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Book Synopsis Methodius Buslaev. The Scroll of Desires by : Дмитрий Емец
Download or read book Methodius Buslaev. The Scroll of Desires written by Дмитрий Емец and published by Litres. This book was released on 2016-04-16 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: В стародавние времена маг-алхимик Бругус изготовил свиток желаний, на который наложил заклинание усиления. Свиток он спрятал в одну из двух шкатулок, защищенных магией Света, и отправил их странствовать в лопухоидный мир. За прошедшие века свиток приобрел чудовищную магическую силу. Свиток желаний – артефакт нейтральный. Он может служить как Тьме, так и Свету. Ищут его златокрылые, ищут и стражи Мрака. Если Тартар обнаружит шкатулку со свитком первым, произойдет катастрофа... А еще мудрецы из Прозрачных Сфер утверждают, что история свитка напрямую будет связана с Дафной, стражем Света, и Мефодием Буслаевым – будущим повелителем Тьмы...
Download or read book Byzantine Magic written by Henry Maguire and published by Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection. This book was released on 1995 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by specialists in several disciplines, this volume explores the parameters and significance of magic in Byzantine society, from the fourth century to after the empire's fall. The authors address a wide variety of questions, some of which are common to all historical research into magic, and some of which are peculiar to the Byzantine context. The authors reveal the scope, the forms, and the functioning of magic in Byzantine society, throwing light on a hitherto relatively little-known aspect of Byzantine culture, and, at the same time, expanding upon the contemporary debates concerning magic and its roles in pre-modern societies.
Book Synopsis A Grin Without a Cat: Jews and Christians in medieval Russia : assessing the sources by : Alexander Pereswetoff-Morath
Download or read book A Grin Without a Cat: Jews and Christians in medieval Russia : assessing the sources written by Alexander Pereswetoff-Morath and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. 1, "'Adversus Iudaeos' Texts in the Literature of Medieval Russia (988-1504)", presents a philological study of anti-Judaic works known to eastern Slavs in the medieval period. Stresses that over 90% of the texts were translations, mostly from Greek, done by southern Slavic literati. Contests the view that the works (on world history, sermons, and disputations) reflect actual polemics between Christians and Jews. Concludes that since comparisons with other cultures are not yet available, some important questions cannot be answered - e.g. what was the attitude of the ordinary eastern Slav toward Jews, what was the common image of the Jew among Russian bookmen, and what were the mechanisms in Rus' culture or theology that perpetuated the transmission of anti-Judaic works to such a considerable extent, if indeed it was considerable. Vol. 2, "Jews and Christians in Medieval Russia: Assessing the Sources", concludes that previous generalizations about Jews, including those relating to animosity toward them, are based on flimsy evidence. Notes, for example, that claims that Jews played an important political role in Rus' are preposterous. There is no evidence of Jewish practice of usury or of particular Jewish involvement in commerce or the slave trade. Also concludes that the "pogrom" of 1018 did not take place; that the "pogrom" of 1113 was not a pogrom, although it might have hurt some Jews, among others; and that there is no authentic evidence for an expulsion of Jews from Rus' by Vladimir Monomachos. The scholarly arguments presented here undermine antisemitic interpretations of Jewish economic oppression of Slavs as well as unfounded Jewish claims of Slavic antisemitism.
Book Synopsis The Ascetical Homilies of Saint Isaac the Syrian by : Isaac
Download or read book The Ascetical Homilies of Saint Isaac the Syrian written by Isaac and published by . This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 607 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Life of Antony and the Letter to Marcellinus by : Athanase ((saint ;)
Download or read book The Life of Antony and the Letter to Marcellinus written by Athanase ((saint ;) and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Athanasius (c. 295-373) Bishop of Alexandria, spiritual master and theologian, was a major figure of 4th-century Christendom. The Life of Antony is one of the foremost classics of asceticism. The Letter to Marcellinus is an introduction to the spiritual sense of the Psalms.
