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Heretics and Scholars in the High Middle Ages, 1000-1200

Author : Heinrich Fichtenau
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271043746
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (437 download)

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Download or read book Heretics and Scholars in the High Middle Ages, 1000-1200 written by Heinrich Fichtenau and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The struggle over fundamental issues erupted with great fury in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. In this book preeminent medievalist Heinrich Fichtenau turns his attention to a new attitude that emerged in Western Europe around the year 1000. This new attitude was exhibited both in the rise of heresy in the general population and in the self-confident rationality of the nascent schools. With his characteristic learning and insight, Fichtenau shows how these two separate intellectual phenomena contributed to a medieval world that was never quite as uniform as might appear from our modern perspective.

A World of Chess

Author : Jean-Louis Cazaux
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786494271
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book A World of Chess written by Jean-Louis Cazaux and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With more than 400 illustrations, and detailed maps, this immense and deeply researched account of the history of chess covers not only the modern international game, derived from Persian and Arab roots, but a broad spectrum of variants going back 1500 years, some of which are still played in various parts of the world. The evolution of strategic board games, especially in India, China and Japan, is discussed in detail. Many more recent chess variants (board sizes, new pieces, 3-D, etc.) are fully covered. Instructions for play are provided, with historical context, for every game presented.

The Glory of the Empire

Author : Jean D'Ormesson
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 159017965X
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Glory of the Empire written by Jean D'Ormesson and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2016-05-03 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Glory of the Empire is the rich and absorbing history of an extraordinary empire, at one point a rival to Rome. Rulers such as Basil the Great of Onessa, who founded the Empire but whose treacherous ways made him a byword for infamy, and the romantic Alexis the bastard, who dallied in the fleshpots of Egypt, studied Taoism and Buddhism, returned to save the Empire from civil war, and then retired “to learn to die,” come alive in The Glory of the Empire, along with generals, politicians, prophets, scoundrels, and others. Jean d’Ormesson also goes into the daily life of the Empire, its popular customs, and its contribution to the arts and the sciences, which, as he demonstrates, exercised an influence on the world as a whole, from the East to the West, and whose repercussions are still felt today. But it is all fiction, a thought experiment worthy of Jorge Luis Borges, and in the end The Glory of the Empire emerges as a great shimmering mirage, filling us with wonder even as it makes us wonder at the fugitive nature of power and the meaning of history itself.

Lateness and Modernity in Medieval Architecture

Author : Alice Isabella Sullivan
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004538461
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Lateness and Modernity in Medieval Architecture written by Alice Isabella Sullivan and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume engages with notions of lateness and modernity in medieval architecture, broadly conceived geographically, temporally, methodologically, and theoretically. It aims to (re)situate secular and religious buildings from the 14th through the 16th centuries that are indebted to medieval building practices and designs, within the more established narratives of art and architectural history.

Renaissance of Sciences in Islamic Countries

Author : Abdus Salam
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9789971509460
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Renaissance of Sciences in Islamic Countries written by Abdus Salam and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1994 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: http://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/0884

The English Library

Author : Raymond Irwin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000511340
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The English Library written by Raymond Irwin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-12 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1966, this book studied the background against which libraries in England have developed since classical times and the part they played in the formation of 20th Century bibliographic culture and bibliomania. Part 1 discusses the power of the written book in antiquity and follows the story from Greek and Roman times to Roman Britain and through Saxon and Medieval England to the Reformation. Part 2 traces the history of the Englishman’s study and his domestic library from its beginning to Victorian days and reveals how intimately it is related to our literature and culture. The spread of the art of reading in the 15th Century and its expansion among people of all classes in the 18th and 19th centuries are discussed in detail.

