Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2015. — 233 S. Die Bedeutung der kirchlichen Konzile des 5. und 6. Jahrhunderts kann gar nicht hoch genug eingeschätzt werden. Sie geben wichtige Einblicke in das spätrömische Reich und die Rolle der Kirche zu jener Zeit. Das Konzil von Chalcedon (AD 451) ist aufgrund seiner reichen Quellenlage, des dramatischen Ablaufs und seiner historische...
Brill, 2000. — xii, 290 p. — (Biblical Interpretation Series, Volume: 25). In current usage polemics is broadly defined as the practice of rhetorical persuasion or as the rhetorical presentation of an argument in dispute. The phenomenon of polemics is found throughout the whole corpus of biblical literature. In most instances the polemics is direct, but sometimes indirect, and...
V&R unipress; Bonn University Press, 2019. — 535 S. — (Mamluk Studies 17). The Mamluk Sultanate represents an extremely interesting case study to examine social, economic and cultural developments in the transition into the rapidly changing modern world. On the one hand, it is the heir of a political and military tradition that goes back hundreds of years, and brought this to a...
Turnhout: Brepols, 2013. — 149 p. — (Miroir de l'Orient Musulman 4). The sixty year struggle (1260-1320) between the Mamluk Sultanate of Syria and Egypt and the Ilkhanate, the Mongol realm in Iran and the surrounding countries, had a profound impact on the region’s ruling elites and the general population, as well as on neighboring countries and beyond. It is possible to speak...
University of Cambridge, 2011. — 173 p. This dissertation investigates the Old English word field for the concepts of ‘pledges’ and agreements by analysing the words belonging to the field in their contextual environments. The particular focus is on the word wedd (‘pledge’), which is shown to have different connotations in different text types. The main subject of the study is...
Brill, 2015. — vi, 148 p. This chronology for 2004 to 2013 compiles the chapters on Ghana previously published in the Africa Yearbook. Politics, Economy and Society South of the Sahara. Political stability in Ghana in the last few years contrasted with dramatic developments in other West-African countries. Ghana has a relatively high growth-rate, and also plays a role in...
Université Charles de Gaulle - Lille III, 2017. — 428 p. Réunissant des sources littéraires, épigraphiques, archéologiques, iconographiques et archéozoologiques, cette thèse étudie la question de la symbolique de l’animal dans la relation entre le mortel et la divinité, en s’intéressant particulièrement à Artémis et à Déméter, deux déesses en charge des problèmes des femmes à...
Université Charles de Gaulle - Lille III, 2017. — 119 Pls. Les planches présentent des reproductions de photographies liées aux sanctuaires (localisation, plan, bâtiments, mobilier général, offrandes animales, restes fauniques) et aux animaux (figurines, peintures de vases, petites trouvailles). La documentation réunie dans ce volume de planches est exclusivement secondaire :...
De Gruyter Mouton, 1974. — 248 P. — (Slavistic Printings and Reprintings 319). Table of contents: Foreword abbreviations contents introduction elements of meaning in the finite verb form formal elements of the finite verb form and their meaning time, aspect, and the linguist appendix some difficult cases bibliography index of names
École doctorale Pratiques et théories du sens, Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis, 2015. — 404 p. According to the initial verse of the Book of Ruth, the story takes place during the period of the Judges. However, its place in the Hebrew Bible canon, where it is revealed in Writings (Ketuvim), as well as linguistic aspects of the text, has led scholars to believe that the book was...
Peeters Pub & Booksellers, 2021. — 265 p. — (Etudes Bibliques 89). Interpreted as praising the divine powers on the storm, Psalm 29 is currently a cornerstone of the thesis of YHWH's storm-god identity and his closeness to the Canaanite Baal. Here, this view is challenged by considerations about YHWH's powers on the storm and a reanalysis of Psalm 29, including a comparative...
Journal of East Asian Linguistics. — 2020. — Vol. 29. Issue 3. — p. 337-364. In this paper, I examine a novel type of comparative construction in Korean, namely, reduced NP comparatives (RNC), and consider its implications. On the surface, RNC may appear to be a case of the usual NP comparative construction in that two NPs are involved. But, unlike typical NP comparatives, the...
