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Dictionary of Arabic and allied loanwords : Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Galician and kindred dialects
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ISBN: 9789004168589 9004168583 9786612399435 1282399438 904744311X 9789047443117 Year: 2008 Volume: 97 Publisher: Leiden Boston Brill

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One of the main cultural consequences of the contacts between Islam and the West has been the borrowing of hundreds of words, mostly of Arabic but also of other important languages of the Islamic world, such as Persian, Turkish, Berber, et cetera by Western languages. Such loanwords are particularly abundant and relevant in the case of the Iberian Peninsula because of the presence of Islamic states in it for many centuries; their study is very revealing when it comes to assess the impact of those states in the emergence and shaping of Western civilization. Some famous Arabic scholars, above all R. Dozy, have tackled this task in the past, followed by other attempts at increasing and improving his pioneering work; however, the progresses achieved during the last quarter of the 20th c., in such fields as Andalusi and Andalusi Romance dialectology and lexicology made it necessary to update all the available information on this topic and to offer it in English.


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Goth culture : gender, sexuality and style
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ISBN: 1474263534 Year: 2008 Publisher: Berg

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A history of prayer : the first to the fifteenth century
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ISSN: 18716377 ISBN: 9789004171220 9004171223 9786613061294 9047424530 1283061295 9789047424536 Year: 2008 Volume: 13 Publisher: Leiden Boston Brill

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“Prayer is real religion,” said Auguste Sabatier. If so, the academic study of prayer allows scholars to examine the very heart of religious practices, beliefs, and convictions. Since prayers exist in a wide variety of content, contexts, forms, and practices, a comprehensive approach to the study of prayer is required. Therefore, this volume includes scholars from a wide range of disciplines, in order to discover the breadth of “real religion” from the first to the fifteenth centuries. This volume especially focuses upon the history of Christianity and monasticism, where prayer was the school of hope, faith, and critical thought, awakening the faithful to every aspect of religious and daily life. Contributors are L. Edward Phillips, Karlfried Froehlich, Michael Joseph Brown, David W. Fagerberg, Columba Stewart, Benedicta Ward, Susan Boynton, Corey Barnes, Johannes Heil, Rik Van Nieuwenhove, Roger S. Wieck, Paul W. Robinson and Roy Hammerling.


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The representations of the overseas world in the De Bry collection of voyages (1590-1634)
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ISBN: 9789004164499 9004164499 9786613060600 9047432630 1283060604 9789047432630 Year: 2008 Volume: 2 2 Publisher: Leiden [etc.] Brill

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This book deals with the De Bry collection of voyages, one of the most monumental publications of Early Modern Europe. It analyzes the textual and iconographic changes the De Bry publishing family made to travel accounts describing Asia, Africa and the New World. It discusses this editorial strategy in the context of the publishing industry around 1600, investigating the biography of the De Brys, the publications of the Frankfurt firm, and the making of the collection, as well as its reception by Iberian inquisitors and seventeenth-century readers across the Old World. The book draws on a wide variety of primary sources, and is hence important for historians, book historians, and art historians interested in the development of Europe's overseas empires.


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The rise and decline of Dutch technological leadership : technology, economy and culture in the Netherlands, 1350-1800
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ISBN: 9789004168657 9789004172142 9789004172159 Year: 2008 Volume: 7 1 Publisher: Leiden [etc.] Brill


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The choruses of Sophokles' Antigone and Philoktetes : a dance of words
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ISBN: 9789004165144 9004165142 9786613060662 904743286X 1283060663 Year: 2008 Volume: 292 Publisher: Leiden [etc.] Brill

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Dance of Words argues for a fundamental difference in the modes of expression of actor and chorus. The chorus views the action from the perspective of dancers and singers, while the actors' understanding is shaped by the responsibility they have to make things happen. While this responsibility fashions the actors' considerations of cause and effect, linear movement through time and space, and a sense of history, the chorus' sensibilities arise out of the rhythms of its song and movements. Its mode of expression is a particular way of communicating and elaborating on man's place in the larger order, and its view of the action is bounded by the way that song and dance mirror that order.


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Studenten und Gelehrte : Studien zur Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte deutscher Universitäten im Mittelalter
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ISBN: 9789004164253 Year: 2008 Volume: 32 Publisher: Leiden Brill


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The notion of that which depends on us in Plotinus and its background
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ISBN: 9789004166141 9789047433279 9004166149 Year: 2008 Volume: 113 Publisher: Leiden Boston Brill

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Charles V and the Castilian Assembly of the Clergy : negotions for the ecclesiastical subsidy
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ISBN: 9789004171169 Year: 2008 Volume: 141 Publisher: Leiden Boston Brill


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Reconstructing proto-nostratic : comparative phonology, morphology, and vocabulary
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ISBN: 9789004168534 9789004170674 9789004170681 Year: 2008 Volume: 6 Publisher: Leiden [etc.] Brill

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