914 and comprises two sections. The first section provides an analysis of the documents and materials. The second section contains copies of the originals in the archives and publications. Eleven of the documents and materials presented in this volume are made publically available here for the first time. To guarantee academic objectivity, the contextual integrity of the archive documents has been preserved. All materials are arranged chronologically and by topic. The collection provides the reader with the opportunity to undertake a critical review of current theses on the Armenian question. It also assists the application of contemporary academic methods to a comprehensive study of the essence of this question.

Published in 1909 and long out of print, The Thousand and One Churches remains a seminal study of the postclassical monuments of Anatolia. Now a new generation of readers can learn of the extensive remains of the sprawling early Christian site known as Binbirkilise ("Thousand and One Churches," near Konya), excavated by Ramsay and Bell in 1907. The book provides extensive analysis of other early Christian and Byzantine sites across Anatolia that Bell visited at that time. Because many of the monuments have long since disappeared, this documentation is now invaluable, and Bells extensive photographs provide a unique view of travel and archaeology more than a century ago. For this new edition more than 250 high-quality digitized images from the Gertrude Bell Archive at Newcastle University (UK) replace the original illustrations, and the editors Foreword lays out the historical and cultural context for the undertaking. Ousterhout and Jackson recount the lives and careers of the two authors and the tale of their collaboration on the excavation and subsequent book. Publication of this volume was supported by a grant from the Joukowsky Family Foundation.

The goal of this volume is to impart an appreciation of the many facets of East Africas cultural and archaeological diversity over the last 2,000 years. It brings together chapters on East African archaeology, many by Africa-born archaeologists who review what is known, present new research, and pinpoint issues of debate and anomaly in the relatively poorly known prehistory of East Africa.

La mayoría de los países de América Latina, el Caribe y otras regiones del mundo como África, Asia y Oceanía, cuando poseen una con‐ figuración montañosa por lo general se encuentran bajo la influencia

El Nobiliario vero fue compuesto en la segunda mitad del siglo XV por Ferrán Mexía. Esta obra se conserva en numerosos ejemplares de la única edición que se realizó de ella —el incunable salido de la

The years 9182 B.C. witnessed the reforms, factional competition, and civil strife that sowed the seeds of the Republics eventual destruction. This e-book investigates that crucial decade in the social and political development of Rome by re-examining the career of L. Cornelius Cinna, one of the most enigmatic, tragic, yet fascinating, figures in all of Roman history; his regime "dominated" Rome from 87 to 82 B.C.This study attempts to explain how, why, and how successfully Cinna and his faction, as champions of Romes discontented and obstacle of Romes conservatives, dealt with those pressing problems that then plagued Rome. Cinna emerges as a competent military strategist and an astute politician who, through conviction and ambition, rose to head an unusual coalition. His "dominatio" was no military despotism; his faction did not exercise absolute or tyrannical authority over the State. Rather, Cinnas regime ensured political and economic stability and preserved and promoted the Roman State at a time when it surely might have collapsed.