Book Synopsis Poetry and its Contexts in Eleventh-century Byzantium by : Floris Bernard
Download or read book Poetry and its Contexts in Eleventh-century Byzantium written by Floris Bernard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Byzantine poetry of the eleventh century is fascinating, yet underexplored terrain. It presents a lively view on contemporary society, is often permeated with wit and elegance, and is concerned with a wide variety of subjects. Only now are we beginning to perceive the possibilities that this poetry offers for our knowledge of Byzantine culture in general, for the intellectual history of Byzantium, and for the evolution of poetry itself. It is, moreover, sometimes in the most neglected texts that the most fascinating discoveries can be made. This book, the first collaborative book-length study on the topic, takes an important step to fill this gap. It brings together specialists of the period who delve into this poetry with different but complementary objectives in mind, covering the links between art and text, linguistic evolutions, social functionality, contemporary reading attitudes, and the like. The authors aim to give the production of 11th-century verse a place in the Byzantine genre system and in the historic evolution of Byzantine poetry and metrics. As a result, this book will, to use the expression of two important poets of the period, "offer a small taste" of what can be gained from the serious study of this period.
Book Synopsis The Icons of Their Bodies by : Henry Maguire
Download or read book The Icons of Their Bodies written by Henry Maguire and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2000-05-28 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Byzantines surrounded themselves with their saints, invisible but constant companions, who were made visible by dreams, visions, and art. The composition and presentation of this imagined gallery followed a logical structure, a construct that was itself a collective work of art created by Byzantine society. The purpose of this book is to analyze the logic of the saint's image in Byzantium, both in portraits and in narrative scenes. Here Henry Maguire argues that the Byzantines gave to their images differing formal characteristics of movement, modeling, depth, and differentiation, according to the tasks that the icons were called upon to perform in the all-important business of communication between the visible and the invisible worlds. The book draws extensively on sources that have been relatively little utilized by art historians. It considers both domestic and ecclesiastical artifacts, showing how the former raised the problem of access by lay men and women to the supernatural and fueled the debates concerning the role of images in the Christian cult. Special attention is paid to the poems inscribed by the Byzantines upon their icons, and to the written lives of their saints, texts that offer the most direct and vivid insight into the everyday experience of art in Byzantium. The overall purpose of the book is to provide a new view of Byzantine art, one that integrates formal analysis with both theology and social history.
Book Synopsis Rhetoric, Nature and Magic in Byzantine Art by : Henry Maguire
Download or read book Rhetoric, Nature and Magic in Byzantine Art written by Henry Maguire and published by Variorum Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an examination of rhetoric, nature and magic in Byzantine art. The text explores artistic conventions and descriptions of works of art from early Christian and Byzantine art, and middle and late Byzantine art.
Book Synopsis Byzantine Monastic Foundation Documents by : John Philip Thomas
Download or read book Byzantine Monastic Foundation Documents written by John Philip Thomas and published by Dumbarton Oaks. This book was released on 2000 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nature of the typkia, discussed by John Thomas in the introduction, was one of flexible and personal documents, which differed considerably in form, length, and content. Not all of them were foundation documents in the strict sense, since they could be issued at any time in the history of an institution. Some were wills; others were reform decrees and rules; yet others were primarily liturgical in character.
Book Synopsis The Palgrave Hegel Handbook by : Marina F. Bykova
Download or read book The Palgrave Hegel Handbook written by Marina F. Bykova and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-04-29 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook presents the conceptions and principles central to every aspect of Hegel’s systematic philosophy. In twenty-eight thematically linked chapters by leading international experts, The Palgrave Hegel Handbook provides reliable, scholarly overviews of each subject, illuminates the main issues and debates, and details concisely the considered views of each contributor. Recent scholarship challenges traditional, largely anti-Kantian, readings of Hegel, focusing instead on Hegel’s appropriation of Kantian epistemology to reconcile idealism with the rejection of foundationalism, coherentism and skepticism. Focused like Kant on showing how fundamental unities underlie the profusion of apparently independent events, Hegel argued that reality is rationally structured, so that its systematic structure is manifest to our properly informed thought. Accordingly, this handbook re-assesses Hegel’s philosophical aims, methods and achievements, and re-evaluates many aspects of Hegel’s enduring philosophical contributions, ranging from metaphysics, epistemology, and dialectic, to moral and political philosophy and philosophy of history. Each chapter, and The Palgrave Hegel Handbook as a whole, provides an informed, authoritative understanding of each aspect of Hegel’s philosophy.
