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For the first time in almost 800 years Anne Purbrick (under her performing name of Anne Lister) has brought the lively, engaging, and entertaining Tale of Jaufre off the library shelves and has been telling it to audiences. There are several mysteries about Jaufre - when and why was a story about King Arthur written for a king of Aragon, and why in Occitan? Investigating this 13th century story from the practical standpoint of a storyteller has produced a number of new insights and discoveries. This book explores the background in detail, from the manuscripts and fragments which have survived to the people for whom the story was created, as well as its extensive later history, and then discusses the decisions, the revelations and the difficulties of telling the story to 21st century audiences. The Tale of Jaufre is remarkably little known outside modern Spain and yet, as this book demonstrates, it has links to the extended family of Alienor of Aquitaine and Henry II of England, and therefore across Europe.

This book brings together for the first time scholars working on the Bronze Age settlement patterns and material culture of the southern Ierapetra Isthmus, a region that actively participated in the coastal and maritime trade networks of East Crete. During the past few decades, while various archaeological projects focused on the northern isthmus, the Ierapetra area remained largely neglected and unknown, a terra incognita. Yet, new excavations at Gaidourophas, Anatoli Stavromenos, Chryssi Island, Bramiana, and the ongoing research at the site of Myrtos Pyrgos are showing that the coastal area of Ierapetra was a vibrant and thriving settlement landscape during the Bronze Age. Far from being simply on the periphery of the major Minoan centers, the southern Ierapetra Isthmus played important roles in the cultural dynamics of Crete. Aiming to be the first building block in the development of an archaeological understanding of the region of the southern Ierapetra Isthmus, this book presents the status of the discipline and indicates future research trajectories.

This study outlines the state of our present knowledge concerning the Mycenaean settlements in Messenia and examines the evidence for reconstructing the political geography of the "Kingdom" of Pylos. The progress of archaeological exploration in Messenia is reviewed in relation to the Mycenaean (Late Helladic [LH]) period. The data from excavations and surveys concerning the Mycenaean settlements in Messenia are summarized. The author attempts to determine the extent of the "Kingdom" and to identify the locations of its main districts by correlating the archaeological data from Mycenaean sites with the the inscriptions in Linear B found in the "Palace of Nestor" at Ano Englianos.

In Nunamiut Ethnoarchaeology, the late Lewis Binford documents the hunting and butchering strategies of modern Arctic big game hunters and the archaeological remains generated during the course of their yearly round of activities-producing a unique description of a complete annual cycle of subsistence activities, viewed simultaneously from both a behavioral and archaeological perspective. The volume is now regarded as a classic of archaeological theory building. As Nicole Waguespack writes in her new prologue, "Binford documents Nunamiut hunting and butchering strategies and their impact on faunal assemblage variation. In classic Binfordian fashion, however, the book is also about much more and can serve as an essential sourcebook on both ethnoarchaeology and zooarchaeology." Originally published by Academic Press in 1978. Praise from readers "Binfords classic work is archaeologys Moby Dick-raw in the ethnographic details of butchering nature for human purposes and rich in the knowledge so gained for the study of the human past. Nunamiut Ethnoarchaeology put complexity back into hunting and archaeologists have been feasting off the fat ever since." Clive Gamble, University of Southampton "Decades after its initial publication, Nunamuit Ethnoarchaeology remains a defining moment in archaeological method and theory. Binfords pioneering tour de force continues to inspire archaeologists and stands as a basic sourcebook for anyone interested in hunter-gatherer studies. This book is one of the reasons why I do what I do." Karen Lupo, Washington State University "Nunamiut Ethnoarchaeology will always stand as one of the most important and innovative books in taphonomy, ethnoarchaeology, and hunter-gatherer ethnography. A brilliant treatise on hunter-gatherer foraging and a model for the rest of the field to follow on how to use the present to learn about the past." Curtis W. Marean, Arizona State University

It was long felt that an English edition on the architecture of Akrotiri, dealing not only with the building technology, but also with issues of typology, form, and function, would be welcomed. The present book is, thus, an attempt to provide the reader with an overall picture of the architecture of Akrotiri, including an outline of its town plan, a description of the individual houses, and a discussion of its relationship with Crete and its neighbors in the Eastern Mediterranean. The book is based on the authors personal observations and experience obtained over a fifteen year period (1977-1992) of work at the site as the architect of the Akrotiri excavation. This book is confined to the last phase of habitation and the uniquely preserved houses that are seen today.

