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A New Forum for International Holocaust Research.European Holocaust Studies (EHS) publishes key international research results on the murder of the European Jews and its wider contexts. This new English-language yearbook primarily aims to bring together and provide higher visibility to research contributions produced across different countries and institutions. It also strives to promote international exchange, especially among scholars from North America, Europe, and Israel.The EHS issues are thematic. Each issue features a selection of peer-reviewed research articles, which offer novel perspectives on the main theme. Further sections include a discussion of key documents and a selection of research project descriptions related to the overall topic, as well as a literature review or essay dealing with historiographical debates on the subject.

Ancient writing systems employ logographic and logophonetic principles playing on the relationship between writing, script and scribal learning. The workshop proceedings published in this volume explore the way these relationships encode knowledge and meaning reflected in the social, historical and cultural mentality of the early peoples of East Asia (China and Japan), Anatolia, the Aegean, Egypt and Mesoamerica. The meeting was organized in the FU Berlin on the fall of 2010 by the editor and Dr. Renata Landgrafova (now Charles University, Prague) in the frame of the DFG research training group 1458 "Notational Iconicity" ("Schriftbildlichkeit") headed by Prof. Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum and Prof. Sybille Kramer. The premise of our meeting was that script and the organization of texts can reveal how knowledge is transformed and transmitted among different social groups across time and space, and eventually standardized as written tradition. Its multidisciplinary approach follows recent trends in the attempt to arouse debate between scholars of disparate systems of writing - be it Cuneiform, Hieroglyphic or Linear in nature - and to discuss their elements independent of origin or cultural context. A broad perspective on ancient writing and its visual elements was established with the contributions delving into the aspects of generating knowledge and meaning (J. Janak, M. Weeden), categorizing knowledge (E. Boot, T. W. Kwan, H. Tomas), diffusion and transformation of knowledge (Sh. Gordin, R. Landgrafova) and rationalizing knowledge (E. Birk).

Studies of Pompeian material culture have traditionally been dominated by art-historical approaches, but recently there has been a renewed and burgeoning interest in Pompeian houses for studies of Roman domestic behavior. This book is concerned with contextualized Pompeian household artifacts and their role in deepening our understanding of household behavior at Pompeii. It consists of a study of the contents of thirty so-called atrium houses in Pompeii to investigate the spatial distribution of household activities, both within each architectural room type and across the house. It also uses this material to investigate the state of occupancy of these houses at the time of the eruption of Mt Vesuvius in AD 79. It thus examines artifact assemblages within their spatial and decorative contexts for a more material cultural approach to these remains and for the information which they provide on living conditions in Pompeii during the last decades. In this it takes a critical perspective the textual nomenclature which is traditionally applied to Pompeian room types.

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.

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.

James Orton fue un célebre naturalista y explorador norteamericano que visitó el Ecuador a finales de la década de 1860. Se trata de un auténtico científico viajero, cuyas contribuciones ayudaron a una mejor comprension del fenomeno andino y del bosque tropical. Su libro Los Andes y el Amazonas recoge las impresiones que tuvo del Ecuador en dicha epoca. Mas alla de las importantes observaciones de tipo cientifico que Orton registro, el autor tambien llevo a cabo una excelente y muy cruda descripcion de la sociedad ecuatoriana durante su paso por el pais. El libro contiene una enorme cantidad de informacion util para historiadores, antropologos y, en general, para los estudiosos y catedraticos. Resulta interesante el analisis que hizo del pais, al atribuir su atraso debido a la falta de una cultura economica moderna entre las elites locales.

