Franz Steiner Verlag, 2017. — 268 p. — (Text und Kontext 37). Die spanischen Renaissancedialoge, die von Autoren wie Diego de Sagredo, Cristóbal de Villalón oder Antonio Agustín im 16. Jahrhundert zur Kunst- und Malereitheorie verfasst wurden, zeichnen sich durch eine Reihe von Besonderheiten aus. Im Gegensatz zu den anderen Gattungen des frühneuzeitlichen kunsttheoretischen...
Academia Verlag Richarz, 1989. — 72 p. — (Beiträge zur Philosophie 1). Der auf Platon zurückgehende Begriff der Philosophie wurde in der Neuzeit und insbesondere im 20. Jahrhundert immer wieder als ständiges Unterwegssein des Denkens, als nie an ein endgültiges Ziel gelangendes Streben nach Erkenntnis und Wissen aufgefasst. Die hier vorgelegte Studie Karl Alberts zeigt...
Université de Cergy Pontoise, 2018. — 483 p. Analyse diachronique du trésor de la langue françaiseet de l’Oxford english dictionary: le traitement des empruntsrésuméil n’est pas de langue dont le lexique ne s’enrichisse au gré des emprunts, qui permettent d’accroître et de renouveler le fonds lexical au fur et à mesure que se développent les relations entre les pays et entre...
Oxford: Archaeopress Archaeology, 2022. — 166 p. — (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 90). Celebrating the 1900th anniversary of Hadrian’s visit to Britain and the building of the Wall, this book presents studies from from the point of view of those living, visiting, researching and working along it. The book offers a realistic discussion of current issues and solutions in the...
Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2023. — 436 p. — (Haut Moyen Âge 44). Il regno di Pipino, figlio di Carlo Magno, è stato a lungo trascurato dalla ricerca storica, nonstante la sua importanza per l’Italia, le regioni transalpine e il mondo carolingio nel suo insieme. I contributi qui raccolti, esito di due convegni tenutisi a Trento e a Vienna, mettono in luce con...
Brill, 2024. — 399 p. — (Texts and Editions for New Testament Study 17). The Catena to James (compiled ca. 700 CE) collected excerpts from the best ancient Greek commentaries on the Letter of James. This translation and commentary make the whole Catena available for the first time in a modern language.
Wien: Böhlau Verlag, 2021. — 371 S. — (Hermathena. Wiener Studien zur Kunstgeschichte 3). Bislang galt das Interesse der Forschung den Zeichnungen, der Druckgraphik und Kunsttheorie von Pietro Testa. Die Malerei hat dagegen nur wenig Aufmerksamkeit erfahren. Die vorliegende Publikation untersucht erstmals das malerische Œuvre eines Künstlers, der zwischen 1628 und 1650 in Rom...
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2024. — 672 p. — (De Septuaginta Investigationes 18). This collected volume is an indispensable part of any theological and philological library. It provides a detailed and up-to-date overview of the Greek Psalter, which plays a central role in the study of the Septuagint. Featuring contributions from leading experts in a variety of disciplines, this...
University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, 2021. — 202 p. This dissertation is a study of negation in Iraqi Arabic. It investigates the syntactic properties of negation in this dialect by presenting some previously unnoticed empirical facts about this phenomenon and by analyzing its theoretical significance for Arabic syntax in particular and Human language in general. Iraqi Arabic...
Hoffmann Manfred (ed.). — De Gruyter, 2005. — 390 p. — (Beiträge zur Altertumskunde 217). Das anspruchsvolle Bibelepos des Alcimus Ecdicius Avitus verknüuuml;pft zentrale Stationen der Heilsgeschichte vom Sündenfall bis zum Durchzug durch das Rote Meer. Dieser erste ausführliche Kommentar zum dritten Buch spürt den vielfäauml;ltigen Einflüssen nach, die auf das Herzstück des...
Journal of East Asian Linguistics. — 2019. — Vol. 28. Issue 4. — p. 359-394. This paper proposes an analysis of VP fronting in the VOS Austronesian language Seediq in the theory of Labeling. In the same vein as Massam (Nat Lang Linguist Theory 19:153–197, 2001), I propose that verb-initial word order results at least in part from fronting the verb and object together in the VP...
Brill, 2023. — 416 p. — (Studies in the History of Christian Traditions 201). Mystical Theology and Platonism in the Time of Cusanus engages with the history of mystical theology and Neoplatonic philosophy through the lens of the 15th century philosopher and theologian, Nicholas of Cusa. The volume comprises nineteen essays that break down the barriers between medieval and...
