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Free Download Medical Anthropology in the Late Middle Ages: Pietro d’Abano on Body, Soul, and the Virtues
by Matthew Klemm
English | 2025 | ISBN: 3110611341 | 172 Pages | True ePUB | 2.37 MB

Free Download Medical Anthropology in the Late Middle Ages: Pietro d’Abano on Body, Soul, and the Virtues
by Matthew Klemm
English | 2025 | ISBN: 3110611341 | 172 Pages | PDF | 6.4 MB

Free Download Mirrors of the Divine: Late Ancient Christianity and the Vision of God by Emily R. Cain
English | February 13, 2023 | ISBN: 0197663370 | 224 pages | MOBI | 1.23 Mb
Mirrors of the Divine brings into focus how four influential authors of the late ancient world-Tertullian of Carthage, Clement of Alexandria, Gregory of Nyssa, and Augustine of Hippo-employ language of vision and of mirrors in their discursive struggles to construct Christian agency, identity, and epistemology. Early Christian authors described the vision of God through the Pauline verse 1 Corinthians 13:12: "For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then we will see face to face." Yet each author interpreted this verse differently, based on a diverse set of assumptions about how they understood seeing and mirrors to function: does vision occur by something leaving or entering the eye? Is one impacted by seeing or by being seen? Do mirrors offer trustworthy knowledge?

Free Download Réka Krizmanics, "Historical Knowledge Production Cultures in Late Socialist Hungary and Croatia: Expertise Unsettled"
English | ISBN: 1666933236 | 2024 | 250 pages | PDF | 1161 KB
Historical Knowledge Production Cultures in Late Socialist Hungary and Croatia: Expertise Unsettled offers a comparative study and analysis from the Hungarian case, and integrating academic, party, and popular historiography into a single analytical framework. Narratives concerning the history of the interwar period and the Second World War, and circumstances of their elaboration are at the forefront of this study. Réka Krizmanics argues that even within state socialist Eastern Europe, different enabling and restrictive factors were at play, and investigates the specificities of late socialism while embedding them in the context of their interwar, Stalinist and post-Stalinist legacies. "Expertise Unsettled" refers to the growing peril of historians, who proved to be often divided among themselves, and were increasingly on the defense as a guild, when literature, cinema, and interested non-professionals got involved in making and criticizing narratives of the recent past. Party history and party historians have been often sidelined in intellectual history, but the author argues that their inclusion is crucial both for a more complex understanding of what (late) state socialism meant for historians and to historicize practices of contemporary post-socialist, especially illiberal memory regimes.

Free Download Lies of the Land: Painted Maps in Late Medieval and Early Modern France by Camille Serchuk
English | December 17, 2024 | ISBN: 0271097736 | True PDF | 234 pages | 103 MB
Lies of the Land examines the often-overlooked artistic roots of mapmaking practice in early modern France, offering an original perspective on discourses of accuracy and their relationship to the pictorial origins of modern mapmaking.

Free Download Frances Nethercott, "Writing History in Late Imperial Russia: Scholarship and the Literary Canon "
English | ISBN: 1350130400 | 2019 | 296 pages | EPUB | 602 KB
It is commonly held that a strict divide between literature and history emerged in the 19th century, with the latter evolving into a more serious disciple of rigorous science. Yet, in turning to works of historical writing during late Imperial Russia, Frances Nethercott reveals how this was not so; rather, she argues, fiction, lyric poetry, and sometimes even the lives of artists, consistently and significantly shaped historical enquiry.

Free Download World Order in Late Antiquity: The ‘Two Eyes’ Rivalry of Byzantium and Sasanian Persia
by Kevin Blachford
English | 2024 | ISBN: 0198882130 | 225 Pages | PDF | 6 MB

Free Download Lidia L. Zanetti Domingues, "Women and Violence in the Late Medieval Mediterranean, ca. 1100-1500 "
English | ISBN: 0367565706 | 2021 | 238 pages | EPUB | 776 KB
This pioneering work explores the theme of women and violence in the late medieval Mediterranean, bringing together medievalists of different specialties and methodologies to offer readers an updated outline of how different disciplines can contribute to the study of gender-based violence in medieval times.

Free Download Jean-Michel Spieser, "Urban and Religious Spaces in Late Antiquity and Early Byzantium "
English | ISBN: 0860788512 | 2001 | 318 pages | EPUB, PDF | 24 MB + 34 MB
Professor Spieser deals here with a number of the transformations that took place in the world of Late Antiquity – and early Christianity – focusing upon notions of space. The first set of articles, opening with a newly-written introductory essay, addresses the development of urban landscapes from the Roman period up to the iconoclast era in Byzantium. In particular, he looks at the consequences of christianisation, and argues that the changing fortunes of the town cannot be attributed to a few causes, such as war or natural disaster, but resulted from a complex interplay between the economy and ideology, religion and politics. A second group, concerned with the relationship of ‘late antique’ man with his surroundings, and therefore his perception of space, sets out to explain how the decoration of churches – on apses, for example, or on doors – reflects new senses of how religious spaces should be organised. Six of these studies have been translated into English for this volume, and it ends with an important section of additional notes and comment.

Free Download Onomantic Divination in Late Medieval Britain: Questioning Life, Predicting Death
by Joanne Edge
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1914049241 | 283 Pages | PDF | 12.4 MB