Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
University of Pennsylvania Library Chronicle
Author: The University of Pennsylvania Library Chronicle
Author: The Literature of the American People
Author: Arthur Hobson QuinnPublisher: Ardent Media
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1200
Book Description
New Serial Titles
Author: The Puritans
Author: Perry MillerPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486161056
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 910
Book Description
Critically acclaimed compilation includes writings by William Bradford, Increase Mather, William Hubbard, Anne Bradstreet, and other influential figures. "The best selection ever made of Puritan literature." — historian Samuel Eliot Morison.
In the World of Sumer
Author: Samuel Noah KramerPublisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814321218
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Samuel Noah Kramer is the leading authority on the interpretation and reading of civilization's oldest literature. His life and life's work are so thoroughly intertwined that his autobiography is also the story of the recovery of the language and literature of the Sumerians. From young Talmudist to the patriarch of Sumerology, Kramer recountshis long and distinguished career. Writing for the non-specialist, he paints a panoramic view of Sumerian literature and provides thumbnail sketches of the individuals with whom he collaborated.
Benjamin Franklin and Eighteenth-century American Libraries
Author: Margaret Barton KortyPublisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Cardinal Isidore (c.1390–1462)
Author: Marios PhilippidesPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351214888
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 459
Book Description
A member of the imperial Palaiologan family, albeit most probably illegitimate, Isidore became a scholar at a young age and began his rise in the Byzantine ecclesiastical ranks. He was an active advocate of the union of the Orthodox and Catholic Churches in Constantinople. His military exploits, including his participation in the defence of Constantinople in 1453, provide us with eyewitness accounts. Without doubt he travelled widely, perhaps more so than any other individual in the annals of Byzantine history: Greece, Asia Minor, Sicily, Russia, Poland, Lithuania, and Italy. His roles included diplomat, high ecclesiastic in both the Orthodox and Catholic churches, theologian, soldier, papal emissary to the Constantinopolitan court, delegate to the Council of Florence, advisor to the last Byzantine emperors, metropolitan of Kiev and all Russia, and member of the Vatican curia. This is an original work based on new archival research and the first monograph to study Cardinal Isidore in his many diverse roles. His contributions to the events of the first six decades of the quattrocento are important for the study of major Church councils and the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks. Isidore played a crucial role in each of these events.
The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, Volume 5
Author: Posen Library of Jewish culture and civilization (Lucerne, Switzerland)Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300135513
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1392
Book Description
The fifth volume of the Posen Library demonstrates through a rich array of texts and images the extraordinary diversity of Jewish life during the early modern period "A rich and varied gateway into the primary source material of early modern Jewish history that is very strong on geographical diversity. A magnificent achievement."--Adam Sutcliffe, King's College London The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, Volume 5, covering the early modern period (1500-1750), presents a variety of Jewish texts to demonstrate the diversity of Jewish culture and life. These texts originate from Eastern and Western Europe, the Americas, the Ottoman Empire, North Africa, Kurdistan, Persia, Yemen, India--in short, a worldwide diaspora. They embrace historical writing and religious scholarship, liturgical expression and economic records, ethics and personal devotion, correspondence and communal regulations, art and music, architecture and poetry. The simultaneous centrifugal and centripetal character of Jewish communities during this era illustrates the distinctiveness of the early modern period in Jewish history and informs developments in world history at large. Including texts written by women, a robust collection of images, and extensive material not previously accessible to English-language readers, this volume is rich, deep, and enlightening.
The Book History Reader
Author: David FinkelsteinPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415226585
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
The editors illustrate how book history studies have evolved into a broad approach which incorporates social and cultural considerations governing the production, dissemination and reception of print and texts.