Peeters Publishers, 2018. — XXXIX, 228 p. — (Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium 666. Subsidia 137). In the early seventh century, the Georgian and the Armenian Churches separated. Since then, the two nations formed their distinct Christian cultures and national Churches. This also resulted in mutual antagonism, the repercussions of which are still observable in modern...
Roma – Bristol: L'Erma di Bretschneider, 2020. — 198 p. — (Scriptores Iuris Romani 7). Very little is known about the life and career of Aemilius Macer, a jurist active in the Severian age. The full name is not even known: in the Index Florentinus there is only Macer, while the nomen Aemilius appears certified in three inscriptions in the Digesta Iustiniani. On the other hand,...
Brill, 2017. — 944 p. Socrates and the Socratic Dialogue assembles the most complete range of studies on Socrates and the Socratic dialogue. It focuses on portrayals of Socrates, whether as historical figure or protagonist of 'Socratic dialogues', in extant and fragmentary texts from Classical Athens through Late Antiquity. Special attention is paid to the evolving power and...
Brill, 2019. — 307 p. — (Studies in Philo of Alexandria, Volume: 10). In Philo of Alexandria and Greek Myth: Narratives, Allegories, and Arguments, a fresh and more complete image of Philo of Alexandria as a careful reader, interpreter, and critic of Greek literature is offered. Greek mythology plays a significant role in Philo of Alexandria’s exegetical oeuvre. Philo...
Brill, 2019. — xii, 273 p. — (Philosophia Antiqua 152). The focus of Aristotle on Prescription is Aristotle’s reflections on rule-making. It is widely believed that Aristotle was only concerned with decision-making, understood as a deliberative process enabling a person to arrive at particular, contingent decisions. However, rule-making is fundamental to Aristotle’s ethical...
Brill, 2008. — viii, 296 p. — (Studies in Philo of Alexandria, Volume: 5). The essays collected in this volume focus on the role played by the philosophy of the Hellenistic, or post-Aristotelian age (from the school of the successors of Aristotle, Theophrastus and other Peripatetics, Epicurus, Sceptical Academy and Stoicism, to neo-Pythagorenism and the schools of Antiochus and...
De Gruyter, 2022. — 404 p. — (Sozomena 20). Apart from relatively few exceptions of texts which survive intact, what we have of Ancient Greek literature remains, to a great degree, fragmentary. As a result it is often misread, overlooked or mined not for its own sake but to support the investigation of texts which survive in their entirety. This collection of chapters addresses...
De Gruyter, 2010. — 252 p. — (Untersuchungen zur antiken Literatur und Geschichte 101). Die Rhetorik ist das Lieblingskind der sophistischen Aufklärung und Isokrates ist der letzte große Sophist der klassischen Zeit. Der isokratische Euagoras, ein Enkomion auf den kyprischen König Euagoras I., übte einen entscheidenden Einfluß bei der Etablierung und Entwicklung des...
Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales. — INALCO Paris - Langues O', 2021. — 688 p. This thesis provides the first description of Nalögo, a language spoken on Santa Cruz Island (Temotu Province, Solomon Islands). Nalögo is an Oceanic language belonging to the Reefs-Santa Cruz (RSC) group. This thesis is based on primary data collected by the author in the...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2001. — 229 S. — (Heidelberger althistorische Beiträge und epigraphische Studien 36). S. Panciera: Prefazione. G. Alföldy: Pietas immobilis erga principem und ihr Lohn. B. / C. Witschel: Veränderungen im Repräsentationsverhalten der römischen Eliten während des 3. Jhs. n. Chr. F. Feraudi-Gruénais: Sepulkrale 'Selbstdarstellung' von Unterschichten. H....
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2011. — 401 p. Die 4. Auflage der Römischen Sozialgeschichte ist eine aktualisierte, auf den doppelten Umfang erweiterte und um einen umfangreichen Anmerkungsapparat sowie um ein Verzeichnis der in den letzten Jahrzehnten erschienenen Fachliteratur bereicherte Neuausgabe der im Jahre 1985 vorgelegten 3. Auflage. Sie ist nach wie vor die einzige...
Oxford University, 2023. — 384 p. The importance of Armenia’s hereditary naxarar elite in the late antique and medieval eras has long been acknowledged by scholars, and the region’s peripheral position has made these landed aristocrats a focus of academics of the Byzantine and Sasanian Empires also. However, study of naxarar families has not been accompanied by dedicated...