The Great Karnak Inscription of Merneptahs 5th regnal year, the longest surviving continuous monumental text from Egypt, describes the combined Libyan and Sea People invasion of Egypt c.1208 BCE. This new study, the first complete commentary on this long but unfortunately damaged text, begins with a translation of the text, accompanied by detailed notes. The study considers specific military aspects of the inscription alongside its religious background. A grammatical analysis of the Great Karnak Inscription also sheds new light on the grammar of Ramesside monumental texts. Reviews for this volume: "...a very useful study of a highly important historical text, largely neglected hitherto." - K A Kitchen, Book List (2005) "...should be of interest to anyone studying issues relating to international relations of the period, aspects of military conflict in the later New Kingdom, or the monumental grammar of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Dynasties [...] The welcome inclusion of the complete hieroglyphic text should be of great use to anyone wishing to study the content and grammar of this inscription for themselves." - Joshua Roberson, Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt, Vol. XL (2005)

A Commemoration Ritual for Senwosret I, better known under the term Ramesseum Dramatic Papyrus, is a document that was found in a late Middle Kingdom tomb in the Ramesseum necropolis, together with other manuscripts and artifacts, all primarily magico-medical in function. The present study discusses the occupation of the tomb owner based on an analysis of this exceptional find in its entirety. The main core of the book is dedicated, however, to the Ramesseum Dramatic Papyrus. It examines the fabrication of the manuscript and its present condition. An updated translation and a grammatical analysis of the text are provided and a discussion of the relationship of myth and ritual as well as of the dramatic aspect of the ritual is included. Based on the analysis of the content, the participants in the ritual, the representation of the king in the vignettes, and relying on the comparison between the rites occurring in this document and those included in other royal and statue rituals attested from ancient Egypt, it can be shown that the text features a ritual that was held in commemoration of the deceased king Senwosret I. The book also includes photographs of the manuscript as well as digital drawings of the papyrus.

This is primarily a book on architecture, and as such it seeks to bring forward the deeper forces that guide the work of all the sons and all the daughters of Daidalos. Architecture is the protagonist, whereas the prehistoric time of this architecture is as important as any other historical time. This book is firmly based on the realities of a long-silenced world available to us today through the agency of archaeology. In that sense, it addresses archaeologists, architectural historians, and architects alike, in the hope that it will prove useful to those interested in understanding the Minoan world through its architecture as much as those interested in exploring architecture through the Minoan paradigm. This dual goal emanates from my deep belief in the timeless and universal values of architecture. As a teacher of (history of) architecture, the challenge has been to bring history into the studios where future architecture is formulated, to engage history in the discourse on current architectural ethos and practices, and to show that an analytical and critical approach to the past is a potent tool for advancing architectural awareness and educating future architects. I am equally confident that such an approach will return its benefits back to history, for it will provide new tools of thought and methods of interpretation of the relics of the past. Having set the scope of this book, it is only fair to add what is not included in its goals: the reader will not find a descriptive account of Minoan buildings and sites nor a list of the major architectural achievements in chronological order. This is due not only to the enormous amount of relevant information that has been accumulated to date, but also to an altogether different interest in the subject, as described above. Time, however, is crucial: "We have a mental need to grasp that we are rooted in the continuity of time, and in the man-made world it is the task of architecture to facilitate this experience" (Pallasmaa 2005b, 32). Time-related issues, therefore, such as permanence and change or tradition and innovation, will concern us.

The book is one of Chinese Folklore Culture Series, which introduces the staple food, non-staple food, local flavours, eating customs of traditional festivals and cooking methods in detail in China. It investigates the developing and evolution process, aesthetic intention and regional or ethnic characteristics of Chinese diet, and reveals systematically the profound Chinese food culture.

The book is one of Chinese Folklore Culture Series, which introduces the performance and evolution process of marriage customs of different nationalities in China by telling vivid historical allusions, legends and folktales. The author would like to draw a whole picture of the culture of Chinese traditional marriage with the sequences of traditional marriage customs.

The book is one of Chinese Folklore Culture Series, which introduces the staple food, non-staple food, local flavours, eating customs of traditional festivals and cooking methods in detail in China. It investigates the developing and evolution process, aesthetic intention and regional or ethnic characteristics of Chinese diet, and reveals systematically the profound Chinese food culture.

The book is one of Chinese Folklore Culture Series, which introduces the performance and evolution process of marriage customs of different nationalities in China by telling vivid historical allusions, legends and folktales. The author would like to draw a whole picture of the culture of Chinese traditional marriage with the sequences of traditional marriage customs.

This book of photographs incorporates images, taken between 1980 and 2015, from all of Israels diverse communities, depicting people living their daily lives. These photographs of Jews, Christians, Muslims, Druze, and tourists, of the religious and the secular, illustrate personal worlds distant from the conflict and complexitites so often encountered in the headlines.

El conjunto de ensayos recolectados en el presente libro se inscribe en la ranura historiográfica que procura mirar a la globalidad de los estudios inquisitoriales, en una nueva trayectoria que se esta proponiendo desde las ultimas decadas: tradicionalmente la Inquisicion de los siglos xv-xix ha sido investigada en tres areas, en España, en Portugal y en la peninsula italiana. Ha sido nuestra intencion proporcionar a los estudiosos del tema una aportacion de cara a interpretar el fenomeno inquisitorial en sus distintas territorialidades, considerando la necesidad de acompañar, en el tiempo y en las sociedades, la evolucion de lo que Jaime Contreras y Jean-Pierre Dedieu llamaron la geografia de la Inquisicion española, ha sido el presentar enfoques dirigidos a comprender la estructuracion y las especificidades de cada tribunal de distrito, algo a lo que los directores de la Historia de la Inquisicion en España y America-Joaquin Perez Villanueva y Bartolome Escandell Bonet- habian renunciado y que apenas la labor frenetica de Jose Toribio Medina pudo lograr para los distritos americanos y ciertas geografias de su jurisdiccion.