Vryonis Speros, Goodhue Nicholas (eds.). — Routledge, 2001. — 368 p. — (Variorum Collected Studies). This volume of studies by the late Milton Anastos contains his major articles published after his previous collection appeared, along with the first publication of a portion of ’The Mind of Byzantium’, Anastos’s projected multi-volume survey of Byzantine intellectual history....
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2013. — 335 p. — (Aurora: Schriften der Villa Vigoni 1.2). Das Papsttum und die vita religiosa , die Welt der Klöster und Orden, sind die beiden einzigen institutionellen Lebensformen des Mittelalters, die für sich eine eigene universelle Geltung beanspruchen konnten. Durch die Ausbildung komplexer kommunikativer Strukturen und innovativer...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2012. — 318 p. — (Aurora. Schriften Der Villa Vigoni 1.1). Das Papsttum und die vita religiosa , die Welt der Klöster und Orden, sind die beiden einzigen institutionellen Lebensformen des Mittelalters, die für sich eine eigene universelle Geltung beanspruchen konnten. Durch die Ausbildung komplexer kommunikativer Strukturen und innovativer...
Brill, 2021. — xx, 415 p. — (Numen Book Series 165). Chán Buddhism in Dūnhuáng and Beyond: A Study of Manuscripts, Texts, and Contexts in Memory of John R. McRae is dedicated to the memory of the eminent Chán scholar John McRae and investigates the spread of early Chán in a historical, multi-lingual, and interreligious context. Combining the expertise of scholars of Chinese,...
Mohr Siebeck, 2024. — 368 p. — (Studies in Education and Religion in Ancient and Pre-Modern History in the Mediterranean and Its Environs (SERAPHIM), 23). Der südgallische Erzbischof Caesarius von Arles († 542) zählt zu den einflussreichsten Predigern seiner Zeit. Mit innovativen Strategien bringt er sein Publikum in Kontakt mit christlichen Inhalten und gestaltet auf...
Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 1980. — 212 p. — (Janua Linguarum. Series Practica 231). The Hebrew SENTENCE (Se) as the domain of inter-clausal relationships has not been studied systematically on a full scale since the volume on syntax in Eduard König's monumental grammar. 1 The established approach is found too in several briefer works. Thus A. B. Davidson's Hebrew Syntax...
Journal of African Languages and Linguistics. — 2006. — Vol. 27. Issue 1. — p. 1-27. In Mabaan, a Western Nilotic language, there are several singular and plural number suffixes. However, many singular nouns have no segmentally distinct suffix, but have a root-final nasal which corresponds to a root-final homorganic plosive in the plural. The plosive is the original alternant,...
Journal of African Languages and Linguistics. — 2012. — Vol. 33. Issue 2. — p. 143-179. This article deals with the interaction between two subsystems of the grammar of Dinka, a Western Nilotic language: (i) the semantic role of a place adverbial as location, source or goal, and (ii) deictic directionality expressed in the verb. Some place adverbials do not encode the...
Journal of African Languages and Linguistics. — 2009. — Vol. 30. Issue 2. — p. 147-191. Surkum and other languages belonging to the Northern Burun branch of Western Nilotic have a word-final verbal suffix (with several allomorphs) which does not contribute to the propositional content of the sentence. It is obligatory in, for instance, affirmative declarative clauses with the...
Journal of African Languages and Linguistics. — 2017. — Vol. 38. Issue 1. — p. 1-50. In Dinka, a predominantly monosyllabic and highly fusional Western Nilotic language, vowel quality alternation in the root plays a major and systematic role in the morphology of verbs, together with alternations in vowel length, voice quality, and tone. Earlier work has shown that in the...
New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2007. — 276 p. — (Studies in Arthurian and Courtly Cultures). Andersen-Wyman's book undoes most scholarly uses and understandings of De amore by Andreas Capellanus. By offering a reading promoted by the text itself, Andersen-Wyman shows how Andreas undermines the narrative foundations of sacred and secular institutions and renders their power...
Victoria University of Wellington / Te Herenga Waka, 2014. — 113 p. This study investigates perceived patterns of lexical recurrence in consecutive or closely proximate poems in Books 1-3 of the Odes of the Roman poet Horace and considers the significance these may have for the structure and organization of this work and its interpretive reception by readers. An initial...