University of Essex, 2022. — 278 p. Negative Polarity Items (NPIs) are pervasive among languages. Cross-linguistic examination of NPIs continues to shed light on the complexity of this phenomenon. One unfortunate fact is that NPIs in Arabic dialects have seen relatively little examination in comparison with NPIs in other languages, such as English, Dutch, and Greek. The present...
University of Leeds, 2022. — 290 p. This thesis studies psychological verbs in al-bāḥah Arabic (henceforth BA; a dialect used in western Saudi Arabia). Psychological verbs are characterized by having one argument that carries the thematic role of Experiencer and have been the topic of a vast array of research for decades. These verbs have long been considered exceptional...
University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2012. — 188 p. This dissertation explores the syntax of ellipsis in Libyan Arabic (LA henceforth) focusing on sluicing, verb phrase ellipsis, stripping and negative contrast. These elliptical structures have not been studied in the language before; therefore, this study provides the first description of these phenomena from a generative...
Queen Mary, University of London, 2018. — 209 p. This thesis investigates the structure of DPs in Jordanian Arabic (JA) focusing on Nominal Ellipsis (NE). Cross-linguistically, research on NE has produced a number of perspectives on the mechanisms involved in the licensing of NE. I argue that most of the mainstream approaches to NE cannot capture the full set of the ellipsis...
Leiden, 2021. — 401 p. This thesis study 260 Arabic inscriptions from the Arabian Peninsula, corresponding to modern-day Saudi Arabia, dating to the first four centuries AH/ 7th to 10th centuries CE. In total, 260 inscriptions are studied, 145 of which are published here for the first time. The corpus pertains to four families whose ancestors are considered, from the literary...
Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2012 . — x, 282 p. — (Iran Studies, Volume: 6). This volume is a collection of essays on classical Persian literature, focusing on Persian rhetorical devices, especially imagery and metaphors. The various contributions discuss the origin and the development of debate poetry, the transmission of Persian and Arabic tales to the works of Europeans medieval...
Brill, 2020. — vi, 257 p. The Horizons of Being explores the teachings of Ibn al-ʿArabī by examining Dāwūd al-Qayṣarī’s (d. 751/1350) Prolegomena to his commentary on the Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikam, popularly known as the Muqaddimat al-Qayṣarī. A masterpiece of Sufism, the Muqaddima is both a distillation of the Fuṣūṣ and a summary of Ibn al-ʿArabī’s entire metaphysical worldview. As such,...
Fifth printing. — Hippocrene Books, 2006. — 248 p. — (Hippocrene Language Studies). This is revised and expanded edition of the popular guide introduces students to the Arabic language and script. It includes: Model sentences and vocabulary lists Comprehensive grammar Irregular plural forms indicated Imperfect verb form lists with tenses Selections in Arabic from prose and...
Fifth printing. — Hippocrene Books, 2006. — 248 p. — (Hippocrene Language Studies). This is revised and expanded edition of the popular guide introduces students to the Arabic language and script. It includes: Model sentences and vocabulary lists Comprehensive grammar Irregular plural forms indicated Imperfect verb form lists with tenses Selections in Arabic from prose and...
Brill; Schöningh, 2023. — XVIII+263 S. — (Contexts of Ancient and Medieval Anthropology 6). The Platonic corpus is a collection of texts written under Plato’s name. It is fairly inconvenient for us, modern readers, that it includes texts hardly authored by Plato, but we are normally able, or deem ourselves so, to tell the difference between spurious and authentic material. Yet...
Brill, 2017. — xiv, 278 p. — (Brill's Indological Library, Volume: 51). — ISBN-13 9789004251885. — ISBN-10 900425188X. Urdu and Indo-Persian Thought, Poetics, and Belles Lettres, is a collection on the subject of Urdu poetics, Dastan, translation studies in Urdu, and Indo-Persian. The essays employ interdisciplinary perspectives for exploring the dynamic literary landscape of...
California State University System, 2016. — 81 p. The following work provides a general overview of noun phrases in Arabic. A descriptive study that seeks to lay out the varying range of noun phrases in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) and compare them to those found in spoken dialects of Arabic, specifically Najdi Arabic (NA) and Qassimi Arabic (QA). Secondly, it grounds the...
Fribourg: Academic Press; Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2004. — X, 199 p. — (Orbis biblicus et Orientalis; 201). Der vorliegende Band versammelt die Beiträge eines interdisziplinären und internationalen Symposions, das unter dem Titel ”Der Einfluß Griechenlands auf die Religion und Kultur des antiken Israel” am 29. April 2003 am Fachbereich Evangelische Theologie der...
