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Philodemus On Piety. Part 1 : critical text with commentary
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ISBN: 0198150083 9780198150084 Year: 1995 Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press,


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An eleventh-century Egyptian guide to the universe : the Book of curiosities
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ISBN: 9789004255647 9004255648 1306189004 9004256997 Year: 2014 Volume: 87 Publisher: Leiden : Brill,

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Acquired by the Bodleian Library in 2002, the Book of Curiosities is now recognized as one of the most important discoveries in the history of cartography in recent decades. This eleventh-century Arabic treatise, composed in Egypt under the Fatimid caliphs, is a detailed account of the heavens and the Earth, illustrated by an unparalleled series of maps and astronomical diagrams. With topics ranging from comets to the island of Sicily, from lunar mansions to the sources of the Nile, it represents the extent of geographical, astronomical and astrological knowledge of the time. This authoritative edition and translation, accompanied by a colour facsimile reproduction, opens a unique window onto the worldview of medieval Islam. An extensive glossary of star-names and seven indices, on birds, animals and other items have been added for easy reference.

Aesthetics and the art of musical composition in the German Enlightenment : selected writings of Johann Georg Sulzer and Heinrich Christoph Koch
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ISBN: 0521360358 9780521035095 9780521360357 9780511518348 0521035090 051151834X Year: 1995 Volume: [7] Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Can an abstract theory of Empfindsamkeit aesthetics have any value to a musician wishing to study composition in the classical style? The eighteenth-century German theorist and pedagogue Heinrich Koch showed how this question could be answered with a resounding yes. Starting with the systematic aesthetic theory of the Swiss encyclopedist Johann Sulzer, Koch was creatively able to adapt Sulzer's conservative ideas on ethical mimesis and rhetoric to concrete problems of music analysis and composition. In this collaborative study, Thomas Christensen and Nancy Baker have translated and analysed selected writings of Sulzer and Koch respectively, bringing to life a little-known confluence of philosophical and musical thought from the German Enlightenment. Koch's appropriation of Sulzer's ideas to the service of music represents an important development in the evolution of Western musical thought.


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Mapping medieval geographies : geographical encounters in the Latin West and beyond, 300-1600
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ISBN: 9781316620274 9781107036918 1107036917 9781139568388 9781107784505 1107784506 1139568388 1139891723 1107779596 1107778794 1107784964 1107781302 1107780063 1316620271 Year: 2013 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Mapping Medieval Geographies explores the ways in which geographical knowledge, ideas and traditions were formed in Europe during the Middle Ages. Leading scholars reveal the connections between Islamic, Christian, Biblical and Classical geographical traditions from Antiquity to the later Middle Ages and Renaissance. The book is divided into two parts: Part I focuses on the notion of geographical tradition and charts the evolution of celestial and earthly geography in terms of its intellectual, visual and textual representations; whilst Part II explores geographical imaginations; that is to say, those 'imagined geographies' that came into being as a result of everyday spatial and spiritual experience. Bringing together approaches from art, literary studies, intellectual history and historical geography, this pioneering volume will be essential reading for scholars concerned with visual and textual modes of geographical representation and transmission, as well as the spaces and places of knowledge creation and consumption.


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Assuerus und Esther am Burgunderhof : Zur Rezeption des Buches Esther in den Niederlanden (1450 bis 1530)
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ISBN: 3786122636 Year: 1998 Publisher: Berlin Gebr. Mann Verlag.

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