Sheffield Academic Press, 1991. — 218 p. — (Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series 125). During the last decade or so there has been a renewed interest in the study of cult and priesthood. The various individuals who have contributed essays to this volume are of both junior and senior rank and from both Christian and Jewish backgrounds. Certain essays...
University of Southern California, 2012. — 136 p. Reduplication of numerals and pronouns in Kannada is shown to be subject to locality conditions similar to those constraining binding. This dissertation explores an account of distributivity which exploits the similarity to binding, arguing that the source of the distributive reading in Numeral Reduplication is a bound element.
University of Toronto, 2017. — 311 p. This study examines the documentary and literary culture associated with the court of the Lombard Duchy and Principality of Benevento during the eighth and ninth centuries. More specifically, through the careful analysis of different genres of text associated with the court network, including epigraphy, legislation, precepts, charters,...
University of Pennsylvania, 2015. — 262 p. This dissertation is particularly concerned with various changes that occurred over roughly the last two centuries of the Shang period, that is, during the Anyang period, which stretches from approximately 1250 BCE to approximately 1050 BCE. This period, which begins just before the earliest evidence for writing in what is now China...
Bearbeitet von Oskar Reichmann. — Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 1989/2011. — 285 S., 1632 Kol. The Early New High German Dictionary is an alphabetically-ordered dictionary of the varieties of High German from the 14th to 17th century. 1-й том 12-титомного ранненововерхненемецкого словаря. 1-4 выпуски, выходившие в 1986/1988/1989, были объединены в 1 том в 1989.
Brill, 2019. — xiv, 386 p. — (Aries 25). Jacob Böhme (1575–1624) is famous as a shoemaker and spiritual author. His works and thought are frequently studied as a product of his mystical illumination. Jacob Böhme and His World adopts a different perspective. It seeks to demystify Böhme by focusing on aspects of his immediate cultural and social context and the intellectual...
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1980. — 276 p. — (Islandica 43). Brynhild is easily the most compelling figure in early Germanic literature and is central to our understanding of the heroic mentality. For a century and a half, scholars have studied the story of her love for Sigurd, and this book brings their findings together in English for the first time. 'The legend sings...
Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Library, 2012. — X+228 p. — (Islandica 55). "The Partisan Muse in the Early Icelandic Sagas" (1200–1250) is a study of the genesis of Old Icelandic prose literature from its roots in oral tradition to the compilation of key early sagas at the beginning of the thirteenth century. Theodore M. Andersson devotes special attention to the Icelandic...
Brown University, 2011. — 541 p. This is the first translation of the editio princeps of Le Lettere di M. Bernardo Tasso which was published in Venice by the printer Valgrisi in 1549. Letter collections were published in abundance during the Renaissance, in Italy especially, and they constituted a separate genre that helped establish a literary Italian language. Bernardo...
Stellenbosch University, 2016. — 524 p. The present work analyses the Basse Mandinka tense-taxis-aspect-mood verbal system within the framework of cognitive and grammaticalisation linguistics and from the perspective of complexity theory. The author builds his study by pursuing the following more specific – gradually more macroscopic and systematic – objectives: (a) a...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2011. — 71 p. — (Akademie Der Wissenschaften und der Literatur 2). Was seinen Ruhm angeht, stand der griechische Maler Apelles von Kolophon seinerzeit dem bis heute bekannten Bildhauer Praxiteles in nichts nach. Während vom Werk des letzteren noch immer Kopien in Bronze und Marmor bekannt sind, geriet der Maler weitgehend in Vergessenheit. Am Beispiel des...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2022. — 562 p. — (Oriens et Occidens. Studien zu antiken Kulturkontakten und ihrem Nachleben 40). Die Diplomatie und ihre Erforschung haben sich im 20. Jahrhundert teils erheblich gewandelt. In der Politikwissenschaft löste eine Betrachtung der zahlreichen Hintergründe internationaler Beziehungen die konventionelle, auf Verhandlungen auf höchster Ebene...