SOAS, University of London, 1973. — 385 p. This grammar of the Lalami dialect of Buam is the first attempt to describe the morphology and syntax of any of the 14 Togo-Remnant languages in detail; in it, I have tried to describe the major structures and many of the minor structures of the languageswhich occur in informal or semi-formal speech. The phonetics and most of the...
Brill, 2003. — 286 p. — (Amsterdam Studies in Classical Philology 11). The great variety of usage types of the middle voice in Ancient Greek has excited the interest of generations of classical scholars. A number of intriguing questions, however, still have been left unanswered. What is the exact relation between the various middle usage types? How can the semantic element...
Université Sorbonne Paris Cité; Seconda università degli studi (Naples, Italie), 2017. — 608 p. Persian inscriptions from Ghazni may be regarded as both artistic testimonies and original primary sources for the cultural history of the Ghaznavid dynasty (366-582/977-1186). They provide evidence of the Ghaznavid contribution to the rise of New Persian as an epigraphic language...
Université Sorbonne Paris Cité; Seconda università degli studi (Naples, Italie), 2017. — 316 p. Persian inscriptions from Ghazni may be regarded as both artistic testimonies and original primary sources for the cultural history of the Ghaznavid dynasty (366-582/977-1186). They provide evidence of the Ghaznavid contribution to the rise of New Persian as an epigraphic language...
Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH, 1993. — 178 p. — (Palingenesia 44). Edition and commentary on fragments by elegiac poet Mimnermus of Colophon. Preface Testimonia for Mimnermus' Life and Work Mimnermus' Life Mimnermus' Writings Manuscripts F 1 (1 W, 7 G-P) F 2 (2 W, 8 G-P) F 3 (3 W, 9 G-P) F 4 (4 W, 1 G-P) F 5 (5 W, 1 G-P) F 6 (6 W, 11 G-P) F 7 (7 W, 12 G-P) F 8 (8 W, 2...
Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2023. — 204 p. Despite the significant work carried out on the text, transmission, materiality, and scribal habits preserved in the Chester Beatty Biblical Papyri since their acquisition by Beatty ninety years ago in 1931, these early copies of Jewish scripture and the New Testament have, for the most part, belonged primarily to textual critics. The...
Routledge, 2013. — xxii, 527 p. — (Routledge Library Editions: Political Science 16). This presentation of the main phases and features of political thought in the sixteenth century is based on an exhaustive study of contemporary writings in Latin, English, French, German and Italian. The book is divided into four parts. The first part deals with the new thought of...
Second edition. — Society of Biblical literature, 2015. — 381 p. — (Writings from the Ancient World 38). James P. Allen provides a translation of the oldest corpus of ancient Egyptian religious texts from the six royal pyramids of the Fifth and Sixth Dynasties (ca. 2350-2150 BCE). Allen's revisions take into account recent advances in the understanding of Egyptian grammar....
Routledge, 2019. — 538 p. — (Routledge Library Editions: Political Thought and Political Philosophy). First published in 1938. A study of the political doctrines and events which led to a hardening of lines between the Royalists and the Parliamentarians. "From the March of 1604, when James I met his first Parliament to the assembly of the Long Parliament in November 1640, there...
Leiden, Boston: Brill, 1991. — 238 p. — (Byzantina Australiensia 9). Preliminary Material General Introduction Birth of John the Baptist Palm Sunday Holy Week Easter Mid-Pentecost Pentecost Birth of Christ Transfiguration Biblical index Patristic index General index
Twenty-fifth printing. — Rutland, Vermont & Tokyo, Japan: Tuttle Publishing, 1995. — 123 p. The primary objective of this modest little book is to whet the interest of the reader enough to go on with his study of the Thai language. We have tried to introduce you to some of the ‘‘mysteries” of Thai as painlessly but as rapidly as we thought practicable. There seems to be a great...
Brill, 2020. — xviii, 502 p. — (Grammars and Sketches of the World's Languages 12). In A Grammar of Makary Kotoko, Sean Allison provides a thorough description and analysis of Makary Kotoko - a Central Chadic language of Cameroon, framing the discussion within R.M.W. Dixon’s (2010a, 2010b, 2012) Basic Linguistic Theory. Working with an extensive corpus of recorded texts...
University of Leeds, 2014. — 312 p. This thesis examines the effect of the clarity of idioms’ motivation on the recognition and comprehension of Najdi idiomatic expressions. Besides the transparency of motivation, the main factors examined are the linguistic proficiency of those encountering idioms, the compositionality’s degree of the idioms, and cultural similarities and...