Tag: Middle

Kidung Pañji Margasmara A Middle Javanese Romance


Free Download Kemuling Rat Dyah Atapeng Raje, "Kidung Pañji Margasmara: A Middle Javanese Romance "
English | ISBN: 9004523693 | 2022 | 439 pages | PDF | 79 MB
Javanese, a major language of Southeast Asia, possesses a little-known literature, occurring in various phases, Old, Middle and Modern. This publication presents a remarkable example, from the poetical literature of Middle Javanese, in an edited text with English translation and an extensive commentary. The aim is to acquaint a wider audience with this literature, in the hope of drawing attention to its fascinating qualities. Set principally in the Singhasari area of East Java, the narrative follows the journey of the lovers, Pañji Margasmara and Ken Candrasari, offering a glimpse of the beauty of the Javanese landscape in the 15th century. The cultural, historical and archaeological details preserved in the text help to shed light on the closing years of Majapahit, a largely unexplored period in Javanese history, before the age of Islam.

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Identity in the Middle Ages Approaches from Southwestern Europe


Free Download Flocel Sabaté, "Identity in the Middle Ages: Approaches from Southwestern Europe "
English | ISBN: 1641892587 | 2021 | 522 pages | PDF | 9 MB
This book places identity at the centre of a project to better understand medieval society. By exploring the multiplicity of personal identities, the ways in which these were expressed within particular social structures (such as feudalism), and their evolution into formal expressions of collective identity (municipalities, guilds, nations, and so on) we can shed new light on the Middle Ages. A specific legacy of such developments was that by the end of the Middle Ages, a sense of national identity, supported by the late medieval socio-economic structure, backed in law and by theological, philosophical, and political thought, defined society. What is more, social structures coalesced across diverse elements, including language, group solidarities, and a set of assumed values.

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Google Tools Meets Middle School


Free Download Michael J. Graham, "Google Tools Meets Middle School "
English | ISBN: 1506360165 | 2017 | 224 pages | PDF | 10 MB
Filled with actionable instruction ideas, this sparkling new edition includes must-have tools that enable all teachers to become masters of learning for 21st century students.

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Broadband Networks in the Middle East and North Africa Accelerating High-Speed Internet Access


Free Download Natalija Gelvanovska, "Broadband Networks in the Middle East and North Africa: Accelerating High-Speed Internet Access "
English | ISBN: 1464801126 | 2014 | 216 pages | EPUB | 14 MB
Just as the steam engine was the driving force behind the Industrial Revolution, today, broadband Internet is seen as critical to the transition of knowledge-intensive economies across the world. As a general purpose technology, broadband Internet is considered a fundamental driver of economic growth and social development, releasing the innovative potential and energy of previously disenfranchised members of the population. Many of the countries in the Middle East and North Africa region (MENA) now recognize that broadband Internet is crucial to their efforts to reduce poverty and create job opportunities, especially for their young populations and for women. Broadband Networks in the Middle East and North Africa re-emphasizes the important contribution that broadband Internet can make and assesses the status of existing nfrastructure in at least 18 MENA countries. While there is significant potential across the region, the take-up of broadband Internet has been slow and the price of broadband service is high in many countries. In large part, this stems from market structures that, too often, reflect the past when telecommunications were treated as a monopoly utility service. The report finds that there are gaps in infrastructure regionally with no connectivity between neighboring countries in some cases. Similarly, there are gaps within countries exacerbating the (digital) divide between rural and urban areas.

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Arabic Into Latin in the Middle Ages The Translators and Their Intellectual and Social Context


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2009 | 412 Pages | ISBN: 0754659437 | PDF | 18 MB
This collection of Charles Burnett’s articles on the transmission of Arabic learning to Europe concentrates on the identity of the Latin translators and the context in which they were working. The articles are arranged in roughly chronological order, beginning with the earliest known translations from Arabic at the end of the 10th century, progressing through 11th-century translations made in Southern Italy, translators working in Sicily and the Principality of Antioch at the beginning of the 12th century, the first of the 12th-century Iberian translators, the beginnings and development of ‘professional’ translation activity in Toledo, and the transfer of this activity from Toledo to Frederick II’s entourage in the 13th century. Most of the articles include editions of texts that either illustrate the style and character of the translator or provide the source material for his biobibliography.

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A Short History of the Middle Ages From c.300 to c.1150, Sixth Edition


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English | January 26, 2023 | ISBN: 1487546068 | 248 pages | MOBI | 35 Mb
In this new edition of A Short History of the Middle Ages , Barbara H. Rosenwein offers a panoramic view of the medieval world. Volume I ranges from northeastern North America to Kievan Rus’, while never losing sight of the main contours of the period c .300 to c .1150. The lively and informative narrative covers the major developments, political and religious movements, people, saints and sinners, economic and cultural changes, ideals, fears, and fantasies of the period in Europe, Byzantium, and the Islamic world.

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Why We Love Middle-earth An Enthusiast’s Book About Tolkien, Middle-earth, and the LotR Fandom [Audiobook]


Free Download Why We Love Middle-earth: An Enthusiast’s Book About Tolkien, Middle-earth, and the LotR Fandom (Audiobook)
English | October 31, 2023 | ASIN: B0CL5CWVFM | M4B@128 kbps | 10h 45m | 596 MB
Authors: Shawn E. Marchese, Alan Sisto | Narrator: Alan Sisto
Learn about the man who wrote The Lord of the Rings in this Middle-earth treasury. Full of answers to common questions about Middle-earth and the fandom, this book about Tolkien celebrates Why We Love Middle-earth.

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