Understanding the Heavens

Author : Jean-Claude Pecker
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3662044412
Total Pages : 606 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Understanding the Heavens written by Jean-Claude Pecker and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author, a well-known astronomer himself, describes the evolution of astronomical ideas, touching only lightly on most of the instrumental developments. Richly illustrated, the book starts with the astronomical ideas of the Egyptian and Mesopotamian philosophers, moves on to the Greek period and then on to the golden age of astronomy, that of Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler and Newton. Finally, Pecker concludes with modern theories of cosmology. Written with astronomy undergraduates in mind, this is a fascinating survey of astronomical thinking.

The Tee-pee

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The Tee-pee written by and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Big History

Author : DK
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0744034647
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Big History written by DK and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-10-11 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the formation of the Universe to today, countless major events have changed the course of life on Earth. Aligned with the online Big History Project supported by Bill Gates, Big History puts a wide-angle lens on 13.8 billion years of remarkable history and shows you how and why we got where we are today. With stunning visual timelines and special CGI reconstructions, you can see history's greatest events. Look back to our origins in the stars, explore everything from the birth of the Sun to modern technology, and see what the future holds for humans. Weaving together multiple disciplines including physics and sociology, and with a foreword by TED speaker Professor David Christian, Big History is a truly unique look at the history of the world.

Sparks Off the Main Strike / Poems

Author : Daniel Abdal Moore
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0578071452
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Sparks Off the Main Strike / Poems written by Daniel Abdal Moore and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In all the poems of a poet's work there's the impulse to get to the bottom of things, to the original energy pulse, the first cause as it manifests in the present tense, the spark off the main strike. As always, the title came to me first, and the poems followed, some faithful some astray from the theme, but always rebounding back again to resonate with that original strike, in these scattered sparks.

Alternative Geographies

Author : John R. Short
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317904613
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book Alternative Geographies written by John R. Short and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible and groundbreaking text that takes a fresh view of contemporary geographical issues by looking at the geographies we have lost. Geography means writing about the world. Alternative ways of writing about the world are introduced and critically evaluated. The book discusses medieval cosmologies, Renaissance magic, feng shui, and the knowledge systems of indigenous people. Alternative Geographies provides an alternative way of looking, describing and understanding the world

The Knights Templar of the Middle East

Author : Hrh Prince Michael of Albany
Publisher : Weiser Books
ISBN 13 : 9781578633463
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The Knights Templar of the Middle East written by Hrh Prince Michael of Albany and published by Weiser Books. This book was released on 2006-11-01 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time ever, a source from within reveals the shocking truth that the roots of the Knights Templar, and thus those of Freemasonry, were actually more deeply linked to Islam than to Christianity. The Knights Templar of the Middle East breaks new ground in this well-tilled sphere and is guaranteed to stir more fires of controversy than any other book to date on Freemasonry and Templars. Prince Michael writes with sterling scholarship, making full use of his access to libraries of the secret orders of which he is a member. The book delves deep to examine the true roots of this worldwide society, revealing both historical events from Europe to the Middle East and the author's own deeply personal, perilous journey to research and expose this hidden history. Going against the accepted history of the Freemason society as evolved from a remnant of Knights Templar who settled in Scotland, The Knights Templar of the Middle East takes readers much farther back to the true historical biblical land, based in Western Arabia rather than Palestine. The true secret of the Inner Circle of the Order of the Templars was such that, had they revealed it, the knowledge would have rocked the cradle of Christian and Judaic beliefs.

Mathematics and the Mind

Author : Hassan Tahiri
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319252380
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (192 download)