Universidad de Salamanca, 2009. — 497 p. Vīdēvdād (< Av. *vīdaēuua- dāta- “prescriptions to keep the demons away”)1 was the Nask or book 19th of the 21 Nasks of the Sasanian Avesta. It is also the only one completely preserved, if we must trust the Dēnkard’s description of the contents of the Nasks. This is almost certainly due to its importance in the Vīdēvdād ceremony. The...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2019. — 232 S. — (Potsdamer altertumswissenschaftliche Beiträge 68). At the end of the 2nd century AD the urban network of the Roman Empire was subject to weakness and crisis. We know this on one hand through decrees from the Flavian era, comments of Pliny the Younger on the financial problems of some cities and on the other hand through notices in the...
Liverpool University Press, 2008. — 155 p. — (Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies). With the changing needs of today's students in mind, the editors produced a complete prose translation of the four poems - the best known of which is Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. The near-literal translations are intended to facilitate understanding of the four poems - to lead readers to,...
University of British Columbia, 1988. — 161 p. This thesis analyses the native Indian language Chilcotin through the use of the lexical phonology model. Data were collected from five speakers varying in age, dialect and sex. Chapter 1 discusses the segemental, tonal and syllabic systems in Chilcotin. Chapter 2 is a discussion of the vowel harmony process, flattening. Chapter 3...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 370 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series 43). This book is the first major study in English of a group of late twelfth-century religious enthusiasts, the early Humiliati, who were condemned by the Church as heretics in 1184 but--in a remarkable transition--were reconciled seventeen years later and went on to...
University of Cambridge, 2017. — 309 p. This dissertation describes and analyses a selection of morphosyntactic phenomena from the nominal, verbal and clausal domains of Barese, an upper southern Italian dialect of Puglia. Chapter 2 analyses pragmatically unmarked and marked sentential word orders in Barese. Barese is a null-subject language whose unmarked transitive word order...
Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2003. — 344 p. — (Beiträge zur Kenntnis südasiatischer Sprachen und Literaturen 7). A decisive role played by the Dravidian component in the linguistic history of South Asia, makes the historical study of the Dravidian languages one of the primary tasks of modern South Asian linguistics. Information on the Dravidian language structure at the earliest...
Brill, 2019. — xiv, 220 p. — (Oudtestamentische Studiën, Old Testament Studies 75). For some time scholars have debated whether the Song of Songs has connections to the wisdom genre and how this changes our understanding of it. In Wise and Foolish Love in the Song of Songs, Jennifer Andruska shows that the influence of the wisdom genre on the Song is pervasive, running...
Brill, 2010. — xiv, 382 p. — (Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah 86). Departing from scholarship dedicated to the socio-historical realities of priesthood at Qumran, this book explores, in two parts, the most pervasive literary representations of priesthood in the Dead Sea Scrolls as a reflection of the religious worldview of the Qumran community and broader segments...
Brill, 2023. — xvi, 290 p. — (Endangered and Lesser-Studied Languages and Dialects 2). This book examines the diverse prosody of compound nouns in Kansai Japanese, with a special focus on a class of compounds with particularly variable prosody, whose unique prosody is potentially endangered due to their structure and influence from Tokyo Japanese. These compounds serve as...
Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2021. — XIV, 392 p. — (Supplements to the journal for the study of Judaism; 197). This book offers a thorough analysis of demons in the Hebrew Bible and Septuagint in the wider context of the ancient Near East and the Greek world. Taking a fresh and innovative angle of enquiry, Anna Angelini investigates continuities and changes in the representation of...
Oxford University, 2024. — 345 p. This thesis applies combat motivation theory to the Roman imperial legionary, attempting to understand soldiers’ attachments to their various units, and the motivational mechanisms which the army exerted on its soldiers. The result is a bottom-up exploration of the social environment of the legion, foregrounding issues of identity, community,...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2021. — 303 p. — (Geographica historica 37). Polemone di Ilio, vissuto tra il III e il II secolo a.C. e autore di numerose opere, è ricordato dalle fonti antiche e dagli studiosi moderni soprattutto per i suoi scritti periegetici, a noi giunti in modo frammentario per tradizione indiretta. L'autore è considerato come uno dei più grandi antiquari e...
University of British Columbia, 2022. — 214 p. This dissertation describes primary data illustrating phonological alternations in Nata, a Lacustrine Bantu language spoken in the Mara region of Tanzania. The data presented in this work was elicited from native speakers of Nata, both in Canada, and in Tanzania. The primary focus of the dissertation is in describing and analyzing...