Book Synopsis Magic and Magicians in the Greco-Roman World by : Matthew W Dickie
Download or read book Magic and Magicians in the Greco-Roman World written by Matthew W Dickie and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study is the first to assemble the evidence for the existence of sorcerors in the ancient world; it also addresses the question of their identity and social origins. The resulting investigation takes us to the underside of Greek and Roman society, into a world of wandering holy men and women, conjurors and wonder-workers, and into the lives of prostitutes, procuresses, charioteers and theatrical performers. This fascinating reconstruction of the careers of witches and sorcerors allows us to see into previously inaccessible areas of Greco-Roman life. Compelling for both its detail and clarity, and with an extraordinarily revealing breadth of evidence employed, it will be an essential resource for anyone studying ancient magic.
Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Hegel by : Dean Moyar
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Hegel written by Dean Moyar and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 881 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features original articles by some of the most distinguished contemporary scholars of Hegel's thought, The most comprehensive collection of Hegel scholarship available in one volume, Examines Hegel's writing in a chronological order, from his very first published works to his very last, Includes chapters on the newly edited lecture series Hegel conducted in the 1820s Book jacket.
Book Synopsis Everyday Life in Byzantium by : Greece. Hypourgeio Politismou
Download or read book Everyday Life in Byzantium written by Greece. Hypourgeio Politismou and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Companion to British History by : Charles Arnold-Baker
Download or read book The Companion to British History written by Charles Arnold-Baker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-30 with total page 1422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1996, this comprehensive guide to the history of Britain and its peoples will be indispensable reading for the general enthusiast, as well as students. It is packed full of fascinating detail on everything from Hadrian’s Wall to the Black Death to Tony Blair. The book was assembled over more than thirty years and has seen updates in three editions. "He has done for historical encyclopaedias what Samuel Johnson did for dictionaries." Andrew Roberts, The Daily Telegraph "An astonishing synthesis of information." Roger Scruton, The Times "An astonishing achievement, a compelling book for dipping into, a splendid work." Simon Hoggart, The Guardian "This marvellous book, which contains tens of thousands of historical facts will enlighten, amuse, and inform. Every home should have one." Simon Heffer, The Daily Mail "If you were marooned on that mythical desert island with only one history book, this would be the one to take. Buy three copies – one for the children, one for the grandchildren- and one for yourself." John Charmley, The Daily Telegraph
Book Synopsis The Presanctified Liturgy in the Byzantine Rite by : Stefanos Alexopoulos
Download or read book The Presanctified Liturgy in the Byzantine Rite written by Stefanos Alexopoulos and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Presanctified Liturgy, a communion service attached to vespers, is an office peculiar to the period of Great Lent in the Byzantine liturgical tradition. It is the ambition of this study to trace the origins, the evolution and history of the Presanctified Liturgy in the Byzantine liturgical tradition. The method of comparative liturgy and structural analysis of liturgical units is followed. The book presents a thorough investigation of sources from the early Church that could point to the origins of Presanctified Liturgy, and examines the occurrence of the Presanctified Liturgy in the other Christian traditions. Heavily drawing upon the manuscript tradition it examines in depth the text of the Presanctified Liturgy itself, tracing the evolution of its structural components throughout history. The author argues that three dynamics have been behind the evolution and growth of the Presanctified Liturgy: imitation, conservatism, and differentiation.
Book Synopsis Hegel and Language by : Jere O'Neill Surber
Download or read book Hegel and Language written by Jere O'Neill Surber and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first anthology explicitly dedicated to Hegel's linguistic thought, Hegel and Language presents various facets of a new wave of Hegel scholarship. The chapters are organized around themes that include the possibility of systematic philosophy, truth and objectivity, and the relation of Hegel's thought to analytic and postmodern approaches to language. While there is considerable diversity among the various approaches to and assessments of Hegel's linguistic thought, the volume as a whole demonstrates that not only was language central for Hegel, but also that his linguistic thought still has much to offer contemporary philosophy. The book also includes an extensive introductory survey of the linguistic thought of the entire German Idealist movement and the contemporary issues that emerged from it.
Book Synopsis Ashkenazim and Sephardim by : Hirsch Jakob Zimmels
Download or read book Ashkenazim and Sephardim written by Hirsch Jakob Zimmels and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
