Author: Charles Adiel Lewis TottenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Strategos
Author: Charles Adiel Lewis TottenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Playing at the World, 2E, Volume 1
Author: Jon PetersonPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262548771
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
The first volume of two in a new, updated edition of the 2012 book Playing at the World, which charts the vast and complex history of role-playing games. This new edition of Playing at the World is the first of two volumes that update the 720-page original tome of the same name from 2012. This first volume is The Invention of Dungeons & Dragons, which explores the publication of that iconic game. (The second volume is The Three Pillars of Role-Playing Games, a deeper dive into the history of the setting, system, and character of D & D.) In this first volume, Jon Peterson distills the story of how the wargaming clubs and fanzines circulating around the upper Midwest in the 1970s culminated in Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson’s seminal role-playing game, D & D. It augments the research of the original editions with new insights into the crucial period in 1972–3 when D & D began to take shape. Drawing from primary sources ranging from eighteenth-century strategists to modern hobbyists, Playing at the World explores the origins of wargames and roleplaying through the history of conflict simulations and the eccentric characters who drove the creation of a signature cultural innovation in the late twentieth century. Filled with unparalleled archival research (from obscure fanzines to letters, drafts, and other ephemera), this new edition of Playing at the World is the ultimate geek’s guide to the original RPG. As such, it is an indispensable resource for academics and game fans exploring the origins of the hobby.
Constantine Porphyrogennetos - The Book of Ceremonies
Author: Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004344926
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 912
Book Description
This is the first modern language translation of the entire text of the tenth-century Greek Book of Ceremonies (De ceremoniis) , a work compiled and edited by the Byzantine emperor Constantine VII (905-959). It preserves material from the fifth century through to the 960s. Chapters deal with diverse subjects of concern to the emperor including the role of the court, secular and ecclesiastical ceremonies, processions within the Palace and through Constantinople to its churches, the imperial tombs, embassies, banquets and dress, the role of the demes, hippodrome festivals with chariot races, imperial appointments, the hierarchy of the Byzantine administration, the equipping of expeditions, including to recover Crete from the Arabs, and the lists of ecclesiastical provinces and bishoprics.
Strategos
Author: Charles Adiel Lewis TottenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Egyptology at the Dawn of the Twenty-first Century
Author: Zahi A. HawassPublisher: American Univ in Cairo Press
ISBN: 9789774247149
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 654
Book Description
This comprehensive three-volume set marks the publication of the proceedings of the Eighth International Congress of Egyptologists, held in Cairo in 2000, the largest Congress since the inaugural meeting in 1979. Organized thematically to reflect the breadth and depth of the material presented at this event, these papers provide a survey of current Egyptological research at the dawn of the twenty-first century. The proceedings include the eight Millennium Debates led by esteemed Egyptologists, addressing key issues in the field, as well as nearly every paper presented at the Congress. The 275 papers cover the whole spectrum of Egyptological research. Grouped under the themes of archaeology, history, religion, language, conservation, and museology, and written in English, French, and German, these contributions together form the most comprehensive picture of Egyptology today.
A History of Egypt
Author: William Matthew Flinders PetriePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Egypt
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
A History of Egypt Under Roman Rule
Author: Joseph Grafton MilnePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Egypt
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
A History of Egypt: Under Roman rule
Author: William Matthew Flinders PetriePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Egypt
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Under Roman rule, by J. G. Milne
Author: William Matthew Flinders PetriePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Egypt
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Religion and Social Transformations in Cyprus
Author: Giorgos PapantoniouPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004224351
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 633
Book Description
By focusing on religion, this monograph represents the first extended attempt to explore how the socio-cultural infrastructure of Cyprus was affected by the transition from segmented administration by many Cypriot kings to the island-wide government by a foreign Ptolemaic correspondent.