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Download or read book Mathematics and the Mind written by Hassan Tahiri and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-11-18 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how epistemology was reinvented by Ibn Sīnā, an influential philosopher-scientist of the classical Islamic world who was known to the West by the Latinised name Avicenna. It explains his theory of knowledge in which intentionality acts as an interaction between the mind and the world. This, in turn, led Ibn Sīnā to distinguish an operation of intentionality specific to the generation of numbers. The author argues that Ibn Sīnā’s transformation of philosophy is one of the major stages in the de-hellinisation movement of the Greek heritage that was set off by the advent of the Arabic-Islamic civilisation. Readers first learn about Ibn Sīnā’s unprecedented investigation into the concept of the number and his criticism of such Greek thought as Plato’s realism, Pythagoreans’ empiricism, and Ari stotle’s conception of existence. Next, coverage sets out the basics of Ibn Sīnā’s theory of knowledge needed for the construction of numbers. It describes how intentionality turns out to be key in showing the ontological dependence of numbers as well as even more critical to their construction. In describing the various mental operations that make mathematical objects intentional entities, Ibn Sīnā developed powerful arguments and subtle analyses to show us the extent our mental life depends on intentionality. This monograph thoroughly explores the epistemic dimension of this concept, which, the author believes, can also explain the actual genesis and evolution of mathematics by the human mind.

Islam

Author : Greville Stewart Parker Freeman-Grenville
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1441165339
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Islam written by Greville Stewart Parker Freeman-Grenville and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2006-01-26 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lavishly illustrated work by two renowned scholars narrates the history of the spread of Islam all over the world, from its birth in Arabia in the seventh century to the present day. Islam remains an active and stillspreading phenomenon whose influence in different parts of the world is profound, and, to many non-Muslims, mysterious and little understood. With its 180 maps, 200 illustrations and carefully prepared text, the book brings clarity and under-standing to a religious and cultural force of great contemporary significance.

Early Ships and Seafaring: Water Transport Beyond Europe

Author : Seán McGrail
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473866472
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)

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Download or read book Early Ships and Seafaring: Water Transport Beyond Europe written by Seán McGrail and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2015-06-30 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume Professor Sen McGrail introduces the reader to a relatively new branch of Archaeology the study of water transport how early rafts, boats and ships were built and used. Concepts, such as boatbuilding traditions, ship stability and navigation without instruments, are first described. Archaeological research is then discussed, including sea levels in earlier times, how to distinguish the vestigial remains of a cargo vessel from those of a fighting craft; and the difference between a boat and a ship.Chapters 2 and 3, the heart of the text, deal with the early water transport of the Mediterranean and Atlantic Europe, from the Stone Age to Medieval times. Each chapter includes a description of the region's maritime geography and an exposition of its boat-building traditions. The third element is a discussion of the propulsion, the steering and the navigation of these early vessels.The sparse, often jumbled, remains of excavated vessels have to be interpreted, a process that is assisted by consideration of early descriptions and illustrations. Studies of the way traditional builders of wooden boats ply their trade today are also a great help. Experimental boat archaeology is still at an early stage but, when undertaken rigorously, it can reveal aspects of the vessel's capabilities. Such information is used in this volume to further our understanding of data from boat and ship excavations, and to present as coherent, comprehensive and accurate a picture as is now possible, of early European boatbuilding and use.

Roots of Ecology

Author : Frank N. Egerton
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520271742
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Roots of Ecology written by Frank N. Egerton and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2012-07-17 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ecological questions are at the center of many of the most important decisions faced by humanity. Roots of Ecology documents the deep ancestry of this enormously important science from the early ideas of Herodotus, Plato, and Pliny; up through those of Linnaeus and Dawin, to those that inspired Ernst Haeckel's mid-nineteenth-century neologism ecology. Based on a long-running series of regularly published columns, this important work gathers a vast literature that illustrates the development of the ecological concepts, environmental ideas, and creative reasoning that have led to our modern view of ecology. Roots of Ecology should be on every ecologist's shelf."--Back cover.

Central Asian Monuments

Author : H. B. Paksoy
Publisher : ISIS Press
ISBN 13 : 9754280339
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (542 download)

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Download or read book Central Asian Monuments written by H. B. Paksoy and published by ISIS Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CARRIE, a full-text electronic library based at the University of Kansas, presents the text of "Central Asian Monuments" (ISBN 975-428-033-9). H. B. Paksoy edited the book, which was originally published in 1992 by the Isis Press. The book contains essays on eight Central Asian literary monuments and provides historical perspective on each.