At the zenith of its power, Britain, the Workshop of the World, dominated the globe with military might and commercial acuity. The celebration of Queen Victorias sixty years on the throne was carefully positioned to highlight the countrys strength, especially in the face of rising competition from other nations. The festivities brought together, in a show of force, the Queens widely extended family, foreign dignitaries, diplomats, foreign royals and world leaders.Extraordinary pageantry, parades and royal receptions served to dramatise the unparalleled significance of the event. The most important occasion, however, was the Devonshire House Ball, given at huge expense by the Hanover-born German Double Duchess of Devonshire. The Duchess having married not one but two English Dukes took to the task with alacrity, bringing together an extraordinary group of nobles, politicians, plutocrats, influential foreigners and bankers, hosting the most famous party of the century: a fancy-dress ball with a guest list of the 700 social, political, cultural and prominent celebrities of the day.A specially commissioned tent equipped with hand-painted backdrops, the most technically advanced cameras and lighting, along with realistic props was set up in the magnificent gardens to capture the glamorous guests.Many of the exquisite costumes all of pre-eighteenth-century characters were preserved by photograph and are shown here, colourised for the first time, to give us a sense of the wondrous, glorious occasion of the Ball.

Throughout antiquity patients sought relief and healing from their afflictions in the sanctuaries of Asclepius, the God of healing. The Asclepian healing cult included sacrifices, ablutions and incubation. In their dreams, the patients received therapeutic instructions. But not only miraculous cures occurred in the Asclepieia, nor were these sacred sites the last refuge of the seriously ill. Using selected examples from the Roman Imperial Period, Florian Steger outlines the healthcare provided in the prominent Asclepian sanctuaries Epidaurus and Pergamum in particular and demonstrates that this healthcare was on a par with the contemporary medical culture. Ancient epigraphic healing reports and the patient journal of the celebrated orator Publius Aelius Aristides paint a vivid picture of the daily treatments. The medicine of Asclepius clearly formed an integral part of the Roman Empires multifaceted healthcare market.

The period 1650 to 1790 was such a turbulent one for Scottish seafarers that much of this fast-flowing narrative reads like Treasure Island. Colourful characters abound in a story teeming with incident and excitement: John Paul Jones descends upon the Scottish coast creating widespread panic; press gangs prowl the coastal towns; wartime conditions turn merchantmen into privateers fighting the French, the Spanish and the American Colonists almost anyone flying a different flag; quaintly named vessels like The Provoked Cheesemaker are on the lookout for trouble. And the stakes were high. Glasgow became wealthy through the tobacco trade. Glasgow merchantmen could beat the English ships and sail to Chesapeake Bay in record time. Eric Graham traces the development of the Scottish marine and its institutions during a formative period, when state intervention and warfare at sea in the pursuit of merchantilist goals largely determined the course of events. He charts Scotlands frustrated attempts to join England in the Atlantic economy and so secure her prosperity an often bitter relationship that culminated in the Darien Disaster. In the years that followed, maritime affairs were central to the move to embrace the full incorporating Act of 1707. After 1707, Scottish maritime aspirations flourished under the protection of the British Navigation Acts and the windfalls of the endemic warfare at sea.

What are states but large bandit bands, and what are bandit bands but small states? So asked St Augustine, reflecting on the late Roman world. Here nine original studies, by established historians of Greece, Rome and other ancient civilisations, explore the activities and the images of ancient criminal groups, comparing them closely and provocatively with the Greek and Roman government which the criminals challenged.

In recent study Greek religion has often dissolved itself into many religions. The eleven original essays here focus both on extremes of the Greek world and on its classical centre. Distinguished scholars examine the earliest traces of religious thought in the Minoan and Mycenaean cultures. Striking similarities are revealed between religious ideas of Greece and of non-Greek Asia. There are special studies of Apollo, Athena, and Dionysiac religion. And new patterns are identified in the archaic and classical thought of Heraclitus, Herodotus and Sophocles.

The standard image of Sparta is of an egalitarian, military society which disdained material possessions. Yet property and wealth played a critical role in her history. Classical Spartas success rested upon a compromise between rich and poor citizens. Economic differences were masked by a uniform lifestyle and a communal sharing of resources. Over time, however, increasing inequalities led to a plutocratic society and to the decline of Spartan power. Using an innovative combination of historical, archaeological and sociological methods, Stephen Hodkinson challenges traditional views of Spartas isolation from general Greek culture. This volume is the first major monograph-length discussion of a subject on which the author is recognised as the leading international authority.