Desde la Conquista a nuestros días son numerosas las referencias a la Ciudad de México, además de monografías dedicadas a ciertos aspectos de la misma. Los conquistadores nos legaron imágenes rayanas en lo maravilloso: la ciudad que vio Bernal Diaz del Castillo, cuyos edificios en el agua le parecen encantamientos del Amadis, la de la segunda Carta de relacion de Cortes, fascinado ante las lagunas, el trafico de canoas, el mercado y las plazas; la de Cervantes de Salazar, primer cronista de la ciudad, y las que Artemio de Valle-Arizpe y Salvador Novo recopilaron en sus respectivas obras antologicas. Cronistas de Indias como Duran, Benavente, Sahagun, Torquemada y otros nos legaron un importante arsenal sobre su arquitectura, sus leyes, ritos, solemnidades y demas cuestiones de la urbe azteca antes de su destruccion.La ciudad que se reconstruyo sobre las ruinas indigenas y que llego a ser la "ciudad de los palacios", y la utilizacion sacra, ludica o luctuosa que se hace del espacio urbano en sus fiestas, exequias, inundaciones, asepsia, alumbrado forman parte de este trabajo, para el que se han consultado actas de Cabildo, relaciones de fiestas, diarios, cedularios y pragmaticas, asi como testimonios de viajeros y poetas que alabaron o vituperaron a la ciudad y que construyeron con sus metaforas una urbe alegorica. Este libro es una mezcla de discursos que permiten sentir la ciudad como ente vivo, hecho de varias piezas que se completan unas a otras para recomponer un mosaico ideal de lo que fue Mexico-Tenochtitlan, la capital de la Nueva España.

La utopía y América son dos pilares constitutivos de la modernidad occidental que se tejió entre ambos lados del Atlántico. La relación entre América y la utopía ha sido, desde los albores del siglo XVI, algo constante: la fascinacion por la utopia ha ido desde entonces de la mano con la fascinacion por America. A traves de doce ensayos y de doce perspectivas diferentes, este libro explora el vinculo entre America y la utopia. Desde la evocacion historica de los mitos que acompañaron a la conquista y colonizacion del Nuevo Mundo hasta los imaginarios que guian la accion politica en nuestros dias; desde la literatura utopica, genero que da nombre al fenomeno, hasta su huella en el mundo del arte, de los movimientos sociales y de las revoluciones; desde las proyecciones culturales europeas hasta las aspiraciones utopicas genuinamente latinoamericanas.Este libro trata sobre la utopia y sobre como el despliegue del impulso utopico, apenas esbozado como un ejercicio literario en las obras clasicas del Renacimiento, sigue siendo aun hoy, vigente y necesario.

En 1937 se produce un encuentro ejemplar entre el mundo del arte y la realidad histórica de la Guerra Civil. El Guernica de Picasso comparte la ilusión de las vanguardias soviéticas, la de El acorazado Potemkin y de todos los que siguieron el ejemplo de un arte politicamente comprometido, pensando que este puede incidir en la realidad, que el artista puede ser un aliado del politico, del periodista y del historiador. En el caso de Guernica, esta alianza resulto fructifera: asi pues, esta obra no solo se esta reproduciendo en los albumes sobre arte moderno, sino que se ha ganado un puesto sobresaliente en los libros de texto, en los documentales y en las ficciones historicas. Como lugar de memoria de la Guerra Civil, el cuadro es tambien una reivindicacion de los derechos humanos: ultimamente se ha hecho viral una version que denuncia las violencias policiales contra los manifestantes en Chile, por ejemplo. Sin embargo, no faltan intentos por recuperarlo para la ideologia de los vencedores o desvincularlo del bombardeo. Los capitulos de este libro plantean la recepcion artistica y literaria del fenomeno cultural Guernica en esta complejidad, como icono y mito.

La necesidad, urgencia y pertinencia de continuar avanzando en los estudios sobre violaciones de los derechos humanos, memoria social y violencia en América Latina, se hace explícita en este libro, pese a las adversidades provenientes de los discursos de banalizacion o descredito y de las operaciones de consumo masivo que, sobre estas cuestiones, han desplegado ciertos lenguajes politicos e industrias culturales en el presente. Para ello, se integran perspectivas provenientes de las ciencias sociales y las humanidades, en las que convergen los ambitos juridico, politico y etico, la critica literaria y cultural, los estudios sobre visualidad, la historia y la psicologia social. Los trabajos aca compilados asumen tambien la exigencia de una revision critica de los supuestos teoricos que permiten aproximarse a estos fenomenos, de las herramientas metodologicas disponibles y de la mediacion que necesariamente se da respecto de los modelos de reflexion construidos en otros hemisferios y contextos.