The writings of Julius Caesar have beguiled by their apparent simplicity. Generations of readers have been encouraged to see them as a limpid record of positive achievement. The contributors to this volume demonstrate that the appearance of simplicity is achieved by devious and accomplished art. In nine original studies, focussing mainly on the Gallic War, the contributors trace systems of justification and omission, of measured praise and subtle criticism, which served to promote Caesar and to leave Roman enemies empty-handed. It is shown that Caesars writing has an ingenuity of description which might seduce the casual Roman sceptic, and an artfulness of focus which now recalls the cinematographic. Even the notorious regularity of Caesars syntax and his economy of vocabulary are revealed as pointed elements of a political manifesto. Far from being a plain and traditional record of warfare, Caesars Commentaries are here shown to illuminate the political thinking of a man on his way to reshaping the world.

The Middle Ages, in our cultural imagination, are besieged with ideas of wars, tournaments, plagues, saints and kings, knights, lords and ladies. In his era-defining work, Inventing the Middle Ages, Norman Cantor shows that these presuppositions are in fact constructs of the twentieth century. Through close study of the lives and works of twenty of the twentieth centurys most prominent medievalists, Cantor examines how the genesis of this fantasy arose in the scholars spiritual and emotional outlooks, which influenced their portrayals of the Middle Ages. In the course of this vigorous scrutiny of their scholarship, he navigates the strong personalities and creative minds involved with deft skill. Written with both students and the general public in mind, Inventing the Middle Ages provided an alternative framework for the teaching of the humanities. Revealing the interconnection between medieval civilisation, the culture of the twentieth century and our own assumptions, Cantor provides a unique standpoint both forwards and backwards. As lively and engaging today as when it was first published in 1991, his analysis offers readers the core essentials of the subject in an entertaining and humorous fashion.

TERVAHOVIN TONTIN TARINA kertoo noin 300 vuoden jaksosta alkaen Toppilansalmen synnysta aina tahan paivaan asti. Marraskuussa 1724 koettu suurtulva muovasi vaatimattomasta Toppilan purosta luonnonsatamaksi soveltuvan salmen, joka myos otettiin satamakayttoon.OULULAISET TERVAPORVARIT perustivat Tervahovin Toppilansalmen rantaan. Alkoi tervan kukoistuksen kausi. Kaikkialla maailmassa rakennettiin puisia purjelaivoja, joiden suojaamiseksi tarvittiin tervaa. Tervan polttajat, tervan soutajat, tervaporvarit ja Tervahovin ammattilaiset huolehtivat toimitusketjusta, joka ulottui Kainuun korpimetsista jopa valtamerten taakse. Terva edusti oman aikansa korkeaa teknologiaa.1920-LUVUN LOPULLA SOK perusti tontille ruis- ja kauramyllyn. Sijainti oli erinomainen, silla myllylle voitiin tuoda viljaa laivoilla. Valmistuessaan mylly oli Pohjoismaitten modernein ja varustettu parhaalla saatavissa olevalla tekniikalla. Uusi mylly tuotti jauhoja maantieteellisesti mitattuna puolen Suomen tarpeisiin. Teollisuuden, kaupan ja maatalouden murrokset johtivat myllytoiminnan lakkauttamiseen vuonna 1987.MYLLYN MUOTOKIELI SAILYTETTIIN kun tontille ryhdyttiin suunnittelemaan asuntoja. Tienraivaajina toimivat As Oy Tervahovin Siilot ja As Oy Tervahovin Vanhat Siilot, jotka tarjosivat Oulun asuntomarkkinoille harvinaisia loft-asuntoja. Asuntoihin kohdistunut suuri mielenkiinto ja rakentamisen aikana koetut monet kaanteet saivat osakseen runsaasti huomiota ja jattivat jalkeensa erilaisia tarinoita. Osa niista on totta, osa tarua. Totta on se, etta seka vanhaa etta uutta kerrostumaa sisaltavat rakennukset muodostavat tana paivana Toppilansalmen tunnetuimman maamerkin: Siilotalon.